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Even Hollywood's worst can't hide from their own failures! Join WatchMojo as we count down our picks for recent films so terrible that their own creators admitted it. From Marvel misfires to video game adaptations gone wrong, these movies had their cast and directors throwing in the towel and publicly acknowledging the disasters they helped create.
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00:00I knew I shouldn't have let monkeys proofread the contract.
00:03Elliot, Elsie, you are fired!
00:06Welcome to WatchMojo, where we'll be counting down art picks for movies from the last decade
00:11that were so terrible, even their creators admitted it.
00:14It's a dark girl vibe you got going on.
00:1810. Borderlands
00:20Look, this has been a really long day.
00:23Can we just skip to, I don't know, whatever this is?
00:27It's not often a video game movie is of particularly high quality,
00:31and Borderlands was not an exception to this trend.
00:34Despite having an all-star cast, it was a total flop.
00:38My dad sent me.
00:39That's right.
00:40His shortest soldier.
00:41His shortest soldier to save his least funny daughter.
00:45None of the cast have explicitly come out and said they dislike it,
00:48as it's likely they're not allowed to.
00:50For instance, the boss of Gearbox tweeted in 2025,
00:54where did I state it was going to be amazing?
00:57Then said, it's a miracle it even exists,
01:00showing he's simply proud to have a movie of his game
01:03without caring about its quality.
01:05Either we take her, or Atlas does.
01:10There is no salvation without sacrifice.
01:12Also, it turned out that Cate Blanchett
01:14admitted to only signing up because she was offered the role during lockdown,
01:18when her mental health was particularly poor.
01:21To say this is the worst Star Trek film
01:38sounds like a bold claim,
01:40as there are so many.
01:42Well, it's an opinion shared by most fans,
01:44and it's not hard to see why.
01:45You don't get your prime directives in a bunch.
01:48You are not going to get your hands dirty
01:50and mess up your chances of becoming captain.
01:53I'm a top-tier science officer.
01:54Both prints, though.
01:55This straight-to-TV movie featured hit actress Michelle Yeoh
01:58from Everything, Everywhere, All at Once.
02:00It's rare to see an actor slander their own movie,
02:03but Yeoh did exactly that after its release.
02:05You really want Section 31?
02:07Want me dogging you until the end of time?
02:11Boring.
02:12She said there were some things that we could have done better.
02:17This is a polite way of saying they messed up,
02:19but as actors aren't usually allowed to criticize their own movie,
02:22she can't say that explicitly.
02:24I've been in close quarters with Zepp for a week.
02:26Okay, so you're into Mecha Boom Boom.
02:28Less of humans, huh?
02:29No shame.
02:30Number 8, Passengers.
02:32This movie had some fairly mixed reviews at release,
02:34particularly regarding its story and characterization.
02:37How is it that I'm sitting here with you with 90 years to go?
02:46It's not possible for you to be here.
02:48It turned out lead actor Jennifer Lawrence was warned by Adele not to feature in the movie.
02:52In an interview with the New York Times,
02:54they asked if she disliked any of her films.
02:56Lawrence didn't hesitate to say it was passengers
02:59and that she should have listened to Adele's advice.
03:01It's murder.
03:06You're right, Aurora.
03:07But the drowning man will always try and drag somebody down with him.
03:11It ain't right.
03:13But the man's drowning.
03:14Co-star Chris Pratt, on the other hand,
03:16says he doesn't care about the hate.
03:17He thinks it's very good and is very proud of it.
03:20Pratt also added that he was glad it made money back for the studio,
03:23so maybe that's how he measures the quality of his movies.
03:327. X- Apocalypse
03:35I feel a great swell of pity for the poor soul
03:38that comes to my school looking for trouble.
03:40The X-Men movies can wildly vary in quality,
03:43with Days of Future Past garnering critical acclaim
03:45and Origins Wolverine getting critically slammed.
03:48One of the weaker entries is easily Apocalypse.
03:50Those with the greatest power
03:52protect those without.
04:01That's my message to the world.
04:03The titular villain was played by Oscar Isaac,
04:06who called the prosthetic process for the titular character excruciating.
04:10While he refused to disown the film, he's not a fan of it.
04:13But you can never strike gold!
04:18His main motivation for accepting the role
04:21was to work with other actors involved in the project.
04:23Turned out, he couldn't even see them from all the makeup he had on.
04:27Isaac also said he wished it would have been a better film.
04:31You betrayed me.
04:32No, I betrayed them.
04:366. Fantastic Four
04:37We can't beat him. He's stronger than any of us.
04:41Yeah, he is.
04:42But he's not stronger than all of us.
04:44The 2015 adaptation of The Fantastic Four
04:47is generally considered the worst version of these characters.
04:50Josh Trank both wrote and directed this shambles of a movie.
04:53Enough!
04:54When your world is destroyed,
04:57and I'm all that's left,
04:59then it will be enough.
05:01Four years after its release,
05:03he dropped a lengthy review of it on Letterboxd,
05:05rating it 2 out of 5 stars.
05:07In Trank's own words,
05:09the movie is alright,
05:10and he was expecting it to be much worse than it was.
05:13This is pretty surprising,
05:14as it's hard to imagine this film being worse.
05:17It was his second ever film,
05:18made during a particularly difficult period for Trank,
05:21so this explains why it ended up so bad.
05:24And we are stronger together than we are apart.
05:27What good is it if you're alone?
05:30I have always been alone.
05:325. Winnie the Pooh, Blood and Honey
05:35Lots of people have imaginary friends as children.
05:38They're not imaginary, Mel.
05:39If this movie slipped under your radar,
05:42consider yourself lucky.
05:43This abysmal horror movie
05:45currently has a 3% critic score on Rotten Tomatoes.
05:48You need to help me, please.
05:50There's something wrong with Biggler.
05:51He just killed my wife.
05:53Please.
05:57As the name suggests,
05:58it's basically a Winnie the Pooh slasher flick.
06:01A short while after release,
06:02director Reese Frake Waterfield
06:04addressed the negative reception.
06:06He said the issue was that
06:07it was a low-budget production
06:09and that they're being directly compared to Marvel movies.
06:11You're tough.
06:13I'll give you that.
06:15But you ain't gonna be standing soon.
06:17So, the director believed it was bad
06:19because they only had $100,000.
06:22This is a fairly lazy excuse.
06:24It makes you question if he's ever heard the saying,
06:27limitation breeds creativity.
06:284. Morbius
06:30This must be the only film in history to flop twice.
06:43This disastrous vampire movie
06:45featured Jared Leto as Michael Morbius.
06:47When it came out,
06:48barely anyone watched it
06:50and those who did weren't fond of it.
06:52You had a lot of other suitors, didn't you?
06:54Yeah.
06:55You know, the whole near-death thing
06:57is very, very chic.
07:00This turned into a huge meme
07:02with the internet convincing the studio to re-release it
07:04with even fewer people going to see it.
07:07The director, Daniel Espinosa,
07:08felt pretty upset about it
07:10saying he had a lot of self-hatred for his own work.
07:13Look what you've become.
07:15Everything I am, I am because of you.
07:17I looked up to you my whole life.
07:19I will never leave you.
07:21And I will not go back.
07:22Leto has the opposite feelings
07:24as he hopes there will be a sequel
07:26and wants to be given complete creative control over it.
07:293. Doolittle
07:30We have no choice but to embark
07:32on this perilous journey
07:34to obtain the fruit of the Eden tree.
07:37The 1998 Dr. Doolittle movie with Eddie Murphy
07:39is fondly remembered.
07:41The 2020 remake has been almost entirely forgotten about.
07:45Don't embarrass me in front of the crew.
07:47I'm sparing you embarrassment.
07:49The film ended up in production hell for ages.
07:52It underwent extensive reshoots
07:54after some test screenings
07:55showing they didn't fare too well.
07:57They began shooting scenes
07:58before knowing where the CGI animals would be placed.
08:01Your migraines are brought on
08:02by severe maternal issues
08:04and compounded by sibling rivalry.
08:06Also, one production member
08:08made some savage remarks
08:09about director Steven Gaggin.
08:11Supposedly, he was a nightmare to work with,
08:13making everyone's job harder
08:15because of his lack of organization.
08:17The same crew member even said,
08:19if it's even remotely watchable,
08:22then the people who finished the movie
08:23deserve some medals.
08:25Is this a pep talk?
08:26Because it's a weird one.
08:28I can sniff defeat like a truffle pig.
08:312. Music
08:32Hollywood has a tendency to struggle
08:34to depict neural divergence accurately and sensitively.
08:36One of the most egregious examples is music,
08:39directed by singer Sia.
08:40Every day's a holiday.
08:43Let the beer take you away.
08:45Let the beer take you today.
08:47Its terrible reviews were a huge red flag,
08:50but an even bigger one
08:51was Sia herself apologizing for the film.
08:53Its plot centers on an alcoholic
08:55becoming the guardian
08:56of her non-verbal autistic half-sister.
08:58And I think that's what you do
09:00when you love someone.
09:01And I'm actually learning how to love someone.
09:05One scene proved so controversial,
09:07Sia needed to add a warning
09:09explaining they don't condone what happens.
09:11Eventually, there was even a Change.org petition
09:14demanding that they revoke its Golden Globe nomination.
09:17This wasn't successful,
09:18but neither was the film.
09:20You can stay a while longer
09:21as long as you keep clean.
09:24No, look at me.
09:26I can hardly take care of myself, George.
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09:45Number one, Madam Web.
09:47How would you know
09:48if you could climb a wall
09:50if you've never tried?
09:53This Marvel movie was debatably
09:54the biggest box office failure of 2024.
09:57Critics hated it,
09:58and it only earned $100 million globally
10:01on a budget of $80 million.
10:02You guys, this is so freaky.
10:04Who are you?
10:05What is going on?
10:09I can see the future.
10:11For those unaware,
10:12cinemas take a huge cut of profits,
10:14so they weren't close to breaking even.
10:16It was such a poor film.
10:18Star Sidney Sweeney criticized it
10:20during her Saturday Night Live appearance.
10:22You might have seen me in anyone,
10:23but you were Euphoria.
10:25You definitely did not see me in Madam Web.
10:29Lead actor Dakota Johnson also chimed in,
10:32saying that it was made by people
10:34who don't have a creative bone in their body.
10:37Conversely, Emma Roberts blamed
10:38its failure on internet culture,
10:40so not the whole cast was critical of it.
10:42But it wasn't that bad.
10:43It wasn't, like, I mean,
10:44obviously it was bad, you know.
10:46Were there any viable entries
10:48we failed to mention?
10:49Let us know in the comments down below.
10:50And don't forget to like and subscribe
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10:54My own son is hacking the government.
10:56You know, for someone who spends their life watching,
10:58you sure do miss a lot.
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