While reflecting on the highs and lows of a year past, well admit its best to stay positive. Well also admit its fun, in a masochistic sort of way, to ruminate a while on the more dismaying events of the past12 months. Because movies tend to fall somewhere on the scale between good and bad, not everything that came out this year made it into everyones favorites.So lets give in to our worst impulses and highlight not just the bad stuff, but the stuff that was just really, really disappointing. Its easy enough to decide on what was bad, and normally the truly bad stuff never really has any hope of being good. It being bad, then, doesnt come as a surprise. But the disappointing stuff almost hits worse mainly because there was so much potential for it to have been better.For this list, those are the movies were working with, the ones with promising premises, beloved directors, a killer cast, and/or fantastic source material to work from. And yet, for whatever reason, none of these things was enough to make them good, and our excitement to see them quickly died a few minutes in, when we realized, uh oh, what have they done? Were not saying you arent allowed to enjoy these, but we are saying that they were bad (or even merely okay) when they should have been great.The Most Disappointing Movies of 2024These movies were way worse than merely bad.Gallery Credit: Emma StefanskyREAD MORE: The Best Movies of 2024Get our free mobile appThe Worst Movies of 2024ScreenCrushs editor and critic picks the 12 worst films he saw in 2024.