The annual shit list is out, better late than never, right? Well, for all of these films, probably better never. Let’s get to it.
DISHONORABLE MENTIONS
Transformers: Age of Extinction
You can’t tease me like this – you can’t put “Transformers” and “Extinct” in the title of a movie, because I’ll actually hope there’s a connection.
It seems the fifth was the one with all the crappy, non-threatening claymation. You gotta cut this guy off, or he’ll just keep sailin’ places.
I’d say that’s an apt feeling following the watching of this film.
Think Like a Man Too, Dumb and Dumber To
(I hated these … as well)
I hope that when I get old I won’t love a film on the sole criteria that, “people my age are in it.”
Do you know how hard it is to make Henrik Ibsen roll in his grave? Wallace Shawn does.
A lesson for all script writers out there – you can take a character; you can dress him as a giant reptile; you can give him colorful clothing, medieval Japanese weaponry, the name of a Renaissance artist. You can give him a master in the form of an adult anthropomorphic rodent and a Playboy bunny reporter to lust after. But at the end of the day, the character still has be interesting on his own. I see you put the step ladder in front of the high bar, but you know, a turtle probably still isn’t gonna clear it.
I just keep getting served. When will I learn?
In retrospect, the least apt title in all of 2014. There’s nothing at all addicting about this film.
I wonder if they put “Bravo” in the title to assure they’d get at least one. They did not.
THE BOTTOM TEN
10. Biblical interpretation – ooooh, and we got a good representation from both Old Testament and New Testament:
Sunday School fail
Nobody explained to me
The plague of Bale
Say, Rapture, buddy
Could you speed things up a bit?
There’s still more film left
In pairs for viewing
And filed out two by two,
Most disappointed
I’m trying not to
Take the Lord’s name in vain, but
Jesus Christ, this sucked
9. The Tale of Princess Kugaya
Pixar spoiled me
I expect animation
To have some merit
8. The Pyramid
Confused! The title
Can’t describe a pyramid …
Those things have a point
7. Sabotage
Now that Arnie is
Through messing my state, he can
Resume his “career”
Many have written
About this fabled strongman
Go ahead, read one
Tyler, Tyler please
Tyler, Tyler, Tyler please
Stop stop stop stop stop
4. Tusk
The kind of awful
Found in Human Centipede
A trilogy, aaaaahhhhhh!
3. Nymphomaniac
Congratulations
Lars, you’ve taken all the joy
From sexuality
2. The eternal struggle —
Someday, we will learn
That footage this confusing
Is best left unfound
Title begs question
What causes the insecure
That needs to affirm?
1. America: Imagine the World without Her
Crap so offensive
Inspires the claim: the Earth
Would be better off