I followed your advise not to go and watch Sex & The City.....but now it got your vote for worst film of the year.....



....Well i'm just gonna have to watch it now.

Remember kids if you watch Sex and the City "You are helping western civilisation to collapse".

Well that’s a new method for Al Qaeda to think about in the New Year lol.

SATC was sooo bad (apparently), it'll still be the worst film by the end of 2009!



This is just a sly dig at the date of this blog entry somehow managing to be 30 Dec 2009. Sad for this to be my first entry... a criticism.

I am still yet to soil my eyes with Sex And The City. But Mark, surely you're forgetting 'The Happening' as one of the worst of '08? a film so chronic that Mark Wahlberg is up staged by a rubber plant! And it put the final nail in the coffin of M Night Showaddywaddy's formally promising career and reassured everybody that he is medically wrong in the head.

Fantastic! I love Angry Mark

I thought "The Hottie and the Nottie" was announced on Radio 5 as 2008's worst? Anyway, Merry Christmas!

Typically brilliant! Thank you Mark, your spot on summation of the year was far more entertaining than anything Guy Richie has ever produced. I'd just like to put forward the irredeemable 88 Minutes and Meet the Spartans.

On the subject of Rock'n'Rolla, I am usually an avid avoider of pop-corn in the cinema - noisiest food in an atmosphere reliant environment etc - but when I saw Richie's mockney rubbish, I ended up eating the whole way through. I had to find something to entertain myself.

How desperate must he have been for a cockney colloquialism to end up with a character called Johnny 'Quid'?

Good points, all. But I do worry about you Dr Mark. Have you ever considered beta blockers?



I'm afraid I did hand over my precious cash to see Sex and the City, and I do wish I could have it back. If only we listened to you. However, I DID thoroughly enjoy having a good tut and gripe on the way out through the foyer. Don't forget that by forbidding us to see the dregs of the box office, you deny us the sour grape juice we occasionally crave.

What a fine summary of rants in the usually passionate kermodian style to end the year 2008 ;-)



Personally, I was not that dissapointed by "Sex and the City" because I did anticipate it in the same way I think Mark is awaiting the release of the next "U2" album in 2009. The movies that shocked me more in 2008 were the ones that I had hoped to be good and failed so hard:



I think "X-Files - I want to believe" should have been mentioned as well but - like already mentioned before - "The Happening" was even a bigger failure because no only the movie itself was totally annoying but even the style of directing seemed to me so unprofessional like I haven't seen in recent years.

My nomination: 10,000 BC. There should be laws against letting Hollywood make films set in the past. This, Pathfinder and Apocalypto open the case for the prosecution.



Be afraid: Rambo and Sex in the City sequels are in production and Ritchie is doing Sherlock Holmes. (And does the world need Transformers 2?)



Given how many unimaginative, derivative and downright bad films get made a film critic’s job really isn’t that appealing. No wonder you feel anger Mark; I choose what to see, you have to endure them. Let’s hope the video therapy helps.

Why is when you try an explain to the most women how bad SATC is they excuse you of being sexist and that I only hate the film because its for women. Its not a film for women its a film for idiots. If a character in a American Pie style film soiled themself after drinking tap water from Mexico you would say they were scraping the barrel but because its a classy women from NYC its supposed to be hilarious

I reviewed SATC on my blog earlier this year with similar sentiments to the good doctor. If anyone wants to give it a read that would be great, and if Mark is in the business of replying to comments now then nothing would make me happier than a bit of feedback for an aspiring critic.

Oops, well here's the link, it may help.



https://deusexmachinafilm.blogspot.com/2008/06/sex-and-city-movie.html

I didn't go to see Sex And The City: The Movie, and I thinkg it was GREAT!

Finally some official recognition for the atrocity. New Years Eve was ruined after I made the stupid mistake of arguing that Sex in the city is in itself sexist tripe - WHY must so-called women's movies be tosh?

Well at least for the makers of Sex and the City they know that with the sequel (coming 2011) things can only get better.

Hi Mark,



I generally agree with you on most things film but the rants re Guy Ritchie should be reserved for the likes of Ron Howard and Cameron Crowe who are, in my opinion, bigger chancers than GR.

No not despair Dr Kermode. I never went to see Sex in the City : The movie, I took your advice and stayed well away from it! A friend of mine called me and asked me to go and see it with her but I held firm and flatly refused. A few weeks later I asked her about it and she said it was absolutely terrible, and she wished she had listened to me and not bothered, so there you go.



I only wish that I myself had done the same with the X Files movie, which I found to be mind-numbingly dreary.



Happy new year Dr Kermode! I look forward to reading your comments in the near future.

You're not the only one Mark.



No one else has any idea (whatsoever) what Paris Hilton is famous for either.



It's one of life's mysteries.

I loved Rambo 4.



Yes it was way too violent in places but frankly after all the action utter tosh of recent years I was so pleased to see an action film filmed how they're supposed to be filmed again.



It was such a breath of fresh air to watch a director who actually knows how to create an action film.



Michael Bay take note, this is how it's supposed to be done! Action films of the 80s were violent and had swearing.



The action films of today do not and instead give us so much CGI it makes my eyes hurt. So many action films are watered down to fit a PG-13/12A rating when really they should've been 15 or 18 rated.



It's just not fun to watch someone throw themselves of the side of a cliff face when it's clear they're really sitting in front of the comfort of a green screen. Indy 4 is a fine example, so much CGI. Oh my god!



Rambo 4 is an homage to 80s action films and I loved it.



No pain no gain!

The ending was hilarious.



Keep up the rants in 2009 good Doctor!

I nominate Cloverfield as the worst film of 2008.



I have so many problems with this film, it would take a few pages to go through everything but ask yourself at least this ONE question… how does a DV tape survive a nuclear explosion for the film to exist in the first place? How?



Its frustrating it got so many good reviews because… I just don’t get it?

Come off it, gleebe, Cloverfield was great. For a start, it is stated that the film has been retrieved from a memory card (not DV tape) and the "Hammer Down" protocol is never specified to be a nuclear explosion. If you can watch a film containing a 500 foot tall creature rampaging through New York and parasites making people explode and are most bothered by the fact that the camcorder footage survives, then I think you need to adjust your belief suspension.

Hi Mark, how are you? I have a few suggestions which could be up there in the past years cinematic torture chamber.

What about:



1. The mummy 3: tomb of the wagon whimperor



2. The X-files: I want to believe(cant change the name, i love the x-files and chris "millenium" carter too much)(it's just disappointment talking probably, but wrecking a film right at the start.)



Worst of All 3. The House Bunny, or as it should be called "murder death kill - the crappening."

All pretty good suggestions I think.

What is wrong with their faces on that 'Sex and the City' still?

Only When the Last Tree Has Died and the Last River Has Been Poisoned and the Last Fish has Been Caught, Will Sex and the City Realize that you can't eat $750 shoes or a $1500 handbag.

Mark,



I love you, but you are wrong about 'Sex and the City'.



The film certainly has flaws, it's much too long and the happy-ever-after ending in which Carrie runs into the arms of the man who has humiliated her is ridiculous (if an inevitable by-product of the TV series being shoehorned into the conventions of rom-com.)



I can see how one might find the 'Pretty Woman' style trying on the wedding dresses scene where Carrie lists off various designer labels offensive, although the recent James Bond movies don't seem to attract equivalent amounts of vitriol.



For me, the point about the Sex and the City TV series and latterly the movie is that the clothes and the men are window-dressing and plot devices respectively. It's obviously not in the realist mode, it's a comedy and its main subject is the dynamic of female friendship and it is for this reason, I would argue, that it is popular with a lot of women.



It has some great one-liners and Kim Catrall is gloriously camp.



Angelina

PhD, 34-26-36

Mark, there's four things that excludes The Exorcist II from the list of worst movies of all time:



1 - Ennio Morricone's score is quite excellent

2 - It's so bad it's actually pretty satisfying to watch

3 - Linda Blair's looks ;)

4 - Any movie with the line "I flew here on the wings of a demon" strictly cannot be the worst film of all time ;)

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Dear Mark,



While any self respecting movie goer would know that the recent wave of purile spoof movies such as Disaster Movie are in fact disasters themselves, I'd like to offer another opinion. These films are in fact genius and indeed the saviour of the multiplex. Controversial I know, but before you dismiss hear me out. I am not of course talking about the quality of the movie making because lets face there isn't any. But picture this.



You go to the cinema genuinally excited about seeing a really brilliant piece of filmmaking. The problem is its a 12a. Now of course then you get pre pubescent teens in the cinema, loud and annoying who venture to see the film that you are seeing simply because they couldn't get into the 15 or 18 rated film they hoped in vain to sneak into. They then venture into your film because its their only option and then have the audacity to proceed to talk throughout the whole film as loudly as possible throw popcorn and god knows what else at each other and then spend the rest of the time texting to their mates disturbing everybody around them.



The spoof movies then such as Disaster Movie and Meet the Spartans offer these lost souls another option in the multiplex. These kids will go see these films no matter what even if they have believed that ones they have seen before are god awful they will persist. and what with their minds being like they are they will robably find poor jokes and lame pop culture references amusing. This does mean then that it keeps them out of the films that I and the rest of us are watching. So indeed if this is what needs to be done so that I can watch a film in the multiplex in peace then so be it keep cranking them out. Like I said. Genius. I am not endorsing these films but if they keep the little brats out that's fine with me and thus they are genius and lets be honest. I'm never going to watch them.



Thank you.



Nick Savvides

i have to say this.

Being the man in your position, i believe ou have seen the film, if not i beg you to, just for the experience. Maybe it is because i played the games (yes thats right i did) and saw the potential in the cinematic storyboard to it, yet they not only failed, they destroyed the excellent story of what is probably the ONLY video game that could possibly have a decent film adaptation.

for the most terrible film i would nominate MAX PAYNE.

what a mockery....







and im not sure what year this one was releasd either, i kind of never want to think about watching this film again. But after the Hostel films (as the hyped reviews of Hostel's shock-factor left me at a level of unbearable disapointment), i was ready for Teeth, a film with a concept not even the most abysmal acting could ruin, as it would only add to the charm, the most terrible direction ever could only give the film a 'retro vibe'. HOW in GOD'S NAME did they ruin such an idea. They go on about how its inspired by the founding flicks of the early 80s in comedy horror and 'grindhouse' (etc), but is it hell!!!!! this is as much inspired by those films as MAMMA MIA is (i mean that literally). Teeth is up there with Max Payne as one of the worsed, and most of all; disapointing, films of this year...maybe 2 years?

You forgot to mention Cashback. Your description of the film alone was enough to make me convulse.

What happened? Why did they close the blog?

Boy trying to stop the downfall of western civilization. Is that a thankless job. Why because everyone in a position of power has already abased themselves before the devil. The people in power most of them are whores, that is how they got there. and good men who try and stop the downfall are usually left in a minority of one and then tortured. So should it surprise you that the end result is RAMBO 4!