In what should come as no surprise to anyone, American Wedding was one of the worst movies I’ve seen in a long, long time. I make no excuses for the content in my Netflix queue - I don’t mind watching the bad along with the good. The only requirement is actually wanting to see the movie. I’d seen the previous movies and was in the mood for some potty humor. But this was just bad.

I had more fun reading about Tourette’s Syndrome on wikipedia during the movie, than watching Stiffler trying to act like he had TS.

Some of the movies are really tough to watch. I try to use awareness-of-time as a good indicator of how good a movie is. If I’m in the theater and I need to glance at my watch, that’s a bad thing. If I’m at home and I’m more interested in watching the DVD LCD tick away than watching the actual movie, that’s even worse. When 28 minutes in, I decide if it doesn’t get better, I need to yank it out of the player and drop kick it to the curb, I probably should… why I stuck around another twenty minutes, and eventually through the whole movie is beyond me. It had a few funny elements, but for the most part it sold out on everything that made the original movie hilarious.

So, I’ve decided somewhere on the website or blog I need to make an awards section for movies that are are either so good they should jump to the top of everyone’s queue (I haven’t seen one of those in a while,) or movies that are so, so bad you’re better off using the DVD as a coaster than putting it in the player. I’ll formalize more of that later, but right now in the running of “worst of” (think Razzies,) I would nominate American Wedding and Punch-Drunk Love.