My Five Worst Films

To compliment my 10 favorite films, here are my 5 worst. I'm sure you're wondering why 5 (instead of 10). The reason is because I'm usually very careful about choosing films, but here and there some films will strike a bad chord with me. These films aren't simply movies I just didn't prefer or care for too much. These films really made me angry, or they were boring and/or overrated

Also, I will not go into as much depth as I did with the 10 Favorites because, well, these films aren't worth that much time and energy of mine.

1) The Hangover- forced, lazy, and uncreative, obnoxiously unfunny, predictable gross-out jokes. I'm not one of those people that only prefers pedantic, high-brow humor. I like a lot of "stupid" comedies, but this wasn't one of them. The jokes ran flat, the soundtrack was terrible, and, I'm sorry, but "shock" nudity, characters singing out of tune,  running gags about "fake doctors," and people screeching, spiritedly dropping the f-bomb, and wavering about in a desperate attempt for laughs is NOT humorous in any way, shape, or form.
2) Big Lebowski- Obnoxious? Not entirely. Some of the cult-classic expressions from this film are pretty irritating, but more than anything else, though, this movie is just simply overrated. The jokes are convoluted and pretentious, and the story is incoherent, unentertaining, and what I like to describe as "pseudo-avante garde." Also, none of the characters are that sympathetic (especially John Goodman's loud and abrasive character). I've enjoyed several of the Cohen Brothers' films (Fargo, No Country For Old Men, and True Grit, just to name a few), but this is definitely not one of them.
3) The Girl Next Door- as a male viewer, I find it completely insulting when Hollywood assumes that as long as a film caters to your libido, you'll like it. Case in point- The Girl Next Door, a poorly-produced high school comedy. Is the story predictable and stale? I wouldn't go as far as to say that, but the characters are neither sympathetic nor believable, the jokes, references and scenarios are cliched, and the acting is sub-par.
4) Mallrats- Boring, uneventful, and obnoxious, this film by Kevin Smith looks like it was filmed in a weekend.
5) Man Bites Dog- this French film, a gruesome satire on the effects of television violence on society, is painfully unentertaining and gross. It's like watching one of the Saw or Hostel films, except there's absolutely no pay off. What's more infuriating about this film is that it tries to copycat Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange with its level of gratuity and "shock." Pretentious would be an understatement for this film. Boring would be another useful adjective.