You know, the worst movies are usually the ones that promise a lot and deliver nothing. I think the Adam Sandler Netflix movies, like The Ridiculous 6, are a strong contender for “least liked” in a modern sense. They’re not necessarily the worst films ever made technically, but they’re just so lazy and low-effort, and they’re made just to fulfill a contract, not because anyone had a good story to tell. It’s like the bare minimum of filmmaking was done. Everyone knows they’re terrible, yet they keep making them. That level of cynical, low-quality output aimed purely at existing demographics makes it feel incredibly disliked, even if people watch it just to pass the time.
For me it’s gotta be Dragonball Evolution. When a movie takes an iconic, globally loved anime/manga property and completely misses the point in every single aspect the casting, the story, the tone, the action it earns a special spot of hatred from the fanbase. It was a massive insult. Fans of the source material were furious because it was unrecognizable and awful, and people who didn’t know the anime still thought it was a terrible movie. It’s hard to get more disliked than upsetting both the hardcore fans and the casual moviegoers simultaneously.
I would argue that the least liked movie has to be Gigli. Forget the 0% Rotten Tomatoes scores for things no one has ever heard of. This movie was a massive, mainstream, star-studded disaster. It had Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez at the peak of their Bennifer frenzy, and the studio poured so much money and marketing into it. The critical response was devastating, and the box office was just pathetic. It became a cultural punchline overnight. The sheer public spectacle of how bad it was, and how much money was burned on it, makes it one of the most universally mocked and disliked films in Hollywood history. It’s the definition of a train wreck that everyone stared at.
In recent memory, it has to be Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Now, I know a lot of people defend it, but look at the sheer division it caused in one of the most dedicated fanbases in history. It had a great critical score, sure, but the audience score was way lower, and the backlash has fundamentally changed the conversation around Star Wars. People didn’t just dislike it; they hated the choices it made for established characters like Luke Skywalker. When a movie actively spits in the face of what fans loved about the franchise for decades, it generates a unique kind of pure, visceral dislike that goes way beyond a generic bad movie.
You know, the worst movies are usually the ones that promise a lot and deliver nothing. I think the Adam Sandler Netflix movies, like The Ridiculous 6, are a strong contender for “least liked” in a modern sense. They’re not necessarily the worst films ever made technically, but they’re just so lazy and low-effort, and they’re made just to fulfill a contract, not because anyone had a good story to tell. It’s like the bare minimum of filmmaking was done. Everyone knows they’re terrible, yet they keep making them. That level of cynical, low-quality output aimed purely at existing demographics makes it feel incredibly disliked, even if people watch it just to pass the time.
For me it’s gotta be Dragonball Evolution. When a movie takes an iconic, globally loved anime/manga property and completely misses the point in every single aspect the casting, the story, the tone, the action it earns a special spot of hatred from the fanbase. It was a massive insult. Fans of the source material were furious because it was unrecognizable and awful, and people who didn’t know the anime still thought it was a terrible movie. It’s hard to get more disliked than upsetting both the hardcore fans and the casual moviegoers simultaneously.
I would argue that the least liked movie has to be Gigli. Forget the 0% Rotten Tomatoes scores for things no one has ever heard of. This movie was a massive, mainstream, star-studded disaster. It had Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez at the peak of their Bennifer frenzy, and the studio poured so much money and marketing into it. The critical response was devastating, and the box office was just pathetic. It became a cultural punchline overnight. The sheer public spectacle of how bad it was, and how much money was burned on it, makes it one of the most universally mocked and disliked films in Hollywood history. It’s the definition of a train wreck that everyone stared at.
In recent memory, it has to be Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Now, I know a lot of people defend it, but look at the sheer division it caused in one of the most dedicated fanbases in history. It had a great critical score, sure, but the audience score was way lower, and the backlash has fundamentally changed the conversation around Star Wars. People didn’t just dislike it; they hated the choices it made for established characters like Luke Skywalker. When a movie actively spits in the face of what fans loved about the franchise for decades, it generates a unique kind of pure, visceral dislike that goes way beyond a generic bad movie.