Overall, I believe that 2010 was a very great year in film. Of course, that also means that the greatness of the few made the cream of the crap stand out more.
Hollywood still hasn't learn its lessons and its misjudgments unless it's printed on something with green ink. The overboard of 3D films somewhat helped the annual box office totals but scared away many theatergoers. The lust and luster of romantic comedies continued to fall sharply due to idiotic conventions and writers and script doctors who don't understand humor. Then, there's the colossal pieces of cinema trash that shocked and awed and the small independent films that offended with their ineptitude and quirkiness.
These are the films I have deemed the worst of 2010.
Now comes the usual disclaimer that sadly everyone forgets to remember: This list is of my own opinion, not the general public and Internet consensus. If I didn't see the film at all or in its entirety, than it isn't counted.
TOP TEN WORST FILMS
1. The Last Airbender
Failure in each and every scene and shot. Even as a non-fan of the original animated series, I hated this with such a passion. One of my memories of the film theaters last year was seeing a very disgruntled teenager yell "Bullshit!" out loud after the credits started to roll.
2. Tooth Fairy
I really love Dwayne Johnson and hope for the best for him but he did himself in with this stupid Santa Clause rip-off directed by the director of the Santa Clause films. Nothing makes any sense in the script scribed by five different writers and the gender politics are regulated to men being cynical misanthropes and women being transparent boobs. The film also has an unintentionally hilarious/frighteningly creepy subtext with British comedian Stephen Merchant's performance as a way-too-happy-for-kids fairy sponsor.
3. Survival of the Dead
The shockingly insufferable continuation of George A. Romero's Dead series. A horrible cast of characters, terrible performances, and an out-dated and dumb script with the absolute worst plot and character twists seen this year. Definitely troubling and fanboy crushing is the fact that Romero uses CG gore instead of calling up Tom Savini.
4. Charlie St. Cloud
Putrid piece of pretty people garbage. This depressing turd has Zac Efron use his bland statuesque emotions into wasting five years of his life to playing catch with his long dead annoying brother. Supporting actors disappear into the ether for more clunky dialogue and never explained plot holes and questions. Just how can you have sex with a ghost?
5. Operation: Endgame
Take several great alternative comedians and some dramatic actors and put them in a vapid Boondock Saints influenced black ops comedy-thriller. Instead of finding a way out of a self-destructing underground outpost, two teams of assassins scream and shout and kill each other instead because producer Richard Kelly wants more random scenes of political bashing and easy-to-spot plot twists.
6. Knight and Day
Two former Hollywood elite smug their way through boring action and a tepid story and characterization. A slight breeze for many but I hated Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz playing with the cheat codes of cinema, remaining invincible and beautifully perfect. The stupidity of their characters is astounding and the humor is non-existent.
7. Finding Bliss
Though it is awful, it is also very very sad. You are essentially watching the desperate pleas of female director Julie Davis through her very Hollywood-wannabe story of a NYU film student's first professional job working at porno studio. You know this movie is bad when the movie-within-the-movie is far worst than the porno-within-the-movie.
8. South of the Border
Even if you like and support Hugo Chavez and his Bolivarian revolutionary politics, this is still a glorified promotional video with atrocious camerawork and the bloated direction of a fat Oliver Stone. Funny how he only talks to the leaders but never the normal citizens. After all, Stone playing soccer with Evo Morales is more important.
9. The Bounty Hunter
Unlikable main characters, very unfunny jokes about gambling addiction and alcoholism, pointless subplots, having Jennifer Aniston as a lead, and the worst placement of pop music into the proceedings. I'm sorry director Andy Tennant, but what does Ke$ha's "Tik Tok" have to do with craps?
10. Sex and the City 2
Two and half hours of the most subtle and appalling insults to women, the overall American public, and the Middle East. Except for an entertainingly campy prologue, you are left mouth agape at the horrors of Sarah Jessica Parker's pretentiousness and the message that women should be rewarded with a beautiful diamond ring if they almost cheat on their husband.
THE NEXT FIVE
11. When In Rome
12. Vampires Suck
13. Bitch Slap
14. Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore
15. Leap Year
Next Up: The Best Films of 2010
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