Monday, May 23, 2005

What ugly sights of death within mine eyes!

I saw The Whole Ten Yards on cable TV yesterday. It is possibly the worst Hollywood movie ever made. From Bruce Willis's hammy emoting over being a father, to Matt Perry's amateurish pratfalls, to the whole moral repugnance of hitmen discussing random acts of killing as fun and finally to the vague racist portrayal of the bad guys (they seem to be a mish-mash of Eastern Europeans, Mexicans and Corinthians), it's got everything a bad movie should have. It isn't even fun to watch because it's so bad (like, say, a Mystery Science 3k movie) and because B-movies at least have an excuse (low budgets, inexperienced directrors, etc.), I hereby nominate The Whole Ten Yards as the yardstick for all that is bad in Hollywood movies.