The Worst of 2007
Posted on December 29th, 2007 in Uncategorized | 8 Comments »
The Washington Post has a list of the worst movies of 2007. (Great idea!)
The consensus choice?
“Because I Said So,” starring Diane Keaton and Mandy Moore.
Yes! I happened to see that movie on HBOâwell, I agreed to see itâand it was so excruciatingly, unbearably bad, I wanted to write Diane Keaton and ask her to pay me for having watched it. The scene where Keaton tries to use the computer, somehow types in the URL for a porn site, and her golden retriever gets all fired up…excruciating.
Other winners: “The Number 23,” “The Reaping,” with Hillary Swank (I saw that one too!), and “Norbit.”
My own nomination: “Knocked Up.” Uh-huh: Katharine Heigl is really going to try to make it work with Seth Rogen, just because she got drunk one night and slept with him. The politics of this movieâwhich literally could not bring itself to say the word “abortion”âwere Neanderthal, as Heigl herself admitted in a recent Vanity Fair profile. (It’s also the only movie I know of which accepted product placement from a porn site.) Was there a more inane, more offensive, and just plain stupider movie of 2007?
8 Responses
12/29/2007 9:59 am
How about ‘I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry’ and ‘Music and Lyrics’ ? Ok, so I just saw only parts of these movies, then I left the room. I couldn’t take it. Personally I think the worst movies ever were “The 40-Year-Old Virgin” and “Something about Mary”. I walked out of both of those movies, too. But people love those movies. I just don’t get it. Makes my skin crawl.
eayny
12/31/2007 10:56 am
8:59 — Are you, perchance, a woman? That would most certainly explain it.
Rich, you’re being too harsh about Knocked Up. Indeed, the animus you work up is a little suspect. If we eliminated every work of literature that took artistic license we wouldn’t have any literature. Your criticism of the movie’s politics as “Neanderthal” also rings a little hollow. Were you really unable to enjoy the movie for that reason? As I recall, you have no problem with movies in which albino monsters who live in dark caves methodically devour scrumptious young women. (Of course, you’re going to say, “But the women fought back! And one of them survived!” Yeah, but it was sure fun to see the other ones getting eaten — put that into your Freudian pipe and smoke it.) Here’s what I think: you didn’t like the movie because it bothered you that the moviemakers would even suggest that ayoung woman as comely as Heigl would give a moment’s thought to a rotund loser like Rogen’s character. I suspect you prefer a world in which it is a given that the purity of the Nordic ideal of beauty must be maintained.
12/31/2007 1:22 pm
Yes, 9:56, I just checked, I am a woman. However, I think my movie preferences are purely subjective because many of my female friends liked and enjoyed these movies. But thanks for asking.
eayny
12/31/2007 2:35 pm
Ok, but just saying. That would be one explanation (i.e., revulsion for staying power of male adolescence). And I would cast a skeptical eye on those female friends of yours. They’re probably the kind of “babes” that guys like. I.e., sloppy drunks.
12/31/2007 3:07 pm
Oh my! What an sweeping generalization! No, they aren’t ‘sloppy drunks’, but they are quite likable. I like them. They just have a more indelicate sense of humor and a lower empathy factor, I think. Much like those people who laugh when someone falls down. Very common reaction, but I don’t laugh at that. Mostly I worry if the person is hurt or embarrassed. Which is why those movies bother me.
eayny
12/31/2007 3:28 pm
9:56, that is just hilarious. Nordic purity? Good one….
No, any thinking person can see that it’s an insult to women to suggest that Katherine Heiglâintelligent, attractive, independent, thoughtful, matureâ would have stuck with Seth Rogen, who was none of those things. But apparently getting “knocked up” so overwhelms a woman’s judgment that none of that matters.
12/31/2007 3:29 pm
Also, 9:56, you’re probably the kind of person who laughs when someone drops their tray in the cafeteria.
1/1/2024 12:13 pm
Well, Rich, at least I know the difference between writing about something on one’s blog and actually living it. And as for the other issue, I grew up on the Three Stooges, so I plead guilty all the way down the line. Walk Hard!