Worst movie you've seen

[Esquilax]

Monsters. What was sold as a low budget auteur work, a character driven monster movie with a strong-albeit unsubtle- metaphor at its core, turned out to be a shitshow. Low budget? Check. Character driven? I guess, in that the entire running time is devoted to the two profoundly unlikeable leads as they trudge around shitty locations without once delivering a line of dialogue that a real human being would ever utter. Metaphor? Doesn't even make sense. Here's a hint: if you're going to make a movie about segregation and immigration, do not make your immigrant stand ins thoughtless, lumbering animals that do nothing but cause destruction. It tends to send the opposite message.

All this is capped off with one of the most pretentious denouements I've ever seen, that plays itself up as some profound moment despite adding nothing to anything, ever. The director, Gareth Edwards, went from this pile of dog garbage to the newest Godzilla film, demonstrating that he still doesn't really have a handle on the idea that character driven movies need to have interesting characters, but that he can shoot monster action pretty well when he lets go of the auteur shit. He's making a Monsters sequel that appears to be more action heavy, which might turn out okay because of it, but man, fuck this movie...