Monday, January 25, 2010

Time's Up!

I know you guys follow this blog closely everyday( seriously, stop logging in every hour, it's weird!) so I thought that it wouldn't sneak past you to see that I am past my deadline for my blogs...
NOT TO WORRY! I am still going to finish them but it is just taking me a lot longer then expected...as I go farther and farther down the list...the movies get worse and worse...hmmm I guess that IS how a countdown works...
Anyway, don't lose faith in me 6 followers! I will prevail!

Thursday, January 21, 2010

Stalling Tactic

So even though I am pretty amazing, it's not really possible for me to watch 51 movies in one day (in reality I only have 37 movies left because I watched some out of order, but they are not posted yet since I am counting down)...don't ask me how it happened but somehow the time got away from me and I obviously underestimated how long it would take me to watch such horrible movies. I figured I would watch one every other day but you want to take a break from it every once and awhile and even though there were a few times where I watched 4 movies in a day, I was just never able to catch up with deadline...I know....how could I disappoint my 6 followers so bad?

Not to worry though because I have come up with a really good stalling tactic. I am going to post a list of...wait for it...all the movies....from 2009....from best to worst!! Wow! That is even BETTER than all my movie reviews I've done so far!

So here it is...

2009 Best and Worst Movies

The Good

27.) A Perfect Getaway
26.) Julie and Julia
25.) The Proposal
24.) Earth
23.) Confessions of a Shopaholic
22.) Alvin and the Chipmunks 2: The Squeakqel
21.) Adam
20.) Sunshine Cleaning
19.) The Time Traveler’s Wife
18.) Away We Go
17.) Crossing Over
16.) Push
15.) Taken
14.) The Blindside
13.) Terminator Salvation
12.) X-Men Origins: Wolverine
11.) Gamer
10.) Law Abiding Citizen
9.) Star Trek
8.) Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
7.) Avatar 3D
6.) Up
5.) The Ugly Truth
4.) 17 Again
3.) Zombieland
2.) The Hangover

And the best movie of 2009 is…

1.) Inglourious Basterds- say Auf Wiedersehen to your Nazi balls!

The So-So

27.) Hannah Montana: The Movie
26.) Inkheart
25.) Knowing
24.) 9
23.) Fast and Furious
22.) New In Town
21.) Land of the Lost
20.) The Taking of Pelham 123
19.) Saw 6
18.) 12 Rounds
17.) Couples Retreat
16.) Men Who Stare at Goats
15.) Adventureland
14.) Hotel For Dogs
13.) I Love You Man
12.) The Last House on the Left
11.) 500 Days of Summer
10.) Orphan
9.) State of Play
8.) My Sister’s Keeper
7.) Funny People
6.) He’s Just Not That Into You
5.) Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen
4.) Underworld: Rise of the Lycans
3.) The Uninvited
2.) Armored

And the best So-So Movie of 2009 is…

1.) Whip It –“I like smart girls. That's why I married your mama. Well, that and I knocked her up.”

The Ugly

26.) Phoebe in Wonderland
25.) Paper Heart
24.) The Soloist
23.) The Education of Charlie Banks
22,) Friday the 13th
21.) Ice Age 3
20.) Sorority Row
19.) Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
18.) Obsessed
17.) The Soloist
16.) My Bloody Valentine
15.) All About Steve
14.) The Goods
13.) Fame
12.) Race to Witch Mountain
11.) Bride Wars
10.) The Brothers Bloom
9.) G.I. Joe
8.) The Unborn
7.) Fighting
6.) Year One
5.) Drag Me To Hell
4.) Jennifer’s Body
3.) Observe & Report
2.) Bruno

And the worst movie of 2009 is…

1.) Dance Flick-“You just mispronounced that word to make it sound like it had an I in it.”

Tuesday, January 5, 2010

52nd Worst Movie: Johnson Family Vacation

“Johnson Family Vacation” Starring Cedric the Entertainer, Steve Harvey and Vanessa Williams
Directed by Christopher Erskin

Johnson Family Lamecation
By Michele Dillon

What good could come out of making a movie about two brothers who spend their time trying to win the Family of the Year award at their annual family reunion? That is about the lamest plot I have ever heard of. ¾ of the movie is spent on the road trip over to the reunion and the other ¼ of it is spent with Cedric and Harvey, playing brothers, fighting about who is better. I don’t know if I get these kinds of movies. It seems like there are some people out there who would think that this is funny but I was highly NOT entertained by “The Entertainer”.

Of course, Cedric also had to pull a, what I like to call, “Eddie Murphy” (it is where you play more than one part in the movie but you dress up in fat suits or change the look of your face). The “Eddie Murphy” is not exactly a good tactic, sure it worked in Bowfinger, but other than that, every movie he has made where he has played more than one character has failed. Why do these actors put themselves through this kind of misery? Or maybe it is really fun for them so they do not see how horrible it is until it is too late and the repercussions that is this movie is staring them right in the face. Who knows why they feel the need to torture me…

So anyway, usually you can tell how much I hated the movie by either the review being really short because I have nothing to really say about it, or it is super long because of all the bad stuff I have to say about it. It is only really safe to assume that if it is a medium review then I must like it, but there is always the possibility that I don’t like it as well. So really, there is no correlation between the length of my reviews and whether or not I like them, why did you even bring it up?

Monday, January 4, 2010

53rd Worst Movie: Yours, Mine and Ours

“Yours, Mine and Ours” Starring Dennis Quaid, Rene Russo and Sean Faris
Directed by Raja Gosnell

These Kids Are Definitely Yours
By Michele Dillon

I know kids are bad, but this movie made them seem selfish and horrible. The movie is about two old high school sweethearts who meet each other again a few decades down the road. The woman has 10 kids and the man has 8 kids. They decide to get married right off the bat so the kids have to live together and they hate it. They plot together to ruin their parents relationship just so they don’t have to live with each other. A few things they do are; ruining their mom’s working space right when she had to make a bunch of purses on a time budget, possibly making her lose the job, just because they knew it would piss her off and make her get into a fight with the dad and they also threw a party and blamed it on the fact that their mom said they could have a few friends over so it would start another fight. I sure hope that if I ever have kids that they wouldn’t be as self-centered and rude as that just to get what they want. The worst part of it all is that during this “working together” to break their parents up, they were getting along and they were too stupid to notice that they didn’t want to not live with each other anymore so they continued to try to break the parents up. I am sure the script writer was doing this to be a “I told you so” kind of thing but it made the kids look like they all got dropped on their heads when they were younger.

Another thing that didn’t make sense was that the parents actually fell for all this stuff instead of just talking to each other to see if they actually did it or if it was the kids. That’s what you get when you marry someone about a day after you meet them and don’t even know what it is like to live with them let alone their kids. The movie just seemed like it was implausible that the situation could even happen. I can’t really make fun of the acting because they were kids and I even feel bad making fun of this movie because it was made for kids so I guess I will just stop there.

54th Worst Movie: Envy

“Envy” Starring Ben Stiller, Jack Black and Amy Poehler
Directed by Barry Levinson

I Envy Your Eyeballs… (Because They Did Not Watch This Movie)
By Michele Dillon

Ben Stiller, yes you are amazing, I still stick by that Zoolander is possibly one of the funniest movies ever. Jack Black, I never really liked you, I think that you actually purposefully pick bad movies because you have nothing else better to do with your time. Together, amazing and bad, you have created something that was probably not even considered possible…atrocious. Yes, the atrocious actor, AA if you will. Oh AA, you know no boundaries, you see no horizon, and you continue to disappoint viewers all over the world, which is your destiny. You have so completed your destiny through this movie, and may therefore dismiss yourself from further duties…please…do not make a movie again together…it is not necessary…we will forgive you…in fact we will thank you.

If I hadn’t made myself clear in the previous paragraph, this movie was not good. The basic premise was Jack Black’s character came up with the idea of making poop disappear so you wouldn’t have to use doggie bags anymore, he offered to have his friend Ben Stiller’s character get in on the action with him. Stiller thought it was a horrible idea so he declined. It ends up that the idea works and Black becomes really rich. So for most of the movie Stiller is sitting there being envious of his friend because he could have cashed on the riches too but now it is too late. Stiller’s wife also resents him the entire movie because she wants to be rich too, which I think is a blatant reason for Stiller to divorce her because she is obviously shallow and stupid, but he doesn’t and they live in agony together until….well, I don’t want to ruin this fantastic movie for you, so you will just have to see for yourself if you are really that interested. Believe me, you are not that interested.

55th Worst Movie: Gigli

“Gigli” Starring Ben Affleck, Jennifer Lopez and Justin Bartha
Directed by Martin Brest

Really?
By Michele Dillon

Those of you who have not seen this movie, this headline probably isn’t that funny. So for the purpose of making you laugh with me instead of at me, I will explain: Ben Affleck explains to people when they mispronounce his name that it rhymes with really. However, I am using the word really in the sense of: Really? Did you really make this movie? Just so you know, it always creates a bigger laugh if you have to explain your jokes…it’s been proven…

Yes, this movie REALLY is as bad as everyone says it is. It lives up to those expectations brilliantly. I am not even sure if I can write a premise on this movie because it was kind of pointless so I am not sure where they were trying to even go with it but I will make my attempt. Ok, so Affleck is supposed to be playing a “tough guy” working for a mobster where his job is to basically collect money that is owed to his employer and/or anything else that the mobster/gangster may need. In the case of this movie Affleck’s employer needs him to kidnap a mentally challenged kid (who is the brother of a court official) and then watch over him until is needed. Affleck’s employer doesn’t trust him to be able to do the job right so he hires another employee to watch over him, Lopez. Which right there, is the dumbest thing ever, why not just fire Affleck and then hire Lopez if he doesn’t trust him to do the job right? But of course, that would make it so Affleck and Lopez couldn’t have a love/hate relationship the entire movie. But oh wait, I left an important part out, Lopez’s character is a lesbian so she isn’t even attracted to Affleck at all but somehow, magically ¾ through the movie, she decides to have sex with him, but don’t get her wrong, she is still lesbian, she just wanted to “scratch her itch” apparently. So this movie ends up being a half love story/half lesbian changeover/whole really bad movie.

There is actually a whole scene dedicated to Lopez doing Yoga because it is supposed to be all sexual, but the monologue she has during the scene is a complete snore fest which leads me to believe they didn’t really think anybody would be listening to her words, which is probably true but I am not a guy, nor lesbian, nor am I a fan of Jennifer Lopez so it didn’t work on me.

I really don’t even see what the potential in this movie could have been in order for anyone to agree to produce and direct it or even write it, or to not even be embarrassed for presenting it as something that you wrote…anyway, I am glad that one is over with.

Yes I Am Aware

...That I only have 19 days left to go...stop rubbing it in my face!! :)

56th Worst Movie: Doogal

“Doogal” Starring Jimmy Fallon, Daniel Tay and Jon Stewart
Directed by Dave Borthwick and Jean Duval

Dooglidedoo
By Michele Dillon

I’ve noticed that there have been a few kid movies on this list and I think it is a little unfair. If we are really taking into account all the kid movies that have been made, this entire list could be compiled of just that genre.

But for the sake of this venture and for this review I will try and think of a few things that would make this movie deserve to be on this list.

1.) The story was a little cheesy (but that is to be expected) and it didn’t really try to come up with an unpredictable plot. It was actually what I like to call a “plottable plot” (yes I know, I am a genius)
2.) I liked all of the characters voices except for the dog, Doogal, his voice was very annoying. It did not seem like it fit the animation of the dog. I don’t really know if that is just a personal preference type of thing and maybe I am the only one out there who will think that about this movie but hey, this is my review so who cares.

Yes, that is all I have to say about this movie. It wasn’t all that horrible. I know it seems like I say that a lot, but there are also a lot of times where I think it IS that horrible and I am sure you are getting sick of hearing of those too. I am getting a little of sick of writing of both of these types of movies, I feel like this is a long drawn out boring process. Although the idea of watching the 100 Worst movies sounded so good and awesome in my head, it really isn’t. I actually WATCH the movies; I don’t just put it on and listen to it in the background (except for the minor exception of Gods and Generals, but you understand that one). I don’t think that anyone appreciates how grueling this is…barely anyone even reads my reviews….I had to watch Yu Gi Oh! Do you know how horrible that movie is? Probably not, because you never agreed to watch movies just because they are known for being bad…you are not dumb…like me. Ok anyway, enough griping, I was just trying to fill up space since the actual “review” part of this movie wasn’t very long. :)

57th Worst Movie: I Still Know What You Did Last Summer

“I Still Know What You Did Last Summer” Starring Jennifer Love-Hewitt, Brandy Norwood and Freddie Prinze Jr.
Directed by Danny Cannon

I Really Really Still Know What You Did 5 Summers Ago
By Michele Dillon

“What do you want from me? Come on! Come and get me!” Those are the famous lines that are spoken in this movie by Love-Hewitt. And coincidentally (ahem, not), she also speaks those same words in the original I Know What You Did Last Summer. She is trying to antagonize the “slicker wearing killer” (aka: swk) to just get it over with and kill her or leave her alone. Anticipation, it is something that can make anyone rather be killed with a fish hook in the eye socket…

Now this is very serious business. It is very important to find out who this "swk" is. Is it the guy they thought they killed? But how is that possible? Is he invincible or what? Don’t be mistaken that this movie is supposed to be some kind of comedy because it is NOT funny, it is very serious (OK, maybe it’s a little funny).

I will say one thing about Jennifer’s dire situation however; she sure does know how to not button her shirt the whole way so her boobs are popping out while she is running around getting the crap scared out of her. I think it is pretty hilarious how directors/screen writers think that they have to put boobs somewhere in a horror movie. OK, fine, if that is the only way you think people are going to watch the movie, at least place it in the movie where it is going to make sense. Right before Jennifer has on her “half shirt”, she was wearing a bathing suit, if they wanted to have her shirt off; they could have just kept her in her bathing suit….but I guess that’s too logical though.

As far as horror movies go, you should know my stance, there really isn’t much to say about them. There are only a few horror movies out there that are deserving of having been made and the rest of them should just get canned for eternity, this being one of them.

58TH Worst Movie: The Order

“The Order” Starring Heath Ledger, Shannyn Sossamon and Benno Furmann
Directed by Brian Helgeland

My Order Is: Go To Sleep Instead Of Watching This Movie…
By Michele Dillon

….cause that is what I did. Or almost did anyway. Here is where my genius will be put into perspective, I am really not as smart as I say I am but I am pretty sure that no one else would have been able to understand this movie either. My NUMBER ONE biggest pet peeve when it comes to movies is where they start the movie out having the characters talking to each other in “inside joke” talk. Then, as the movie progresses, they randomly bring it up and KIND OF explain what that “inside joke” talk was about…and it’s not even that exciting! It just makes you completely confused at the start of the movie, which frankly, is not a good movie making tactic. You want to pull the viewers in, not make them feel like they are intruding on a secret conversation that makes absolutely no sense except to the person who wrote the movie. So that is the number one reason why this movie lost my attention. Number two was that the movie was about a priest who ends up falling in love with a girl and then abandoning his priesthood to be with her, which this plot line can only be pulled off with Edward Norton in “Keeping Faith”. So the long and short of it is, well really the short of it is, this movie was not worth my time or consideration or the brain work used to try and understand it.

59th Worst Movie: Gray Matters

“Gray Matters” Starring Heather Graham, Bridget Moynahan and Tom Cavanagh
Directed by Sue Kramer

Gay Matters
By Michele Dillon

Predictable: the one word that can describe this movie in a nutshell. I was able to predict almost every scene in this movie. There was actually one part where 20 minutes before it happened, I turned to my fiancĂ© and said, just watch this is going to happen and then when it came to the scene I thought it was going to occur, I was able to pinpoint the exact moment that it was going to take place. It was so uncanny, he swore that I had already watched the movie, but I hadn’t, I would have remembered such a horrible movie. If I ever make movies (in my dreams), that would be the one thing that I would absolutely hate for someone to say about my movie because if the movie is predictable, then what is the point of watching it?

So anyway, if you would like to hear what the movie is actually about, no my headline was not making fun of gays, the movie is actually about Heather Graham and how she takes her brother’s soon to be wife out for her bachelorette party and they get so drunk that they accidentally kiss…hey it happens, but for Graham, she realizes that she is gay….yup. So the rest of the movie is basically about her being in love with her brothers now wife and how she is trying to deny that she is gay.

Not only did the movie have a bad plot and bad acting, it was just filmed very weird. It was all fuzzy like it was filmed on a home video camera, which hey, it might have been. I am also pretty sick of Graham making movies; I would say that she and Scarlet Johannsen are right up there on the list of the WORST actresses in the world. They are absolutely horrible; I have never seen them do a good job in a movie they have been in. I used to make jokes with my sister that kind of like her character in Bowfinger; she probably sleeps with people just to get roles. I would not completely rule it out.

So that is really all the time I will waste on this one…