52. The Lady In The Water (2006)
Remember when a M. Night Shyamalan film was still a cinematic event? The Sixth Sense brought the director to the world's attention and films like Signs and even the unfairly criticised The Village, cemented the idea that the director was capable of making interesting and somewhat unique movies. However, then along came The Lady In The Water. Having been rejected by Disney which infuriated Shyamalan, he took his script for The Lady In The Water to Warner Bros instead who gave it the thumbs up and green lit the project. But upon its release, it became apparent that Disney had made the right call when they rejected his script because the film was universally panned for being pretentious drivel. A plot about water pixies with a message was enough to set eyes rolling, but Shyamalan thought it would be a good idea to cast himself as the visionary author/savior that the water pixies were looking for. A self-indulgent bore-fest, The Lady In The Water was a box office flop that derailed Shyamalan's reputation as a bankable director. His follow up film Avatar: The Last Airbender did noting to help his nose-diving career.
51. Popeye (1980)
It's irritating that some awesome programs aren't shown on TV anymore; Laurel & Hardy, The Flintstones and Popeye cartoons to name a few. In 1980, a live action Popeye film was released with Robin Williams as the spinach eating sailor and the always sexy, Shelly Duvall as Olive Oyl. The film is a musical with a running time of 114 minutes but feels twice that. Although the cast do a good job, especially Duvall who has Olive spot on, the poor script and crap musical numbers are a pain to sit through. Why it had to be a musical is beyond me. In any case the film was a huge success at the cinema but watch it now and it hasn't aged well.
50. Titanic (1997)
It was 1997 and up to that point, James Cameron was riding high on a back catalogue of movies that cemented him as a superstar director. So when Titanic was announced as his next film after True Lies, there were some murmurings but the general feeling was that if one man could bring the drama of the Titanic to the big screen, it was him. But it would turn out that the actual sinking would only make up a fraction of the 3 hour and 14 minute running time. What we got for filler was a dull love story, awful script and cliche characters that have unfortunately become a trademark of James Cameron, just look at Avatar. Admittedly the sinking itself is impressive and the effects are top notch, but it can't excuse the rest of the film which is essentially a bloated chick-flick. I know it's claimed that its just fashionable to hate Titanic and that the fact that it won 11 Academy Awards is proof enough that it's a brilliant piece of film making. But making lots of money and winning Oscars is not always an indicator of quality. In the cold light of day, Titanic was a complete let down for fans of James Cameron. Cameron's Titanic obsession didn't stop there, he made an equally dull Imax documentary entitled ''Ghosts Of The Abyss'' in which he takes custom built subs to explore the wreck of the Titanic. If you ever want to pay to see a man rub himself off while looking at the wreckage of a sunken ship, then this is the documentary for you. It also includes the most hilarious attempt by James Cameron to sound scientific when he has to explain why one of his subs stopped working;
''They flew beautifully right up until the point that we had an absolute, total major-malfunction system crash''
49. Sucker Punch (2011)
Zack Snyder's Sucker Punch showed us that sexy girls with guns can be a boring combination. It was loud and full of great visuals that Snyder is famous for but unfortunately everything else about the film truly sucked. It also got bogged down in criticisms that it wanted everyone to believe it was pushing the feminist agenda but its story and themes were totally misogynistic and nothing more that a thrill for horny teenage boys. Watchmen showed that Snyder is more than a competent director so Sucker Punch may have just been a momentary relapse. However, if his next film Man Of Steel fails to live up to expectations, the backlash from Sucker Punch is going to seem like a walk in the park.
48. The Flintstones (1994)
The Flintstones is one of the all time classic cartoons from Hanna-Barbera and still immensely watchable today. In 1994 a live action film was released with John Goodman as Fred Flintstone and Rick Moranis as Barney. Combined with Kyle MacLachlan as the antagonist, The Flintstones had almost the perfect cast to be a success. But a film is only as good as its story and the film was criticised for being a family film with a plot that went over most children's heads. The sets looked great, the directing was OK and as I said, the casting was spot on, but the film just wasn't fun to watch and you were better of just sticking with the cartoon.