King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017, 29%)
H’wood has been drawing from the public domain well hardcore these past few years (think Jungle Book,

think Tarzan, think too many movies with the word Origins in the title), so what did this

movie with Charlie Hunnam as chav Arthur have going for it? Well, the director was Guy Ritchie, who was coming

off of cult pleaser Man From U.N.C.L.E. and did a bang-up job updating Sherlock Holmes. (That one time,

at least.) Did we mention Arthur as a chav? Oi! Ultimately, we’re calling this a major turkey because it

presaged for all the turkeys that would quickly follow: Summer 2017 was a tastefully apocalyptic season as

multiple Rotten blockbusters bombed in a row: Baywatch, Transformers: Is It The Fifth One?,

and Pirates: The One That Just Came Out. Naturally, when we got covered in The New

York Times, a major studio chief executive “declared flatly that his mission was to destroy the review-

aggregation site.”