10 Most Hated Movies of 2011: Jack and Jill

Super 8 doesn't come together in the end, what with its contradictory ideas of what the alien should be, but that doesn't totally invalidate all the superb character work the actors do beforehand. And I'm a fan of Film Crit Hulk's interpretation that the "real climax" is the kids' movie in the credits. It's a good quiet story about these kids making their Super 8 film with an exciting but confused sci-fi movie sewn on.

 

That scene on the train platform, when Elle Fanning is reading the lines for the movie.... It made me remember what teenage love was all about. Absolutely beautiful scene. Not sure how anyone could hate this movie!

 

Super 8 is junk, but it's so fumbly and incoherent and ineptly written that I can't actually remember it. I saw it once when it came out in the theatre and I haven't bothered devoting a part of my memory to it. You could tell me that Eric Roberts shows up halfway through and starts crying for no reason and I'd totally believe you.

Staggering that Abrams would follow up something as polished and well-tooled as Star Trek with that muck, but yeah, I don't really think I could hate it. That would require some effort, and the film doesn't deserve it.

 

I didn't hate Super 8 but I don't think it fully delivered on the 80's nostalgia roller coaster it was supposed to be. There were times I felt it was way too forced but overall I did like the movie a bunch. Just bits here and there that didn't work for me.

 

The Tree of Life

"Hailed by critics, The Tree of Life is nearly three hours of director Terrence Malick indulging his worst impulses and torturing those moviegoers who are too smart to fall prey to a self-imposed delusion that if what they are watching is Malick, it must be deep.

His method in the film is to take the indulgences from his better movies and turn them into this movie. If I hold a shot of grass swaying for minutes on end, that's deep. Nature is awesome ? let's show volcanoes erupting for five minutes ? that's deep. Geez, bad things happen to good people ? let's say there is a way of nature and a way of grace. That's deep. And whatever you do, hold the shot for five minutes. Man, wind is nice.

Malick has grown so enamored of his own questioning of the world that he thinks he can dispense with narrative and instead show three hours of footage based on masturbatory, philosophical musings that even a stoned college student would dismiss as superficial five minutes after putting down the bong. It's a pity no one told him how embarrassing this movie is, especially since it comes from a director who gave the world three amazing movies ? Badlands, The Thin Red Line and Days of Heaven. ?Ryan Singel

Worst part: Twenty minutes of B-roll Nova documentary nature footage set to dramatic music that supposedly shows the birth of the universe, including gorillas fighting.

Redeeming feature: The unintended comedy of a low-rent CGI dinosaur showing mercy on a deerlike thing. It's supposed to be a deep moral moment that instead looks like something found on the editing floor of Jurassic Park."

 

Wow, sounds like Ryan Singel got up on the wrong side of bed. People HATE Tree of Life? It sounds to me like
RYAN hates it, but he's not everyone.

I don't think enough people even saw Tree of Life for there to be a large "hate" contingent.

 

See i liked Tree of Life. At times it was incredibly trying and arduous to get through, though in other moments it had some of the most real, true to life family interactions of any movie i'd ever seen.

While i think i did grasp the film's ultimate message (that it is possible to build a bridge between nature and grace?) the road getting to that point was sometimes trying.

I am glad I watched "TREE OF LIFE", but i don't think i would ever watch it again.

I'd definitely say it is Malick's most personal film?


Surprised to say i actually found "MELANCHOLIA" to be an infinitely more re-watchable film.

 

I agree. The first time I saw Melancholia I didn't know if I saw a clear line between what was good and what was pretentious about it. But the second time through it really made an impression. I now have a theory for the sharp contrast between the lightness of the first part and the heaviness of the second, and I think I "get" the movie now. It's entirely fair to say that some movies are smarter than I am, and this was one of them. If so, Tree of Life is so much smarter than I am that I'm a bit lost. Or maybe I just find Malick's presentation of spirituality to be somewhat trite. I don't know. I still can't make a determination about it.

 

I really can't argue with its placement here. I can't blame people for calling it pretentious, because it may very well be. I call it the best film of 2011, with no hesitation at the moment.

 

Low-rent CGI dinosaur... deer-like thing...

Sorry. It was a pretty silly bit of filmmaking, though.

 

I think The Tree of Life is far more interesting and accomplished than Melancholia, which is staggeringly inert (except for the titular planet, I guess). Malick's film is a wheel in perpetual motion, with a beautiful mix of image, sound, and music. I think it's something that will get better with each viewing, but I can't see myself rushing back, for whatever reason. I'm not an avid Malick fan, but I think what he puts up on the screen is really worthwhile, which is more than can be said for most of the ugly crap that is shoved into the multiplex.

 

The Adjustment Bureau

I understand that "based on a story by Philip K. Dick" is Hollywood-speak for "no third act," but still, after setting up a perfectly acceptable universe where destiny is controlled by bureaucratic angels in hats, couldn't you at least try to have an ending? I mean, other than, "Er ... um ... and then they all live happily ever after!" ?Adam Rogers

Worst part: Wait: They get their magic, city-teleporting powers from the hats?

Redeeming feature: I gotta say, Matt Damon sells it.

 

If you make it into the story at all, then I think "why not hats?" is sort of the only answer. I liked the movie, not because I thought it was great but because I tried to re-imagine it in my head as a romantic fantasy/comedy a la Groundhog Day. That movie in my head was awesome; it was so tongue-in-cheek and clever and funny. I laughed and laughed.

 

I really enjoyed The Adjustment Bureau, as well. Sure, it has some problems, but it certainly shouldn't be one of the ten most hated movies of 2011.

 

I just don't understand this one. I really liked Adjustment Bureau. I thought it was a cool movie. Especially since it was different and not much in Hollywood these days is different.

 

I saw the hats as symbolic of God's authority to perform certain exceptional actions in association with the plans. I thought it was a simple was to convey a profound thought. Though, the transferability, without regard to merit, of the hat is where things break down.

I liked TAB quite a bit. It was interesting, fun, paced well, and it has Roger from Mad Men in it.

 

I thought it was decent enough, not a great film but it entertained me. Parts of it gave me a "Dark City" vibe although it wasn't anywhere near as good as Dark City was. I don't think it belongs on this list at all.

 

It's not a good film, but the chemistry between Damon and Blunt should prevent it from being hated.

 

It's not that The Adjustment Bureau is a particularly good film, but there are just so very many movies more hate-able from last year than this list so far, though most of those are ones everyone knew would be bad. This seems to be a list of the most disappointing movies-worth-having-expectations-for.

 

The Green Hornet

"What a waste of talent. Michel Gondry made the excellent Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind but the French director's quirky humor failed to translate on just about every level in this comic book-inspired movie. The usually reliable Seth Rogen starred, produced and co-wrote the flick, but the jokes felt forced and the Green Hornet's relationship with sidekick Kato grew tiresome. The 3-D conversion did nothing to redeem Rogen's unlikable rich-boy schlub, a character whose unrelenting narcissism came across as unpleasant rather than funny.?Hugh Hart

Worst part: Christoph Waltz's pallid villain Chudnofsky. Coming off his Oscar win as the ingeniously twisted Inglourious Basterds bastard, Waltz must have tried to do something interesting, but his flat character never said or did anything remotely original.

Redeeming feature: Cameron Diaz injected an engaging spark of humanity into what was otherwise a standard "girlfriend" role."

 

I remember basically nothing about Cameron Diaz's performance in this movie, so I'm not convinced that it's a redeeming feature. A better pick would be the creative split-screen scene, which is Green Hornet's one flash of inspiration. There's also the scene upfront which has my favorite example of James Franco being weird since this happened:

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I thought it was kinda funny. Completely disposable, but there are some really good gags in there, including the fact that the protagonists deliberately turn the love interest into the criminal mastermind without her knowing it.

 

Another movie that was kind of bad but I didn't hate it. The 3D was kind of cool in spots like someone else previously mentioned. I like the Kato vision scenes. Diaz looks older and older every movie she is in, the flirty young girl act she plays will not last much longer.