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

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.