Rotten Tomatoes is out with its list of the 100 worst-reviewed movies of the past ten years. How many of those have you seen? To my great relief, I can honestly answer “zero”.
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The chairman of the Iowa Democratic Party insists that a big-name challenger is “100 percent committed” to taking on Grassley.
Your guess is as good as mine.
But I’ve seen Dragonfly, Basic Instinct 2 and Daddy Day Camp. I’ve seen worse.
Or, at least, it was playing. I can’t remember a thing about it, though.
I did not even know the names of most of these movies if not all.
Has got to be the worst movie of all time in my book. Not only Wahlberg’s worst acting job, but the worst of all time. Just reading the details even makes me puke.
Two Christmas ones with my family during the holidays, one my dad rented, and Battlefield Earth after I finished reading it. Talk about a waste of my time. They really screwed up with that one.
Paterson asked for it.
Steve Israel needed a phone call. Paterson asked for a public snub. Is he masochistic?
Cheaper by the Dozen 2 (Terrible movie; they tried to make it raunchy and family friendly at the same time, resulting in a complete failure. Wouldn’t have seen it but they showed it at night when I was at camp so I had no choice)
Johnson Family Vacation (Pretty dumb, saw it with my family and they liked it though)
Envy (Jack Black and Ben Stiller are funny, but not when they have a terrible script to work with. On an SSP-related note, Black’s character in the movie briefly ran for Congress in an unspecified exurban SoCal district)
I thought Cheaper by the Dozen 2 and the New Guy were good movies.
Dragonfly sucked.
Can’t remember what I thought about Ballistic: Ecks versus Sever.
In the 1980’s, Oakland batters on base were sometimes asked to sacrifice themselves so that Ricky Henderson (also on base) could motor. New Yorkers did not find it surprising or objectionable. So why are they objecting now?
I accidentally watched House of the Dead before Uwe Boll’s name became infamous. Forced to screen Codename: The Cleaner for my old job at a movie theater. Accidentally stumbled into the Rollerball remake. Saw Battlefield Earth purely for the lulz. Got dragged into Kickin It Old School, and Disaster Movie (probably the worst movie I’ve ever seen).
And oh god, the cinematic trainwreck that was Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever…the stuff nightmares are made out of.
Thankfully.
it’s really only good for the male eye candy. That’s the only one on the list, although I do enjoy a good Sci-Fi Original Movie.
Back when it came out, but I was like 13, so don’t hate.
Is 11 too many?
And I found a 50 movies for 50 states feature on that same site. I gotta check out Point Break sometime!
Speaking of movies I saw Private Lessons recently, pretty funny, but also quite sexual. I thought it quite funny that the actor that played the seduced kid was also Nydia Velazquez’s Press Secretary for a couple of years and a political consultant.
I have to say I have enjoyed many great movies recently, though Donnie Darko was the best. A lot of the movie is a thinly veiled attack on mainstream Christianity, and as one critic put it so perfectly, “sensitivity to the sort of institutionalized violence most of take for granted.
On another note I am finding Nietzsche quite disappointing, most of his arguments come from a sort of sheer militant social darwinism. He spends far more time repeatedly attacking Christianity for supporting the weak and inspiring weakness than he does actually making any sort of logical argument against it. It seems to me he was more opposed to it philosophically because it went against his rather ruthless views while at the same time he somewhat hypocritically spends a lot of time ripping others for allowing sentiment to infuse their beliefs. That said Nietzsche is not so bad as the introduction, which was written by H. L. Mencken, who makes Gore Vidal look modest and low brow in comparison. I don’t know, that level of disdain and snobbery as in Mencken makes me uncomfortable because it seems like it would inevitably cloud your logic and thought and not to mention that but he is also horribly anti-Semetic and seems to be mostly attacking the proletariat because they are not smart, and the plutocracy too, in his sort argument for an aristocracy like the aristocracy was ever that intelligent itself.
Bad movies these days aren’t nearly as much fun as the good old days of bad movies, the 1970s and 1980s. Today, it’s the same bad cliches. Back then, they worked hard to make them awful in totally unique ways.
For instance, my favorite bad movie ever, “The Apple”.
Don’t ever watch that movie alone. Only watch it in a group of 10 to 20 people who have a good sense of humor.
against Bill Thompson. Keeping in mind the cardinal rule of political advertising (don’t mention your opponent unless he’s a threat), I wonder what direction his internals are going in.
I just don’t see any type of republican holding that seat after such a cluster fuck they were for 8 years. Then again, Lieberman is as good as a Republican…
Times to Paterson: Obama is right; don’t run.
for Corzine:
On the list:
1) “Yours, Mine, and Ours.” I didn’t think this one was all that bad. Solidly mediocre, but not one of the 100 worst of the past decade.
2) “Miss March.” Yeah, this one was a disappointing disaster. I expected a really funny movie, given the hilariousness of the Whitest Kids U’ Know TV show. Instead I got this mess.
I also came very close to seeing “Good Luck Chuck.” If it wasn’t for the bad reviews, I probably would have. And I’m thankfully that I skipped some of the other trash on the list.
My short reviews:
1. Delta Farce- Probably my all time favorite movie IMO.
2. Master of Disguise- Poor movie overall.
3. Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector- Ditto with Delta Farce
4. Christmas with the Kranks- I actually thought it was pretty good. Underrated movie IMO.
5. Deck the Halls- Meh. On the one hand, DeVito was good, but on the other hand, I don’t really like Broderick that much(With the exceptions of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and The Cable Guy).
It must be over ten years old because it sure was a stinker.
“The New Guy” which I found surprisingly good, or at least the first half was cause I like Eddie Griffin.
Keep Rep. Carolyn Maloney in your thoughts this weekend as her husband Clif Maloney passed away on a mountain-climbing expedition in the PRC this weekend at the age of 71.
He said so on Meet the press this morning.
If Michael Jackon could stay in the race, why not David Paterson. And he has Charlie Rangel’s support.
Some interesting quotes from Paterson’s Meet the Press appearance:
“There’s politics that go on all the time. I’m blind, but I’m not oblivious. I realize that there are people who don’t want me to run. I’ve never gotten an explicit indication authorized from the White House that I shouldn’t run. … They certainly sent the message that they have concerns, and I appreciate that….”
“What I was trying to say is that I don’t think someone’s race should be the factor in assessing what kind of governor they are, what kind of president, or what kind of worker they are in any workplace. … Let me clarify: I don’t think race has been a factor in my poll numbers or my political fortune, or in how I govern my state.”
The first quote seems to indicate that Gov. Paterson is blind and oblivious. With the second quote, he seems to be contradicting himself more than anything.
…I say expect a Giuliani announcement by December.