It seems as though every time a movie is released it is deemed as “the movie of the year.” Though this may be true for some blockbuster hits, this past summer was notable for its forgettable, disappointing films.

Unlike Marvel’s The Avengers: Age of Ultron, Fantastic Four proved to be a complete and utter disaster. A a reboot of the 2005 version of the same name, Fantastic Four was no better than its predecessor.

“The whole movie was really slow and it took too long for the action to actually start,” says senior Beatriz Amorim. Along with embarrassingly lacking action sequences, the film also had an absence of quality CGI effects, and a weak climax that failed to tie the whole story together.

An outright failure, Fantastic Four became one of the worst-reviewed movies of the summer leading people to wonder why Twentieth Century Fox is even bothering with a sequel set for 2017.

Another failed movie of the summer was Adam Sandler’s own Pixels. A nostalgic homage to the well-known arcade games of the 80s, Pixels reminded audiences on why these once popular games lost their luster. Void of wit and any sense of charm, Sandler yet again added to the endless list of repulsive films under his belt.

When asked about how she felt towards the movie, senior Soriah Milorin deemed it as “forgettable.” Even the 88 million dollar budget could not save this exhausting mess.

Sure enough, a cast of A-list celebrities does not always ensure the perfect movie. Aloha makes an extreme point of this with its underwhelming plot and lead actors such as Bradley Cooper and Emma Stone. Though set in Hawaii, the filmmakers went out of their way to make the setting devoid of its native Asian-Americans and Pacific Islanders and replaced them with numerous Caucasian characters.

Along with its obvious white-washing, Aloha fails to draw in the audience’s full attention. Bradley Cooper’s character, Brian Gilcrest, finds himself in an unnecessary love triangle when he meets Allison Ng (Emma Stone) and runs into his former girlfriend and her current husband. The predictable love story takes away from Gilcrest’s actual goals and destroys the unredeemable plot.

With the absolute mess America was disgraced with this summer, one can only hope this fall offers a better fare of film worthy of the ever-increasing ticket prices.