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The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure is looking to be one for the so bad it's fucking terrible
http://www.nola.com/newsflash/index....c433fbce88d67b
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Hah! Fucking Karl Urban... And I'm surprised that wasn't directed by Uwe Boll.Originally Posted by marodi
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I saw a trailer for that when I went to see Brave, I was like "who the fuck green-lit this piece of shit?" Yet, the film is now notorious for being one of the biggest box office bombs ever. Played at more than 2000 theaters in America and only made about $445,000 against a total budget (including marketing) of $60 million.
The Enhancer
It's like the John Carter of its generation! Wait...
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Looks like someone wanted to make a movie that sort-of looked like Skyrim.
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I think the main problem here is this is a kid's movie that no adult would want to sit through in the theater. When you plonk kids in front of the TV, you can do other stuff and tune it out. Here there would have been no escape.
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Exactly. Although the bad press makes me want to see it. No way in hell I'm paying for it though.
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Your action scenes were decent at best, your over the top profanity and major quote isn't authentic in any way, your plot was thin and uninteresting and you really bored me when I seen you.
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The Descent: Part II
Comparing it to the awesomeness of the first one makes it one of the biggest pieces of shit I've ever sat through.
tempus est umbra in mente
Oh wow... I just actually sat through Ghostbusters 2, and I feel somewhat traumatized... not only because I remember this being one of the first movies I saw in the theaters and loving it, or because I think part of the reason I pressured my parents into buying me that NES joystick that controlled the statue of liberty... but just because it really sucked as much as it does, and I forced myself to sit through it and pay attention today, and I hate myself for having done so.
so much for nostalgic fondness for crappy movies.
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tempus est umbra in mente
Frozen sucks. This movie is bad. So, so, so bad.
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Haven't seen it, but can't figure out why people are so obsessed with that song.
tempus est umbra in mente
I didn't get to the part where the song happens. I know I'm not the target demographic for this movie, but this is just fucking awful. I've never been so glad to not have kids. Could you imagine, having to sit through this movie over and over again, and having your daughter sing the songs all day long? That sounds like hell.
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--Ultraviolet might be the worst movie I've ever seen. There's nothing good about it. It's offensively bad. After delivering a masterpiece in Equilibrium, Kurt Wimmer fell far. Hot. Burning. Garbage.
--Ang Lee's The Hulk should've aired on TNT since "they know drama." Lee just didn't get The Hulk at all and made a terrible mistake. He's still a great director but this was a complete misfire.
--Is anyone more overrated than Spielberg? Nope! Cloying, cheesy, often boring. Raiders is great, Temple is fun, and...that's sort of it. Jaws is a movie about a shark where the shark is in it for seven minutes. Ditto on Jurassic Sleep. Saving Private Ryan < Blackhawk Down. It's all just kind of run of the mill, telling the same story structure in every movie. I would find him benign if he weren't so celebrated. He's better as a producer.
--Others off the top of my head: Tears Of The Sun, 30 Days Of Night, Rob Zombie's Halloween, 300, Windtalkers (WHY JOHN WOO?!!!)...I'm sure I'll add more here.
Last edited by Swykk; 11-04-2014 at 02:17 PM.
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Yesterday, I saw a film that definitely goes up there with the list of the worst films ever. Winter's Tale from the asswipe who wrote such films as The Da Vinci Code, A Beautiful Mind, and Batman & Robin. Man, this was horrible. It is truly one of the most ridiculous films I had ever seen. Will Smith as Satan is totally laughable. It has moments that is just unintentionally hilarious while it tries so, so, so hard to tug at your heartstrings. It's just fucking stupid. Never in my life did I want to see Colin Farrell get his ass kicked while Russell Crowe gives one of his worst performances ever. I would only recommend this if you need a good laugh.
tempus est umbra in mente
I don't know... Schindler's List is a pretty great movie... All the Indiana Jones movies (except for Crystal Skull) are awesome. Jaws is effective because you don't see the shark for most of the movie. It actually might have been a result of technical shortcomings actually, but in the end it services the suspense.
Personally, I have a hard time watching Saving Private Ryan because it pretty much upsets me, and that's something I have a hard time saying about any movie (and I like some fucked up movies). Something about it is really viscerally intense in a realistic way that just drains me. I'm not sure if that's "good," but I'd say it's the ultimate goal for a war movie to aim for.
What about Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Empire of the Sun, and ET?
He's made some terrible films (even thinking about AI pisses me off), but even some of his maudlin overly sentimental stuff has some great moments to it. And, despite all the controversy, I thought The Color Purple was a good movie.
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OI!
Aside from that inexcusable piece of heresy, though, kind of agree on the Spielberg thing.
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He has made loads of great movies though, Minority Report, Schindlers List, E.T, Close Encounters, Empire of the Sun, Poltergiest, Catch me if You Can, Munich, Artificial Intelligence, Colour Purple. War of the Worlds is underrated. Thats an amazing filmography in itself alone.
I think his films are wonderful, grew up on them. He is like the Rhoald Dhal of cinema to me. They had a huge impact, i always feel the to defend him!
He has some unique slightly odd lighting and camera techniques too that i notice.
also.....Carrie remake is bullshit. Everything is watered down to suit morons. Totally fucking pointless, its not scary at all.
Last edited by Exocet; 11-04-2014 at 02:58 PM.
tempus est umbra in mente
He produced it, but Tobe Hooper directed it.
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Southland Tales is the worst film I have ever watched. You have to see it to believe it but don't expect to make any sense of it.
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Can't argue against the producer-angle really; 'Fievel Goes West' was my 'Frozen', same with 'The Goonies'.
Honestly though, Tyler Perry and Tim Burton (except for 'Mars Attacks' and Nicholson in 'Batman').
tempus est umbra in mente
Edward Scissorhands, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Beetlejuice, Batman, and Ed Wood are all masterpieces... but especially Ed Wood. That movie is so underrated.
Also, Batman Returns has aged really well, and the recent Frankenweenie movie was awesome. Yeah, he's made some terrible movies... his versions of Alice in Wonderland and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory were abominations... But I've never met someone who actually saw Ed Wood and thought it was anything less than great, and I don't know what the hell is wrong with people who don't like Beetlejuice or Edward Scissorhands.
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i also love his version of sleepy hollow, despite it being (another) adaptation.
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I admit its a bad movie, but i always enjoy the hell out of it!
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I thought SPR was just a war movie injected with the Spielberg hokey formula. I don't care for ET but of course thought it was good as a child. Close Encounters puts me to sleep. I haven't seen EotS in a long time but I don't recall being super impressed either.
Like I said, he's either boring or sappy. And again, I don't think I'd be nearly as annoyed with him as I get if he weren't so loved.
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Alright, I'll admit I had a complete brain fart and forgot about 'Ed Wood'; I like that movie very much.
You'd have to be crazy (I know you're not) to think that I don't like Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, or Pee Wee, but Swykk had asked about directors. I didn't give proper credit to Burton's filmography, but that doesn't change my feeling that he is overrated, more so than Spielberg when you compare just their directing efforts.
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I really disagree with the presence of all these movies in this thread. I can get somebody not liking them but they're definitely not in the "so bad they're bad" category. BTW, I like all of them.
Jaws...come on man, really? So you don't see the shark, so what? It's the "less is more" principle at its finest. Jurrasic Park boring? Are you trying to be cool or something? Say it's silly or ridiculous or whatever but boring?? No.
SPR is a very well made war movie and had some of the most intense sequences before "gritty" became the norm, ET is great for what it is, Close Encounters has some of the most creepy and/or amazing alien encounter sequences and EotS is visually stunning, has a great Christian Bale performance and some very memorable scenes.
Like I said, there is probably no movie that has 100% success rate with the audience, but I strongly believe that nearly all of Spielberg's films have no place in this thread.
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I guess you're right, there is a lot of enjoyment to be gotten from it.
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Try snakes on a train
Your action scenes were decent at best, your over the top profanity and major quote isn't authentic in any way, your plot was thin and uninteresting and you really bored me when I seen you.
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