15 Dumbest Things In The Worst Summer Movie Season Ever

The year of big-budget flops.

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Paramount Pictures

2016 has been one of the most fascinating summer movie seasons ever, though largely in a perverse way considering how few big-budget movies actually delivered what was expected of them.

More huge movies than ever before fell on the chopping block and even a lot of the financial successes were skewered by critics and fanboys alike, while ugly controversies dominated the cultural conversation, and otherwise good movies introduced unsavory plot points that proved highly unconvincing.

Whether actual scenes from this summer's movies or industry screw-ups with far-reaching implications, it's been one for the books in terms of what Hollywood can learn to get better next time. Well, perhaps the time after next given how many of next summer's big movies are already in the can or deep into production.

Here are the 15 dumbest things in the worst summer movie season ever...

15. Crossbones Gets 2 Minutes Of Screen Time - Captain America: Civil War

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Marvel Studios

After Brock Rumlow (Frank Grillo) was brutally disfigured in Captain America: The Winter Soldier, fans couldn't wait to see him return as supervillain Crossbones in Civil War.

Sadly, the iconic antagonist has slightly less than two minutes of actual screentime in the final movie; facing off against Cap and co. in the opening Lagos set-piece. Worse still, after a brief fight he decides to commit a suicide bombing, and that's that.

Why It's Dumb: The set-up was significant enough in TWS that fans were hoping for Crossbones to get a relatively fleshed-out treatment, especially when an actor as awesome as Grillo was cast in the role.

Instead, he's basically a disposable baddie for the movie's opening, barely making it past the film's 10 minute mark, committing an atrocity that sets the plot in motion but really could've been carried out by any generic villain.

Sure, the film as a whole was totally awesome, but this was undeniably disappointing.

 
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