20 Recent Movies Ruined For INSANE Reasons

20. Having No Director On Set - War of the Worlds

Now in total fairness, last year's new screenlife version of War of the Worlds was probably always going to be a bad film, but did it have to be quite this awful?

Possibly not, as the multi-Razzie-winning sci-fi film was shot under extreme logistical limitations in 2020 at the height of the pandemic.

Pandemic-related restrictions meant that star Ice Cube had to shoot his lead role entirely isolated from both the rest of the cast and even director Rich Lee, performing his role remotely with a skeleton crew.

While scrappy indie films like Host have shown what could be done with remote filmmaking in the middle of the pandemic, they're more of an exception that proves the rule.

After all, Ice Cube seems completely lost throughout War of the Worlds, his clueless performance surely informed by the fact that he didn't have a filmmaker on-set to directly interact with, instead only speaking with Lee remotely.

Again, War of the Worlds would've surely been a rough film regardless of its strained production, but these issues transformed it from a merely bad piece of work into a genuine all-timer dud.