Season To Be Jolly Blog

It’s very common in the corporate realm for people to give out gifts. Gifts can come in any manner and for any purpose. Some are corporate gifts given out to employees and other times people give out promotional merchandise to represent their company or product in hopes of getting the receivers of said merchandise to use their service or buy their product in the future. Actually, it is a fairly common thing in the film industry to give out gifts to movie critics at a pre screening in the hopes that maybe it will influence their review somewhat. However, there are some movies that nothing can help. Yes, some films are so poorly made that if the producers gave the critics at their pre screening each their own island in the South Pacific the reviews would still be unanimously terrible, and this is a list of some of those movies along with brief plot summaries.

The most critically detested sci-fi movie since the genre began, at least one with a budget reaching farther than $25, is one that was supposed to kick off a brilliant franchise with many different movies. However, Battlefield Earth was so terrible that fewer than 3% of critics to view the movie gave it positive reviews. With some truly ridiculous character names like Johnny Goodboy and nearly every character, including star John Travolta, donning absurd dreadlocks was there ever a chance that this movie would actually succeed?

If you obsess over stupidly formulaic romantic comedies and completely overexposed celebrity couples then the 2003 romantic comedy Gigli, starring Jennifer Lopez and then boyfriend Ben Affleck, is for you. Sadly for the producers, director, and stars of the movie it turns out that about 90 percent of America hates both of those things. The movie has a very strange plot featuring Affleck as an assassin in the mob given the task of kidnapping the son of a powerful politician and then Jennifer Lopez is a female assassin sent in to help him with the kidnapping. Obviously that all makes perfect sense, because who doesn’t think of Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez looking people when they picture hardened, career criminals?

Continuing with the trend of romantic comedies, a film called Because I Said So is another one of the worst movies of the past decade. The movie stars Diane Keaton and Mandy Moore and is allegedly about Keaton being Moore’s characters mother and trying to set her up with somebody to marry. The plot can be abbreviated in the following sentence: two people hate each other and are thrown together through extenuating circumstances, the two fall in love and live happily ever after, the end.

Despite the fact that these movies were all terrible failures as movies, that didn’t stop some of them from being successful at the box office. Horrible movies are a part of the film world and some are so bad that they have to be viewed and laughed at regardless of whether they’re actually meant to be comedies or not.