Sometimes you can take time to sit down and praise the films out there that amaze you. Then again, there's films out there that make you wonder where you're time went. Here is the short list of the worst of 2011:
Transformers: Dark of the Moon: Despite being better than the second installment, Transformers completed their trilogy where nothing resembled anything from the Transformers stories of the 80's. In fact, the Transformers series is known pretty much for slow motion shots of Megan Fox and... the other chick while something blows up. You'll feel dumber watching it and sadly, this movie borrowed lines from Star Trek.
Green Lantern: As Warner Bros/DC went all-in with a 2/7 off-suit and got hammered EVERYWHERE. It's hero was scorned by the traumatic death of his father... for some reason... Hal Jordan (Ryan Reynolds) becomes the Green Lantern and appears places that he has no idea there's danger. The characters just kind of do things without rhyme or reason. If not for Mark Strong, this movie would have been completely unwatchable. Somehow, even Peter Saarsgard couldn't save this movie.
No Strings Attached: Another film where the characters just kind of appear and do things without any purpose. That is all the time I'll save for this. I will say, how could a movie directed by Ivan Reitman with two oscar winners (Kevin Kline was the other one, not Ashton Kutcher) be SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO bad?
In Time: This film had some potential then became a class struggle film, where you never really can connect with any of the characters because since they're all 25 (which few are in this film). To say the plot went nowhere is an understatement and you end up rooting against the characters in the end. The cherry on top was the subplot about Justin Timberlake's father that comes from nowhere about 45 minutes in. This film was doomed from the start. I don't know if you can blame the actors at all.
Worst film of the year:
MONEYBALL: It's amazing that facts escape this film and that it was nominated for Best Picture. Moneyball is actually a well made, well written, well acted film until it goes through fact checking. For starters, this is probably the first sports movie where the key moment was trading for a situational left-handed reliever. The next most dramatic moment was a homerun hit in extra innings after blowing a ten run lead. Oh and the whole season hinged on Scott Hatteberg? Really? There was ZERO mention of the Mark Mulder, Tim Hudson, Cy Young Award winner Barry Zito, AL MVP juicing Migel Tejada, but there was plenty mention of the not-sliding-ridiculous Jeremy Giambi. Apparently, the trade of Giambi and addition of middle reliever Chad Bradford made the A's the best team in baseball. This film is actually pretty ridiculous in the end since the A's don't win, but Billy Beane is still a genius because the Red Sox followed his philosophy... not have a $130 million payroll and Manny Ramirez roided out of his mind.
Just be glad they didn't do the storyline where Hal Jordan dates the underage alien chick. In a comic where the hero can be killed by anything in the entire world that's yellow, somehow that storyline makes even less sense.
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