My Bottom 30 Films

by PhoenixElite | created - 01 May 2011 | updated - 08 Oct 2011 | Public

A list of my bottom 30 films, more or less in order. Keep in mind that I generally try to avoid genuinely bad films, so a few of these are at least watchable.

Some "honorable" mentions: Hancock, Catwoman, Transformers, The Hangover Part II.

Updated on October 2011 - Added comments and some recently-rated films, slightly changed the order.

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1. Baby Geniuses (1999)

PG | 97 min | Comedy, Crime, Family

7 Metascore

Scientists hold super intelligent talking babies captive, but things take a turn for the worse when a mix-up occurs between a baby genius and its twin.

Director: Bob Clark | Stars: Kathleen Turner, Christopher Lloyd, Kim Cattrall, Peter MacNicol

Votes: 27,643 | Gross: $27.14M

One of the most nauseating films I've ever watched, this horrible film is probably partially responsible for the fact that I'm not too fond of babies.

2. Son of the Mask (2005)

PG | 94 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy

20 Metascore

Tim Avery, an aspiring cartoonist, finds himself in a predicament when his dog stumbles upon the mask of Loki. Then after conceiving an infant son "born of the mask", he discovers just how looney child raising can be.

Director: Lawrence Guterman | Stars: Jamie Kennedy, Traylor Howard, Alan Cumming, Liam Falconer

Votes: 59,317 | Gross: $17.02M

A poor excuse for anything, let alone a movie.

3. Black Mask 2: City of Masks (2002)

R | 102 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi

The Black Mask must stop a group intent on setting off a DNA bomb that could cause mutations to the human race.

Director: Hark Tsui | Stars: Andy On, Tobin Bell, Jon Polito, Teresa Herrera

Votes: 1,984

The sad thing is that this was one of the first Asian films I watched... didn't really set a good precedent.

4. The Covenant (2006)

PG-13 | 97 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

19 Metascore

Four young men who belong to a New England supernatural legacy are forced to battle an elusive fifth power.

Director: Renny Harlin | Stars: Steven Strait, Sebastian Stan, Toby Hemingway, Taylor Kitsch

Votes: 52,086 | Gross: $23.29M

Pretty much just as bad as I thought it would be. I saw it in the theaters just because my then-crush dragged me into it.

Wouldn't have been worth it even if the relationship had led anywhere.

5. Year One (2009)

PG-13 | 97 min | Comedy

34 Metascore

After being banished from their tribe, two hunter-gatherers encounter Biblical characters and eventually wind up in the city of Sodom.

Director: Harold Ramis | Stars: Jack Black, Michael Cera, Olivia Wilde, Oliver Platt

Votes: 103,653 | Gross: $43.34M

By far the worst entry on either Michael Cera or Jack Black's filmography, this film falls prey to the erroneous and all-too-common idea that disgusting and exaggerated always equals funny.

6. Spider-Man 3 (2007)

PG-13 | 139 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

59 Metascore

A strange black entity from another world bonds with Peter Parker and causes inner turmoil as he contends with new villains, temptations, and revenge.

Director: Sam Raimi | Stars: Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, Topher Grace, Thomas Haden Church

Votes: 637,282 | Gross: $336.53M

I felt an almost inexplicably great urge to leave the theater and promptly punch Sam Raimi, Tobey Maguire and Topher Grace in their ugly ugly shameless faces.

7. The Spirit (2008)

PG-13 | 103 min | Action, Crime, Fantasy

30 Metascore

Rookie cop Denny Colt returns from the beyond as The Spirit, a hero whose mission is to fight against the bad forces in Central City.

Director: Frank Miller | Stars: Gabriel Macht, Samuel L. Jackson, Scarlett Johansson, Jaime King

Votes: 62,836 | Gross: $19.78M

A mockery of the style some relatively recent films like Sin City and (to a lesser extent) 300 used. The thing is, it feels wrong to even associate this junk with those two far superior movies.

8. The Experiment (2010)

R | 96 min | Drama, Thriller

26 men are chosen to participate in the roles of guards and prisoners in a psychological study that ultimately spirals out of control.

Director: Paul T. Scheuring | Stars: Adrien Brody, Cam Gigandet, Forest Whitaker, Maggie Grace

Votes: 57,166

This one holds a specially repugnant place in my heart, mainly because it was disappointing in so many senses. The concept was so good, and the film itself actually came off to a pretty good start, but it spiraled rapidly downward in a way that was hard to witness.

9. The Last Exorcism (2010)

PG-13 | 87 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

63 Metascore

A troubled evangelical minister agrees to let his last exorcism be filmed by a documentary crew.

Director: Daniel Stamm | Stars: Patrick Fabian, Ashley Bell, Iris Bahr, Louis Herthum

Votes: 52,102 | Gross: $41.03M

It baffles me that most critics seemed to think favorably of this utterly irredeemable trash. Goes to show you, sometimes you should just ignore them. The film comes off to a good start, in contrast to the incredibly stupid and ridiculous ending it leaves with.

10. Miami Vice (2006)

R | 132 min | Action, Crime, Drama

66 Metascore

Based on the 1980s TV action/drama, this update focuses on vice detectives Crockett and Tubbs as their respective personal and professional lives become dangerously intertwined.

Director: Michael Mann | Stars: Colin Farrell, Jamie Foxx, Gong Li, Naomie Harris

Votes: 123,703 | Gross: $63.45M

Fox and Farrell try to James Bond-esque their performance but ultimately come off as pretentious douchebags in a convoluted and below-and-beyond mediocre film. Hard to believe this came from the same man who directed Heat.

11. Eat Pray Love (2010)

PG-13 | 133 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

50 Metascore

A married woman realizes how unhappy her marriage really is, and that her life needs to go in a different direction. After a painful divorce, she takes off on a round-the-world journey to "find herself".

Director: Ryan Murphy | Stars: Julia Roberts, Javier Bardem, Richard Jenkins, Viola Davis

Votes: 105,869 | Gross: $80.57M

The word "ungrateful bitch" kept nagging on my mind while I saw Julia Roberts stumble through this mess.

12. Devil (2010)

PG-13 | 80 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

44 Metascore

A group of people are trapped in an elevator and the Devil is mysteriously amongst them.

Director: John Erick Dowdle | Stars: Chris Messina, Caroline Dhavernas, Bokeem Woodbine, Logan Marshall-Green

Votes: 156,925 | Gross: $33.58M

Devil made sure Shyamalan's fall as a respectable director was anything but graceful. If nothing else, you might be able to get a good laugh out of it.

13. Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010)

R | 96 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi

37 Metascore

While still out to destroy the evil Umbrella Corporation, Alice joins a group of survivors living in a prison surrounded by the infected who also want to relocate to the mysterious but supposedly unharmed safe haven known only as Arcadia.

Director: Paul W.S. Anderson | Stars: Milla Jovovich, Ali Larter, Wentworth Miller, Kim Coates

Votes: 179,172 | Gross: $60.13M

The last entry of the Resident Evil series simultaneously brings out the very worst in both bad horror and bad action films: vanity, inexplicable lapses of common sense, and characters and sequences that would only seem "cool" to an idiotic man-child.

14. Freedomland (2006)

R | 113 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

43 Metascore

A black police detective must solve a strange case of a kidnapped boy and deal with a big racial protest.

Director: Joe Roth | Stars: Julianne Moore, Samuel L. Jackson, Edie Falco, Ron Eldard

Votes: 17,205 | Gross: $12.51M

I'm glad to say I barely remember the "plot" points of this mediocre quasi-thriller. Maybe my brain is successfully suppressing them. Good riddance.

15. Watchmen (2009)

R | 162 min | Action, Drama, Mystery

56 Metascore

In a version of 1985 where superheroes exist, the murder of a colleague sends active vigilante Rorschach on the trail of a conspiracy that will change the course of history.

Director: Zack Snyder | Stars: Jackie Earle Haley, Patrick Wilson, Carla Gugino, Malin Akerman

Votes: 582,359 | Gross: $107.51M

I can't for the life of me decipher exactly what people liked about this infuriating pseudo-philosophical drivel. I can't seem to forgive my brother for recommending it to me either.

16. Brüno (2009)

R | 81 min | Comedy

54 Metascore

Flamboyant, gay Austrian Brüno looks for new fame in America.

Director: Larry Charles | Stars: Sacha Baron Cohen, Gustaf Hammarsten, Clifford Bañagale, Chibundu Orukwowu

Votes: 153,860 | Gross: $60.05M

Takes the grotesque, cynical style that made Borat good, and promptly makes a mockery of it, exaggerating everything it does so that the end product is merely repugnant, and not in the "good" way its predecessor was either.

17. Shrek the Third (2007)

PG | 93 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

58 Metascore

Reluctantly designated as the heir to the land of Far, Far Away, Shrek hatches a plan to install the rebellious Artie as the new king while Princess Fiona tries to fend off a coup d'état by the jilted Prince Charming.

Directors: Chris Miller, Raman Hui | Stars: Mike Myers, Cameron Diaz, Eddie Murphy, Antonio Banderas

Votes: 332,350 | Gross: $320.71M

I'm still trying to convince myself that this doesn't belong in the same category as the first two films. Forever After wasn't much of an improvement, but it's goddamn Hitchcock next to this crap.

18. Paul Blart: Mall Cop (2009)

PG | 91 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

39 Metascore

When a shopping mall is taken over by a gang of organized crooks, it's up to a mild-mannered security guard to save the day.

Director: Steve Carr | Stars: Kevin James, Keir O'Donnell, Jayma Mays, Raini Rodriguez

Votes: 117,388 | Gross: $20.82M

If nothing else, this film taught me a very important lesson: that just because Kevin James is on it doesn't make it funny. The same is true for Adam Sandler, but I digress...

19. Repo Men (2010)

R | 111 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller

32 Metascore

Set in the near future when artificial organs can be bought on credit, it revolves around a man who struggles to make the payments on a heart he has purchased. He must therefore go on the run before said ticker is repossessed.

Director: Miguel Sapochnik | Stars: Jude Law, Forest Whitaker, Alice Braga, Liev Schreiber

Votes: 110,673 | Gross: $13.79M

Goes from "watchable" to "ridiculous" to "intolerable" right before your eyes!

20. Step Brothers (2008)

R | 98 min | Comedy

51 Metascore

Two aimless middle-aged losers still living at home are forced against their will to become roommates when their parents marry.

Director: Adam McKay | Stars: Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly, Mary Steenburgen, Richard Jenkins

Votes: 318,942 | Gross: $100.47M

Will Ferrell is pretty much the same character he always plays, which is not necessarily a bad thing, but the film itself overshoots the "so stupid it's funny" region and lands on "just plain idiotic."

21. Scary Movie 4 (2006)

PG-13 | 83 min | Comedy

40 Metascore

Cindy finds out the house she lives in is haunted by a little boy and goes on a quest to find out who killed him and why. Also, Alien "Tr-iPods" are invading the world and she has to uncover the secret in order to stop them.

Director: David Zucker | Stars: Anna Faris, Regina Hall, Craig Bierko, Bill Pullman

Votes: 129,139 | Gross: $90.71M

Granted, the Scary Movie series has never been particularly brilliant, but this was probably the straw that broke the... series's back?

I'm not too good with metaphors.

22. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)

PG-13 | 149 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

35 Metascore

Sam Witwicky leaves the Autobots behind for a normal life. But when his mind is filled with cryptic symbols, the Decepticons target him and he is dragged back into the Transformers' war.

Director: Michael Bay | Stars: Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson

Votes: 428,371 | Gross: $402.11M

A Michael Bay orgasm of the most cataclysmic and story-devoid nature.

23. Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004)

PG | 93 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family

34 Metascore

The Mystery Inc. gang must save Coolsville from an attack of their past monsters brought to life by an evil masked figure trying to take down the gang.

Director: Raja Gosnell | Stars: Freddie Prinze Jr., Sarah Michelle Gellar, Matthew Lillard, Linda Cardellini

Votes: 64,858 | Gross: $84.22M

A pitiful follow-up to a personal childhood favorite.

24. Baby Mama (2008)

PG-13 | 99 min | Comedy, Romance

55 Metascore

A successful, single businesswoman who dreams of having a baby discovers she is infertile and hires a working class woman to be her unlikely surrogate.

Director: Michael McCullers | Stars: Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Sigourney Weaver, Greg Kinnear

Votes: 47,468 | Gross: $60.49M

Comedy directors and aspiring filmmakers, I implore you to watch this film as an example of pretty much everything you can do to ruin a comedy.

25. Did You Hear About the Morgans? (2009)

PG-13 | 103 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

27 Metascore

In New York City, an estranged couple who witness a murder are relocated to small town Wyoming as part of the Witness Protection Program.

Director: Marc Lawrence | Stars: Hugh Grant, Sarah Jessica Parker, Sam Elliott, Elisabeth Moss

Votes: 42,790 | Gross: $29.58M

Though Grant's character is awkwardly charming as always, I dare say it's S.J. Parker's completely antipathetic and generally unlikable demeanor (and face) that primarily serves to bury this mediocre comedy.

26. Natural Born Killers (1994)

R | 119 min | Action, Crime, Romance

74 Metascore

Two victims of traumatized childhoods become lovers and psychopathic serial murderers irresponsibly glorified by the mass media.

Director: Oliver Stone | Stars: Woody Harrelson, Juliette Lewis, Tom Sizemore, Rodney Dangerfield

Votes: 251,705 | Gross: $50.28M

Natural Born Killers feels overdone, and consequentially gross, grotesque and pretentious, at most evoking a slight queasiness that works well in other, superior films.

27. Mission: Impossible II (2000)

PG-13 | 123 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller

59 Metascore

IMF agent Ethan Hunt is sent to Sydney to find and destroy a genetically modified disease called "Chimera".

Director: John Woo | Stars: Tom Cruise, Dougray Scott, Thandiwe Newton, Ving Rhames

Votes: 377,598 | Gross: $215.41M

By far the worst of the series, MI2 is hollow, far-fetched and plagued by characters that suddenly seem very unpleasant.

28. Love & Other Drugs (2010)

R | 112 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

55 Metascore

In 1990s Pittsburgh, a medicine peddler starts a relationship with a young woman suffering from Parkinson's disease.

Director: Edward Zwick | Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Anne Hathaway, Judy Greer, Oliver Platt

Votes: 224,072 | Gross: $32.37M

Devoid of any sympathetic characters, this film makes you feel that every which one of them well deserves their plight due to their ostensible self-righteousness.

The upside? Anne Hathaway. Topless.

29. Shrek Forever After (2010)

PG | 93 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

58 Metascore

Rumpelstiltskin tricks a mid-life crisis burdened Shrek into allowing himself to be erased from existence and cast in a dark alternate timeline where Rumpelstiltskin rules supreme.

Director: Mike Mitchell | Stars: Mike Myers, Cameron Diaz, Eddie Murphy, Antonio Banderas

Votes: 224,469 | Gross: $238.37M

Though not as bad as its predecessor, Forever After definitely constitutes one of the lowest spots among animated films.

30. Dinner for Schmucks (2010)

PG-13 | 114 min | Comedy

56 Metascore

After he finds out that his work superiors host a dinner celebrating the idiocy of their special guests, a rising executive questions the merits of his invitation just as he befriends a man who would be the perfect guest.

Director: Jay Roach | Stars: Steve Carell, Paul Rudd, Stephanie Szostak, Zach Galifianakis

Votes: 111,094 | Gross: $73.03M

The gags are overdone and stupid, some characters feel lifeless and others just unrealistic and nauseating, and the script is only sporadically lifted by Carell's comedic ingenuity.



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