This far into a ‘worst movie of 2002’ thread with no mention yet of Madonna’s Swept Away? Shocking.
I haven’t seen <I>The Truth About Charlie</I> or <I>Master of Disquise</I> or <I>xXx</I> or most of the other movies mentioned in this thread, but I HAVE seen <I>Reign of Fire</I> and I find it hard to believe any movie could contend seriously with it for “Worst of 2002.”
Well, I thought One Hour Photo was really good. I haven’t seen any of the other “bad” movies listed here, although just the title " Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever" kept me away.
I have to agree, TTAC was so awful my date and I actually laughed at inappropriate times, talked, and gestured wildly at the screen in disbelief. This is absolutely unheard of for me, I’m normally Mr. Polite in the theater. You don’t hear a peep from me except laughing at the funny parts.
An example: The chick is following Wahlberg (spy) who walks into a store and picks up a wrapped gift package. We don’t know who the package is for, or why he’s picking it up. She calls the store on her cell and asks for Mr. XYZ. Wahlberg answers to XYZ (his REAL name), even though he is supposed to be someone else (remember he’s a spy). She realizes he’s been lying to her the whole time so… she runs INTO the store and confronts him. After yelling at him for a while, she takes the package and runs out of the store.
I looked at my date and said “Did she just take the package? Why did she do that?” She’s running down the street carrying this wrapped gift, which isn’t hers and has no relevance to the story whatsoever. The is nothing IN the box of relevance, the box plays no part in the story, but she’s running around Paris carrying it. WTF?
Add to this nonsense the fact that these people travel all over Paris and everybody (even the crazy mother in law) seems to wind up in the same place at the same time, all the time. It’s like they travel around the city in a chartered bus or something.
AND… the stamps thing. The vaunted Paris police department didn’t notice that the “stamped” envelope didn’t have regular French stamps on it? They’re different sizes and colors and are OLD fer chrissakes! Sure, I didn’t notice, but that’s because I don’t know what a French stamp looks like.
Has no one seen “feardotcom”?
Good, keep it that way.
Blech.
In this category, I’d have to nominate Signs.
Definitely Signs. I think I’m repressing all memories of it.
Yep. Poor Stephen Rea. I did manage to narrowly miss Swimfan however. Whew. I’m glad the perils of this new-fangled Internet business are getting high artistic treatment. :rolleyes: 
Spiderman. God, did that suck. One of the few films I’ve every walked out on.
I don’t believe you can claim any of these films are the worst of the year when that year includes Pluto Nash.
'Nuff said.
I don’t believe you can claim any of these films are the worst of the year when that year includes Pluto Nash.
'Nuff said.
Did you see Swept Away?
I did. Saw it twice and will buy the DVD. Great movie!
You’re pretty much the fan club, then. Sony isn’t even releasing it in the UK:
I dunno, I suspect that WSLer has guess it and that Sandler’s new animated movie will top the list. But I also want to nominate 8 Mile.
David Manning, is that you? 
As for the OP, it has been a while, so I’ll forgive you if you have successfully exorcized the demon that is Rollerball from your minds.
I haven’t.
It was ok, as long as you don’t mind that the “romantic” dialogue was obviously written by love sick 12-year-old fanfic writers. :rolleyes: I liked the bright colors and things blowing up, though.
I’m pleased to see nobody yet has nominated Femme Fatale, because I think it’s Brian De Palma’s best movie in 20 years. Easily misunderstood, though, which is why it’s getting such bad reviews and negative audience reaction.
As far as the movies named so far, I haven’t yet seen Swept Away (it came and went during the time it took me to get to the cinema), but I think Rollerball certainly takes the prize for me, with Death to Smoochy coming in second.
The Master of Disguise certainly got the best film review I’ve seen this year:
That’s the opening line of the review. Other gems from that simple haiku of a film-shredding include, “mercifully short,” and “could have been written on the elementary school playground.”
Hell no, I didn’t see it myself!
Oops, that’s “mercifully only 75 minutes long.”
You’re not alone, Cervaise. I enjoyed Femme Fatale immensely.
For the most part, I’ve been able to avoid most of the real stinkers but Death to Smoochy really took me by surprise the shear level of stinkosity it achieved. I also thought Sum of All Fears sucked, but it at least had a few decent moments to redeem itself, unlike DtS.