There were a lot of bad movies this year, just like every year. I think the saddest thing about this year's crop is that it features so many comedians that I have enjoyed over the years.
Now, fortunately for me, this list was a bit easier to put together than the Top Ten list, but that is small consolation for sitting through these films of my own free will. I wonder if next year's list will be tougher to do as I plan on trying to cut back? Time will tell. In the meantime, check out this year's bottom ten.
10. In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale. When it comes to a reason why this movie is so bad, it is difficult to choose just one. Looking at the big picture, it is a cheap knock-off of Tolkien and his Lord of the Rings universe. Not a good way to start — the Lord of the Rings boiled down with the fat separated out. The problem is that rather than take the good stock, Uwe Boll scraped off the layer of fat, added some of his own lard, and dropped it in the deep fryer with a healthy dose of cheese. If you couldn't tell, this is not exactly going to help your cholesterol level.
9. Babylon A.D. The science fiction epic should have been able to deliver the goods, but instead of being an entertaining movie, it's an exercise in tedium filled with overblown action sequences with characters I could not care less about telling a story that doesn't make much sense. The best thing you can do with this movie is skip it. If you absolutely must see a hollow exercise in action, make it Death Race; that one may be dumb, but it is more exhilarating. This is just a bad movie from start to finish. There is no setup, little story, and no character. I have no reason to care about any of it. Babylon A.D. is a terribly hollow film that may have looked great on paper, but ended up a generic, violence-riddled mess. Whatever comments on society that were made in the book were lost in translation.
8. Semi-Pro. I saw a group of actors trying to be funny, saying lines that must have been funny to write. I guess it was the translation. Somewhere between pen reaching paper and words exiting mouths the jokes lost what made them funny. Pointing to the reason for failure is like looking for a needle in a haystack. There was a certain alignment of the planets, increased sunspot activity, a bend in the space/time continuum, any number of things conspiring in perfect union to bring this film down. What should have been a laugh riot turned out to be about as much fun as sitting through Cat in the Hat again.
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