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Date Posted: 22:16:54 01/14/02 Mon
These are 10 worst movies of the year 2001 < Source From People Magazine >
1. -- Captain Corelli's Mandolin
Nicolas Cage needs career resuscitation after this overwrought romance, in which he played an Italian soldier making puppy eyes at Penelope Cruz on a Greek Island during World War II. And don't even get us started on his Italian accent.
2. -- Final Fantasy
This sci-fi thriller proved that computer animation can create characters that look close to human, but it forgot you still need a real human to write the script.
3. -- Freddy Got Fingered
Which was more vile in this alleged comedy: the scene where writer-director-star Tom Green swings a newly delivered baby over his head by its umbilical cord or the one where he canes his disabled girlfriend (at her request)? The MTV bad boy said in an interview that he was proud his film contained not a single excretory-function joke. Big whoop.
4. -- Glitter
Litter. Singer Mariah Carey, in search of a meaty dramatic role for her major-movie debut, bit off more than she could chew in a soggy, rags-to-riches soap opera.
5. -- The Majestic
This movie is so in love with itself that whether audiences like it or not seems to be beside the point. Director Frank Darabont (The Green Mile) tries to outdo Frank Capra with this treacly tale about a blacklisted Hollywood screenwriter (Jim Carrey) who, after suffering amnesia in 1951, winds up being hailed as a long-lost, returning war hero by folks in a small California town. It's hokum as high as an elephant's eye.
6. -- Pearl Harbor ((NET == how come?!?! ))
Sure, the scenes re-creating the attack on Pearl Harbor were impressive, but everything that preceded and followed was a ho-hum, forgettable cliché. Ben Affleck did himself no favors with his stiff, I'm-a-big-handsome-lug-of-a-movie-star turn.
7. -- Planet of the Apes
The apes were a far more swinging bunch than the boring humans. And how come Mark Wahlberg's lost-in-space guy never got down to any interspecies lovin' with Helena Bonham Carter's comely chimp? That at least might have pepped up director Tim Burton's disappointingly tame take on the 1968 original.
8. -- Serendipity
As much as we're suckers for romantic comedies, nothing makes us angrier than a lousy one. They don't come any worse than this insipid trifle, which had its lovebirds natter on endlessly about fate and behave as if their brains were made of rotted cauliflower. John Cusack and Kate Beckinsale, both actors who deserve better, were stuck in this goo.
9. -- 3000 Miles to Graceland
This blood-spattered crime thriller came and went last winter, leaving a trail of gratuitous gore in its wake and questions about what Kevin Costner and Kurt Russell were thinking when they signed on for it.
10. -- Town & Country
Neither the strenuous huffing and puffing of veteran stars Warren Beatty, Goldie Hawn and Diane Keaton, nor the time and money -- three years and an $80 million-plus cost -- could goose life into this cheerless sex comedy.
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