10 Movies Nobody Wants To Admit Suck
Copium is one hell of a drug.
Most moviegoers don't go out of their way to watch terrible films, but at the same time, they'll usually freely admit when they've ended up watching a pure dud by accident. And yet, sometimes the collective audience denial is overpowering enough that viewers en masse will only admit said movie was trash a good while later.
There are many possible reasons for this, such as a fanbase simply desperate to see their beloved IP adapted to the big screen no matter what, or having to wait decades for a sequel to finally materialise. Factors like this can blind viewers to the truth, making them less than eager to cop to the fact that a movie they were hugely hyped to watch was actually a cinematic shambles.
On top of this, there's the fact that opinions and wider audience narratives change over time, and what's acceptably received on initial release can quickly fall out of favour once the brief honeymoon period wears off.
Whatever the reason, audiences didn't want to face up to the fact that the following ten movies weren't merely disappointing - they sucked...
10. The Matrix Resurrections
Just about every fan of the Matrix franchise desperately wanted to like the belated fourth movie, even if most knew deep down that it surely wouldn't be a patch on the statuesque original.
As it turned out, The Matrix Resurrections couldn't hold a candle to the pretty-good second film or even the wildly divisive third, with Lana Wachowski turning in one of cinema's all-time great instances of a creative firebombing their own IP with seemingly intentional abandon.
Though the sequel's meta flourishes begin promisingly enough, this is ultimately self-aware to a fault, spending far too long hand-wringing over its own pointlessness than, well, getting to the point. Beyond that, the story is abject nonsense and, most disappointingly, the visuals are shockingly lackluster for a Matrix movie, especially where the limp, forgettable fight scenes are concerned.
The magic just wasn't there this time, sadly, and while an initial viewing of The Matrix Resurrections was bewildering enough that fans needed some time to process it, a few years after the fact it's much easier to admit how thoroughly naff it actually was.
In the very least, Resurrections tanked hard enough that Warner Bros. won't come begging the Wachowskis to do anything with the series again anytime soon. A reboot with a new creative team is inevitable eventually, though.