15 Overhyped Movies You Wish You'd Not Watched

Blonde is the latest attempt to tackle the tragic life story of the brilliantly talented Marilyn Monroe, one which is as tragically relevant as ever today - especially in the wake of the #MeToo movement. With the talented auteur Andrew Dominik in the director's chair, critically acclaimed source material and the excellent Ana De Armas in the lead role, this is yet another film that should've been absolutely great. Should've been. 

And... it was awful. Being almost three hours of abstract, overly generalized imagery that doesn't really have a story, Blonde is a terribly dull and self-indulgent film as things stand but ambitious misfires from talented filmmakers are nothing new. 

What makes Blonde so awful is how repellent it is. The film seems to believe it is critiquing how Monroe was exploited during her lifetime when in fact it's partaking in the very thing it's supposed to be condemning.

By reducing Monroe to a passive, sexualized victim who suffers one horrific, degrading act after another, Blonde is itself deeply exploitative and cruel. Hell, it even throws in a completely fictitious scene where John F Kennedy rapes Monroe, which was a beyond-offensive creative decision. The film also received backlash over its treatment of abortion, which was more than understandable. 

Perhaps it winning the Worst Picture Razzie over Morbius and Jurassic World: Dominion was a tad overzealous but it is an execrable piece of cinema - the kind of nauseating film we could all do without seeing.