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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?