Since I typically avoid seeing films that I think will be bad, I only have 6 rather than 10. These were mostly the ones that I had thought would be good but weren’t (with the exception of #1... I knew that would be bad).6. THE HANGOVER (dir. Todd Phillips) — I really wanted to enjoy this. Everyone kept talking about how good it was. Too bad it just wasn’t funny, even to my sister, who isn’t quite so cinematically snobbish as I am.
5. SURVEILLANCE (dir. Jennifer Lynch) — Since this was from the daughter of David Lynch I was hoping this would be good. It wasn’t. Frankly, it was boring and unoriginal.
4. TWO LOVERS (dir. James Gray) — This wanted to provide the audience with some profound statement about love... or something. In the end it was just hard to care when all the characters were so damn unlikeable.
3. BRÜNO (dir. Larry Charles) — This was the second biggest disappointment. I loved Borat, but this? This felt staged, unfunny, and was mainly out to gross out the audience as often as possible. I didn’t buy it.
2. PUBLIC ENEMIES (dir. Michael Mann) — This was probably the most disappointing film of the year. I was convinced that you couldn’t go wrong with Johnny Depp and Christian Bale in the same film, but apparently you can. It didn’t even feel finished to me and I found myself checking the time on my cell phone midway through. Terribly unfortunate.
1. KNOWING (dir. Alex Proyas) — Why do movies like this keep getting made? Why are they so successful? And why, oh why, does Nicolas Cage continue to get work?
hahaha!! gretch, thought these were pretty funny. made me laugh. and yes, totally agree, even I, the film snob that i'm not, hated the hangover. to think that it won best comedy at the globes disgusts me.
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