2025 was a rough year for cinema, with critical and commercial disasters like Snow White, Hurry Up Tomorrow, and Death of a Unicorn. I was going to include The Electric State on my list of guilty pleasures, but honestly, it was so forgettable that I barely remember anything about it—except that I thought it was better than Amazon's Fallout TV series.

Here are some of the panned 2025 movies I actually enjoyed.

Predator: Badlands

I mainly liked this one because of Elle Fanning's performance, and I genuinely thought it was better than Avatar: The Way of Water. That said, the predators looked worse than they did in the 1987 original, which is embarrassing. Also, once you give the Predators a name like "the Yautja," it takes away a lot of the mystique. I always thought the predators in the first two movies were a fringe group on the outskirts of their society that hunted lesser races for sport. A monoculture that revolves entirely around hunting and culling the weak wouldn't get past the Stone Age—unless this is set after the fall of Yautja civilization and only the hunters remain.

Despite its flaws, Badlands does have some funny moments. Sure, it's not about a man fighting a Predator—the first two movies did that better than anything else—but there are far worse movies with "Predator" in the title.

In the Lost Lands

This adaptation of a George R.R. Martin short story wasn't nearly as bad as its reception suggested. It went down like a lead balloon, and most people found it difficult to follow. Mind you I was thinking, "They didn't have sorcerers in D&D in 1986,"when i was watching Stranger Things  and having heard of the Gamma World rpg , I got what they were going for. It's pretty solid '80s-style fantasy and makes me want to read the short story.

It's better than the Game of Thrones finale and the Fallout TV show. I don't know why this deserved a Razzie nomination—maybe the lack of chemistry between Milla Jovovich and Dave Bautista? Though that's not as bad as the lack of chemistry in The Electric State, however some of the supporting cast did deliver wooden performances.