You're not alone, B. I've seen about 85 of them. "If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director?" -- Charles L Grant
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: daikaij...@yahoo.com Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 21:55:58 +0000 Subject: [scifinoir2] Re: Rotten Tomatoes Picks Worst Movies of the Last Decade The saddest thing is how much time I've wasted watching movies that appear on this list. I've seen and hated a ton of these turkeys. --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, "B Smith" <daikaij...@...> wrote: > > It's one of those movies that has the right ingredients(great cast and decent > story) but everything else goes horribly wrong. > > I bet that someone else could make this movie with the same cast and story > turn out a faily entertaining flick but the director, production designer, > etc. butchered this. John Woo could have made this film in his sleep and the > final product would have been better. > > > --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Martin Baxter <truthseeker013@> wrote: > > > > > > Oh, and Keith -- you spared yourself much pain by missing "Ballistic: Ecks > > vs Sever". When I finally saw it (letting it filter all the way down to > > cable), the only things I wanted to sever were my optic nerves. > > > > "If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in > > bloody hell hired the director?" -- Charles L Grant > > > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik > > > > > > > > > > To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com > > From: KeithBJohnson@ > > Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:01:36 +0000 > > Subject: [scifinoir2] Rotten Tomatoes Picks Worst Movies of the Last Decade > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Not at all surprised to see "Catwoman" on tis list, despite some of you who > > inexplicably thought it was some kind of sly tongue-in-cheek > > masterpiece.(George, didn't you send a favorable review of it from England? > > ) Also not surprised to see "Battlefield Earth" on there. I tried to watch > > that one rainy Sunday morning when I didn't want to go anywhere--and turned > > the channel after ten minutes. Never saw this "Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever" > > flick. The trailers were so bad I avoided it. Same for Eddie Murphy's > > "Adventures of Pluto Nash", "Norbit", and anything with "Big Mamma" in the > > title. > > > > > > > > Thoughts? Anything on here undeservedly, to your mind? Anything not on here > > that should be? > > > > > > > > ***************************** > > > > http://www.rottentomatoes.com/guides/worst_of_the_worst/ > > > > > > Intro | How It Works > > > > Over the last decade, we've collected reviews for thousands of movies. Most > > films, even profoundly mediocre ones, can expect to receive at least > > cursory support from the pundits. However, once in a while, a film will > > take such a critical drubbing that further attention is warranted. That's > > where our Worst of the Worst list comes in. We've compiled a veritable > > cornucopia of dull, foolhardy, and outright terrible films, from legendary > > duds (Battlefield Earth) to chuckle-deficient comedies (Epic Movie), from > > hapless sequels (Basic Instinct 2) to scare-free would-be fright fests > > (Alone in the Dark). We've pored over the reviews to bring you the lowest > > Tomatometers of the decade -- including several (All About Steve, Whiteout) > > that were released within the last several weeks. In other words, we > > suffered for our work -- now it's your turn. > > > > > > Each critic from our discrete list gets one vote, all weighted equally. > > Reviews without ratings are not counted toward the results. > > Because reviews are continually added, manually and otherwise, we have a > > cutoff > > date at which new reviews are not counted. The current cut off date is > > 9/21/2009. > > The movies contained in this list are from 2000 to 2009. > > We rank the movies by Tomatometer. in the event of a tie score, the film > > with more reviews is ranked more highly. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________________________________ > > Microsoft brings you a new way to search the web. Try Bing™ now > > http://www.bing.com?form=MFEHPG&publ=WLHMTAG&crea=TEXT_MFEHPG_Core_tagline_try > > bing_1x1 > > > _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail® has ever-growing storage! Don’t worry about storage limits. http://windowslive.com/Tutorial/Hotmail/Storage?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Tutorial_Storage_062009
