“Top Movie Turkeys of 2009”

On the LA Times “Circuit” blog, this post:

To celebrate the consumption of so much turkey on Thanksgiving Day, we invited Harry Medved, senior director, public relations for Fandango (and a pioneer in the field of Bad Movie Study as co-author, with his brother Michael Medved, of “The Fifty Worst Films of All Time” and “The Golden Turkey Awards”), and Matt Atchity, editor in chief for Rotten Tomatoes, to share which films ranked at the absolute bottom of the barrel with readers and critics, respectively, as well as their own thoughts on the results — and how this might have been Sandra Bullock’s worst and best year ever.

Here is Rotten Tomatoes “Bottom 20”:

1. Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li (Tomatometer Rating: 4%)

2. Miss March (4%)

3. Old Dogs (8%)

4. All About Steve (6%)

5. Whiteout (6%)

6. Post Grad (9%)

7. The Stepfather (11%)

8. My Life in Ruins (10%)

9. Dragonball: Evolution (13%)

10. The Unborn (12%

11. Bride Wars (12%)

12. Couples Retreat (12%)

13. The Pink Panther 2 (13%)

14. Ninja Assassin (29%)

15. I Love You, Beth Cooper (15%)

16. Planet 51 (16%)

17. Year One (15%)

18. The Ugly Truth (15%)

19. Dance Flick (18%)

20. Love Happens (18%)

Hit the link to see Fandango’s list, as well interviews with Medved and Atchity re the turkeys of 2009. And then the big question: Will anybody admit to seeing any of these gobblers? I saw Year One. And almost got dragged to Planet 51. And what explains Couples Retreat on the B.O. front: $127M worldwide.

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