So far, what are your least favorite movies in 2002?
I'll kick it off:
1. The Rules of Attraction - Bret Easton Ellis' books are dreadful enough, but this insipid adaptation of his worst novel makes them look like founts of lyric beauty and humanism. Probably the most worthless movie of the year, and we've still got 3 months to go.
2. Road to Perdition - Is there a more pretentious director working than Sam Mendes? Did anyone read his interview in New York magazine, where he speaks about the function of water in this film, and how it suggests the "mutability of life"? Please. A long ugly bore, whose tone shifts from glacial to cheaply sentimental with all the grace of Homer Simpson.
3. Moonlight Mile - Never before has a movie so enraged me. My own biases concerning grief and how it should be handled notwithstanding, Moonlight Mile is hateful toward its characters and passes off the worst kind of audience button-pushing as mysticism.
4. My Big Fat Greek Wedding - bored the bejesus out of me. the jokes could have been stolen from Friends. News Flash: surely enough, they're making this movie into a sitcom. they certainly wouldn't have to change much. i hope they don't actually film any episodes, when they can just divide the movie into 30 minute intervals and show those. it would be a waste of stock.
5. Full Frontal - one of the few movies I've seen in which the director's pretensions are actually matched by his imprecision. Even Road to Perdition was cohesive and somewhat coherent - Soderbergh's movie is one of the poorest, most graceless examples of self indulgence in the past ten years. There are only 2 reasons this movie is at number 5, instead of the top spot:
1)The Rules of Attraction
2) Nicky Katt as Hitler
Let the fun begin!
I'll kick it off:
1. The Rules of Attraction - Bret Easton Ellis' books are dreadful enough, but this insipid adaptation of his worst novel makes them look like founts of lyric beauty and humanism. Probably the most worthless movie of the year, and we've still got 3 months to go.
2. Road to Perdition - Is there a more pretentious director working than Sam Mendes? Did anyone read his interview in New York magazine, where he speaks about the function of water in this film, and how it suggests the "mutability of life"? Please. A long ugly bore, whose tone shifts from glacial to cheaply sentimental with all the grace of Homer Simpson.
3. Moonlight Mile - Never before has a movie so enraged me. My own biases concerning grief and how it should be handled notwithstanding, Moonlight Mile is hateful toward its characters and passes off the worst kind of audience button-pushing as mysticism.
4. My Big Fat Greek Wedding - bored the bejesus out of me. the jokes could have been stolen from Friends. News Flash: surely enough, they're making this movie into a sitcom. they certainly wouldn't have to change much. i hope they don't actually film any episodes, when they can just divide the movie into 30 minute intervals and show those. it would be a waste of stock.
5. Full Frontal - one of the few movies I've seen in which the director's pretensions are actually matched by his imprecision. Even Road to Perdition was cohesive and somewhat coherent - Soderbergh's movie is one of the poorest, most graceless examples of self indulgence in the past ten years. There are only 2 reasons this movie is at number 5, instead of the top spot:
1)The Rules of Attraction
2) Nicky Katt as Hitler
Let the fun begin!
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