ALL FALL DOWN : Jigsaw Lounge's dreaded Diorama of Dishonour

les larmes d'acier

... welcome to the bottom of the barrel*

Rating	Film
1/10	America's Sweethearts 8 Mile House! Land of the Blind Lara Croft : Tomb Raider Lilya 4-Ever * see below Murder-Set-Pieces One Night at McCool's Paranoid Park Pay It Forward Purely Belter The Pursuit of Happyness Raise Your Voice Redacted (1?/10 - walkout) Red Cockroaches Relative Values Revelation Spun Tooth Walking Tall
2/10	An American Haunting American Psycho Angel Eyes Beneath Clouds Bringing Down the House Cinderella Man Click Corpus Callosum Down To Earth An Extraordinary Study in Human Degradation Fear No Evil 15 Minutes Figner, the End of a Silent Century 4 [aka Chetyre*] (2?/10 - walkout) The Gift (2?/10 - walkout) Godsend Havana Suite The Hoax I'll Be There The Importance of Being Earnest (2002) Inch'Allah Sunday It's All Gone Pete Tong (2?/10 - walkout) Killing Me Softly (guest review) The Life of David Gale The Living and the Dead The Luzhin Defence Ode to Cologne - A Rock n Roll Film Once Upon a Time in the Midlands The Phantom of the Opera The Principles of Lust The Reaping Red Planet Restart Riding in Cars with Boys Romeo Must Die Say It Isn't So School For Seduction Sex and Lucia Shadows - a Sleepwalking Film Shanghai Knights Shoes From America Sidewalks of New York 16 Years of Achohol State and Main Sugarhouse The Tailor of Panama Vanilla Sky Wild Hogs

* Sadly, very few of these films fall into the "so bad they're good" category... Even an ineptly-made mess can end up a 3 or a 4 if its heart is somewhere near the right place. Any fool can make a bad movie. But it takes a special kind of anti-talent to come up with the offensive bilge listed above. Worst film I've ever seen is a tough call - for years it was Oliver Stone's The Doors, then it was that shame-about-the-boat-race picture True Blue. But the more I think about it, the more I reckon the ultimate "dishonour" belongs to Lukas Moodysson and his irredeemably vile Lilya 4-Ever.

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