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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)

The Video

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.