5 Worst films you seen in a theater.

I like Attack of the Clones too, but I certainly don't love it.

Those two listed are the only films I’ve given 0/10

The interesting thing is that I really haven't seen too many bad movies in the theater. Most of the crappy ones I see are either on DVD or streaming.

Baby Geniuses- Granted, I was five years old when I saw it in the theater, and I loved it at that age. But having seen it again more recently, it really is one of the worst movies I've ever seen.

The Green Inferno- It's certainly not Eli Roth's worst movie, but it's the only one I ever saw in the theater, and it just blows.

The Campaign- Just generally unfunny. Probably the worst comedy I've seen in the theater, but I tend to avoid the Adam Sandler and Tyler Perry crap like the plague.

Pain & Gain- Again, like Eli Roth, this is probably pretty far from Michael Bay's worst movie, but it's the only one I ever saw in the theater. Honestly though, this one's pretty fun as I recall. It almost reaches so-bad-it's-good levels of incompetence. It definitely didn't piss me off anywhere near as much as any of those godwaful Transformers sequels.

The Lovely Bones- This has to be one of the biggest wastes of potential in a movie I've ever seen. It's a great director working with a pretty interesting premise, an exceptionally creepy turn from Stanley Tucci, and some pretty gorgeous visuals. And yet somehow it's just terrible from start to finish. It's pretentious, the tone is all over the place, it features what is easily the worst performance of Mark Wahlberg's career (yes, I'm counting The Happening; and no, I didn't plan for two different Wahlberg movies to pop up on my list, but here we are...) In more than a decade I have never for the life of me been able to figure out what the hell Peter Jackson was thinking when he made this piece of crap.

Anger Management - Never been a huge fan of Adam Sandler, but I thought Jack Nicholson might elevate his material a little. I was wrong.

Burn After Reading - By far the worst, most annoying Coen movie I've seen so far.

Savages - A brilliant book by Don Winslow got turned into a dumb and boring mess.

Die Hard 5 - The Die Hard franchise hit rock bottom with this abomination

Vice - I like Christian Bale, but his pantomime performance in this tragically unsubtle piece of political propaganda was embarassing

We have a few film festivals here every year (well, before 2020 anyway) and I always try to catch some of the films in exhibition. But with festivals it is tricky, because sometimes the short description in the programme makes it sound really interesting but when you actually watch it, you find it is crap. That’s happened to me a number of times over the years – but those are movies that nobody has heard about, so even if I could remember their names it would be pointless to list them here.

If I restrict myself to movies I’ve watched in commercial theatres, it is not often that I watch something really bad. I do go to the movies on average more than once a week (again, before 2020 anyway) but I am selective in what I choose to watch, so I generally avoid things that I know I will probably not like. There are a few exceptions though:

- Movie 43. The all-star cast in this collection of comedy sketches had me fooled.
- The Beach Bum, with Matthew McConnaughey. God, that was painful. I could not stay until the end.
- Toni Erdmann, a German movie that was widely praised and that I thought was Scheisse
- One of the “Fast and Furious” movies – the only one I watched, but I don’t remember the number. I always avoided those movies because they are just not my thing, but the previews for this one made it look pretty spectacular so I thought I’d give it a shot. I won’t be making that mistake again with F&F.

I have no doubt that having The Green Mile on my list would be very unpopular, but the truth is I just can't stand that movie.