十年最差電影排行榜(有聲)

MONDELLO: Well, you know, he'll eventually make a good movie. The thing is that at one point, he showed some promise. He was making serious pictures.

RAZ: Yeah, he was in Richard Linklater films and...

MONDELLO: Right, and then it all just sort of went away, and he's decided to make these silly comedies, and now it's a little embarrassing. He's at least pushing 40 and he's still acting like a teenager, and it's awful.

RAZ: All right. The next movie is a familiar punching bag for a lot of the critics. I don't know if it's entirely fair, but I guess we have to talk about the worst science fiction film of the decade, and it is:

MONDELLO: "Battlefield Earth." It's kind of a walk, too.

(Soundbite of laughter)

MONDELLO: John Travolta's salute to the sci-fi writing of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. It was released in 2000, and Elvis Mitchell, writing in the New York Times at the time, said, and I quote: It may be a bit early to make such judgments, but "Battlefield Earth" may turn out to be the worst movie of the century.

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MONDELLO: How about that? The year is 3000 in this picture. Aliens who are called Psychlos have defeated Earth in a war that lasted nine minutes and basically exterminated the planet and are now using humans as slave labor to strip the planet, and John Travolta is Terl, their leader.

(Soundbite of movie, "Battlefield Earth")

Mr. JOHN TRAVOLTA (Actor): (As Terl) As long as you were providing me with useful information, I wouldn't file the report. But now that I'm leaving this pitiful excuse for a planet, you will no longer be providing me with useful information, will you?

Unidentified Man #1 (Actor): (As character) My son just got accepted into the academy, first one ever in my family. You know how much it costs. Please, as a friend, couldn't you forget to file the report?

Mr. TRAVOLTA: (As Terl) Well, as a friend I could forget to file the report, but unfortunately, I'm not your friend.

(Soundbite of laughter)

MONDELLO: Now that laugh was constant in this picture, and you just wanted to die while you were watching it. It was blech.

RAZ: I wonder if this film could have another life as sort of a cult classic film, you know, watched by sort of college kids.

MONDELLO: Yeah, the problem is it was long and just sort of exhausting. And it's really dark and it isn't fun. You wanted it to be fun, and it's just terrible.

RAZ: All right, let's move on to the worst blockbuster of the decade. This one was directed by Michael Bay, who, as you know, Bob, has never met an explosion he could not make bigger and noisier.

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(Soundbite of movie, "Pearl Harbor")

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MONDELLO: "Pearl Harbor" did make plenty of money, though. It raked in about $450 million worldwide. Now, how do I explain why this picture doesn't work?

The actual attack on Pearl Harbor lasted 90 minutes. This movie is three hours.

(Soundbite of laughter)

MONDELLO: Okay, just for starters. Wikipedia lists 65 historical inaccuracies in the picture. This movie had Ben Affleck taking flight lessons on Long Island with mountains in the background.

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MONDELLO: There were lots of really terrible blockbusters this decade, but usually, they have something in them that is somehow redeeming. Thirty minutes of blowing up Pearl Harbor shot the way Michael Bay shoots it - so that you can't actually tell what's going on at any given moment - isn't really a redeeming feature.

(Soundbite of movie, "Pearl Harbor")

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RAZ: And now, the moment we've all been waiting for: Bob Mondello's worst film of the decade.

Bob, the worst film of the decade is?

MONDELLO: Well, certainly the most annoying one is Mike Myers' "The Love Guru."

(Soundbite of movie, "The Love Guru")

Mr. MIKE MYERS (Actor): (As Guru Pitka) Is he Mr. Right or Mr. Right Now? Rajneesh, let's make like a baby and head out.

MONDELLO: "The Love Guru" is the story of a very needy guru who is played by what seems to be a very needy Mike Myers who is hired to motivate the Toronto Maple Leaves.

RAZ: The hockey team.

MONDELLO: His methods include lewd self-help mantras, elephant erotica and an endless supply of jokes about male endowment.

(Soundbite of movie, "The Love Guru")

Ms. JESSICA ALBA (Actress): (As Jane Bullard) Damn.

Ms. MEAGAN GOOD (Actress): (As Prudence Roanoke) Damn.

Mr. JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE (Singer/Actor): (As Jacques Le Coq Grande) Damn.

Mr. MYERS: (As Guru Pitka) Looks like he's smuggling a schnauzer.

MONDELLO: It was so bad. It was coarse and unpleasant. Mike Myers is so full of himself in the picture. I mean, he's almost winking at the camera. He is smirking at his own jokes. He makes you want to throttle him. Oh, I - listen, he was...

RAZ: You're breaking out in hives.

(Soundbite of laughter)

MONDELLO: I am.

RAZ: But you did sit through every last minute of all of these movies we've been talking about. You're pretty resilient, Bob.

MONDELLO: Yeah, I guess. Listen, I've still got the best job in the world. I see an awful lot more movies than most people, though, and a lot of them are not, shall we say, of the first water.

RAZ: That's our film critic Bob Mondello. He's been dropping by all month to talk about the decade gone by in the film world.

Bob, thank you so much.

MONDELLO: It's been a lot of fun.

RAZ: And I know those of you listening are dying to tell us your most hated films of the decade. Join the conversation at , and while you're there, check out the arts podcast. Bob's got more about the movies in theaters now. That's at /movies.