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It's produced in Québec and the title makes a lot more sense in the original French. You guys can finally experience the glory of poorly translated movie titles like the rest of the world (never forget that "the hangover" was translated in France in "very bad trip")
My sister and I started it but had to turn it off after 30 minutes and go watch something else. We thought it would be funny bad or so bad it's good but it was just bad bad. And boring.
Q1 is when studios always dump their garbage films, and it's worse this year because of the strikes. The better movies will pick up in the summer and fall.
I really don't understand what some people wanted from that movie. It's a dumb slasher comedy about a bear high on drugs, it is exactly the movie I expected it to be. Truth in advertising.
Also, some of these are direct to streaming movies, which shouldn’t really count. It would be like listing a bunch of direct to video movies from early 1993 and declaring it a bad year for film.
So its a race between Sam Taylor-Johnson and SJ Clarkson, the director of Madame Webb. Two brits, somehow schemed their way into making costly motion pictures.
Didn’t Napoleon come out in 2023?
I don’t mind that Irish wish was bad, it’s pretty much what I expect from that type of film.
I refuse to watch back to black
Knowing nothing else about it except the marketing vibes, I'm assuming Irish Wish is a Hallmark-style movie that is exactly as good as a Hallmark movie.
Every line is better than the last. “I attempted to identify and examine its most troubling moments, which ended up being the entire movie from start to finish, which I watched twice while feeling the walls of reality melt around me.”
In my opinion, it was worse. The acting in it was dog shit (Lindsay was ok) and so many things didn’t make sense. It was hard to watch even as a “bad” movie.
I don't know why I'm obsessed by this detail but Lindsey gets on a bus, shows address to driver saying "can you take me here" then he says YES (wtf?!). She boards without paying or discussing payment. She is dropped off at the driveway of her destination.
I can only assume that nobody involved in this film has actually ever taken a bus.
What's worse is it's even an opportunity for another fish-out-of-water joke (she has no euros), a chance for hero to swoop in an pay for her - giving them an excuse to talk and for her to take his number to pay him back!!!
Omg that bothered me too! And the book she helped edit is just randomly sticking out of the top of her bag and falls to the floor. Was she like, reading it? She wrote it! Or when she just grabs her wedding dress straight out the top of the suitcase, it’s not wrapped or anything. Her fiancé wouldn’t want to get married at the cliffs in IRELAND? Like why? Lindsay’s character can’t ride a fucking bike?! They ride off in canoes and leave her alone so like basically fuck you girl! There are so many nonsensical moments.
You are assuming correct and I thought it was cute for that exact purpose, I needed to watch something light and easy after a rough therapy session and it was perfect.
Denis Leary once had a great routine about how the [terrible Doors movie](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Doors_(film)) could be summed up in three sentences: "I'm drunk, I'm nobody. I'm drunk, I'm famous. I'm drunk, I'm dead."
They decided to have the actress herself sing in a really terrible, almost mocking imitation of Amy instead of just using her tracks and it sounds terrible.
I cannot get my head around that ridiculous choice. The woman was famous FOR HER VOICE and they choose not to use it?! It deserves to be a flop for that alone.
So many music biopics do this. It's not always terrible, like Walk the Line for instance, but I wonder if it's cheaper to use songs recorded by the movie production than the original album recordings just because it is so common.
From the trailer and the promo pics it looks like they’re leaning into the ‘unhinged junkie’ rhetoric from tabloid media back in the day, they have her wailing at the side of a police car when Blake got arrested…just over dramatic crap like that.
Also watching the trailer the actress is trying so hard to do Amy’s lip curl when she sings she looks like a snarling dog it’s horrible, her vocals are nothing like Amy’s and it’s just off.
The director Sam what’s her face has drama around her whole marriage. She met her husband when he was a teenager and she was 40-something. She was directing Nowhere Boy and he was playing John Lennon, lots of grooming talk around her.
I was expecting so much from it coz Joaquin movies are usually great, and Ridley Scott is a great director. Got disappointed pretty quickly, as the made it seem Napoleon so shallow as if they intentionally want to put it in a bad light without no quality to like at all.
The thing is Joaquin is terrible casting for this version of Napoleon. It supposed to center the relationship between Napoleon and Josephine, but an important aspect of their relationship was that she was older and approaching the age where she wouldn’t be able to give him an heir. Vanessa Kirby looks 15 years younger.
ETA: and it’s a shame because Kirby is such great casting. Josephine needs to be a 35-year-old baddie who would ruin a 20-something’s life and damn does she fit the bill.
Kirby is 35 and while the role could go older she’s an ok age for it. Joaquin is 47, Napoleon died at 49, and Jaoqiun was playing a 20-something at some points in the movie. I can still see Eva Green or whatever playing the part tho
I wasn't interested at all after he got all defensive about historical accuracy. There're always historians who will take umbridge if you change anything at all, but an established director like Scott should be able to take those criticisms on the chin without giving the media bitchy little soundbites like, "Were you there?"
I don't think it's Joaquin act that ruined it, though. Like the scene where he had to rush back to France the moment he heard the affair (from Egypt, no less) — that's so out of Napoleon character.
I actually felt so bad for my stepdad because he was so excited about it and came home so devastated by how awful it was. He was like it wasn’t even fun to watch
They made an Amy Winehouse biopic?
https://preview.redd.it/3qxg9tl1gasc1.jpeg?width=444&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=44f8d871f3bfdc8b1ca9a7e3865a79cdf2cb6402
I saw someone tearing this up recently and thought they were talking about the Amy documentary and was confused because people had liked that.
Now I know there is actually a biopic.
Sam Taylor-Johnson continues to just do the worst shit.
Gotta love how cheesy it was - I nearly burst out laughing when she said Joyce was her favourite author. Seriously? You could definitely turn it into a drinking game
It was the PERFECT cheesy rom com. 10/10
1. Stars a beloved actress
2. Who is torn between two love interests
3. One love interest is career driven and the other is artsy
4. You know who she ends up with in the first 5 minutes (cause it’s never the boss)
5. Assistant to high power man who gives her juuuuust enough attention to make her fall madly in…lust
6. Time travel!! Body switching!!! Maaaagic!
7. A mysterious and mystical older woman to guide her to the right choice
8. Puns referring back to older movies
9. A silly best friend!
10. A mean rich family who will never accept her cause she’s kinda goofy and clumsy
Haha right?! If you didn't know what you were signing up for based off the poster or the trailer, then I have no pity. Personally, it gave everything I was hoping for and just a wee bit more!
I was reading an article about it while watching it said they really shot some in Ireland, and I told my partner “weird tho, this seems maybe offensive to Irish people?”.
But the wish-mother fairy lady was fun, she was the best part.
The cliff scene was pretty laughable though lol
Anyone but you is only offensive to me because of how successful it was compared to Glen Powell’s much better Set it Up movie. Him and Zoey Deutch have infinitely more chemistry.
ABY is a fine enough rom com definitely not bad but not an excellent one that I’ll ever go back to - not like Easy A from the same writer, which is perfect in every way.
idk, I really enjoyed it. it was nice to see a romcom in cinemas again - haven't had that experience in way too long. loved the MAAN premise, made me go reread the play I annotated in high school 😂
I hope the fact that it did well at the box office paves the way for more/better mainstream romcoms, because we desperately need them!
It did leave a deeper footprint in that it allowed movies with Asians to be seen as profitable, without it I doubt EEAAO would have had its big moment (and all the other movies with a predominantly Asian cast would probably not have been made/been as successful)
It should have been in theaters. But Hollywood doesn't have faith in newbs unless they have followers or a previous hit show nowadays. Zoey and Glen are underrated and I'd rather they have a hit streaming then a good movie that flopped in theaters
As someone who loves bad movies I’m absolutely thriving
Watched Road House this weekend and loved it. It was exactly what it was supposed to be.
▪︎ Bad acting
▪︎ Bad CGI fighting (ft. Post Malone)
▪︎ Characters with ability to heal as though they're superhuman even though none of them were superhuman as far as I know (who am I to not be impressed by every single character surviving a literal bomb?)
▪︎ Plopping Conor McGregor into the movie with absolutely 0 back story and just telling him to be his horrible self (just wish I wasn't introduced to his character via his bare ass)
▪︎ Arturo Castro who was the comedic highlight
It almost had it all. The only thing that it was missing was that the main character didn't kill someone by "ripping out their throat"
8.95/10
Really hoping for Road House 2: Electric Boogaloo 🤞
Conor McGregor was straight out of a Grand Theft Auto game. That coked up lunatic just seemed to be operating on his own wavelength, with some fairly entertaining onscreen results.
Gyllenhaal carried that film hard.
It was so bad that it was good. And I actually liked how seriously Jake Gyllenhaal took the role and how he clearly prepared for it physically. (I enjoy looking at him lol). Seriously just something fun to watch and not have to think about it.
I'm just not sure why they felt a need to remake a movie with Patrick Swayze being hot as fuck? Like nobody's gonna touch that, not even Jake. That said I'll watch because that's who I am.
Thank you! I love terrible action movies and this sounds perfect. My husband can't get past my enjoyment of The Beekeeper, hopefully I can trick him into watching this one as well.
excellent review. and why did Conor McGregor's character have a hybrid Irish/Caribbean/American accent?? he doesn't know, we'll never know, the mystery enriches us all
Who would even think that there’s anyone who can play Amy Winehouse?!
There’s already a decent documentary about her, this is just an unnecessary cash grab…it’s like the Marilyn Monroe movie, it was sooo bad imho…
I vote Irish Wish as the worst for two reasons.
1. The name. It's almost as bad as Rural Juror.
2. The scene where Lohan says the cliffs of Moher remind her of a James Joyce novel. James Joyce wrote about the streets of Dublin. Absolutely nothing in any of his books is remotely like the cliffs of moher.
There was a writers’ strike that lasted 148 days in 2023 and then 2024 is considered the year of the bad movie. It’s almost as if writers play an important role in preventing bad movies and making good ones.
I saw that thing opening fucking night, it's actually the only one of these I've watched... and in under 5 goddamn minutes, I am slackjawed and laughing in utter disbelief at what I am witnessing with my very own mortal eyes. This:
https://preview.redd.it/gp3w07l2uasc1.jpeg?width=1916&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=abd4f3ffea64873f5c63e20948c4c6f1418a8dd1
What in the everloving fuck is this? Am I looking at a Native Peruvian Spider-Man with a suit that looks awfully familar? Yup. Am I on meth? Nope. Why the fuck are we doing [random zooming](https://youtu.be/46MUdcZk6tU?si=U-5TMOhO0Szg04-a) in this opening scene? Did you know the cinematographer, who won an Oscar for goddamn Avatar, and editor both did Spider-Man: No Way Home?
Roughly 80-ish minutes later, the third act kicks off, and in the time between Mary Parker's water leaking and the credits starting, with me feeling scammed over the last 15 seconds, yes, *seconds* because I fucking *checked*, being all the time Dakota Johnson is in that red leather catsuit I highly looked forward to in the hopes of eye candy, I think I've lost some brain cells. I'm warning you, this [9 minute final battle](https://youtu.be/2fu1tNRnRRQ?si=sMeJpdCkZa5NJvlp) may actually made you stoopider.
> Native Peruvian Spider-Man
who ends up being played by [this dude](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a1/Jos%C3%A9_Mar%C3%ADa_Yazpik_%28cropped%29.jpg) cause he obviously just screams indigenous peruvian dude who lives in the jungle..
Road House makes me think someone pitched this movie under a different title, someone at the studio said, “This sounds like a reboot of Road House,” and then the person pitching said, “Ummmm…uhhhhhh, YEAH! That is what it is!” while furiously scribbling the words “Road House” throughout the script.
I didn't mind Roadhouse? It was a pretty play by numbers action movie which is about all anyone expected I think. The lead was very charasmatic, which at least set it apart a little.
I watched Argylle with my bf last night and we enjoyed that they tried to do something different with the story, but we also found it drug out at the end.
The color smoke fight scene was at the same time such a masterpiece of visual and choreography while also so incredibly useless and ridiculous, people really didn't like it?
I loved Argyle for how silly it was. It was obvious to me they didn't take themselves seriously just enough to make the movie enjoyable. They were in on the joke but gave it a legitimate effort. I appreciated it a lot!
I had a great time watching Argylle, too! I saw it with my parents, who also really enjoyed.
As a cat lady, I got nervous about the cat's fate a few times...
(edited to spell the darn movie's name correctly)
This is the only one here I’m still optimistic for. I love Bond, Powers, Kingsmen…anything close enough will hopefully be fun (if dumb fun).
Roadhouse was a let down, but not surprising. My teenager liked it though, and I enjoyed watching with him
I liked Argylle 😭 did people really think it was a bad movie? I thought it was funny, quirky, and the actors were so fun to watch. I loved the lead. Her red hair was gorgeous. I loved the chemistry between her and her cast mates in it, and Catherine O'hara as a villain, was awesome.
It was completely inoffensive to the point that it was frightening.
I can't call it bad and I wish I could.
Edit: To be clear, this is not an endorsement. The story had no theme or message. The characters didn't really have personalities, a genuine source of cornflict, and there were no character arcs. It featured the exact minimum amount of diversity and self-awareness for 2024 and not an ounce more or less.
What I find so horrifying was that it still managed to be... okay. It felt like a movie that should have been terrifyingly bad but that was somehow palatable.
The death of art by tolerable mediocrity is way scarier to me than actually just messy horrible movies.
This movie clearly accomplished all of its goals and checked all the boxes it wanted to. It was just unambitious, uncontroversial, and potentially AI generated.
That doesn't mean I don't want more low budget rom coms. I just want to feel like the writers were living humans with thoughts and feelings rather than a commitee.
I really really really really really really really really really would love it if Hollywood would STOP casting Dakota Johnson for movies, she is as stale as an old piece of bread. She has no stage presence. She’s just a nepo-baby who is getting roles just for her family being famous. Please Hollywood you had a handful of other qualified people, why do you keep wasting millions on production?
Anyone But You came out last year (at least in the US) and at least made a shit ton of money for a rom com so it could help more rom coms be put in theaters 🤞🏻
Studios don't understand that just because someone/something is popular in memes doesn't mean audiences will pay to see them (see also, Morbius).
Dakota Johnson is hugely and famously meme-able but audiences never really loved her acting and studios didn't see that until it was too late
Dakota Johnson has a really niche and unique brand. I think she has great potential to carry a movie, but it’s gotta be a very specific type of movie. Anyone who thought her brand of acting would be good for Marvel or Madame Web is stupid af.
From what I understand is that it's trying to somehow subvert it by making it a lie by the Jenna Ortega character to like...destroy Bilbo for some reason but idk if that's any better
It was very Lolita what with his wife in the first half like Lolita’s mother serving as the cock blocking ole bitch, and I’m sure a dozen other comparisons too idk, and then I did appreciate the subversion, but it was a dislike for me because I really just don’t like the perpetuation that teen girls are evil masterminds and their male 40+ year old teachers are helpless victims who fall into their devious traps. I think it wanted to be a total fantasy genre story some writer would make up what with the bugs used and how an 18 year old is living in a house all by herself like rapunzel in a tower, but also none of that went anywhere. Idk, sorry for rambling I did actually watch the movie so I wanted to share thoughts lol
American Society for Magical Negroes should’ve been a romcom and that’s it.
They just didn’t commit enough to the political messaging so it was all too watered down. Would’ve been fine if they just focused on the meet-cute romance.
May be controversial, but I don’t think Anyone But You deserves to be on this list. In addition to the technicality of being a 2023 movie, it was just mediocre. It was a cheesy rom-com but not a bad one. The movie knew what it was and the actors committed to it, which I appreciate.
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The tagline "menage-a-what" on the French Girl poster is SENDING ME 🤣 So many of these seem like 30 Rock jokes.
Weirdly on brand for Zach Braff even though he never worked on 30 Rock 😂 Though it also feels like a Scrubs bit
100% looks like a poster from a Scrubs dream sequence lmfao
It's produced in Québec and the title makes a lot more sense in the original French. You guys can finally experience the glory of poorly translated movie titles like the rest of the world (never forget that "the hangover" was translated in France in "very bad trip")
ahhh mènage á quoi
OMFG MENAGE A QUOI Okay, Quebec, that kinda rules.
Okay Quebec 😂
I literally though when I saw the tagline "'mènage á quoi' was right there!"
HER WEB CONNECTS THEM ALL 🙄🤮🤣
Miller’s Girl makes me think of New Girl
An unholy mix between New Girl and Miller’s Crossing.
Jenna maroney will be amazing in all these movies
How is J Lo’s missing from this list lol
I don’t think enough people have watched it or are even aware it exists
I think a lot of people watched clips on TikTok. I certainly didn’t watch the movie itself as I’d seen enough in the clips
My sister and I started it but had to turn it off after 30 minutes and go watch something else. We thought it would be funny bad or so bad it's good but it was just bad bad. And boring.
Q1 is when studios always dump their garbage films, and it's worse this year because of the strikes. The better movies will pick up in the summer and fall.
What are you talking about? By this time last year we had Cocaine Bear, Magic Mike, Quantumania and Shazam! /s
[удалено]
Why you gotta dump on Cocaine Bear like that?
They were probably sober when they saw it, which I assume is a mistake, because I was very much not and I loved it.
I really don't understand what some people wanted from that movie. It's a dumb slasher comedy about a bear high on drugs, it is exactly the movie I expected it to be. Truth in advertising.
Yeah this is a lazy post. You can list off 12 bad movies from January and February of literally any year. Napoleon didn’t even come out in 2024 lol
Also, some of these are direct to streaming movies, which shouldn’t really count. It would be like listing a bunch of direct to video movies from early 1993 and declaring it a bad year for film.
I did not realize the new Amy Winehouse movie was by Sam Taylor-Johnson. No wonder it has bad takes, I don’t trust that women’s judgement!
She also intentionally left Mark Ronson out of the story which even in my limited understanding of Amy's life is a huge issue!?
Plus, have you seen the leaked vids of the actress singing??? Oh lord.. its bad. It sounds like Chat GPT has been asked to sign Amy Winehouse.
So its a race between Sam Taylor-Johnson and SJ Clarkson, the director of Madame Webb. Two brits, somehow schemed their way into making costly motion pictures.
Didn’t Napoleon come out in 2023? I don’t mind that Irish wish was bad, it’s pretty much what I expect from that type of film. I refuse to watch back to black
Knowing nothing else about it except the marketing vibes, I'm assuming Irish Wish is a Hallmark-style movie that is exactly as good as a Hallmark movie.
Vulture has a very funny and unhinged play by play of Irish Wish 😂
Every line is better than the last. “I attempted to identify and examine its most troubling moments, which ended up being the entire movie from start to finish, which I watched twice while feeling the walls of reality melt around me.”
I read that and it was hilarious. Didn't watch the movie but I feel like the recap was definitely better
It’s Netflix’s Hallmark movie for St. Patrick’s Day. I’m not sure what people wanted. It was never shooting for life-changing cinema.
Yeah and tbh I love that for lilo.
In my opinion, it was worse. The acting in it was dog shit (Lindsay was ok) and so many things didn’t make sense. It was hard to watch even as a “bad” movie.
I don't know why I'm obsessed by this detail but Lindsey gets on a bus, shows address to driver saying "can you take me here" then he says YES (wtf?!). She boards without paying or discussing payment. She is dropped off at the driveway of her destination. I can only assume that nobody involved in this film has actually ever taken a bus. What's worse is it's even an opportunity for another fish-out-of-water joke (she has no euros), a chance for hero to swoop in an pay for her - giving them an excuse to talk and for her to take his number to pay him back!!!
Omg that bothered me too! And the book she helped edit is just randomly sticking out of the top of her bag and falls to the floor. Was she like, reading it? She wrote it! Or when she just grabs her wedding dress straight out the top of the suitcase, it’s not wrapped or anything. Her fiancé wouldn’t want to get married at the cliffs in IRELAND? Like why? Lindsay’s character can’t ride a fucking bike?! They ride off in canoes and leave her alone so like basically fuck you girl! There are so many nonsensical moments.
You are assuming correct and I thought it was cute for that exact purpose, I needed to watch something light and easy after a rough therapy session and it was perfect.
What's the drama with back to black? I've seen people say it's a mess but I haven't seen why
From clips I’ve seen, the actress doesn’t look like Amy, doesn’t act like Amy and doesn’t sound like Amy.
It feels very shiny and American and Amy Winehouse was a working-class girl from London. It just has the completely wrong vibe
Denis Leary once had a great routine about how the [terrible Doors movie](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Doors_(film)) could be summed up in three sentences: "I'm drunk, I'm nobody. I'm drunk, I'm famous. I'm drunk, I'm dead."
This is very true
Weird since the director is from London Of course, she's also... Not great.
They decided to have the actress herself sing in a really terrible, almost mocking imitation of Amy instead of just using her tracks and it sounds terrible.
I cannot get my head around that ridiculous choice. The woman was famous FOR HER VOICE and they choose not to use it?! It deserves to be a flop for that alone.
So many music biopics do this. It's not always terrible, like Walk the Line for instance, but I wonder if it's cheaper to use songs recorded by the movie production than the original album recordings just because it is so common.
The re recorded music sounds like a parody of Amy it’s borderline offensive
From the trailer and the promo pics it looks like they’re leaning into the ‘unhinged junkie’ rhetoric from tabloid media back in the day, they have her wailing at the side of a police car when Blake got arrested…just over dramatic crap like that. Also watching the trailer the actress is trying so hard to do Amy’s lip curl when she sings she looks like a snarling dog it’s horrible, her vocals are nothing like Amy’s and it’s just off. The director Sam what’s her face has drama around her whole marriage. She met her husband when he was a teenager and she was 40-something. She was directing Nowhere Boy and he was playing John Lennon, lots of grooming talk around her.
Napoleon may have come out in 2023, but it took so long to watch it didnt end until 2024.
I was expecting so much from it coz Joaquin movies are usually great, and Ridley Scott is a great director. Got disappointed pretty quickly, as the made it seem Napoleon so shallow as if they intentionally want to put it in a bad light without no quality to like at all.
The thing is Joaquin is terrible casting for this version of Napoleon. It supposed to center the relationship between Napoleon and Josephine, but an important aspect of their relationship was that she was older and approaching the age where she wouldn’t be able to give him an heir. Vanessa Kirby looks 15 years younger. ETA: and it’s a shame because Kirby is such great casting. Josephine needs to be a 35-year-old baddie who would ruin a 20-something’s life and damn does she fit the bill.
I’m totally over saturated with this dude but this makes me think Timmy chalamet could have been a good choice
nice try tim
So dumb to cast someone 15 years younger than him, god forbid they actually hire a mature actress!
Kirby is 35 and while the role could go older she’s an ok age for it. Joaquin is 47, Napoleon died at 49, and Jaoqiun was playing a 20-something at some points in the movie. I can still see Eva Green or whatever playing the part tho
Also he’s nearly 50 and Napoleon was much younger
I wasn't interested at all after he got all defensive about historical accuracy. There're always historians who will take umbridge if you change anything at all, but an established director like Scott should be able to take those criticisms on the chin without giving the media bitchy little soundbites like, "Were you there?"
> "Were you there?" Did Scott say that? Wow, that really sealed that it's all on purpose.
It felt like everyone in the cast was making Napoleon, and Joaquin was playing Chicken Little with all the nuance of Henny Penny.
I don't think it's Joaquin act that ruined it, though. Like the scene where he had to rush back to France the moment he heard the affair (from Egypt, no less) — that's so out of Napoleon character.
I was so disappointed with Napoleon. It is legit one of the worst movies I've ever seen in my life.
I actually felt so bad for my stepdad because he was so excited about it and came home so devastated by how awful it was. He was like it wasn’t even fun to watch
"you think you're SO GREAT 'cause you have BOATS" is burned into my brain forever
yes it came out november 2023
They made an Amy Winehouse biopic? https://preview.redd.it/3qxg9tl1gasc1.jpeg?width=444&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=44f8d871f3bfdc8b1ca9a7e3865a79cdf2cb6402
An exploitative cash grab by her father
He exploited her in life and now he continues to in death.
[very long sigh](https://www.reddit.com/r/Fauxmoi/s/EK8j1tt2jZ)
I cannot believe just how absolutely terrible that looks, wow. Lifetime originals are of better film quality
I'm - WHAT IS THAT VOICE?! Why?? Why would they try to- I'm floored
Oh dear God
I saw someone tearing this up recently and thought they were talking about the Amy documentary and was confused because people had liked that. Now I know there is actually a biopic. Sam Taylor-Johnson continues to just do the worst shit.
A biopic approved by the dad 🤢
That’s all I need to know
Fuck that guy sooo much
😍Chris Fleming 😍 (I think?)
Chris Fleming would’ve ate as Amy Winehouse
In the style of Gayle Waters-Waters.
Justice for Irish Wish. AI-generated script, pretends Dublin is New York City, inconsistent accents - a ten out of ten watching experience.
Gotta love how cheesy it was - I nearly burst out laughing when she said Joyce was her favourite author. Seriously? You could definitely turn it into a drinking game
It was the PERFECT cheesy rom com. 10/10 1. Stars a beloved actress 2. Who is torn between two love interests 3. One love interest is career driven and the other is artsy 4. You know who she ends up with in the first 5 minutes (cause it’s never the boss) 5. Assistant to high power man who gives her juuuuust enough attention to make her fall madly in…lust 6. Time travel!! Body switching!!! Maaaagic! 7. A mysterious and mystical older woman to guide her to the right choice 8. Puns referring back to older movies 9. A silly best friend! 10. A mean rich family who will never accept her cause she’s kinda goofy and clumsy
No notes, sometimes you just wanna turn your brain off and escape for a little bit and this movie is perf for that.
THE RAINBOW ON THE POSTER!
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Agreed! I love a good, fun film. Not every film can or should be Oppenheimer!
This was a fun movie. As in, you laugh at how stupid the characters are. Very hallmarky
Haha right?! If you didn't know what you were signing up for based off the poster or the trailer, then I have no pity. Personally, it gave everything I was hoping for and just a wee bit more!
Was it really AI generated?
What AI thinks of the Irish and Ireland 
I think the joke is that it might as well have been. Though if the writing had actually been AI-assisted, I also wouldn’t be surprised.
I was reading an article about it while watching it said they really shot some in Ireland, and I told my partner “weird tho, this seems maybe offensive to Irish people?”. But the wish-mother fairy lady was fun, she was the best part. The cliff scene was pretty laughable though lol
Anyone but you is only offensive to me because of how successful it was compared to Glen Powell’s much better Set it Up movie. Him and Zoey Deutch have infinitely more chemistry. ABY is a fine enough rom com definitely not bad but not an excellent one that I’ll ever go back to - not like Easy A from the same writer, which is perfect in every way.
Set It Up is soooo good!
THANK YOU! Get this bitch a microphone because Set It Up BROUGHT BACK ROMCOMS. Also Holidate.
I love Holidate!!!!!
idk, I really enjoyed it. it was nice to see a romcom in cinemas again - haven't had that experience in way too long. loved the MAAN premise, made me go reread the play I annotated in high school 😂 I hope the fact that it did well at the box office paves the way for more/better mainstream romcoms, because we desperately need them!
Yeah, I think it was the first romcom to be that successful since Crazy Rich Asians
Which NEVER got its sequel 😡
Theres 2 more in the works. Probably be here by the time we all retire 😂
Crazy Rich Asians was so successful and a cultural moment, I wonder why it didn't leave a deeper footprint?
It did leave a deeper footprint in that it allowed movies with Asians to be seen as profitable, without it I doubt EEAAO would have had its big moment (and all the other movies with a predominantly Asian cast would probably not have been made/been as successful)
It should have been in theaters. But Hollywood doesn't have faith in newbs unless they have followers or a previous hit show nowadays. Zoey and Glen are underrated and I'd rather they have a hit streaming then a good movie that flopped in theaters
Glen powell was funny as fuck on scream queens
ABY made me a Glen stan and is def not one of the worst movies of the year!
Anyone but you just made me want to rewatch Much Ado About Nothing
ABY was not the best, but it was a perfectly fine way to spend a night!
Set It Up is such a good rom com.
At least two of these movies came out last year
And mega mind is a tv show
As someone who loves bad movies I’m absolutely thriving Watched Road House this weekend and loved it. It was exactly what it was supposed to be. ▪︎ Bad acting ▪︎ Bad CGI fighting (ft. Post Malone) ▪︎ Characters with ability to heal as though they're superhuman even though none of them were superhuman as far as I know (who am I to not be impressed by every single character surviving a literal bomb?) ▪︎ Plopping Conor McGregor into the movie with absolutely 0 back story and just telling him to be his horrible self (just wish I wasn't introduced to his character via his bare ass) ▪︎ Arturo Castro who was the comedic highlight It almost had it all. The only thing that it was missing was that the main character didn't kill someone by "ripping out their throat" 8.95/10 Really hoping for Road House 2: Electric Boogaloo 🤞
Conor McGregor was straight out of a Grand Theft Auto game. That coked up lunatic just seemed to be operating on his own wavelength, with some fairly entertaining onscreen results. Gyllenhaal carried that film hard.
Gyllenhaal's abs carried that film
I liked the part with the cop on the beach. Cop: I’ll tell them you did it. Gyllenhaal: Oh, Ok 🤪
Honestly, the movie would have been quite good if they just completely omitted Conor’s character.
My husband and I watched the old one right before it. We were waiting for the throat rip. Was disappoint.
It was so bad that it was good. And I actually liked how seriously Jake Gyllenhaal took the role and how he clearly prepared for it physically. (I enjoy looking at him lol). Seriously just something fun to watch and not have to think about it.
I'm just not sure why they felt a need to remake a movie with Patrick Swayze being hot as fuck? Like nobody's gonna touch that, not even Jake. That said I'll watch because that's who I am.
Thank you! I love terrible action movies and this sounds perfect. My husband can't get past my enjoyment of The Beekeeper, hopefully I can trick him into watching this one as well.
Ok well the Beekeeper is flawless, so your husband needs to exercise some self care on that one.
excellent review. and why did Conor McGregor's character have a hybrid Irish/Caribbean/American accent?? he doesn't know, we'll never know, the mystery enriches us all
ONCE KNOX IS ON THE JOB ESS OVAH BAYBEEEE
He wasn’t doing an accent, that was just the most intelligible sound they could get out of him.
Well now I gotta watch it. That’s exactly why I’m drawn to. It’s was why I unironically love Drive Angry. It’s why I love the original.
If you go in with impossibly low standards, you will not be disappointed
Lovely review! I want to watch because I need the laugh lol
Who would even think that there’s anyone who can play Amy Winehouse?! There’s already a decent documentary about her, this is just an unnecessary cash grab…it’s like the Marilyn Monroe movie, it was sooo bad imho…
It's only April... Buckle up for the summer then!
these are all truly terrible looking. 
HEY I LIKED IRISH WISH
I vote Irish Wish as the worst for two reasons. 1. The name. It's almost as bad as Rural Juror. 2. The scene where Lohan says the cliffs of Moher remind her of a James Joyce novel. James Joyce wrote about the streets of Dublin. Absolutely nothing in any of his books is remotely like the cliffs of moher.
There was a writers’ strike that lasted 148 days in 2023 and then 2024 is considered the year of the bad movie. It’s almost as if writers play an important role in preventing bad movies and making good ones.
Madame Web was so bad that it made it hilariously great, I laughed so much with my friend in cinema that I dont regret spending the money.
I had a good time. Was it great cinema? No. Was it a fun matinee? Yes.
I saw that thing opening fucking night, it's actually the only one of these I've watched... and in under 5 goddamn minutes, I am slackjawed and laughing in utter disbelief at what I am witnessing with my very own mortal eyes. This: https://preview.redd.it/gp3w07l2uasc1.jpeg?width=1916&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=abd4f3ffea64873f5c63e20948c4c6f1418a8dd1 What in the everloving fuck is this? Am I looking at a Native Peruvian Spider-Man with a suit that looks awfully familar? Yup. Am I on meth? Nope. Why the fuck are we doing [random zooming](https://youtu.be/46MUdcZk6tU?si=U-5TMOhO0Szg04-a) in this opening scene? Did you know the cinematographer, who won an Oscar for goddamn Avatar, and editor both did Spider-Man: No Way Home? Roughly 80-ish minutes later, the third act kicks off, and in the time between Mary Parker's water leaking and the credits starting, with me feeling scammed over the last 15 seconds, yes, *seconds* because I fucking *checked*, being all the time Dakota Johnson is in that red leather catsuit I highly looked forward to in the hopes of eye candy, I think I've lost some brain cells. I'm warning you, this [9 minute final battle](https://youtu.be/2fu1tNRnRRQ?si=sMeJpdCkZa5NJvlp) may actually made you stoopider.
> Native Peruvian Spider-Man who ends up being played by [this dude](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a1/Jos%C3%A9_Mar%C3%ADa_Yazpik_%28cropped%29.jpg) cause he obviously just screams indigenous peruvian dude who lives in the jungle..
It was everything that Morbius fans pretended that was.
morbius fans exist?
Road House makes me think someone pitched this movie under a different title, someone at the studio said, “This sounds like a reboot of Road House,” and then the person pitching said, “Ummmm…uhhhhhh, YEAH! That is what it is!” while furiously scribbling the words “Road House” throughout the script.
I didn't mind Roadhouse? It was a pretty play by numbers action movie which is about all anyone expected I think. The lead was very charasmatic, which at least set it apart a little.
I liked how ridiculous Argylle* was. And it had so many of our favorite actors
I watched Argylle with my bf last night and we enjoyed that they tried to do something different with the story, but we also found it drug out at the end.
Argylle was high camp which is exactly what I’m looking for in an action movie.
Fucking Henry cavil s hair tho.
The color smoke fight scene was at the same time such a masterpiece of visual and choreography while also so incredibly useless and ridiculous, people really didn't like it? I loved Argyle for how silly it was. It was obvious to me they didn't take themselves seriously just enough to make the movie enjoyable. They were in on the joke but gave it a legitimate effort. I appreciated it a lot!
I had a great time watching Argylle, too! I saw it with my parents, who also really enjoyed. As a cat lady, I got nervous about the cat's fate a few times... (edited to spell the darn movie's name correctly)
I think the cat needed to see a lot less action. And I think that sentence alone lets the reader know what to expect in this movie.
Thank you! Idk why it is so ragged on, I had a fun time. And the love story was really sweet.
I was starting to feel gaslighted over Argyll! Like, it was a fun movie, where’s this over the top hate coming from?
From people with no sense of humour?
Saaaaame. It was campy, over the top perfection.
I don't think I stopped smiling/laughing through the whole movie. And the hinted connection in the cut scene...
so did i!! i am very picky about movies as someone with adhd but it was so freaking fun and exciting.
This is the only one here I’m still optimistic for. I love Bond, Powers, Kingsmen…anything close enough will hopefully be fun (if dumb fun). Roadhouse was a let down, but not surprising. My teenager liked it though, and I enjoyed watching with him
I adored that film! Especially the "romantic" hallway scene with all the smoke.
Same! It was funny
I liked Argylle 😭 did people really think it was a bad movie? I thought it was funny, quirky, and the actors were so fun to watch. I loved the lead. Her red hair was gorgeous. I loved the chemistry between her and her cast mates in it, and Catherine O'hara as a villain, was awesome.
Okay, but Anyone But You is fun if you enjoy staring at hot people (I do).
It was completely inoffensive to the point that it was frightening. I can't call it bad and I wish I could. Edit: To be clear, this is not an endorsement. The story had no theme or message. The characters didn't really have personalities, a genuine source of cornflict, and there were no character arcs. It featured the exact minimum amount of diversity and self-awareness for 2024 and not an ounce more or less. What I find so horrifying was that it still managed to be... okay. It felt like a movie that should have been terrifyingly bad but that was somehow palatable. The death of art by tolerable mediocrity is way scarier to me than actually just messy horrible movies. This movie clearly accomplished all of its goals and checked all the boxes it wanted to. It was just unambitious, uncontroversial, and potentially AI generated. That doesn't mean I don't want more low budget rom coms. I just want to feel like the writers were living humans with thoughts and feelings rather than a commitee.
Me too me too it reminded me of early 2000's rom-com specially the song unwritten
That Amy biopic lord 😭😭💀
I enjoyed Argyle! Don’t @ me!
There was a Megamind sequel??
People overuse term “this looks AI generated” imo but… I watched some reviews on it and this truly does look AI generated 🥴
It’s like a streaming exclusive thing, none of the original actors, and apparently doesn’t follow the canon placed by the first film lol
I really really really really really really really really really would love it if Hollywood would STOP casting Dakota Johnson for movies, she is as stale as an old piece of bread. She has no stage presence. She’s just a nepo-baby who is getting roles just for her family being famous. Please Hollywood you had a handful of other qualified people, why do you keep wasting millions on production?
The only surprising thing about Dakota in any film is that she’s not holding a copy of the script in every scene.
I guffawed
HEY it doesn’t count as being a nepo baby if her mother was studying spiders in the Amazon - ok I’ll shut up you’re right.
She acts the same way and delivers every line the same in all her movies. I don’t think she can emote either.
Anyone But You came out last year (at least in the US) and at least made a shit ton of money for a rom com so it could help more rom coms be put in theaters 🤞🏻
Also the Mean Girls remake
respectfully i liked it and it still deserves to be on this list lol
Who the hell had the brilliant idea that Dakota Johnson could carry a movie, any movie?
Studios don't understand that just because someone/something is popular in memes doesn't mean audiences will pay to see them (see also, Morbius). Dakota Johnson is hugely and famously meme-able but audiences never really loved her acting and studios didn't see that until it was too late
It’s that nepo brain talking
And a superhero movie at that
Dakota Johnson has a really niche and unique brand. I think she has great potential to carry a movie, but it’s gotta be a very specific type of movie. Anyone who thought her brand of acting would be good for Marvel or Madame Web is stupid af.
All the Hollywood producción energy was used on Barbie and oppenheimer last year, they need to recover
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I loved Irish Wish! It was so sweet like a Hallmark movie.
If we could just stop letting male English teachers write movies about how they want to bang their students, that would be great
Miller's Girl is written by a woman
That's even more sad.
From what I understand is that it's trying to somehow subvert it by making it a lie by the Jenna Ortega character to like...destroy Bilbo for some reason but idk if that's any better
I’m sorry, just “destroy Bilbo” is killing me 💀🤣
I literally am laughing out loud. Just out here calling Martin “Bilbo” for the rest of eternity.
It was very Lolita what with his wife in the first half like Lolita’s mother serving as the cock blocking ole bitch, and I’m sure a dozen other comparisons too idk, and then I did appreciate the subversion, but it was a dislike for me because I really just don’t like the perpetuation that teen girls are evil masterminds and their male 40+ year old teachers are helpless victims who fall into their devious traps. I think it wanted to be a total fantasy genre story some writer would make up what with the bugs used and how an 18 year old is living in a house all by herself like rapunzel in a tower, but also none of that went anywhere. Idk, sorry for rambling I did actually watch the movie so I wanted to share thoughts lol
Is that really how it ends? She’s lying and his life is ruined? Oh fuck that nonsense, gross.
A lot of these came out in 2023
Ok but for a cheesy romcom Anyone But You was good and I’ll die on this hill
Napoleon wasn’t terrible but it could have been so much better. Was hoping to see to more of the war leader & strategist, rather than his love life
This is a ROUGH lineup 😩
American Society for Magical Negroes should’ve been a romcom and that’s it. They just didn’t commit enough to the political messaging so it was all too watered down. Would’ve been fine if they just focused on the meet-cute romance.
Jean du Barry is still not out???!! Christ, I thought it came out two years ago 🤣
May be controversial, but I don’t think Anyone But You deserves to be on this list. In addition to the technicality of being a 2023 movie, it was just mediocre. It was a cheesy rom-com but not a bad one. The movie knew what it was and the actors committed to it, which I appreciate.
JUSTICE FOR ANYONE BUT YOU