DISQUS

Nate · 1 year ago

Kevin, I think this is the first list I completely agree with you on. Nice job. Oh, but you forgot to mention Brian Robbins, the Uwe Boll of comedy, in the Meet Dave part.

Alex (FirstShowing.net) · 1 year ago

Whoa, whoa, whoa!! While you got a few of these right - Love Guru, Meet Dave, Mummy 3 - there are a few that are WAY WAY WAY off base.

Kung Fu Panda I have seen and is a GREAT movie. And Zohan may look bad to some in theory but I think it looks like a pretty damn good comedy! Why do you have so much hatred for those two? Wah wah, complain complain, but honestly both of those look much better than all of the others you mentioned and shouldn't be lumped in to this entire category.

Steve · 1 year ago

I am not a comic book guy for the most part and had never heard of Iron Man before the previews to this movie. I almost didn't even go see it, but the good reviews by the critics made me decide to give it a chance. I was NOT disappointed. It was fantastic. I wrote a whole review too. Check it out at our site, http://mysocialstandards.blogspot.com to see it.

Robert Fure · 1 year ago

I think Zohan will be passable and probably one of Sandler's funnier films of the past decade, but that's not saying much.

I think, against my initial reactions, Hancock will rock ass.

Signed on everything else though.

david · 1 year ago

im glad im not the only one who thinks hancock is going to be horrible. after every trailer i see, the more i was sure its going to be horrible. after reading hollywoods take and hearing people talk about how awesome it was going to be, i thought i had lost faith in people's sense. but thanks to you mr. carr, you have saved it.

Zach Pruckowski · 1 year ago

My gut says that Hancock will be good. I think it has a strong lead (Will Smith), a decent
plot, and a lot of opportunities for laughs.

It really could go either way, and I think it's far from "sure". It might "suck ass" or it might
be "worth $10, but not amazing".

Nick · 1 year ago

How is The Foot Fist Way a Hot Rod rip-off? It was made in 2006....

Television Spy · 1 year ago

"Pitka (Mike Myers) is an American raised by gurus who returns to Canada in order to break into the self-help business. His first challenge is to settle the romantic troubles and subsequent professional skid of star Toronto Maple Leafs hockey player Darren Roanoke (Romany Malco), whose wife Prudence (Meagan Good) left him for rival skater Jacques Grande (Justin Timberlake). Jessica Alba plays Jane Bullard, the owner of the team and Pitka’s love interest."

lol could this get any more formulaic and boring?

bobby · 1 year ago

anyone with a computer and an in for a way to make money can say whatever they want about anything.

it's come to a point now where i blame the audience for believing it, not the people writing this garbage.

film school reject indeed. you don't know what you're talking about.

punx · 1 year ago

Let me step in and place a movie on this list no one here dare say.....as you say that Apatow shows no bulletproofness, I dare say the Wachowski's have been really riding the success of the FIRST Matrix ever since (name one good thing they have actually done that wasn't the years-too-late sequels, which S U C K E D), and that Speed Racer, though it will make its money back, is the one film I think of all the ones that are going to suck this year, will make the most money doing it.

I nearly choked when my friend saw the trailer and said he thought his XBox 360 must have taken a tab of LSD and puked this up.

Television Spy · 1 year ago

V for Vendetta wasn't too bad, actually if it wasn't so biting with political/social commentary it would have been a good movie.

punx · 1 year ago

TV Spy: V for Vendetta was the movie that made me come to realize exactly why I now agree with Alan Moore's attitude concerning his work being made into movies; his writing is so dense it cannot ever be made into a satisfactory visual performance....If you have never read the graphic novel, the movie is quite good in and of itself. (and before you ask, I toss Watchmen on the pile for next year's worst movies already) but again, it rides along on the coattails of the first Matrix movie, even casting Hugo Weaving as V, a role which actually has no real face, so anybody could have been V (a subtle inside nod to the allusion posited within the graphic novel itself) without it necessarily having to be a known name actor.

And the amount of biting political/social commentary you mention? That may be one of the few things that was retained almost verbatim from the graphic novel, even though it had to be retrofitted to the current post-9/11 landscape in order to make it relevant to now, and one of the few things I actually liked about the movie per se.

Steven · 1 year ago

Here's a list of my top worst movies of this summer based on the trailers or, in some cases, the people involved:

1. Made of Honour - Modern-day romantic-comedies are neither romantic nor comedic. They are vacuous, generic, and cater to the lowest common denominator and have absolutely no artistic merit.

2. What Happens in Vegas - See #1.

3. The Love Guru - Rarely do comedies these days make me laugh, maybe because they feel like a weak SNL sketch stretched to breaking point.

4. You Don't Mess with the Zohan - See #3.

5. Meet Dave - See #3. This one's awfulness seems to be like a cross between Norbit and Pluto Nash.

6. The Accidental Husband - See #1.

7. Speed Racer - Maybe because I'm not 6 anymore. The movie looks bad anyway.

8. Wanted - Looks better than Lara Croft, which is not saying much. It's an excuse for a couple of cool, if fake-looking, action sequences.

9. The Happening - Everything MNS has done after The Sixth Sense has been either weak or just plain awful. Trailer didn't intrigue me one bit even though its purpose was to intrigue.

10. Hancock

11. Journey to the Center of the Earth

12. Step Brothers - See #3. I watched 40-Year Old Virgin on TV and was bored by it and giggled maybe twice, and I refuse to see Knocked Up, and I never got on the Apatow band wagon.

13. Pineapple Express - See #12.

14. The Mummy 3 - Mummy 1 was mediocre, Mummy 2 was plain awful, Rob Cohen made XXX, Fast & Furious, Daylight, Stealth, and Sommers' movies are all crap.

15. Babylon AD

The first 6 on this list are my worst.

El Bicho · 1 year ago

Shrek was quality?! That's the funniest thing I read all day. Thanks.

Matt Mosley · 1 year ago

Now why would someone list Hancock and Don't Mess With The Zohan under this heading? Maybe a film school drop out who's never gonna make a living in movies unless it's bitching about movies?

So you don't like Adam Sanbdle or Will Smith, big deal, that doesn't mean the movies will suck. The trailers look great so why not quit bitching and write something yourself?

punx · 1 year ago

Matt Mosely: Good looking trailers don't always translate to good movies, especially when all the best jokes/one liners/etc. are all stuffed into it in order to draw your attention to see the movie, then when you go see it you realize all the best stuff was in the trailer and there's still 90 minutes or more of movie time filled with shite.

I do think Hancock (and I have seen the trailer), like Speed Racer and Zohan, will make back its money for the studios and all, but will suck nonetheless. I do like Will Smith but think this is going to be a miss on his resume, and no, I don't happen to like Adam Sandler much, but he's not the reason Zohan is going to suck, it's the whole idea....and Hollywood actually wonders why people aren't going to the movies like they used to.

No · 1 year ago

I agree with most of your list, however I disagree with Zohan and Hancock. Both look to be very entertaining movies.

Tamara · 1 year ago

All the movies will suck this year, it better to save all your money!

I have.

Mikey · 1 year ago

All these movies HAVE sucked. Hancock? Probably the most ridiculous movie I've seen
this year. Not because of Will Smith but because of the overhyping that studios do to all
stupid big budget vehicles anymore. We need better movies. Dark Knight is great. And
they didn't overhype the movie, especially the amazing performance by Heath Leger. But
one great movie out of several hundred horrible movies doesn't equate to a strong
industry.

Mike Myers has become a pathetic hack and Adam Sandler's core base of fans is getting
older. They don't head to the movies to check out stupid comedies the way they used to.
And for God's sake, please stop casting Jessica Alba in anything. The girl is not and
never has been talented. And I know I'm gonna get hell for this but...Jack Black? Are
you f-ing kidding me????

madmolly · 1 year ago

It's Fraser. Not Frasier.