ROTTEN TOMATOES: Worst-reviewed films of 2010
Our overview: the worst films of 2010
The Razzies picked: Vampires Suck, The Last Airbender, The Bounty Hunter, Sex and the City 2, and Eclipse.
The first three are obviously good choices. They were the three worst-reviewed films of the year, per RT, and finished 1-3-5 in our analysis. Sex and the City 2 is also a strong choice because was surrounded by hype and failed in all respects. It finished just off the RT list with 16% positive reviews, and finished 7th in our analysis.
I don't know why they chose Eclipse. It is rated a respectable 4.8 at IMDb and received 50% positive reviews, which would make it the best-reviewed film of Ashton Kutcher's career. Meanwhile, a true Kutcher Klassic, The Killers, failed to make the Razzie list, despite only 11% positive reviews. The Killers finished #6 on our own "worst" list, which was impressive considering that a truly deserving Razzie nominee like Sex and the City 2 could do no better than 7th! While The Killers would have made a good replacement for Eclipse on the list, our overview showed an even more worthy candidate: Furry Vengeance, which ranks lowest of any major 2010 film on IMDb. (Yes, even lower than Vampires Suck.)
Of the seven films mentioned above, I have seen only two this year, and only made it all the way through one of them! That's unusual. Normally there are lots of really bad films with nudity.
The one I saw was The Bounty Hunter, and I'm almost embarrassed to say that I watched it to the end. To be honest, I found it merely mediocre rather than awful. Hey, it could have been worse. How? One word: Kutcher. (In fairness to the Razzies, they did give Kutcher a double nomination for Worst Actor, which is about all they could do, considering that he was only in two movies! And in fairness to Kutcher, I liked one of his pre-2010 movies, The Butterfly Effect, although the critics generally did not.)
The 2010 film I gave up on was Sex and the City 2. I had to watch part of it because Kim Cattrall had a brief topless scene (yawn!) and the gorgeous Alice Eve wore a see-through top (yum!), but those scenes were both in the first half-hour of the film, so that's all I watched. I just couldn't take any more. That film was truly atrocious. It's one of those rare movies that make your jaw drop with disbelief as you wonder whatever convinced somebody that the scenes you are watching were worth filming. I still don't know why such a valuable franchise couldn't hold off until they got a decent script. Somebody made a grave miscalculation with that one.
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