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Horrible movies, and the people who get duped into waching them....

Fedord Spaniard

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Horrible movies, and the people who get duped into waching them...(on the next Geraldo)lol


This thread is for the members that want to vent about movies that disappointed them after watching.

Ever have a movie you were looking forward to.... but then after seeing it, you would have prefered to watch paint dry instead?


This is the thread to be Siskel & Ebert or Ebert & Roper or whatever it is now..... And discuss those wastes of celluloid...


Vintage and modern movies or any kninds of movies are welcome....we can discuss View Master discs too if you would like hahahhaah.


Ill go first,



for me it was Superman Returns. Over 2hrs and 40 Mins ill never get back ever... thats including the money i "donated" to the theatre to see this thinglol . I had no problem with the actors at all... it was the writing for me.
I found so many things wrong with that movie... heres are some of the things that im talking about,


First the costume : the cape's and boots' red made them look like a fruit roll up. The blue have little "S" carved into it. the blue part has little "S" pores.

The "S" shield was too small compared to the modern standard comic book counterpart or silver-bronze age counter part. The Belt had an "S" on it.
I guess it wasnt enough with all those other "S" on this suit(like the "s" pores) that maybe the producers thought the viewers wouldnt know the chracter portrayed was supposed to be Superman.


In this movie Superman has a son and the kid has powers too...
Superman becomes a stalker by watching Lois Lane's home life with her husband.

In this movie Superman just flies away like Magneto instead of pushing himself off the ground like all other incarnations of the character.

What bothered me the most was the way kryptonite was portrayed in this movie..... example:

In all incarnations of Superman comic books, TV, Movies, Animations...whenever hes exposed to Kryptonite he just hits the ground in pain and cant do anything.
Just the mention of Kryptonite gets him thinking twice. You telling Superman you have Kryptonite is like a child being told "im going to get the belt" Kryptonite is Superman's time out.

But O no, not in this movie... In this movie he can be exposed to it and be stabbed by it. While Luthor stabbed Supes, he broke off a piece of Kryptonite and left it inside Supes.

You would think that wouldve killed him, but no not in this movie. After the Kryptonite splinter, Superman is able to pick up an island of Kryptonite with his hands and go into space with it.

His backlash after that was just that he passed out....for a day..must be those wild nights at the Fortress...

Thats just some of my complaints on that movie. How is it that Bryan Singer and his writing team can make good Marvel movies but then turn around and rape a powerful DC Comics franchise of its dignity...

hahaahaha Maybe theres a conspiracy and Marvel has Singer and his crew out to get DC Comics...


In my opinion Christopher Reeve is the one and only true Superman/Clark Kent.
Reeve's acting is what sold that a man can fly...thats before all the CG stuff you see most movies now adays.

Im sure for some of you your Superman is one of these: Kirk Alyn or Bud Collyer (voice in the 1940's rotoscope animation and filmations), George Reeves or Danny Dark (super friends/ super powers team) etc.




Well thats one movie for me... Transformers 2007 is another one but youve heard enough with this movie so ill spare you hahaha
 

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Gods and Generals. What a disappointment. I can't even recall when it was released. I think I'm repressing the memory.

Pearl Harbor. Perhaps even worse than Gods and Generals. I'll never forget the remarkable sound of B-25 tires squealing as Doolittle firewalled his throttles on takeoff.

AF
 

Alucard73

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Fireproof...this poor guy spends over 40 days trying to win back his wife and it is not till she finds out about all the money he spent on her parents that she decides to forget about the Dr and come home. $$$
 

KY Gentleman

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"The Blair Witch Project". An entire year of hype, magazine articles and a Sci-Fi Channel special that was BETTER than the movie!
 

Fedord Spaniard

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Son_of_Atropos said:
Spiderman 3. C'mon, it's garbage. "Evil Emo" Peter Parker dancing? Get out of here.

hahaha, I agree with you man. I liked it better than "Superman" returns i put the quotations on Superman cause that really wasnt. But in Spider-man 3 i had a big problem with the emo crap, (even tho i like SNF) i had a problem with the "saturday night fever" like strut sequence he does while he has the Symbiote costume. Another problem i started having after Spider-man 2 was the whole "im sorry and i love you" attitude between Spidey and his enemies at the end of 2 and 3. Whats next do Luthor and Xavier switch places in comic book reality and have the L-Men instead. That movie felt like a musical and after school special than a Spidey movie.
 

Fedord Spaniard

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lol Your posts are really funny and i feel for you guys as you already know with my first post. I wish more people come in and vent about movies they think are crappy... After the torture they went through watching, they owe it to themselves to rant.
 

JJWord

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Concur on Spider-Man 3. Its just too far off, felt like an afterschool TV special of what the story really should have been.

I may catch alot of flak for this one but, The Good Shepherd. Just seemed to me that they could have told the same story in an hour less. Plus I never connected at all with Angelina Jolie's character.

And the coupe de grace, Date Movie. Horid. The only movie I've ever seriously considered walking out of to cut my losses.
 

CopperNY

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Cloverfield.

ok characters, you are all to stupid to reasonably remain in the gene pool. please die so that i can go home. they should all have been wearing Red Shirts.
 

TheLimey

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Ok, I'll probably get some flak for this but I was really dissapointed by:

The Big Lebowski.

I just can't understand what all the fuss is about...
 

Nathan Dodge

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Vent Thy Spleen, Worded One!

CASINO (1995)- A pastiche of everything I hate about Scorsese movies. Casino is one long music video with Sharon Stone overacting, Joe Pesci regurgitating his Goodfellas role with that Frank guy, which he also did in Raging Bull, and did I mention the endless parade of overplayed oldies for a soundtrack? I did? Well, I'm saying it again.;) And has James Woods ever appeared in a worthwhile movie? No. He couldn't hack it as a leading man and he was even worse as a character actor, which is on full display in Casino. Don't even bother coming up with "good" examples of his acting, there aren't any.

I saw this movie on video in 1999 with a friend whose taste I no longer trust. In fact, I was raging that day and the next about how lousy Casino was. No one agreed with me about such things---until that first Star Wars prequel came out...when I let loose a similar tirade and my coworkers at the time were in denial about what a sham that movie was but they eventually relented and admitted that it stunk. I think that some people are afraid to admit they don't like something if the media says that they must.

This is why I avoid threads like this; I get too worked up!:mad: ;)
 

celtic

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City of Angels, the remake with Nicolas Cage and Meg Ryan - horrible, just horrible

I'll second the Blair Witch sentiment...the viral marketing was amazing, but the movie was a serious waste of my time.

Exit to Eden. I really, really, really enjoyed the book. The movie wan't only bad, but made me wish harm on those who turned it into a "comedy".

Tropic Thunder...not even Downey's performance could make this palatable.

My biggest disappointment is most people's favorite: Citizen Kane.
Call me a dimwitted, simple inerudite all you want, but I literally fell asleep somewhere around hour two.
 

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Highlander II after enjoying the first one so much I raced out to see the sequel without reading any reviews.

What is really awful about this experience is that I organized a large group of people from my college fencing club to go with me...

shakeshead


It was a loooooooooooong time before they forgave me for that little excursion.

Cheers

Jamie
 

Edward

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celtic said:
City of Angels, the remake with Nicolas Cage and Meg Ryan - horrible, just horrible.

That's actually one I avoided. I really enjoyed the original - Himmel Uber Berlin (lit: Heaven over Berlin, though it was marketed here under the titled Wings of Desire). Couldn't bring myself to see what seemed, from the marketin,g to be a schmaltzy Hollywood remake. I like Nicholas Cage, but Meg Ryan's presence in a film is generally a pretty good sign I'm going to hate it. [huh]

KY Gentleman said:
"The Blair Witch Project". An entire year of hype, magazine articles and a Sci-Fi Channel special that was BETTER than the movie!

Oddly enough, I found the sequel much more entertaining, as it never claimed to be anything other than a crappy little B-movie. The biggest problem I had with the BWP was that it was pushed as being something utterly novel: I literally sat in the cinema mentally ticking off all the classic horror films as it ripped them off. Even the basic premise of "discovered" footage had been done before - Cannibal Holocaust, in the early 80s. I well remember the day I wasted a couple of hours on this trash - I also went to see Run Lola Run, which is an amazing film.

Son_of_Atropos said:
Spiderman 3. C'mon, it's garbage. "Evil Emo" Peter Parker dancing? Get out of here.

Certainly the weakest of the trilogy. The fundamental problem with it was that it simply had far too much in it. Firstly, they had the Sandman, which was the stroy Sam Raimi always wanted to tell. Then they had the Venom story, which was something that hadn't originally been intended, but so great was the fan demand for Venom to appear, the studio obliged Raimi and the writers to accomodate it. Lastly, they had, of course, to resolve the Harry/ Hobgoblin stroy arc. Any one of those could potentially have been sufficient on its own. A shame, really, because it meant that none of them got anything like the coverage they should have. I still found the film entertaining enough, but certainly it realised nothing like its full potential.

One film in which I was deeply disappointed was Ang Lee's take on The Hulk, father fixation, monster poodles and all. Deeply disappointing. The more recent take on it, with Ed Norton and Tim Roth, was superb.


I would also mention Batman Forever and Batman and Robin, but quite frankly I prefer to decline to acknowledge their very existence, so abysmyl were they. Joel Schumacher, whose career started promisingly with The Lost Boys, is as clearf an example as ever one is likely to need of the 'monkeys and Shakespeare' premise.
 

SamMarlowPI

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Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry

the worst acting in the world...

but i admit i own it because of the '69 charger...

i'll have to really think about other movies i strongly dislike...
 

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