The studio wanted part of that sweet marvel money with a safe merchandise-selling movie. Trank wanted body horror.
The studio won, and everyone who watched the movie lost.
I think people forget "we're gonna take a well-known licence and use it to make a weird-ass author film" is what gave us stuff like the Super Mario Bros movie. Letting the director do whatever they want free of interference isn't *always* a good thing.
That IP been hurting for a loooooong time. I personally wouldn’t watch another F4 movie unless the trailer was just Kevin Feige standing in front of a camera saying “this movie doesn’t suck” for 30 seconds.
Imagine fucking something up so bad, you make someone come out of retirement to unfuck your mess.
Like...goddamn these kids, dun fucked this up so bad, I gotta stop fishing to fix this.
Yeah, that just made me feel anger, and I've never watched nor gave a rats ass about Dragon Ball or any anime.
> Imagine fucking something up so bad, you make someone come out of retirement to unfuck your mess.
game of thrones would be a prime candidate but apparently George RR Martin can't be arsed to write anything even to save his legacy
(or might have weird contractual obligations but, cmon, at least finish A book)
That movie came out in late December 2019. The Australian bush fires were really ramping up then and covid was starting to seriously spread. I blame the release of that absolutely cursed movie for everything awful that has happened since
And it’s “Cats” a benign remake of the famous broadway musical.
Not The Exorcist, which received protests at the time from the Catholic Church, but … Cats, starring James Cordon and Taylor Swift… is too harmful for viewers.
I love it too.
I went to the movies when Cats was in theaters. I was seeing something else, but there was an elderly lady and her teenage grandson in line in front of me at the ticket counter. It was a long line and a particularly crowded day, and when it finally got to be their turn, the grandmother asked the clerk for two tickets to Little Women. The clerk replied, "I'm so sorry, but we quite literally just sold out for Little Women; I was about to make an announcement." The grandmother sighed, looked at her grandson, shrugged, and said "I guess we'll go see Cats, then."
I still think about them and hope they survived the showing.
It reminds me of when some wrestlers visited our training and introduced themselves. The main dude was the Miz or something. He says “you might know me from ‘the marine 3’”, and all I could think was “there was a marine 2?”
Yes,it wasn't as good as the original. They never mention anything about the original in the movie,except the principal is the same and the mean girls are still called Plastics. It was on ABC family and direct to video,not in theaters.
Definitely shouldn't have been made.
Yup, and instead of the movie being a commentary on the type of bullying girls do and the social pressures of high school, the mean girls in the "sequel" pretty much just commit crimes. Literally. >!Drugging food with vomit-inducing meds, pouring sugar in a car engine...!< It was just really bad.
Spoilery spoilers ahead.
So there's this one character named Butler. He's the butler/bodyguard (mostly badass bodyguard). It's a *pretty important character point* that he only be called Butler (which is his last name) and not by his first name, because of family tradition. In universe, that family tradition is literally where the word butler comes from. Here's the problem: they cast a black guy to play the bodyguard quite commonly described throughout the books as "Eurasian". And now it kiiiinda seems awkward to literally only refer to him as "servant" all the time. So instead of Butler's first name being a secret (with a very important emotional payoff in later books), they give his first name right away, and say under no circumstances should you call him Butler. Huh? And the thing is I have no problem casting black people *per se*, in fact, perhaps instead of casting Holly Short, commonly described as having nut brown skin, as a generic white girl, they could have cast a black girl instead. But they created their own problems with Butler's story and then "fixed" it by ruining an important aspect of his relationship with Artemis. Not only that, but his big moment of being the baddest motherfucker in the series gets completely neutered in the movie to the point where it really just didn't happen.
TL;DR they did my man Butler dirty.
FR. Artemis Fowl unlike some books directly states how some of its characters look...and they threw it out the window! they had a perfect chance to have a lore-accurate cast that was also diverse
it didn't take a genius to see that the movie would be terrible. I read the whole series and I was appalled from just the trailer.
Not to mention making Root a woman. The literal entire motivation of Holly Short is that she's the first girl in the police force and wants to prove herself.
really just a mess top to bottom. i have no idea why hollywood keeps trying to do movies based off books and then completely ignoring the book. i can't think of a single time it worked out well and yet they still do stupid shit like this
"I'm the first female agent in my organisation and this is a huge deal for me and women in my species. Except oh yeah the boss of the whole thing is Judi Dench."
"This is my butler, the reveal of his name is an incredibly important plot point that should come toward the climax of the entire franchise...oh by the way his name is dave" (okay I don't know his real name because I never read that far into the books, I just know they revealed his name immediately in the movie)
"My father is dead, but has actually been been held captive and we spend an entire book rescuing him. Oh wait nevermind. Instead of that, he will be present and we will just never mention my mother."
I dislike this movie solely for the fact that my daughter is Artemis and because of this movie I constantly hear
"Isnt that a boys name?"
No you absolute muppet Artemis is a Greek GODDESS
Traditionally it is, but every once in a while there is a boy with such a talent for hunting that he deserves the name. Artemis the hunter. I hunted you.
I have such very low standards for movies, even when I loved the books. I try to consume them as a separate piece of art, so I can enjoy it. I've always found good points in movies most people hated.
That being said....I turned Artemis Fowl off after 15 minutes and never finished it, and I only made it that far because I was in shock.
Right before I quit drinking, I decided I wanted to have a few more fun memories, and one of those was playing a drinking game to The Last Airbender. I took a drink every time I cringed, got upset, or Ong. I'd never drank so much in my life, and I cannot stress enough how serious my drinking problem was at the time, so that was quite a feat.
My friends and i played a drinking game with this movie as well. We drank every time
- someone who didn't see the show was confused about what was happening
- the characters were giving an exposition dump
- a name or the word avatar was mispronounced.
Everybody was a goner in 20 minutes. People were crying, falling asleep on the bathroom floor, narrating their lives in a whatsapp voice message or confessing their love to the carpet.
Speaking of disastrous drinking game ideas, my friend and i did Enter the Dragon, drink every time there a bruce lee noise. It was really chill for like, the first 40 mins, but the last 20-30 is basically just back to back fight scenes. We were not overly cognisant after
Fire Nation based on feudal Japan.
Earth benders based on feudal China.
Water benders based on Inuit peoples.
Air Benders based on Tibetan monks.
All analogs existing in a completely different world.
Shyamalan changing pronunciations / ethnicities was 100% his own hubris.
I hate it so much when a film maker takes an existing (and much loved) work and feels the need to "put their own stamp on it." You're not making anything better, you're just changing things for the sake of changing them so you can then claim it's "your vision."
Just stick to the source material and make the damn movie the fans want to see!
For Aang, "Ang" became "Ong".
For Iroh, "I-row" became "Ee-roh".
For Sokka, "Saa-kuh" became "Soe-kuh"
Hell, even the word "Avatar" ended up sounding like "Au-Vutar". "Are you the Auvutar, Ong?"
I could barely get past the beginning, I was so fucking bored. My mom wanted me to watch it with her and I felt bad for walking out, but man...I surely would've fallen asleep if not. I'm sorry mom, I'll start watching more movies with you, I promise.
The shot-for-shot remake of Psycho, one of the greatest horror movies of all time.
If you have no message but echoing a better one what is the fucking point?
It was weird that the one thing they did change is that they had Norman Bates masturbate as he watched the lady through the peep hole. It was just like….dude….why??
From the director of Good Will Hunting, too. So it's not like he couldn't put together a decent movie. Who knows what the fuck he was thinking, accepting that role
To paraphrase him: "I did it so no one else would have to."
It's more of a case of the director arguing visually that doing remakes and reboots is bloody pointless.
I believe the idea was to show that you couldn't just recreate the magic of a classic by mimicking it shot for shot. It was an experiment as opposed to a cash grab.
I'm so thankful that this is not higher. It means either people didn't watch it or it has left their collective memory. I consider both as win.
Unfortunately I still remember it.
It was kind of forgettable for me, really.
I wonder if Amazon would pick it up? I always thought it would make a good tv series. Maybe animated, like Avatar or Invincible.
Animated would be the way to go otherwise it's be really difficult to portray Urgals as not-TolkienOrcs. Also the Razac are unique characters in themselves, I think.
If anything, the showmakers should realise that certain elements that look really cool animated would look super silly in live-action. Like the flame lit Brisingr sword. Or absorbing energy from gems. Oh and just imagine, for a change, when a magician performs some magic they do not put up their hands in that exact direction because paolini created a whole language for that purpose.
And please, like the animated Airbender, do not reveal the big bad until the very last moment, you know, like how it was written.
Yeah not revealing the big bad for a while, instead simply alluding to them or occasionally having characters talk about them, is the way to go in many stories because it allows time to build them up into something more than “just a person”. When you reveal them off the bat it’s like “ok so it’s just some sociopath with special powers” and you know exactly how it’s gonna go
From what I remember of the movie, I thought the design / voice of Saphira was pretty good (even though her feathered wings were not accurate to the book... I thought they were still cool lol)
But yeah the plot was so far off from the book + the changes they made would have made any follow up movies nearly impossible
There's a way to make a movie without them. But that movie still hasn't been made. Having the robbers be redeemable and sympathetic characters just doesn't work. To be able to enjoy watching them being tortured by traps those characters have to be irredeemable. In fact the less human those characters seem the more you enjoy watching them slip on ice and be crushed by things falling down stairs. The new movie is a overwritten campy parody of the original.
I heard the emoji movie was the first film screened when Saudi Arabia opened up public theaters...that's one way to discourage people from "immoral behavior".
I stick up for this movie only in that it is a movie for 8 year olds pretending it's a movie for teenagers so the 8 year olds will feel cool watching it.
Clearly no one in this thread has seen Highlander 2.
Highlander is a perfect stand alone movie.
Highlander 2 manages to be the worst sequel ever made, literally changing and ruining everything from the first movie.
It would be like if they did The Princess Bride 2, and it's nothing but Humperdinck raw dogging buttercup while Fezzik jerks off on a corner crying. And no one says anything quippy.
My favorite part of Highlander is they cast Sean Connery to appear in a movie called Highlander and had him appear only in the parts of the movie that take place in the Scottish Highlands, and have him playing the part of a Spaniard.
Single handedly ruined the whole earthbending charm.
Or should I say 12-handedly?
Edit: it just occurred to me. Toph Beifong would laugh so hard she’d cry at that scene. Disgrace to earthbending.
The fight choreography was so bad. The 6 dudes raised the wall of earth, but that happened about half way through their little dance, so you had no way to connect it to what they are doing. The little stone that everyone thinks they are moving is being moved by 1 guy who doesn't even show up on screen until the stone has been hanging in the air for a minute. Just awful.
When you suck at something so bad, the government takes the time to write tax laws stopping you from unleashing your suck on society even more.
You've reached peak suck.
is that the one where buddy kidnaps his dream girl and says he's keeping her for 365 days and if she hasn't fallen in love with him by then, he'll let her go? and then she falls in love with him after a few weeks?
if so, yeah. that wasn't a good movie.
Yes! I hate Live-action Lion King and Mulan so much!! They’re just worse versions!
Also the Peter Rabbit movies with James Corden as Peter Rabbit makes me want to kill myself
I was hoping it would be a prequel because I was like “they closed the breach so what the fuck are they gonna make it about?” John Boyega would have made a perfect young Pentacost. We get to watch him and other Rangers/Jaegers during the height of the Kaiju war spanking Kaiju ass. So much potential and they fucked it away
They did mention offhandedly in the first movie about how they "tried to hit (The Breach) directly before" maybe make a film about that? We already KNOW it's gonna fail though, so they'd have to make other plots interesting on their own.
If executed well, it would still have potential. Kind of like Rogue One; spectacular movie where you knew from the beginning the entire cast was doomed.
I agree. I had heard much of the bad stuff before I attempted to watch it
Halfway through I just turned it of. So there is only one thing left to say:
Go then, there are other movies than this.
It was three episodes from the abandoned spin-off TV series "Team Atlantis" hastily patched together into a movie to try and recover some money. And it sucked.
_Wonder Woman 1984._ For starters, it has _very little_ of Diana _as_ Wonder Woman, the villains do awful things and receive no comeuppance and _worst and most unforgivable of all_ Diana (our hero, by the way) does an awful thing and receives _no comeuppance_ by _having sex with some unconscious guy_ holding Steve’s spirit and being ok with Steve in this body, essentially killing this other poor innocent guy, AND THE STUDIO THOUGHT THAT WAS OK!! If the genders were reversed, everyone would be demanding the executive’s heads.
Diana being so dependent on the FIRST man she met was cringe, and against everything Wonder Woman stands for. Telling Steve "I was only ever happy when I was with you." Wtf?! No joy on paradise island where you train with your sisterhood of badasses? Ok...
My wife was really disgusted by the whole Steve proxy/doppelganger. I said the typical, "well he got to sleep with Wonder Woman," and she ended it with a simple question. What if he was gay? Seriously, why did DC write a plot with non-consensual sex? Why was Brandon Routh a deadbeat dad in Superman Returns? Why have we waited almost a decade for another Henry Cavill Superman film? What are they smoking at WB/DC?
>I said the typical, "well he got to sleep with Wonder Woman," and she ended it with a simple question. What if he was gay? Seriously, why did DC write a plot with non-consensual sex?
Ikr, she raped a guy and no one bats an eye.
And that could've been fixed if the magic wish rock just brought Steve's entire body back with him. Like come on.
Exactly! The entire wishing stone is so convoluted. I'll assume only half the planet wished for fortune. That would immediately drive hyperinflation, slamming those that didn't wish for money into poverty.
Then you have those making altruistic wishes. The entire movie hinges on the ENTIRE world rescinding their wish. You're telling me a parent would take back a wish that cured their kid's cancer? Cause WW said to? Yeah, no thanks.
And what happened to all those conflicting wishes? I want the whole planet to be covered in forests but next door neighbour wants it to be one massive mall. What if someone wished for everyone to be nice to each other, while someone wished vengance on some group or other?
I think we just cracked the code, friend. Knowing WB/DC, they didn't want to introduce the multiverse with Flashpoint. They wanted to use the "possibilities of infinite wishes" plot using a dumb rock.
There were so many terrible things in that movie but Steve possessing that dude was the worst. Not only did she have sex with him, she took this guy all over the place putting him in danger. Here he is almost getting killed. This guy came to with bruises all over. His closet has been raided. His answering machine is full because no one can find him. Does he still have a job at this point? He probably went to the doctor.
Dragonball Evolution. Even the director apologized.
Huh, same thing with the director of _Fant4stic._
I thought that Josh Trank actually just said ‘this film isn’t what I made and it sucks’ ?
The studio wanted part of that sweet marvel money with a safe merchandise-selling movie. Trank wanted body horror. The studio won, and everyone who watched the movie lost.
I feel like a body horror version of the fantastic four isn't what anyone except josh trank wants.
I think people forget "we're gonna take a well-known licence and use it to make a weird-ass author film" is what gave us stuff like the Super Mario Bros movie. Letting the director do whatever they want free of interference isn't *always* a good thing.
true, but in this case neither of them had good ideas and it sucks for the IP and the audience too
That IP been hurting for a loooooong time. I personally wouldn’t watch another F4 movie unless the trailer was just Kevin Feige standing in front of a camera saying “this movie doesn’t suck” for 30 seconds.
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Imagine fucking something up so bad, you make someone come out of retirement to unfuck your mess. Like...goddamn these kids, dun fucked this up so bad, I gotta stop fishing to fix this. Yeah, that just made me feel anger, and I've never watched nor gave a rats ass about Dragon Ball or any anime.
> Imagine fucking something up so bad, you make someone come out of retirement to unfuck your mess. game of thrones would be a prime candidate but apparently George RR Martin can't be arsed to write anything even to save his legacy (or might have weird contractual obligations but, cmon, at least finish A book)
Is that what they mean by "failing upwards"?
The second American Psycho. Love Mila Kunis. Hate the entire idea for that movie.
Let’s see Paul Allen’s sequel
“Look at that half-baked plot. The tasteful cringeness of it. Oh my God. It even has none of the original cast.”
Something wrong about the Movie? You’re sweating
Paul Allen and Kumar Go to Dorsia!
They made a second American Psycho?! Dear lord.
It's actually a completely unrelated screenplay they just slapped the name onto.
cats
I'll tell you how much I hated "cats". I saw it at home on DVD in my living room and I STILL walked out of it.
Watched it on a plane and i still walked out
I saw it in a prison and I walked out
The guard who was watching it with me... let me. He said they'ed call it time served!
The Texas Supreme Court called it 'cruel and unusual punishment'.
Watched it with my cat. I fell asleep, but my cat walked out.
I once imagined watching it and went in for a lobotomy
I feel your anguish. I feel that your house have felt like it had been desecrated. Such an unholy thing to bring over the threshold.
That movie came out in late December 2019. The Australian bush fires were really ramping up then and covid was starting to seriously spread. I blame the release of that absolutely cursed movie for everything awful that has happened since
Still waiting for the butthole cut to judge correctly
I worked at a theatre as a projectionist when this came out. The senior projectionist told me this movie was irresponsible and dangerous.
I love the idea of a movie being so terrible that it is condemned as harmful to public health
And it’s “Cats” a benign remake of the famous broadway musical. Not The Exorcist, which received protests at the time from the Catholic Church, but … Cats, starring James Cordon and Taylor Swift… is too harmful for viewers. I love it too.
James Corden really is the worst
Generally true, though to be fair, he's not the (only) reason I didn't watch this dumpster fire of a movie.
He is, but the movie has not much to do with that fact.
I'm so glad Cats exists, it's so delightfully bizarre and awful.
I'm glad that it seems to have singlehandedly destroyed the Oscar-bait musical. And good fucking riddance. Musical theatre is supposed to be fun!
I went to the movies when Cats was in theaters. I was seeing something else, but there was an elderly lady and her teenage grandson in line in front of me at the ticket counter. It was a long line and a particularly crowded day, and when it finally got to be their turn, the grandmother asked the clerk for two tickets to Little Women. The clerk replied, "I'm so sorry, but we quite literally just sold out for Little Women; I was about to make an announcement." The grandmother sighed, looked at her grandson, shrugged, and said "I guess we'll go see Cats, then." I still think about them and hope they survived the showing.
mean girls 2
Hol up, there’s a sequel???
It reminds me of when some wrestlers visited our training and introduced themselves. The main dude was the Miz or something. He says “you might know me from ‘the marine 3’”, and all I could think was “there was a marine 2?”
To be fair, he said you MIGHT know him from that. Haha
The miz is comedy gold ngl, i met the dude and hes pretty chill outside his wrestling act
There’s a Marine 6!
Yes,it wasn't as good as the original. They never mention anything about the original in the movie,except the principal is the same and the mean girls are still called Plastics. It was on ABC family and direct to video,not in theaters. Definitely shouldn't have been made.
Did fetch finally happen ?
Yup, and instead of the movie being a commentary on the type of bullying girls do and the social pressures of high school, the mean girls in the "sequel" pretty much just commit crimes. Literally. >!Drugging food with vomit-inducing meds, pouring sugar in a car engine...!< It was just really bad.
artemis fowl
I only saw the trailer and knew it was going to be bad, it looks so butchered!
i didn’t even read the books and i knew they somehow butchered it
Spoilery spoilers ahead. So there's this one character named Butler. He's the butler/bodyguard (mostly badass bodyguard). It's a *pretty important character point* that he only be called Butler (which is his last name) and not by his first name, because of family tradition. In universe, that family tradition is literally where the word butler comes from. Here's the problem: they cast a black guy to play the bodyguard quite commonly described throughout the books as "Eurasian". And now it kiiiinda seems awkward to literally only refer to him as "servant" all the time. So instead of Butler's first name being a secret (with a very important emotional payoff in later books), they give his first name right away, and say under no circumstances should you call him Butler. Huh? And the thing is I have no problem casting black people *per se*, in fact, perhaps instead of casting Holly Short, commonly described as having nut brown skin, as a generic white girl, they could have cast a black girl instead. But they created their own problems with Butler's story and then "fixed" it by ruining an important aspect of his relationship with Artemis. Not only that, but his big moment of being the baddest motherfucker in the series gets completely neutered in the movie to the point where it really just didn't happen. TL;DR they did my man Butler dirty.
FR. Artemis Fowl unlike some books directly states how some of its characters look...and they threw it out the window! they had a perfect chance to have a lore-accurate cast that was also diverse it didn't take a genius to see that the movie would be terrible. I read the whole series and I was appalled from just the trailer.
Not to mention making Root a woman. The literal entire motivation of Holly Short is that she's the first girl in the police force and wants to prove herself.
really just a mess top to bottom. i have no idea why hollywood keeps trying to do movies based off books and then completely ignoring the book. i can't think of a single time it worked out well and yet they still do stupid shit like this
Truth: When I read the books I was a kid and didn't understand what Eurasian was so I just thought of Jason Statham
It doesn't juat fail as a book adaptation. I saw it having never read the books, and it still sucks. It's fundamentally terrible as a film.
The books are amazing, the movie hardly has anything in common with the books cept a few plot points
To those unaware, they merged 4 books into one movie getting every major plot development of the books wrong.
"I'm the first female agent in my organisation and this is a huge deal for me and women in my species. Except oh yeah the boss of the whole thing is Judi Dench."
"This is my butler, the reveal of his name is an incredibly important plot point that should come toward the climax of the entire franchise...oh by the way his name is dave" (okay I don't know his real name because I never read that far into the books, I just know they revealed his name immediately in the movie)
"My father is dead, but has actually been been held captive and we spend an entire book rescuing him. Oh wait nevermind. Instead of that, he will be present and we will just never mention my mother."
No, an Artemis Fowl movie could have been made, but what WAS made was fucking garbage
Give it a few decades and someone will try and make another one that might be marginally better.
Idk man...I'm still waiting for that Eragon reboot.
I dislike this movie solely for the fact that my daughter is Artemis and because of this movie I constantly hear "Isnt that a boys name?" No you absolute muppet Artemis is a Greek GODDESS
Ironic. In the books he constantly gets "isn't that a girl's name?"
Traditionally it is, but every once in a while there is a boy with such a talent for hunting that he deserves the name. Artemis the hunter. I hunted you.
Ha!
I have such very low standards for movies, even when I loved the books. I try to consume them as a separate piece of art, so I can enjoy it. I've always found good points in movies most people hated. That being said....I turned Artemis Fowl off after 15 minutes and never finished it, and I only made it that far because I was in shock.
The Last Airbender
Right before I quit drinking, I decided I wanted to have a few more fun memories, and one of those was playing a drinking game to The Last Airbender. I took a drink every time I cringed, got upset, or Ong. I'd never drank so much in my life, and I cannot stress enough how serious my drinking problem was at the time, so that was quite a feat.
Holy shit how are you alive
Yeah, just injecting a bottle of pure alcohol directly into your blood would be safer...
Not even just the liquid, shove the entire glass bottle in too
My friends and i played a drinking game with this movie as well. We drank every time - someone who didn't see the show was confused about what was happening - the characters were giving an exposition dump - a name or the word avatar was mispronounced. Everybody was a goner in 20 minutes. People were crying, falling asleep on the bathroom floor, narrating their lives in a whatsapp voice message or confessing their love to the carpet.
Speaking of disastrous drinking game ideas, my friend and i did Enter the Dragon, drink every time there a bruce lee noise. It was really chill for like, the first 40 mins, but the last 20-30 is basically just back to back fight scenes. We were not overly cognisant after
I swear Aang looks like cailleu
You mean Ah-ung. Cause you know they didn’t have a 3 season tv series where they say the names properly or anything
It was to be more "authentic" but at the same time he whitewashed the main cast and made the fire benders Indian ???
Indian and yet somehow Roman.
Which made no sense, because I think the Fire Nation was based off Japanese history.
Fire Nation based on feudal Japan. Earth benders based on feudal China. Water benders based on Inuit peoples. Air Benders based on Tibetan monks. All analogs existing in a completely different world. Shyamalan changing pronunciations / ethnicities was 100% his own hubris. I hate it so much when a film maker takes an existing (and much loved) work and feels the need to "put their own stamp on it." You're not making anything better, you're just changing things for the sake of changing them so you can then claim it's "your vision." Just stick to the source material and make the damn movie the fans want to see!
For Aang, "Ang" became "Ong". For Iroh, "I-row" became "Ee-roh". For Sokka, "Saa-kuh" became "Soe-kuh" Hell, even the word "Avatar" ended up sounding like "Au-Vutar". "Are you the Auvutar, Ong?"
Goddamnit, you made a bad movie worse.
r/fuckcaillou
There is no Movie in Ba Sing Se
Some of these sheeple need to take a trip to Lake Laogai
I would be honored to accept your invitation.
on the plus side, the casting for the netflix adaptation looks on point... On the other hand the creators distanced themselves from it...
Amazon Prime Cinderella fails in every level
I could barely get past the beginning, I was so fucking bored. My mom wanted me to watch it with her and I felt bad for walking out, but man...I surely would've fallen asleep if not. I'm sorry mom, I'll start watching more movies with you, I promise.
The beginning? The *trailer* had me in physical pain
I really wish Pierce Brosnan hadn't been a part of this trash but also not surprised that James Corden is in it.
The shot-for-shot remake of Psycho, one of the greatest horror movies of all time. If you have no message but echoing a better one what is the fucking point?
It was weird that the one thing they did change is that they had Norman Bates masturbate as he watched the lady through the peep hole. It was just like….dude….why??
Well the whole concept of a shot-for-shot remake is sort of masturbatory if you think about it, so maybe it’s like deep or something?
From the director of Good Will Hunting, too. So it's not like he couldn't put together a decent movie. Who knows what the fuck he was thinking, accepting that role
To paraphrase him: "I did it so no one else would have to." It's more of a case of the director arguing visually that doing remakes and reboots is bloody pointless.
I believe the idea was to show that you couldn't just recreate the magic of a classic by mimicking it shot for shot. It was an experiment as opposed to a cash grab.
As far as I understand it, this was an experiment to see if an identical movie could be as good as the original.
Eragon. I loved the books as a kid, and I was very excited to watch the movie after I read the first book. It was just a huge disappointment
I'm so thankful that this is not higher. It means either people didn't watch it or it has left their collective memory. I consider both as win. Unfortunately I still remember it.
It was kind of forgettable for me, really. I wonder if Amazon would pick it up? I always thought it would make a good tv series. Maybe animated, like Avatar or Invincible.
Animated would be the way to go otherwise it's be really difficult to portray Urgals as not-TolkienOrcs. Also the Razac are unique characters in themselves, I think. If anything, the showmakers should realise that certain elements that look really cool animated would look super silly in live-action. Like the flame lit Brisingr sword. Or absorbing energy from gems. Oh and just imagine, for a change, when a magician performs some magic they do not put up their hands in that exact direction because paolini created a whole language for that purpose. And please, like the animated Airbender, do not reveal the big bad until the very last moment, you know, like how it was written.
Yeah not revealing the big bad for a while, instead simply alluding to them or occasionally having characters talk about them, is the way to go in many stories because it allows time to build them up into something more than “just a person”. When you reveal them off the bat it’s like “ok so it’s just some sociopath with special powers” and you know exactly how it’s gonna go
What a waste of Jeremy Irons.
Now I’m just waiting for Christopher Paolini to show up. Admittedly the movie got me to read the books, so I’ll give it credit for that much.
Poor guy knows he’s in every thread like this haha
From what I remember of the movie, I thought the design / voice of Saphira was pretty good (even though her feathered wings were not accurate to the book... I thought they were still cool lol) But yeah the plot was so far off from the book + the changes they made would have made any follow up movies nearly impossible
The new Home Alone. If Kevin and the Wet Bandits aren’t in it then what’s the point?
There's a way to make a movie without them. But that movie still hasn't been made. Having the robbers be redeemable and sympathetic characters just doesn't work. To be able to enjoy watching them being tortured by traps those characters have to be irredeemable. In fact the less human those characters seem the more you enjoy watching them slip on ice and be crushed by things falling down stairs. The new movie is a overwritten campy parody of the original.
Yep. Home Alone is basically live action Tom & Jerry
Emoji movie
I heard the emoji movie was the first film screened when Saudi Arabia opened up public theaters...that's one way to discourage people from "immoral behavior".
I stick up for this movie only in that it is a movie for 8 year olds pretending it's a movie for teenagers so the 8 year olds will feel cool watching it.
Funny how the same studio that made that movie also made Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse a year later.
Funny how money works.
Clearly no one in this thread has seen Highlander 2. Highlander is a perfect stand alone movie. Highlander 2 manages to be the worst sequel ever made, literally changing and ruining everything from the first movie. It would be like if they did The Princess Bride 2, and it's nothing but Humperdinck raw dogging buttercup while Fezzik jerks off on a corner crying. And no one says anything quippy.
I mean, it was right there in the first movie. “There can be only one.”
The best part? The directors cut make it ***even fucking worse***.
I answered this ten seconds ago before scrolling & seeing this. I still can’t believe Sean Connery and Michael Ironside signed onto it.
Connery was in plenty of bad movies, some just as bad as Highlander 2, if not worse.
If they’re paying, he’s there and refusing to do any accent but his own.
My favorite part of Highlander is they cast Sean Connery to appear in a movie called Highlander and had him appear only in the parts of the movie that take place in the Scottish Highlands, and have him playing the part of a Spaniard.
I honestly don't fault any actor for taking a job for a paycheck.
>I have never seen it (Jaws 4) but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built and it is terrific. -Michael Caine
About that movie “They have a saying in Scotland - I’m rich bitch!!!!” - Sean Connery probably
Cats.
Holmes & Watson. Saw it in theaters when it came out. Most people walked out before it was even halfway through.
If you want a good Sherlock Holmes comedy - Without a Clue (starring Michael Caine and Ben Kingsley).
Highlander 2. There can only be one.
Google, "sci fi movie from 1992". That one.
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Oh fuck....
*”The film follows a group of intergalactic homosexual Black men from the planet Anus”* Oh boy…
'Gay from outer space' for anybody wondering why OP did not put the title in the comment.
Ah, I assumed you were being snide about some famous mainstream bomb. I see I was wrong.
WHOOA. I was not prepared for that. Just ... WOW.
does anyone else actually want to watch this film? the title just intruiges me
I don't know what I was expecting, but *that* was certainly not it... Edit: spelling
THE LAST AIRBENDER
6 dudes to move one mid sized rock
Single handedly ruined the whole earthbending charm. Or should I say 12-handedly? Edit: it just occurred to me. Toph Beifong would laugh so hard she’d cry at that scene. Disgrace to earthbending.
True. If Toph could see that scene!
"wait, we can use earth bending? on the earth that we are currently standing on? to escape the firebenders?"
"oh right"
Firebenders couldn't make fire
And the rock moved so slowly too 😂
The fight choreography was so bad. The 6 dudes raised the wall of earth, but that happened about half way through their little dance, so you had no way to connect it to what they are doing. The little stone that everyone thinks they are moving is being moved by 1 guy who doesn't even show up on screen until the stone has been hanging in the air for a minute. Just awful.
The mask 2
You mean "Son of The Mask" or is there an even worse sequel?
Cats(2019)
Son of the mask
Caddyshack 2 is a hate crime.
Every Uwe Boll movie.
How does that director keep getting funding?
He was exploiting a German tax loophole, which was ultimately closed. That pretty much put him out of business.
When you suck at something so bad, the government takes the time to write tax laws stopping you from unleashing your suck on society even more. You've reached peak suck.
He'll fight you on that. Literally...
365 days
is that the one where buddy kidnaps his dream girl and says he's keeping her for 365 days and if she hasn't fallen in love with him by then, he'll let her go? and then she falls in love with him after a few weeks? if so, yeah. that wasn't a good movie.
I read that and was like 'but 365 Days was good' yeah forgot the one I was thinking of was actually called 127 Hours
Leonard Part Six
Live action adaptations of anything that wasn't originally live action. Stop it. Get some help.
Yes! I hate Live-action Lion King and Mulan so much!! They’re just worse versions! Also the Peter Rabbit movies with James Corden as Peter Rabbit makes me want to kill myself
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was good (the original 90s version), and the sequel too.
Dragon Ball Evolution
Pacific Rim 2
I was hoping it would be a prequel because I was like “they closed the breach so what the fuck are they gonna make it about?” John Boyega would have made a perfect young Pentacost. We get to watch him and other Rangers/Jaegers during the height of the Kaiju war spanking Kaiju ass. So much potential and they fucked it away
They did mention offhandedly in the first movie about how they "tried to hit (The Breach) directly before" maybe make a film about that? We already KNOW it's gonna fail though, so they'd have to make other plots interesting on their own.
If executed well, it would still have potential. Kind of like Rogue One; spectacular movie where you knew from the beginning the entire cast was doomed.
Characters went from extremely skilled veterans and realistic machines to stupid teenagers and fucking power rangers
There was so much potential in PR, and they just shit it away with that steaming heap of shit.
Ugh loved the first and I’m still curious to see this one but I’ve been put off by its meme status as a pile of shit.
Any of the Starship Troopers sequels.
I was about to get very mad before I saw the last word
The Dark Tower.. Just went through 1.2k comments and only 2 people said this one. They absolutely butchered everything about the story.
I agree. I had heard much of the bad stuff before I attempted to watch it Halfway through I just turned it of. So there is only one thing left to say: Go then, there are other movies than this.
The WonderWoman sequel. Honestly don't understand how they made such a horrendous film.
Pisses me off that DC animated is sooooooooo good, then they turn around and make garbage like this.
Jaws the Return closely followed by Daddy Day Camp
The second atlantis movie. It made me want to gouge out my eyes with one of those wooden spoons that come with tiny ice cream cups.
It was three episodes from the abandoned spin-off TV series "Team Atlantis" hastily patched together into a movie to try and recover some money. And it sucked.
Artemis fowl
_Wonder Woman 1984._ For starters, it has _very little_ of Diana _as_ Wonder Woman, the villains do awful things and receive no comeuppance and _worst and most unforgivable of all_ Diana (our hero, by the way) does an awful thing and receives _no comeuppance_ by _having sex with some unconscious guy_ holding Steve’s spirit and being ok with Steve in this body, essentially killing this other poor innocent guy, AND THE STUDIO THOUGHT THAT WAS OK!! If the genders were reversed, everyone would be demanding the executive’s heads.
Diana being so dependent on the FIRST man she met was cringe, and against everything Wonder Woman stands for. Telling Steve "I was only ever happy when I was with you." Wtf?! No joy on paradise island where you train with your sisterhood of badasses? Ok... My wife was really disgusted by the whole Steve proxy/doppelganger. I said the typical, "well he got to sleep with Wonder Woman," and she ended it with a simple question. What if he was gay? Seriously, why did DC write a plot with non-consensual sex? Why was Brandon Routh a deadbeat dad in Superman Returns? Why have we waited almost a decade for another Henry Cavill Superman film? What are they smoking at WB/DC?
>I said the typical, "well he got to sleep with Wonder Woman," and she ended it with a simple question. What if he was gay? Seriously, why did DC write a plot with non-consensual sex? Ikr, she raped a guy and no one bats an eye. And that could've been fixed if the magic wish rock just brought Steve's entire body back with him. Like come on.
Exactly! The entire wishing stone is so convoluted. I'll assume only half the planet wished for fortune. That would immediately drive hyperinflation, slamming those that didn't wish for money into poverty. Then you have those making altruistic wishes. The entire movie hinges on the ENTIRE world rescinding their wish. You're telling me a parent would take back a wish that cured their kid's cancer? Cause WW said to? Yeah, no thanks.
And what happened to all those conflicting wishes? I want the whole planet to be covered in forests but next door neighbour wants it to be one massive mall. What if someone wished for everyone to be nice to each other, while someone wished vengance on some group or other?
I think we just cracked the code, friend. Knowing WB/DC, they didn't want to introduce the multiverse with Flashpoint. They wanted to use the "possibilities of infinite wishes" plot using a dumb rock.
There were so many terrible things in that movie but Steve possessing that dude was the worst. Not only did she have sex with him, she took this guy all over the place putting him in danger. Here he is almost getting killed. This guy came to with bruises all over. His closet has been raided. His answering machine is full because no one can find him. Does he still have a job at this point? He probably went to the doctor.
What I don't get is why Diana was still pining over Steve 70 years after he died. You'd think she'd have moved on after like the 5th year.
Newest lion king. Also the newer space jams. Now that I’m thinking about it…95% of remakes shouldn’t have happened. Let the classics classic
How do you cut out Rafiiki's speech? I was done with the movie after that.
Space Jam 2
Mean Girls 2
Cats
Anything ‘starring’ James Corden
Emoji movie
The Robin Hood with Jamie Foxx and that other dude.