best of 2007: 10 worst movies

I cant believe you put Beowulf as the very worst movie of the year,thats insane. I honestly think you putting the movie too high on the hate meter. I think you have some sorta Beowulf denial thing going on. Deep somewhere with in you, is some serious like for this movie. You just don't want to admit to it because you feel like people will see you in a different light.
What'd you expect from this movie honestly, It got the era right, it got the genre right, the only thing it didn't do its homework on is the book, but who cares about the book, I DONT.

Beowulf is an entertaining cartoon, I don't undertsnad what's your problem with it, it's dumb fun

Beowulf was pretty terrible, but I have to give my Show Me On the Doll Where the Movie Touched You award to Southland Tales. You've heard people say "I hurt in places I didn't even know I had," or similar? This movie failed in ways I didn't even know it was possible to fail.

Beowulf was absolutely terrible...but I am shocked that Norbit did not make this list! That movie was one of the worst things I have ever seen 24 minutes of.

I agree with you that the expirement, or whatever you want to called it, in Beowulf of replacing actors with CGI characters is a complet failure and a wastes of time, money and the oportunity of making a really great movie with a classic tale

having said that, what's on the screen is far from boring

I guess the failed experiment bother you so much that you couldn't enjoy whatever what's left on the screen (like a said before, an entartaining cartoon)

that's like saying that you didn't like mision imposible because Tom Crouse is a religious fanatic and a nut, that has nothing to do with the end result

then according to your opinion if instead of realistic looking CGI characters Beowulf would have been hand drawn like an old Disney movie, but keeping the exact same story and scenes, then you would've like it, right?

that's nuts

I hardly think Beowulf is the worst movie of the year, but I can't get really too upset about its placement on this list, as MaryAnn is very, very right about what serious problems it has. Now, Knocked Up and Superbad, I don't agree with those at all. But let's not get into that again.

I Know Who Killed Me is not a good movie by any means but I'm kind of cheered to see it building up a cult following. There's a lot more energy in it than in something like Evan Almighty, say -- not enough to overcome its narrative stupidity and the first performance of Ms. Lohan that I didn't like. But still, it's so goofy, and at least partially on purpose -- I can't really hate it the way I hate pretentious bullshit like The Brave One, or even insulting garbage like Fantastic Four 2.

you missing my point

if the movie were hand drawn like for example disney's mulan but keeping the exact same story and scenes, then for you it would have been just another average mediocre movie and you wouldn't say it's the worst of the year

on your review you're not talking about the movie itself
all your criticism seems to be about what the movie could have been and not what it is

but we can disagree, it's fine, I like your website

If it were a 2-D cartoon, it would have been fully animated and not half-assed animated like it was. It would be entirely different. Your "if-then" statement is worthless; she also wouldn't have put it on this list if it had been "The Godfather." But it wasn't. It was "Beowulf."

and I dont want to keep this going forever and I completly agree that the movie fails to capture performances and the result seems a little creepy (not as much as the polar express)

I believe that the most important thing in movies (or literature for that matter)is the story itself, not the way it's told, which comes later

you can have the most brilliant director, actors, DP, CGI, etc. but without a good story it doesn't work

I'm not saying that Beowulf has a great story, but it's OK, and it's told straight foward with a quick pace and a clear character arc

I just don't let one bad (or awful) aspect of the movie blind me to the rest, that's all

try alien vs predator 2 or I know who killed me to see what deserves to be called the worst

also keep in mind that I'm one of the few who agrees with you about knocked up and superbad being awful and completly mediocre movies

try alien vs predator 2 or I know who killed me to see what deserves to be called the worst

Hey, now. AvP2 (or AvP:R as it is properly abbreviated) was actually pretty decent. Obviously written and directed by a couple of fanboys, but the movie had good FX and it didn't pull any punches (i.e., no one was safe).

i second the motion for "Norbit" making the list. that was absolutely DREADFUL.

LL and Jessica Alba both make me wonder how much control they have over their careers; Alba even more so. I mean, when I see an older actor in a movie he or she must know is bad, I figure they are just used to spending a lot of money and need a quick pay check to sustain it. But are Lohan and Alba shoved into these movies by their agents or do they just have really different tastes in scripts than I do or what? On the other hand, Keanu Reeves (or his agent) and I seem to have the same tastes in scripts, because he keeps popping up in movies that I like (not all, but most). The more consistently someone shows up in the same sort of movies, the more I wonder about the dynamics of Hollywood's business side.