One thing is that I have to hate that movie without anyone telling me what THE LIVING BEINGS think. (If those critics will be alive or is it another botchan)
Another thing that all this time is bothering me because many of the films that I mentioned you do not like that I hate it so much as to designate it as a worst movie, because I know that not only Black Panther did you bother as a typical MARVELITE progress that thinks that he likes that movie he is defending to minorities.
HEY YOU tell me: what movie I mentioned do you not like that I hate it?
Actually movies like Manos: The Hands of Fate, Plan 10 from Outer Space, or Curse of the Swamp Creature can be fun to watch because they are bad both as a story, as production values, and usually also bad acting. Watching them with friends can be hilarious.
Ludicrously pretentious artsy garbage stories shot with beautiful cinematography and mostly fine acting and loved by some critics in spite of being totally unentertaining are the movies I can’t stand.
The two examples that come immediately to mind would be; The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989) and Funny Games (either version 1997 in German or 2007 in English)
I find Godzilla 1998 to be one the worst Godzilla films out there. Toho wanted to retired Godzilla by killing him in Godzilla vs. Destoroyah. That supposedly be the final Godzilla. That movie was so big at the time it became world wide news. Then Godzilla 98 happen. Bad story, bad acting and Godzilla wasn’t Godzilla. Not only that movie anger the suit actors who played Godzilla, but anger lot Japanese audiences and demanded that Godzilla come out of retirement.
I actually enjoy most of the ones you listed as bad, since I just want the characters to act like themselves, but I do not need the stories to be the same, or even for the actor to be a perfect replica, from the comics. For example, with Nick Fury, I think Samuel Jackson improves the character, since the original was just mainly an angry guy in charge of SHIELD. Maybe I’m just the target audience, but it’s the best time for Super Hero movies and TV shows, Sure, some could be better, but they are at least better than the Captain America with the rubber ears, or the unreleased Fantastic Four with a 2x4 as Mr Fantastic’s arm. lol
Here is one that I won’t even try to watch, as I am not a fan of horror movies. The producers and director completely missed the mark, for who comic book movies are made for.
Generally when I judge how bad a recent major box-office movie is, aside from watching it myself, is looking at the Box Office take, especially the Net. Net or Gross if it’s a big number then that means that not only did I like it but quite a lot of people liked it too, otherwise they wouldn’t have gone to a theatre and put down their hard-earned money to see it. I also look at Accolades and Awards Accumulated, the pretentious jackasses online like to pan The Force Awakens for instance, and they like to do it often and loud, and hey if it legitimately didn’t do anything for you then that’s you, nobody has the same tastes. But I look at the results and I see an almost two-billion dollar net profit, a 93% Rotten Tomatoes score, and 32 Film Awards and 85 Nominations, including 5 Oscar Nominations. So don’t come here acting like you speak for the majority because you obviously don’t.
Now enough of the social commentary, back to the fun, let’s go for Classics:
Zardoz (Sean Connery walks around in a diaper and thigh boots)
The Conqueror (John Wayne as Ghengis Khan)
Billy the Kid versus Dracula
It wasn’t quite a Horror movie, it wasn’t quite a Superhero movie, it wasn’t quite a Teen Angst movie, it didn’t have any real tie-in with the X-Men movies, we’re not sure what it was besides bad and a financial disaster
Just because a movie made millions or even billions of dollars doesn’t make it automatically good. The box office only proves that it’s popular. The Transformer and Fast and Furious movies are the perfect example of that.
And most people don’t watch B movies that you can only find on VHS in a Goodwill so all they have to go on is what they seen in the theater and/or TV.
Here’s my list of movies that I think are bad and it has nothing to do with “looking cool:”
Anything Star Wars after 1983. I think the plot to all those movies are horrible.
Signs. Aliens allergic to water coming to a planet that’s 70% water. Don’t get much dumber than that.
Twilight. It glorifies stalkerish, controlling and obsessive behavior in a relationship. Teenagers should be banned from seeing this garbage, not encouraged.
Elysium. So tired of this plot and the movie didn’t make sense.
Godzilla 1998. I loved the old campy stuff. A guy in a rubber suit smashing cardboard sets was hilarious. I loved the new stuff. They didn’t have the strongest story but man they made the monsters look great and the fight scenes fun. But the 1998 version? That was an insult to Godzilla fans.
Honorable mention goes to Avatar. For me this movie rides the line of “insulting” and “meh it’s a movie.” On one hand it’s a copy/paste of better movies that once again makes whitey and the military the bad guys (which is why I hate it) but on the other hand James Cameron did create a beautiful movie with some strong actors that I like.
Signs. Aliens allergic to water coming to a planet that’s 70% water. Don’t get much dumber than that.
it was meh movie
didn’t bother seeing it, I wish Blade was in it we all know how that will end up.
Never seen it, nor of interest of seeing it.
to continue from my last post, I do like Zilla but he’s no Godzilla. Thanks that movie it did bring Godzilla out of retirement and he was able to fight him.
At lease now that Toho making sure we don’t see a repeat like we had with 98. I remember hearing when Legendary is doing KOTM, Toho came out and told legendary that Ghidorah needs to have 3 heads, golden scale all over his body, has to be a dragon, two tails and must have gravity beams. (lighting bolts)
“Just because a movie is popular and makes a ton of money doesn’t mean it’s any good”, now if that isn’t the very height of pretentiousness I don’t know what is
I’m not saying it’s bad, but it’s a USA-style disrespect for an extremely powerful character and OP in the movie story, it’s worse than the scene where Kong asks him to eat his vegetables.
Apart like the director who made Robocop and you will see an almost unedited copy in the someon scenes in Darkman movie.
He did it in the same style as some T-rex from Jurassic Park to take advantage of the success that movie had.
Well at least his animated series was much better than that.
I enjoyed Godzilla 1998. So there. I viewed it as an alt-universe kind of godzilla. Plus all my friends were raving about Titanic at the time. As one friend told me :You have to go see Titanic! It’s the Movie of the Decade!" Me: “Meh, I’m going to Godzilla. At least when everyone dies it’s going to be fun!” Such looks of horror. Much fun
If it makes anyone feel better I totally got that feeling for Transformers though. Ugh. I couldn’t even watch that series.
I haven’t even watched it, but nothing I read about Star Trek: Into Darkness endears me. It all seems like “let’s remake Wrath of Khan but without all the good parts, and while we’re at it let’s turn up the popcorn flick to 11 while dialing back Trek-ness to near-zero”.
Not that the other two Abrams trek movies (which I have watched) are exactly masterpieces, having pulled nonsense like doubling the size of the Enterprise for no good reason and turning the ship’s bridge into an Apple Store, but they’re at least passable (especially Beyond, which felt vaguely like a movie-length episode).
Titanic…God I was so bored from that movie. I remember when Leo’s character died I shout out the theater “FINALLY!” I rather watch Godzilla 98 film then this movie.
