I saw DOA last night, spectacularly, spectacularly, shit. And the most entertaining shit film i've seen since Torque. I'm not sure if it deserves a place on the list or not, it was a pitiful attempt at filmmaking, even for a movie based on a video game, but somehow it managed to drop off the bottom of the scale and re-appear at the top (like Pac-Man) and make me enjoy it about 8 million times more than watching Tubby Tom looking constipated through The DaVinci Code.

Date Movie was horrid!!
I expected more from you Willow!

Bloodrayne, another Uwe Boll masterpiece.

Your list seems pretty accurate to me. And even though I go see all kinds of movies, I thankfully missed a good number of these turkeys. Kudos for including SUPERMAN RETURNS - I had high hopes this too, especially when I heard Singer was going to pay tribute to Donner's vision. Unfortunately, the new movie never got off the ground so to speak. Note to filmmakers who tackle comic book adaptations: GIVE YOUR HERO A FUCKING INTRODUCTION. It will go a long way towards including your audience on the spectacular ride you want to take them on.

oh yeah - and you forgot ULTRAVIOLET...

We'll soon be able to add "Bobby" to the list. Man, that looks unfuckingbearable.

Ok, of those that I saw, I LOVED The Hills Have Eyes and Superman Returns. Really great, was not disappointed in the slightest. But then, I also haven't seen the originals for either.

I really felt they should've named Cheaper by the dozen 2 "Cheaper by the Baker's Dozen," and had one of the kids have a baby, but then, I'm much more hilarious than whoever produces that garbage.


Also, I'd like to add Wicker Man. That movie made me want to cut myself, and I read that the original was actually a respected movie with a cult following. My message to Nicolas Cage? Stop it!

i was forced to see 'the break up'. another example of how the ad managed to contain the funniest moment in the movie.

You're totally off here. If I have to see the Superman origin story ONE MORE TIME, I might gouge my eyes out. We don't need another rehash of a story that's been told a thousand times before. Even in the past few years on Smallville. I was extremely glad I didn't have to watch the same old story all over again.

A list of crap in film in 2006 that doesn't include X-Men 3 doesn't count. People can bitch about how Superman Returns was "boring" and "all he did was lift stuff and be a stalker", but at least there was a thorough plotline, with things like consequences and reactions. Y'know, stuff that tends to be requirements of character development.

Hey, I'm with you - we've already seen the origin story. I just meant a cinematic moment where the character is properly introduced to the audience. Seems like he just kinda slinked around, hardly even speaking for the first half hour or so. Didn't really engender a lot of interest in what was going to happen later. But to be honest - that was just the first of many miscues. All I really remember about the movie is how bored I was...

X-Men 3 was a good movie. I'm glad Chris looked past the past the smear campaign AintitCoolNews started on the net for months trying to sink that movie and recognized that Superman Returns was the movie that really creeped most Superman fans out.

Don't get me wrong, I like Apt Pupil, The Usual Suspects and X2, but Singer can't deliver the goods on telling a solid movie in 2 hours. X1 and X2 are like prologues that lead to nothing. If the highest praise people can give X2 is that it was a prelude for the Phoenix storyline that he would've done, then that's crap. You see a glimmer of an outline in teh water and that's supposed to mke up for for the 90 minutes of a TV plot that X-Men 1 is? I could get into how expecting a comic cannon accurate Phoenix Saga from Singer is absolutely idiotic given how little he took from the comics themselves but the weak scripts and average directing were lifted by an above average cast.

Tell you what, if Singer was such a great director, you think he couldve gotten Halle Berry to keep her accent consistent at least within either X1 or X2.

If anything, I think X3 showed that you could introduce a character within the confine of a film and not have to milk it and drag it out to give him some kind of prolonged excuse to join the team. Kelsey Grammar fit in just fine and given how many hanging threads Singer left Ratner did a good job of trying to tie them up, or the screenwriters rather, the film is pretty tightly shot and while some sequences wouldve had a bit mor eimpact if given a little breathing room [mainly the end where Magneto moves the chess piece] its a good movie which wraps the storylines up but doesnt really fuck with the status quo

- Cyclops may or may not be dead. As comics tell us, his optic beams feed the Phoenix Force, so you could always have him put in stasis in a cocoon - if Raimi can flip continuity in Spider-Man with Gwen, it could be done with Cyclops
- Jean ALWAYS comes back from the dead enough said
- Xavier is like on his 3rd or 4th cloned body in the comics, so him coming back, also within canon.

Versus Superman Returns, which is a weird creepy movie with Superstalker and the fact that James Marsters is the only sympathetic chrcter in the movie that you like him and not Superman and the whole time youre thinking, why didnt they just cast Marsters as Superman versus this creepy Chris Reeves wannabe. Youve got the single parent/kid angle that already cripples the franchise with an albatross around its neck.

Seriously, Im grateful for Chris Nolan, because he at least understands that a relaunch doesnt mean remake the movies before yours, but shitty. Superman Returns is a pseudo remake of part 1 and crappy sequel to part 2. There was no reason for Singer to waste time on another origin story given Smallville and having Lex as anotehr non super powered villain in the age of cool villains, is just stupid.

Summary; lots of good about X3, SR is dreck. Thank you Chris. Its nice to read some movie criticism not colored by bias like at the AICN site.

This may end with my lunch money being stolen, but I really don't think Superman is a timeless character.

And X3 wasn't as much bad as it was very poorly paced. If you get the misprinted DVD with the 20+ deleted scenes, you'll see that they did indeed film a worthy successor to X2.

And then they sliced off every bit of that worthy successor that wasn't an action scene or an important event leading into an action scene.

x3 sucked pretty hard, regardless of how it fits with the other two movies and/or the comic books, the dialogue was tacky and unoriginal, and the story had no real content.

That sounds pretty much like X-Men 1 and X-Men 2 as well.

"What happens when a toad gets struck by lightning ... the same things that happens to everything else."

ugh.

I can back this!

I had a day where I watched Spice World and Ultraviolet. I can't believe that Spice World was not the worst movie I saw that day.

+1



Who kills off Cyclops? He's X-man #1. You just don't do it.