So at the end of each year I rank every movie from worst to best. Just to clarify - these are not necessarily all movies that came out in 2015. In fact, most of these movies are from other years. These are also not movies I have only seen for the first time. In fact, many of these movies I have already seen - some of them multiple times.
The only requirement for each film to make this list (and it really is quite a simple requirement) is that I had to watch it at some point in 2015. That's it.
One thing I will note is that I am not necessarily ranking these films based on how good the movie is. I am ranking my experience watching each movie. I will use Star Wars: A New Hope as an example. If I was simply ranking great movies, this would be near the top. But because I am ranking my experience watching it THIS year, it could be a lot lower. I had it on in the background while I did other things and didn't pay much attention to it. So while it may rank low here, it doesn't mean I think it is a bad movie.
Now that this is all out of the way, we shall begin.
#121
Seeing as how this is dead last, you can all safely assume that I didn't like it. In fact, I thought this was terrible.
Don't get me wrong, I am not above Dumb and Dumber or anything like that. In fact, I LOVE the first movie. When I heard that this sequel was coming out after all those years, I was ecstatic. If any movie deserved a sequel it was this one. How could it possibly go wrong? Well it did.
While the first movie was legit funny, this was just completely stupid. It is like the characters of Harry and Lloyd changed completely. In the original film they meant well, but they were just so stupid and clueless that everything they did backfired on them. And it was great to watch. In this movie, they are mean spirited, cruel, nasty people. Sure they are still dumb, but the majority of the jokes in this film revolve around them being horrible to other people... and each other.
Maybe I could accept this if the film was actually funny. But it isn't. It is eye-rollingly bad. I'm all for fart jokes and potty humor, but too much humor here is WTF rather than actually funny. It is like they went for shock value or something, while at the same time forgetting what it was that made the original movie so great in the first place.
Perhaps I am being too harsh with my last placed ranking. I expected this to live up to the impossibly high standards of the original, which it obviously didn't. Maybe without the expectations I could have enjoyed this more. But I thought it was horrendous. I am going to do the best I can to forget that this movie exists.
#120
I can't even tell you what this movie was about. Like literally, I can tell you nothing about this movie other than that it bored me to death. I completely lost interest in the film a mere few minutes in, and that is definitely not a good thing. It is almost like I didn't watch it.
#119
I didn't enjoy it at all. I watched it on Blu-Ray on my big TV, and that only seemed to accentuate its flaws. Terrible acting, dumb story line, action sequences that drag on for longer than necessary.
It was a painful experience, and really a big waste of time that I could have spent doing something else. I'm sure at some point in the future I'll get that urge to watch through all the Star Wars movies again, and maybe my opinion of this film will change.
I doubt it though.
#118
I really really wanted to like this movie, but it ended up boring me to tears.
I had originally heard about this movie while reading Ready Player One by Ernest Cline. This movie is talked about as a favorite of one of the characters, and an interactive scene from the movie makes an appearance in the book.
Unfortunately, although some see this is a classic, I thought it felt quite dated. I simply could not get into it all. Didn't really care for the characters, the story line, nothing. In fact, I thought it was quite dull. Aren't 80's movies supposed to be fun? This seemed so lifeless to me. Perhaps if I had grown up watching this movie I would have enjoyed it more, or been won over by its supposed charms.
Instead, I thought it was terrible and fell asleep a couple times in the middle of it.
#117
Oh dear. I liked the first Mortal Kombat movie a lot. I had seen this movie, its sequel, once before about 5 or 6 years ago. I remember actually liking it, despite hearing how horrible it was from everyone else.
For whatever reason I decided to watch the Mortal Kombat movies again in 2015. While it is true that I still enjoy the original, I just couldn't handle the sequel. This is just.... no. It is bad, really bad.
I don't even know where to start. The acting? The characters? The plot? The horrendous special effects? How about them all. It is like this movie is a joke or something. How could the people making this possibly think it was good? I would be embarrassed if I were them. I think a group of college film students could probably do better than this.
The only reason it ranks this high is because at least it offers some kind of entertainment value as opposed to the movies to appear before it. But it is bad. The only way I will ever watch this again is if it is with a group of friends and we are all making fun of it.
#116
I am a huge Stephen King fan and will eagerly gobble up anything he puts out there. When this came to Netflix, I was very excited.
Turns out, I shouldn't have been. This was just so "been there done that". A woman finds out her husband is a killer, and he uses fear tactics to keep her quiet and in line. Woop de fucking do. Maybe if I had been more invested emotionally, or cared anything for the characters I would have liked this more. But it was just very, very pedestrian for me. Very slow, very boring. Stale. Unoriginal. Predictable.
I didn't care for it at all.
#115
I will have to give this movie another shot in the future. It ranks so low not because I thought it sucked or anything, but because I kept falling asleep while watching this. I did kind of like what I saw, but I don't think I saw enough to really form a solid opinion.
I debated whether or not I saw enough to even include it on this ranking, but I decided to do so against my better judgment. If it was better, perhaps I wouldn't have fallen asleep so many times while attempting to watch this. But maybe if I do watch it again I will see that it is a perfectly fine movie. I don't know. The little of it I saw I did like more than any of the movies ranked below this, so it has that going for it.
#114
I have nothing at all against this movie, but sometimes you just aren't in the mood to watch something and you get it set in your mind that you aren't going to have a good time no matter what happens.
I've seen this movie before, and I recall liking it the first time around. It had been a few years though. I got this movie again to brush up on the story line before watching Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. I started watching this with my wife, but she wanted to stop watching because she can't handle movies where animals die and said that it was going to make her cry too much.
So then I was forced to go in the other room and watch it. It wasn't long before I pulled out my phone and.... well, you know the rest. I'm sure this is a fine movie, but I wasn't feeling it this time around. I should have just read a recap rather than watch the whole thing over again.
#113
If I had to rank my top 25 movies of all time, this would definitely be on the list. It is a fabulous movie. Why does it rank so low here, then? Well, simple. Remember how I said I do my movie rankings based on my experience each year while watching these movies?
So while I do think T2 is an amazing movie, it gets the low ranking here. I have seen this movie FAR too many times. Basically all the enjoyment that this movie would normally give me has been sucked dry from it. I am pretty sure I started messing around on my phone not even ten minutes into the movie, and it simply became something that was on in the background. It's almost like I didn't watch it.
I need to wait a good ten years before I watch this again, and watch it with someone who has never seen it before. Maybe then I can enjoy it again.
Again, nothing against this movie. I love this movie. Just didn't have a great experience with it this year.
#112
Was this movie bad, necessarily? Umm... I don't think so. Was it good? Was it funny? Ummm... I don't know. I don't remember!
And therein lies the problem. I can barely remember anything about this movie, and I wasn't even multitasking or playing on my phone. I liked the first City Slickers, so I was eager to see this one. But it just was so vanilla to me. I don't think I laughed once during the movie. The plot wasn't that interesting. Bringing back Curly (albeit in twin form) seemed like a cheap gimmick to me.
City Slickers worked as a one time movie. This is a sequel that should have never been made. I don't think it was a bad movie, just not memorable in any way shape or form. More of an adventure than a comedy, and it didn't quite work for me.
#111
I had heard that this was one of the best Holocaust movies out there. Perhaps I came in with expectations that were simply too high. Perhaps I should have been more patient with the movie. Everything I have read about this movie says to me that it is a fantastic movie.
Why didn't I like it? Why did I get bored and start playing Candy Crush on my phone? I don't know. But once the phone comes out, that basically means that the movie has no chance. I couldn't even tell you what happened in the second half of this movie.
Bad stuff I assume. I'll have to watch this again, and hide the phone in the other room. Because I think I'd like it if I gave it more of a proper chance.
#110
The first Lion King was such a great movie, I guess it was to be expected that its sequel wouldn't quite be able to measure up to it. In fact, it didn't even come close. Everything that made the first movie such fun, everything that filled you with wonder is gone from its follow up.
The movie didn't impact me emotionally at all. There were no memorable tear jerker moments. Not only was I uninvolved emotionally, but I thought the story was pedestrian as well. We've seen the whole "high class daughter mingling with the lower class boy she is supposed to avoid, and falls in love" story in movies a million times before. Seriously. This film scores 0 points for originality.
It wasn't horrendous or anything, it wasn't poorly made like Mortal Kombat Annihilation. It was just too dull for me and completely forgettable. I won't be watching this one ever again.
#109
I came into this movie not really knowing what to expect. I knew that it was something about fairy tales, but that's it. I'm not really a huge fairy tale kind of guy, but I was willing to give it a shot. My wife really wanted to see it.
If I had known it was going to be a musical, however, I would have raised some objections. I don't like musicals at all. In fact, they annoy the crap out of me. To make matters worse, this isn't a movie where the characters occasionally burst into song - the whole move is singing. Ugh.
That said, the first half of the movie was okay. Just okay. It lost me in the second half when all the beanstalk stuff started happening. My mind started to drift. I started to think - okay now when is this going to end? That's never a good sign. Overall, it had a few things going for it, but I didn't like it much.
#108
I'm always on the lookout for good cooking shows or movies to watch with my wife over dinner, so I decided to give this a try. As much as I wanted to like this, I just found it a little too dull for my tastes. It is less about the cooking and more about the people running these three restaurants.
The restaurants featured are as follows: a Mexican place that is struggling and about to go under, a family restaurant in a small town that literally everyone in the town goes to, and a pretentious upper class Chicago restaurant with thousand dollar meals and food dishes that look like art work.
The small town restaurant was interesting, but the Mexicans were sad and depressing. The fancy shmancy place irritated me. I just thought that this whole documentary was as dull as could be. There were a few moments of interest, but on the whole it could have been a LOT more interesting.
#107
I may catch flak for this, but I thought this was the most dull of all the Mad Max movies. Before watching this movie I had read a little bit about it. Critically, it was well reviewed and generally considered to be the best Mad Max film.
I had high hopes for it, and it certainly started out like it was going to be an epic film. But then.... something happened. I got bored. My mind wandered. I start to lose track of what was going on. The phone came out. You know the rest. There is a theme here with a lot of these early movies on the list, and it is my cell phone. When I start playing with it - you know I am bored. Unless the movie can quickly grapple me back in, I give up on it.
And that is basically what happened here. I really, really wanted to like this. But I didn't. Again, maybe in a few years I will give it another go.
#106
This movie did some things right. But as I said earlier about Into the Woods, the fairy tale genre is not my favorite.
I like the effects in this movie. The action is high flying, there is humor. You can tell this movie is really trying to keep you engaged, and I do give it credit for that. If I was a kid, I probably would have loved this movie. As an adult, I was amused for a while. But then I quickly started thinking - why am I watching this? I could be doing something I actually enjoy right now. End already!
I can appreciate this for what it is, but I don't think I will ever be watching this again. Maybe if I liked the genre more it would have a higher ranking. But I don't, so it won't.
#105
For whatever reason, I was in the mood to watch a movie that would make me cry when I watched this. I get like that from time to time. I don't know if other people get like that, but every once in a while I want to watch something that will make me cry like a baby. I read up on the best tearjerkers on Netflix, and this movie had made a lot of people's lists.
Call me cold hearted, but I didn't shed a tear. And I really wanted to, damn it! This movie is about a family who loses their son in a diving accident. I understand the building of the family dynamic, but I thought the son lived through too much of the movie. It was getting to the point where I was like "hurry up and die already!"
And then when he finally did, it was in a disappointing and confusing manner. Instead of feeling the shock and grief of the family, I was like "wait, what happened?" And then as the family copes with the death, they do it in kind of an impersonal manner. I wanted to cry... not just a normal cry but an ugly cry. And this movie didn't give me that satisfaction. Instead I just watched this like any other movie and turned it off in the end feeling disappointed. Not only did this not make me cry, it wasn't very exciting either.
#104
I'm not above the Human Centipede. I loved the first two movies. I really wanted to love this one.
This movie just strayed WAY too far from the plot for me to enjoy it. The centipede itself isn't formed until the last 5 minutes of the movie. The first hour and a half plus is all about watching a prison warden go hog wild, abusing his staff and prisoners and acting like a crazy person. If it didn't have Human Centipede in the title, I may not have even known that this was an entry in the series.
I like the violence, and I like "torture porn" kind of movies. But this one was just silly. But silly without being funny. And not gross enough to really disturb me. It was just dumb. I mean, I liked it enough to rank it this high. But it is really only entertaining in a "stop and look at the train wreck" kind of way. I certainly wasn't playing on my phone during this one.
Still, this is not a good movie.
#103, #102, #101
Great movies, and there are some people who can watch these over and over again and have them not lose any magic in the process. I am not one of those people. I get bored and I think - "why am I watching this AGAIN?"
I need to shelf these movies and pull them out again in 20 years or so. It would be tragic if these classic movies lost their magic for me, and that is exactly what is happening with me when I watch them every year or two.
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All right! We are down to 100. That was fast. So you will notice the theme here. Obviously these were movies I didn't enjoy much watching this year. They either sucked, were boring, drove me to my cell phone, put me to sleep, or were good movies - but movies I have seen too many times to enjoy anymore.
As we move into the top 100 and beyond, we are finally going to start to see some movies I really had a great time watching. There are a lot of fabulous movies at the top of the list, but you may have to suffer through some more movies I was indifferent towards before we get to that point.
This ranking will get more exciting soon, I promise!
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