The10 most Horrible Movies of 2013- Yahoo
We take no joy in trashing the work of others, which is why even though our list of The Best Movies of 2013 is 25 films deep, and the list below is only 10.
Still,
some movies leave such a bad aftertaste that crafting a list of the
year's biggest stinkers felt like a professional responsibility.
From
unfunny comedy to laughable sci-fi to depressing, franchise-tainting
action, here are the movies we enjoyed the very least this year.
The third (and thankfully final) installment in director Todd Phillips's
lucrative franchise played more like a dark, humorless action film than
a compelling, guys-gone-wild comedy. Stale characters, lack of a
narrative, and an excessive amount of animal cruelty jokes made many
realize that the Wolfpack should have been euthanized after the first,
unnecessary sequel. —Matt Whitfield
9. "Oldboy"
Whatever new and unique ideas Spike Lee and Josh Brolin attempted to
bring to their "reinterpretation" of Park Chan-wook's 2003 film were
quite literally lost in translation. With or without spoiling the film's
oh-no-they-didn't twist, Chan-wook's original explores the twisted,
dark depths of human nature and survival instincts in a compelling,
artistic fashion; Lee's version hits the exact same notes but in an
oddly paced, flat and off-putting fashion. —Kara Warner
Adam Sandler stars in yet another a goofball, lowbrow, bro-tastic comedy
… and it's a sequel! Just because fish-out-of-suburbs "Grown Ups 2"
made decent dough, raking in $246 million worldwide, doesn't mean it's good.
Critics panned the heck out of it for its predictable raunch and
overall laziness. We just think bringing the guys together again in
their hometown — heck, in any setting — is a horrendous idea. —Meriah Doty
6. "Machete Kills"
No es bueno. No es bueno at all. Let us first state that we were huge fans of the first "Machete" (in fact, it was on this writer's year-end Top 10 list), a "Mexploitation" romp that was way better than it had any right being. The first go-round with Danny Trejo's unhinged vigilante was absurdly entertaining; "Machete Kills" is just absurd, and feels like a cheap imitation of the original. We beg you, Robert Rodriguez, do not move forward with the possible threequel, "Machete Kills Again … In Space." It looks unwatchable. —Kevin Polowy
5. "Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters"
You can almost see the wires the witches are hanging from when they "fly" to rustle up trouble with Hansel and Gretel. (Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton, what were you thinking!?) It reads like a studio exec's "hurry-up-and-capitalize-on-fairy-tales-trend" gone terribly awry, with awful stunts and cheesy effects. Rivaling the horridness of one of film's worst movies "The Room," "Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters" is watchable in the vein that it's so tremendously bad it's good. —Meriah Doty
You call this "The Lone Ranger"?!
More like The Lame Ranger! (Zing!) Johnny Depp and director Gore
Verbinski tried fruitlessly to recreate the thrill-ride magic they had
on the first "Pirates of the Caribbean" movie set in the classic Western
backdrop. Furthermore, Captain Jack Sparrow as the beloved Tonto not
only didn't work, but it was in questionable taste. Even the energetic
classic "Lone Ranger" theme music (otherwise known as Rossini's "William
Tell Overture") wasn't exciting enough to get this train to leave the
station. —Breanne L. Heldman
With a seemingly interesting premise and one of our favorite actors,
this Smith family affair showed a lot of promise. Unfortunately it also
showed Jaden trying to be an action hero, the flattest performance Will
has ever delivered, and a disheartening lack of heart. If you're going
to put a giant video game up on screen — and a sterile, boring one at
that — at least give us a joystick to play along and try to veer the
story away from the completely predictable. —Adam Pockross
2. "Movie 43"
In the spirit of this "comedy"
anthology featuring an ensemble of embarrassed actors, we'll turn to an
ensemble of critics (we couldn't possibly top these respones): "Utterly
disgusting" (Entertainment Weekly); "'Movie 43' is the 'Citizen Kane' of
awful (Richard Roeper); "Deadly dull, unfunny, offensive" (The New
Yorker); "The ugly stinking maw of a Hollywood system that thinks you're
an idiot" (Film.com); "As a film critic, I've seen nearly 4,000 movies
over the last 15 years. Right now, I can't think of one worse than
'Movie 43'" (New York Daily News). —K.P.
It's bad enough this bloated behemoth blew up Budapest (Moscow's stunt
double) in lieu of a script (when did John McClane become a spy
exactly?), but to sully the good name of one of action's most beloved
franchises is just too much to ignore. And while even McClane on his
best day couldn't save this mailed-it-in stinker, at least Bruce Willis
could have tried. —A.P.
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