2017 was a very disappointing year. It revealed how much
genuinely heinous behaviour was being kept under wraps, how desperate people
were to excuse those actions (the double-team of Kevin Spacey and Australia’s
own Don Burke was particularly gross in that regard), and how a person’s past
actions can come back to bite them in the arse in a major way. 2017 wasn’t just
disappointing because it fell below the median; it created disappointment in
individual people, people that up until that point the general public gave the
benefit of the doubt. It’s rather fitting then that, along with some surprising
successes, the year’s cinema would turn out some unbelievable letdowns.
Seriously, this is the year that created some of the biggest cinematic
nosedives I’ve ever covered, and the legendarily weak box office receipts show
that audiences definitely noticed.
However, we’re not talking about the obvious suspects. As
bad as films like Fifty Shades Darker, Collateral Beauty and even The Emoji Movie are, it was a given that they weren’t going to turn so well in the first
place. No, this list is dedicated to the films that showed a lot of initial
promise… and then proceeded to spoil it in increasingly disastrous ways. Let’s
test how much worse the phrase “I’m not angry, I’m just disappointed” can be to
blind rage and go over the Top 11 Biggest Disappointments of 2017… and oh boy,
I had to do some serious trimming down to fit in only 11 this year.
