Isaac Feldberg’s 15 Worst Movies Of 2014

Here's the sad truth about life as a film critic - in order to get to the good stuff, you have to sift through a whole lot of shit first. This year, that law held as true as ever, and though 2014 yielded some truly extraordinary works of cinematic decadence and beauty, it also gave us some real clunkers. For every Guardians of the Galaxy, there was an Amazing Spider-Man 2. For every Interstellar, there was a Transcendence. This year, Hollywood rained such an unrelenting deluge of crapola down on moviegoers that some still claim 2014 was one of the worst years for movies on record.

Isaac Feldberg

Published: Dec 22, 2014 10:57 am

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4) If I Stay

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Move over, The Interview – If I Stay is the most dangerous movie of the year. Such is the risk of viewers drifting off into blissful but possibly permanent comas while watching this mawkish, manipulative mess that I can only hope theaters showing it kept paramedics stationed just outside. Aimed squarely at the teenage demographic that made The Fault In Our Stars such a success, If I Stay, about a conflicted girl in a coma deciding whether to wake up or die, is a shameless cash-grab that only jerks tears by reaching traumatic levels of badness.

What makes it worse is that I was genuinely excited for it. Chloë Grace Moretz is a talented actress, and here was her chance to hit it big with the YA crowd. Instead of watching her character fight against the odds, however, I witnessed Moretz herself battle to stay afloat in a raging sea of genre tropes and canned dialogue (spoiler alert: the actress surrenders around the same time that a Magical Negro nurse appears to give a pump-up speech to her comatose teen).

The film is so blandly directed, stiffly acted and lazily written that I felt as if I’d just watched a bad parody of YA movies. No such luck. If I Stay is both deadly serious and just plain deadly.

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