Recently The worst movies award ceremony was held. This top ten list of movies are selected by pubic interest and their comments. These movies are worst because they are not profitable and didn't create any positive impression on the mind of people.
Each of the following movies was designed to be your diversion, your entertainment, your brief oasis of pleasure, something that makes life worth living and gives you refreshed energy to meet the challenges of another day. But these movies don't do that. Instead, they rob you of your time and money. They bore you. They irritate you. They waste an evening. They waste an afternoon. They put you in a lousy mood before you go to bed. They get you thinking about the collapse of Western civilization - like maybe it's happened already.
Point being, don't wait for video. Don't wait for cable. Don't wait for network TV. Don't wait until you're on a 10-hour flight with nothing to read. Wait until the next life, when you're an immortal being sitting on a cloud. Wait until an angel flies over with a DVD of "Georgia Rule" saying, "I heard this is good." And then say, "No. Because I have all the time in the world now, I think I'll watch all 939 minutes of Fassbinder's 'Berlin Alexanderplatz.' It has to be better than that garbage." Remember, you might still be on probation and the angel might be testing you. In the afterlife, all the bad movies are in hell.
With this in mind, here are this year's 10 movies from hell, in reverse order of iniquity:
10. "The Darjeeling Limited":
This empty spiritual journey about three brothers on a quest for enlightenment in India degenerated into a series of gestures and revealed the limits either of director Wes Anderson's aspiration or of his vision. I'm betting the former, but in the meantime, this was a work of immaturity from a director who's ready to take the next step.
9. "El Cantante":
This biopic of Hector Lavoe presented the famed salsa singer as a near-comatose wreck from drugs, and instead of trying to redeem him by focusing on his art, the film concentrated instead on his marriage, and so Jennifer Lopez, as Lavoe's wife, moved to center stage. Lopez, as an unsympathetic harpy, has never given a worse performance - nor has ever looked so convinced that she was doing great.
8. "No Reservations":
If you want to see what's right about European movies and what's wrong with American movies, rent the German film "Mostly Martha," which is the original version of the story. The American version is sentimental, crude, unconvincing and dumbed down and features an absolutely obnoxious child at the center of the story.
7. "The Hunting Party":
Writer-director Richard Shepard took an Esquire article about five journalists who go in search of a Serbian war criminal and tried to spin fiction out of it, but his fictional story retained the problem of the nonfictional story. Movies need intense motivations. The things people do can't just be for the heck of it. They have to be important, and they have to be urgent, or else there's no reason to sit there and watch. This film, set in the former Yugoslavia, was an earnest but botched mess that rang hollow from the first 20 minutes.
6. "The Nanny Diaries":
Scarlett Johansson plays a nanny working for an abusive, wealthy heiress, and she doesn't have to put up with it. But she does. Why doesn't she quit the first day? No reason. No reason to sit there and watch Johansson pretending to be an emotional weakling either. It's too hard to believe.
5. "Fred Claus":
The movie should have been about the jolly clash of personalities between Santa Claus and his dissolute older brother, Fred. Instead, it was about the efforts of an efficiency expert (played by Kevin Spacey) to close down Santa's Christmas operation. Casting Spacey, an actor whose icy demeanor could wilt mistletoe, in a Christmas movie was only the first mistake.
4. "Evan Almighty":
Steve Carell was Noah in this unfunny, not engaging, not spiritual, not interesting movie about a congressman who is commissioned by God to build an ark. A complete misfire.
3. "I'm Not There":
Todd Haynes cast six actors as Bob Dylan in this exploration of the Dylan legend, a bold experiment that went bad. It's soporific, a bore that goes on forever and is so narratively vague that it could begin and end anywhere without altering the experience.
2. "Georgia Rule":
This ugly and false film, about three generations of women (Jane Fonda, Felicity Huffman and Lindsay Lohan), traded on the forbidden allure of jailbait sexuality, and then tried to turn pious with a story about a sexually abusive father. The sense of humor was so lowdown and crass - and so without awareness of its supreme vulgarity - that it seemed like something made by space aliens impersonating the rollicking ways of humanity.
1. "License to Wed":
In Robin Williams' latest ghastly outing, he played a noisy, compulsive and tiresome priest with a predilection for ad-libbing jokes that aren't funny while tormenting young people going through his marriage-prep program. With Mandy Moore and John Krasinski as a couple with no business getting married and Williams as a priest with no business being a priest, this was the feel-bad romantic comedy of the year.
This top 10 list of worst movies is originated from:http://www.sfgate.com
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