12 Movies From 2016 That Were Unfairly Hated
These films got a lot of flak, but are they really all that bad?
Not every movie released will please every moviegoer. Neither will every movie please all film critics. Managing to make a film that pleases both audiences and critics is an even harder feat to realise, and a tonne of movies released during 2016 are definitive proof of that. But just because a movie doesn’t receive universal acclaim, it isn’t necessarily a terrible movie either. There’s many a reason why a film can fall flat. Perhaps it doesn’t live up to audience’s expectations of what it should be; perhaps certain film critics don’t see the merit in less ‘serious’ films. But attitudes like that, from both critics and general moviegoers, means films that are actually fairly decent get dismissed.
While the movies featured on this list are by no means perfect – that is, if ‘perfect’ means both universal critical acclaim and raking in huge amounts of money by putting moviegoer derrieres in seats – they’re by no means the most terrible movies in the history of cinema.
Some were lavished with praise from the film press but rebuffed by audiences and others earned huge box office profits but were panned by film buffs.
Some were disliked by both critics and audiences, but what unites them all is that they didn’t deserve half the hate they got.
12. Suicide Squad
Without a doubt one of the year’s most divisive movies, Suicide Squad may have been critically panned but it also somehow managed to rake in a whopping $745.6 million worldwide ranking it as the eighth highest-grossing film of 2016 so far. Proof, if there ever was, of the sometimes huge gulf between film critics and general moviegoers. Its low rating on Rotten Tomatoes riled fans so much that they took to change.org, the leading first-world problems petition site, to campaign for the aggregate website to be shut down.
Maybe the critics were a tad harsh. Some criticisms like sloppy editing and muddled plotline might have been justified. However, others that accused Suicide Squad of misogyny and fetishizing violence seemed like they were unfairly singling out the movie in a genre where violence and sexism are often main ingredients.
In terms of quality while it’s certainly no Deadpool, it’s nowhere near as bad as some of the comic book movie genre’s other recent offerings like the abysmal Fantastic Four. Besides, if the Suicide Squad’s die-hard fans are happy with how the movie turned out isn’t that the main thing?