Worst Films of the Decade

[Smilla]

My votes go to 21 grams (preachy, badly edited, and Sean Penn was phoning it in the whole time) and The Village (which I saw in the theater...at an evening showing...ugh.)

Your worst?

[dwanollah]

LiLo's "I Know Who Killed Me." Not even good-bad. Just gross and awful.

[kateln]

Dec 30, 2009 22:17:17 GMT -4 @dwanollah said:

LiLo's "I Know Who Killed Me." Not even good-bad. Just gross and awful.

Much like LiLo herself!

[Hamatron]

I would like to nominate two beautiful and deeply touching films:

1. Swept Away, a touching film about finding love through degradation and physical abuse. Madonna puts in a really great performance, as usual.

2. Wicker Man: The bees! The bees! Riveting!

[kostgard]

This suggests that "Crash" was the worst movie of the decade.

And I have to agree because while there were plenty of movies that were technically far worse, no movie has pissed me off the way "Crash" did. It still makes me angry, so it is obviously the worst for me.

[angelaudie]

I would like to nominate two beautiful and deeply touching films:

1. Swept Away, a touching film about finding love through degradation and physical abuse. Madonna puts in a really great performance, as usual.

Oh I don't know! The Next Best Thing the heartwarming story of Madonna having sex with her gay best friend (because you know alcohol will totally turn a gay man straight temporarily!) and thinks she's pregnant with his child but years later finds out it's not really his but keeps this to herself but later reveals the truth when she gets pissed that he's trying to ruin her happily ever after because he has the nerve to want to be in his kid's life really rivals Swept Away's cinematic genius! Seriously, Neil Patrick Harris I know film roles were hard to come by for you back then but WTF?! were you thinking?!

All those genre spoof films that came out this decade (i.e. Date Movie)! Seriously, these films gave me a brand new appreciation of Robin Hood: Men in Tights! RHMIT was not Mel Brooks's finest work but at least it had funny moments!

Couples Retreat. I was dragged to this movie kicking and screaming, "If Jon Favreau is in front of the camera it can't be any good!" I was right!

[cantienne]

My personal low point of the decade was probably Valentine, the David Boreanaz-Denise Richards slasher. It was raining! We were bored!

But I prefer worst-ofs that have aims above their station. Valentine wasn't trying to be good. What's something that tried really hard to be huge, or deep, or funny, and failed miserably?

[Deleted]

Dec 31, 2009 20:27:07 GMT -4 kostgard said:

This suggests that "Crash" was the worst movie of the decade.

And I have to agree because while there were plenty of movies that were technically far worse, no movie has pissed me off the way "Crash" did. It still makes me angry, so it is obviously the worst for me.

Even Paul Haggis' acrimonious split from Scientology could not diminish my incandescent rage whenever I even think of Crash.

[ross]

The collected masterpieces of Aaron Seltzer and Jason Friedberg: Date Movie, Epic Movie, Meet the Spartans and Disaster Movie.

I don't think anyone would consider spoofs make great movies but the Scary Movie franchise was not entirely bad and I actually really liked Not Another Teen Movie. But Seltzer and Friedberg... well I think Josh Levin of Slate sums it up perfectly:

Friedberg and Seltzer do not practice the same craft as P.T. Anderson, David Cronenberg, Michael Bay, Kevin Costner, the Zucker Brothers, the Wayans Brothers, Uwe Boll, any dad who takes shaky home movies on a camping trip, or a bear who turns on a video camera by accident while trying to eat it. They are not filmmakers. They are evildoers, charlatans, symbols of Western civilization's decline.

[LAX]

Dec 31, 2009 22:58:43 GMT -4 @bstewart said:

Dec 31, 2009 20:27:07 GMT -4 kostgard said:

This suggests that "Crash" was the worst movie of the decade.

And I have to agree because while there were plenty of movies that were technically far worse, no movie has pissed me off the way "Crash" did. It still makes me angry, so it is obviously the worst for me.

Even Paul Haggis' acrimonious split from Scientology could not diminish my incandescent rage whenever I even think of Crash.

This is why I love you guys so much. That movie raises my blood pressure just thinking about it.