I saw the other thread in the OT forum about which movies you'd like to see come about.

How about the movies you wish had never been created?

It's hard to pick a number one...but 10,000 B.C. is certainly up there.

God that movie is awful.

Edit: And remember it's fine to disagree about a movie, but please keep your critisisms about the movie, not the people who enjoy them. Not saying this has already happened, I just feel like it's worth mentioning.

300, M. Night's Avatar, Dragonball: Evolution, James Cameron's Avatar, Superbad, Pineapple Express, The Hangover.

/seethe

Nerivant wrote:300, M. Night's Avatar, Dragonball: Evolution, James Cameron's Avatar, Superbad, Pineapple Express, The Hangover.

Oh man, I LOVED the Hangover! I can see people get tired of it spammed everywhere...but I had a great laugh with it.

Goddard wrote:

Nerivant wrote:300, M. Night's Avatar, Dragonball: Evolution, James Cameron's Avatar, Superbad, Pineapple Express, The Hangover.

Oh man, I LOVED the Hangover! I can see people get tired of it spammed everywhere...but I had a great laugh with it.

Yeah, the only two I put down that were actually bad movies were Avatar: TLA and Dragonball.

The others, I just got tired of "dude, bro, brah, dude, bro, dude, have you seen X? You should totally see X, dude. They're all like, dude, bro, dude, and then like, dude."

Nerivant wrote:

Goddard wrote:

Nerivant wrote:300, M. Night's Avatar, Dragonball: Evolution, James Cameron's Avatar, Superbad, Pineapple Express, The Hangover.

Oh man, I LOVED the Hangover! I can see people get tired of it spammed everywhere...but I had a great laugh with it.

Yeah, the only two I put down that were actually bad movies were Avatar: TLA and Dragonball.

The others, I just got tired of "dude, bro, brah, dude, bro, dude, have you seen X? You should totally see X, dude. They're all like, dude, bro, dude, and then like, dude."

Which I totally understand.

Also, the entire _____ Movie franchise. God, those aren't even bad enough to be campy. They're just awful.

MeanGreenStompa wrote:


/seethe

Pffft.


That movie was awesome.


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Goddard wrote:

Nerivant wrote:300, M. Night's Avatar, Dragonball: Evolution, James Cameron's Avatar, Superbad, Pineapple Express, The Hangover.

Oh man, I LOVED the Hangover! I can see people get tired of it spammed everywhere...but I had a great laugh with it.

I fell asleep watching the Hangover.

7 posts in and we already have a huge slide in tastes.

"This day is getting interesting."

Suckerpunch.

Goddamn it, the trailer was amazing, the concept was decent, and somehow the director made such a goddamned boring movie that I was more interested in assembling models than watching the pretty chicks with guns and swords.

I agree on star trek. It was fun to watch, had great casting and music. The bridge looked totally rad.

But at the end of the day, it was a big dumb movie with a big dumb plot that took a big dumb dump all over what came before it.

I loved startrek and suckerpunch, am I a bad person?

Rented Tritium wrote:I agree on star trek. It was fun to watch, had great casting and music. The bridge looked totally rad.

But at the end of the day, it was a big dumb movie with a big dumb plot that took a big dumb dump all over what came before it.

Simlar to Avatar I think.

Avatar will always be a beautiful movie though. Stinks like gak, but looks fantastic.

AVP 2. Completely nonsensical. I'm actually one of the few people that really enjoyed the first AVP but the second ones incredibly bad choices and twisting of the established fluff made me wretch.

corpsesarefun wrote:I loved startrek and suckerpunch, am I a bad person?

I liked Startrek. It was a fun movie.

darkPrince010 wrote:Suckerpunch.

Goddamn it, the trailer was amazing, the concept was decent, and somehow the director made such a goddamned boring movie that I was more interested in assembling models than watching the pretty chicks with guns and swords.

I wanted to like that movie so badly. I saw the trailer, heard the people whine about it, and casted them aside. I'm totally into the trailer, I can put on some fanboi glasses and look past any flaws and simply perceive them as minor, or overlook them completely, right?

No. No I could not. That movie was boring as hell, the CGI sequences were a total let down, and the ending was ambigous just because the director wanted to make people think that he could pull off another inception...or something.

I think the last time I felt so bad after watching a movie was after I watched the road. Entirely different reasons, but still hurtful nonetheless.

I liked Star Trek. It certainly wasn't great, but it was enjoyable.

I'll cast my vote for Napoleon Dynamite. I think I smirked slightly at the line "Do the chickens have large talons" and "Tina, come get some ham, you fat lard", but I don't know why as those lines are not particularly funny. Overall: awful. Completely awful. A terrible movie. I am completely baffled at its cult following.

@Necroshea: That was my exact reaction. I'd been drooling over the trailer for a year and a half, and had dismissed the dislikes as merely people who wanted a deep storyline in an action flick. But instead of a shallow story, he tried to pull an Inception, and did a crappy job of it, and it showed...

Anything by Michael Bay except Bad Boys, The Star Wars Prequels, Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, U-571, Anything with Mel Gibson in it and the Bedazzled remake.

Mostly the Bedazzled remake.

RatBot wrote:I liked Star Trek. It certainly wasn't great, but it was enjoyable.

I'll cast my vote for Napoleon Dynamite. I think I smirked slightly at the line "Do the chickens have large talons" and "Tina, come get some ham, you fat lard", but I don't know why as those lines are not particularly funny. Overall: awful. Completely awful. A terrible movie. I am completely baffled at its cult following.

Aw man I loved that movie!

Avatar the Last Airbender. It was just bad. They got the names wrong too. I even love the series, it just didn't do it justice.

moom241 wrote:Avatar the Last Airbender. It was just bad. They got the names wrong too. I even love the series, it just didn't do it justice.

My friends and I went to see it.

We actually left and got our money back.

Goddard wrote:

Rented Tritium wrote:I agree on star trek. It was fun to watch, had great casting and music. The bridge looked totally rad.

But at the end of the day, it was a big dumb movie with a big dumb plot that took a big dumb dump all over what came before it.

Simlar to Avatar I think.

Avatar will always be a beautiful movie though. Stinks like gak, but looks fantastic.

Yeah I feel the same way. Avatar did 3d in a solid non-gimmicky way that enhanced the experience. The story was super simple but it was told well. It's important but not strictly good.

The new star trek is great in that it got a lot of new people into the franchise, rebooted after awful things like nemesis and livened things up. It's bad because it changed the target audience to normal people and doesn't have a soul.

Star Trek as a whole is good because it is about people and relatable experiences. The technobabble is actually great because you don't HAVE to understand it, it's not actually what the show is about, it's about the people all along. The new movie was all about action. They took away a good part of the characters' relatability (with some exceptions) by making them action heroes. Basically I loved it at the time, then spent the next few days liking it less and less the more I thought about it. Go watch it, then watch khan or some DS9 and the difference is pretty stark. It's dropped 100 iq points somewhere.

M Night Shamalallamaman should never have been allowed anywhere near Avatar.

Starship Troopers also should have never happened. They couldn't do justice to how awesome the MI are, and shouldn't have bother making it. For shame.

Unnecessary remakes.

Alien 3.

The should have stopped the franchise with Aliens if that's all they could come up with. Actually, better stuff did gone on and off the table during it's production hell or should I say gestation period? Watching the final product was about as painful as a chestburster after all.

any of the transformer movies

Suckerpunch

Lord Poison wrote:any of the transformer movies

I thought the animated one was decent.

Cheesecat wrote:

Lord Poison wrote:any of the transformer movies

I thought the animated one was decent.

never saw it
more so meant the michael bay ones

RatBot wrote:
I'll cast my vote for Napoleon Dynamite. I think I smirked slightly at the line "Do the chickens have large talons" and "Tina, come get some ham, you fat lard", but I don't know why as those lines are not particularly funny. Overall: awful. Completely awful. A terrible movie. I am completely baffled at its cult following.

Napolean Dynamite was awesome!

Napoleon Nynamite was a stupid movie whose references I had to live with for a year because some dumb red necks in high school wouldn't stop asking for tots.

As you can tell, this movie and I have some emotional issues

Yeah, Napoleon Dynamite is awesome.

'Ever take it over any sweet jumps?'



Anyway, the films I really hate are those 'Fockers' films. To quote Morrissey, 'that joke isn't funny anymore'. Actually, it was NEVER funny.

I'm gunna say Napoleon Dynamite too. I watched it after people said it was awesome and... well, I want that wasted time back.

At first I thought i'd missed the bit that makes everyone understand what they're watching, but it soon became clear that I didn't, because there wasn't one.

Honestly, I don't see what the fuss is about.

I feel bad in myself that quite a few of those movies mentioned I quite liked.

Anyway, any High School Musical, some parts, not all,, of the LOTR series, Moulan Rouge, Mamma Mia just to name a few.

...Hmm, I suppose I could do without the sea of remakes/reimaginings, but really the only film that I find myself wishing "didn't happen" would be the as of yet to be released adaptation of " World War Z"...based on everything I've read this film is going to blow.

Starship Troopers
Dragonball Evolution
Suckerpunch
Star Wars prequels
Star Trek Nemesis, Star Trek Insurrection /facepalm

Lord Poison wrote:

Cheesecat wrote:

Lord Poison wrote:any of the transformer movies

I thought the animated one was decent.

never saw it
more so meant the michael bay ones

Find a copy! The 1986 Transformers movie is not merely significantly better than the Michael Bay films, it actually seems to be pitched at a more mature audience.

The animated movie's cast even includes Orson Welles, a man generally regarded as one of the twentieth century's greatest actors, which is, let us be fair, about as gargantuan a step up from Shia LaBeouf as one can take.

Arthur.

HATED it.

What I disliked about Arthur was at the very end, that final scene undid the entire movie, all his personal growth and achievement; BAM! worthless

How has Space Marine not been mentioned yet?

Both the Dragonball and the Avatar (Last airbender) movies made me want to gut the respective directors with a rusty spoon...

Amaya wrote:Starship Troopers
Dragonball Evolution
Suckerpunch
Star Wars prequels
Star Trek Nemesis, Star Trek Insurrection /facepalm

Insurrection was fine. It wasn't top tier, but if it had been a season finale, it would have been a sweet season finale.

AvP

How could you make me hate both the Aliens and the Predators?

Before that movie I would have bet big money that anything with Aliens or Predators in it could not possibly suck as completely and consistently as AvP does.

AvP could have been awesome. They just botched the job

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say "Aliens". It made the franchise more of a 'Hey! Alien! Let's shoot the hell out of it and now it dies!' instead of a 'Oh gak. Did you see that? Oof, there goes my head. And yours. Well, we need Sigourney Weaver in a giant Mech Suit to kill [ijust one[/i]


TL;DR Aliens took a franchise I liked into a direction it shouldn't have gone.

Airbender was atrocious.
Alien: Resurrection was bad.
Star Wars prequels are a fething joke. In fact, let's discount everything past The Last Crusade as horrible things George Lucas made.
Michael Bay sucks at everything.
Sucker Punch, if only just to not have it feel like it was written by an acne-stricken 15 year old chronic masturbator.

Maybe it's just me as someone who's never really seen the Star Trek TV show, but I thought the new movie was fantastic.

There have been a lot of bad movies over the years and personally it would be too annoying to list them all.

The main ones that stand out for me are the Michael Bay Transformer movies and Dragon Ball Evolution although I wish that these movies were made with competent directors/script writers.

Imagine how awesome it could have been if the live action Transformer movies were as good as the original animated movie and Dragon Ball Evolution as good as the anime.

Chowderhead wrote:I'm going to go out on a limb here and say "Aliens". It made the franchise more of a 'Hey! Alien! Let's shoot the hell out of it and now it dies!' instead of a 'Oh gak. Did you see that? Oof, there goes my head. And yours. Well, we need Sigourney Weaver in a giant Mech Suit to kill [ijust one[/i]


TL;DR Aliens took a franchise I liked into a direction it shouldn't have gone.

I loved Aliens! How could you say that? The point of the movie was to get back at the Aliens and kick some bugs like Fire Warrior gunlines and a squad of gaunts. Hey, and nearly everyone died anyway, so it was really similar to the original. Who doesn't love it when the main character gets a really big yellow suit and kicks the crap out of a self-reproducing roach? I guess I can't change your opinion, but that's mine.

I do wish that Conan's remake was trashed, though. UUUGGH.

For diehards, The Matrix does not have a sequel. Let alone two.

star wars 1 2 and 3 should never have been created and everything that has Tom cruise or even a cameo of tom cruise

I lost focus after you said Star Wars...

HERETIC! PLEASE JUSTIFY YOUR OPINION!!!

simple the star wars should only ever have had 4 5 and 6, new hope, empire strikes back and return of the jedi, the newer stuff was just garbage

I actually really loved the Star Wars prequels, far more than the original trilogy, in fact. Except The Phantom Menace, that horrible excuse for a movie can go die in a pit.

My most hated movie of all time is Nacho Libre. I hated that movie, it ruined my respect for Jack Black. I loved him in School of Rock, that was an excellent film, but Nacho Libre made sure I would never enjoy anything that had anything to do with Jack Black again.

I also hated Avatar. Looked gorgeous, and I rather enjoyed it, right up until the end, when all the humans get killed because their bullets cannot penetrate the magical plot armor the Na'vi are wearing. I hope Pandora gets bombed into oblivion from orbit in the sequel.

The Hangover had it's funny bits, but could not hold my attention at all. My friend had to tell me the best jokes afterwards because I ended up watching Firefly on my phone instead.
Speaking of Firefly, Serenity left a lot to be desired. I liked it, don't get me wrong, I just felt they could have done better with it.

EDIT: Fixed a typo.

I don't know, obviously the originals were better although 6 got a little towards the end, but it always seems as though the prequels are legit, especially the way 3 puts everything together...

Sam__theRelentless wrote:I don't know, obviously the originals were better although 6 got a little towards the end, but it always seems as though the prequels are legit, especially the way 3 puts everything together...

Revenge of the Sith is my favorite out of all the Star Wars films. I loathed Return of the Jedi. I found myself rooting for the Empire the whole time.

If you go to http://redlettermedia.com/plinkett/star-wars/ you will see why the "prequel" movies absolutely suck, and should never have been made.

I agree with Alien 3, and Resurrection.. As I positively love the first 2 Aliens movies.

Predator 2 should probably have been axed before filming.

Also, without seeing the "new" conan, there was only 1 conan movie, and it was NOT the one that co-starred Wilt Chamberlain.

Rocky V... For Rocky fans, this movie simply does not exist.

Pearl Harbor, this movie was terrible, on top of all of the historical inaccuracies.

The Wolfman Remake, with Anthony Hopkins and Benicio Del Toro.

I really shouldn't have to type this, but it hasn't been mentioned yet.. Twilight

Man, I'm so disappointed in the Matrix. I mean, it was a great movie, and they just let it die without a sequel?

Twilight is high on my list. If only because I have a family member who thinks its the greatest thing since sliced bread. (A younger sister, shockingly enough)

As for the Star Wars movies...I really don't see why they got so much hate. I enjoyed the prequel trilogy. I feel Jar Jar Binks was...unnecessary to put it mildly (I fear going against forum rules on this one ) but I liked seeing the background to the original trilogy, and how Anakin fell to the Dark Side.

The two Matrix sequels : why ruin such a good story ?
AvP 1 & 2 : after reading the comics of AvP I went to the cinema hoping for something good.. well.. at least enjoyable... NOT.
DareDevil
Predators : why make it ?
..and many others I have erased from my long term memory.

I thought the Star Wars 1-3 haters would come out sooner.

My opionion:

As for the Star Wars movies...I really don't see why they got so much hate. I enjoyed the prequel trilogy. I feel Jar Jar Binks was...unnecessary to put it mildly (I fear going against forum rules on this one ) but I liked seeing the background to the original trilogy, and how Anakin fell to the Dark Side.

The worst movie ever made was: The Ice Storm

next Napoleon Dynamite

then Gigli

X Men... Basically all of them, with the possible exception of the First Class.

Starship Troopers 2 & 3.

Flaming_Spider wrote:
The Hangover had it's funny bits, but could not hold my attention at all. My friend had to tell me the best jokes afterwards because I ended up watching Firefly on my phone instead.

So you didn't actually watch it

remakes in general

I heard they were going to make a fourth Indiana Jones film, but thankfully it never happened.

It. Never. Happened.

Jaws the Revenge. . .A shark that growled. . .sigh

Man, there's so many.

Episodes 1-3
Indiana Jones 4
The latest Die Hard movie
Transformers. All of them.
Pearl Harbor
Mutant "With my dying breath, I pull this grenade pin" Chronicles
Hangover 2
Napoleon Dynamite
Meet the Parents
Meet the Fockers
Night at the Museum
Night at the Museum 2
Night at the Museum 3
Tenacious D and the Pick of Destiny
Matrix 2
Matrix 3

I'm sure there are more. Also, did anyone else notice that they're remaking Straw Dogs, except that it takes place in the deep south? Sigh...

daedalus wrote:I'm sure there are more. Also, did anyone else notice that they're remaking Straw Dogs, except that it takes place in the deep south? Sigh...

Sweet, let's remake Deliverance and set it in Kent. There must be balance.

Highlander 2 - horrid and pointless. I can't even riff on it, it's so bad.

Sextette - the first movie that made me actually consider a self-lobotomy.

DeathReaper wrote:...then Gigli

I couldn't even get halfway through this one.

I agree with all of the transformer posts. I can only watch a series of explosions before I just mentally check out. Anything from Uwe Boll, just thinking about Street Fighter and House of the Dead make me want to headbutt an old lady.

Seeing Dare Devil on the list reminds me...

The non- Edward Norton "Hulk" movie.

Melchiour wrote:Jaws the Revenge. . .A shark that growled. . .sigh

Oooh..yeah... ..what a horrid film ( as was the 3-D one prior to it) , just goes to show how sequels can wreck a great idea, as I honestly believe the original JAWS was one of the best films ever made.

htj wrote:I heard they were going to make a fourth Indiana Jones film, but thankfully it never happened.

It. Never. Happened.

Yes it did and it was quite good...

-ducks-

That goes for the star wars prequels as well...

-ducks again-

And to show I'm not trolling...

Any movie that's been made with Eddie Murphy in it for the past ten years...god awful movies were god awful...

Oh! And the Twilight movies! Somebody get a burlap sack for the head of that director!

WARORK93 wrote:

htj wrote:I heard they were going to make a fourth Indiana Jones film, but thankfully it never happened.

It. Never. Happened.

Yes it did and it was quite good...

-ducks-

That goes for the star wars prequels as well...

-ducks again-

And to show I'm not trolling...

Any movie that's been made with Eddie Murphy in it for the past ten years...god awful movies were god awful...

Oh! And the Twilight movies! Somebody get a burlap sack for the head of that director!

Sorry Warork...That Crystal Skull film was just plain awful in comparison with the other Indiana Jones movies...
However, I fully agree with you about anything Eddie Murphy has done since he made LIFE..( last funny film he did)..
And also agree ( partially) about the Star Wars Prequels...Phantom Menace was gak...the other two were watchable...even with Hayden Christensen's terrible acting...
...As for the Twilight series...meh..I simply don't care...I personally found them silly...but ..look at who their target audiance is.

FITZZ wrote:

WARORK93 wrote:

htj wrote:I heard they were going to make a fourth Indiana Jones film, but thankfully it never happened.

It. Never. Happened.

Yes it did and it was quite good...

-ducks-

That goes for the star wars prequels as well...

-ducks again-

And to show I'm not trolling...

Any movie that's been made with Eddie Murphy in it for the past ten years...god awful movies were god awful...

Oh! And the Twilight movies! Somebody get a burlap sack for the head of that director!

Sorry Warork...That Crystal Skull film was just plain awful in comparison with the other Indiana Jones movies...
However, I fully agree with you about anything Eddie Murphy has done since he made LIFE..( last funny film he did)..
And also agree ( partially) about the Star Wars Prequels...Phantom Menace was gak...the other two were watchable...even with Hayden Christensen's terrible acting...
...As for the Twilight series...meh..I simply don't care...I personally found them silly...but ..look at who their target audiance is.

I thought the first Shrek was pretty good, with Eddie Murphy as a Donkey. Then again, I was a lot younger when it came out.

Dark Scipio wrote:I thought the Star Wars 1-3 haters would come out sooner.

My opionion:

As for the Star Wars movies...I really don't see why they got so much hate. I enjoyed the prequel trilogy. I feel Jar Jar Binks was...unnecessary to put it mildly (I fear going against forum rules on this one ) but I liked seeing the background to the original trilogy, and how Anakin fell to the Dark Side.

Honestly if George Lucas had filmed himself taking a dump and titled the film "Star Wars", that would have been more faithful to the franchise than the prequels.

@ Goddard...

...Wasn't really counting Murphys " Voice acting" roles..was thinking more along the lines of his "live" stuff..." The Klumps", Haunted Mansion ..Meet Dave...that sort of thing.

Catwoman!, Elektra, Hulk,

I'll think of more, just give me some time......

@Fitzz...The fourth Indiana Jones movie was good, not great but good, I agree that it wasn't as good as the originals but it was still a good movie and I think it deserves a place, albeit a lesser place amongst its predecessors...

And I don't get why people hate on the last three Star Wars movies...they were done well...yeah sure they didn't have the same quality as the first three but they were still done well...I mean if you want to direct your frustrations at George Lucas then target all of the truly horrible spin offs and other gak that's come from that franchise...

I saw a clip of the third star wars film in Wal-Mart

Anakin: ”I should have known the Jedi were planning to take over.”

Obi-wan: “Anakin, Palpateen is evil!”

Anakin: "From my point of view the Jedi are evil!"

Me: "Sweet zombie Jesus, wft did I just watch…"

Aye, Murphey has really lost his way.

My fave three films of his are still Trading Places, Coming to America and Harlem Nights.


As to my own, can't think of many, mainly.. Twilight, yeah sparkly Vampires, someone pass me a shotgun stake launcher, also most of the X-men franchise, too many changes that make me want to projectile vomit at the screen.

Cheesecat wrote:

Dark Scipio wrote:I thought the Star Wars 1-3 haters would come out sooner.

My opionion:

As for the Star Wars movies...I really don't see why they got so much hate. I enjoyed the prequel trilogy. I feel Jar Jar Binks was...unnecessary to put it mildly (I fear going against forum rules on this one ) but I liked seeing the background to the original trilogy, and how Anakin fell to the Dark Side.

Honestly if George Lucas had filmed himself taking a dump and titled the film "Star Wars", that would have been more faithful to the franchise than the prequels.

Wait thats not what happened?

Morathi's Darkest Sin wrote:Aye, Murphey has really lost his way.

My fave three films of his are still Trading Places, Coming to America and Harlem Nights.

What about Bowfinger? I though both he and Steve Martin were really good in that.

Morathi's Darkest Sin wrote:Aye, Murphey has really lost his way.

My fave three films of his are still Trading Places, Coming to America and Harlem Nights.


As to my own, can't think of many, mainly.. Twilight, yeah sparkly Vampires, someone pass me a shotgun stake launcher, also most of the X-men franchise, too many changes that make me want to projectile vomit at the screen.

Murphy now appears to simply look at the amounts he'll get for being in a film and nod rather than actually reading the scripts, but I defianitly agree with your " Murphy Favorites", good movies all.
Didn't really care for any of the X-Men films, particularly the third one and " Origins: Wolverine"...but...I did enjoy First Class..

nerdfest09 wrote:Catwoman!, Elektra, Hulk,

I'll think of more, just give me some time......

Which Hulk?? Edward Norton Hulk was much better than the 'other' one...


Ohh yeah, just remembered.. the Tomb Raider movies were terrible.

Frazzled wrote:

Cheesecat wrote:

Dark Scipio wrote:I thought the Star Wars 1-3 haters would come out sooner.

My opionion:

As for the Star Wars movies...I really don't see why they got so much hate. I enjoyed the prequel trilogy. I feel Jar Jar Binks was...unnecessary to put it mildly (I fear going against forum rules on this one ) but I liked seeing the background to the original trilogy, and how Anakin fell to the Dark Side.

Honestly if George Lucas had filmed himself taking a dump and titled the film "Star Wars", that would have been more faithful to the franchise than the prequels.

Wait thats not what happened?

Nice one.

I've not seen First Class yet btw, hence 'most' of the series, I am hoping it is a better film.


Oh and 100% for Catwoman, I managed to watch 20mins of it before I realised either the film was going off, or I was going under a bus at the earliest opportunity.

Batman the dark knight
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Phantom menace
Great expectations (1998 version)

George Spiggott wrote:

Morathi's Darkest Sin wrote:Aye, Murphey has really lost his way.

My fave three films of his are still Trading Places, Coming to America and Harlem Nights.

What about Bowfinger? I though both he and Steve Martin were really good in that.

...Ah...Yes, Bowfinger was pretty good as well, but..it falls into the time frame of Murphys last decent films ( LIFE was released in that same time frame ..1999)...seems that since 2000...short of Adding his voice to films, most of Murphys works have been less than worth watching.

heacy hitter wrote:Batman the dark knight
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Phantom menace
Great expectations (1998 version)

Just have to ask.. Why Dark Knight?? By all accounts, Ledger basically created the 'real' Joker... I think that DK is one of, if not the best batman movie to date.

Every "Highlander" after the first one.

All of the "Starship Troopers" movies. God what a travesty those were...

Two movies i wish never existed:
Sweeney Todd, the version with Johnny Depp. i still want to stab myself in the eyes and ears when i think of that movie.
Killer Clowns from Outer Space. Only because this movie caused me immense psychological damage as a child.

heacy hitter wrote:Batman the dark knight

What?!?

I have to say I liked the first Starship Troopers, 2 was bad and 3 should not have existed. Not read the books though so that helps I suppose.

Cheesecat wrote:

heacy hitter wrote:Batman the dark knight

What?!?

This...The Dark knight was one of the better if not the best movies made in the past decade...

Beer_&_Bolters wrote:Two movies i wish never existed:
Sweeney Todd, the version with Johnny Depp. i still want to stab myself in the eyes and ears when i think of that movie.

The you say. Genghis Connie loved it. Yes I do take my daughter to see musicals about murder, revenge, and cannibalism. After all sometimes you need to take your kids to see movies that reaffirm important family values...

WARORK93 wrote:

Cheesecat wrote:

heacy hitter wrote:Batman the dark knight

What?!?

This...The Dark knight was one of the better if not the best movies made in the past decade...

Agreed.

Nijal wrote:AvP 1 & 2 : after reading the comics of AvP I went to the cinema hoping for something good.. well.. at least enjoyable... NOT.

This times infinity. The worst part about the first AvP movie isn't even how bad it is. The worst part is that it borrows just enough from the Dark Horse comics / novel (Aliens vs. Predator: Prey is completely superior to the comic portrayal) to make turning the comic/novel into a movie impossible.

Which is doubly messed up, since the original script for AvP WAS the comic/novel script until some corporate cheese head decided to change it.

Dark Knight was an awesome movie. I've watched a dozen times and am still finding allusions and references XD

Frazzled wrote:

Beer_&_Bolters wrote:Two movies i wish never existed:
Sweeney Todd, the version with Johnny Depp. i still want to stab myself in the eyes and ears when i think of that movie.

The you say. Genghis Connie loved it. Yes I do take my daughter to see musicals about murder, revenge, and cannibalism. After all sometimes you need to take your kids to see movies that reaffirm important family values...

Its only the Johnny Depp version that i despise. Ive seen others (a kinda recent brittish version comes to mind) and enjoyed the hell out of em.

Beer_&_Bolters wrote:

Frazzled wrote:

Beer_&_Bolters wrote:Two movies i wish never existed:
Sweeney Todd, the version with Johnny Depp. i still want to stab myself in the eyes and ears when i think of that movie.

The you say. Genghis Connie loved it. Yes I do take my daughter to see musicals about murder, revenge, and cannibalism. After all sometimes you need to take your kids to see movies that reaffirm important family values...

Its only the Johnny Depp version that i despise. Ive seen others (a kinda recent brittish version comes to mind) and enjoyed the hell out of em.

Well it did have Helena Bonham Carter in it...

Frazzled wrote:

Beer_&_Bolters wrote:

Frazzled wrote:

Beer_&_Bolters wrote:Two movies i wish never existed:
Sweeney Todd, the version with Johnny Depp. i still want to stab myself in the eyes and ears when i think of that movie.

The you say. Genghis Connie loved it. Yes I do take my daughter to see musicals about murder, revenge, and cannibalism. After all sometimes you need to take your kids to see movies that reaffirm important family values...

Its only the Johnny Depp version that i despise. Ive seen others (a kinda recent brittish version comes to mind) and enjoyed the hell out of em.

Well it did have Helena Bonham Carter in it...

Helena Bonham Carter makes any role she has a great one.

Also, Sweeney Todd was great! Ghengis Connie, you have an ally on the East Coast!

Napoleon Dynomite.
The Hangover. Seriously, it wasn't even that funny the first time I watched it.
The Transformers Trilogy
Anything with Will Ferril in it. Seriously, he's NOT FUNNY!!! He plays the same dumbass character in every "comedy" film he's in.

And I just wish Wanted would have had a disclaimer at the end of the movie: "No, you cannot actually curve a bullet like a baseball, you stupid feth. The trajectory can be pushed left or right due to high winds, but the trajectory will not be curved, you stupid, stupid, STUPID feth. Go back to playing Call of Duty and pretending that you actually know about firearms. Because, Lord knows we can shoulder fire a 240B accurately whilst running, ACCURATELY!"

...Sorry, I'm done.

If someone is dumb enough to go into Wanted and think that a bullet can actually be 'curved' in that manner is an idiot and that's on them not the movie

But yes, Will Ferrel. I actually think he could be a funny guy, but his movies are just horrible. You can watch the trailers and get every laugh that the films offers.

LordofHats wrote:If someone is dumb enough to go into Wanted and think that a bullet can actually be 'curved' in that manner is an idiot and that's on them not the movie

But yes, Will Ferrel. I actually think he could be a funny guy, but his movies are just horrible. You can watch the trailers and get every laugh that the films offers.

I thought Ferrel was pretty damn funny in Anchorman..and in Old School as well, I liked him in the Other Guys too.

There are funny moments but they're more the writing than Ferrel himself I think. He's a guy who could be a lot better if given a good script.

LordofHats wrote:There are funny moments but they're more the writing than Ferrel himself I think. He's a guy who could be a lot better if given a good script.

Agreed, I remember his SNL years and thought he was funny there as well, but as you note...that can also be atributed to the writers.

Kingdom of the Crystal Skull made me cringe.

Doom
Starship troopers 2&3
Anything else directed by Uwe Boll the Franchise Ruiner
Skyline
Twilight series
Suckerpunch
The Spirit (Good lord this one was boring.)
Troy (God tried to warn me twice against this one. First attempt the theater got struck by lightning and killed the movie, second time the DVD player broke, third time was the "charm"....I should've taken the hint.)


More to follow.

<quoted inappropriate pic redacted --Janthkin>
I find that pleasing to know that the film is being punished and mocked but also slightly disturbed .

And oh yes I agree that was Troy damn awful.

FITZZ wrote:

LordofHats wrote:If someone is dumb enough to go into Wanted and think that a bullet can actually be 'curved' in that manner is an idiot and that's on them not the movie

But yes, Will Ferrel. I actually think he could be a funny guy, but his movies are just horrible. You can watch the trailers and get every laugh that the films offers.

I thought Ferrel was pretty damn funny in Anchorman..and in Old School as well, I liked him in the Other Guys too.

Uggh, I despised the Other Guys. I did enjoy Elf, though. And Talladega Nights.

I have to place the new TRON movie up there with Avatar. Beautiful to look at, but complete crap story.

Also the Count of Monte Cristo. Whatever martial arts or kung fu or whatever they were trying to do, totally worthless to the story. Speaking of which, no hollywood - you cannot cram a 900 page literary classic into a 90 minute movie.

In summary, any Dumas novel that's ever been forced onto the big screen = crap. Except for the Mickey Mouse version of 3 musketeers, that was awesome.

Crystal Skull really isn't that bad.
Maybe that's cause I was born at the turn of the 90s. But it wasn't bad. I liked it.

DickBandit wrote:Crystal Skull really isn't that bad.
Maybe that's cause I was born at the turn of the 90s. But it wasn't bad. I liked it.

Thank you!

DickBandit wrote:Crystal Skull really isn't that bad.
Maybe that's cause I was born at the turn of the 90s. But it wasn't bad. I liked it.

Aliens don't belong in an Indiana Jones movie *nerd rage!*

LordofHats wrote:

DickBandit wrote:Crystal Skull really isn't that bad.
Maybe that's cause I was born at the turn of the 90s. But it wasn't bad. I liked it.

Aliens don't belong in an Indiana Jones movie *nerd rage!*

But face melting Christ Cannons and heart devouring witch doctors are ok?

I thought the alien thing was perfect. What was the big tabloid during the 50s? Aliens, mysterious visitors from outer space.

DickBandit wrote:But face melting Christ Cannons and heart devouring witch doctors are ok?

Of course they are. Indy hunts the supernatural, not the naturally super

And you forgot immortal Knight Templar and Jesus' juice cup

The Big Year.
This movie has not been released as yet, but is destined for failure on many levels.....
Cast: Owen Wilson, Steve Martin, Jack Black.
Sounds like a winner right?
Plot: Three avid bird watchers compete to spot the rarest birds in North America at a prestigious annual event.
Thats right... competitive bird watching...... And for you Brits, no, the kind with wings and feathers.

Starship troopers 2&3 (1 was good despite having that dick from how i met your mother in it)
Rocky
Rambo
Any stallone film in general


I felt that star wars 1-3 were quite good apart from the Character JJB and the massive plot hole in the revenge of the sith

To be honest, out of all the films mentioned that i've seen, I don't agree that they shouldn't have been made/were rubbish.
Though there is only really one film that i really dislike, Funny Games.... Its pointless and terrible, especially the 10 minute scene of boringness, and for some reason a shot for shot remake was made in English, with actors who didn't look the part, so was even worse than the original version.
But really, i just enjoy films, pretty much any film. Apart from Funny games, that sucks.

Hlaine Larkin mk2 wrote:Starship troopers 2&3 (1 was good despite having that dick from how i met your mother in it)
Rocky
Rambo
Any stallone film in general


I felt that star wars 1-3 were quite good apart from the Character JJB and the massive plot hole in the revenge of the sith

Ah good ol' sylvester stallone. . . anyone remember the Demolition Man?

Hlaine Larkin mk2 wrote:Starship troopers 2&3 (1 was good despite having that dick from how i met your mother in it)

I think the actor you're referring to is Dr. Doogie Howser.

Hlaine Larkin mk2 wrote:Rocky
Rambo
Any stallone film in general

Really? Rocky and Rambo? You're talking about Rocky (not Rocky Balboa) and First Blood (not Rambo), right? Because that's just so wrong it's not even funny.

And I'm not sure how you can even lump in "Any stallone film" in that mix. What about Judge Dredd? Demolition Man? Stop or my Mom Will Shoot? Tango & Cash? Oscar? The hits just keep on coming!

rubiksnoob wrote:Ah good ol' sylvester stallone. . . anyone remember the Demolition Man?

I really can't think of a Stallone movie I didn't like.

rubiksnoob wrote:

Hlaine Larkin mk2 wrote:Starship troopers 2&3 (1 was good despite having that dick from how i met your mother in it)
Rocky
Rambo
Any stallone film in general


I felt that star wars 1-3 were quite good apart from the Character JJB and the massive plot hole in the revenge of the sith

Ah good ol' sylvester stallone. . . anyone remember the Demolition Man?

Yeah thats a brilliant movie. ITV3 (i think) show it at least once a month... I haven't watched it all the way through for ages, but in recent months i've seen parts of it.
Ahh Pol, Super Mario Bros, yes thats terrible as well. Even Bob Hoskins thinks its terrible....


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As for Stallone in general, he (and Arnie) seem to get a lot of hate, for no good reason.
Most (not all) films either of them are in, are normally fun to watch. Lots of action and explosions, there not masterpieces, not by a long shot, but have simple yet effective story lines that are normally just designed for the action....

Polvilhovoador wrote:

Almost ruined my childhood.

+1

While I agree that Will Ferrel does play the same character in every movie he's in, I did like him in some of them. Anchorman is one of my favorite movies of all time, and has one of the best insults ever in it.

"I am going to smash your face through a windshield, and then take your mother, Dorothy Mantooth, out for a nice seafood dinner, and NEVER call her again!"

Gonna have to give a big ol' +1 for Super Mario Bros. A Mario movie would have been awesome. That gak was just awful.

biccat wrote:

Hlaine Larkin mk2 wrote:Starship troopers 2&3 (1 was good despite having that dick from how i met your mother in it)

I think the actor you're referring to is Dr. Doogie Howser.

Hlaine Larkin mk2 wrote:Rocky
Rambo
Any stallone film in general

Really? Rocky and Rambo? You're talking about Rocky (not Rocky Balboa) and First Blood (not Rambo), right? Because that's just so wrong it's not even funny.

And I'm not sure how you can even lump in "Any stallone film" in that mix. What about Judge Dredd? Demolition Man? Stop or my Mom Will Shoot? Tango & Cash? Oscar? The hits just keep on coming!

rubiksnoob wrote:Ah good ol' sylvester stallone. . . anyone remember the Demolition Man?

I really can't think of a Stallone movie I didn't like.

The Demolition Man was. . . . . I don't even know what it was. There wasn't a single line in that movie that was not a one-liner. Not one.

biccat wrote:

rubiksnoob wrote:Ah good ol' sylvester stallone. . . anyone remember the Demolition Man?

I really can't think of a Stallone movie I didn't like.

I can think of loads I didn't like but I'll add 'Cop Land' to the ones I did.

George Spiggott wrote:

biccat wrote:

rubiksnoob wrote:Ah good ol' sylvester stallone. . . anyone remember the Demolition Man?

I really can't think of a Stallone movie I didn't like.

I can think of loads I didn't like but I'll add 'Cop Land' to the ones I did.

Cop Land was good, And I liked Rocky and Rocky II, as well as Lords of Flatbush and Death Race 2000...other than that...not a big Stallone fan.

Frazzled wrote:

Beer_&_Bolters wrote:Two movies i wish never existed:
Sweeney Todd, the version with Johnny Depp. i still want to stab myself in the eyes and ears when i think of that movie.

The you say. Genghis Connie loved it. Yes I do take my daughter to see musicals about murder, revenge, and cannibalism. After all sometimes you need to take your kids to see movies that reaffirm important family values...

Have you seen the musical staged? Or maybe the great performances version? The movie did everything correctly, but somehow it managed to lose the magic of the original. It feels hollow somehow.

LordofHats wrote:If someone is dumb enough to go into Wanted and think that a bullet can actually be 'curved' in that manner is an idiot and that's on them not the movie

But yes, Will Ferrel. I actually think he could be a funny guy, but his movies are just horrible. You can watch the trailers and get every laugh that the films offers.

I don't understand why everyone gets so hung up about the wanted bullet curving. First, it's supposed to basically be a superpower, so you can forget physics anyway, second uh unrealistic thing happens in a movie, story at 11.

DickBandit wrote:
Anything with Will Ferril in it. Seriously, he's NOT FUNNY!!! He plays the same dumbass character in every "comedy" film he's in.

You should watch Stranger than Fiction. That's the only Will Ferill film I've ever enjoyed.

Obrek wrote:

DickBandit wrote:
Anything with Will Ferril in it. Seriously, he's NOT FUNNY!!! He plays the same dumbass character in every "comedy" film he's in.

You should watch Stranger than Fiction. That's the only Will Ferill film I've ever enjoyed.

That one was actually really good. It's not typical Ferril fare.

Fred the movie.

To me the series that this was stemmed from is just several edited viral videos trying to force itself into internet based fame with its annoyingly high-pitched antics.

World War Z

I am a diehard fan of the books, they were books that managed to get me into a genre that normally I would never touch with a twenty-nine-and-a-half-foot-pole. but then they had to royally screw it up.

Running zombies? what? the whole thing that makes them scary is their inexorable advance, their moans and their utter alienness from humanity.


I mean, just the trailers got me depressed and hating the film already.

I will stay with the book.

Rented Tritium wrote:

LordofHats wrote:If someone is dumb enough to go into Wanted and think that a bullet can actually be 'curved' in that manner is an idiot and that's on them not the movie ...

I don't understand why everyone gets so hung up about the wanted bullet curving. First, it's supposed to basically be a superpower, so you can forget physics anyway, second uh unrealistic thing happens in a movie, story at 11.

Wanted was not good at all.

Let me explain why

If the graphic novel was never produced, Wanted would have been a fine movie.

However If you read the Graphic novel, the secret society was a collection of super villains, with costumes and such, it was an amazing book!

Then they made the movie and no mention of super villains, no mention of supernatural powers, and no awesome costumes.

"That is why you fail."

Nerivant wrote:300, M. Night's Avatar, Dragonball: Evolution, James Cameron's Avatar, Superbad, Pineapple Express, The Hangover.

I get a few of those but really suprised by some too

For me its gotta be

Eat Prey Love (took the Mrs to see it, oh dear god)
Kevin and Perry Go Large
Green Hornet
Your Highness
James Bond - all Pierece Brosnan films after goldeneye
Oceans Twelve
Fast and the Furious 2
Human Centipede
Aeon Flux
what becomes of the broken hearted
passion of christ

these are bad films, well as far as I am concerned

Hostel, Quentin Tarantino presents a bag of rubbish with rubbish dialogue, direction, acting and nothing especially gory or shocking.
AVP.
The aquatic life with Steve Zissou.
Spiderman1,2 and 3. Tobey maguire is just so wet, dunst is a whiney shrew and even dafoe's awful.
Transformers 1 and 2 not seen 3 but i'm not holding my breath.
Pearl Harbour.

Thousand Nuns wrote:Hostel, Quentin Tarantino presents a bag of rubbish with rubbish dialogue, direction, acting and nothing especially gory or shocking.
AVP.
The aquatic life with Steve Zissou.
Spiderman1,2 and 3. Tobey maguire is just so wet, dunst is a whiney shrew and even dafoe's awful.
Transformers 1 and 2 not seen 3 but i'm not holding my breath.
Pearl Harbour.

Tarantino produced it he didn't direct it.

Cheesecat wrote:

Thousand Nuns wrote:Hostel, Quentin Tarantino presents a bag of rubbish with rubbish dialogue, direction, acting and nothing especially gory or shocking.
AVP.
The aquatic life with Steve Zissou.
Spiderman1,2 and 3. Tobey maguire is just so wet, dunst is a whiney shrew and even dafoe's awful.
Transformers 1 and 2 not seen 3 but i'm not holding my breath.
Pearl Harbour.

Tarantino produced it he didn't direct it.

Yep i know that wasn't the point I was making the fact was he lent his name to promote a film IMO that was absolute rubbish lending kudos to film that didn't deserve it. Thus promoting it to his fans and those who thought his name stood for quality film making, I know Eli Roth popped up in Inglorious but i fail to see what QT got out of it.

Thousand Nuns wrote:

Cheesecat wrote:

Thousand Nuns wrote:Hostel, Quentin Tarantino presents a bag of rubbish with rubbish dialogue, direction, acting and nothing especially gory or shocking.
AVP.
The aquatic life with Steve Zissou.
Spiderman1,2 and 3. Tobey maguire is just so wet, dunst is a whiney shrew and even dafoe's awful.
Transformers 1 and 2 not seen 3 but i'm not holding my breath.
Pearl Harbour.

Tarantino produced it he didn't direct it.

Yep i know that wasn't the point I was making the fact was he lent his name to promote a film IMO that was absolute rubbish lending kudos to film that didn't deserve it. I know Eli Roth popped up in Inglorious but i fail to see what QT got out of it.

Oh, sorry it just you made it sound like QT was one responsible for Hostel, thanks for the correction.

Cheesecat wrote:

Thousand Nuns wrote:

Cheesecat wrote:

Thousand Nuns wrote:Hostel, Quentin Tarantino presents a bag of rubbish with rubbish dialogue, direction, acting and nothing especially gory or shocking.
AVP.
The aquatic life with Steve Zissou.
Spiderman1,2 and 3. Tobey maguire is just so wet, dunst is a whiney shrew and even dafoe's awful.
Transformers 1 and 2 not seen 3 but i'm not holding my breath.
Pearl Harbour.

Tarantino produced it he didn't direct it.

Yep i know that wasn't the point I was making the fact was he lent his name to promote a film IMO that was absolute rubbish lending kudos to film that didn't deserve it. I know Eli Roth popped up in Inglorious but i fail to see what QT got out of it.

Oh, sorry it just you made it sound like QT was one responsible for Hostel, thanks for the correction.

No worries its my fault, i ranted at my mate for the entire trip home afterwards and it still winds me up. Calm jb calm.

Thousand Nuns wrote:Pearl Harbour.

While I will admit the movie in its entirety was bad, it had a few shining moments...

WARORK93 wrote:

Thousand Nuns wrote:Pearl Harbour.

While I will admit the movie in its entirety was bad, it had a few shining moments...

Yeah some of the aerial shots were really nicely done, i may be corrected on this but i think they used actual Zeros rather than marked up Harvards like in lots of older war films so i'll give them that. I know it was a US summer flick but the flag waving went a bit overboard but I appreciate it may not have been aimed at the foreign market. To each his own and all that.

Starship troopers

Byte wrote:Starship troopers

I've not read the book but i loved the film Aryans in space, gore, action and it was in my view really subversive compared to most blockbusters. What didn't you like, the divergence from the book?

Waterworld
The Last Airbender movie. You can't successfully make a good movie off an awesome show.
Dragon Ball Z the live action movie. Epic fail!
Mortal Kombat the movies.
Super Mario brothers, this movie was so bad, i sliced it in half with my katana. Then liteing it on fire.
Then the one movie.... That i swear to god I would shot myself before watching it ever again.
Ultr-Battlefield EARTH.
So much fail
Also Lost In space
Pluto Nash.
And Aliens from Roundheads. (Not the ones you are thinking of)

Thousand Nuns wrote:What didn't you like, the divergence from the book?

The books more awesome. If anything the film is a parody of the book and its themes.

Plus, general stupidity. The Mobile infantry wear no power armor, fight only as light infantry with no heavy weapons (except for the 'cool' moment where they actually use the infantry carried rockets), and generally operate on a basis of stupidity. The film was made by men who are openly anti-military and apparently have no realistic concept of how the military works. Also, the bugs just weren't as cool as in the book. And Dizzy was dude who dies in the first ten pages. Its not even a spoiler to say Dizzy dies in the book. The character is completely unimportant to the plot.

The guys who made the movie knew it was bad too. Step one when you realize your movie is horrible. Add naked women It honestly has no real connection to Starship Troopers the novel other than characters having the same names and the title.

WARORK93 wrote:

Thousand Nuns wrote:Pearl Harbour.

While I will admit the movie in its entirety was bad, it had a few shining moments...

Poorly done does not=should have never been made. A movie about pearl harbor was a good idea, I was looking forward to it, and they released a crappy love triangle movie instead.

Just realized IMDb has a "bottom 100" list. There are some hilarious titles gracing that list (which is what I find great about it), including,

Santa Claus conquers the Martians
Troll 2
Santa with Muscles (any correlation? )
Santa Claus
The Barbaric Beast of Boggy Creek, part II

And, at the time of writing, the worst rated movie on IMDb:
Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2

It should of course be "genii". Can anyone testify to these movies actually sucking?

Sam__theRelentless wrote:Just realized IMDb has a "bottom 100" list. There are some hilarious titles gracing that list (which is what I find great about it), including,

Santa Claus conquers the Martians
Troll 2
Santa with Muscles (any correlation? )
Santa Claus
The Barbaric Beast of Boggy Creek, part II

And, at the time of writing, the worst rated movie on IMDb:
Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2

It should of course be "genii". Can anyone testify to these movies actually sucking?

A bunch of the movies on that list went on to make awesome MST3K episodes.

Okay guys, as someone who has seriously badmouthed Uwe Boll films in the past, I have to give credit where credit is due, and you all should as well.

Postal was very, very well done as far as keeping the 'spirit' of the game.

Rampage was actually a pretty decent movie overall.

Other than that, yeah. The big three that offend me on a deep, personal level are the aforementioned prequel trilogy (and no, the latter two were not any better), Indy 4, and the Transformers films. And whatever asshat decided to remake Rollerball into an action movie. F that guy.

I will be happy so long as they never, ever, ever touch Big Trouble. Piss on the rest of my childhood if you want, but leave me that. Thank god it did badly in theaters.

As someone who has seen most of Uwe Boll's video game adaptations in theaters (I am a film-masochist), I agree with Bromsy. House of the Dead, In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale, Bloodrayne, and Alone in the Dark were abominations. Truly, truly awful films.

But, when taking into account its source material, I daresay Postal was a brilliantly realized adaptation. Yes, it's a ridiculous, stupid movie. Postal is a ridiculous, stupid game. It works.

Thousand Nuns wrote:

Byte wrote:Starship troopers

I've not read the book but i loved the film Aryans in space, gore, action and it was in my view really subversive compared to most blockbusters. What didn't you like, the divergence from the book?

Affirmative, the novel is great scifi. Powered battle armor, nuke missile launchers, 5 or 6 suits(troopers) taking out a planet. Good stuff. Movie = suck.

I'm surprised I'm the only one that mentioned this. I must be getting old.

Byte wrote:

Thousand Nuns wrote:

Byte wrote:Starship troopers

I've not read the book but i loved the film Aryans in space, gore, action and it was in my view really subversive compared to most blockbusters. What didn't you like, the divergence from the book?

Affirmative, the novel is great scifi. Powered battle armor, nuke missile launchers, 5 or 6 suits(troopers) taking out a planet. Good stuff. Movie = suck.

I'm surprised I'm the only one that mentioned this. I must be getting old.

Yeah it seems most people who've read the book didn't like the fact that verhoven turned it into a satire, remember the TV debate scene. I think having hundreds of troopers being monstered fit that style more than the power armoured version. Still i think i know what book to read next.

The adjustment bueruo

Byte wrote:

Thousand Nuns wrote:

Byte wrote:Starship troopers

I've not read the book but i loved the film Aryans in space, gore, action and it was in my view really subversive compared to most blockbusters. What didn't you like, the divergence from the book?

Affirmative, the novel is great scifi. Powered battle armor, nuke missile launchers, 5 or 6 suits(troopers) taking out a planet. Good stuff. Movie = suck.

I'm surprised I'm the only one that mentioned this. I must be getting old.

Aye, the book is a classic for sure. But the movies..... I still have nigthmares about the gakkheads casts as the "saviours" of humanity. And dont get me started on the animated series witch is even worse

Amaya wrote:Starship Troopers
Dragonball Evolution
Suckerpunch
Star Wars prequels
Star Trek Nemesis, Star Trek Insurrection /facepalm

Starship Trooopers? Are you high that movie was awesome, the sequels not so much but the book also helped inspire WH40k

Nightwalker wrote:

Amaya wrote:Starship Troopers
Dragonball Evolution
Suckerpunch
Star Wars prequels
Star Trek Nemesis, Star Trek Insurrection /facepalm

Starship Trooopers? Are you high that movie was awesome, the sequels not so much but the original also helped inspire WH40k

Yes, a movie from 1997 helped inspire a game that was around for 10 years

But back to the topic, any Saw movie after the first.

Nightwalker wrote:

Amaya wrote:Starship Troopers
Dragonball Evolution
Suckerpunch
Star Wars prequels
Star Trek Nemesis, Star Trek Insurrection /facepalm

Starship Trooopers? Are you high that movie was awesome, the sequels not so much but the original also helped inspire WH40k

The book my friend, not the movie... Please don't say that again. The novel was written in 1959! Geez.. Give it a read and come back.


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Thousand Nuns wrote:

Byte wrote:

Thousand Nuns wrote:

Byte wrote:Starship troopers

I've not read the book but i loved the film Aryans in space, gore, action and it was in my view really subversive compared to most blockbusters. What didn't you like, the divergence from the book?

Affirmative, the novel is great scifi. Powered battle armor, nuke missile launchers, 5 or 6 suits(troopers) taking out a planet. Good stuff. Movie = suck.

I'm surprised I'm the only one that mentioned this. I must be getting old.

Yeah it seems most people who've read the book didn't like the fact that verhoven turned it into a satire, remember the TV debate scene. I think having hundreds of troopers being monstered fit that style more than the power armoured version. Still i think i know what book to read next.

Agreed, it was almost like a spoof! I can't believe some think it good stuff compared the Heinlein's original written release.

Corrected the typo EDIT: Nevermind. It was 1959. I had the decade way off XD

The movie however did I think inspire to an extent the appearance of the Imperial Guard models we now have. The current IG appearance is a mix of the Colonial Marines (Aliens), WWI, and I think the appearance of Mobile Infantry and their drop ships from the movie. The Valkyrie especially looks like its a mixed influence from the drop ships in Aliens and the drop ships used in the ST movie.

Trondheim wrote:

Byte wrote:

Thousand Nuns wrote:

Byte wrote:Starship troopers

I've not read the book but i loved the film Aryans in space, gore, action and it was in my view really subversive compared to most blockbusters. What didn't you like, the divergence from the book?

Affirmative, the novel is great scifi. Powered battle armor, nuke missile launchers, 5 or 6 suits(troopers) taking out a planet. Good stuff. Movie = suck.

I'm surprised I'm the only one that mentioned this. I must be getting old.

Aye, the book is a classic for sure. But the movies..... I still have nigthmares about the gakkheads casts as the "saviours" of humanity. And dont get me started on the animated series witch is even worse

Agreed!

mattyboy22 wrote:

Nightwalker wrote:

Amaya wrote:Starship Troopers
Dragonball Evolution
Suckerpunch
Star Wars prequels
Star Trek Nemesis, Star Trek Insurrection /facepalm

Starship Trooopers? Are you high that movie was awesome, the sequels not so much but the original also helped inspire WH40k

Yes, a movie from 1997 helped inspire a game that was around for 10 years

But back to the topic, any Saw movie after the first.

I realized that and i didn't mean to phrase it in a way to give the implication that the movie inspired warhammer. I know the book inspired it and i have fixed my post for that, i apologize for makeing you post more unneccesarily

TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES!!!

Asgeirr Darkwolf wrote:TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES!!!

which one?

The newest? They were mostly bad...

Asgeirr Darkwolf wrote:The newest? They were mostly bad...

The first one was awesome, as I recall. Then they just got gakky. The Nostalgia Critic actually did a great review on all three movies, and a later one on the wonder of cinema known as TMNT...(/sarcasm)

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Also, that "bottom 100" list on IMDB is awesome. Some of those titles, just...man. They make me want to see them.

The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies!!?

TMNT is the one I'm thinking of.

warboss wrote:AVP 2. Completely nonsensical. I'm actually one of the few people that really enjoyed the first AVP but the second ones incredibly bad choices and twisting of the established fluff made me wretch.

Homework for tonight:

Watch Alien then immediately watch AVP. Afterwards write me a 50 word essay on why AVP should not have happened either.

AVP and AVP2 could have been great, but in the end both movies sucked.




As for Napoleon Dynamite, how much were you all expecting out of the movie?! It had like a $400,000 budget and made like 46 million. Not too bad for a few chuckles.

And then predators? Because, AFAIK without having watched the movies (), that's the next part, isn't it?

Sam__theRelentless wrote:And then predators? Because, AFAIK without having watched the movies (), that's the next part, isn't it?

Its more of a sequel to the original Predator movie, which actually already had a sequel called Predator 2. The thing about Predators, is that they were shooting for a sequel that felt more like the sequel to Alien called Aliens (The plural part to Predators is a nod to plural part to Aliens).


I am still looking forward to Prometheus as well. There is a good chance it will be a prequel to Alien.

Scream - Ironic my ass, I hated that movie - I prefer girls kicking ass rather than being sliced and diced by pathetic but apparently invulnerbale and invincible morons. Should have been over in first five mins when got her dads shotgun out and blew the dumb stalker in half.......and it spawned sequals :(

Inception - boring and overhyped - the Southpark version was so much better. Sucker Punch was such a superior film.

Mutant Chronicles - I had hopes it would be good and it was not :(

Clash of the Titans -- so much money so very poor in story excecution and characters.

all in my opinion of course...........

Oh I forgot the dire "new" Star Wars films and the tedious Matrix sequals

Lord Scythican wrote:

Sam__theRelentless wrote:And then predators? Because, AFAIK without having watched the movies (), that's the next part, isn't it?

Its more of a sequel to the original Predator movie, which actually already had a sequel called Predator 2. The thing about Predators, is that they were shooting for a sequel that felt more like the sequel to Alien called Aliens (The plural part to Predators is a nod to plural part to Aliens).


I am still looking forward to Prometheus as well. There is a good chance it will be a prequel to Alien.

I IZ BEFUDDLED!!!
Thanks for clearing that up I think I'll watch it anyway!

Mr Morden wrote:Scream - Ironic my ass, I hated that movie - I prefer girls kicking ass rather than being sliced and diced by pathetic but apparently invulnerbale and invincible morons. Should have been over in first five mins when got her dads shotgun out and blew the dumb stalker in half.......and it spawned sequals :(

Inception - boring and overhyped - the Southpark version was so much better. Sucker Punch was such a superior film.

Mutant Chronicles - I had hopes it would be good and it was not :(

Clash of the Titans -- so much money so very poor in story excecution and characters.

all in my opinion of course...........

Oh I forgot the dire "new" Star Wars films and the tedious Matrix sequals

If your old enough to be sitting in the theater when "Scream" first came out... it wasn't that bad. Albeit, the same is true about "Blair Witch Project", it's true...

Hind sight... well you know the rest...

Dragon Ball Evolution

Why.....

Just.... WHY?!

Disaster Movie, Napoleon Dynamite.

I honestly get mad when they come on my television, as if the T.V. is purposely trying to spite me.

Karon wrote:Disaster Movie, Napoleon Dynamite.

I honestly get mad when they come on my television, as if the T.V. is purposely trying to spite me.

The first two Scary Movies were...well, not good, but they were good fun, poking at horror movies in general and making fun of the stupid things that go on in them. Scary Movie 3 was over the top, but it still had its moments. After that, the entire series just collapsed into pure, raw, stupidity.

I really never saw the appeal of Napoleon Dynamite, myself. For how big of an icon it became back in its day, I thought it would be gold, but...it was just plain dumb.

Byte wrote:

Mr Morden wrote:Scream - Ironic my ass, I hated that movie - I prefer girls kicking ass rather than being sliced and diced by pathetic but apparently invulnerbale and invincible morons. Should have been over in first five mins when got her dads shotgun out and blew the dumb stalker in half.......and it spawned sequals :(

If your old enough to be sitting in the theater when "Scream" first came out... it wasn't that bad. Albeit, the same is true about "Blair Witch Project", it's true...

Hind sight... well you know the rest...

I was - I went hoping for something parodying the genre and found myself sitting through a hugely extended torture scene slaughtering the first victim (Drew Barrymore?) and it carried on from there in the same vein.

IMO - there was no comedy, nothing clever - just another bad slasher flick.

The real reason scary movies were bad was that they spent a lot of time on scream, a movie which was ALREADY intended as satire about other horror movies.

The Matrix Sequels.

The Star Wars Prequels.

Anything Michael Moore has ever done.

Edit: Napoleon Dynamite isn't horrible. It isn't the worst film ever made. But there was very little in it that was funny. It rates a "Meh" on my Give-A-gak-O-Meter.