The 2012 How Dare You Awards

Worst Title:

  • Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (WINNER!)

  • Madea’s Witness Protection

  • Sparkle

  • The Odd Life of Timothy Green

  • Won’t Back Down

Most Unnecessary Sequel:

  • American Reunion

  • Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance

  • Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (WINNER!)

  • Silent Hill: Revelation 3D

  • Wrath of the Titans

Movie That Took Itself Way, Way Too Seriously:

  • Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

  • Alex Cross

  • Battleship

  • Cloud Atlas (WINNER!)

  • Red Tails

Biggest Disappointment

  • Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

  • The Bourne Legacy

  • Prometheus (WINNER!)

  • Rock of Ages

  • This is 40

Least Successful Reboot or Remake:

  • 21 Jump Street

  • Dark Shadows

  • Red Dawn (WINNER!)

  • Sparkle

  • Total Recall

Least Successful Comeback Performance:

  • Cuba Gooding Jr.: Red Tails

  • Chuck Norris: The Expendables 2

  • Dolly Parton: Joyful Noise (WINNER!)

  • Arnold Schwarzenegger: The Expendable 2

  • Jean-Claude Van Damme: The Expendables 2

Most Forgettable Performance by an Oscar Winning Actor:

  • Nicolas Cage: Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance

  • Michael Caine: Journey 2: The Mysterious Island

  • Russel Crowe: The Man with the Iron Fists (WINNER!)

  • Robert Duvall: Jack Reacher

  • Cuba Gooding Jr: Red Tails

Most Forgettable Performance by an Oscar Winning Actress:

  • Barbara Streisand: The Guilt Trip

  • Susan Sarandon: That’s My Boy

  • Reese Witherspoon: This Means War

  • Catherine Zeta-Jones: Playing for Keeps (WINNER!)

  • Catherine Zeta-Jones: Rock of Ages

Movie You Least Wanted to See:

  • A Thousand Words (WINNER!)

  • Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance

  • Joyful Noise

  • One for the Money

  • This Means War

Title That Best Fits a Porno Movie:

  • Frankenweenie

  • Here Comes the Boom (WINNER!)

  • The Hole

  • Life of Pie

  • Lincoln

Movie That Most Resembles a Video Game:

  • Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (WINNER!)

  • Battleship

  • Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance

  • John Carter

  • Journey 2: The Mysterious Island

Most Formulaic:

  • A Thousand Words: The formula is a man must reexamine his life and his choices and stop being a jerk.

  • Jack Reacher: The formula takes the form of a bad ass who can beat up anybody and everybody and who must solve a mystery

  • Playing for Keeps: An immature man has to get his act together to get the girl

  • Rock of Ages: A movie that celebrates that girl that gets off the bus in a big city after leaving home

  • The Guilt Trip: Two mismatched people go on a road trip. This time with Seth Rogen and Barbara Streisand (WINNER!)

Most Ridiculous Concept:

  • A Thousand Words: A formulaic movie that adds a terrible concept of a tree that loses leaves whenever he speaks. If the last leaf falls, he dies

  • Battleship: We send a message to Planet G and they send back aliens to destroy us. The Navy will send them packing by destroying the mothership. I don’t remember any of this in the game

  • Man on a Ledge: A man must go out on a ledge in order to prove he is not guilty of stealing a diamond

  • The Watch: Four misfits who don’t want to be at home start a neighborhood watch and then battle aliens

  • The Means War: Two dead sexy CIA operatives must have heated, dead sexy battle over a dead sexy lady (WINNER!)

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