Can I have the 90 minutes back?: Movies I wish I hadn't watched in 2010

Not to be too curmudgeonly on New Year's Day, but to complete my thoughts on the Best Movies of 2010, let me round it out with - not the worst movies of 2010 because who would even go to see the absolute worst, but the worst movies that I watched or tried to watch. Can I please get back the 90 minutes I spent watching:

Bright Star. Thought it would be great. Was and am really interested in Keats and the Romantic poets. Has there ever been a less romantic movie, though? Or a more ludicrous depiction of the art of creating poetry? It did get me to re-read some odes and sonnets, though.

An Education. A movie without a shred of honesty about how a criminally exploitative older man takes advantage of a troubled teenage girl. Amazingly, it did get many good rerviews.

Inglourious Bastards. Couldn't finish it. Nazis were horrible? Gee, I never knew! So let's watch some Jewish thugs take them on with baseball bats.

It's Complicated. Rich people suffer just as much as we do. They struggle as they work with the architects to plan the latest addition to their mansions. Sometimes, they have to settle for a modest hotel suite in New York while their thoughtless ex takes an executive suite. It's not complicated, it's ludicrous.

The Lovely Bones. If it makes you feel good to believe that murder victims live a life after death in which they roam through an unpopulated landscape designed by Peter Jackson, maybe you'll go for this movie.

Where the Wild Things Are. The book was a short classic. The movie: bloated, pointless, chaotic. Who exactly is supposed to like this film? Not kids, not adults, not me.

You Kill Me. Another one I couldn't finish. The first 30 minutes were not credible in any possible way - a screenwriter's attempt to create yet another zany mob comedy movie, with no wit, knowledge, experience, or original insight.

And two other movies, not in wide release yet, but worth avoiding in 2011: I Love You, Philip Morris, and Somewhere.

With these behind us, let's hope for great movies in 2011!