Worst movie(s) you've ever seen?
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Hmmm. American Godzilla. The Patriot. The Last Airbender. Battlefield Earth. Eragon. Mortal Kombat Annihilation. Signs. Lost in Space. Battlefield Earth. Battlefield Earth. A Kid in King Arthur's Court. Scary Movie 2. Battlefield Earth. 10,000 BC. Alien vs. Predator. Good God I am resentful. BATTLEFIELD EARTH
Which part did you like best? The horrible script? The poorly done combat sequences? The even worse effects? The bad acting? The overrated cameo appearances? The lame jokes? The hackneyed love interest? The bad happy ending? The nonsensical world building?
Or perhaps you just like the taste of shit?
Or perhaps you just like the taste of shit?
The part where they killed shit with guns, knives, and explosions.
I've seen enough truly bad movies to make the Expendables both entertaining and mediocre at worst, even compared with the movies of 2010.
If The Expendables is the worst film you've ever seen (and not bullshit hyperbole), then I envy you, because you've apparently not seen a truly terrible movie before.
I've seen enough truly bad movies to make the Expendables both entertaining and mediocre at worst, even compared with the movies of 2010.
If The Expendables is the worst film you've ever seen (and not bullshit hyperbole), then I envy you, because you've apparently not seen a truly terrible movie before.
Whether or not you disliked a movie that someone else liked isn't what's important. Jaredstar apparently likes the American Godzilla movie, which I despised with a passion and wanted to burn. That's perfectly acceptable. I don't look down on him just because he's wrong :lol:
For less harsh examples, there are people who like the Harry Potter movies. I consider those movies to generally have bad acting and confused plots.
For less harsh examples, there are people who like the Harry Potter movies. I consider those movies to generally have bad acting and confused plots.
Maybe you should. Hyperbole makes for the worst audience. I yearn for the days when a movie wasn't automatically labeled as 'amazing' or 'terrible' when it came out.
If you (and by you, I mean everyone) have any idea what you're talking about, you should be able to describe to us exactly why the movie was bad, beyond the fact that you didn't enjoy it.
In fact, to not be guilty of engaging in hyperbole, you should have to explain why this film is 'worse' than a generic, mediocre film. Since this is the 'worst movie(s) you've ever seen' thread, not the 'movies you kinda disliked' thread, that sounds reasonable.
And yeah, I didn't explain mine too well either. So I'll correct that in the future.
If you (and by you, I mean everyone) have any idea what you're talking about, you should be able to describe to us exactly why the movie was bad, beyond the fact that you didn't enjoy it.
In fact, to not be guilty of engaging in hyperbole, you should have to explain why this film is 'worse' than a generic, mediocre film. Since this is the 'worst movie(s) you've ever seen' thread, not the 'movies you kinda disliked' thread, that sounds reasonable.
And yeah, I didn't explain mine too well either. So I'll correct that in the future.
No.
I just found The Expendables to be a horrible film, and I regretted wasting two hours of my life on it.
The acting was bad, the plot was bad and predictable, the characters and their dialogue were especially bad, the slapped-on-as-an-afterthought love interest was bad, even the action scenes were bad.
There was nothing at all enjoyable about that film. Explosions and gun fights alone do not a good film make.
Another film I thought horrible and which I regretted wasting time on was Avatar. Granted, the special effects were impressive and they managed to hold my interest for all of 30 minutes or so, but after that the whole film was just one boring cobbled together piece of stereotypes and clichÚs and a plot that's been done before and been done a whole lot better.
And yes, when I go to the cinema and spend twenty bucks to be entertained by a film, I expect more than special effects. I want likable three-dimensional characters. I want a plot that's not immediately predictable with "plot-twists" you can spot two minutes into the film. I want dialogue that's not so cheesy and full of clichÚs you can recite it line for line without ever having seen the film before.
If that makes me an elitist, then I guess it's true and I honestly don't care. It's not too much to ask if you want a film to have characters with some kind of depth and a plot the writers put some thought and effort into.
Though maybe my disappointment with The Expendables and Avatar had to do with the hype surrounding those two films. Thanks to friends and what I read online, I went to the cinema expecting genuinely good entertainment, and I got trite, clichÚd garbage instead.
Avatar was hailed as ground-breaking, the modern "Star Wars". And I guess it's true for its special effects. But apart from that the film sucked. And like I said earlier, special effects alone do not make a good film. They're a nice icing, but they shouldn't be the whole of the cake.
I just found The Expendables to be a horrible film, and I regretted wasting two hours of my life on it.
The acting was bad, the plot was bad and predictable, the characters and their dialogue were especially bad, the slapped-on-as-an-afterthought love interest was bad, even the action scenes were bad.
There was nothing at all enjoyable about that film. Explosions and gun fights alone do not a good film make.
Another film I thought horrible and which I regretted wasting time on was Avatar. Granted, the special effects were impressive and they managed to hold my interest for all of 30 minutes or so, but after that the whole film was just one boring cobbled together piece of stereotypes and clichÚs and a plot that's been done before and been done a whole lot better.
And yes, when I go to the cinema and spend twenty bucks to be entertained by a film, I expect more than special effects. I want likable three-dimensional characters. I want a plot that's not immediately predictable with "plot-twists" you can spot two minutes into the film. I want dialogue that's not so cheesy and full of clichÚs you can recite it line for line without ever having seen the film before.
If that makes me an elitist, then I guess it's true and I honestly don't care. It's not too much to ask if you want a film to have characters with some kind of depth and a plot the writers put some thought and effort into.
Though maybe my disappointment with The Expendables and Avatar had to do with the hype surrounding those two films. Thanks to friends and what I read online, I went to the cinema expecting genuinely good entertainment, and I got trite, clichÚd garbage instead.
Avatar was hailed as ground-breaking, the modern "Star Wars". And I guess it's true for its special effects. But apart from that the film sucked. And like I said earlier, special effects alone do not make a good film. They're a nice icing, but they shouldn't be the whole of the cake.
Who honestly cares if a plot has been done before? This is American cinema, there are no original plots here. Inception, one of the best movies of the year, has a generic overused heist plot with enough twists and sub-plots to make it excellent.
Neither the Expendables nor Avatar were bad movies. They were mediocre. Maybe if you'd see films as the equivalent collaboration between story and cinematography that they are (and not judging entirely on plot and ignoring the visuals in a visual medium) then you'd have an understanding of why you sound like an elitist.
In case you don't: it's because you can't remove the film from your high expectations of the film to review it fairly. In essence, the film is bad because it didn't live up to your standards and not a legitimate reason.
Neither the Expendables nor Avatar were bad movies. They were mediocre. Maybe if you'd see films as the equivalent collaboration between story and cinematography that they are (and not judging entirely on plot and ignoring the visuals in a visual medium) then you'd have an understanding of why you sound like an elitist.
In case you don't: it's because you can't remove the film from your high expectations of the film to review it fairly. In essence, the film is bad because it didn't live up to your standards and not a legitimate reason.
<a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Human_Centipede_%28First_Sequence%29' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>The Human Centipede</a> I watched it and I promptly lost my lunch about 3 times by the end of the film, turned me off science related things for 2 months. Its the the worst movie I've seen last year.
Wait wait wait...
You mean a mindless action movie featuring nearly every action movie superstar since the 80's is supposed to have 'good' anything?
No. NO.
The 'good' part of the movie is that it allows Ivan Drago to fight Danny from Unleashed while Stone Cold Steve Austin gets into a fistfight with Rambo and the Transporter goes ape shit with CG knives.
What the hell do you expect when Eric Roberts is the primary villain? The last movie with that? DEAD OR ALIVE. This blew Dead or Alive out of the water.
You mean a mindless action movie featuring nearly every action movie superstar since the 80's is supposed to have 'good' anything?
No. NO.
The 'good' part of the movie is that it allows Ivan Drago to fight Danny from Unleashed while Stone Cold Steve Austin gets into a fistfight with Rambo and the Transporter goes ape shit with CG knives.
What the hell do you expect when Eric Roberts is the primary villain? The last movie with that? DEAD OR ALIVE. This blew Dead or Alive out of the water.
Laugh all you want, but I just remembered one that I saw ten years ago, that really got under my skin.
Thomas and the Magic Railroad.
We've only just got to the movie's title and the flaws are appearing already.
And then the excrable plot lurches into motion, and people like me, who were brought up on the good Reverand W. Awdry's stories, start wailing and gnashing their teeth.
From painful Americanisation of settings, to the lazy Flanderisation of characters, this movie gets me all steamed up, if you'll pardon the pun.
Thomas and the Magic Railroad.
We've only just got to the movie's title and the flaws are appearing already.
And then the excrable plot lurches into motion, and people like me, who were brought up on the good Reverand W. Awdry's stories, start wailing and gnashing their teeth.
From painful Americanisation of settings, to the lazy Flanderisation of characters, this movie gets me all steamed up, if you'll pardon the pun.