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Rotten Tomatoes' 100 Worst-Reviewed MoviesIt's distressing that I've seen so many of these. I just avoided seeing the number 2 worst-reviewed movie, Alone in the Dark. Which rung in with one percent positive reviews, 99% negative. I rented it on PPV. The movie began with one of those "What Hath Come Before" title-pages describing some preposterous and overly-detailed backstory bullshit. Like I need that in a silly monsters-jumping-out-of-shadows horror movie, but whatever, fine. One page of Scary-Important Prior History, all right. Fade to black. And then another page of written backstory appeared. This began to worry me. We're not talking about some complicated real-world event here, like the Spanish Civil War. (And even movies about such topics get by with a brief, paragraph-length set-up.) Again, this is a cheesy action horror movie based on a videogame -- why am I reading so much? Do I care about this silly fantasy history lesson? Fade to black. Okay, fine. At least now they can begin the movie. No they can't. Because now appears a third page of backstory text. And now I'm flabbergasted. Do these idiots imagine I'm interested in a novelization of a cheesy videogame? If not, where are the actual moving pictures? Why am I reading on and on about this stupid fantasy world instead of seeing some vampire aliens? Was this director absent they day they taught "moving pictures" in Moving Pictures School? But fade to black, now we're ready for some gratuitous gore and silly CGI monsters. No we're not, because here comes more printed backstory. At this point I had a choice. I could quickly cancel my PPV order within that five minute window, or I could settle in for what would be, I was sure, one of the worst movies ever made. When a director so thoroughly angers and baffles you before he's even gotten to the main titles, you know he's gone so egregiously wrong that you may be watching a disaster of near-epic proportions, and perhaps one worth watching, simply to exult in the baroque incompetence of it all. But I took the path of wisdom instead and just cancelled the movie. I'd seen about 50 seconds of it, and not a single image of actual cinematic photography, but already I'd decided it was one of the worst movies I'd ever seen. I still want to see that some day. I'd've done a much better job on the backstory title-cards. Here's my quickie effort: It is the year 2016. I think that sums it up. Meanwhile, the number one worst-reviewed movie ever -- Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever -- wasn't horrible. If nothing else, it did have two terrific stunts I replayed multiple times. One of them was a falling gag with the stuntman on a (digitally erased) descending wire, but the cool thing was you could see him fall all the way from the thirtieth floor to crash upon a parked car on the street with no cuts at all. You don't see that too often. Another one was double cars-jumping-into-the-air-and-barrel-rolling stunt. No CGI, just two cars flyin' into the air like they were in a Synchronized Dance exhibition. Eh. It was better than a lot of movies. Right there you made back your $4.95, plus profit.
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