Worst Movies of 2011
Worst Movies of 2011
#1Worst Movies of 2011
Posted: 12/22/11 at 11:49pmI'm anxiously waiting for this years Razzie nominees but in the meantime what were the worst movies you saw this year?
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#3Worst Movies of 2011
Posted: 12/23/11 at 12:03amI didn't see Trespass. Your Highness made me want to die.
#4Worst Movies of 2011
Posted: 12/23/11 at 12:04amI kind of want to see it now. After I see BUCKY LARSON, of course.
#5Worst Movies of 2011
Posted: 12/23/11 at 12:08am
Breaking Dawn Part 1- And I am not one to call every Twilight film an instant worse film. This film was a total bore.
Sucker Punch- Zack Snyder's imagination is full of pretentious Freudian imagery undercut by fetishsizing females with no effort for characterization of those actresses at all, unknown time periods, low-rent Comic Con items, and Scott Glenn there for no apparent reason.
One Day- Who knew a novel/movie would rip from City of Angels?
americanboy99
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/27/06
#6Worst Movies of 2011
Posted: 12/23/11 at 1:29am
For me, HORRIBLE BOSSES and SOMETHING BORROWED.
Both really, really pained me.
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#7Worst Movies of 2011
Posted: 12/23/11 at 1:44amI didn't hate Horrible Bosses. I just expected it to be as LOT funnier. I felt that same way about Our Idiot Brother. It wasn't a bad movie, but I just thought it was going to be more of a comedy. Or at least less of a feel-bad comedy.
#8Worst Movies of 2011
Posted: 12/23/11 at 1:47am
Super 8
Battle Los Angeles
Larry Crowne
Your Highness
Jack And Jill
I Don't Know How She Does It
Mars Needs Moms
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#9Worst Movies of 2011
Posted: 12/23/11 at 1:49am
Hah. You sat through Jack and Jill! I'm not gonna judge because I willingly went to see Breaking Dawn. I HAD to see that baby get born!
Super 8 really did suck, didn't it?
#10Worst Movies of 2011
Posted: 12/23/11 at 1:59am
Oh man, Jack & Jill was just awful. It was one of those group decisions where I was out-voted.
Super 8 felt so hollow to me. The whole thing tried so hard to be Amblin-esque that it ended up being more of a parody than an homage.
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#11Worst Movies of 2011
Posted: 12/23/11 at 2:05amI thought it started out pretty decently, but started to unravel about halfway through and then just got terrible.
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#12Worst Movies of 2011
Posted: 12/23/11 at 4:51am
I loved Super 8 -- possibly because I totally felt transported to my youth. That being said, my son loved it too!
#14Worst Movies of 2011
Posted: 12/23/11 at 6:34am
For me it was hands down Jack And Jill. My friend and I went to a 10am showing and there were about 8 of us in the theater. The only excitement happened when the two old guys in the back got kicked out for giving each other head.
New Year's Eve and I Don't Know How She Does It were both terrible, but I had fun watching them. Drinking game ideas abound for both movies.
#15Worst Movies of 2011
Posted: 12/23/11 at 6:41amThe Three Musketeers
sally1112
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/13/04
#16Worst Movies of 2011
Posted: 12/23/11 at 9:06amDylan Dog- Dead of Night. Even being able to look at Brandon Roth for 107 minutes did not make this an enjoyable experience.
#17Worst Movies of 2011
Posted: 12/23/11 at 10:07amLet's not forget about Taylor Lautner's performance in Abduction! That movie was so ridiculous it often was laugh inducing.
#18Worst Movies of 2011
Posted: 12/23/11 at 10:57am^I didn't see that one, but it looked bad from the preview I saw when I went to see Friends with Benefits.
#19Worst Movies of 2011
Posted: 12/23/11 at 11:24am
SUPER 8 was one of the best of the year! It's on some critics' top 10 lists for Oscar.
For me, one of the worst I saw was CONTAGION. Also RED RIDING HOOD.
--Aristotle
#20Worst Movies of 2011
Posted: 12/23/11 at 11:52am
I hated Contagion, too. I know some critics thought the fact it jumped from character to character without actually engaging the audience was some brilliant metaphor for how disease spreads... I thought it was just a slog. It focused on the least interesting characters/actors. Did we really need to see Laurence Fishburne knitting his brow and rubbing the bridge of his nose more than Marion Cotillard doing.. anything?
I guess it was worth it to see Gwyneth Paltrow's scalp get pulled down over her face.
#21Worst Movies of 2011
Posted: 12/23/11 at 12:04pm
Yea I know Super 8 was on some best of lists. That doesn't mean it's automatically good.
Watch it back to back with Attack The Block and see how it misses the mark.
That film effortlessly captured the sense of wonder and kids-against-the-mysterious-menace that Super 8 tried so hard to achieve.
Or even Rare Exports (which is great for Christmas viewing btw). Exports was far from perfect but at least it felt genuine.
I will say that there were elements of Super 8 I enjoyed. The kids were all excellent (especially the kid director) and the train crash was impressive.
#22Worst Movies of 2011
Posted: 12/23/11 at 12:09pmI'm glad you mentioned Attack the Block, taz! One of the more underrated films of the year.
#23Worst Movies of 2011
Posted: 12/23/11 at 12:17pm
Super 8 had its problems that started with the 'nuke the fridge' styled trainwreck and daddy issues galore that followed. The alien, the alien JJ Abrams made such a big deal out of being held in secret, was not memorable, or empathetic. It just looked like every JJ Abrams alien design. The secrecy to a cliched, government hides UFO story was hardly worth the effort. FWIW, I liked the kids too but I never felt the movie properly coalesced the kids story to the alien story.
I definitely thought Attack the Block was the superior, more enjoyable film. It actually starts off on a more interesting note of not having goodie-two-shoe kids but juvenile delinquents as the central ensemble. John Boyega as the lead in particular was very impressive.
Updated On: 12/23/11 at 12:17 PM
#24Worst Movies of 2011
Posted: 12/23/11 at 1:00pmI know it's on many critics and other people's top ten list, but the movie that was the worst, for me, was Tree of Life. I know people who go on saying how beautiful and wonderful it was. I agree it was wonderfully shot, but the whole movie was just SO pretentious. I know some people will disagree with me, but this is my OPINION. That is part of what is so wonderful about movies, some love and hate the same movies, but it is the discussion that really makes it fun!
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