Film and TV

Top 5 Scathing Movie Reviews of 2011

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1. Transformers: Dark of the Moon The day that the third Transformers film hit theaters was a veritable Christmas for fans of scathing movie reviews. Insulting Michael Bay is like intramural soccer for anyone who's ever even seen a movie -- even this guy has something to say about it. But Peter Travers at Rolling Stone committed to dragging Bay through the mud as if it were his god-sent vocation. His contempt was unrelenting: "All three films are the cinematic equivalent of a street mugging, only the mugging is over faster." "Bay believes that you can indeed kick a dead horse forever and the profits his bot epics rake in prove him right." "'Make it stop!' were the words that ran over and over in my head. Transformers: Dark of the Moon -- high on any list of the worst blockbusters ever (move over, Green Lantern, you've been bitch-slapped) -- is a movie bereft of wit, wonder, imagination, and any genuine reason for being."

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