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And I second W. Incredibly disappointing.
I suggest you slip Twilight into this list, a film about a thanatophile and her abstinent boyfriend. Hardwicke can't direct or frame a shot successfully. The entire film was aesthetically uninteresting, and the dialog was pure shit. It's just Meyer's wet dream on film, so all the other girls in America can wish they were Bella and had Edward for themselves. A repeat of 2007's "Blood and Chocolate," only this time successful because it features the perfect man. Can you imagine what the financial success of Twilight will do to future vampire films? As if the genre wasn't horrible enough already.
I agree with the rest though... Nice list.
My top 2 worst films of the year are Twilight and High School Musical 2.
Benjamin Button is up there as well,,,,,
Funny Games was a very good, disturbing movie about the hypocrisy of Americans' obsession for violence, yet when it happens to YOU, suddenly you're not so thrilled about violence anymore.
Secondly, I liked The Secret Life of Bees. sure, it wasn't a masterpiece or anything, but it was a touching human story.
I can't believe that you didn't put Meet the Spartans on this list. C'mon Kevin, how could have you forgotten about that crap-fest?
Also I would have to say, that I enjoyed Funny Games precisely because it didnt have a message and it trolled torture porn, a genre that is becoming boring now.
The worst kind of wrong to be.
ps. i have no idea who came up with this list.
Bias is the name of the game in opinion-making. In a world of complete subjectivity, it seems pretty arbitrary to believe that a person's race, sexual orientation, age, et al, alone would be a strong factor in artistic enjoyment. Plus, just going by that rubric would be to look for automatic affirmation of a point - is that something that a general public or the film criticism community really needs?
lets make it simple...if i like gay porn, i'm not going to vote for a heterosexual porn movie as my favorite. not because i don't like straight people or don't understand them, but because, i'm not part of the intended audience. i'm sure we would agree on more movies than we disagree on no matter what the back ground difference is, but to believe that a critic is above their own biases is just simply silly.
just as another example: i hate rom-coms. my list of worst movies would have included 5 or 6. but i'm not the intended audience for those movies, so i'm predisposed not to like them.
the general public needs a more diverse viewpoint of critics. movie criticism is a huge business. getting a thumbs up or 4 stars from certain critics gives a movie access to greater audiences. if critics do not represent minority group opinions then we will continue to see the same larger budget movies being made. it is a large reason that so many people turn to the internet for information, than say, the ny times or cnn or cbs or fox or whatever other news source, because they are the same old tired opinions and we (people on the internet) are looking for something without those same old tired biases.
ps. disaster movie, black male star, the love guru, black co-star (6)...
When the Wayans brothers were involved with Scary Movie it was a decent spoof, so was the 2nd one. Once they left the goons who stayed behind showed they couldnt make a clever funny movie and they relied on random injury/slapstick humor way too much.
They make me sick and I'm glad after many attempts people wised up and didnt go to disaster movie. Hopefully someone comes along who can make a good spoof again. I love that genre and we sorely need a great spoof. There have been plenty of great movies to spoof on. I would love a Comic book movie spoof...yes yes I know its been done but it was done by these idiots.
Oh yeah this whole series of movie spoofs really does need to end.The general populous is already dumb enough without that mess.
I still think (and mind you this is only one opinion) that "Not Another Teen Movie" was the last of the truly good "spoof" movies. Not quite up there with "Airplane!" but I think a half a step better than "Top Secret!"
It had a strong cast, suprise cameos, and a clever take on the plethera of popular "teen" movies that dominated the mid-to-late 90's (as well as throwing a HUGE bone to the "classics" of the 80's). It seems to me (even with repeated viewing, although NOT on cable TV) that the humor flowed more naturally...there were very few forced jokes, and my reaction (still) is more of a guffaw-to-laugh than an eyebrow-raise-to-(maybe) a-chuckle.
Over Her Dead Body should be Eva's wake up call that she should stay on the small screen. Please!