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red dog 1

(27,792 posts)
Thu Jul 20, 2017, 07:45 PM Jul 2017

What's the last truly bad movie you watched?

Last edited Sat Jul 22, 2017, 04:56 PM - Edit history (1)

I don't mean "bad" in the sense that it was so bad that it was funny or entertaining, as in
"Plan Nine From Outer Space".
I mean a movie so "bad" that you couldn't WAIT for it to end.

Last night I re-watched "The Hurt Locker" (2008), just to see if I still hated it.

It has got to be the worst movie to ever win the Academy Award for Best Picture.
(I can't believe it beat out The Aviator)
and it is probably the worst war movie ever made.

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What's the last truly bad movie you watched? (Original Post) red dog 1 Jul 2017 OP
Death to Smoochy. The Velveteen Ocelot Jul 2017 #1
I loved The Burbs. red dog 1 Jul 2017 #43
Seriously? It's the only movie I've ever walked out of The Velveteen Ocelot Jul 2017 #44
I liked it! red dog 1 Jul 2017 #47
Okja Lochloosa Jul 2017 #2
Any video with hlthe2b Jul 2017 #3
Dead Man First Speaker Jul 2017 #4
Melancholia C_U_L8R Jul 2017 #5
Oh God, yes. I suffered through about half an hour and couldn't take it anymore. Laffy Kat Jul 2017 #12
I liked Melancholia Cuthbert Allgood Jul 2017 #18
I think all three C_U_L8R Jul 2017 #21
I thought "The Big Chill" was a much more depressing film. hunter Jul 2017 #19
I hated that thing. I knew the real thing. Hell, I WAS the real thing Warpy Jul 2017 #27
Ah, the memories. Thanks Alice11111 Jul 2017 #64
Really depressed me. Ilsa Jul 2017 #26
That movie was SO tiresome! klook Jul 2017 #105
I tried to watch it on Netflix and my eyes glazed over from boredom. nt Laffy Kat Aug 2017 #120
Fortunately, I don't go to theaters Warpy Jul 2017 #6
The Hurt Locker was terrible! red dog 1 Jul 2017 #23
That would be a great thread! Warpy Jul 2017 #25
I guess I am the only one who liked, "The Hurt Locker." Alice11111 Jul 2017 #65
You're not alone... Docreed2003 Jul 2017 #79
Wow. ..and you are home & good now? Are you glad you went? Alice11111 Jul 2017 #87
That was ages ago...2011 Docreed2003 Jul 2017 #89
Interesting. Thank you for your service. Alice11111 Jul 2017 #90
I liked it as well JCMach1 Jul 2017 #101
In theaters: Cave of Forgotten Dreams sakabatou Jul 2017 #7
Arghh...a movie theater for that LeftInTX Jul 2017 #50
What?? That is an amazing movie about PoindexterOglethorpe Jul 2017 #56
Maybe if the time was cut down and just showed off the cave sakabatou Jul 2017 #61
Hmmm. This is a wonderful example of how we can PoindexterOglethorpe Jul 2017 #62
Your comments about the movie make it sound very interesting. Cracklin Charlie Jul 2017 #77
Fantastic movie. I was lucky enough to see it in 3d, klook Jul 2017 #104
3D??? You got to see it in 3D? PoindexterOglethorpe Jul 2017 #107
Yeah, it's brilliant that way -- klook Jul 2017 #110
Movie apkhgp Jul 2017 #8
Collateral is the only Tom Cruise movie I like red dog 1 Jul 2017 #22
I thought he did a good job in Tropic Thunder JustABozoOnThisBus Jul 2017 #74
"Jack Reacher: Never Go Back" - Oh, Tom, the title gave it a away. yallerdawg Jul 2017 #78
I forhot apkhgp Jul 2017 #9
In their defense, they are supposed to be parodies of themselves. Laffy Kat Jul 2017 #13
Sharknado 5 Global Swarming on August 6th underpants Jul 2017 #28
+100000000000 Catmusicfan Jul 2017 #60
Zardoz. WRETCHED waste of film. lastlib Jul 2017 #10
It's been described as a sci-fi film where they spent the entire special effects budget on cocaine. Midwestern Democrat Jul 2017 #15
Easy to believe. (nt) Paladin Jul 2017 #16
The Hurt Locker was great lame54 Jul 2017 #11
Yeah, there are a lot worse war movies than "The Hurt Locker." Paladin Jul 2017 #14
I agree about The Green Berets....It sucked! red dog 1 Jul 2017 #35
Name some others? Ooo, golly, let me think: Paladin Jul 2017 #37
Well done! red dog 1 Jul 2017 #38
Full confession: I googled "worst war movies" and got inundated. (nt) Paladin Jul 2017 #39
"Here's Why 'The Hurt Locker' Is The Worst War Movie Of All Time" red dog 1 Jul 2017 #41
Ilsa: She-Wolf of the SS is not a war movie and you know it!! LeftInTX Jul 2017 #51
"She-Wolf Of The Nursing Staff" wouldn't have done 1/10th of the business.... (nt) Paladin Jul 2017 #73
LOL!!!! LeftInTX Jul 2017 #81
!!! Alice11111 Jul 2017 #66
Baby Driver Denis 11 Jul 2017 #17
La La Land. hunter Jul 2017 #20
I thought it was okay. But I had a negative reaction to the buzz it received. Nailzberg Jul 2017 #31
You've nailed it. PoindexterOglethorpe Jul 2017 #57
The overhype left me with an unsatiated experience Alice11111 Jul 2017 #68
But great music. Loved the original piano score. mainer Jul 2017 #99
Very disappointing. Bad dancing. I took an elderly gentleman Alice11111 Jul 2017 #67
The Beguiled ploppy Jul 2017 #24
Did you see the original with Clint Eastwood? TexasBushwhacker Jul 2017 #53
Because of gore? Or is the story bad? DetlefK Jul 2017 #71
I think the Chimpmunks are just phoning it in now underpants Jul 2017 #29
X-Men Apocolypse Nailzberg Jul 2017 #30
The Mad Max remake of a couple years back. trc Jul 2017 #32
Agree.... physioex Jul 2017 #34
I scrolled through to see if anyone named Mad Max SCantiGOP Jul 2017 #92
Independence Day 2 iamateacher Jul 2017 #33
What's so bad about the US playing white saviour to the entire universe? DetlefK Jul 2017 #72
Blues Brothers 2000 freddyvh Jul 2017 #36
Sequels usually suck anyway red dog 1 Jul 2017 #46
Empire Strikes Back? freddyvh Jul 2017 #48
Haven't seen it ...I'm not a Star Wars fan red dog 1 Jul 2017 #111
Suicide Squad egduj Jul 2017 #40
Just my opinion here... Different Drummer Jul 2017 #42
"The Last Boy Scout." I couldn't finish it. Something about it enraged me so much that, catbyte Jul 2017 #45
Dead Pool rurallib Jul 2017 #49
Twilight. DashOneBravo Jul 2017 #52
James Franco's 2015 remake of the sound and the fury elehhhhna Jul 2017 #54
The Revenant... sdfernando Jul 2017 #55
Wonderwoman CountAllVotes Jul 2017 #58
2001 A Space Odyssey. PoindexterOglethorpe Jul 2017 #59
The I, Robot film with Will Smith was an insult to Asimov... hunter Jul 2017 #86
Thanks for that link red dog 1 Jul 2017 #88
I tried watching "The Constant Gardner" once. After all the buildup, it was just lame. NBachers Jul 2017 #63
It's titled Nairobi Bee in Japan miyazaki Jul 2017 #118
Revenge, Kevin Costner Alice11111 Jul 2017 #69
"Pacific Rim" DetlefK Jul 2017 #70
I saw one called "Dolan's Cadillac" the other day MrScorpio Jul 2017 #75
Jackie mainstreetonce Jul 2017 #76
I liked it. Sleeper, but it was Natalie Portman's best performance Alice11111 Jul 2017 #91
Beatriz at Dinner CrispyQ Jul 2017 #80
J Edgar LeftInTX Jul 2017 #82
Blair Witch Project Bayard Jul 2017 #83
I can't stand the shaky camera gimmick. Zing Zing Zingbah Jul 2017 #93
Suicide Squad (not in theater thankfully) geek tragedy Jul 2017 #84
"Eyes Wide Shut". And "The Fountain." mainer Jul 2017 #85
I really liked the Fountain Zing Zing Zingbah Jul 2017 #94
This message was self-deleted by its author Zing Zing Zingbah Jul 2017 #95
"Eyes Wide Shut" master print should be given cement shoes and sunk in the Marianas Trench. VOX Jul 2017 #113
The first thing that comes to mind is Super Troopers Zing Zing Zingbah Jul 2017 #96
Batman Vs Superman Initech Jul 2017 #97
starship troopers. niyad Jul 2017 #98
Weiner Dog JCMach1 Jul 2017 #100
DUNKIRK dubyadiprecession Jul 2017 #102
Uh oh, I'm going with a friend to see that movie next week... CTyankee Jul 2017 #112
Keanu Reeves' "Knock Knock" Miles Archer Jul 2017 #103
Even lambs have teeth BendigoJeff Jul 2017 #106
Pulp Fiction Awsi Dooger Jul 2017 #108
Growing up and other lies... lame54 Jul 2017 #109
Beatriz at Dinner - I saw someone post this and it reminded me of this movie... Upthevibe Jul 2017 #114
MAGNOLIA... NeoGreen Jul 2017 #115
La La Land mackerel Jul 2017 #116
I win this thread. I saw "The Shack" it's one of those religious (think God is Real) movies NightWatcher Jul 2017 #117
I don't know the name of this, but it is widely regarded as the worst, and funniest, war movie ever Special Prosciuto Aug 2017 #119

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,674 posts)
1. Death to Smoochy.
Thu Jul 20, 2017, 07:48 PM
Jul 2017

I loved Robin Williams but I hated this movie. "The Burbs" was another one - so bad we walked out.

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,674 posts)
44. Seriously? It's the only movie I've ever walked out of
Sat Jul 22, 2017, 04:14 PM
Jul 2017

because I thought it was so dumb and irritating. To each his own, I guess.

red dog 1

(27,792 posts)
47. I liked it!
Sat Jul 22, 2017, 04:36 PM
Jul 2017

I've seen it at least 20 times.

I thought director Joe Dante made a very good film.
Tom Hanks, Carrie Fisher, Rick Ducommun, Bruce Dern, Courtney Gains, Corey Feldman, & Henry Gibson all were great in their respective acting roles, imo.
(Even Brother Theodore was very good in his role as Henry Gibson's brother)

But you're right - "To each his own"

First Speaker

(4,858 posts)
4. Dead Man
Thu Jul 20, 2017, 07:55 PM
Jul 2017

...it was on TV a couple years ago, and I think, well, it has Johnny Depp--how bad can it be? Oh, boy. Did I ever find out...

C_U_L8R

(44,998 posts)
5. Melancholia
Thu Jul 20, 2017, 07:57 PM
Jul 2017

it lived up to its name. Ugh.

In the 'so bad it might be good' category,
a tie between Sausage Party and Yoga Hosers

Laffy Kat

(16,377 posts)
12. Oh God, yes. I suffered through about half an hour and couldn't take it anymore.
Fri Jul 21, 2017, 12:17 AM
Jul 2017

Never heard of Yoga Hosers which is probably a good thing.

Cuthbert Allgood

(4,916 posts)
18. I liked Melancholia
Fri Jul 21, 2017, 11:09 AM
Jul 2017

But it's dark, for sure.

Yoga Hosers is much more campy than Sausage Party, but those two do belong in a special category. I saw Sausage Party in the theatre and after the last scene, my friend and I sat there and said "What did we just watch?" I laughed a lot, though.

hunter

(38,310 posts)
19. I thought "The Big Chill" was a much more depressing film.
Fri Jul 21, 2017, 11:52 AM
Jul 2017

The only character I identified with was the dead guy. Nobody told me it was going to be a horror film. I prayed I'd never be like any of the characters in The Big Chill and I've pretty much succeeded.



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Chill_%28film%29

Melancholia on the other hand was an interesting exploration about how various humans respond when the end of the world is imminent. I saw it as a deeply metaphorical film, just as I watched Snowpiercer, and that may be why it didn't get under my skin.

Our current world civilization is almost certainly doomed, largely by horrors of our own making, the only thing that's not certain is the timescale.

Warpy

(111,245 posts)
27. I hated that thing. I knew the real thing. Hell, I WAS the real thing
Fri Jul 21, 2017, 03:01 PM
Jul 2017

and nobody was either rich or successful. We were all plugging away at the kind of jobs that made the world a better place but paid shit.

Those people were all yuppie Republicans, not former activists.

klook

(12,154 posts)
105. That movie was SO tiresome!
Mon Jul 24, 2017, 05:39 PM
Jul 2017

I did enjoy the opening slo-mo sequence, though. If it'd been an hour of that stuff and nothing else, it would have been more lively!

Tedium, thy name is Melancholia!

Warpy

(111,245 posts)
6. Fortunately, I don't go to theaters
Thu Jul 20, 2017, 07:59 PM
Jul 2017

so when a movie is turning into a total turkey with no sympathetic characters and absolutely no entertainment value, I just change the channel or pop the DVD out and into the return envelope. I can't imagine trying to endure crap in a theater just because I'd paid for a ticket and some overpriced snacks.

FWIW, "Hurt Locker" leaves me cold, also. Haven't been able to watch more than 10 minutes at a time.

red dog 1

(27,792 posts)
23. The Hurt Locker was terrible!
Fri Jul 21, 2017, 01:45 PM
Jul 2017

The main character, William James, is in EVERY SINGLE SCENE!

(I wonder if the female director was in love with the guy)

And all those "pull camera in" then "pull camera out"...in..out..in..out..It made me dizzy!

I'm thinking of starting a thread asking the question;
What Oscar-winning film do you hate the most?

Alice11111

(5,730 posts)
65. I guess I am the only one who liked, "The Hurt Locker."
Sun Jul 23, 2017, 06:36 AM
Jul 2017

Of course, I was sitting on the veranda looking at the Ocean pounding the rocks on a Mexican Beach, having coffee. The beauty and serenity contrasted with the intensity and microworld of potential death, diseased mind and adrenaline rush of the film. I bought the cd at a knock off Mexican hut a few days before it was released, so I hadn't heard much about it.

Docreed2003

(16,858 posts)
79. You're not alone...
Sun Jul 23, 2017, 09:39 AM
Jul 2017

I liked "The Hurt Locker" as well, but it wasn't until subsequent viewings after a deployment to Afghanistan. I didn't care for it before then, but, after that deployment, I've lived that grocery store scene...I've felt it viscerally, the dichotomy between deployment and home life. I might have casually brushed off the movie like others have had I not had that experience.

Docreed2003

(16,858 posts)
89. That was ages ago...2011
Sun Jul 23, 2017, 04:47 PM
Jul 2017

Yeah I'm home and good. I was in a forward surgical hospital, think M*A*S*H but more austere. We were in a very kenetic area during one of the busiest/highest casualty times during OEF. It was certainly a life changing experience and unlike anything in my civilian training. If I had it to do over again, I wouldn't hesitate.

JCMach1

(27,556 posts)
101. I liked it as well
Mon Jul 24, 2017, 05:14 PM
Jul 2017

Not loved.

Oscars never get it right anyway. The number of turkeys that have won in recent years.

sakabatou

(42,148 posts)
7. In theaters: Cave of Forgotten Dreams
Thu Jul 20, 2017, 08:17 PM
Jul 2017

What a snoozefest that was. Also, pretentious af.

I can't remember off the top of my head for home video.

PoindexterOglethorpe

(25,848 posts)
56. What?? That is an amazing movie about
Sat Jul 22, 2017, 11:15 PM
Jul 2017

our distant human ancestors! The generally accepted myth of civilization is that about 5,000 years ago humans suddenly started writing and creating art and growing food and invented religion out of nowhere. The reality is that for tens of thousands of years humans had been moving in the direction of civilization, and Cave of Forgotten Dreams makes that long history of culture very clear.

I'm genuinely sorry you didn't like it.

PoindexterOglethorpe

(25,848 posts)
62. Hmmm. This is a wonderful example of how we can
Sun Jul 23, 2017, 01:41 AM
Jul 2017

have very different responses to a particular thing. The parts of the movie that you don't like, I do.

Here's another comment. You and I of course don't know each other, and I haven't paid attention to notice if you and I have ever interacted before on DU. That's not the point. What is, is that for all of us, certain others are reliable recommenders of movies (or books or TV shows). It is genuinely wonderful to have someone who can call you up and say, "Oh Sakabatou! This movie (book, TV show) is fabulous and you absolutely must see (read, watch) it!" And when you know that person's tastes are aligned with yours, isn't it a treasure to have such recommendations?

It is, of course, equally possible that you and I are only slightly different in our tastes, but I want to say that I truly enjoy interacting like this. You didn't like certain aspects of that movie, and I liked them all. That's worth acknowledging and maybe even celebrating.

Cracklin Charlie

(12,904 posts)
77. Your comments about the movie make it sound very interesting.
Sun Jul 23, 2017, 09:33 AM
Jul 2017

I think I may have to check out the cave movie. Interesting discussion.

I may not be the best one to critique movies, though, since one of my faves is "RV"!

klook

(12,154 posts)
104. Fantastic movie. I was lucky enough to see it in 3d,
Mon Jul 24, 2017, 05:33 PM
Jul 2017

and with an artist friend who was awestruck. That made it extra special. It was especially cool to see the prehistoric "animation" technique!

PoindexterOglethorpe

(25,848 posts)
107. 3D??? You got to see it in 3D?
Mon Jul 24, 2017, 09:16 PM
Jul 2017

How lucky is that! I only saw it in 2D, and it was still good, but if I ever get the chance to see it in 3D, I definitely will.

klook

(12,154 posts)
110. Yeah, it's brilliant that way --
Tue Jul 25, 2017, 03:48 PM
Jul 2017

you really get a sense of what it feels like to be in the cave moving around as you see this incredible art work.

red dog 1

(27,792 posts)
22. Collateral is the only Tom Cruise movie I like
Fri Jul 21, 2017, 01:34 PM
Jul 2017

"Give the devil his due" - I thought Cruise did a good job, and Jamie Foxx was great as the cab driver (earned himself an Oscar nomination)
All the actors were great, imo, especially Jada Pinkett Smith (the lawyer Max saves) & Mark Ruffalo, who played the LAPD detective
Imo, it was well-directed by Michael Mann and had a good script too.

yallerdawg

(16,104 posts)
78. "Jack Reacher: Never Go Back" - Oh, Tom, the title gave it a away.
Sun Jul 23, 2017, 09:39 AM
Jul 2017

The only interesting bit in the entire movie was when they identified the heroine as "age 34" - I can't make out how old they said Reacher was, but it sure sounded like 40-"mumble."

The botox-frozen, expressionless, wooden acting by Cruise (now 55) in this movie almost overwhelmed the pointlessness of the story and plotline.

I will remember this forever as a terrible bad movie.

Laffy Kat

(16,377 posts)
13. In their defense, they are supposed to be parodies of themselves.
Fri Jul 21, 2017, 12:18 AM
Jul 2017

Frankly I don't know how the actors get through their lines w/o cracking up. They. Are. So. Bad.

lastlib

(23,214 posts)
10. Zardoz. WRETCHED waste of film.
Thu Jul 20, 2017, 09:35 PM
Jul 2017

If I watched it again (I couldn't possibly stomach that), it would still suck. Big.

Paladin

(28,252 posts)
14. Yeah, there are a lot worse war movies than "The Hurt Locker."
Fri Jul 21, 2017, 08:32 AM
Jul 2017

"The Green Berets" comes instantly and nauseatingly to mind......

red dog 1

(27,792 posts)
35. I agree about The Green Berets....It sucked!
Fri Jul 21, 2017, 04:01 PM
Jul 2017

From NYT film review:
"The Green Berets is a film so unspeakable, so stupid, so rotten and false in every detail that it passes through being fun, through being funny, through being camp, through everything..."

"There are a lot worse war movies than The Hurt Locker"??

Name some others.

Paladin

(28,252 posts)
37. Name some others? Ooo, golly, let me think:
Fri Jul 21, 2017, 05:03 PM
Jul 2017

Hanover Street
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
Pearl Harbor
1941
Escape to Athena
Ilsa: She-Wolf of the SS
Cold Mountain
Beach Red
Castle Keep
Missing In Action
Red Dawn


And that's just for starters.....

red dog 1

(27,792 posts)
38. Well done!
Fri Jul 21, 2017, 05:21 PM
Jul 2017

I have to admit that I haven't seen most of those war movies, but I did like Pearl Harbor.
(The action scenes were great, imo)

LeftInTX

(25,258 posts)
51. Ilsa: She-Wolf of the SS is not a war movie and you know it!!
Sat Jul 22, 2017, 09:37 PM
Jul 2017

My boyfriend took me to see it at the outdoor.
I had just turned 18 and it was rated X

hunter

(38,310 posts)
20. La La Land.
Fri Jul 21, 2017, 01:02 PM
Jul 2017

It reminded me why I fled Los Angeles. My wife and I were living and working in Los Angeles when my wife was accepted to graduate school in another state and I enthusiastically followed her.

My grandma and her sister were born in San Francisco but they were crazy about Hollywood and landed there as teens. My great aunt ran especially wild in the roaring 'twenties and 'thirties. (The Great Depression largely spared her business in Hollywood.) I have many of her photographs of famous people and movie sets.

My parents were both working in the industry when they met.

My grandma tried to get me and all my siblings into the movie business as children. She failed entirely with me. I was a little Asperger's kid who tended to stare at important people as if they were interesting insects or creatures living under rocks, and I couldn't be counted on not to keep my hands off cameras and other expensive machinery.

Two of my siblings did get into the business, with various screen credits for bit parts, but they never made it big. My brother played rough cowboys and biker types (which he is), and my sister the stereotypical California blonde and sometimes the tough girl. (And yes, she was a waitress between acting jobs.) My sister is a UCLA graduate, but you'd never know that from the parts she played. In her late twenties she wasn't getting much work and had herself a regular career unrelated to the movie business.

Maybe my problem is that I don't think the Hollywood lifestyle is anything worthy of celebration, especially when Hollywood cynicism is part of the thing being celebrated.

Nailzberg

(4,610 posts)
31. I thought it was okay. But I had a negative reaction to the buzz it received.
Fri Jul 21, 2017, 03:10 PM
Jul 2017

Hollywood just LOVES movies about Hollywood.

PoindexterOglethorpe

(25,848 posts)
57. You've nailed it.
Sat Jul 22, 2017, 11:18 PM
Jul 2017

Hollywood just LOVES movies about Hollywood.

And therein lies the tale. The rest of us aren't quite so enamored of the movie business. Just make movies that are entertaining in some way. No need to masturbate in front of us.

mainer

(12,022 posts)
99. But great music. Loved the original piano score.
Mon Jul 24, 2017, 01:41 PM
Jul 2017

Interesting that it's the same director who made the excellent "Whiplash," also about music and musicians.

Alice11111

(5,730 posts)
67. Very disappointing. Bad dancing. I took an elderly gentleman
Sun Jul 23, 2017, 06:45 AM
Jul 2017

friend with Parkinson's and a cain. After the movie, we danced in the parking lot. I dare say that our steps were almost as good as the stars, though umpracticed.

Nailzberg

(4,610 posts)
30. X-Men Apocolypse
Fri Jul 21, 2017, 03:07 PM
Jul 2017

Turned it off after ten minutes.

Gave it a second shot another day. Turned it off after five.

trc

(823 posts)
32. The Mad Max remake of a couple years back.
Fri Jul 21, 2017, 03:16 PM
Jul 2017

Turned It off a third of the way in. Had to struggle to watch that long. Place this in the unwatchable category with Waterworld.

SCantiGOP

(13,869 posts)
92. I scrolled through to see if anyone named Mad Max
Sun Jul 23, 2017, 05:37 PM
Jul 2017

before I listed it.
It was monumentally idiotic. This is supposed to be a time after civilization collapsed, but all of the vehicles run despite being shot up, set on fire, etc.

DetlefK

(16,423 posts)
72. What's so bad about the US playing white saviour to the entire universe?
Sun Jul 23, 2017, 07:35 AM
Jul 2017


Oh, wait. That will be the plot to Independence Day 3.
 

freddyvh

(276 posts)
36. Blues Brothers 2000
Fri Jul 21, 2017, 04:12 PM
Jul 2017

But I didn't really watch it, I was reading
I had it on for the sound track

Great music

red dog 1

(27,792 posts)
46. Sequels usually suck anyway
Sat Jul 22, 2017, 04:21 PM
Jul 2017

I've seen The Blues Brothers many, many times..and I still love it.

But, except for Godfather ll, I can't think of a single sequel that was any good.

red dog 1

(27,792 posts)
111. Haven't seen it ...I'm not a Star Wars fan
Tue Jul 25, 2017, 05:01 PM
Jul 2017

I did like all the Star Trek sequels, though, especially "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home"

Different Drummer

(7,613 posts)
42. Just my opinion here...
Sat Jul 22, 2017, 03:14 PM
Jul 2017

but I'd have to go with "Final Justice." Couldn't make it through it, not even the MST3K version.

catbyte

(34,374 posts)
45. "The Last Boy Scout." I couldn't finish it. Something about it enraged me so much that,
Sat Jul 22, 2017, 04:15 PM
Jul 2017

3 years later, the memory of it still pisses me off.

PoindexterOglethorpe

(25,848 posts)
59. 2001 A Space Odyssey.
Sat Jul 22, 2017, 11:30 PM
Jul 2017

Hilariously pretentious. And totally dumb.

Really, men in gorilla suits? It is somewhat prescient about Pan Am going out of business. The load factor on the shuttle to the moon isn't a sustainable business model. And the whole thing with the sentient computer? Really? It may be that I didn't see the movie when it first came out, although I was more than old enough. Maybe by the time I did see it, some 15 or so years later, I was too jaded.

I had read the truly wonderful short story by Arthur C. Clarke "The Sentinel" that was the basis for part of the movie. I'd recommend it to anyone and tell them to skip the stupid movie if you haven't already had the misfortune to waste a couple hours of your life watching it.

But I've been reading science fiction since I was about 7. I'm 68 now, so you do the math. Although, maybe that's the essential problem: I'm steeped in the tropes of science fiction. The people who make movies may never have read a decent s-f novel, although they certainly know how to go about making movies.

Of course, I have a huge problem with most science fiction movies. As a life-long reader of the genre (and an occasional writer of the stuff) I'll say outright that most supposedly science fiction movies really aren't science fiction. They're movies with a hand wave at being science fiction. At best.

For my money, the most truly science fictional movie I've ever seen is "Twelve Monkeys". Just astonishing. A reasonably close second is "The Butterfly Effect" because it stayed true to the essential premise. That doesn't often happen.

Meanwhile, there are some truly wonderful s-f novels that are crying out to be made into movies. I don't know why they haven't been, but it's a shame. And to name some of my favorite candidates: Door into Summer, Time For the Stars, both by Robert Heinlein. The End of Eternity by Isaac Asimov.

hunter

(38,310 posts)
86. The I, Robot film with Will Smith was an insult to Asimov...
Sun Jul 23, 2017, 12:30 PM
Jul 2017

...far, far worse than Kubrick's 2001. Clarke was happy enough with 2001 that he wrote the novelization.

Harlan Ellison collaborated with Asimov in the late 'seventies on an I, Robot script that didn't get produced, partly because special effects of the time were not up to the task, largely because of friction between Ellison and movie producers (who, I imagine, were looking for something more like the Will Smith movie...)

Ellison's script was turned into a graphic novel which I enjoyed.

https://www.amazon.com/Robot-Illustrated-Screenplay-Harlan-Ellison/dp/1596870419

The I, Robot movie irritated me immensely.

red dog 1

(27,792 posts)
88. Thanks for that link
Sun Jul 23, 2017, 04:04 PM
Jul 2017

I'm a huge fan of Harlan Ellison, even though I'm not much into science fiction

Ellison might be the best writer alive, partly because he writes well in several different genres besides Science Fiction, including
- Fantasy
- Humor
- Non-fiction
- Politics


One of the most celebrated magazine stories ever published was by Gay Talese in the April 1966 issue of Esquire called "Frank Sinatra Has a Cold"
It contains a hilarious encounter Sinatra had with a young Harlan Ellison.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018912736

NBachers

(17,107 posts)
63. I tried watching "The Constant Gardner" once. After all the buildup, it was just lame.
Sun Jul 23, 2017, 03:42 AM
Jul 2017

Not just lame, but lame in an English Movie kind of lame. Maybe something happened after I turned it off to redeem it, but I wasn't hanging around to find out.

Alice11111

(5,730 posts)
69. Revenge, Kevin Costner
Sun Jul 23, 2017, 07:01 AM
Jul 2017

Where would I even start? Cinderella plot, but a young, beautiful Mexican wife is thrown away by her cruel, wealthy Mexican husband, who she offended, for her to be a be a sexslave, heroin addict in Mazatlan. Costner finally finds and rescues her, Clint Esatwood style.
He takes her away in his arms and rescues her, but she dies of diseases, STDs.

DetlefK

(16,423 posts)
70. "Pacific Rim"
Sun Jul 23, 2017, 07:26 AM
Jul 2017

1. None of the techno-gibberish made sense.



2. Humanoids are not built for fighting. They are built for surviving in a Savannah by the means of using tools. So why would you design your Jaegers to look like humanoids???



3. Instead of posting guards at the hole where the monsters are coming out, they think it's a better strategy to defend THE ENTIRE PACIFIC COAST-LINE???



4. Fake feminism.

Fucking Mako Mori.

She was hailed as a female hero and there were articles trying to replace the Bechdel-test with the Mako-Mori-test. WTF?
She was a boring character who existed solely for the purpose of falling for the chiseled white Bro with killer-abs.
Just because you can throw a punch, that does not make you a "strong female character".

MrScorpio

(73,630 posts)
75. I saw one called "Dolan's Cadillac" the other day
Sun Jul 23, 2017, 09:10 AM
Jul 2017

One of the worst adaptations of a Stephen King story ever.

mainstreetonce

(4,178 posts)
76. Jackie
Sun Jul 23, 2017, 09:24 AM
Jul 2017

The actress didn't look like Jackie. She didn't talk like Jackie. The history didn't feel right. It was terrible.

Alice11111

(5,730 posts)
91. I liked it. Sleeper, but it was Natalie Portman's best performance
Sun Jul 23, 2017, 05:03 PM
Jul 2017

Jackie was trying to hold it together. Reflections back. She wasnt sanctimonious. It was a slice of time, surrealist ic to her, depressing, over whelming loss, threatening, without a script. I also like how LBJ was woven in as a nice person to Jackie and the kids, not pressuring her to move on, even out of the White House, until she was ready.
I lived through this time though, though very young.

LeftInTX

(25,258 posts)
82. J Edgar
Sun Jul 23, 2017, 11:20 AM
Jul 2017

He was one of those most powerful men in the 20th Century.
I wanted to know more about his career and how he kept in power etc. etc.

The movie started off good, then it started veering into his private life.
I knew where this was going and I switched it off.



 

geek tragedy

(68,868 posts)
84. Suicide Squad (not in theater thankfully)
Sun Jul 23, 2017, 11:49 AM
Jul 2017

Utter shit, Jared Leto gives the worst performance I've ever seen.

mainer

(12,022 posts)
85. "Eyes Wide Shut". And "The Fountain."
Sun Jul 23, 2017, 12:29 PM
Jul 2017

Not recently, but I remember how awful they both were.

I give slack to schlocky horror films because they don't have any pretentions about them. But both Kubrick (Eyes Wide Shut) and Aronofsky (The Fountain) thought they were making "art". I'd much rather watch a stupid horror flick.

Zing Zing Zingbah

(6,496 posts)
94. I really liked the Fountain
Sun Jul 23, 2017, 10:49 PM
Jul 2017

I hadn't thought about that movie in years. I thought it was pretty interesting both in the plot but also visually. I've never seen Eyes Wide Shut.

I'm also a Mainer, btw.

Response to Zing Zing Zingbah (Reply #94)

VOX

(22,976 posts)
113. "Eyes Wide Shut" master print should be given cement shoes and sunk in the Marianas Trench.
Tue Jul 25, 2017, 11:12 PM
Jul 2017

It's sooo bad in multiple dimensions. Cruise's lines consist of hesitatingly repeating the previous lines of dialog as questions.
-You're very short.
-I'm...very...short?
-Yes, and you're a strange person.
-I'm...a...strange...person?
And the god-awful "score" by Wendy Carlos, which sounded like a 7-year-old at piano practice. *Dun-dun-dun*, etc., followed by a *plink*.
As great as Kubrick was, and he made 5 or 6 solid classics, this is his weakest effort. And the whole sex-cult-thing was no big shocker. A big-money, big-name, big-advertising FLOP.

Zing Zing Zingbah

(6,496 posts)
96. The first thing that comes to mind is Super Troopers
Sun Jul 23, 2017, 10:53 PM
Jul 2017

It was supposed to be funny, but it wasn't my kind of funny.

niyad

(113,263 posts)
98. starship troopers.
Mon Jul 24, 2017, 01:29 PM
Jul 2017

as a heinlein fan, I was seriously annoyed and disappointed in what was done to the story.

CTyankee

(63,903 posts)
112. Uh oh, I'm going with a friend to see that movie next week...
Tue Jul 25, 2017, 05:34 PM
Jul 2017

I like war movies based on historical wars. That's why I loved Pearl Harbor and Tora tora tora. The attack on Pearl Harbor and the devastating scenes of the attack was terrifyingly real....

Miles Archer

(18,837 posts)
103. Keanu Reeves' "Knock Knock"
Mon Jul 24, 2017, 05:22 PM
Jul 2017

Two nights ago on either Netflix or Hulu, son't remember which.

It WAS NOT "so bad it was good." It was so bad that it was SO BAD.

A shower scene ripped off from "Cruel Intentions 2."

Keanu as an architect ( ! ) who used to be a DJ ( ! )

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3605418/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_19

"A devoted father helps two stranded young women who knock on his door, but his kind gesture turns into a dangerous seduction and a deadly game of cat and mouse."


BendigoJeff

(31 posts)
106. Even lambs have teeth
Mon Jul 24, 2017, 05:40 PM
Jul 2017

Caught in on cable one afternoon, was about some women who get kidnapped and tortured by a gang of local hillbillies. The whole town seems in on it. The women escape and exact sick revenge on their tormentors.

 

Awsi Dooger

(14,565 posts)
108. Pulp Fiction
Mon Jul 24, 2017, 10:06 PM
Jul 2017

Pulp Fiction is the answer to every bad movie question.

I'll never forgive the friends who took me to that movie in Las Vegas.

lame54

(35,284 posts)
109. Growing up and other lies...
Tue Jul 25, 2017, 12:04 AM
Jul 2017

Caught it on HBO
I want my hour and fifteen minutes back
It's longer than that but I couldn't make it to the end
It was awful

Upthevibe

(8,038 posts)
114. Beatriz at Dinner - I saw someone post this and it reminded me of this movie...
Wed Jul 26, 2017, 01:59 AM
Jul 2017

I was really disappointed because the reviews were good and it had a good cast - Selma Hayek and John Lithgow.

NeoGreen

(4,031 posts)
115. MAGNOLIA...
Wed Jul 26, 2017, 10:09 PM
Jul 2017

...(apologies for shouting)...where my dislike for cruise solidified.
By Zeus I couldn't wait for that dreck to end.

NightWatcher

(39,343 posts)
117. I win this thread. I saw "The Shack" it's one of those religious (think God is Real) movies
Wed Jul 26, 2017, 10:43 PM
Jul 2017

A guy has a tragedy and goes to a house in the woods and meets God Jesus and the Holy Spirit as people and god basically tells him to get over it and think happy thoughts. It sucked and my wife just thought it was going to be a The Notebook kind of "chick flick".

 

Special Prosciuto

(731 posts)
119. I don't know the name of this, but it is widely regarded as the worst, and funniest, war movie ever
Tue Aug 8, 2017, 02:25 AM
Aug 2017

made. They die Break Dancing

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