madbassman39 Posted September 22, 2015 Report Share Posted September 22, 2015 Seventh Son I knew it wasn't well received, I knew it was going to be bad, and I was looking forward to it. I love movies about monster hunters, so Beowulf (the animated movie), Van Helsing, Constantine (Keanu Reeves) are some of my guilty pleasures. I wanted this movie to fit along those, and it did. I loved watching it. Its also a really bad movie, and I would not suggest anyone else to watch unless they are willing to deal with a movie that is objectively worse than the other movies I've listed. To list the things that were bad: Bad dialogue, evil but cool villain, plot devices that made zero sense to develop into a convenient get away for the hero, some background on characters that only seemed to matter for a single sequence, and a romance that eventually goes no where... literally. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. GOH! Posted September 22, 2015 Report Share Posted September 22, 2015 But you gotta love Jeff Bridges's nonsense accent/diction! Try talking like him in the Seventh Son; it's real fun! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted October 21, 2015 Report Share Posted October 21, 2015 Mirror Mirror IIRC I'd actually put the channel on for the start of Fifth Element but it got changed over to this, was at my mums so not like I'd complain on what's on TV. Was pretty damn dull film though. It's a "retelling" of the Snow White fable and not a very good one at that. The mirror is actually a portal to a sort of mini-world where Julia Roberts sister/twin/soul lives. It tries to be "silly" at times but it runs counter to the time it tries to be serious. I feel that Julia Roberts had a slightly different script to everyone else. I guess the fact it wasn't Fifth Elements slightly soured it too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCP Posted November 16, 2015 Report Share Posted November 16, 2015 The Peanuts Movie I know what you're thinking "TCP, you're a bad ass mo'fucka, one of the coolest dudes on this message board, why are you going to a kid's movie?". Because, while I am a bad ass mo'fucka, I'm also a pretty great uncle, so the wife and I took our niece to the movies. I didn't account for the difficulty in trying to convince a 3 year old to put on her 3D glasses. The movie itself looked fantastic, from an animation stand point. But everything about it was pretty crappy. Outside of the Snoopy bits, even my niece didn't seem to like it too much, and she watches some utter crap. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCP Posted January 25, 2016 Report Share Posted January 25, 2016 Entourage -It was free on VOD, ok?! Though I did use to watch the show a bit back in the day. Was it always this horrible and sexist? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFlyingGerbil Posted January 25, 2016 Report Share Posted January 25, 2016 Yes it was 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SomTervo Posted January 27, 2016 Report Share Posted January 27, 2016 (edited) I watched Intacto the other night. It's not full-blown crap, but it deserves to be in this thread for being a film with an amazing concept which it completely doesn't make the most of and completely wastes. Entourage -It was free on VOD, ok?! Though I did use to watch the show a bit back in the day. Was it always this horrible and sexist? It is the very definition of heinous. I can't believe people watch it without irony. Edited January 27, 2016 by SomTervo 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCP Posted January 27, 2016 Report Share Posted January 27, 2016 I just couldn't believe that was a movie that got made in 2015. No wonder people hate white American men. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. GOH! Posted March 26, 2016 Report Share Posted March 26, 2016 Batman v Superman. There is potential for good, interesting storytelling with the DCCU's ideas about batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman, but this was just a mess. Jesse Eisenberg was terrible, conflicts that start off seeming to mean everything to a character end up being tossed aside, Batman is crazy without justification, Superman is weirdly pouty, the action is confusingly shot and staged, and the plot is dumb. As Dean says in the other thread, this thing is edited very badly and there are weird, meaningless scenes shoved into it for no reason (including a random scene that's just Perry White wondering where Clark is sandwiched between scenes that have nothing to do with Superman). And the stupid dream sequences! Such a waste of time and not strongly connected to anything at all. The thing is, I think Afleck could be a really good Batman, and the chemistry between him, Cavill, and Gadot is better than I expected. I also thought Gadot made a good, if sparingly-used, Wonder Woman. She feels like she's older and wiser than Supes or Batman, but that she's somewhat given up on humanity bettering itself. She also seemed to really enjoy battle, which makes sense for a 3000-year old warrior demigoddess. I kinda enjoyed the reveals of Flash, Cyborg, and Aquaman, via the research done by Luthor. But where's Green Lantern? Isn't he the heaviest hitter of the JL? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted March 26, 2016 Report Share Posted March 26, 2016 It's possible Green Lantern hasn't been chosen yet. (within the universe, not as in casting) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCP Posted May 9, 2016 Report Share Posted May 9, 2016 Fantastic Four (2015). Well, this is on Netflix now. I have to admit I was very curious why this was so bad. Now I know. What a mess of a fucking movie. It's a great example on the wrong way to take an IP. I was left wondering what the point of it all was. The bar was so low to be better than the first movie, yet, somehow they made it even worse. Editor's note: previously a version of this post was featured in the OK thread. How this happened is unknown, but I want it on the record that I, TCP, think this movie is CRAP. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danielpholt Posted May 10, 2016 Report Share Posted May 10, 2016 (edited) I had to rewatch Chappie. I think its time we stop letting Neil Blomkamp write movies. As per with a Blomkamp film, it looks fantastic; great setting, style etc etc...but the writing is awful and the plot makes next to no sense. Why is Sigourney Weaver in this? Edited May 10, 2016 by danielpholt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted May 10, 2016 Report Share Posted May 10, 2016 I've got that on my watch list, cos like...yeah Blomkamp, but on the otherhand something about it has seemed kinda "meh". Not hearing much about it post-release isn't helping sway that meh feeling much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danielpholt Posted May 10, 2016 Report Share Posted May 10, 2016 I've got that on my watch list, cos like...yeah Blomkamp, but on the otherhand something about it has seemed kinda "meh". Not hearing much about it post-release isn't helping sway that meh feeling much. It really makes you wonder just how much work Peter Jackson put into District 9. Both Elysium and Chappie have been completely forgettable. He's got that style over substance thing going on, and it's a real shame. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted May 10, 2016 Report Share Posted May 10, 2016 He's a VFX artist*, I think maybe goes for social commentary a bit too much. Less style recently too, like D9 was sort of his "baby", he'd fleshed it out a lot in his head, obviously did the short before hand. Really beautiful art direction. With Jackson it's as a producer and I'm always wary on that title cos a lot of time it's mainly to put the name on the film in some way, but others yeah there's more involvement either in being directly on set to help or having contacts to hook you up with people, or just raw funds. It's the least useful job title ever to work out what the person does. Given D9 uses Weta for its VFX n Chappie doesn't I imagine the main thing for Peter was hooking Blomkamp up with Weta. I imagine there was some sort of protege thing going on which didn't really pan out, compared to Jackson n Serkis (who is one of my fave people in the industry n gets nowhere near the credit he deserves). *Though so was Gareth Edwards n Godzilla was pretty great and we'll see if it continues with Rogue One. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danielpholt Posted May 10, 2016 Report Share Posted May 10, 2016 Social commentary is fine and good, poorly written scripts and piss poor plots are not. Sent from my Nexus 6P using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strangelove Posted July 10, 2016 Report Share Posted July 10, 2016 Batman Vs Superman Ultimate Edition. What a piece of shit. I never saw the regular version but I can't even fathom how much more awful it must be. Even this long as duck version doesn't make sense. All the fucking dreams and flashbacks, the various dumbass symbolisms, every character being a complete idiot, Martha, only one good fight scene(Batman vs thugs), and that shoehorned as fuck last minute cameo by the Justice League. There are several parts in this film that are so terrible that all I could do was laugh so I could cope with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot Heart Posted August 7, 2016 Report Share Posted August 7, 2016 Suicide Squad This would almost make it into the "OK" thread thanks to its one bright point: Margot Robbie. She steals every scene and has the best lines and has the sort of comedic performance I wished Holtzmann in Ghostbusters was more like. But onto the bad... You might have heard about the troubles behind-the-scenes and how there were reshoots to try and match the style and tone of the trailer that everyone loved. Well, that either fucked up what might have been a more entertaining, "serious" film or just hasn't done enough because it is a mess. The start of the film is all over the place and has no rhythm to the editing and you end up with this weird event where for a minute it seems like you've jumped right into the third act. With the knowledge of the reshooting and editing, it's clear to see how they've mucked it up and half of the soundtrack is weirdly placed songs rather than an actual score (like the trailer everyone loved!) so you'll have a bunch of character intro scenes with Fortunate Son playing over the top, etc. And then you have these weird continuity things that feel like maybe they were still there at the script stage. The bit where Enchantress ditches Flagg with the 2-second bomb and then we find out later he just ditched it in the tunnel. Or when we get Katana's "soul-trapping" sword explained to us (it traps souls of people it kills) and then later Enchantress asks to join her dead brother, presumably because that's Katana's sword being wielded... except her brother died to some shitty explosion not the sword. Or the fact that Enchantress wants to build a machine to destroy all humans because they no longer worship her and her magic, but the whole time she's just creating some weird big magic vortex that swirls debris about. And apparently it's a spell that takes forever to be finished. And even then, it's just a cliche-ridden borefest. Will Smith is on auto-pilot, Flagg is boring army guy who keeps yelling at Deadshot that he expects he'll just "cut-and-run" with no real reason behind it. Jai Courtney has a terrible Australian accent and then there's Killer Croc who hits people, Katana who slashes people and Fire-powers redemption guy. I've probably missed some people as well. Oh, and The Joker is there at certain points but the less said about him the better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted August 7, 2016 Report Share Posted August 7, 2016 So basically it's like the rest of the DCCU. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot Heart Posted August 7, 2016 Report Share Posted August 7, 2016 I steered clear of BvS and I hoped Suicide Squad would be different. It probably is, but it's bad in different ways. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCP Posted August 9, 2016 Report Share Posted August 9, 2016 The Killing Joke I couldn't even believe it. The first 30 minutes has NOTHING to do with the rest of the film. It's boring, uninspired, and fairly offensive. Batgirl has a crush on Batman, she has a stereotypical gay friend who gives her advice, and she ends up sleeping with Bats who then stops returning her calls, which really upsets Batgirl. No, I am not making that up. Then she gets shot and paralyzed only to upset her dad because at that point of the story, Barbara no longer matters as a character she is just a plot device. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. GOH! Posted August 9, 2016 Report Share Posted August 9, 2016 (edited) The Killing Joke is pure awfulness. I was just surprised they were able to make a new extremely shitty Batman TAS episode and tack it on as a prologue. I mean, the Killing Joke comic was dumb enough already and completely unworthy of an animated film treatment. Edit: Anyone know why Joel Kinnamen keeps getting work? He's terrible and miscast in everything I've ever seen him in. Edited August 9, 2016 by Mr. GOH! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danielpholt Posted August 10, 2016 Report Share Posted August 10, 2016 Suicide Squad This would almost make it into the "OK" thread thanks to its one bright point: Margot Robbie. She steals every scene and has the best lines and has the sort of comedic performance I wished Holtzmann in Ghostbusters was more like. But onto the bad... You might have heard about the troubles behind-the-scenes and how there were reshoots to try and match the style and tone of the trailer that everyone loved. Well, that either fucked up what might have been a more entertaining, "serious" film or just hasn't done enough because it is a mess. The start of the film is all over the place and has no rhythm to the editing and you end up with this weird event where for a minute it seems like you've jumped right into the third act. With the knowledge of the reshooting and editing, it's clear to see how they've mucked it up and half of the soundtrack is weirdly placed songs rather than an actual score (like the trailer everyone loved!) so you'll have a bunch of character intro scenes with Fortunate Son playing over the top, etc. And then you have these weird continuity things that feel like maybe they were still there at the script stage. The bit where Enchantress ditches Flagg with the 2-second bomb and then we find out later he just ditched it in the tunnel. Or when we get Katana's "soul-trapping" sword explained to us (it traps souls of people it kills) and then later Enchantress asks to join her dead brother, presumably because that's Katana's sword being wielded... except her brother died to some shitty explosion not the sword. Or the fact that Enchantress wants to build a machine to destroy all humans because they no longer worship her and her magic, but the whole time she's just creating some weird big magic vortex that swirls debris about. And apparently it's a spell that takes forever to be finished. And even then, it's just a cliche-ridden borefest. Will Smith is on auto-pilot, Flagg is boring army guy who keeps yelling at Deadshot that he expects he'll just "cut-and-run" with no real reason behind it. Jai Courtney has a terrible Australian accent and then there's Killer Croc who hits people, Katana who slashes people and Fire-powers redemption guy. I've probably missed some people as well. Oh, and The Joker is there at certain points but the less said about him the better. Isn't Jai Courtney Australian? Also I thought Will Smith was pretty great. I agree with the rest though. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot Heart Posted August 10, 2016 Report Share Posted August 10, 2016 Isn't Jai Courtney Australian? Also I thought Will Smith was pretty great. I agree with the rest though. Holy shit, he is! I guess he was doing a caricature-type accent then? There was one bit where he just sounded ridiculous. I can't fault Will Smith but it just felt like there was nothing interesting there. More the film's fault than his, I guess. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. GOH! Posted August 10, 2016 Report Share Posted August 10, 2016 Are you a Scottstralian, HotHeart? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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