What's the worst new film you've seen in 2010?

Nothing beats a comedy with faded stars, a chirping ingenue and zero laughs.

http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/review/morning-glory/5151

Howl
Shutter Island

Probably Into the Void; not that it was bad, but it was just a complete letdown vs. what I was expecting from it.

Also I have probably seen like 3 new movies this year and can't even remember the other two.

oh man shutter island

I really haven't seen enough new films this year for any to stick out in my mind as being terrible -- most of them were just meh.

dude morbius you didn't actually SEE morning glory did you??

Due Date.

It's not so bad, more that I haven't seen a truly bad film this year.

predators

Shutter Island moved with the ease and confidence of a movie reveling in its awfulness.

shutter island is great!

i can't think of any reallllly horrible shit i've seen this year, or maybe i'm blanking it out

Why D1D I Get M4rri3d T00?

Wolfman was laughably bad.

Predators was pretty lame. Also, one of the worst endings in recent memories.

"Now ... let's find a way off this fucking planet."

Or whatever.

Into the Void; not that it was bad, but it was just a complete letdown

You did see Gaspar Noe's name on it?

Tracer, I was begged by a stranded editor to see it, and I will be exacting my pound of flesh. At least I got to do a fisting joke.

the expendables, probably. but yeah ive seen like nothing this yr

green zone

1 or 2/5 in my notes

Up In The Air
Invictus
Green Zone
Inception
Iron Man 2

But the winner is:

The Killer Inside Me

Relentlessly thick film.

i loved shutter island but i wouldn't call it a good film. i was pleasantly surprised by howl but i saw it immediately after killer inside me, so that may have made it seem better.

Alice in wonderland

haha even I as someone who will find something good to say about every single Tim Burton movie I've seen, including "Planet of the Apes" and "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", came to my senses and stayed the fuck away from "Alice in Wonderland"

how can you love a film and think it's not at least good?

green zone would be the worst of these.

It took a lot of work on my part, but I managed four times to avoid being taken along to see "Alice in Wonderland."

oh god, alice in wonderland should be on my list too.

xxp, i probably enjoyed shutter island like ned enjoys showgirls. i doubt i'll ever watch it again.

Then you do not enjoy "Shutter Island" the way Ned enjoys "Showgirls".

Biutiful was pretty offensive.

The Expendables: I made the mistake it would be so bad that it would be good, so we decided to watch it right after watching Scott Pilgrim. Ruined my day.

mistake *thinking

OMG was Alice in Wonderland this year?!? Yeah I totally fell asleep for a good 3/4 of it and have absolutely ZERO recollection of the remaining quarter. I think Helena Bonham Carter was screaming at one point though?

I kind of liked the first half hour of Cyrus but it was pretty humorless after Jonah Hill's keyboard demonstration and the ending just sucked.

Cyrus probably isn't the worst film of the year, it's just the worst I've seen.
I don't make it to many movies.

I think Helena Bonham Carter was screaming at one point though?

Every one of her movies ever?

i paid extra to see alice in wonderland in a 3d on a friday night. regrets.

xp: Did she scream in Planet of the Apes? Or are we counting simian hooting as screaming?

bottom five that I actually watched all the way through, least offensive to most.

Repo Men
Valentine's Day
After.Life
Hereafter
Edge Of Darkness

xxp, i probably enjoyed shutter island like ned enjoys showgirls. i doubt i'll ever watch it again.

― caek, Tuesday, November 9, 2010 9:02 AM (13 minutes ago)

Then you do not enjoy "Shutter Island" the way Ned enjoys "Showgirls".

― DJP, Tuesday, November 9, 2010 9:04 AM (12 minutes ago)

I was going to say.

ha, yes

ok, i enjoyed it like i enjoyed showgirls

I'm probably extrapolating too much, but considering the hacky bullshit he shows up in these days, the fact that DeNiro walked out on Edge Of Darkness after a week or something on the set does feel evocative of what a trudge it is. Pretty much every fiftysomething actor would have done a better job as a retired Boston cop seeking revenge than Mel did. Except maybe Billy Crystal.

yeah it's edge of darkness vs jonah hex for me

edge of darkness was really horrible but more competently made

did you see killer inside me at london?

I rarely see an awful film. I have a good enough idea of what I might like that I manage to screen out most of the stuff I'd hate; most years, the worst film I'll see is just on the wrong side of mediocre. This year that might be Inception or Scott Pilgrim, neither of which I'd describe as even close to terrible.

not gonna see killer inside me unless i go through with writing an epic 'michael winterbottom sucks bottom and here is why' piece 1 day

i will give you quotes for that if you want

need to time it right. he has successfully recorded coogan and brydon doing funny impressions. need to wait for the next big slip-up.

'the expendables' was the worst because it took itself too seriously and when it didn't the jokes were horrible. made 'tango and cash' and 'cobra' look like 'die hard.' it was actually really incredibly boring, too. except for dolph lundgren.

oh and 'devil', the "satan is in our elevator!" movie by m night shymalan was dumb and laughable but at least only 80 minutes long and made in a somewhat competent fashion.

sorry i realize 'devil' wasn't actually by m night shymalan, he just played the val lewton role in its production, but it was all him nonetheless.

The Killer Inside Me is roughly as good as The Social Network

oh man shutter island

― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, November 9, 2010 10:49 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

co-fuckin-sign

Killers
Twilight: Eclipse
Enter the Void
Alice in Wonderland
Legion (though it honestly veers pretty close to 'so bad it's good' territory)

The American and Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps were bad, but I think it's unfair to call them "worst".

I'm conflicted over Robin Hood, though that was pretty bad.

shutter island was nuts but good times. there are certain parts in that movie where it's just scorsese having a blast with the camerawork and the scenery, and the acting is all pretty fun. dicaprio's "criminally insane" performance works a lot better in light of the twist (which only surprised me because i thought of two other twists it was more likely to be, this one was third on my list entering act 3.)

shutter island is nowhere near worst, c'mon

i saw prince of persia

Old Dogs

shutter island is nowhere near worst, c'mon

i saw prince of persia

― rip whiney g weingarten 03/11 never forget (history mayne), Tuesday, November 9, 2010 1:30 PM (17 seconds ago) Bookmark

spend less time seeing movies

i've probably seen worse movies than Shutter Island this year, but that's the one that made me feel the worst after I watched it. Its badness was more visceral than that of the other bad movies I've seen.

good list Gukbe, I'd mercifully forgotten about Legion.

Legion (though it honestly veers pretty close to 'so bad it's good' territory)

There is an unconscionable amount of talky scenes in this movie but the action sequences are so so awesome.

any movie that has a possessed granny get whacked in the head with a flying pan AND a ravenous demon-zombie attack AND an angel vs. angel with maces fight...i can get behind that.

Clash of the Titans

Shit, forgot that I saw The Execrables. What a piece of shit. Except for when Mickey Rourke cries. That's awesome.

A case could probably be made for 90% of the highest grossing films this year:

1 Toy Story 3 BV $414,317,223 4,028 $110,307,189 4,028 6/18 -
2 Alice in Wonderland (2010) BV $334,191,110 3,739 $116,101,023 3,728 3/5 7/8
3 Iron Man 2 Par. $312,128,345 4,390 $128,122,480 4,380 5/7 8/19
4 The Twilight Saga: Eclipse Sum. $300,531,751 4,468 $64,832,191 4,468 6/30 10/21
5 Inception WB $291,448,103 3,792 $62,785,337 3,792 7/16 -
6 Despicable Me Uni. $248,312,500 3,602 $56,397,125 3,476 7/9 -
7 Shrek Forever After P/DW $238,395,990 4,386 $70,838,207 4,359 5/21 9/9
8 How to Train Your Dragon P/DW $217,581,231 4,060 $43,732,319 4,055 3/26 7/22
9 The Karate Kid Sony $176,591,618 3,740 $55,665,805 3,663 6/11 9/23
10 Clash of the Titans (2010) WB $163,214,888 3,802 $61,235,105 3,777 4/2 7/22
11 Grown Ups Sony $162,001,186 3,534 $40,506,562 3,534 6/25 10/28
12 The Last Airbender Par. $131,601,062 3,203 $40,325,019 3,169 7/1 9/23
13 Shutter Island Par. $128,012,934 3,356 $41,062,440 2,991 2/19 6/10
14 The Other Guys Sony $119,021,117 3,651 $35,543,162 3,651 8/6 -
15 Salt Sony $118,311,368 3,612 $36,011,243 3,612 7/23 10/28
16 Jackass 3-D Par. $110,668,357 3,139 $50,353,641 3,081 10/15 -
17 Valentine's Day WB $110,485,654 3,665 $56,260,707 3,665 2/12 5/6
18 Robin Hood Uni. $105,269,730 3,505 $36,063,385 3,503 5/14 8/5
19 The Expendables LGF $103,068,524 3,398 $34,825,135 3,270 8/13 10/21
20 Date Night Fox $98,711,404 3,380 $25,207,599 3,374 4/9 9/9
21 Sex and the City 2 WB (NL) $95,347,692 3,445 $31,001,870 3,445 5/27 8/19
22 The Book of Eli WB $94,835,059 3,111 $32,789,494 3,111 1/15 5/13
23 Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time BV $90,759,676 3,646 $30,095,259 3,646 5/28 9/23
24 The Town WB $89,748,239 2,935 $23,808,032 2,861 9/17 -
25 Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief Fox $88,768,303 3,396 $31,236,067 3,356 2/12 7/1
26 The Social Network Sony $84,871,492 2,921 $22,445,653 2,771 10/1 -
27 Eat Pray Love Sony $80,574,010 3,108 $23,104,523 3,082 8/13 11/4
28 Dear John SGem $80,014,842 3,062 $30,468,614 2,969 2/5 4/29
29 The A-Team Fox $77,222,099 3,544 $25,669,455 3,535 6/11 9/16
30 Paranormal Activity 2 Par. $76,959,864 3,239 $40,678,424 3,216 10/22 -
31 Knight & Day Fox $76,423,035 3,104 $20,139,985 3,098 6/23 10/7
32 Dinner for Schmucks P/DW $73,026,337 3,046 $23,527,839 2,911 7/30 -
33 Red Sum. $71,664,962 3,349 $21,761,408 3,255 10/15 -
34 The Bounty Hunter Sony $67,061,228 3,118 $20,686,423 3,074 3/19 7/8
35 Diary of a Wimpy Kid Fox $64,003,625 3,083 $22,126,166 3,077 3/19 8/19
36 The Sorcerer's Apprentice BV $63,150,991 3,504 $17,619,622 3,504 7/14 10/28
37 A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010) WB (NL) $63,075,011 3,332 $32,902,299 3,332 4/30 7/15
38 The Last Song BV $62,950,384 2,794 $16,007,426 2,673 3/31 7/15
39 The Wolfman Uni. $61,979,680 3,223 $31,479,235 3,222 2/12 4/1
40 Get Him to the Greek Uni. $60,974,475 2,702 $17,570,955 2,697 6/4 8/12
41 Resident Evil: Afterlife SGem $60,128,566 3,209 $26,650,264 3,203 9/10 11/4
42 Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married Too? LGF $60,095,852 2,155 $29,289,537 2,155 4/2 6/10
43 Tooth Fairy Fox $60,022,256 3,345 $14,010,409 3,344 1/22 6/24
44 Takers SGem $57,570,732 2,206 $20,512,304 2,206 8/27 -
45 Easy A SGem $57,227,601 2,974 $17,734,040 2,856 9/17 -
46 Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole WB $54,011,558 3,575 $16,112,211 3,575 9/24 -
47 Letters to Juliet Sum. $53,032,453 2,975 $13,540,486 2,968 5/14 8/26
48 Predators Fox $52,000,688 2,669 $24,760,882 2,669 7/9 -
49 Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps Fox $51,887,446 3,597 $19,011,188 3,565 9/24 -
50 Secretariat BV $51,031,068 3,108 $12,694,770 3,072 10/8 -
51 Hot Tub Time Machine MGM $50,287,556 2,771 $14,020,502 2,754 3/26 6/10
52 Life as We Know It WB $48,506,252 3,150 $14,506,464 3,150 10/8 -
53 Kick-Ass LGF $48,071,303 3,065 $19,828,687 3,065 4/16 7/1
54 Killers LGF $47,059,963 2,859 $15,837,266 2,859 6/4 8/19
55 Megamind P/DW $46,016,833 3,944 $46,016,833 3,944 11/5 -
56 Cop Out WB $44,875,481 3,150 $18,211,126 3,150 2/26 5/20
57 Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore WB $43,585,753 3,705 $12,279,363 3,705 7/30 10/21
58 Edge of Darkness WB $43,313,890 3,066 $17,214,384 3,066 1/29 4/8
59 Death at a Funeral (2010) SGem $42,739,347 2,459 $16,217,540 2,459 4/16 7/8
60 Step Up 3-D BV $42,400,223 2,439 $15,812,311 2,435 8/6 11/4
61 The Last Exorcism LGF $41,034,350 2,874 $20,366,613 2,874 8/27 10/7
62 Legion (2010) SGem $40,168,080 2,476 $17,501,625 2,476 1/22 3/21
63 The Crazies Over. $39,123,589 2,479 $16,067,552 2,476 2/26 5/20
64 Saw 3D LGF $38,331,783 2,808 $22,530,123 2,808 10/29 -
65 The Back-Up Plan CBS $37,490,007 3,280 $12,201,710 3,280 4/23 7/22
66 Vampires Suck Fox $36,658,108 3,233 $12,202,831 3,233 8/18 -
67 The American Focus $35,606,376 2,833 $13,177,790 2,823 9/1 11/4
68 Green Zone Uni. $35,053,660 3,004 $14,309,295 3,003 3/12 5/6
69 Marmaduke Fox $33,644,788 3,213 $11,599,661 3,213 6/4 9/16
70 Devil Uni. $33,466,560 2,811 $12,289,375 2,809 9/17 -
71 Due Date WB $32,689,406 3,355 $32,689,406 3,355 11/5 -
72 When in Rome BV $32,680,633 2,456 $12,350,041 2,456 1/29 4/15
73 She's Out of My League Par. $31,628,317 2,958 $9,775,278 2,956 3/12 5/20
74 Scott Pilgrim vs. the World Uni. $31,524,275 2,820 $10,609,795 2,818 8/13 10/7
75 Charlie St. Cloud Uni. $31,162,545 2,725 $12,381,585 2,718 7/30 9/16
76 Daybreakers LGF $30,101,577 2,523 $15,146,692 2,523 1/8 2/11
77 Nanny McPhee Returns Uni. $29,011,215 2,798 $8,407,685 2,784 8/20 10/28
78 Hereafter WB $28,721,066 2,424 $220,322 6 10/15 -
79 The Switch Mira. $27,661,927 2,017 $8,436,713 2,012 8/20 -
80 Brooklyn's Finest Over. $27,163,593 1,939 $13,350,299 1,936 3/5 5/20
81 Machete Fox $26,576,752 2,678 $11,416,164 2,670 9/3 -
82 Ramona and Beezus Fox $26,161,406 2,719 $7,810,481 2,719 7/23 -
83 Leap Year Uni. $25,918,920 2,512 $9,202,815 2,511 1/8 3/4
84 You Again BV $25,099,081 2,548 $8,407,513 2,548 9/24 -
85 Piranha 3D W/Dim. $24,995,888 2,491 $10,106,872 2,470 8/20 -
86 Lottery Ticket WB $24,719,879 1,974 $10,652,297 1,973 8/20 11/4
87 Alpha and Omega LGF $24,452,397 2,625 $9,106,906 2,625 9/17 -
88 The Spy Next Door LGF $24,307,086 2,924 $9,726,056 2,924 1/15 3/4
89 From Paris with Love LGF $24,077,427 2,722 $8,158,860 2,722 2/5 3/11
90 The Losers WB $23,591,432 2,936 $9,406,348 2,936 4/23 6/24
91 Just Wright FoxS $21,524,012 1,831 $8,284,989 1,831 5/14 8/5
92 The Kids Are All Right Focus $20,811,365 994 $491,971 7 7/9 10/21
93 Our Family Wedding FoxS $20,249,621 1,609 $7,629,862 1,605 3/12 6/17
94 For Colored Girls LGF $19,497,324 2,127 $19,497,324 2,127 11/5 -
95 Oceans BV $19,422,319 1,232 $6,058,958 1,206 4/22 7/15
96 Remember Me Sum. $19,068,240 2,215 $8,089,139 2,212 3/12 5/13
97 Going the Distance WB (NL) $17,804,299 3,030 $6,884,964 3,030 9/3 10/21
98 Hubble 3D WB $17,724,187 151 $413,477 39 3/19 -
99 Furry Vengeance Sum. $17,630,465 3,002 $6,627,564 2,997 4/30 7/15
100 Splice WB $17,010,170 2,450 $7,385,277 2,450 6/4 8/5

oh god, "The Last Airbender"

I had blocked that movie from my mind

although, surprisingly, not worse than "The Bounty Hunter"

Stone

Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes, without a doubt for me. The worst film I've seen in probably the last 3 years,

I've see 24 films so far this year, and thankfully I got the worst one out of the way in January.

Other duds and misfires:

I Love You Philip Morris
Get Him to the Greek (big disappointment - as I like Russell Brand a lot)
Due Date

A Single Man was an interesting failure - and so redeems itself to a great extent.

Best films so far:

The Kids are Alright
Despicable Me
Sex, Drugs & Rock'n'Roll (Ian Dury biog)
Youth in Revolt
Inception
Scott Pilgrim vs the World
Tamara Drewe

a team
Book of eli
Yeah, sherlock holmes.

Scene with buffalo bill and dicaprio in the jeep elevates shutter island above those three, but it was terrible too, for the most part.

Shutter Island was boring and turgid, and Leo's face isn't scrunchy enough to sustain the rigors that Scorsese puts it through. Every plot point was telegraphed in the first five minutes without the pleasures of supporting actors savoring crunchy dialogue or allowed a moment of business that doesn't figure into Scorsese's schema. I got into an argument with a student about it; he insisted it was purposely bad.

I've missed most 2010 films (as new parents are wont to do,) but took my older son to Alice in Wonderland and we both agreed it was completely awful.

xp the final turn of the plot was insulting, stupid, offensive, exploitative, and absolutely horrible.

I got into an argument with a student about it; he insisted it was purposely bad.

Your student is being purposely obtuse.

lakeview terrace

Well, a few of Pauline Kael's seventies essays address auteurists who find merit in Topaz and Avanti.

xp

No-one's admitting to having seen SATC2 then?

(I haven't either, but I can't imagine anything on here that anyone's willing to admit to is worse)

I've seen about ten films this year. I'd say Green Zone was the worst of them, but it's not in very much company.

some of these movies came out in 2009, lakeview terrace came out in 2008

if we're expanding this to "relatively recent films you saw in 2010," I watched "Love Happens" starring Jennifer Aniston and Aaron Eckhart and that was worse than Shutter Island

oh god I saw Love Happens. Yes, it was awful.

no one has mentioned Kick Ass?

The Last Exorcism was the worst movie I saw in the theater in 2010.

A double feature of Love Happens and Love Actually would be my personal version of hell.

I didn't like Kick Ass, but it's hardly 'worst of the year'

Alice in Wonderland. Man what a turgid borefest that was.

Still trying to wipe the memory of Johnny Depp doing the Fudderwalken, or whatever the hell that was, from my memory.

I feel pretty well qualifed to answer this question -- my wife and I have only gone to the movies a few times since we had our baby, but when we did it was usually to some horror/fantasy escapist thing, and in general I've spent a lot of time at home loading the Netflix queue with junk. I'm not much of a film buff and am not really into ironic "so bad it's good" appreciation but I love comedies and a lot of the kinds of genres that have a high trash to gold ratio, so I see a lot of crap hoping to find that unexpected gem everyone slept on.

the worst 2010 movies I've seen so far:
1. Repo Men (hoped from the trailer that this would be some kind of dark grisly satire, but it's a totally lame predictable redemption tale where a guy who does bad things gets a conscience)
2. The Runaways (the fact that it's not about an old white guy doesn't save it from falling victim to every Walk Hard rock biopic cliche and feeling like a wikipedia entry come to life)
3. When In Rome (I've seen worse rom coms, but this is partly especially bad because it just looks like total dogshit, like they used the worst cameras and film stock they could find just to put it over the top)
4. MacGruber (big disappointment considering that I like the people involved and ILE bros really hyped it up, got very few laughs out of it)
5. The Wolfman (kinda well made and doesn't have a lot of obvious faults but also had very little to recommend it or hold my attention)

mind you, the junk I enjoyed just enough that it wasn't in that bottom 5 includes Legion, Date Night, Clash of the Titans, Killers and Hot Tub Time Machine

'I am Love'

^^^ loved that one, ludicrous material and all.

Out of that list of top grossers, I have seen:

Toy Story 3
Iron Man 2
Hot Tub Time Machine
Paranormal Activity
Inception
How To Train Your Dragon

Of those, Paranormal Activity was the worst.

xxposts. I thought Kick Ass was pretty terrible, but I have a low tolerance for superhero flicks. Also haven't seen many other films that have been mentioned so far.

Can see that it was going for the Visconti thing but I couldn't get over the material.

Probably a couple of others that were worse but my expectations weren't high to begin with. xxp

No-one's admitting to having seen SATC2 then?

(I haven't either, but I can't imagine anything on here that anyone's willing to admit to is worse)

I didn't see SATC2 but, even with the terrible reviews I read, I have a very difficult time believing it was worse than "The Last Airbender" or "The Bounty Hunter", both of which I did see (under duress).

Secretariat was the worst I saw.

I liked Due Date and Green Zone fuiud.

Actually, you might be right - the trailer for The Last Airbender was the worst thing I saw in the cinema. Apart from the trailer for that owl pish.

xpost

worst to best, all 2010 movies i've seen

Eat, Pray, Love
American, the
Shutter Island
Town, the
Under Great White Northern Lights
The Kids Are All Right
Toy Story 3 in 3D
Social Network, the
Inception

Alice in wonderland

I forgot this, this probably was the worst; otoh, it was a movie that paid off many of our bills last year so I can't really hate it.

Well, a few of Pauline Kael's seventies essays address auteurists who find merit in Topaz and Avanti.

I think there's a difference, though--those critics found actual merit in those films, good stuff that they presumably believed was meant to be good. (I'm closer to Kael on the supposed virtues of past-prime auteurist films...not always, but most that I've seen were pretty negligible.) I say your student's obtuse for believing Scorsese would make an intentionally bad film; from everything I've ever observed about Scorsese, that's inconceivable. Still haven't seen Shutter Island, still don't really want to, but I'm quite sure Scorsese set out to make the best film he could.

Fwiw, Avanti is my fave Wilder. And the structural complexities of Topaz would have scared off a much lesser (and younger) director but Hitchcock modulated them with characteristic ease.

Worst new film I saw this year = The Last Airbender (and I loved The Happening so my words should carry some weight here)

Well, my student's comment -- and my Kael reference -- revolve around the efficacy of auteurism (e.g. even a terrible Scorsese film is worth seeing cuz it's by Marty).

mmm, that's more how I feel about Jerry Lewis

def INCEPTION. if you were satisfied with CRASH's commentary on race and class, I think you'd prob find INCEPTION an intellectually stimulating experience.

I wasn't there for your argument, but the way you originally presented your student's side ("he insisted it was purposely bad") sounded more like a camp defense of the film (I guess even a "metacamp" defense, if such a word exists--and let's hope that it doesn't) to me than an auteurist defense. Sarris rarely treated films he gave the auteurist stamp of approval to as exercises in camp. (Now and again, a little--he seemed to enjoy the camp aspect of Edgar G. Ulmer.) It was actually Kael whose flippant praise of something like Rio Bravo indicated that she viewed it as camp. But I understand where you could equate "purposely bad" to an auteurist defense.

stuff mentioned so far:

Shutter Island: a horrible mess, overblown & ridiculous, but i enjoyed it a great deal, mostly as high camp. bad, but mostly good-bad. well, good-bad up until the climactic "big reveal," anyway, when it finally sinks into plain old ordinary awful. despite that unfortunate misstep, i'm okay with the film overall. outstanding soundtracks, paid to see it twice in the theater.

Shutter Island moved with the ease and confidence of a movie reveling in its awfulness.

― otherwise, and twat (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, November 9, 2010 7:52 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark

^ this

Up In The Air - horrid, but wasn't this 2009? either way, one of the worst i've seen in quite a while.
Iron Man 2 - eh, kinda liked this one. not the best superhero movie i've ever seen, but far from the worst.
The Killer Inside Me - more loathsome than up in the air, but too well-made for me to call it the worst i've seen.
Alice In Wonderland - yeah, it's a lazy and cynical hunk of junk, but i enjoyed it well enough, at least parts of it. "cheerfully trashy" often works for me.
Repo Men - straight garbage, even adjusted for the presence of forest whitaker. dismal, pointless non-satire.
Legion - a turd.
Clash of the Titans - another turd.
Sherlock Holmes - one of my favorite action movies of the last few years. near raiders-quality popcorn flick.
Kick-Ass - like iron man 2, a cruddy movie i enjoyed, nothing great though.

shit, now that i see it mentioned my vote's gotta change to hot-tub time machine. the worst new movie i've seen since down periscope i think.

add to worst-of-the-worst:

youth in revolt - 2009, but i saw it this year
the human centipede

Oh shit guys, I forgot...

Letters To Juliet. I'm ashamed to say I endured this for a free lunch. And the free lunch was NOT worth it. Amanda Seyfried looks like a goldfish. (Note: in Tuscany, everyone and everything is yellow/orange. FYI.)

The premise was totally lost on me from the get go: why anyone would give up GAEL GARCIA BERNAL to go hang around with some squinty-eyed English prat is beyond me.

I saw Just Wright on a plane recently and I'm still prepared to be the only one to go for Four Lions.

i've seen exactly two new films in 2010: inception and the ghost writer. they were both okay.

oh man sex and the city 2

case closed.

find it kind of hard to take seriously anyone who would call inception the worst movie of the year tbh

i mean, i didn't think it was the greatest thing ever but i mean come on

kinda cant wait to see last airbender tho

piranha 3d

And 'Chloe', that pitiful Neeson/Moore/Seyfried remake of 'Natalie'. Risible.

kinda cant wait to see last airbender tho

otm

Still trying to wipe the memory of Johnny Depp doing the Fudderwalken, or whatever the hell that was, from my memory.

Oh god this x100000000. Up until that point I thought it was just a "meh" movie. Once that scene happened, all bets were off and it turned into an atrocity.

The Oath.

Well, not really, but damn you ppl are all overrating it.

def INCEPTION. if you were satisfied with CRASH's commentary on race and class, I think you'd prob find INCEPTION an intellectually stimulating experience.

― Taylor McSwift (Tape Store), Tuesday, November 9, 2010 4:17 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this is dumb. Crash had pretensions to social commentary, and failed miserably, and also failed as entertainment. Inception had no pretensions to anything but entertainment, and succeeded greatly at that.

find it kind of hard to take seriously anyone who would call inception the worst movie of the year tbh

Well, it's no Donnie Darko

lol Tape Store is still trying to sell his Inception tirade

all of you people anxiously awaiting "The Last Airbender" are going to get exactly what you deserve (a really boring movie with terrible acting)

Meanwhile, speaking of Alice:

http://entertainment.latimes.com/awards/2010/11/alice-in-wonderland-twilight-saga-among-peoples-choice-award-nominees.html

For the 37th year in a row, the People's Choice Awards are giving voice to the masses who feel that the Oscars, Golden Globes and all those year-end best lists have gotten just a bit too highfalutin'. The nominees for the 2011 People's Choice Awards were announced Tuesday and though the critics may have snubbed Tim Burton's "Alice in Wonderland" and "The Twilight Saga: Eclipse," both films received multiple nominations, along with their stars, Johnny Depp, Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson.

^^^ this is what happens when you prohibit up corporal punishment

Obviously Twilight is v. popular but I'm a bit surprised that even people who enjoyed it give that much of a fuck about Alice in Wonderland.

find it kind of hard to take seriously anyone who would call inception the worst movie of the year tbh

― irritable bol syndrome (s1ocki), Tuesday, November 9, 2010 6:10 PM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark

Yeah I was about to say, if Inception was the worst thing you saw this year, you didn't see many bad movies.

I dunno, I'd probably go with Alice in Wonderland. Green Zone wasn't good, but I thought of it as a boring noble failure more than A Bad Movie. Iron Man 2 was bad, but ScarJo was awesome in it.

Yeah, Green Zone wasn't terrible, but I was wise enough not to go to see Alice in Wonderland. I generally only go to the cinema for event cinema (3D films, Bond/Bourne type thrills) otherwise wait to watch at home, but we missed a screening of something we did want to see (possibly Alice, actually, before I'd realised it was going to be bad) and thought we were really getting Bourne In Baghdad and not just a garbled mess.

I suspect it's not long before Alice in Wonderland becomes my answer to movies that you saw because you knew they were bad and thought they would be fun to watch but they actually just made you want to kill yourself

Inception had no pretensions to anything but entertainment

oh really? i wouldn't guess that based on internet conversation, inc. ile's INCEPTION thread

, and succeeded greatly at that.

But no. It's a terribly boring movie with shitty action sequences and uninteresting characters and uninteresting photography.

also, Mordy, I'm far from the first person to voice this opinion (even on this thread!). :)

no

Tape Store: what was the second-worst film of 2010.

i didn't call inception the worst film of the year.

The thread is called "what is the worst new film you've seen in 2010" and you said "def INCEPTION."

he meant "define inception"

yes, "what is the worst new film you've seen in 2010"

yes, "what is the worst new film you've seen in 2010"

What is the second worst new film you've seen in 2010.

not counting docs, "Youth In Revolt" (a 4 or 5 out of 10, to inception's 3 out of 10)

Iron Man 2 was bad, but ScarJo was awesome in it.

really? other than than being hot what did she add to that movie?

she's a remarkably blank actress. i really don't get her appeal outside of the obvious reasons.

iron man 2 was pretty weak though, for sure.

thread needs "you're the worst new film i saw in 2010"

also i'd rather not talk about inception on this thread because there's already a thread (and I think I made all my points on it)

erm, "a thread for it"

erm 'points'

uh huh

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really? other than than being hot what did she add to that movie?

she's a remarkably blank actress. i really don't get her appeal outside of the obvious reasons.

iron man 2 was pretty weak though, for sure.

― glengarry glenn danzig (latebloomer), Tuesday, November 9, 2010 7:16 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark

You didn't think the scene where she kicked a bunch of asses was cool? I was surprised by how well the action was shot, I thought it'd end up looking like some lame Resident Evil: Afterlife stuff. That was like the only sequence from the movie that surprised or delighted me, so maybe I gave her a pass for the rest of it.

she was very very hot tbf

"the scene where she kicked a bunch of asses"

^awesome description

whats 'fudderwalken' or shouldnt i ask?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEFydbOFoU8

Okay I made it to 19 seconds.

good god that film looks fugg

yeah i can't imagine sitting through that movie without wanting to stab by eyes out

tim burton is terrible

That scene is atrocious even on the Burton scale.

see: Terry Gilliam.

I'm not a Gilliam fan, but he hasn't embarrassed himself as consistently as Burton... not by a long shot

good news, everyone: tim burton will be directing the film version of dark shadows starring...wait for it...johnny depp.

waiting to see the idiot grotesque manchild version of that character and a pancake-makeup slathered helena bonham carter in the female lead.

holy shit that is appalling

johnny depp is great but making a film w/burton brings out tendencies in him that should be actively discouraged.

acting with whiskers?

i've seen very few movies this year, but i had to go see salt because our paper needed a review and there was no one else to do it that weekend, and it was terrible, terrible, terrible. utterly incoherent, lousy wannabe-bourne action scenes, just unremittingly stupid all the way through. and it made money, so i guess they'll make another one. ugh.

GROWN UPS

yes?>

if Inception was the worst thing you saw this year, you didn't Morning Glory.

(i didnt see Inception)

morbs did you see grown ups?

i don't even know what that is

Grown Ups = shitty looking film w/Adam Sandler, David Spade, Chris Rock and that King of Queens guy

Love that they got a Chris Farley surrogate for that SNL reunion - can't be acknowledging untimely death in a film called Grown Ups now can we

oh suuuuuuure

the only 2 films ive ever seen w/ Sandler are Shakes the Clown & Punch Drunk Love.

you haven't seen airheads?

One vote for Red

jesus it just occurred to me - airheads is where the sandler-buscemi connection was made. never could figure out how buscemi ended up in damn near every sandler movie.

haha i think i've wondered the same thing without figuring that out

ditto

oh crimeny I totally forgot about The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. I really hated that.

And that Danny Dyer vehicle that's a rip-off of '28 Days Later'

I still haven't watched Girl with Dragon Tattoo or read the book...and probably wont bc fucking morans will not.shut.up about this girl and her hornets or whatever the fuck

GROWN UPS

― balls, Wednesday, 10 November 2010 02:19 (3 hours ago)

Awful, awful movie. Alice, Shutter Island, Green Zone, Frozen, Nightmare on Elm Street, Valhalla Rising are also horrible. Robin Hood I couldn't even finish.

Probably Grown Ups, but does it count if you only get 10 mins into a film and turn it off like i did with Frozen?
Maybe i didn't give it chance, but i didn't fancy watching people on a chair lift for 90 mins.

And that Danny Dyer vehicle that's a rip-off of '28 Days Later'

Do you mean Doghouse? Because that was indeed fucking terrible.

That's the one. Awful, awful, awful shit.

UPDATE: xxxxxxxxxxpost, apparently noted film scholar Leonard Maltin disagrees w/ you: http://blogs.indiewire.com/leonardmaltin/archives/film_review_morning_glory/

I have always marvelled at the sustained career of Leonard Maltin, I really have no idea who he appeals to/what his appeal is

First Maltin and now Ebert. Morbs maybe you were wrong.

maltin is like a vintage cuddly old movie nerd

when I was younger I confused Maltin for Kenny Loggins.

maltin is like a vintage cuddly old movie nerd

but he's so nerdy and oily and unctuous I can't imagine anyone actually wanting to cuddle him. beat him up, maybe.

If you cuddled with Leonard Maltin, he'd do Spanky imitations.

he always seems super-eager to show up on dvd extras, i dunno if he seems particularly oily or unctuous?

"Some of the on-camera bitchery between Mr. Ford and Ms. Keaton is laugh-out-loud witty. For the most part, Morning Glory is a delicious movie that will make you jump for joy." - Rex Reed

I don't get it either. He's like the late Joel Siegel -- a likable old hack.

Rex loves hearing "Suck it" from the silver screen

maltin's bk on animation is pretty gd

yeah, i read that years ago, it's pretty solid.

anyone who uses the word 'delicious' to describe a movie that isn't a cooking documentary should be shot.

what if they are actually eating the movie

Iron Man 2. A hopeless mess.

Worst subtitle ever.

Steeling myself from the raves Morning Glory is probably going to get from my co-workers, who are all going together tomorrow as a field trip.

oh, I'd much rather see a documentary on your newsroom. A 10-hr doc.

A trusted blogger says Morning Glory is actually alright. I might go see it.

armond white raving for morning glory, 'the best film harrison ford has appeared in by far'

Catfish!

Oh, that's right. Armond must be in that school that thinks Raiders of the Lost Ark is the worst Indy film.

(Because Harrison Ford wasn't really in the other three. God, I'm posting too late.)

Horno
Cop Out
Giallo
2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams

Somebody told me how Giallo's "mystery" resolves and now I think I need to see it, especially since it's come out that Brody never even got paid to be in it.

2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams

I'm so far out of the recent horror loop I had no idea this existed. I just tried, and gave up on, the 2-minute trailer. Just... wow...

and yet there's a reason that Horno tops that list.

Cyrus def the worst movie i saw this year. Wall Street 2 had the worst ending.

I thought Resident Evil Afterlife was the worst movie I had seen since at least the Happening. but now that I think about it, the Happening was probably better.

I have a hard time believing this because I have enjoyed all three of the previous Resident Evil movies

I loved the first three too! It's why I saw the fourth one.

As terrible as the Happening was, I at least, on some level cared about the outcome and I think that M Night thought that he was making a good movie. Res Evil Afterlife was so mind-numblingly lazy and cliche-ridden that I don't think anyone involved with it even thought they were making a good movie, or if they did, it's only because they thought they were milking a successful formula.

It's like something that's terrible in novel ways vs something drab and lifeless in well-worn ways.

Giallo

― babytown frolics (Mr. Hal Jam), Thursday, November 11, 2010 6:37 AM (12 hours ago) Bookmark

o shit yeah. what a crushing disappointment. easily one of the worst of the year.

also: fame (last year, but bad enough to linger)

that ol' Argento magic is gone; the malaise lingers on.

Inception

find it kind of hard to take seriously anyone who would call inception the worst movie of the year tbh

its probably on my top three or four but i mean im not a critic & tend to feel like i see more stuff i like than not

worst film ive seen by some margin is a serbian film although its terribleness feels like a class of its own - so soul destroying - the worst 'conventional' movie ive seen is maybe the town? which was competent but boring & visually idiotic

also i really liked shutter island & feel like it had some of the best performances and 'moments' of any anglo film ive seen this year...

What made The Town visually idiotic? I didn't see it, just curious

ASF is too undeniably well-made and calculatedly transgressive to be among the year's worst. but, yes, this film needs to die a thousand deaths, each more horrific than the last.

I will never see ASF

What's ASF?

A Serbian Film

ASF is too undeniably well-made

Do you mean, like, surprisingly well-made? I definitely didn't think it was genuinely well-made - no visual style, lots of really dull two shot set-ups, overlit, etc. But I guess I was surprised that it wasn't, you know, some barely coherent, micro-budget sub-indie thing.

The most surprising thing about "A Serbian Film" to me, honestly, was how dull it really was. And not in a "I'm so jaded I'm not phased by all this horrific shit" way - it's just really a pretty standard narrative most of the time, badly-paced and edited.

Given the subject matter, how much snappy pacing do you really need?

oh crimeny I totally forgot about The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. I really hated that.

― Gukbe, Tuesday, November 9, 2010 7:37 PM (3 days ago)

is TERRRRRRIBLE. Gleeful anal rape. UGH.

what the hell is wrong with movies today

okay I am reading the Wikipedia plot synopsis for TGwtDT and WHAT THE FUCK

I saw the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo on netflix, so I wasn't sure if it counted. It was pretty terrible. And the journalist in the movie is such a Gary Stu.

Re: ASF - surprising as in, you'd expect Andreas Schnaas or August Underground-level production values and "acting" from the description, but this actually looked and felt like a movie.

Armond otm on Morning Glory: "poisonous comedy from the same screenwriter who did The Devil Wears Prada, Aline Brosh McKenna, a Harvard grad who apparently knows nothing about the world of work."

also Peter Travers says it's "terrific" -- I rest my case.

the movie probably sucks but since when have big hollywood films, even ones armond probably loves, actually reflected the real world of work?

also i will never see a serbian film, which seems akin to bullshit like 'chaos' or w/e. kinda depressed about the nature of a lot of horror films these days tbqf, i know a lot of people working in horror film and a lot of them feel the only way they can get things done is to add in heavy doses of torture and limb-severing.

the answer is: they have. REFLECTED, not "prosaically represented." eg, His Girl Friday.

(ie The Front Page)

It kind of blows my mind that it's mid-November and I can't find even one movie I want to go see in the theater.

I want to see Morning Glory and Unstoppable, but I can't bring myself to spend the money on either.

i love that unstoppable is based on a true story, the true story getting as exciting as this:

For two hours, the train traveled along at speeds up to 47 miles per hour until the crew of a second train coupled onto the runaway and slowly applied its brakes. Once the runaway was slowed down to a speed of 11 miles per hour, a CSX employee, trainmaster Jon Hosfeld, ran alongside the train and climbed aboard, shutting down the locomotive.

I should mention that my mom wants me to go with her to see For Colored Girls this weekend, I have a feeling that this might be the worst if that ends up happening.

Lol Harry Potter...was at the premiere, but the party after was utterly amazing so all is forgiven.

Surrogates
Leap Year

it has been said already but fucking predators.

Scott Pilgrim vs The World.

rmde

Just seen today: 'Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives', winner of this Year's Palme d'Or.

I'd personally give it 0/10, and indeed a few people did walk out of the cinema.

But I see Peter Bradshaw in the Guardian gives it the full 5 stars in the Guardian rating system, and says:

It's the most persuasive and beguiling account of mysticism and religion that I've seen in the cinema recently, or perhaps ever.

The final sequence has a grain of Bergman's Dance of Death, but with acceptance and tranquillity offered in place of severity and fear. It is one of those rare films that contribute to the sum of human happiness: it certainly increased the sum of my happiness.

I'm really keen for more people to see it so I can see what they think of it.

Also, The Temptation of St. Tony.

I was sitting to close to the screen at Uncle Boonmee to notice walkouts.. I thought it was magical, actually. And I hate the response of 'boring' from a lot of supposedly movie-literate people.

I'm really keen for more people to see it so I can see what they think of it.

I'm keen to be able to see it. I guess we're both unhappy.

i didn't dislike a.w.'s earlier films but i think of him as a charming curiosity rather than the future of cinema

what does armond white think about him

does everything good need to be the future of something

no, but dude is getting touted as s.thing like that, cf cinema scope calling 2k10 'the year we made contact' on the basis of his cannes win

i do think he's ok

Not interested in the future of cinema so long as the present holds.

I hate the response of 'boring' from a lot of supposedly movie-literate people.

the problem is that when you talk about movie-literacy at a level where people appreciate or are even remotely interested in a.w., you're talking about a tiny fraction of a tiny fraction. like, take all the people who have seen an ingmar bergman movie, and then take the fraction of those who have seen a wong kar-wai movie, and then maybe 1 percent of those have seen an a.w. movie.

and then of that 1 percent (probably an overestimation by a factor of 10 itself), a good number of them will be there just because they read something good about it in the new yorker or the times or whatever, and will be like, WTF?

one thing i've been reminded about, moving back to east tennessee, is that most of the united states never even has the opportunity to not-go-see these movies -- they just don't show up at all, or if they do it's 3 years later for one night at the university. so you have to be actively paying attention and reading about things that are never going to come to town, so that you can netflix them when/if they show up.

i don't think it's that small a fraction of the WKW audience -- or at least WKW audience of the early 1990s, remember this is only a.w.'s fourth feature (iirc). and people saw older art-house auteurs for that same reason, that the posh papers recommended it. nothing wrong with that -- people go to see things in order to be able to talk about them, and enjoy that even if they don't love the films. that seems ok to me. peter bradshaw is reputed to be able to 'make' an art-house film in the UK, and distribs seek ought his opinion at festivals. this is baffling to me, but it's what i hear.

in most of the UK it'll never get a cinema release.

lol uk

as a palme d'or winner i'd guess uncy b will gross a few mil in eu/us/jp/outliers

Leap Year

Oh yes this. Why did I watch this?

sex and the city 2 came out this year, right? there really isn't any competition.

Dinner For Schmucks, on an airplane. wretched, truly wretched.