*It should be noted that I honesty didn't see too many bad films this year unless I was invited by friends or won free tickets for reviewing. So yes, there are some big names missing like The Zoo Keeper, Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon, and Just Go With It. So I have limited my list to just 5, so here it is.
Dishonorable Mentions: Dylan Dog, The Roommate, New Year's Eve, Your Highness, I Don't Know How She Does It, Priest, and Season of the Witch.
#5 - GREEN LANTERN
Green Lantern was easily the big cost, big effects, big hope, and yet, big let down of the year. There really isnt much to be said that hasnt been said already.
#4 - RED RIDING HOOD
Twilight maybe be bad, but at the very least Twilight is some what engaging and moderately interesting. Red Riding Hood is was just so dull and so clearly a Twilight cash grab that it really was made with no effort and no energy. The real shame of this is because the cast is actually half decent with Amanda Seyfried and Gary Oldman as well as Julie Christine. The story is just laughable at times and really is just poorly thought out from beginning to end. A real waste of time.
#3 - I MELT WITH YOU
After seeing the trailer and the previews for I Melt with You, I was honestly really looking forward to seeing what it was all about. It looked creative and serious, like a real and honest look at the aging process and coming to terms with how unexpectedly life catches up on us. Yet sadly it is nothing but self indulgent arty melodrama. Everything about it, from the cinema style to the actors portrayals of their aged selves is nothing but pretentious and toxic. I have no doubt this will form a sort of cult following, as did Southland Tales and The Cell, but I was extremely disappointed and extremely angered by this waste of time.
#2 - BUCKY LARSON: BORN TO BE A STAR
If there was a way for me to go back in time and prevent myself from seeing this god awful excuse for a film, including killing my past self, I would seriously consider it. Everything about Buck Larson: Born to be a Star is insulting to the genre of comedy and insulting to human intelligence. It should be no shock that this film as earned six nominations for the 32nd Golden Raspberry Awards, including Worst Picture, Worst Actor (Nick Swardson), Worst Director, Worst Screenplay, Worst Screen Ensemble, and Worst Prequel, Remake, Rip-off or Sequel (rip-off of Boogie Nights and A Star is Born). I honestly wouldnt wish my worst enemy the fate of seeing this film.
#1 - SUCKER PUNCH
Why Sucker Punch? Why is this the worse film of 2011? Its clearly doesnt have the worst acting and the story isnt the most ill conceived compared to Jack & Jill or Your Highness. Yet for me, Sucker Punch is the worst film of the year because of what it represents in the film making industry as well as what it claims and fails to represent. For an $82 million budget, a cast full of stunningly good looking women, with insane amounts of action, and imaginative scenery, it is completely and utterly dull and empty. All of its special effects, sexy costumes, and gutty action is made redundant with its lack of personality and any sense of real character. Yet even worse is how it parades the self, and very self appointed, title of being feminist when it is anything but feminist. Sucker Punch is nothing but Hollywood style misogyny. I cannot agree with Peter Debruge of Variety who argued that the film is "misleadingly positioned as female empowerment despite clearly having been hatched as fantasy fodder for 13-year-old guys" and that the fact that the young women in the movie are "under constant threat of being raped or murdered" makes the film "highly inappropriate for young viewers." The biggest pain I have with Sucker Punch is that it will inspire these 13-year-old guys or those with the mind of a 13-year-old to make more movies like Sucker Punch and sell it as genius.
Dishonorable Mentions: Dylan Dog, The Roommate, New Year's Eve, Your Highness, I Don't Know How She Does It, Priest, and Season of the Witch.
#5 - GREEN LANTERN
Green Lantern was easily the big cost, big effects, big hope, and yet, big let down of the year. There really isnt much to be said that hasnt been said already.
#4 - RED RIDING HOOD
Twilight maybe be bad, but at the very least Twilight is some what engaging and moderately interesting. Red Riding Hood is was just so dull and so clearly a Twilight cash grab that it really was made with no effort and no energy. The real shame of this is because the cast is actually half decent with Amanda Seyfried and Gary Oldman as well as Julie Christine. The story is just laughable at times and really is just poorly thought out from beginning to end. A real waste of time.
#3 - I MELT WITH YOU
After seeing the trailer and the previews for I Melt with You, I was honestly really looking forward to seeing what it was all about. It looked creative and serious, like a real and honest look at the aging process and coming to terms with how unexpectedly life catches up on us. Yet sadly it is nothing but self indulgent arty melodrama. Everything about it, from the cinema style to the actors portrayals of their aged selves is nothing but pretentious and toxic. I have no doubt this will form a sort of cult following, as did Southland Tales and The Cell, but I was extremely disappointed and extremely angered by this waste of time.
#2 - BUCKY LARSON: BORN TO BE A STAR
If there was a way for me to go back in time and prevent myself from seeing this god awful excuse for a film, including killing my past self, I would seriously consider it. Everything about Buck Larson: Born to be a Star is insulting to the genre of comedy and insulting to human intelligence. It should be no shock that this film as earned six nominations for the 32nd Golden Raspberry Awards, including Worst Picture, Worst Actor (Nick Swardson), Worst Director, Worst Screenplay, Worst Screen Ensemble, and Worst Prequel, Remake, Rip-off or Sequel (rip-off of Boogie Nights and A Star is Born). I honestly wouldnt wish my worst enemy the fate of seeing this film.
#1 - SUCKER PUNCH
Why Sucker Punch? Why is this the worse film of 2011? Its clearly doesnt have the worst acting and the story isnt the most ill conceived compared to Jack & Jill or Your Highness. Yet for me, Sucker Punch is the worst film of the year because of what it represents in the film making industry as well as what it claims and fails to represent. For an $82 million budget, a cast full of stunningly good looking women, with insane amounts of action, and imaginative scenery, it is completely and utterly dull and empty. All of its special effects, sexy costumes, and gutty action is made redundant with its lack of personality and any sense of real character. Yet even worse is how it parades the self, and very self appointed, title of being feminist when it is anything but feminist. Sucker Punch is nothing but Hollywood style misogyny. I cannot agree with Peter Debruge of Variety who argued that the film is "misleadingly positioned as female empowerment despite clearly having been hatched as fantasy fodder for 13-year-old guys" and that the fact that the young women in the movie are "under constant threat of being raped or murdered" makes the film "highly inappropriate for young viewers." The biggest pain I have with Sucker Punch is that it will inspire these 13-year-old guys or those with the mind of a 13-year-old to make more movies like Sucker Punch and sell it as genius.
VIEW 4 of 4 COMMENTS
terome:
Egh! Totally agree! What a waste of time! Stupid ending, unsustained story line. and for some reason both of my female housemates LOVE that movie... I don't get it? Only think I liked in it is the hot chicks made to look like real life computer animations, the soundtrack and the animations in general.
contini:
@Terome, it's even worse trying to make a movie with this stuff happening in the background. One of my film making counterparts LOVED Sucker Punch is ordering all sorts of costumes and guns from the movie and is dressing up girls in them and doing these fan made films in the backyard and just going on about how amazing and awesome it was. It just drags the industry down. Like when I come to my keyboard, and start writing female characters who I imagine as strong willed and empowering in the back of my mind now I am like... Oh Jesus... am I writing the next Sucker Punch?