20 Terrible 2014 Movies That Should Never Have Happened

12. The Best Of Me

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 8% The first box office bomb of the nine Nicholas Sparks weepie novels adapted into movies to date suggests that even hormonal teenage girls have limits of what they're prepared to be spoonfed. This insipid romantic drama plays so enthusiastically to the tropes that define Sparks' novels that the movie is stingingly close to self-parody, but of course, takes itself dead seriously. It's hard to know what attracted the talented James Marsden and Michelle Monaghan to a script this clunky, spelling out each impending emotional beat with a neon signpost, with an especially ridiculous third act denying the hint of even the slightest emotional honesty. Things come to a riotous conclusion with an unintentionally hilarious and completely implausible final plot twist, and if you haven't guessed it by the time the truth is revealed, you're probably above these movies to begin with. Terrible.