Cinema trailers eh, whod have them? We see three minutes of enough pulse pounding action packed adventure and intensely clever quippy dialogue which convinces us to go and watch the next major offering with anticipation rather than more suitable trepidation. This even despite the blatant awful mess we were presented with the last time we risked a movie. So we convince ourselves to watch film after film because its the blockbuster of the summer or this years breakthrough masterpiece. But we dont make this decision alone. Every year millions of innocent fools are tricked out of their hard earned Pounds, Dollars, Yen, Euros and various by an industry playing a game of chicken between themselves and their audience. Hollywood pumps out garbage and we consume the garbage whatever the reviews or previews might say. After all, if we listened to reviewers then wed rarely watch anything/miss the actual gems that a professional who was having a bad day, slated as junk. You can see why Hollywood persists - because they are winning. This list is a rundown of some of the films that have been critically slated while still making those Hollywood dwelling tricksters a mega-ton (thats an Imperial mega-ton by the way) of money. And you may notice a trend with some of these...a sequelly trend you might say.
10. Transformers: Dark Of The Moon
Few films have ever had the slating that this so richly deserved. Having abandoned any character development/actual plot line in the previous movie, Michael Bay continued with the special effects bonanza in the third installment of the Transformers trilogy. And critical acclaim wasnt exactly drawn to this. However, creaming in a hefty $1 .1 Billion at the Box Office, I shouldnt think the studio big wigs will worry too much that they didnt adequately explain Megan Foxs sudden absence. Stupid wasted attempts at slapstick humour, alongside some meaningful messages with the most pointless Go America! action sequences since Pearl Harbour. This film manages to be both more awful and more indigestible than either of the first two nonsense fests.
, having seemingly learned nothing from the last film, allows just about all of the same mistakes to be made yet again. Jeff Beck of Examiner.comRotten Tomatoes: 36%
IMDB average rating: 6.3