oh no doubt about that...The title doesn't lie. I'm just disappointed the baby didn't whip out a gun and that you only catch a glimpse of a naked monica...
there are different types of bad movies. with some movies, you just gotta take off the thinking cap and they're good, like most jackie chan movies... i.e. i don't watch his movies for the plot, but rather the hilarious ways he does his kung fu stunts. then you got the movies that are soooo bad, they're good... i.e. showgirls. i laughed at the plot and the cheese love making scene. it was enjoyable in that sense. then you just have just bad movies like star wars, the phantom menace.
This is the kind of movie that I hate. As a standalone big budget movie, its actually not too terrible, but as part of the Star Wars universe, it failed on many levels. It was 30 years waiting, plus huge buildup. They get great stars for many of the parts, have a great bad guy, then they ruin it with "marketable characters" and terrible dialougue. The worse thing about it is that there are just enough great things about it to make you feel really disappointed on what "could have been". Great actors, great score, great bad guy, decent premise...all ruined with a bad child actor and a stupid side character.
I don't go to the movies often, but the only movie I've walked out on is Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. It just got too weird and nonsensical to me. Maybe it's because I've never done any mind altering drugs.
had it actually been the FIRST star wars movie made, it would not have been so criticized. it's nearly impossible to follow up an icon like the first star wars trilogy.
Superbad wasn't as good as it was hyped. For horrible movies, Battlefield Earth takes the cake. I bet Scientologists force newbies to watch it in order to strip their souls.
Blair Witch Projeect Ultraviolet Johnsons Family Vacation or some crap like that oh and who ever said "BRING IT ON" I need to shoot them.. that movie was AWESOME!! hehe actually I just watched that movie because it was filmed at my high school in San Diego, my house is also in the film (one of the neighborhoods they drive in the first part of the movie). They also use UCSD and SDSU where I went Plus I met Kirsten Dunst during the filming and took a pic with her on her break and chatted with her briefly.. She's no Jessica Alba but she was very down to earth and nice..
Anyone seen "Better Luck Tomorrow"? It's the movie made by MTV films made to market towards Asian-Americans. About a bunch of typical smart Asian students that get into some trouble (drugs, killing someone) and ruin their lives. Maaaan that was tuuuuuurible
Thinking more about the subject as the day has worn on... Movies which may not have been extremely horrible if they existed in a vacuum and carried no preset expectations: (and what's strange is how so many of these have failed so utterly to do the one thing which would have made them successes, which was to SIMPLY MAKE A MOVIE OF THE SOURCE MATERIAL, AND NOT FEEL THE NEED TO 'INTERPRET' EVERYTHING USING THEIR VERY TINY BRAINS!!!) Both Fantastic 4 movies. Horrible casting, horrible acting, horrible writing. All of the X-Men movies. 40 years of source material, and you couldn't do any better than that?? All of the Star Wars 'prequels. George Lucas is about 2 inches from being Michael Jackson - he is obsessed with the kiddies, to the exclusion of all else, and it's downright unhealthy. If you haven't heard Patton Oswalt's bit about this, find it, it is HILARIOUS! League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Again, you paid for the rights for the property, and then you ignored it completely. Are you people who make movies THAT far gone? V for Vendetta. After the glory that was the first Matrix movie, expectations were so high for this. But the final product was apparently the work of a 3rd-grade class somewhere in Boise, only not quite as good as that would lead you to believe. Again, paid for a property and then shat upon it, to the point the author himself refused to even allow his name on it. Why? Along the same vein: The 2nd and 3rd Matrix movies. These movies were not without their moments, but the filmmakers apparently did not remember what it was about the first movie that audiences loved so much, and instead convinced themselves that the least-interesting aspects of the world were worthy of commanding the last 2 movies' entire focus: Zion and all the hiply-dressed refugees, blah blah blah. What we WANTED to see was more and deeper exploration of the existential mystery of the Matrix itself, this world that is so familiar to us, yet made so strange by pulling back the veil. No, let's just put on our giant robot suits and do a Sci-Fi version of The Alamo instead. Bleah. All of these movies, if they existed in a world without pre-conceived expectations, might not have been so reviled. But they indicate a clear disconnect between the people who make the movies and the people who watch them. That's why when a movie comes along and surprises us, like 40-Year-Old Virgin, or Eternal Sunshine, people lap them up, because it's just people making movies because they love doing it and they want to connect with people. No 'suits' anywhere in sight. (oh, and I just thought of the worst movie I sat through (on video, not in theaters) last year: 'Rise of Taj'. What a crapfest.)
The point of Shoot 'Em Up was to be junk. How could you not love a movie where the guy stabs people with carrots, has sex while killing 50 people, shoots lights to spell profanities, and did I mention HAS SEX WHILE KILLING 50 PEOPLE. It was the dumbest movie ever, but at least it knew it was suppossed to be. If a movie has you laughing saying, "WOW THIS IS SO BAD," yet you keep watching because you don't know what they are going to do to top it in the next scene, it cannot be classified as a baaaaad movie.
you're absolutely 100% positively right on fantastic 4 and x men. you're absolutely 100% positively wrong on V for Vendetta
