[Movie] [Your] Top Ten Worst Movies of 2007

I'm gonna list seven, because honestly I didn't see many movies this year. I didn't even hate them all, but they certainly weren't masterpieces.

Ghostrider
Well, it met my modest expectations. Not as bad as, say, Daredevil, but not stupendous. Blackheart was in it, and he's cool, but he also wasn't nine feet tall with dreadlocks throwing dead people. It could have been better is all I'm saying.

Epic Movie
I caught this on HBO, so at least I didn't waste any money; definitely not worth a full admission. Flat jokes and virtually no production value. If it were straight-to-video I could give it some leeway, but it really didn't cut it as a feature. Any one of the scenes could have worked as a decent MadTV or SNL sketch.

Spider-Man 3
This is what happens when the wants of the studio conflict with the wants of the director. To hear Raimi tell it, he didn't want Venom at all, but he was a ticket-draw and had to squeeze him in mid-way through production. It could have been a lot worse, but we certainly didn't get the original vision. Kinda uneventful, too - aside form introducing a villain we may never see again.

Transformers
You've got Transformers on the poster, Transformers on the box, and Transformers in the title. So what's the movie about? Kid trying to get some while a robot war rages in the background.

300
Pure visceral action and post effects, with a story hidden somewhere under lots and lots of dead Persians.

I Am Legend
My big beef was completely changing the meaning of the title from the book. I didn't *hate* it, though: the sets were great and Will Smith's monologues were great as long as they fit the scene. If the script were more polished, I would have legitimately liked it.

Across The Universe
It's a music film about an era of music I really respect, but it just comes off as a lot of fluff. Eddie Izzard did a good job, but there was virtually no direction from start to finish. I agree with Sprout, the effects were gorgeous, but it was only a momentary pleasure to what should have been a trippy musical journey throughout.

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To inject some positive into this thread/post: Do see Charles' Burnett's Killer of Sheep, filmed in '77 but incomplete until this year; The Coens' No Country for Old Men, whose bold framing and spiritiual crisis tear apart the 3 entries above fit for The Iraq War Hall of Shame; another one of Herzog's personal but best since his glorious 70s german movies, Rescue Dawn; Wes Anderson's The Darjeeling Limited, one I'm still trying to wrap my head around but may be his most clear-eyed of his filmography; Sarah Polley's Debut, Away from Her, which will earn Julie Christie an oscar (she or Marion Cotillard; bookmark this page, you read it here first); and Satoshi Kon's engrossing Paprika, where he ventures into David Lynch territory.

I plan on seeing No Country soon, it looks fantastic. I'm a fan of the Coen Brothers and thought this one fit the bill nicely. I can also attest that Paprika was a good film. I haven't always been a fan of Kon's, I had always grouped him under the "weird for the sake of weird" category, but I enjoyed this one.

Jam it back in, in the dark.