It was terrible, but enough critics would have said it was watchable just because it was Star Wars. Right now it's rated at 63% fresh. Which is waaaaay too high for it to make the list.
A movie that has great special effects and is not boring for one second should be nowhere near a bottom list. Like Episode 1. How was that not watchable? *shakes head*
I think I'd rather see IMDB's version of this list.
Check it. They have their Bottum Top 100. You won't hardly know a movie there. And deservedly so
They cut a bunch of the cutesy Jar Jar shit out, and a lot of the Anakin the sweet little kid stuff, and wow....the movie was dramatically better. Lucas just gave in a little too much to his money grubbing instinct with that movie, and tried to make it too family friendly. Maybe he hoped to follow the Ewok Christmas Special up with a Jar Jar Christmas Special?
But yes it's nowhere near a worst movie of any decade. I mean if National Treasure 2, Ghost Rider, Daredevil, and Elektra didn't make the list then how in the world would Episode 1?
I've actually seen some of the movies on that list! I sometimes go into netflix and try to find the worst rated movies on there and just watch them. They are usually as advertised and thoroughly terrible...but it is good for a laugh.
Rotten Tomatoes' 100 worst movies from the last decade
- 26/09/2009 04:17:39 AM
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I'm glad to say I haven't seen a single one of those movies. *NM*
- 26/09/2009 10:45:20 AM
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Seconded, but really I'd never even heard of the vast majority. *NM*
- 26/09/2009 03:54:50 PM
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I unfortunately had to sit through The Whole Ten Yards at a friend's place, but that was it.
- 29/09/2009 02:37:42 AM
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Now see THOSE are bad films!
- 26/09/2009 11:15:23 AM
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Bah.
- 27/09/2009 08:19:35 PM
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I didn't say anything about budget *NM*
- 27/09/2009 08:44:54 PM
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You need big budgets to win oscars.
- 28/09/2009 08:55:21 PM
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Phantom Menace came out in 1999 and was unfortunately disqualified. 
- 27/09/2009 10:09:16 PM
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It wouldn't have showed up anyway *NM*
- 28/09/2009 08:38:49 AM
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- 28/09/2009 08:38:49 AM
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do you really believe that? *NM*
- 28/09/2009 06:30:01 PM
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well yeah
- 28/09/2009 07:54:18 PM
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6.4 on imdb is an execution given their rating standards... *NM*
- 28/09/2009 08:54:28 PM
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Yeah, but the problem is more than 7% of critics liked it enough to call it "Fresh"
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I came across a fan edited version of it...
- 29/09/2009 12:28:55 AM
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I've seen a few of those films (plane trips, siblings with bad taste)
- 26/09/2009 11:47:02 AM
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Personally, I'm amazed that there are 20 movies worse than Epic Movie
- 26/09/2009 01:56:45 PM
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10 of them, including having seen the #1 and Master of Disguise at the cinema.
- 27/09/2009 08:06:34 PM
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only saw christmas with the kranks, I do want ot see testosterone and a sound of thunder
- 28/09/2009 03:23:08 AM
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All of them were bad. *NM*