Worst of 2011

From comic book desecration to blandness incarnate

By Morgan P Salvo 

Good Lord! There were so many to choose from. When looking back on the year I can hardly remember a movie that I liked. Yep this was one lame-ass year for movies. Here is the cream of the crop.

1-10 (1 being the worst)

1. Larry Crowne

Boring, bland and lifeless this flick proves Tom Hanks should be stripped of all accolades, star power and Oscar wins and  has to go back to square one to work his way back up

 

   2.  The Green Hornet

  Amidst this colorful and horrible mess Seth Rogen’s inane motor mouth planted the kiss of death on this movie and it ruined me (forever) to watch him in anything again.

3. Sanctum

This James Cameron produced waterlogged flick contains the worst dialogue, acting and story forming a perfect trifecta of shame. Sanctum is all wet.

    

4.   The Sitter

Wasting all the talent involved this dreary, tedious, lazy and unoriginal 80’s rip-off sits right on its face. Jonah Hill’s last movie as a fat guy is a disgrace. He should’ve shed this movie with his poundage.

 

5   Insidious

 This flick could easily be named Ludicrous and then you can start adding similar adjectives that apply to describe it. The pairing of the creators from Saw and Paranormal Activity is a marriage made in bad movie hell. It is lame from the word go.

6   Sucker Punch

 Pow! Smack! That’s what you’ve been treated to and deserve for sitting though this supremely contrived, poorly written, miserable piece of CGI high-tech crud. Who would’ve thought after Zak Snyder’s Watchmen he was capable of complete crap?

         7     Thor

  A bad take on Norse mythology and the worst rendition of a Marvel comic book superhero since Daredevil. Absolutely imbecilic.

8        8. Zookeeper, Mr. Popper’s Penguins and Gulliver’s Travels

   This three way tie of PG wretchedness boggles my mind.   I can’t tell which movie is worse or why they were even made.

9    Dream House

  If they flew in Rod Serling and/or Satan himself for rewrites neither could’ve helped this ridiculous attempt at mind bending that proves A-list stars can crap their pants with the best of them

10      Paranormal  Activity 3

    Staying in line with the series franchise, this fun house ride is wearing thin and the concept of scaring the bejezzus out of people with cheap “found footage” is about as stupid as it gets.