Monday, December 26, 2011

Cinematic Underachievers of 2011.

A list of movies in no specific order (some of them from highly-regarded directors) which were subpar for various reasons, i.e. not enough time or money or too much time and money or massive post-production tampering or overpretentious or underthought.

1. THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO 2011
2. MEEK'S CUTOFF
3. SUPER
4. COWBOYS AND ALIENS
5. A DANGEROUS METHOD
6. THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU
7. BEGINNERS
8. DREAM HOUSE
9. GREEN LANTERN
10. THE TREE OF LIFE (somewhere, there's a good 100-minute film to be assembled from the alleged eight-hour version Malick's been touting.)
11. WE BOUGHT A ZOO (family sitcomish Aline Brosh McKenna script--she's best known for THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA screenplay married to Cameron Crowe trotting out all his Greatest Cinematic Hit Characters/Motifs, proving that Crowe-as-filmmaker only had one masterpiece--SAY ANYTHING--and one near-masterpiece--ALMOST FAMOUS--in him)

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