My love/hate relationship with movies in 2006

Looking back on the last year I realize the movies were a lot like life. A lot of disappointment and very little hope. There were some really great films this year, don't get me wrong, but the movies that should have made me excited and happy to be a movie nerd were just uninspiring. Just to get them out of the way here are the films that were the worst offenders of being let downs:  - X3, Tim Rothman you are an ass. You're decision to set a release date before even one frame of film had been exposed was ridiculous and wrong. The final film is exactly what you would expect from a 6 month turnaround from script to screen, unintelligible drivel. At a base of my skull, fan boy id level I liked X3. But it's like eating stale Oreo's. Sure they taste nasty going down, but you're just happy you got Oreos. And thank you Brett Ratner, for unzipping your fly and taking a really long piss on what was a great film series.  - Superman Returns, Bryan Singer you made a super hero a pansy ass. I liked a lot about this movie. Superman has a son? Ballsy and original. Kevin Spacey as Lex Luthor? Best casting no-brainer since Jean Luc-Picard became a mutant. Superman has a final confrontation with a Giant Island? Now you've lost me. It's like Singer picked the most uninspiring and anticlimactic final fight he could think of to really take away from the little symphony he had taken oh-so-long to craft. Give me Doomsday or Brainiac or Bizarro, but don't tell me Superman's biggest foe in the universe is a giant land mass.  - Miami Vice, Michael Mann you are better than this. I appreciate when someone has the balls to go into a room and say, "I made this show in the 80's, it sucked but people liked it anyway. I want a do over." Unfortunately the film doesn't live up though. Mann really takes his time with this movie, trying to draw the viewer in and force some type of care for the main characters. Problem is, it's really hard to like a guy who's 75% brooding and 25% Mojito. Actually I think I just hit the nail with my foot. Colin Farrell's Sonny Crockett is so intensely bland, it's near impossible to give a rat's ass about what happens to him. Jamie Foxx can't save this one, but give the guy an A for the effort. I would have rather seen Collateral 2: Collateral Harder. It needs to be said though, Michael Mann is the king of shooting sequences at night. No other director can really get that middle of the night feel the way he can.  - Ultraviolet, Why the hell did I go see this horrible stinking pile of dog poo? I went and saw this in theaters. I paid money to see this garbage. Halfway through I wanted to leave. Note: Never go see a questionable film with a group. Someone in the group is going to be a jackass and want to stay. I wasn't even allowed to get MST3K on this one, cause some jack ass in the theater was taking this movie seriously. Bad acting, bad directing, bad plot, and the most self indulgent "camera" work ever committed to celluloid. What kind of cheesy action movie skips the fight? Seriously, who sets up a fight sequence just to have it skip ahead to everyone on the ground and the heroine dusting off her hands? Shame on you Kurt Wimmer, you're better than this piece of trash. You wrote the Recruit for god's sake, wait a tick...  - The Da Vinci Code, an exercise in boredom. An open letter to Tom Hanks: Dear Tom,  Please stop doing boring movies with Ron Howard. I fell asleep through your last one and now I put it on whenever I need to take a nap. You were acting opposite some of the best actors in current cinema, and you were chewing scenery. What happened man? You know what? I don't want to know. Let's just take it as it is and build on what we have. How about a sequel to Bachelor Party? The "Born Again Bachelor" Party! That's the ticket. You celebrate your divorce from Tawny Kitaen with a debaucherous trip with Adrian Zmed and Michael Dudikoff. It's a license to print money baby! But I digress Tom. Seriously, don't make anymore movies with Ron Howard until Ron Howard is ready to apologize for Ransom.   There were even more horrible movies in '06. Date Movie, A Scanner Darkly, Silent Hill, Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (of my ass), and Notorious Bettie Page (none of what makes Bettie Page intriguing was in this movie) to name a few more. Peoples thoughts on what didn't go well in '06?