Movies Only A Hangover Could Get You Through (PHOTOS)

Out with the old and in with the new? That's the question that the movies in 2011 will have to answer. Do more of the same and expect a different result? After all, 2010 domestic attendance is markedly down. Or, will they take a risk and become a challenger to their own incumbency? Incumbents, and movie studios are truly incumbents, never challenge their incumbency. They're habituated to the lens of the past. It's only when their performance becomes so god awful or a challenger eats their lunch, that they find a new way. We will have to wait a bit.

However, if you're stuck as to what movie to see this weekend, either on the big screen (some of the 2010 movies are still playing) or the home screen, be warned, many don't get better with age. And for some, only a hangover will get you through them.

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Rabbit Hole

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It may have won the tony, but as a film, despite great performances, there's no emerging from the hole the movie subject matter digs. Losing a kid and blaming yourself could drive any audience to drink.

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It may have won the tony, but as a film, despite great performances, there's no emerging from the hole the movie subject matter digs. Losing a kid and blaming yourself could drive any audience to drink.

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Hey, that was a good movie! So awful!

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[mburgh]

12:57 PM on 02/09/2011

Hollywood killed itself a long time ago. The bones of this great leviathan can be viewed on Netflix, and other viewing sites. Tell me a film as good as an episode of Mad Men, Friday Night Lights, or Boardwalk Empire? At this moment, Broadway is jabbing itself through the heart with an attempt to stage Spiderman. No wonder audiences are staying away.

[Twinz48]

12:09 PM on 02/01/2011

Thoroughly enjoyed "Inception" from start to finish - fascinating movie and not all that hard to understand. Don't know why it's on the author's list ...

[FiredUpRTG]

09:42 AM on 01/20/2011

Most of those films were well-acted and crafted, but I've cancelled my premium movie channels and don't go to the theaters anymore because the movies are not compelling. Writers aren't allowed to write; they've become slaves to a committee of businessmen gamblers who have not one bit of artistic talent in their blood. I'm surprised Rabbit Hole and 127 Hours weren't released in 3D in order to raise revenue. American films are just plain boring, uninspired, repetitive and/or bad these days.

[Ed and Deb Shapiro]

08:45 AM on 01/19/2011

Hi Peter - thanks for your post - I agree with your view

happy to see you here! I appreciate your understanding.

Cheers,

Ed

[Raul JRM]

04:13 AM on 01/19/2011

To place great movies like Rabbit Hole, Inception, and 127 Hours together with movies like The Bounty Hunter disgusts me.

[brijit]

09:34 PM on 01/18/2011

The author seems more concerned with The Wolfman having a big budget rather than if it was a good or bad movie.

[RK Johnston]

08:34 PM on 01/18/2011

When it comes to movies like "The Rabbit Hole," you think that because it's so highly rated, that you are getting a "quality product,"
It's much like seeing "Chateaux Pierre de la Deceptionaire" on a bottle of French wine makes it a "quality French wine."

Au contraire!

I saw "The Rabbit Hole." Depression-City/Never again!
Took three cups of caffeinated French Vanillia coffee to set me right.

FYI: "Chateaux Pierre de la Deceptionaire"="Sneaky Pete."
It's an old 50's term for stuff we know today as MD 20/20 or Cisco.
Yuk!
--RKJ

[jdevans]

07:26 PM on 01/18/2011

The problem with "The Tourist" was that Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie had no chemistry. Depp seemed like he'd rather be anywhere else than in a room with Jolie.

[AgentMuu]

05:24 PM on 01/18/2011

I'm sorry to hear that you have to consider yourself deluded to think Inception worked as a story. Movies like that get called overrated for a reason: the story DID work, it just requires more than average brainpower (read: attention span) to understand.

[ranchero42]

02:33 PM on 01/18/2011

Okay, I'm seeing a pattern here. I'm already down to MAYBE one film in the theater a year. Bill Maher I can watch online - so goodbye to the satellite - cable is a distant memory.

If you want me back - this kind of cynicism has to stop. Hollywood, you know what to do. Or perhaps - once upon a time you did.

[TruEngineHearing]

02:27 PM on 01/18/2011

Did you really mean that "Like a good wine, it doesn't get better with age." Huh?? Okay, if you say so - let's pound down some "Chateau Whiz - Vintage 4PM"

[patrickmcdougal]

02:14 PM on 01/18/2011

WoW Peter Gruber really must of had an angry hangover when he compiled this list. No more hair of the dog for you sir.

[Sandmanj]

02:03 PM on 01/18/2011

I would *never* put "The Lovely Bones", "Eat, Pray, Love" or "The Tourist" on this list.

[twigtrigtrack]

01:27 PM on 01/18/2011

How about this for a list: movies to walk out of? There's Jerry McGuire, American Pie, Inception, Scott Pilgrim v. the World, ...

[SpaceboySD]

01:27 PM on 01/18/2011

I can't tell if this is supposed to be about "bad" movies, "comfort" movies, movies that are better "under the influence"....I could have a point of view regarding any of those categories, but... I mean, jeez...what a confusing, cloying, senseless, article. I say, have another drink, Peter...then turn yourself in for Writing Under the Influence!