A few bad movies

When you watch a lot of movies like I do - I saw 30+ movies in the theater last year - the chances of seeing a few bad movies is high. It's kind of a sacrifice I am willing to make for the weekly movie column.

On average, I would estimate that I see maybe six movies a year that are great, a dozen that are at least entertaining and the rest are sort of unmemorable or mediocre. But there are some movies that are so bad, I feel compelled to save other people from spending any money or time to watch them.

That was the case with "All About Steve," which I saw a few weeks ago. The romantic comedy lacks both the romance and the comedy. The characters were annoying and the plot was weak at best. "All About Steve" deserved its spot on Rotten Tomatoes list of the 100 worst movies of the decade. The movie review Web site but the list together last week and I thought I'd check to see what movies made the cut.

Some of the movies on the list were no surprise to me. "Glitter," with Mariah Carey and "Broken Bridges" with Toby Keith prove that movies with singers who can't act probably shouldn't be made. I skipped them both. I never saw "The Hottie and the Nottie" with Paris Hilton, but again movies with celebrities that can't act probably aren't very good. Also, "Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2" was not a surprise. I can't believe there is more than one movie with talking babies.

Of the 100 movies that made the list, I have seen 18 of them. I agree that some of those movies deserved to be listed. Two Hilary Duff movies made the cut. "Materials Girl" starred Duff and her sister Haylie as rich sisters who have to learn to fend for themselves when their father dies. It was short on plot and totally predictable. The second, "The Perfect Man" stars Duff with Heather Locklear. It is about a desperate single mom of two who always goes for loser guys so her teen daughter decides to make up the perfect man.

Another of my least favorite movies that made the list is "Because I Said So." That movie makes my own personal list of worst movies. It stars Mandy Moore and Diane Keaton as a daughter-mother pair who have a dysfunctional relationship. The mother is an overbearing, patronizing witch who thinks her 20-something daughter is over the hill since she is single. Every character in the movie is annoying.

There are a few movies I think should have made the list that didn't. I really disliked "The Ugly Truth," with Katherine Heigl and Gerard Butler and "Taken," with Harrison Ford.

But then I am sure there are a lot of bad movies that have been made in the last 10 years. They couldn't all make the list. Check out Rotten Tomatoes to avoid some of the worst.