rubbish films of 08

[Cosimo]

worst so far

i didn't pay for all but one. me champion!

the following took the piss

indiana jones and the kingdom of the crystal skull (5/10) i actually paid, no jk! luxury seats too dangit
paranoid park (5/10) worst van sant film ever
x files i want to believe (4/10) in a better film
forbidden kingdom (4/10) um no!
diary of the dead (3/10) so lame zzz
death race (3/10) running man it aint
speed racer (3/10) wtf
the mummy 3 (3/10) brendan tubs fraser jet no speake da anglais li
shoot em up (2/10) carrots?
doomsday (2/10) oh no
vantage point (2/10) so boring
10000 bc (2/10) haha
hancock (2/10) oh geez

[SoulOnIce]

Spot on with those reviews. Indiana Jones was by far the worst blockbuster this year though. Just a waste of movie making.

[Reigh Kaufman]

Presuming were just talking about English language films, I didn't go wild for:

'Wanted' - 6/10
Hellboy II - 6/10
'The Incredible Hulk' - 6/10
'Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull' - 6/10
'Hancock' - 5/10
'Vantage Point' - 5/10
'Speed Racer' - 5/10
'The Strangers' - 5/10
'Street Kings' - 5/10
'Diary of the Dead' - 5/10
'Get Smart' - 5/10
'Jumper' - 5/10
'Defintely, Maybe' - 5/10
'Felon' - 5/10
'21' - 5/10

...among many others I am forgetting right now.

However, I despised:

'The Ruins' - 3/10
'The Happening' - 3/10
'Over Her Dead Body' - 3/10 (all three points for Paul Rudd)
'Fool's Gold' - 3/10
'Prom Night' - 3/10
'One Missed Call' - 3/10
'The Eye' - 3/10
'The Bank Job' - 3/10
'Shutter' - 3/10
'Meet the Spartans' - 1/10
'Death Race' - 1/10
'Pathology' - 1/10
'Taken' - 1/10

I was pleasantly surprised by:

'Rambo' - 6.5/10
'Sex and the City' - 6.5/10 (I have a fiancee - I liked parts of it - so what?)
'Transsiberian' - 6.5/10
'The Wackness' - 6.5/10
'Eden Lake' - 6.5/10


...and my 7/10 or higher list includes:

'Cloverfield'
'Iron Man'
'Pineapple Express'
Burn After Reading'
'The Dark Knight'
'WALL-E'
'The Duchess'
'Be Kind, Rewind'
'Tropic Thunder' (scrapes in, but it was not as funny as it should have been)
'In Bruges'
'The Other Boleyn Girl'
'Gone Baby Gone'

[Tayzlor]

Everyone in the Indiana Jones movie looked bored out of their skulls (even Blanchett, who shoulda chewed the scenery and ignored whatever tone it down instructions Stevie Spielberg offered). Family arguments! Ooh humor! How we can relate!

That movie was absolutely wretched and I liked the inclusion of aliens. With James Bond machoing up (for the worse) and losing his camp sensibility I was relying on Indy to pop the puns and at least have a good time but no. It was not to be.

I was not around for any internet debate on the movie but I'm certain Shia LeBeouf (a cipher on screen and in reality) swinging from leafy vines set off all kinds of alarms. They shoulda just had the mystery wind blow the hat to his feet (while he gives a 'wha me?' look) while they both exchanged knowing winks. Heck they shoulda had a "The End?"--no one does that anymore (if they ever did).

That Hulk movie was pretty terrible too---it was like watching someone play the N64 at the end when those two hulkish creatures were clobbering each other.

[Le_Big_Mac]

I haven't seen any plain awful movies this year, but The Bank Job was boring and in spite of the brilliance of Robert Downey, Jr., Tropic Thunder is not far behind.

[athf1980]

did not see any horrid movies this year because I tend to stay away from horrid movies.

[Preston_79]

I didn't know Taken was out yet. 1/10 damn that sucks.

[Reigh Kaufman]

I didn't know Taken was out yet. 1/10 damn that sucks.

(Psssst. It's on YouTube - but don't tell anyone I told you).

[Hotbox]

Indy 4 and Speed Racer were utter shite

'In Bruges' was great.

[poopontheshoes7]

Indy 4, Doomsday and Speed Racer kick ass.



As far as bad films go. Ones I've seen:
-The Happening
-Hancock (started off alright, but went dooooowwwwwnnnn very fast)
-Jumper
-Meet The Spartans (Well, like the 20 minutes of it that I could manage to watch)
-Vantage Point
-Prom Night
-Diary of the Dead (So very, very dissapointed)
-Wanted
-Sex and the City
-Step Brothers (Sorry people, I hate to say I'm officially sick of Will Ferrel)
-The Other Boleyn Girl (Talk about one hell of dull period piece)
-10,000 BC
-Mummy 3
-Space Chimps
-House Bunny

[blankpage]

These are all 5/10. I didn't hate them, but they're easily forgettable...

Be Kind Rewind
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Wanted
Vantage Point
The Ruins
Stop Loss
Smart People
Vicky Cristina Barcelona



These are all 4/10 and under. The worst of the worst so far this year for me...

Drillbit Taylor
21
Step Up 2: The Streets
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
Righteous Kill
Street Kings
Semi-Pro
The Happening
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants II (don't ask, lol)
10 000 BC
Strange Wilderness
One Missed Call

[ilovemovies]

Taken kicked ass IMO. It comes out in January.

And I loved Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. It's on my top 5 of the year so far.

Speed Racer is quite possibly the most underrated movie of the year as well. A hell of a fun family flick that is both visually and viscerally exciting.


Movies that are a 5/10 or lower:


Disaster Movie - 0/10
Meet the Spartans - 1/10
The Strangers - 3/10
One Missed Call - 3/10
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor - 3/10
Supherhero Movie - 3/10
Tropic Thunder - 3/10
Hamlet 2 - 3/10
10,000 - 4/10
The Happening - 4/10
Shutter - 4/10
Vicky Cristina Barcelona - 5/10
Doomsday - 5/10
You Don't Mess With the Zohan - 5/10
The Hottie and the Nottie - 5/10
Young People Fucking - 5/10
Space Chimps - 5/10
Untraceable - 5/10
Hell Ride - 5/10
RocknRolla - 5/10
Meet Dave - 5/10
Babylon A.D. - 5/10
All the Boys Love Mandy Lane - 5/10
Burn After Reading - 5/10

[Cosimo]

the happening aint that bad. it's a 6
found the film quite funny, never boring and it left me guessing throughout
bad acting was it's main downfall

[jaw2929]

Indiana Jones 4 was great, I don't understand the hate. It's fucking baffling.

Anyway, The Forbidden Kingdom was a GIANT piece of shit. As was Smart People, both of which I walked out of. The Bank Job was also pretentiously boring garbage which I turned off as well.

This year has been the year where I've pretty much stopped going to the theatre on a regular basis. A good percentage of the films mentioned here I've not seen, and I'm glad I haven't.

I also want to add that some of my favourite flicks of the year have been movies like Indy 4, The Dark Knight, Mirrors, Burn After Reading, In Bruges and The Happening.

[SoulOnIce]

Taken kicked ass IMO. It comes out in January.

And I loved Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. It's on my top 5 of the year so far.

Speed Racer is quite possibly the most underrated movie of the year as well. A hell of a fun family flick that is both visually and viscerally exciting.


Movies that are a 5/10 or lower:


Disaster Movie - 0/10
Meet the Spartans - 1/10
The Strangers - 3/10
One Missed Call - 3/10
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor - 3/10
Supherhero Movie - 3/10
Tropic Thunder - 3/10
Hamlet 2 - 3/10
10,000 - 4/10
The Happening - 4/10
Shutter - 4/10
Vicky Cristina Barcelona - 5/10
Doomsday - 5/10
You Don't Mess With the Zohan - 5/10
The Hottie and the Nottie - 5/10
Young People Fucking - 5/10
Space Chimps - 5/10
Untraceable - 5/10
Hell Ride - 5/10
RocknRolla - 5/10
Meet Dave - 5/10
Babylon A.D. - 5/10
All the Boys Love Mandy Lane - 5/10
Burn After Reading - 5/10
Damn, u spend a lot of time watching terrible films.

Why would anyone waste there time on disaster movie or meet the spartans?

[ilovemovies]

^ to answer your question as to why I watched Disaster Movie and Meet the Spartans, it's because of morbid curiousity.

But I didn't pay for them. I watched them for free online.


And I try and watch everything or close to it.

[ilovemovies]

Indiana Jones 4 was great, I don't understand the hate. It's fucking baffling.

Anyway, The Forbidden Kingdom was a GIANT piece of shit. As was Smart People, both of which I walked out of. The Bank Job was also pretentiously boring garbage which I turned off as well.

This year has been the year where I've pretty much stopped going to the theatre on a regular basis. A good percentage of the films mentioned here I've not seen, and I'm glad I haven't.

I also want to add that some of my favourite flicks of the year have been movies like Indy 4, The Dark Knight, Mirrors, Burn After Reading, In Bruges and The Happening.


Definitely agree on Indiana Jones 4. But I liked Smart People and The Bank Job. Why did you hate them so much? Well, you already answered that with Bank Job, but why the hate for Smart People? I know it's not the most original movie but the cast is great and I thought it was very likeable and enjoyable.



My top 10 of '08 so far in order is: Snow Angels, The Dark Knight, Elegy, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Charlie Bartlett, Traitor, The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, Transsiberian, Henry Poole is Here and Forgetting Sarah Marshall.

[SoulOnIce]

^ to answer your question as to why I watched Disaster Movie and Meet the Spartans, it's because of morbid curiousity.

But I didn't pay for them. I watched them for free online.


And I try and watch everything or close to it.
I see.

[Tayzlor]

And I try and watch everything or close to it.

I do not understand the rationale present.

Why try to watch everything? Why not go for the items with enjoyment potential? WHY? A monumental waste of time. It's not like you're a fledgling filmmaker trying to learn the movies by viewing how things went wrong. You're a consumer and have a choice!

You're not obligated to watch shit, there's no reason to bury yourself in it, and don't tell me you need a more rounded top 100 list.

[ilovemovies]

Well, actually I am an aspiring filmmaker. But that's not the reason why I try and watch everything. I try and watch everything because I'm a fan of all film and sometimes movies do surprise me by being better than they look.

This year has actually seen many disappointing movies but I've also seen many movies that were very much pleasant surprises.

Although movies like Disaster Movie or Meet the Spartans, movies that are garaunteed to be bad, I'll watch those online where it don't cost me anything.

[Tayzlor]

Although movies like Disaster Movie or Meet the Spartans, movies that are garaunteed to be bad, I'll watch those online where it don't cost me anything.

But why? It cannot be curiosity alone right?

Those movies have no aspirations to be good, they're cheaply churned out in hopes of turning a quick profit. They're innately inferior to everything surrounding. They're loads of movies you could watch in their place.

[ilovemovies]

No movie is made to be bad on purpose. Not even the Friedberg/Seltzer parodies. I'm sure they make those movies hoping people will laugh at them and have a good time.

And why? Somtimes it's just out of morbid curiousity. Especially now it seems each of their movie somehow manage the unthinkable and somehow actually manage to be even worse than it's predecessor. So I watched Disaster Movie to see if they were actually able to make it even worse than Meet the Spartans, which I didn't think was possible but sure enough, they proved me wrong.

Sometimes a movie looks so bad that I have to see it just to see if it's THAT bad.

And while this may seem silly to you, I don't care, but sometimes I just like to be able to up my movie watching count for the year so I'll watch something that I might otherwise would avoid. Kind of like The Hottie and the Nottie. Although I gave The Hottie and the Nottie a 5/10 and I actually didn't think it was THAT bad. Not good, but not unwatchable either.

[Reigh Kaufman]

I do not understand the rationale present.

Why try to watch everything? Why not go for the items with enjoyment potential? WHY? A monumental waste of time. It's not like you're a fledgling filmmaker trying to learn the movies by viewing how things went wrong. You're a consumer and have a choice!

You're not obligated to watch shit, there's no reason to bury yourself in it, and don't tell me you need a more rounded top 100 list.

Ask anyone - I'm the most pretentious person on these boards. I'm the kind of guy who doesn't even consider having guilty pleasure movies on display. My friends think I don't even own a comedy. I live with it. I know who I am.

But I watch shitty movies all the time, mainly horror, because I can ignore them when I am marking or I have had a long day. I also love to do my MSTK3 impressions with my friends, who probably don't realise I am teasing them as much as I am taking the piss out of the movie (it's usually their choice of movie, 'cos I am a good - slightly evil - host).

Take today: I watched 'Step Brothers', 'Margot at the Wedding', 'Things We Lost in the Fire', and I am about to watch 'In Cold Blood'.

When my partner gets back from dinner at Chiquitos, she'll ask what I watched today. I'll say 'Margot at the Wedding' and 'In Cold Blood'. Firstly, because she will go spare that I wasted my teaching agreement time watching shit; secondly, because I thought the other films were shit and she won't understand why I subjected myself to the films when I have done nothing but slate the adverts.

As Ilovemovies has also said, (albeit in a different way) I need to know as much about what NOT to teach kids in media (my timetable is English 0.6, Media 0.3) even if personal taste is subjective. That, and I need to keep abreast of what they might find enjoyable (they all seem to love 'Goal 2: Living the Dream', for some inexplicable reason).

I don't care much for expanding my tastes - it's pretty much cemented by now - but I do care about movies, and I do care about watching EVERYTHING so I can be informed and, who knows, find little gems in amongst the guff?

[Tayzlor]

Thank you for the detailed answers both Reigh and ilovemovies but I suppose I'll never understand as much as I wish.

I really cannot think of what to type.

I can understand watching an obviously bad movie (to adult eyes) with a child or niece (in fact if they're enjoying it you usually end up enjoying it as well).
I can understand watching an obviously bad movie as apart of work duties.

But...
seeing an obviously bad movie merely to see if it really is bad defies all kinds of logic for me.

EDIT: I'm browsing through the "Whaddya ya watch" thread it just astounds me to see people with lovely taste knowingly subject themselves.

BTW, I thought "Step Brothers" was awesome, Reigh, so I suppose we all have different definitions of shit, although I can imagine one finding it that. But I went in watching knowing I'd love it.

[Reigh Kaufman]

And I think your example is a tad mild, Reigh. You're watching "Step Brothers" and "TWLITF" and the other two because you think they hold potential right? I loved "Step Brothers" and "TWLITF" is aiming for quality. I'm mainly referring to posters who spend the first half of the day watching "Norbit", "Space Chimps", and "The Love Guru" and the second half reporting the shitness they willingly endured.


Yeah, I agree my answer is mild, but those are the films I watched today. It was a good day for goofing off, but a so-so day for movie-watching.

I could have lied, said I watched 'Man With a Movie Camera' and 'High School Musical' for a sharper contrast, but then it wouldn't be true.

'Things We Lost in the Fire' is not a bad film, by the way, but it is an Inarritu wannabe.

Anyway, I can honestly say I will never watch 'Disaster Movie'. 'Meet the Spartans' was simply a horrible experiment that went terribly wrong.

[ilovemovies]

Off topic I suppose, but I personally thought Things We Lost in the Fire was a GREAT movie. One of the best movies of 2007, an otherwise incredibly weak year. Both Halle Berry and ESPECIALLY Benicio Del Toro were robbed and deserved oscar nominations!

[Cosimo]

i enjoy watching bad action flicks with my buds laughing my ass off on a joint or two but i wouldn't have watched most of the films i had listed if i of had to pay instead of downloading. often people prefer just to watch mindless trash over something with more depth, ignorance at times can be bliss

[MidnightAngel]

One Missed Call
Meet The Spartans
Superhero Movie
Shutter
Prom Night
The Love Guru
The Eye
Disaster Movie
You Don't Mess with The Zohan

[Hotbox]

LaMotta - "i enjoy watching bad action flicks with my buds laughing my ass off on a joint or two"

I could kiss you soooo hard!

Do you also enjoy walks in the park and puppies?

[Cosimo]

Do you also enjoy walks in the park and puppies?

sometimes, depends on the weather and the street womans i paid to accompany me

got to love beagles

http://img520.imageshack.us/img520/142/ramsaybazbeagles05jpgw4cd0.jpg

[Hotbox]

nice dog man. Is it yours?
we have a couple of dogs at the Hotbox. We have 'Badabing' (named after the strip club in Sapranos). She's a whore.

[Cosimo]

nah i got a kitten chill (cool as ice) as seen here

http://img58.imageshack.us/img58/6451/741649525lvj9.jpg

can't get a beagle till i settle down and get off the smack

cool name for a dog

anyone else got pics of their pets? the original rubbish films of 08 thread is lame