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Over at Rotten Tomatoes, they've got what they're billing as the worst of the worst. Supposedly, the worst reviewed movies of all time. If by "all time" you mean the last 10 years. What's really worst about it, tho, is the UI. Oh. My. Gods. Most annoying, ugly, stupid interface. EVAH! It's a 100 movie list and you're only shown one movie at a time. That's right, they expect people to click 100 times to see they're list. And, like all RT pages, they're loaded with graphics and pointless crap and ads and take, on average, anywhere from 30 sec. to 1 min. to load. And it's not like there's any all that much content on each page, apart from the name of the movie. There's nothing surprising -- no great movies that got bad reviews, no camp classics. It's all studio dreck from the last few years. I mean, I know "page clicks" is one way of measuring web activity, but do they honestly think anyone's going to spend an hour or more to click thru 100 screens? I was sick of it after the fifth screen. Oh, and they interrupt the countdown with interstitial ads multiple times on the way from 100 to 1. I only kept doing it so I could complain about it here at greater length.
I've only suffered thru one of the 100 in its entirety, Darkness Falls (yes, it sux). Altho, like me, you've probably seen at least bits of many of these. The list reads like a typical month of basic cable.
In case you're curious, RT's 10 worst "of all time" are:
10. Half Past Dead (2002; Steven Seagal)
9. the Master of Disguise (2002)
8. Twisted (2004)
7. National Lampoon's Gold Diggers (2004)
6. Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2 (2004)
5. King's Ransom (2005)
4. Pinocchio (2002; Roberto Benigni)
3. Crossover (2006)
2. Alone in the Dark (2005)
1. Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever (2002)

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