10 Movies That Tried To Subvert Expectations (But Still Sucked)

This year's Snow White being a cinematic disaster was largely expected, but what was less foreseeable was exactly what kind of failure it would be. Many predicted a lazy remake, and instead, we got a product that was basically two different movies fighting to come out on top, an obscene Frankenstein's Monster of a film. 

At first, the picture follows the original closely, and then Snow White (Rachel Zegler) leaves the home of the seven dwarves and hangs out with some bandits in the woods for a while - these characters were the ones seen in leaked BTS photos back in summer 2023. It seems likely these characters were originally the main focus instead of the dwarves, but following the never-ending stream of controversies that dogged this iteration of Snow White, reshoots were done to include the dwarves and other, more faithful elements. 

Some of the bits with the dwarves (despite the awful CGI) are actually OK, while the sections with the bandits are a chore to get through, so this does something impressive in a bad way: it makes you wish for a lazy retelling instead. Yes, remaking a masterpiece is pointless to begin with, but at the end of the day, when audiences go to see a Snow White movie, they want to see her with the dwarves, not some random bandits dressed in cheap costumes. 

And besides, a remotely coherent end result would definitely have been appreciated.