20 Movies Since 2010 So Awful They're Actually Harrowing
19. If I Stay
If I Stay wasn’t on many worst of 2014 lists, so its placement here is giving it the attention it needs. Chloe Grace Moretz stars, playing a teen musician who’s in a ghost state trying to decide if she should stay or die after a car crash.
It’s a teen weepie that sticks devotedly to the formula of a bland love story, loads of moping and crying, soppy emotional beats, and a big choice. This will have your eyes rolling so much you’ll need to watch that they don’t get stuck.
Audiences should definitely watch The Fault in Our Stars instead, because all this has to offer are a couple of stirring moments and some really cool parents. Other than that, it’s just a series of blandly directed and written scenes dedicated either to exposition or making the audience cry. Moretz, meanwhile, having learnt nothing from Carrie, mopes her way through another social outcast role. All in all, this is a phony and wimpy mess that’s so full of forced, false sentimentality the only tears shed will be tears of frustration. Hit Girl would be ashamed.