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Just thought it was funny. I'm sure you could put the other two newest Star Wars movies in that list, but I'm not sure if they were summer releases or not.
All of these movies were massively pushed as great popcorn fare -- and all of them are an embarrassment to popular culture.
Here's a countdown of the 10 worst summer blockbusters of the past decade.
10. Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace (made for $115 million US in 1999). I think George Lucas had to invent Jar-Jar Binks to deflect from how annoying that young Anakin Skywalker is. The film's one saving grace was Darth Maul, the Sith lord with the double lightsaber. That's like a double guitar, but with lightsabers.
9. Independence Day (made for $75 million in 1996). Thank God we have the Americans to save us from aliens. You know, I always thought it would be the Chinese or maybe even the French, but there it is, proof on celluloid: Randy Quaid flying a plane into a spaceship.
8. Speed 2: Cruise Control (made for $110 million in 1997). When Keanu Reeves passes on a project, you know it stinks. Since when is a runaway cruise ship any sort of threat? "We're taking this boat headed to Tahiti and going to Vanuatu instead!" Oooooooooooh!
7. Godzilla (made for $125 million in 1998). This Hollywood film was slated for two sequels, but despite becoming the highest-grossing movie that year, they never got made. THAT's how bad it is.
6. Pearl Harbour (made for $132 million in 2001). Or, as I like to call it, "When I realized Ben Affleck can't act." Thanks, Michael Bay!
5. Batman & Robin (made for $125 million in 1997). If you ate a box of crayons and had dysentery, it would look like this film.
4. The Adventures of Pluto Nash (made for $120 million in 2002). The total worldwide box office of this Vancouver-shot Eddie Murphy stinker was just $7 million, making it one of the worst ventures in movie history.
3. Battlefield Earth (made for $73 million in 2000). Travolting.
2. Bad Boys 2 (made for $130 million U.S. in 2003). Rolling Stone's Peter Travers had it right when he called this film "the cinematic equivalent of toxic waste." Thanks again, Michael Bay!
1. Wild Wild West (made for $170 million U.S. in 1999). Director Barry Sonnenfeld hired some good talent in Will Smith, Salma Hayek, Kevin Kline and Kenneth Branagh, spent the GDP of Palau, and somehow produced a film that's slightly better than having bamboo splinters shoved underneath your fingernails.
All of these movies were massively pushed as great popcorn fare -- and all of them are an embarrassment to popular culture.
Here's a countdown of the 10 worst summer blockbusters of the past decade.
10. Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace (made for $115 million US in 1999). I think George Lucas had to invent Jar-Jar Binks to deflect from how annoying that young Anakin Skywalker is. The film's one saving grace was Darth Maul, the Sith lord with the double lightsaber. That's like a double guitar, but with lightsabers.
9. Independence Day (made for $75 million in 1996). Thank God we have the Americans to save us from aliens. You know, I always thought it would be the Chinese or maybe even the French, but there it is, proof on celluloid: Randy Quaid flying a plane into a spaceship.
8. Speed 2: Cruise Control (made for $110 million in 1997). When Keanu Reeves passes on a project, you know it stinks. Since when is a runaway cruise ship any sort of threat? "We're taking this boat headed to Tahiti and going to Vanuatu instead!" Oooooooooooh!
7. Godzilla (made for $125 million in 1998). This Hollywood film was slated for two sequels, but despite becoming the highest-grossing movie that year, they never got made. THAT's how bad it is.
6. Pearl Harbour (made for $132 million in 2001). Or, as I like to call it, "When I realized Ben Affleck can't act." Thanks, Michael Bay!
5. Batman & Robin (made for $125 million in 1997). If you ate a box of crayons and had dysentery, it would look like this film.
4. The Adventures of Pluto Nash (made for $120 million in 2002). The total worldwide box office of this Vancouver-shot Eddie Murphy stinker was just $7 million, making it one of the worst ventures in movie history.
3. Battlefield Earth (made for $73 million in 2000). Travolting.
2. Bad Boys 2 (made for $130 million U.S. in 2003). Rolling Stone's Peter Travers had it right when he called this film "the cinematic equivalent of toxic waste." Thanks again, Michael Bay!
1. Wild Wild West (made for $170 million U.S. in 1999). Director Barry Sonnenfeld hired some good talent in Will Smith, Salma Hayek, Kevin Kline and Kenneth Branagh, spent the GDP of Palau, and somehow produced a film that's slightly better than having bamboo splinters shoved underneath your fingernails.
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