Worst Movies of 2011 — Page 2

I'm going to throw The Change Up into the pile as well. Just terribly unfunny. I'm not ashamed to admit sometimes liking low brow comedy, but this was just low brow without the comedy.

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I did a similar thing for my college newspaper in 'reviewing' Sucker Punch with how Zack Snyder pretentiously used Freudian imagery but continually undermined any attempted feminism in the film. I then looked at Snyder's past films and how he should be the last person next to Michael Bay to do such a film.

SUPER 8 had some wonderful things in it, but didn't work largely because there was absolutely no story there. That writing would get torn to shreds in any Scriptwriting 101 class. Storytelling just isn't JJ Abrams' forte. Far from the worst of the year, tho.

I was really hoping to like SUCKER PUNCH. I was hoping to "get it", even though Zack Snyder's films have by and large given me the pip. What a complete mess...the fact that some reviewers have put it on their "Best Of" lists makes me hate it even more. It's like a movie adaptation of a video game that you would never want to play.

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INCREDIBLY LOUD, OVERWHELMINGLY LONG is my vote, not the worst per se, but for the most pretentious, the most blatant exploitation of 9/11 yet put on film. (New Yorkers, be offended, be very offended ... starting with the floating rose petals AMERICAN BEAUTY approach to the falling bodies from the Towers.No, there's nothing "poetic" about dead people hitting the ground to avoid being incinerated.) Arty, heartfelt, earnest and insulting, with Tom Hanks playing "a Tom Hanks role," until you can hear a line before he speaks it. And as the NY Times reported, Viola Davis wasting her many tears in attempt to provide emotional resonance to a plot that actually has no resemblance to any normal or abnormal human experience, in Mayberry let alone NYC. Many people will weep and love the "look" of the movie. But turning 9/11 into "visually stunning" experience is, as (gasp) the NY Post opines, pornographic. Sorry, "too soon?" It'll always be too soon to see massive death turned into a "lesson" for a beautific boy's "journey." Uh, no, that's not what happened.

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THE GREEN HORNET ... I knew better, but was dragged along anyway with a group of friends (who I no longer speak to because of that) I would even dare to say it is on my list of the worst movies of all time. Absolutely PUTRID!!!

Um. . . Melancholia . . .

As artsy fartsy as it was.... the best part about it was the score and how pretty the movie looked.

I liked the second part best, but as a whole, it was pretty boring.

There's no way Super 8 is the "worst" of the year. Did it fall short? Yes, absolutely. But to give such an extreme reaction and call it the "worst" is a bit dramatic. There are far more worthy candidates for that distinction.

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Add me to the list of those that enjoyed Super 8. My worst would have to be...
Breaking Dawn
The Change Up
Abduction
Beastly
Hangover 2

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I was waiting for someone to mention Green Lantern!

Larry Crowne
Contagion (because it could have been so much better)
The Rum DIaries

I could go on and on, but i'm becoming nauseated by the amount of money I have spent on crap movies this year.

Generally, I try and only see movies in the theatre that I fell will benefit from the theatre setting whether it's because it is an action flick or an epic, or if I feel seeing it with a big group of people will make it more fun. Otherwise, I wait for them to come out and I can watch them on Pay Per View for $5.

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Glad others mentioned Sucker Punch. I've always found Zack Snyder an awful, overated director (and it was funny enugh that a man with homophobic, frat boy sensibilities--who still doesn't seem to realize why people might find 300 homoerotic--tried to adapt Watchmen though I did think some of the acting saved it). But everything about Sucker Punch failed for me, from the bizarre "feminist" message Snyder has bragged about (really?)to just how frantic it was. Some have actually put it on their best of lists??

Tree of Life made me want to send hate mail to Terrence Malick.