The bottom ten - some of the few bad ones

100 - Johnny Mnemonic
The absolute worst film I've watched, in 1 hour and 38 minutes nothing good happened, the plot was garbage and the effects were just attempting to salvage that. The critics agree, with a 14% rating on RT (Rotten Tomatoes) that this film is just bad bad bad.

If I'm to borrow Roger Ebert's famous rant about the film North..

"I hated this movie. Hated, hated, hated, hated, hated this movie. Hated it. Hated every simpering stupid vacant audience-insulting moment of it. Hated the sensibility that thought anyone would like it. Hated the implied insult to the audience by its belief that anyone would be entertained by it."

99 - Napoleon Dynamite
I didn't hate this one as much, I was just bewildered by it. I'm still waiting for something to happen, the film chugged by with lame dialogue, annoying characters and no semblance of any kind of direction.

Amazingly this has a 71% 'fresh' rating on RT, maybe I just don't get it.


98 - Paranoid Park

The main thing I take from this film is annoyance, from the fact that but for Guus Van Sant this film could have been pretty good. The direction of it ruined the film, from the shaky cameras, and lack of any kind of pace at all just giving it an annoying murky feel, not atmospheric like Blade Runner, just murky and pointless.

This one is 76% fresh on RT and for the life of me I do not know why.


97 - The Royal Tenenbaums
 At the time I said there was nothing I really disliked about this film, I just didn't get into it. I would like to now change that verdict to that I hated the characters so much it spoiled the film.

Several really good actors including Bill Murray, Ben Stiller and Gene Hackman were given such awful characters that the film was doomed from the start.

But yet again the critics disagree with me, giving it an 80% fresh rating.

96 - A Scanner Darkly 
The sort of half real and half animation of this film gave it a spacey feel, that combined with my tiredness whilst watching it made it almost completely impossible to follow, and it's annoying stoner feel just made it what seemed a really bad film at the time.

To be completely honest it was painful to sit through  but its RT rating of 68% means that it may be my tiredness that puts it down the bottom rather than the film itself.

95 - Little Miss Sunshine  
I just disliked the idea of the film and it struck me as one of those films that is too quirky for its own good, and most of the characters very much annoyed me.

The worst thing about it was the central premise, a beauty pageant for very young girls, just creeped me out and really saddened me.

Another film liked by the critics with an astonishing RT rating of 91%

94 - Sherlock Holmes
It's always difficult doing a new film or TV series about one of the most recognisable characters in the world, but this one was just pointless, with way too much action, too little plot and no sense of balance of the two.

Again the critics liked it (70%) but I really didn't.

93 - Heaven Can Wait
At the time I said this wan't a bad film, but since then I've watched a lot better. I'm not automatically biased against old films - I loved Casablanca - but old films with a pretty glib storyline and none of the action of modern films to make up for it don't really interest me.

The critics disagree again, giving it 89%... maybe I am biased against old films after all

92 - Smart People
Just not enough happened, the film floated through with some pointless storylines and poor acting (including a rare poor performance by Ellen Page)

One of those films that called itself a comedy drama but had little comedy or actual drama, and for once the critics agree, giving it a 50% 'rotten' rating.

91 - Saw VI
So, I technically watched it, but I don't remember it very much at all.

The critics disliked it, giving it a 40% rotten rating and I assume I would have hated it if I watched it properly, rather than drunk with people interrupting.