The WORST...So Far
It is possible to see good films during the first six months of any given
year. You just have to know where to find them. Unfortunately, bad films are all
too easy to spot, and it really doesn't matter what time of the year it is. Here
now is my list of the Top Ten WORST films I saw during the first half of 2012,
from January 1st through June 30th.
If you need some cheering up and want to see my picks for the Top Ten BEST
Films of 2012 (so far) you can right
HERE!
Top Ten WORST Films of
2012: January 1st - June 30th
10. Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance
With a plot that doesn't even try to make sense, one of the worst
performances of Nicolas Cage's career, and dialogue so excruciatingly juvenile
it's as if the screenplay had been written by fifteen-year-olds with short
attention spans, this movie is painfully bad on all levels. Read my full review
HERE!
9. Friends with Kids
On the levels of narrative, structure, theme, and characterization, this
movie is profoundly wrongheaded. It regards the decision to have a child not as
a serious commitment but as the basis of a social experiment. Read my full
review HERE!
8. The Grey
A deplorable example of exploitation, cruelty, and nihilism masquerading as
philosophy. Here is a "survivalist" story in which the survivors are given the
same reverence as horror movie victims, who appear to have depth and yet are
merely awaiting their turn to die on cue. Read my full review
HERE!
7. That’s My Boy
This is a pathetic new low for Adam Sandler, representative of nothing apart
from a desperate plea for attention. With its bizarre blending of disgusting
toilet humor and heartfelt moments of drama, it exemplifies a complete lack of
understanding on the filmmakers' part about who the movie was intended for. Read
my full review HERE!
6. The Raid: Redemption
Watching this movie is a little like being trapped in an arcade game and
having absolutely no control over it. The characters, developed solely on
shallow and overused clichés, are essentially targets in a shooting gallery,
most of them serving no purpose apart from awaiting their cue to die in a savage
attack. Read my full review HERE!
5. Act of Valor
This is not a movie so much as a recruitment video, commissioned by the
Navy's Special Warfare Command as an initiative to increase the sign-up rate for
the Navy SEALs. This is a reprehensible example of pro-American propaganda
masquerading as an action film. Read my full review
HERE!
4. Tim and Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie
On the basis of this film, writers/directors/stars Tim Heidecker and Eric
Wareheim have never heard an actual joke in their lives. They may not even know
what a joke is. The movie basically consists of two men and a roster of guest
stars sinking to the lowest depths of crudeness in a desperate plea for
attention. Read my full review HERE!
3. Suing the Devil
Here is a movie so flimsy in premise, so poorly written, and so badly acted
that it achieves a perverse level of hilarity. To watch this movie is to witness
the birth of a cult classic, one that's sure to play in midnight movie houses
while audiences make fun of it mercilessly. Read my first review
HERE!
2. God Bless America
Although this film correctly and accurately addresses America's failings, it
offers a solution so venomous and morally reprehensible that it surpasses mere
parody and becomes a full-blown case of cinematic intolerance. Read my full
review HERE!
1. Battlefield America
Essentially of the junior division of You Got Served, here is a grossly
implausible and incredibly disturbing film in which young male dancers are
fetishized in music video-like dance routines. This is the most preposterous,
exploitive, cloying, artificial film of its kind since Standing Ovation. Read my
full review HERE!
