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By Dustin Rowles | Lists | December 31, 2015
Disappointment of the Year — Jurassic World
Most Unlikely Character to Make You Cry — Bing Bong, tritagonist and imaginary friend, Inside Out
The ‘I Fucking Told You So’ Film of the Year — Fantastic Four
The $618 million worldwide grossing afterthought of 2015: — The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
The ‘It Wasn’t Good but It Wasn’t That Bad’ Film of the Year — Spectre
The Amazing, Spectacular But Unfairly Overlooked Because of Star Wars and Mad Max Action Pic of the Year — Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation
The ‘Are You Sure? Check Your Math Again’ Box Office Stat of the Year — Creed made $100 million less worldwide than Tomorrowland
The ‘Aw, that looks amazing … oh, nevermind, maybe I’ll catch it on Netflix some day’ movie of the year goes to — The Good Dinosaur
The ‘Stop Trying to Make Fetch Happen’ Movie of the Year — Terminator: Genisys
The ‘Are You Sure Those Sequels Even Came Out’ Movies of the Year — Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials and The Divergent: Insurgent
The Unexpected but Pleasant Surprise of the Year — M. Night Shyamalan’s The Visit
The Hiccup in Jake Gyllenhaal’s Quest to Be the Best Actor of his Generation — Southpaw
The Unnecessary Sequel that No One Asked for Movie(s) of the Year — Ted 2 and Paul Blart 2
The Best $50 million grossing film almost NO ONE talked about this year — Sicario
The Quietest Flops of the Year — In the Heart of the Sea ($22 million domestic on a $100 million budget) and The Seventh Son ($17 million domestic on a $95 million budget)
The ‘Let’s Just Forget that Movie Ever Happened’ Movie of the Year — Aloha
The Best Movie(s) Completely Ignored by Everyone But Critics — Steve Jobs and 99 Homes
The Taylor Kitsch of 2015 — Chris Hemsworth (In the Heart of the Sea ($22 million) and Blackhat ($8 million))
The Oscar Bait That Couldn’t Catch a Fish — Trumbo
The Bill Murray Movie We Liked in Theory But Had No Intention of Ever Seeing — Rock The Kasbah
The Huge Worldwide Hit You’ve Never Heard of — Wolf Totem ($202 million worldwide, $210,000 domestic).
The Best Movie You’ll Watch on Netflix in 2016 — Dope
The Little Indie that Couldn’t — Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
The Movie You Keep Telling Yourself to Watch But You Know You Never Will — The End of the Tour (The David Foster Wallace flick)
