Worst Films of the Decade

[Hamatron]

Oh man, I have never even seen Crash, but I hate it based on what I have heard. I also have an intense hatred for the Last King of Scotland. That's probably my personal worst movie.

Oh, also, Jindabyn. Or however it was spelled. It was so stupid I will not dignify it by spelling it correctly.

And hah! I never saw Next Best Thing. I obviously need to because it sounds awesome.

[Maddiemoo]

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.

I don't know if it's the worst of the decade (it's probably a little better than Transformers 2) but I'd say it has to be the worst movie that ever won Best Picture. Unless there is some glaring oversight I'm missing?

[Mutagen]

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.

I was just coming here to quote that entire article (the comments are worth reading too - Coates is not alone). I fucking loathe Crash and I especially loathe its pretensions to being A Very Important Dialogue About Race.

Another stinker - Stay. It truly agonizes me to say this because Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts, Ryan Gosling and BD Wong were all in this movie. But dear God, it was horrible.

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History of Violence. A movie that was nothing like it was promoted to be. Cheesy acting from Maria Bello and just an awful movie all around.

Mr. and Mrs. Smith. My friend and I actually paid to see this, while on a plane to Vegas and we weren't even drinking at the time. Took the ear thingys off after like a half hour or so and looked at each other like "WTF?" That is when the guy on the other side of me laughed and said "I could have told you so."

I Want To Believe What was Chris Carter thinking? This is the movie he thought the Xfiles fans would want to see after waiting all this time? I guess it's only fitting that the man who created the Xfiles should also be the man who totally killed it dead.

[chonies]

Jan 1, 2010 1:55:34 GMT -4 Hamatron said:

I also have an intense hatred for the Last King of Scotland. That's probably my personal worst movie.

Oh, interesting! Why is this your most hated?

I haven't seen Crash either, but I will contribute 300 and Sin City. And Apocalypto.

[Ripley]

chonies reminded me of the worst movie I saw in the past 10 years: The Spirit. They did it in a similar style to Sin City, but it was so so so much worse.

My other nominee is Brotherhood of the Wolf. ::shudder::

[Hamatron]

Oh man, chonies, let me see. Well, actually, here's what I ranted about in the thread for the movie about a year ago, though I went through and re-edited it for clarity:

Alright, I knew that the movie was based on a book, but going in I didn't know that it was based on a book that was historical fiction. The doctor in the film? A completely made up character. Never existed.

OK, fine. I've seen this a million times before. For some reason whenever Hollywood makes a movie about non-white people, they will almost always make the main character a white person that has to relate to the non-white people, presumably so the anticipated white audience can relate to the movie. Because we are idiots and have to have a white dude there or we won't watch. James McAvoy's character is also obviously supposed to serve as a moral compass for the film because Ida Amine obviously did not.

But why really does that made up character have to be there? Ida Amin was a very real person, and a horrible and fascinating one at that. Does the movie have to have a character like the doctor? Wouldn't an all-out movie about Amin have been more interesting anyway? And Forest Whitetaker is a great actor. Why couldn't he be the main focus, rather than the corruption of his white doctor, who doesn't even exist in real life or history?

Later I eventually got around to watching a "making of" for the movie, and the contents of which really angered me. The director, Kevin Macdonald, who is from Scotland, states that he's concerned that the people of Uganda are forgetting the Amin years, and that he wanted to make a movie that would help them remember.

Great.

First, condescending, much? Secondly, one of the actors who actually survived the Amin years states that anyone alive during that time knows people who died under his regime, people still talk about it quite a lot. So, no, that time is still very much remembered. Maybe forgotten in the Western world, but not in Uganda.

The director also stated that previous movies and novels that dealt with Amin tended to fictionalize and create these grand false truths about his rule, and that he hoped to dispel these myths in his movie. Why then, did he allow one of the greatest untruths--the brutal mutilation of Amin's wife--to remain in the movie? And why make a fictional character the protagonist of the film? Why make it seem like this Dr. is the brain behind some of Amin's most noted PR ideas?

And yeah. That is my rant. Hah.

[ross]

Jan 2, 2010 10:50:40 GMT -4 @idaho said:

Mr. and Mrs. Smith. My friend and I actually paid to see this, while on a plane to Vegas and we weren't even drinking at the time. Took the ear thingys off after like a half hour or so and looked at each other like "WTF?" That is when the guy on the other side of me laughed and said "I could have told you so."

Interesting you say that because I think in some ways Mr. and Mrs. Smith has some of the least likeable protagonists ever seen in a mainstream film. I prefer my movie hitmen heroes to have a glimmering of humanising guilt like in Matador or Grosse Point Blank or even Kill Bill rather the smug, amoral unthinking killing machines in this film.

[normadesmond]

Jan 2, 2010 15:41:00 GMT -4 ross said:

Jan 2, 2010 10:50:40 GMT -4 @idaho said:

Mr. and Mrs. Smith. My friend and I actually paid to see this, while on a plane to Vegas and we weren't even drinking at the time. Took the ear thingys off after like a half hour or so and looked at each other like "WTF?" That is when the guy on the other side of me laughed and said "I could have told you so."

Interesting you say that because I think in some ways Mr. and Mrs. Smith has some of the least likeable protagonists ever seen in a mainstream film. I prefer my movie hitmen heroes to have a glimmering of humanising guilt like in Matador or Grosse Point Blank or even Kill Bill rather the smug, amoral unthinking killing machines in this film.

That's funny, because I read one reviewer who loved it and said something to the effect that, though it might seem cynical, Mr and Mrs Smith really has a deeply romantic heart, a love story that tells the truth about marriage. I was like, "What?!" She thinks a movie where the married protagonists end up showering each other with bullets, try to blow each other up, and culminate their mutual attacks with Brad throwing Angelina down and brutally kicking her over and over again, like he's punting a football, while she's on the ground, till she drops him with a hard kick to the nuts..... this is a "wonderfully, unabashedly romantic" movie to her? I wondered about this critic's marriage - and her sanity - after reading that bit.

[WitchyPoo]

I was just scanning my cable channels and caught a few seconds of America's Sweethearts. Wow. That was a piece of junk. I vote it one of the worst of the decade. Everyone was terrible in that. Made me really hate Billy Crystal after that.