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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Rebecca Liu

Splat’s entertainment: I watched Rotten Tomatoes’ 40 lowest-rated films to find out which was worst

Rotten movies
Horror movies … will exposure to Rotten Tomatoes’ 0% films break our critic> Composite: Alamy; Allstar; PR

I have seen horrors so limp and lifeless they have turned into comedies. I have seen comedies so dedicated to killing every last one of your brain cells that they have become total horrors. I have seen sex scenes drained of all sex. I have seen Jim Carrey play against type as a hardboiled detective with a light Polish accent. I have seen Nicolas Cage play to type as a hardboiled action lead in a film with a ludicrous premise (more on that later). I have seen actors deliver lines such as: “You are like the most precious flower and your blooming can only be enjoyed once!” with varying degrees of success. I have witnessed this exchange in a plodding crime drama:

Dad: What kind of sicko fucks their stepmom?

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