One For The Money

A proud, born-and-bred Jersey girl, Stephanie Plum's got plenty of attitude, even if she's been out of work for the last six months and just lost her car to a debt collector. Desperate for some fast cash, Stephanie turns to her last resort: convincing her sleazy cousin to give her a job at his bail bonding company... as a recovery agent. True, she doesn't even own a pair of handcuffs and her weapon of choice is pepper spray, but that doesn't stop Stephanie from taking on Vinny's biggest bail-jumper: former vice cop and murder suspect Joe Morelli - yup, the same sexy, irresistible Joe Morelli who seduced and dumped her back in high school.  Nabbing Morelli would be satisfying payback - and a hefty payday - but as Stephanie learns the ins and outs of becoming a recovery agent from Ranger, a hunky colleague who's the best in the business, she also realizes the case against Morelli isn't airtight. Add to the mix her meddling family, a potentially homicidal boxer, witnesses who keep dying and the problem of all those flying sparks when she finds Morelli himself... well, suddenly Stephanie's new job isn't nearly as easy as she thought.

This was a pretty crappy movie. I didn't expect much but I thought that the characters wouldn't be this cliche. I mean it was like drowning in lame dialogue and puns. And the slow pacing just made it that much mire painful. This is just another log on the fire of Katherine Heigl sucking.

I wouldn't recommend anyone bothering with the movies. I never read any of the books but I can't imagine them being this lame/cliche across the board.

Man On A Ledge

In the thriller, Man on a Ledge, Nick Cassidy (Sam Worthington) makes a desperate and life-threatening move to prove his innocence after he is framed for the theft of a rare, prized diamond. Recently escaped from prison and with nowhere else to go, Nick climbs onto the ledge of a towering skyscraper, inviting the eyes of New York City to anxiously watch as one wrong step could mean plunging to his death. But as one police negotiator soon learns, Nick's daredevil stunt, captivating the eyes of the public and media, masks a dangerous ploy to reveal the truth about his tarnished name.With the help of his brother and with time running out, Nick's intricate plan must work perfectly, but when you're on the 25th floor ledge of a building, going down takes on an entirely more hair-raising meaning. 

I really enjoyed this movie. Sure, you really need to shut off your brain to enjoy it because they pretty much tossed reality out the window. But the characters were interesting, the pacing was great, and the story played out well.

I would reccomend people checking this out. It's not a must see at all but was the most enjoyable movie I've seen in the movie release cesspool that is January.

The Grey

In The Grey, Liam Neeson leads an unruly group of oil-rig roughnecks when their plane crashes into the remote Alaskan wilderness. Battling mortal injuries and merciless weather, the survivors have only a few days to escape the icy elements and a vicious pack of rogue wolves on the hunt before their time runs out.

This movie was a pretty decent watch.  I have to be honest.  This is one of the most overadvertised movies I can ever remember and I'm so relieved that it's finally in theaters.  I feel like I have seen the trailer for this movie before every movie I've seen in the last 2-3 months.  As you can tell from the blog - that's ALOT of trailer views.  There were many, many times throughout the movie where I felt like I had already seen it because of how many times I viewed the trailer.  And the fact that it was one of those "you see the trailer - you've seen the movie" type of movies didn't really help either.  Regardless of my rant, the movie was definitely watchable from that struggling to survive type of mentality.  It was too melodramatic though and way too long.  If they could have cut this down to 90 minutes and more tension instead of the day dreaming stuff, I probably would have liked it a lot more. 

I would somewhat recommend this movie.  Again, it wasn't a necessarily bad watch, but if you've see the ads - you have seen the movie.

Joyful Noise

Joyful Noise is a story of music, hope, love and renewal. The small town of Pacashau, Georgia, has fallen on hard times, but the people are counting on the Divinity Church Choir to lift their spirits by winning the National Joyful Noise Competition. The choir has always known how to sing in harmony, but the discord between its two leading ladies now threatens to tear them apart. Their newly appointed director, Vi Rose Hill (Latifah), stubbornly wants to stick with their tried-and-true traditional style, while the fiery G.G. Sparrow (Parton) thinks tried-and-true translates to tired-and-old. Shaking things up even more is the arrival of G.G.'s rebellious grandson, Randy (Jeremy Jordan). Randy has an ear for music, but he also has an eye for Vi Rose's beautiful and talented daughter, Olivia (Keke Palmer), and the sparks between the two teenagers are causing even more friction between G.G. and Vi Rose. If these two strong-willed women can put aside their differences for the good of the people in their town, they--and their choir--may make the most joyful noise of all.

This movie is the dictionary definition of just there.  I can't even really say it was terrible or ok because I honestly didn't care.  The version I saw had the last 20 minutes cut off and again - I didn't care.  I'm sure it all works out in the end since the movie was textbook from beginning to the end part I saw.  The only thing that I kep saying was Dolly Parton and Queen Latifah in a movie together?  Really?

I wouldn't recommend anyone wasting their time with this movie.  It's another pointless January release.

Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close is a story that unfolds from inside the young mind of Oskar Schell, an inventive eleven year-old New Yorker whose discovery of a key in his deceased father's belongings sets him off on an urgent search across the city for the lock it will open. A year after his father died in the World Trade Center on what Oskar calls "The Worst Day," he is determined to keep his vital connection to the man who playfully cajoled him into confronting his wildest fears. Now, as Oskar crosses the five New York boroughs in quest of the missing lock - encountering an eclectic assortment of people who are each survivors in their own way - he begins to uncover unseen links to the father he misses, to the mother who seems so far away from him and to the whole noisy, dangerous, discombobulating world around him.

I still don't know what to think of this movie.  I loved the story as gut wrenching as it was.  I loved the journey of the kid and the different people he met and effected.  I loved the coming together towards the end with the kid and the mother.  However, I hated the kid.  I feel horrible saying that because A - he's a kid and B - look at what he went through in the context of the movie.  But - this was seriously one of the most annoying kids I've ever seen.  Did they have to make him so quirky?  If this is just a random kid doing this, this movie could have made my top ten.  Unfortunately, the weirdness of this kid made me want to punch someone in the face and definitely took away from the movie for me. 

I don't know that I would recommend people checking this out.  I'm baffled by the Best Picture nomination too.  Again - the story is great, but easily the most annoying child I've ever seen.

The Artist

Hollywood 1927. George Valentin (Jean Dujardin) is a silent movie superstar. The advent of the talkies will sound the death knell for his career and see him fall into oblivion. For young extra Peppy Miller (Berenice Bejo), it seems the sky's the limit - major movie stardom awaits. The Artist tells the story of their interlinked destinies.

This was a great throwback to silent movies.  I was not frustrated by the not talking at all and it kept my interest throughout.  However, I feel like that was the pull of the movie.  If this was a talking movie - it's poop.  It managed to cash in on it's one trick hook well enough for it to be an enjoyable movie.  I am having a problem though with how gaa-gaa people are for it.  Is this what we've come to?  Best picture nominations based on making a movie like they used to 80-90 years ago?  This really was a rough year I guess. 

I would definitely recommend people checking this one out.  Don't get me wrong. It is a very entertaining movie with the silent factor added in and I definitely enjoyed it.  I just am thrown off by the very high critical praise for it.

Red Tails

1944. World War II rages and the fate of the free world hangs in the balance. Meanwhile the black pilots of the experimental Tuskegee training program are courageously waging two wars at once � one against enemies overseas, and the other against discrimination within the military and back home. Racial prejudices have long held ace airman Martin "Easy" Julian (Nate Parker) and his black pilots back at base - leaving them with little to do but further hone their flying skills - while their white counterparts are shipped out to combat after a mere three months of training. Mistakenly deemed inferior and assigned only second-rate planes and missions, the pilots of Tuskegee have mastered the skies with ease but have not been granted the opportunity to truly spread their wings. Until now.  As the war in Europe continues to take its dire toll on Allied forces, Pentagon brass has no recourse but to reconsider these under-utilized pilots for combat duty. Just as the young Tuskegee men are on the brink of being shut down and shipped back home, Col. A.J. Bullard (Terrence Howard) awards them the ultimate chance to prove their mettle high above. Undaunted by the prospect of providing safe escort to bombers in broad daylight - a mission so dangerous that the RAF has refused it and the white fighter groups have sustained substantial losses - Easy's pilots at last join the fiery aerial fray. Against all the odds, with something to prove and everything to lose, these intrepid young airmen take to the skies in a heroic endeavor to combat the enemy and the discrimination that has kept them down for so long.

Did you see how long winded that synopsis was?  The movie was equally long winded.  For something that was as simple as this movie basically is - there was no need for it to be 2 plus hours long.  They put so much time in to character development but there was not a single character that I cared about at all.  This was basically a chance for George Lucas to have actual planes in action scenes instead of the flying machines of the Star Wars universe.  And he's "been working on this for years".  Really?  Because the plane fight scenes seems to have the exact soundtrack as any space battle in Star Wars.  The bad guys sounded just like Tie fighters from the Empire.  I was basically waiting for the Red Tails leader to yell "Keep on target.  Stay on target". 

No - you should not see this.  Just like you pretty much shouldn't see any movie that is released in the month of January.  It was poop.  It was a very long poop. 

Haywire

In Haywire, a female covert ops specialist (Carano), who works in the deadly world of international operatives, strikes back after discovering she's been double-crossed by someone close to her in the agency.

I was very excited to see this movie.  There was a lot of good buzz about it and the trailer made it look pretty kick ass.  Maybe my heightened level of anticipation ruined it.  Maybe the game of hilarious commentary with me and my two friends ruined it.  Or maybe the movie actually was that bad.  I don't know why everyone loves Steven Soderbergh so much.  It's like because the cast of Ocean's 11 loves him so much, everyone wants to work with him.  There really is no reason for Michael Fassbender, Michael Douglas, Ewan McGregor, Antonio Banderas and even Channing Tatum to be in this movie.  It's pretty much a direct to dvd quality of movie.  The timeline was ridiculously choppy and pretty much destroyed any ability to really get in to the movie.  The fight scenes were supposed to be very genuine/real.  Well, apprantly I need to see some special effects in fighting because the fight scenes were boring as hell and seemed to be in slow motion.  And for my final rant - what is the deal with Soderbergh loving yellow tint.  He does this in almost all of his movies.  It's as if he either has a sheet of yellow cellophane over the camera lens or has actually peed on the lens and is shooting throught it after.  Everything is tinted.  It got to a point where I started pointing it out the whole time.  I was literally pointing at the screen non-stop.

No - you absolutely should not see this.  It's garbage and a total waste of time.  Unless you are a huge fan of the color yellow.  If that is the case - this is the greatest movie of all time.

Underworld: Awakening

Kate Beckinsale, star of the first two films, returns in her lead role as the vampire warrioress Selene, who escapes imprisonment to find herself in a world where humans have discovered the existence of both Vampire and Lycan clans, and are conducting an all-out war to eradicate both immortal species.

This movie is nothing more than another entry in a franchise that has made it's entire existence during the month of January because they know that there is nothing else out there.  The funniest part of this movie is that they had to do a "previously on" type of segment to remind us viewers what the story was from parts 1 and 2 since the last entry had nothing to do with it at all.  Like I said - it's just more of the same.  There are vampires.  There are Lycans (aka - werewolves).  They fight each other and the humans.  The end.

If you like the first two entries - this is just as watchable.   If you didn't or didn't see them - why in the world would you start watching these now?

The Descendants

From Alexander Payne, set in Hawaii, The Descendants is a sometimes humorous, sometimes tragic journey for Matt King (George Clooney) an indifferent husband and father of two girls, who is forced to re-examine his past and embrace his future when his wife suffers a boating accident off of Waikiki. The event leads to a rapprochement with his young daughters while Matt wrestles with a decision to sell the family's land handed down from Hawaiian royalty and missionaries.

This was a really great movie.  The performances were awesome and it all felt very genuine on an emotional level.  As twisted as it got sometimes, you believed in the character's decisions and ability to move past situations even with the feelings attached to them.  Would this be a favorite for Best Picture in any other year?  Probably not.  Can I see it being one this particular lame year?  Yes. 

I would definitely recommend people checking this movie out.  It's very well done across the board and is a deserving favorite for most of the year end awards.

Contraband

Chris Farraday (Wahlberg) long ago abandoned his life of crime, but after his brother-in-law, Andy (Caleb Landry Jones), botches a drug deal for his ruthless boss, Tim Briggs (Giovanni Ribisi), Chris is forced back into doing what he does best--running contraband--to settle Andy's debt. Chris is a legendary smuggler and quickly assembles a crew with the help of his best friend, Sebastian (Ben Foster), to head to Panama and return with millions in counterfeit bills.  Things quickly fall apart and with only hours to reach the cash, Chris must use his rusty skills to successfully navigate a treacherous criminal network of brutal drug lords, cops and hit men before his wife, Kate (Kate Beckinsale), and sons become their target.

I am still not sure how to feel about this movie. It was definitely a decent watch but I felt disappointed because of the amount of action that was advertised. The movie was more of a drama/intrigue type of movie than an action movie. Yet there really were not any curves you don't see coming so that kind of took away from that.

I would lukewarmly recommend this movie. It is a decent watch and I still can't wrap my head around Mark Wahlberg having become a legit actor. But I think I had higher expectations for it.

The Iron Lady

The Iron Lady is a surprising and intimate portrait of Margaret Thatcher (Meryl Streep), the first and only female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. One of the 20th century's most famous and influential women, Thatcher came from nowhere to smash through barriers of gender and class to be heard in a male dominated world.

This is one of those great autobiographical performanes. Meryl Streep is great as Margaret Thatcher. However, there isn't much more substance besides that. At least there wasn't for me. Maybe history buffs would be much more in to it. What I watched was a prominent historical figure going over the events of her life while trying to come to grips with her husband no longer being alive.

I would lukewarmly recommend this movie to people solely for Meryl Streep's performance. Outside of that, the movie is just kind of there.

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

The time is 1973. The Cold War of the mid-20th Century continues to damage international relations. Britain's Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), a.k.a. MI6 and code-named the Circus, is striving to keep pace with other countries' espionage efforts and to keep the U.K. secure. The head of the Circus, known as Control (John Hurt), personally sends dedicated operative Jim Prideaux (Mark Strong) into Hungary. But Jim's mission goes bloodily awry, and Control is forced out of the Circus, as is his top lieutenant, George Smiley (Gary Oldman), a career spy with razor-sharp senses.  Estranged from his absent wife Ann, Smiley is soon called in to see undersecretary Oliver Lacon (Simon McBurney); he is to be rehired in secret at the government's behest, as there is a gnawing fear that the Circus has long been compromised by a double agent, or mole, working for the Soviets and jeopardizing England. Supported by younger agent Peter Guillam (Benedict Cumberbatch), Smiley parses Circus activities past and present. In trying to track and identify the mole, Smiley is haunted by his decades-earlier interaction with the shadowy Russian spy master Karla.  The mole's trail remains cold until maverick field agent Ricki Tarr (Tom Hardy) unexpectedly contacts Lacon. While undercover in Turkey, Ricki has fallen for a betrayed married woman, Irina (Svetlana Khodchenkova), who claims to possess crucial intelligence. Separately, Smiley learns that Control narrowed down the list of mole suspects to five men. They are the ambitious Percy Alleline (Toby Jones), whom he had code-named Tinker; suavely confident Bill Haydon (Colin Firth), dubbed Tailor; stalwart Roy Bland (Ciar'n Hinds), called Soldier; officious Toby Esterhase (David Dencik), dubbed Poor Man; and Smiley himself.  Even before the startling truth is revealed, the emotional and physical tolls on the players enmeshed in the deadly international spy game will escalate.

Was that summary confusing enough for you?  I am not going to lie. I didn't even finish watching this movie because I was so bored and had no clue what was going on. This kind of movie is so not my cup of tea. It's one of those political espionage movies with no action and it was just a whole lot of talky talky. These are second only to old english period pieces as far as killing my attention span.

My recommendation of this movie shouldn't matter. I'm sure that this is a good movie with good performances but I just didn't care at all.

The Devil Inside

In 1989, emergency responders received a 9-1-1 call from Maria Rossi (Suzan Crowley) confessing that she had brutally killed three people. 20 years later, her daughter Isabella (Fernanda Andrade) seeks to understand the truth about what happened that night. She travels to the Centrino Hospital for the Criminally Insane in Italy where her mother has been locked away to determine if her mother is mentally ill or demonically possessed. When she recruits two young exorcists (Simon Quarterman and Evan Helmuth) to cure her mom using unconventional methods combining both science and religion, they come face-to-face with pure evil in the form of four powerful demons possessing Maria.

This movie was not what was advertised. It was not a Paranormal Activity of exorcist movies. It wanted to be. It was advertised (very creepily well) as being so. But it absolutely was not. It was pretty much garbage. It was three creepy or exorcist scenes - which were all in the trailer - and a couple of people running around with a camera. There was pieces of a story thrown in there but they pretty much stopped following that after a while. And the movie just sort of ends. The theater I saw it in was packed and I can't remember the last time that an audience was so out loud pissed at a movie. I've never been happier to not be working at a theater anymore than being able to not deal with the backlash from people dropping money on this.

I wouldn't recommend anyone wasting 90 minutes of thier life on this. Ever. The crowd was near rioting at the end of this. That's how bad it was.

Young Adult

Charlize Theron plays Mavis Gary, a writer of teen literature who returns to her small hometown to relive her glory days and attempt to reclaim her happily married high school sweetheart (Patrick Wilson). When returning home proves more difficult than she thought, Mavis forms an unusual bond with a former classmate (Patton Oswalt) who hasn't quite gotten over high school, either.

This is one of those movies where you hear so much about how great it was, especially the acting performance, and you watch it saying - Really?   I'm not saying the movie was terrible.  It was decent.  But Charlize Theron got all these rave reviews for playing a egomaniacal high school prom queen who never really moved on.  That doesn't seem like it would be too much of a stretch for any actress.  I actually liked Patton Oswalt a lot more than her in this movie. 

I would somewhat recommend people checking this movie out.  It's not a must see by any means.  There are much worse things out there than this decent character drama.  And it's super short. 

The Ten Best Movies Of 2011

Honorable Mention - Just Go With It

This movie had everything going against it.  I don't like Jennifer Aniston at all.  Adam Sandler movies are all the same.  Worst pairing of a couple ever in the two of them.  However, I was wrong on all counts and this movie had me laughing my a$$ off.  I thought maybe I was just surprised by really low expectations so I watched it again and still loved it just as much.  It's my favorite comedy of a year where there were a lot of high profile ones that failed to meet expectations for me.

10.  Insidious

This movie terrified me.  The movie wasn't gory.  The movie wasn't too hokey.  It used old school fear tactics and it paid off tremndously for the first 4/5 of the movie.  Then it was completely off the wall creepy for the last 1/5 of the movie.  Lost sleep after this one.

9.  Super 8

This movie felt like such a throwback to the movies when I was a kid that Stephen Spielberg used to churn out all the time.  Those adventure movies, usually with a cast of teenagers, against crazy odds and what not.  It's a shame that I've had to wait as long as I did for a movie like this and I still feel that it didn't get the respect that it deserved. 

8.  Fast Five

Nobody is more shocked than me that this movie is on my top ten list.  I'm basing this on adrenaline alone and this movie was just pure, fun, badass, adrenaline on film.  I've enjoyed the Fast & Furious franchise for the most part but bringing in The Rock with Vin Diesel was amazing.  I can't remember the last time that I sat in a theater where the whole audience was cheering throughout the movie like that.

7.  The Adjustment Bureau

I don't know why I loved this movie as much as I did.  I've watched it a ton of times and I still can't really explain it.  It really made me think about my beliefs in a higher power and what not and that we ultimately do control our own destinies no matter what.  Too deep?  Sorry.  Like I said - this movie has some ridiculous spot with me.

6.  The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

I loved the books and this was probably the second most looked forward movie for me this year because of the combination of the story and director David Fincher.  This guy is phenomenal across the board and this movie was no different.  His attention to detail brought the character of Lisbeth Salander (one of the most complicated characters ever) to the screen perfectly.  The second and third installments of this movie are going to be awesome.

5.  The Muppets

This was by far my most anticipated movie of the year.  I have always been a HUGE fan of the Muppets and have no idea how they fell out of the spotlight for so long.  I was thrilled just to see them back and the fact that movie was actually incredibly well written that they were mocking the whole situation of them not being as famous anymore was brilliant. 

4.  Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows - Part 2

My favorite two movie franchises are Star Wars (only the original trilogy) and Lord Of The Rings.  However, Harry Potter is easily the best 8 movie franchise ever.  Think about how good these movies have been throughout and this was one of the better entries.  They stuck to the book which was great and this was literally a big ride.  This was the most action packed one and I am so lost knowing that it's over. 

3.  X-Men: First Class

Of all the high profile summer movies that came out this year, this was probably the one that I expected the least from.  I figured it would be on par with the Wolverine movie and just be a popcorn type action movie.  What I got instead was easily the best "prequel" of all time.  Why can't all the other ones or the numerous relaunches be half as good as this one.  The story was awesome, tied directly in to actual history and the character development was some of the best ever. 

2.  The Help

This movie should go on to win Best Picture this year.  The acting was top notch across the board.  The story was great with all the different classes and exploring their lines of thinking regarding racism.  What made this movie the most enjoyable was that even with the serious tone and drama thoughout, there were some of the biggest laughs in this movie at the same time.  That balance really made this an amazing watch.

1.  Warrior

I know, right?  What?  Has anyone even heard of this movie?  Well, you should!!!  I only went to see this based on a shocking recommendation from a friend of mine.  I went based solely on his word and am so glad that I did since I really only had like 10 days to see it in theaters.  This movie was so well written, directed, and acted.  I was torn in all different directions.  I felt equally bad and rooting for both brothers as the movie built towards such an awesome conclusion.  I'm sure that this movie will not be on most other's lists or any critics.  It will get no end of year recognition, but this is my favorite movie of 2011 by far.

The Ten Worst Movies Of 2011

Dishonorable Mention - Footloose

The only thing that kept this from being legitamitely in the Bottom 10 is that it also happened to be the most fun movie going experience of the year.  If it wasn't for the friends that we saw this with and ragging on the movie throughout - I probably would have walked out on possibly the worst remake of an iconic classic.

10.  The Darkest Hour

Had my list all made and then saw this absurd downward spiral of a movie about some sort of an electric end of the world assault.  It was watchable for the first half but then had people who somehow turned their houses in to farraday cages in 5 days, cats with wired suits and army guys wearing key vests.  I wish that I was kidding about all of this.

9.  30 Seconds Or Less

This is going to be on that list of horrible post Oscar nomination career choices.  How does someone come off of The Social Network to star in this?   And how does something with this much comedic talent in the cast end up like a really bad tv pilot that would have trouble getting picked up by any network?

8.  Sanctum

This was the most boring "action" movie I've ever seen.  These people are stuck in a cave trying to get out and I was fighting off falling asleep. 

7.  The Tree Of Life

This snoozefest keeps showing up on most critics Top 10 lists and is alot of their number one overall.  I don't get it.  I don't get why critics love Terrance Mallick so much.  This guy could put a 7 year old hopped up on Red Bull to sleep with his boring ass movies.  He literally films blades of grass blowing back and forth for like 10 minutes.  I can't stand this guy's movies.

6.  Apollo 18

When movies get pushed back over and over again there is usually a reason why.  I'm pretty sure that this movie was originally supposed to come out in 2010.  Got pushed to February 2011, then April 2011 and then September (the biggest wasteland of movie releases) 2011.  This was total garbage.  I liked the premise and it might have been okay if they followed the specific camera shots like the Paranormal Activity franchise.  But the random camera shots popping up just made it sillier and sillier.

5.  Shark Night

You can't just have sharks attack people anymore?  Even absurdly in a lake?  No - they had to have a bunch of hillbillies that groom the sharks and lure people there for them to kill . . . . . to put on the internet.  Oh - and tehy made it in 3D.  Total garbage.

4.  Sucker Punch

I was hoping that this would be one of the better wannabe 300 movies.  I was wrong.  The whole movie was all imaginary.  All the kick ass fighting and what not was in their heads while the girl danced the guards in to some kind of a hypnotized state.  Again - wish I was kidding here. It was so grossly overacted.  All we did was make fun of it from beginning to end. 

3.  A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas

This is really a 3 movie franchise at this point?  A franchise with a Christmas entry AND 3D effects?  Unreal.  Do I really need to go in to detail of what garbage this was? 

2.  Spy Kids: All The Time In The World

This is really a 4 movie franchise at this point?  And 3D isn't enough . . . . they needed to try and bring back scratch and sniff too?  Just watch the first 10 minutes of the movie.  I dare you.  If you can make it through Jessica Alba being pregnant and fighting off a bunch of bad guys, you are a more patient person than me.  This being a kids franchise does not excuse something this horrible.

1.  Nicolas Cage in . . . . . . . . (Drive Angry/Season Of The Witch/Trespass)

What is the f'n deal with this guy!?!  Does he purposely look for the worst possible movies.  I sat through all three of these movies (well - 2 1/2 because I couldn't make it past the first 1/3 of Drive Angry) with a look of disgust on my face from beginning to end.  The only good Nicolas Cage thing that came out of this year was catcing SNL making fun of him on one of their episodes.