Films I didn't like in 2009

Hello,

As good as 2009 was, it did have it’s fare share of films I didn’t like, note I didn’t like, as bad as I think a film is someone somewhere will like it, and even as good as a film is people won’t like it. So I won’t call them bad films!

Some films just outside the list,

Fame – not really a remake but fell short by trying to tell the story of too many kids.

2012 – Stunning visually, cheesy hokum for the rest of it!

Angels and Demons – Didn’t like the first and this seemed more of the same, but was a little better.

Transformers 2 – Stunning visually, but no character involvement and the story was terrible along with a bad script.

So on to my list of films I didn’t like in 2009

10. New Moon

WOW! This was poor; the 2^nd in the saga and nothing has improved over the first one. The script is terrible, the acting is terrible, the action is terrible and I still hate the fact a vampire sparkles in sunlight.

9. Final Destination 3D

I like the final destination films, but I think the life has been drained out of this franchise. The 3D was ok in this film, and due to the more elaborate death scenes it work pretty well. The film followed the same formula, but tried to use the best scenes from the previous 3 films, so in the end it didn’t really have its own identity, just a mash of the best of the rest! The acting was ok, the script ok, but I liked to opening death sequence on the race track, much better than the rollercoaster!

8. My Bloody Valentine 3D

Horror films have really grasped the new 3D, but they need to do more than just through bits of flesh at you. I know it’s gimmicky and it does lend itself well to gore flying out of he screen, but after a few jaws and eye balls flying at you it quickly loses it’s fun. This film was a typical teenage horror film, poor script, pretty obvious story and mediocre death scenes.

7. Gamer

The best thing in this was the villain, Michael C Hall was great! And that’s where it stops, well Butler was ok. But the editing was terrible; the SIM city side of the film was terrible, even the action game wasn’t much better. As this was a social satire of the gaming world it wasn’t a bit funny. This should have been so much better.

6. Surrogates

Another film with so much potential and then it fell flat on its robot face! Willis was Willis, the script was terrible, it seemed a miss mash of films with not one clear idea what it wanted to say or do.

5. Lesbian Vampire Killers

I don’t watch anything these two do and after this I doubt I will do. This film had the potential to be funny, with some scares and some descent women action. All we got were two idiots trying to be funny, and not really delivering anything what the title of the film implied.

4. Halloween 2

Rob Zombie’s new take on Halloween wasn’t too bad, however he let the ball go with the follow up and for some reason I’ve heard they are planning a 3^rd one. Anyway this was a wasted opportunity, poor story telling was the problem here, it didn’t seem to flow, and the supernatural element didn’t work for me. There were a couple of good scene’s but no really tension or scares.

3. Jennifer’s Body

Was my expectation too high, Megan Fox and Amanda Seyfried in a dark horror-comedy with the wit of Heathers and Mean Girls and a boy eating demon, written by Diablo Cody. How could this fail?

Well it did, spectacularly! From the not very funny script, to some of the worst horror editing ever. The two girls did ok, and the story was ok, but the execution and the script were terrible, even the kiss didn’t perk it up!

2. The Spirit

After the brilliant Sin City and 300, the next comic novel to be adapted was The Spirit; I liked the look of this from the trailer. Good grief how wrong I was, I just couldn’t get past the stupidity of it all, even trying to tell myself what was on screen was in the artwork and script, it just didn’t work for me. The acting was generally ok, except the villains who seemed to be way over the top, in-fact it was the villains that ruined it for me, not a patch on Sin City or 300.

1. Giallo

A frightfest film and one which had so much potential however it soon fell apart when the killer spoke, and from that point it went downhill with every silly line, and poor plot turn. Not to mention the acting, not helped by a woeful script, the actors fell down the hill with the film. Even the cinematography was terrible; I can’t recall the music so that must have been poor too.

SO THE FILM I LIKED THE LEAST LAST YEAR WAS GIALLO!