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Max Braden: Reagen is stealing my answers. The first title to always pop into my head for this kind of question is National Lampoon's Last Resort (Corey Haim and Corey Feldman, 1994) because of the "we don't care, we don't have to" phone company mentality disrespect of themselves and the audience. These days you can swing a cat and hit any of the many straight to video titles starring Billy Zane, Michael Madsen, Val Kilmer, Christian Slater, Wesley Snipes, or Cuba Gooding Jr. and come up with a suitable answer, usually because the budgets are so low they can only afford to hire writers who are used to stories with the kind of depth and sophistication you'd find in a peep show.

But to pick from wide releases, just this past year I would give the big F to Sucker Punch. Here was a concept that worked brilliantly in trailer form because of its vignette format and wild fantasy-setting action pieces. It appeared to be just the kind of popcorn movie that's made for the big screen. But what worked in short form was *awful* in feature-length form. It amounted to first-person-shooter video-gamer porn. Just put some hot girls in hot clothes, give them some guns, and let them go to town on a random generator of villains, and it'll be pure gold! It was pure crap. Pretty cinematography can't save a movie by itself.

Kim Hollis: First off, I add my voice to the support of Solaris. Secondly, I agree on Bad Boys II. That is a horrible, horrible movie with no redeeming qualities. With regard to Transformers, I've miraculously avoided the third film, but I think the second one is just as deserving of scorn as Edwin mentions. It's all explosions, humping (both dogs and robots) and weird drug induced hazes.

But I won't just bash Michael Bay (though this topic has sort of turned into that). A movie I think deserves an "F" is Ron Howard's The Grinch, because it just...I don't know. It disgusted me. Here's a movie that purports to moralize against commercializing Christmas all while it's doing exactly that. Just, yuck.

David Mumpower: I thought that Sex and the City 2 was tolerable compared to the original, a cinematic abomination. I also think a body of work award is in order along the lines of Tyler Perry's Madea Gets an F Cinemascore. And obviously I am not going to pass on an opportunity to remind Uwe Boll how much I hate his guts for Alone in the Dark, BloodRayne et al. Some other titles that bear mention are Catwoman, Along Came Polly, The Happening, The Love Guru, MacGruber, Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (a cinematic abomination), Year One, Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector, Ultraviolet (why Milla why?) and all of those cheap-ass parody movies like Date Movie and Epic Movie.

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