I seem to have been plagued by a terrible affliction over the past few days - bad-filmitis.  I’ve had the displeasure of watching three of the worst films I’ve ever seen in a very short space of time.

• How to Rob a Bank (2007) I watched this on the train down from LA to San Diego.  I nearly turned it off a few times as the lunch the guy next to me was eating was more interesting, but stuck it out as the film’s single saving grace - Erika Christensen - is so hot.  The story is fucking stupid, the acting is utterly atrocious, it’s stylish in an overly annoying way, and it’s predictable in the extreme.
   
• Salem’s Lot (1979) This was picked as a laugh (most of the old Stephen King films are amusing) to watch on a projector in someone’s backyard here in SD.  I could have sworn up and down that I’d seen this, but it turned out I hadn’t or at least not this particular version.  It’s long as fuck (3 hours), and just outright boring as a result.
   
• Mission to Mars (2000) I’m a sucker for sci-fi and I hadn’t actually seen this before, so when it was on TV last night I decided to watch.  It came out long ago enough for the bad reviews I’d seen at the time to be forgotten, and anyway everyone slagged off Event Horizon but I still enjoyed it.  This wasn’t the case here though.  Despite having a pretty awesome cast the acting was either weirdly hammy or just pathetic, the soundtrack was fucking bizarre in an annoying way, and the story was just plain stupid.

I might avoid TV for a while.