10 Most Insufferable Movies Since 2000
1. Pearl Harbor
Everything you've heard about this mega-long, mega-cheesy mega-movie is pretty much true, but let's forget for a moment the cliché-ridden script, the cornball dialogue that performers look embarrassed to deliver, the wooden characters plus the flat romantic sub-plot, and concentrate upon the scale. The filmmakers sure did.
Even those turned off by period films or amused by the prospect of Armageddon meets Tora Tora Tora had their curiosity piqued by a budget rumoured to be between $138m-$208m. That bought a lot of spectacle, just as it had on Titanic.
Even if the picture stank on every creative level, who didn't want to watch that much money go up in smoke? It was the old sizzle-not-the-steak marketing ploy and it worked like gangbusters, generating $450m in worldwide ticket sales, plus there was the added benefit that because people hadn't come to see credible characters, historical truth or even a good movie, theyd judge Pearl Harbor by its explosions, which were very good indeed.
This is what people mean when they say, it wasn't supposed to be Hamlet!