Anthony Is Right

In descending order of enthusiasm.

25 that were enjoyably stupid: Dinner For Schmucks, Unstoppable, The Town, Date Night, Twilight: Eclipse, Best Worst Movie, Due Date, Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt And The Magnetic Fields, Piranha 3-D, Hot Tub Time Machine, Change Of Plans, The Runaways, Wild Target, Get Him To The Greek, Survival Of The Dead, The Other Guys, Leaves Of Grass, Splice, Case 39, Happy Tears, Paranormal Activity 2, The Ghost Writer, Legion, The Winning Season, Centurion

15 that were tolerably stupid:Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part I, Machete, Daybreakers, Jack Goes Boating, Blue Valentine, Devil, Inception, Kick-Ass, Who Is Harry Nilsson?, Iron Man 2, Predators, Skyline, Harry Brown, The Extra Man, The Last Exorcism

10 that were annoyingly stupid: Monsters, Shutter Island, Dogtooth, Dear John, Stone, Chloe, Repo Men, Valentine’s Day, Casino Jack, After.Life

3 that were criminally stupid: The Romantics, Hereafter, Edge Of Darkness

(2010 Movies I Started To Watch But Didn’t Finish: Babies, The Book of Eli, Faster)

1. The Kids Are All Right: Blurb #6. Critics who get dismissive of “family drama” or cranky over the treatment of Mark Ruffalo’s sperm donor are making me smug.
2. Easy A: Review. Critics who didn’t bother to see this are making me smug.
3. MacGruber: “I had a conversation with Powers Boothe, where he said, ‘What is this? Is this Hot Shots?’ And I’d say, ‘No. You’re dead serious.’ He’d say, ‘So in the scene where he’s offering to fellate me, how should I play that?’ And I’d say, ‘It’s heartbreaking. It’s genuinely heartbreaking.’” - Director Jorma Taccone in New York.
4. Winter’s Bone: Ozarkian noir about a big sister protecting her siblings. Possibly overrated due to my obvious, admirable feminism.
5. Mother: Korean noir about a Mom protecting her son. Possibly overrated due to my obvious, admirable feminism and excess goodwill for the Bong Joon-Ho’s previous film, The Host.
6. The Crazies: Biological weapon turns small town Iowans insane, Timothy Olyphant displeased.
7. Exit Through The Gift Shop: Review. The “sour aftertaste” I noted just adds to the comedy in hindsight.
8. Joan Rivers - A Piece Of Work: A convincing argument for excessive plastic surgery as battle armor.
9. The A-Team: Just a couple of bros cracking wise, smoking cigars and attempting to maneuver the tank they’re falling from the sky in towards a small body of water.
10. Knight & Day: Tom Cruise (as an openly psychotic James Bond) and Cameron Diaz (as a woman secretly nuts enough to be turned on by him) will probably never be as well cast again as they were in this.

Some Movies I Have Yet To See But Could Imagine Enjoying More Than Knight & Day: Black Swan, True Grit, The Fighter, Life During Wartime, Everyone Else, Trash Humpers, A Prophet, Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World, The King’s Speech, Please Give, Greenberg, Fish Tank

Costello: Hey, that’s Stephen Dorff!

Abbott: What?

Costello: The actor! You know, from Somewhere!

Abbott: Do you not even know the name?

Costello: Somewhere! He plays a famous actor.

Abbott: Well, that must have been a stretch - you can’t even remember the movie’s name!

Costello: I told you, he’s from Somewhere!

Abbott: SO FUCKING WHAT?

Costello: That too!

Fin.