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By Adam Wilcox

Adam Wilcox; tea drinking Brit with fondness for the media and tech.
18 Aug 08

Movies of 2007: The Bad

Last year, I started to keep a record on Flickr of all the films I watched. This was inspired by the insanely active movie watcher Peter Noster I had planned to blog about this over Christmas/New Year, but due to the fact that I was working all over the festive period I forgot all about it until now.

I've broken the film list into three parts, complete with brief Kermodian style reviews. Today, the worst films I saw in 2007.

Just Disappointing

Run Lola Run IMDB
Sadly, this movie didn't live up to the hype.

The Bad

The Painted Veil IMDB
Thoroughly depressing.

Black Snake Moan IMDB
Didn't like it. Chaining people up, preaching at them, and singing the blues is not the way to win me over.

Mr Bean's Holiday IMDB
Less funny than having your eyes gouged out with a blunt pencil. My full review.

Transformers IMDB
Big, Noisy, Dumb. I was not surprised that the Transformers movie failed to transform into anything decent.

Spider-Man 3 IMDB
Less funny than having your eyes gouged out with a blunt pencil.

Bridget Jones Diary IMDB
Girly tosh.

The Pursuit of Happyness IMDB
So monumentally depressing, not helped by the fact that I find Will Smith so very, very annoying. Frankly I would not have watched this black hole of enjoyment, were it not for the fact that it is my job and I am paid to do it.

The Queen IMDB
I agree with Kermode- this was a telly movie, certainly not worthy of the critical praise it received. I was only 11 when Diana died, so I didn't really grasp what all the fuss was about at the time. Did little but confirm my views that the Queen is an anachronism.

The Worst Movie of 2007

St Trinian's IMDB
Awful. Just appalling, morally reprehensible, idiotic, and stupid. I am more than open to adult movies, but not in what is advertised as a children's film... Prostitution, casual drug use, and adult themes- how it got a 12A, I do not understand. This is yet another 'brit com' movie that proves the British film industry is well and truly dead, and good riddance to it.

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