20 Recent Movies Ruined For INSANE Reasons
These movies were derailed in the most WTF ways.
It's no easy feat bringing even the simplest of movie ideas to fruition, with dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of artists collaborating in hopefully-harmonious unison to deliver a grand cinematic vision.
With so many individuals involved and so many moving parts, there are innumerable way that even the most well-organised production can run totally off the rails, resulting in an end product that falls short of audience expectations.
And as of late, these 20 movies all ended up faltering because of some frankly ridiculous, frustrating, and downright WTF behind-the-scenes reasons.
Perhaps there were upfront casting issues which The Internet called out early on, maybe the shoot itself was beset by unforeseen problems, or the studio just couldn't keep their hands off of it during post-production.
And frankly, they're some of the more predictable issues on this list - we've also got directors who weren't even on set, actors who barely showed up for work, and social media posts which threw a certain slasher sequel into a pure tailspin.
All in all these films were hobbled in ways few could've reasonably expected...
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.