Worst films of 2005

Napoleon Dynamite.....WTF was that about??????? I felt like i'd been robbed of my precious life and money. It was so bad! No storyline and bad characters don't add up to a decent film.
 
Worst Films
League of Gentlemen Apocalypse
Life Acquatic of Steve Zissou

Biggest Letdown
Star Wars

Overrated Film IMO
a History of violence
 
Have to agree that Revolver was the worst film of 2005. Don't have a clue what was going on and not even sure wot the plot of the film was. :confused:
Although Andre Benjamin was good in the film and played his part well.
 
The same thing he was thinking when he signed on the dotted line for Deep Blue Sea !

Revenge of the Sith was probably the worst I seen last year. The first 30 mins of this flick were a f'cking parody! I don't think I've heard dialogue this bad in any movie of any sort. My initial fears (among high hopes otherwise) surrounded the fact it would be a 2hr blue-screen movie and I would be taken out of the action left, right and akimbo every time the blokes at 'Skywalker Ranch' would be pushin' the boundaries of animation, erm, I mean digital effects. Not so! It was digital blasphemy (good website, btw) from the get-go - I was more immersed in the large Coke I was drinking. Any vague emotional attachment achieved [toward the characters] approaching the end was derived from feelings I had gained for the players in the original trilogy.

Almost forgot the scenes shamelessly yanking at the heart-strings by recreating iconic images of yesteryear. Shocker!

Also thought A History of Violence (although a pretty decent movie) was overrated. The same goes for Crash - thought that was rather pretentious and a very poor mans Magnolia (which in itself is a reworking of Short Cuts).


Haven't seen Life Aquatic of Steve Zissou yet, but nearly bought it yesterday. Do you like Wes Anderson's other movies, Newkid?
 
Numpty - I loved all his other movies, and saw Life Aquatic at a preview at a film festival - was soooooo excited!!

However, I may be a bit harsh as I was so disappointed by it, If I saw it again I might not mind it as much, but at the time I was not impressed.

The other ones worked easier for me, the sets etc were all great, but the humour, I found very forced.
 
Biggest disapointment - War Of The WorlRAB. With Spielberg directing and Cruise in the starring role, how could this fail to be an action adventure masterpiece? To me, this flopped on all accounts and the only good thing about the movie was the special effects. Everyone I know who has seen it, loved it but I was left cold and bored by the film.

Worst film of 2005? Green Street. Good grief, I cannot believe I spent 105 minutes watching this tripe last night. Elijah Wood as a football hooligan? I like the guy but he looks to be the type who could not fight his way out of a paper bag. Green Street is full of cliches from start to finish and I guessed what was going to happen all the way through - including the inevitable...

West Ham meeting Millwall in the cup, meaning a spot of rioting between the two groups before kick off. Before the film I had a feeling Millwall would be involved in one way or another and I was right...

Honestly, do not bother wasting your time with this and if you really want to see it, wait until it is on Sky. I thought The Football Factory was mediocre, but Green Street makes TFF look like a blockbusting Hollywood epic.
 
I don't remember seeing anything truely awlful this year (or if I did I've repressed the memory :D ) but there were a few that disappointed...

War of the WorlRAB - Was pretty thrilling. Okay acting, great effects. Unfortunately it seemed to go 'beginning, middle, middle, middle, middle. middle, credits'. Where was the ending? Why did the climax turn out to be such an anticlimax?

Fantastic Four - Comic book movie by numbers. Suffers vastly in comparision to the others in it's genre (Batman Begins, Spiderman, X-men, Hellyboy...)

Narnia - I love this book, I should love this film. But it all felt very sterile to me. Even the big battle. It couldn't seem to decide what film it was or who it's audience were (kiRAB, family, adults). I was expecting to be blown away and all I got was a light breeze!
 
I have to take issue here; the ending is the same ending as the book - ie a classic piece of english literature. And it's a much better ending than "the americans blow them all up with missiles"!

The fact that the microscopic organisms - something that the human race has itself battled and come to terms with through millions of years of evolution - was the one thing the aliens could not cope with when they just turn up, is an incredibly intelligent and beautiful concept

Having said that, the middle bit - with Tim Robbins - does drag a bit.
 
I know what you mean! :D

But I don't think that ending works on screen the same way it does on the written page. I didn't even realised it was the end until the credits came up - there was no sense of drawing towarRAB a conclusion. It just felt like there should be a tag scene on the end. I think it was a problem of pacing rather than the source material.
 
Get rich or die trying - Why did i bother with this? I hate 50 Cent anyways. I must have been drunk or depressed that day.

Truly a work of a crappy artist, if artist is even a word to describe him.
 
Alexander was a no no for me(except for the action/cinematography), awful, miscast film. And it makes me sad to say, but Angelina Jolie gave a cringeworthy performance... :( and I love her in films.
 
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