Movies That Should Die With The Decade
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Ever slap down $10 for a ticket for a film so foul you choked on the popcorn? It's time for payback. Film critic Bob Mondello has caught the worst offenders of the past 10 years.
First, some ground rules. The film has to have burned a big enough American audience to be worth talking about — at least 4 million people at, say, $7.50 a pop, or roughly $30 million. That excludes Paris Hilton's The Hottie and the Nottie, which only made $27,000 in the United States — though it made $1.5 million in Russia.
Second, to recognize the singular dreadfulness of each movie, we're breaking the list into categories. We'll start with Worst Romance of the Decade.
Mondello first considered Gigli, with Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez. But somehow the public knew better and stayed away from it, so it was disqualified.
"On the other hand, they did go to the Matthew McConaughey picture Fool's Gold," Mondello tells NPR's Guy Raz.
McConaughey and Kate Hudson star as a divorced couple searching for hidden treasure. The two spit venom at each other through most of the film. "They were amazingly bad, and it was clear that they had complete contempt for the material," Mondello says. "It was enough to put me off the whole genre."
Mondello's Worst Science Fiction flick was an easy pick: John Travolta's salute to Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, Battlefield Earth. Travolta plays the leader of aliens who have enslaved humans in the year 3000.
"You just wanted to die while you were watching it." Mondello doesn't give it much hope of coming back as a cult classic, either. "It was long and just sort of exhausting. And it's dark and it isn't fun. You wanted it to be fun, but it's just terrible."
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121951704
First, some ground rules. The film has to have burned a big enough American audience to be worth talking about — at least 4 million people at, say, $7.50 a pop, or roughly $30 million. That excludes Paris Hilton's The Hottie and the Nottie, which only made $27,000 in the United States — though it made $1.5 million in Russia.
Second, to recognize the singular dreadfulness of each movie, we're breaking the list into categories. We'll start with Worst Romance of the Decade.
Mondello first considered Gigli, with Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez. But somehow the public knew better and stayed away from it, so it was disqualified.
"On the other hand, they did go to the Matthew McConaughey picture Fool's Gold," Mondello tells NPR's Guy Raz.
McConaughey and Kate Hudson star as a divorced couple searching for hidden treasure. The two spit venom at each other through most of the film. "They were amazingly bad, and it was clear that they had complete contempt for the material," Mondello says. "It was enough to put me off the whole genre."
Mondello's Worst Science Fiction flick was an easy pick: John Travolta's salute to Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, Battlefield Earth. Travolta plays the leader of aliens who have enslaved humans in the year 3000.
"You just wanted to die while you were watching it." Mondello doesn't give it much hope of coming back as a cult classic, either. "It was long and just sort of exhausting. And it's dark and it isn't fun. You wanted it to be fun, but it's just terrible."
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imuchorad
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Agreed.
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imuchorad
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idealist
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"weed makes shitty movies better!"
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idealist
