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Worst of 2005: Your Picks
	Topic by: Cinenaut Posted: January 30, 2006 - 9:19 AM PST Last Reply: April 8, 2006 - 5:56 PM PDT

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Cinenaut	post #1  on January 30, 2006 - 9:19 AM PST   It's that time again. The Razzie nominees are in! Son of the Mask is in the lead. A Sound of Thunder is on my list, but I haven't seen things like Deuce Bigelow or House of Wax.
vexkitten	post #2  on January 30, 2006 - 12:05 PM PST   Holmes didn't ruin Batman Begins (she wasn't onscreen long enough) but she does deserve credit for trying. She should also be given a special "Most Distracting Nipples" award. Fortunately, they distracted the audience from her inflection-free line delivery.
GreenCineStaff	post #3  on January 30, 2006 - 12:07 PM PST   > On January 30, 2006 - 9:19 AM PST Cinenaut wrote: > --------------------------------- > It's that time again. The Razzie nominees are in! > > Son of the Mask is in the lead. > > > A Sound of Thunder is on my list, but I haven't seen things like Deuce Bigelow or House of Wax. > --------------------------------- Yeah, that's the "problem" with each of us compiling our own "worst of..." lists - seems like everyone here is critical enough, and pays attention to reviews and feedback enough, to avoid most bad movies. Especially in theaters? But that doesn't mean we didn't see something disappointing, or watch a bad film on DVD or cable. The worst films I saw this past year were... on the Sci-Fi Channel. ;-)
woozy	post #4  on January 30, 2006 - 12:18 PM PST   > > A Sound of Thunder is on my list, but I haven't seen things like Deuce Bigelow or House of Wax. > > --------------------------------- > > Yeah, that's the "problem" with each of us compiling our own "worst of..." lists - seems like everyone here is critical enough, and pays attention to reviews and feedback enough, to avoid most bad movies. Especially in theaters? Well, that's the problem with personal worst lists. One may have seen a few bad flicks to talk about but one can't compile one's opinion of "the" worst because one deliberately avoided other contenders. Last year I don't think I actually saw any bad films. I think the worst film I saw in a theater was "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" but there's no way it deserves to be on a worst list. The worst film I rented was "Star Wars III" but it wasn't entertainingly bad enough to be on a list either. So, I got nothin'. BTW, I don't remember Holmes' acting in "Batman Begins" as being particularly bad. Not good, more inmemorable, but I don't remember it being bad-bad.
Cinenaut	post #5  on January 30, 2006 - 2:04 PM PST   Yes, it's true. You have to be truly dedicated to see enough bad movies to have a list. I'd either never heard of (or blanked out) that Jenny McCarthy movie. Maybe "biggest disappointments of 2005" would be a better topic for this thread.
woozy	post #6  on January 30, 2006 - 4:15 PM PST   > Maybe "biggest disappointments of 2005" would be a better topic for this thread. > --------------------------------- No, I like the idea of worst and would rather read about how someone saw something really bad rather than "Well, I expected better for Superbrilliantguy". I just don't have anything (which is kind of surprising) this year as I didn't see any bad movies. Okay, Star Wars III Hitchhiker's Guide were my worst two movies. But they weren't that bad.
Cinenaut	post #7  on January 30, 2006 - 4:48 PM PST   Well, if anybody actually went to see Dirty Love, we do expect a full report of the badness.
underdog	post #8  on January 30, 2006 - 5:01 PM PST   A list of films currently in the box office top 10 is partially a sorry lot - perhaps we should go see some of these films and then have more to contribute to this thread in a year. ;-) (*Well at least three of these films are good, so we'll recuse those... Has anyone here seen Hoodwinked?) Rank Title Weekend Gross 1. Big Momma's House 2 (2006) $27.7M $27.7M 2. Nanny McPhee (2005) $14.5M $14.5M 3. Underworld: Evolution (2006) $11.4M $44.6M 4. Annapolis (2006) $7.68M $7.68M 5. Hoodwinked (2005) $7.48M $37.8M 6. *Brokeback Mountain (2005) $6.54M $51M 7. Glory Road (2006) $5.35M $34.9M 8. Last Holiday (2006) $4.8M $32.6M 9. *The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005) $4.5M $278M 10. *The Matador (2005) $3.61M $5.27M January and Feb are often the biggest dumping grounds for films, in that post-Oscar consideration period.
underdog	post #9  on January 30, 2006 - 5:04 PM PST   I like this review of Hoodwinked which starts out with "This cartoon version of "Little Red Riding Hood" tells and retells its story from a variety of perspectives, all of them boring."
kohnfused1	post #10  on January 31, 2006 - 4:55 PM PST   Does Lindsay Lohan's Herbie "movie" count?
ALittlefield	post #11  on February 1, 2006 - 5:55 AM PST   > On January 30, 2006 - 12:18 PM PST woozy wrote: > BTW, I don't remember Holmes' acting in "Batman Begins" as being particularly bad. Not good, more inmemorable, but I don't remember it being bad-bad. I distinctly remember her horrible speech about the gangster who had taken over the city as being particularly awful. Anyway, like a lot of you, I am a good judge of what I will like and not like and avoid paying for what I won't like.(No DUKES OF HAZZARD or DEUCE BIGELOW for me) Still, on the advice of friends and critics I saw one movie I hated last year: SIN CITY. I'm aware that a lot of people liked it, but I found it ugly,mean spirited, repulsive and utterly misogynistic.
woozy	post #12  on February 1, 2006 - 4:10 PM PST   > I distinctly remember her horrible speech about the gangster who had taken over the city as being particularly awful. > I put that down to bad writing. Maybe the fact that she could recite it with a straight face prejudiced my into thinking she was a better (immemorable) actor than she really was (terrible).
ALittlefield	post #13  on February 1, 2006 - 7:24 PM PST   > On February 1, 2006 - 4:10 PM PST woozy wrote: > --------------------------------- > > I distinctly remember her horrible speech about the gangster who had taken over the city as being particularly awful. > > > > I put that down to bad writing. Maybe the fact that she could recite it with a straight face prejudiced my into thinking she was a better (immemorable) actor than she really was (terrible). > --------------------------------- True, the speech was poorly written, but her lackluster reading did it no favors, and as a romantic interest she was dull. Why do so many superhero movies think that boring speeches will make them better?
underdog	post #14  on February 2, 2006 - 10:59 AM PST   She was better in Pieces of April. And as far as superhero/comic book movies go, wasn't Kirsten Dunst better as a love interest, in Spider-Man. Still, as mediocre or dull as Holmes was in Batman, she didn't harm it too much for me.
woozy	post #15  on February 2, 2006 - 11:30 AM PST   > And as far as superhero/comic book movies go, wasn't Kirsten Dunst better as a love interest, in Spider-Man. Still, as mediocre or dull as Holmes was in Batman, she didn't harm it too much for me. > --------------------------------- She was utterly miscast as Mary Jane who was supposed to be a firecracker live-wire. (In the comic book it had been a running joke that aunt Jane had an old bitty croney who was always trying to fix Peter up with her "lovely niece" Mary Jane" to Peter's dread. When we first say Mary Jane and she's a sexy red-head model-like urbanite as could only exist in the sixties Peter's reaction was a stunned "*You're* Mary-Jane Watson?!" and her very first words in the comic were "Face it, Tiger. You hit the jackpot.") I didn't think she was particularl;y dull either but she didn't have very *many* laughably idealistic speeches about how heros need to feed hope and senses of virtue to suffering public in the palm of twisted corruption. And her distracting nipples were *not* a detterent.
theRODabides	post #16  on February 3, 2006 - 7:59 AM PST   Mr and Ms Smith, i don't know why I allowed my friend to drag me to this movie. It was horrible, and also it was filled with this guy in the audience who everything was a suprise to him and he had to let us know it. "Oh damn that guy has a gun!" " OH damn, thats how married couples feel at time, OHHH YEAH." I hate those people.
woozy	post #17  on February 3, 2006 - 10:36 AM PST   > " OH damn, thats how married couples feel at time, OHHH YEAH." I hate those people. > --------------------------------- "Oh, damn. That's how still images projected at 24 frames a second create the illusion of movement!" > She [Kristen Dunst] was utterly miscast as Mary Jane [in the Spider-man movies] who was supposed to be a firecracker live-wire. I guess what I should have said was her character was completely rewritten to be (literally) "girl next door". Which actually suits my fine because Mary Jane of the comics always left me cold (although she did put the tough urban sophisticate sex-pot into a sympathetic light). Neither Dunst nor Holmes struck me as particularly negative but "now that you mention it" they were both dull. Kirsten Dunst *looks* nice and projects an aura of being there though.
ALittlefield	post #18  on February 5, 2006 - 9:44 AM PST   > On February 3, 2006 - 7:59 AM PST theRODabides wrote: > --------------------------------- > it was filled with this guy in the audience who everything was a suprise to him and he had to let us know it. "Oh damn that guy has a gun!" " OH damn, thats how married couples feel at time, OHHH YEAH." I hate those people. > --------------------------------- At a recent screening of WALK THE LINE, a drunken woman decided to start singing along with the movie, and then she kept going when the song ended! (And she didn't exactly sound like June Carter Cash). Thankfully, she was escorted out of the theater, much to the delight of the rest of the audience. One of those odd moments that you only get in a public setting.
woozy	post #19  on February 5, 2006 - 4:37 PM PST   > One of those odd moments that you only get in a public setting. > I see you've never been to the woozy household...
kohnfused1	post #20  on February 6, 2006 - 10:27 AM PST   > On February 5, 2006 - 9:44 AM PST ALittlefield wrote: > --------------------------------- One of those odd moments that you only get in a public setting. > > > --------------------------------- How about a "run-of-the-mill" moment(?): people bringing their (crying) infant(s) to the theater, only to see a movie that is rated PG-13 or higher.

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