Top 10 Worst Films of 2010

The Oscars are in two weeks (and two days) so I figured it's probably about time I compose my top 10 favorite films list!  But as tradition, I will post it on Oscar night!  Until then, I give you my ten least favorite films of 2010!  Because you can't have the best without having the worst!
*Spoilers in my reviews!!**


10. Cop Out

Dear Kevin Smith,
Kevin, Kevin, Kevin.  What are you doing, man?  It pains me to put this movie on this list because I love you so much, but I can't lie.  You really disappointed me this time around.  Did you really think making this movie was a good idea?  I know you didn't write it, so I can't completely blame you, but couldn't you have at least told Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan that they really weren't that funny?  Couldn't you have gotten stronger performances from them?  Especially since both of them have been funnier before.  You probably took on this project out of curiosity, to see if you could direct a script that you didn't write.  Well, I'm here to say, you probably shouldn't.  It was an honest attempt, and I give you props for trying, but let's just put this under your belt as a life experience and forget it ever happened, okay?
Love, Kim

9. Valentine's Day
I think the part that did it for me was when they revealed that Bradley Cooper and McSteamy were gay lovers.  That scene alone made me laugh so hard, I almost died.  In the scene, McSteamy, who plays a famous football player, is asleep on the couch.  He is worried about his career because he just came out on national television, shocking the American public.  Behind him is the front door to the house, and in the background, you see Bradley Cooper enter and walk up to him.  You can't see his face until he kneels down and gently wakes McSteamy.  McSteamy wakes up and looks at Bradly Cooper who says, "I saw."  (Referring to the televised press junket where he came out.)  Then they gave each other this look.  This look that was supposed to read, "I'm so glad we don't have to hide our relationship anymore.  I love you."  But instead looked more like this:
Bradley Cooper: Can you believe we have to play gay lovers in this movie?  Who the hell is going to buy that?
McSteamy: I know.  My agent told me this movie would be good for my career because Julia Roberts is in it.  I don't even have one scene with her!
Bradley Cooper: She's not that great.  Okay, you're a little too good at staring at me.  You need to stop before I start laughing.
McSteamy: What, you don't like my come hither eyes?  I do this every day on Grey's Anatomy.
Bradley Cooper: Seriously, man!  Tone it down!  Tone it down before I crack!  I am NOT re-shooting this scene again!
McSteamy: I'm trying to make our love believable!
Bradley Cooper: Dude, I'm gonna crack...like...right...now...here comes a smile...oh god...
Director: CUT!
Bradley Cooper: OH THANK GOD!
That's when I burst out laughing and realized that Valentine's Day is the most wasteful use of star power I had ever seen!

8. Remember Me

::shudders::  Words can not describe how much I hate Douchebag a.k.a. Robert Pattinson.  I rented this movie out of morbid curiosity.  I am a morbid person who kind of likes to torture herself sometimes, so I thought, what better way to satisfy my masochistic tendencies than watching Douchebag try to act for two hours?  And boy did he try his darnest!  He made tight fists with his hands when he was angry, he gave crooked smiles when he was up to something, he intensely stared at Claire from Lost when he was in love (that boy LOVES to stare!), and he brooded in corners when he wanted to be mysterious.  It was a true effort, and a massive failure.  As was the entire film.  I don't care to remember it.


7. The Last Song

I saw this movie on the plane after I had already watched all the other movies I wanted to see.  I thought, "I have about eight more hours to kill.  How bad could this movie be?  Besides, I kind of like Miley Cyrus.  She's a cute girl."  Yeah, it was bad.  I'm not a big Nicolas Sparks fan.  The Notebook is the best thing to ever come out of his works.  Every other film adaptation of his books have been the WORST definition of a chick flick, and this movie was no exception.  I'll admit that Miley Cyrus has very strong screen presence and is quite a good performer.  She isn't bad in this movie, but the movie wasn't good to begin with.  It was just filled with cliches!  Teenage girl unwillingly goes to an unfamiliar place for the summer, meets a charming local boy, gets in trouble with the local girls because she's "different," and then loses her father to cancer.  It was hard to feel any kind of attachment for any of the characters because there were no surprises!  I knew exactly what was going to happen before it happened.

6. The Back Up Plan

You know what this movie is about, right?  J.Lo decides she wants to have a baby, but still hasn't found the right man.  On the day she decides to get artificially inseminated, she meets the man of her dreams.  Cute concept, bad execution.  My biggest problem with the story is that said man of her dreams decides (without much internal conflict) to raise the child with her!  He accepts that she's pregnant with a baby that is not his, and even though they've only been dating for a few months, he totally takes on the role of father figure and goes baby shopping with her, attends lamaze classes with her, and even moves in.  I just find that a little hard to believe.  What man would do that?  Additionally, toward the end of the movie,  J.Lo has the nerve to get mad at him when he starts to get cold feet!  What does she expect?  One day he's on a date with you, and the next, he's a father!  Of course he's gonna freak out a little!  I couldn't buy it.  It just hit me that nearly the exact same situation happens in Blue Valentine, yet I found that movie to be far more believable than The Back Up Plan.  It probably has something to do with the fact that Blue Valentine is a well written film with powerful performances by exceptional actors, while The Back Up Plan is not.

5. Going the Distance

The worst thing about this movie was that it wasn't funny.  I don't think I laughed once.  Well, no.  I think I laughed once.  There's a scene in a bar where Drew Barrymore tells some dude to suck her dick.  That part got a chuckle out of me.  Other than that, I didn't laugh at all.  The supporting characters who were supposed to be the comic relief weren't comedic in the slightest.  You could tell they were trying to do the Judd Apatow style of add-libbing, except they sucked at it.  It was just painful to watch them.  Even though Drew Barrymore and Justin Long were a real couple, I didn't feel any chemistry between them.  The whole thing was just so incredibly average...but painfully so.

4. The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
Douchebag, you're two for two!!  Congratulations!  No one else on this list can claim that prize!  (Oh, wait, no.  Taylor Lautner shares that title with you, too.  Sorry, man.  You were so close!  Jacob gets in the way again!)  I hate the Twilight movies.  HATE them.  Why do I watch them, you ask?  Because they're so darn fun to make fun of!  I double dare you to watch any one of those films and NOT laugh at the offensive ridiculousness of it!  You can't!  You just can't!  The entire thing is just so over the top, dripping with school girl cheesyness that if you're not crying out of pain, you're laughing because there's really nothing else to do!  Observe the following quote:
Jacob: I'll always be waiting.
Bella: Until my heart stops beating.
Jacob: Maybe even then.
Gag me!!  That's not romantic, that's just moronic.  They're all such idiots!  They're selfish emo brats who only care about themselves.  Bella is a horrible, horrible, stupid girl, and the Edward vs. Jacob debate is the lamest love triangle in pop culture history!!  I'm actually concerned for the well being of our youth.  They can't be okay in the head if they like this sort of crap!  Please tell me I wasn't like this when I was a 14 year old girl!

3. Sex and the City 2

I still think the first movie was worse, but this one is really bad, too.  I have the entire Sex and the City TV series on DVD and still enjoy watching reruns on cable.  Whenever I do come across an episode, I get really, really angry about the movies.  The TV show was exceptional.  It was groundbreaking, funny, smart, and entertaining!  The movies are the complete opposite.  The worst part about this sequel is that (like in the first film) the characters were not acting like the characters we got to know and love on TV.  They were caricatures of those lovely ladies.  That's what makes me hate the movies the most.  As a fan, I take offense to what they did to Carrie, Charlotte, Samantha, and Miranda.  Those women were like my friends and the Sex and the City movies mocked my friends to no end!

2. The Last Airbender

The worst thing about this movie is the acting.  Wow, the acting was atrociously bad!  Some of the worst I had ever seen!  That is not only the fault of the actors, but the fault of the director as well.  Sometimes I feel really bad for M. Night.  He had arguably the most promising career back in 1999.  He had the whole world on a string and he could have had anything he wanted (as far as films go).  His name alone could draw massive amounts of people to the theater.  Now, eleven years later, his name makes people run away screaming.  He hasn't made a film as good as The Sixth Sense since The Sixth Sense, and each film he makes just gets exponentially worse.  Before, I felt like maybe M. Night still had it in him.  I don't want to believe The Sixth Sense was a fluke because it was so damn good!  A movie that good couldn't have been all luck!  It definitely requires talent, too!  So all these years, I thought, "Maybe he just hasn't found his groove back.  I still have hope that the M. Night who made The Sixth Sense is still there."  Well after The Last Airbender, all hope is lost.  All of it.  This is the last time, M. Night.  I can't keep lying to myself anymore.  This movie was beyond bad.  I don't think M. Night should make films anymore.  He just destroys everything he touches.

1. Our Family Wedding

You'd think in the 21st Century, we would have moved beyond cheap racial jokes and cliches.  Never underestimate Hollywood.  Ever since Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, they just keep telling the same damn story over and over again, just changing up the racial background of the characters.  I will give Our Family Wedding props for having the bride AND groom be minorities, though.  That was almost refreshing.  Except it made it worse because not only did I have to sit through lame black jokes, I had to sit through lame Mexican jokes as well.  The moment the goat ran into the house and ransacked all the wedding decorations, it hit me: this is the worst movie I've seen all year.


 What were the worst films of 2010 for you?