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[Loomis]

Which flicks, in your book, were the naughties of the noughties? The dogs of the decade? The, erm, twaddle of the twenty-first century so far? Was there anything you walked out of - or ran away screaming from? Was there any feeble excuse for a motion picture released over the past ten years that caused you, during a discussion in the pub, to opine that Michael Winner was actually a cruelly underrated director? Feel free to also mention any cringeworthy performances, diabolical scripts, mammoth plot holes, excruciating theme songs and, well, anything else you fancy slagging off.

(I'm expecting the words "die", "another" and "day" to feature strongly in this thread.)

Anyhoo, here's my pick of the most pitiful films that crossed my path in the 2000s. I list them in alphabetical order, for, as Samuel Johnson said, there is no settling the point of precedency between a louse and a flea. I did at least try to sit through all of the following, but more than a few were just plain unwatchable.

The hall of shame

BAD BOYS II

BASIC INSTINCT 2

HALLOWEEN: RESURRECTION

THE HILLS HAVE EYES

THE INCREDIBLE HULK

INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL

ROCKNROLLA

TERMINATOR SALVATION

TRANSFORMERS

xXx: STATE OF THE UNION

The preposterously overrated

CHANGELING

CRASH

THE DEPARTED

FROST/NIXON

ICHI THE KILLER

MILLION DOLLAR BABY

NOTES ON A SCANDAL

THE QUEEN

Films often held to be bad that I actually like

DIE ANOTHER DAY

PEARL HARBOR

ROLLERBALL

[tdalton]

To follow your format:

The Hall of Shame
TRANSFORMERS

TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN

THE PINK PANTHER

THE PINK PANTHER 2

W.

FAST & FURIOUS

VALKYRIE

PAUL BLART: MALL COP (the worst film of the decade)

The Preposterously Overrated
CRASH

THE DARK KNIGHT

MILLION DOLLAR BABY

THE BOURNE SUPREMACY

THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM

AMERICAN BEAUTY

THE MATADOR


Films Often Held to be Bad that I actually Like
ROB ZOMBIE'S HALLOWEEN

DOOMSDAY

TERMINATOR SALVATION

SAW I-V

THE GIRL NEXT DOOR (film has an inexplicably low RT score of 55% as I'd say it's one of the best mainstream comedies of the decade)

[Jim]

The hall of shame

DIE ANOTHER DAY
THE DARK KNIGHT
STAR WARS 2
STAR WARS 3
TRANSFORMERS 2
THE MATRIX RELOADED
TERMINATOR 3

The preposterously overrated

BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN
CRASH
SHAUN OF THE DEAD
X MEN 2
WALL:E
THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
BATMAN BEGINS
ZODIAC
CATCH ME IF YOU CAN

Films often held to be bad that I actually like

THE ISLAND
GOLDMEMBER
OCEAN'S TWELVE
VAN HELSING
HANNIBAL RISING
FAT SLAGS

[Safari Suit]

Maybe not the worst, but the least entertaining and most unctuous to me were:
50 First Dates
Cradle 2 the Grave
Godsend
The Hot Chick
Ice Age 3 (I'm generally pretty soft on kids movies, but your kids deserve more than this lazy dreck. Even if they're really naughty. See also the Night at the Museun duology)
Lady in the Water
The Love Guru
Outlaw
Red Dragon/Hannibal Rising (come on guys, try please)
Rush Hour 3 (ditto, work Ratner you crazy party animal!)
The Spirit (a genuine Hollywood fiasco of the kind Hollywood would like to think it was too smart to make, at least that makes it a little interesting I guess)
The Sweetest Thing (look up "the penis song" on youtube if you don't believe me)
The Texas Chainsaw remake

Absurdly overrated:
Garden State (and most of its kindred spirit, wishy washy, indie schmindie siblings)
Requiem For a Dream
The Ring
Spider-Man 2
Star Trek
Transformers (by the public at least, and some critics)
Wedding Crashers
Whichever Harry Potter film it was I saw some of the other day (the prisoner of whatsit one I think. It was balls anyway)

Very much not my cup of tea:
Lord of the Rings series
Fast and the Furiouseses (I'm not much of a one for cars)
Spirited Away or any other critically acclaimed anime film

Wont do "bad" films I liked as I'd be here all day. That's how I groove, baby. I think the most critically reviled film I actually enjoyed was probably Freddy Got Fingered. And Michael Winner is actually a cruelly underrated director, or at least an unfair cheap shot, which is not to say many of his films aren't awful.

[Scrambled Eggs]

Memorably awful experiences:

The Boat that Rocked
The Holiday
Along Came Polly
Alfie

Overrated:

Lost in Translation
The Dark Knight

Stinker I Quite Enjoyed:

Basic Instinct 2

[B. Brown]

Batman Begins.

[Santa]

The Proposition. Ugh.

[00Twelve]

The hall of shame

COLD MOUNTAIN
DUDE, WHERE'S MY CAR
HALLOWEEN (can't comment on the sequel, didn't see it and won't)
TRANSFORMERS
TRANSFORMERS 2
X3
THE MATRIX SEQUELS
THE WEATHERMAN
THE HAPPENING
VANILLA SKY
TERMINATOR 3

The preposterously overrated

MOULIN ROUGE
CRASH
WEDDING CRASHERS
THE DEPARTED

Films often held to be bad that I actually like

OCEAN'S TWELVE
LADY IN THE WATER
THE VILLAGE

[Judo chop]

Being married and with child (a previously birthed, now 3-year old one), I’m pretty good at avoiding the real turkeys. However, I did walk straight into a few disasters despite plenty of fair warning.

KOTCS
X-MEN 3
THE WILL SMITH ZOMBIE-FIGHTING ONE
THE HAPPENING
A HAUNTING IN CONNECTICUT

Then there are those which deceived me. I co-nominate, for being anywhere from slightly to grotesquely overrated (and attempting to rank them in that order):

IRON MAN
ATONEMENT
STAR TREK
THE DEPARTED
CRASH
THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON

But the supreme winner for being the most miserable soul with the prettiest face goes to:

CHANGELING

I hate you, CHANGELING.

[dinovelvet]

Terrible, terrible films :

The Black Dahlia
Death Proof
Hot Fuzz
Joe Dirt (no, don't look it up)
The Hitch-hiker's guide to the galaxy
The Da Vinci Code

Over-rated :

The Dark Knight
Gladiator
The Bourne Everything
The Departed
Oldboy
Kill Bill (1...didn't bother to find out if 2 was any better)

Turkeys that I liked :

Freddy got fingered
Alexander
3000 miles to Graceland
League of extraordinary gentlemen
Hitman
Oh fine then, Die another day

Did not see any :

Lord of the Rings (no wait, I did see the first one. That's the one where they walk around a lot, innit?)
Harry Potter
Ocean's xx
Pirates of a something something
Generic fast and/or furious fare
The TransCrankporters
Films with Will Smith in them
anything animated that adults are supposed to enjoy

[Tarl_Cabot]

The hall of shame


*DIE ANOTHER DAY*

Transformers

MI2

Minority Report

The Matrix Reloaded-Revolutions(memo to film school students: Less IS more)

Any Given Sunday(worst sports movie ever)

INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL

Star Wars: Attack of the Clones

Talledega Nights

Pirates (otc) 2

Daredevil-Electra

Battlefield Earth

Death Proof

I am Legend


The preposterously overrated:

Traffic

Chicago

A Beautiful Mind

Gladiator


Films often held to be bad that I actually like

Rambo

The Hunted

Crank 1-2

Anacondas

[Tarl_Cabot]

Terrible, terrible films :

The Black Dahlia
Death Proof
Hot Fuzz
Joe Dirt (no, don't look it up)
The Hitch-hiker's guide to the galaxy
The Da Vinci Code

Over-rated :

The Dark Knight
Gladiator
The Bourne Everything
The Departed
Oldboy
Kill Bill (1...didn't bother to find out if 2 was any better)

Turkeys that I liked :

Freddy got fingered
Alexander
3000 miles to Graceland
League of extraordinary gentlemen
Hitman
Oh fine then, Die another day

Did not see any :

Lord of the Rings (no wait, I did see the first one. That's the one where they walk around a lot, innit?)
Harry Potter
Ocean's xx
Pirates of a something something
Generic fast and/or furious fare
The TransCrankporters
Films with Will Smith in them
anything animated that adults are supposed to enjoy

Oh yeah, I forgot a few: Hitman, Oceans 12, League of douchebags...etc. Good list.

[SecretAgentFan]

The hall of shame

Transformers 1 & 2

Battlefield Earth

Death Proof

The "Halloween" and "Texas Chainsaw" Remakes

Ice Age 1, 2, 3

The Fast & the Furious 1, 2, 3

Spiderman 3


The preposterously overrated:

Inglourious Basterds

Rambo

Slumdog Millionaire

Dark City

Sin City

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Caché

Borat

Films often held to be bad that I actually like

Indiana Jones and the kingdom of the crystall skull

Die another day

Ladykillers

Sleuth

[Conlazmoodalbrocra]

Hellboy II: The Golden Army. Hands down the worst film of the decade.

I suppose Epic Movie is probably a close second!

Batman Begins.

I think it's the best Batman film ever made! Still, each to their own.

[Tarl_Cabot]

The hall of shame

Transformers 1 & 2

Battlefield Earth

Death Proof

The "Halloween" and "Texas Chainsaw" Remakes

Ice Age 1, 2, 3

The Fast & the Furious 1, 2, 3

Spiderman 3


The preposterously overrated:

Inglourious Basterds

Rambo

Slumdog Millionaire

Dark City

Sin City

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Caché

Borat

Films often held to be bad that I actually like

Indiana Jones and the kingdom of the crystall skull

Die another day

Ladykillers

Sleuth

Outside of Loomis,myself and a few loyal 80s fanboys, where is this movie rated high?

[Judo chop]

Hellboy II: The Golden Army. Hands down the worst film of the decade.

No way.

Rambo
Outside of Loomis,myself and a few loyal 80s fanboys, where is this movie rated high?

I was going to say the same thing.

[dodge]

The hall of shame

Transformers 1 & 2

Battlefield Earth

Death Proof

The "Halloween" and "Texas Chainsaw" Remakes

Ice Age 1, 2, 3

The Fast & the Furious 1, 2, 3

Spiderman 3


The preposterously overrated:

Inglourious Basterds

Rambo

Slumdog Millionaire

Dark City

Sin City

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Caché

Borat

Films often held to be bad that I actually like

Indiana Jones and the kingdom of the crystall skull

Die another day

Ladykillers

Sleuth

Outside of Loomis,myself and a few loyal 80s fanboys, where is this movie rated high?

I seem to recall many very favorable reviews...with the usual nitpicking about excessive gore. I regard the film as a topnotch western, with Sly in fine laconic style, able to milk a minimalist style for an ample share of suspense.

[Judo chop]

I seem to recall many very favorable reviews...with the usual nitpicking about excessive gore. I regard the film as a topnotch western, with Sly in fine laconic style, able to milk a minimalist style for an ample share of suspense.

When I think of something "overrated", I think not only of its quality as assessed by the reviews, but the quantity and longevity of those reviews. RAMBO may have been saluted when it first arrived on the scene, as any decent film is at the onset, but I think it was quickly escorted away as well. It just didn't make a big enough splash for it to now be considered overrated, the way I see it being discussed here.

[Loomis]

Rambo
Outside of Loomis,myself and a few loyal 80s fanboys, where is this movie rated high?

I was going to say the same thing.

Me too. But perhaps SecretAgentFan considers RAMBO to be so unbelievably dire that even those reviewers who slammed it six ways to Sunday were still overrating it.

[Jose]

The hall of shame
Year One
Terminator Salvation
Transformers (haven't seen the second one but I'm sure it sucks)
Daredevil
Hulk (2003)
Fantastic Four (Both of them)
Hollow Man
The Descent
The Fourth Kind
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Ghost Rider
Cloverfield
Star Wars episodes I and II
The Spirit
Across the Universe

The preposterously overrated
The Dark Knight
Watchmen
Juno
Pay it Forward
AI: Artificial Intelligence
Where the Wild Things Are

Films often held to be bad that I actually like
Spiderman 3 (it sucks but I think of it as a comedy in order to attempt to justify my constant laughter)


This'll probably be all for now lest I remember more bad movies and hate myself for it.

[Safari Suit]

I suppose Epic Movie is probably a close second!

I watched Epic Movie on TV the other week just to see what one of these "movies" is actually like. It was terrible in not quite but almost exactly the manor in which I envisoned, but I knew that when I turned on so it doesnn't make enough of an impact to really appear on a list for my money. Far more annoying are the films which by all rights could easily be good but are in fact terrible. Watching Red Dragon for example is like being betrayed by someone you've come to trust, for most people who have any halfway serious interest in film watching Epic Movie is like turning your back on someone, giving them a dagger and saying "stab me please".

Just remember another illustreously terrible movie after stumbling upon it in a TV guide; The Next Best Thing starring our own Madonna.

[bond 16.05.72]

As far as been quoted as one of the best films of all time like some idiots have said then yes Dark Knight is overrated, of course it's not Citizen Kane or Chinatown but as far as blockbuster cinema in the last decade it has very few peers. Name a blockbuster better?

Departed was unfortunate enough to be the Marty movie that got the golden baldie, no it wasn't one of his best but it's still a solid thriller with 2 great lead performances from Dicaprio & Damon, forget Nicholson's auto pilot show-boating.

The Descent? Hot Fuzz? Valkyrie? really is some peoples worst or most overrated films of the decade? Inglourious Basterds had a mixed reaction, I can't say it received the kind of reactions that the film I would vote for one of as the most overrated of the decade The Bourne Supremacy! and Indiana Jones & The Crystal Skull alongside the SW prequels must take the award for the worst alongside M Night's utterly dreadful The Happening.

[Judo chop]

I was going to cite the three STAR WARS cartoonquels, but I was told that that all happened a long, long time ago, so I didn't think they qualified under the conditions of this thread.

[dinovelvet]

The Descent? Hot Fuzz? Valkyrie? really is some peoples worst or most overrated films of the decade?

Well, yeah. I had heard that Hot Fuzz was the most hilarious thing, like, ever. I laughed not once, so I must declare it to be over-rated.

[Gabe Vieira]

Wow, I'm seeing a lot of films that I actually really love on a lot of your lists. Across the Universe, The Dark Knight, Inglourious Basterds, Ice Age, and Where The Wild Things Are to name a few. I'm surprised though that no one has mentioned my worst film of the year, decade, and in the running for all time. Bruno. I have never actually hated a film before Bruno. I've thought that movies were really bad, and there were movies I didn't even finnish watching, but Bruno is the first film I have ever hated.

I take that back. Watchmen is the first film I ever hated. Then Bruno.

[Goodnight]

Quantum of solace (mainly because its soo bloody difficult to work out what the hell is going on throught most of it) sorry lads.
fast and furious (they have obviously run out of stunt drivers as they almost completely rely on cgi).
imaginarium of doctor whatever (cack, difficult to follow).
the strangers(tedious, then in the end its just like 'oh its just 3 people in masks').
the hills have eyes(sick, disturbing).

and basically anything with jennifer aniston, vince vaughn, adam sandler or aston kutcher in it.

[bondrules]

There are sooooo many to choose from...here's a few

STAR WARS 2 & 3
TRANSFORMERS 1 &2
THE MATRIX 2 &3
TERMINATOR 3 &4
CRASH
THE ISLAND
GOLDMEMBER
OCEAN'S 11,12,13, 14, etc.
HANNIBAL RISING
DIE ANOTHER DAY
ALEXANDER
TROY
PEARL HARBOR
FANTASTIC FOUR 1&2
HULK 1&2
RUMOR HAS IT
SUPERMAN RETURNS
KING KONG
YEAR ONE
THE TERMINAL
WAR OF THE WORLDS
MINORITY REPORT
THE PROPOSAL
CATCH ME IF YOU CAN
ELEKTRA
SUM OF ALL FEARS
CHANGING LANES
THE HAPPENING
THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST
HALLOWEEN
LADY IN THE WATER
THE VILLAGE
THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON
DEATH PROOF
THE SPIRIT

[Judo chop]

Yeah, I forgot about KING KONG. I think it might make the list, although I can't recall if its high rating was something I fabricated out of my own expectations or if it came from without.

In any case, to really comment on it I'd have to rewatch it and I'm not going to do that. (But being fairly confident of my original opinion, I do suspect a healthy 90%+ of the KING KONG DVDs sold in the world have been collecting dust since their day of purchase.)

[bondrules]

Yeah, I forgot about KING KONG. I think it might make the list, although I can't recall if its high rating was something I fabricated out of my own expectations or if it came from without.

In any case, to really comment on it I'd have to rewatch it and I'm not going to do that. (But being fairly confident of my original opinion, I do suspect a healthy 90%+ of the KING KONG DVDs sold in the world have been collecting dust since their day of purchase.)

Yeah, King Kong was pretty bad. At the time, PJ's stock was at an all time high, coming off (no pun intended) from the LOTR trilogy and all of those Oscars. I recall the portion of the movie where Naomi Watts and the beast are bonding on the island. It was very excruciating to watch. I don't think I have walked out of a movie theater more than 10 times in this lifetime. Count King Kong as one.

[JackWade]

Overrated
Juno
Crash
The Departed
300
There Will Be Blood
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Slumdog Millionaire
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
The Bourne films
Anything with Will Ferrell

I'm sure I'm forgetting some there.

"Bad" films that I enjoy
Transformers
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Cloverfield (is this one considered bad?)

I don't understand the hate for Transformers. If you're expecting something other than dumb spectacle, then shame on you. Why even watch it? It's pretty obvious what's coming at you.