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Dude, Where's My Car? (2000)
One of the worst of all time
I was at a friends house and we started watching this movie. After 5 minutes, I'm like "I can't believe this, we can't watch the rest of this", but we did anyway, figuring it had to get better. Wrong...... This was the longest 80 min of my life. I didn't even come close to laughing. Maybe it'd be funny if you were 13 and hadn't seen all the jokes already done 18000 times, but unless painful stupidity is hilarious to you, don't see this! I haven't seen that many movies, but I'd have to say this is the worst I've ever seen (and I have seen hobgoblins, which is #7 in the bottom 100).
Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2001)
This was horrendous spoilers
How in the world does this get 6 outta 10? My goodness. Cage's italian accent is miserable, the love story is contrived, the war is ridiculously glossed over. This was one of those movies that was so bad, that I kept watching out of shock (just to see how low it could go). Then I found out..... Cage survives more than 40 MACHINE GUN ROUNDS from an German MG-38?????!???. I don't care if someone shielded him, bullets go through people, especially machine gun bullets. I mean, we can only be expected to believe so much! Just plain bad... certainly one of the worst war movies I've ever seen.
Memento (2000)
Not that great
I will say this a very good movie, but #12 all-time? It is somewhat ground-breaking and quite interesting to think about, but after thinking about it, I find myself unsatisfied. I can think about paradoxical nihilism all day if I wanted to, but is it really what you want from a movie? In short, it set up amazingly well, but I didn't feel like the movie had any pay-off. I guess some people really like it that way, I just think it sort of cops out on a conclusion.
The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
Simply Massive
That basically describes this whole movie. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, but the movie at least attempts to be constantly spectacular or profound. I thought some parts were over-done (some of the speeches were too long, and sort of redundant) but it was interesting to see an action movie with overt references to Kant, Hegel and any number of other philosophers. This movie is a big philosophical set up for the third movie (which will have the monumental task of resolving everything in some sort of consistent way), but on its own it works as an action movie with some positively awesome scenes. I felt a certain degree of exhaustion after 10-15 straight minutes of action, but I think this movie is one you can appreciate even if you don't necessarily understand all the references or like all the action. Really quite an achievement, action movies asking philosophical questions. What will they think of next?