The Worst of 2010

I thankfully have a small list this year of terrible films that somehow were put into our lovely movie theatres. Nevertheless, I still had to sit through them and that’s two hours and fifteen dollars of my life I’ll never get back.

Valentine’s Day

Everyone seems to be using the interlocking stories technique for their romantic comedies, which was first perfected in 2003 with the British film Love Actually. Garry Marshall, director of Pretty Woman and Runaway Bride, takes a stab at it. The difference between his film and the rest is that Marshall manages to squeeze every celebrity in Hollywood into the story in order to drain the box office, which I’m sure it did. Having faces like Queen Latifah, Julia Roberts and Jessica Alba resulted in twenty different storylines that absolutely no one could follow when you only see three minutes in total of each.

Percy Jackson and The Olympians: The Lightning Thief

This may not be the worst film of 2010 but it is by far the most disappointing. Fantastic children’s novels written by Rick Riordan were completely tarnished with the making of this film. The script made Pierce Brosnan, Uma Thurman, Catherine Keener and others seem like bad actors that they, of course, are not. Director Chris Columbus, who directed the first two great Harry Potter films makes a complete flop with Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief.

Knight and Day

A reunion between Cameron Diaz and Tom Cruise doesn’t have to be put on screen for the world to see. A simple cup of coffee or even a nice dinner between the pair would do. This is the most ridiculous action movie of the year and includes popular foreign cities, isolated islands and a mysterious ex-FBI agent who inadvertently seems like he doesn’t know what on earth he is doing throughout most of the film.

Sex And The City 2

This is a bad case of milking a franchise for all it’s worth until there is nothing left. Making the first Sex And The City film five years after the show had ended made sense for the fans. Oh, wait, that wasn’t the end though. Although the sequel manages to get a laugh here or there from Samantha, it is overall pretty pointless.

How Do You Know

Academy Award winning writer/director James L. Brooks hits a major dud with the boring, confusing, random, How Do You Know. The main character played by Reese Witherspoon is indecisive and quite annoying while Jack Nicholson is useless in a sub-plot that doesn’t do anything for the film. The only thing that brought a smile on my face from this film was the adorable Paul Rudd who I hope finds a better project after this.

Leap Year

Amy Adams and Matthew Goode. Two great actors that hit a small speed bump of a film that I almost forgot about, it was so unmemorable. Leap Year is an Irish version of every other romantic comedy where the uptight girl unintentionally ends up with the unclean-cut guy while in pursuit of her perfect man.

The Last Song

Saving the worst for last was the highly laughable collaboration between Miley Cyrus and Nicholas Sparks; two people that together are an overwhelming amount of unpleasantness. Cyrus, of course cannot act and Sparks just uses tearjerkers to brainwash little girls into thinking a sad film is a fantastic film, many of which I have had stressful arguments with. I am more than embarrassed to say I, for some reason, paid actual money to see this fateful disaster that is, by far, the worst film of the year.