By Tim Morrison and Kevin Wetmore

9:  ’Avatar’ (2009)

The apex of James Cameron's career.

After over a decade in the making, the self-proclaimed revolutionary film experience Avatar finally saw the light of day in 2009 and immediately gained a heap of praise from critics and fanboys alike. The masses battled snowstorms and dressed up in blue to get to their nearest 3D Imax screens to see what the magician James Cameron could concoct with the biggest budget of all time. Cameron was right about one thing, Avatar looks great. It is by far the most impressive CGI world ever created and the 3D effects actually work to improve the viewing experience for the first time in the history of 3D effects. Here’s the problem, James Cameron may still be a master of special effects, but he also has not changed at all from the hack writer that he was when he penned Titanic. Maybe some room should have been made in that reported $350 million budget to hire someone to assist Cameron in writing dialogue. Leave it to Cameron to make a love story between a giant blue alien and crippled Marine into a brainless rehashed borefest. -  KW

8:  ‘Finding Nemo’ (2003)

Ellen Degeneres in 'Finding Nemo.'

Pixar’s ‘Finding Nemo’ is championed by the most annoying demographic: The grown-up desperately trying to regain the lost whimsy of childhood. Led by the voice-overs of lame joke purveyors, Ellen Degeneres and Albert Brooks, ‘Finding Nemo’ desperately tries to entertain the middle ground between parents and children. While the tykes may enjoy the aquatic tale of a father clownfish looking for his lost son, adults will be left trying to find a film to replace ‘Finding Nemo’ after being subjected to its 200^th viewing. Or perhaps it would just be wiser to find a bottle of the hard stuff to drown out the obnoxious clatter of cartoon voices.  – TM Read more…