Bad movies that are supposed to be good

by **wrestler1ump** on Tue Jul 01, 2008 9:21 pm

What are some really bad movies that you have seen that were really popular and were supposed to be big hits when they came out? I Am Legend was garbage, and the Golden Compass was absolute horse shit.

by **gdeangel** on Tue Jul 01, 2008 10:04 pm

wrestler1ump wrote:What are some really bad movies that you have seen that were really popular and were supposed to be big hits when they came out? I Am Legend was garbage, and the Golden Compass was absolute horse shit.

Golden compass wasn't bad, other than being a knock off of Harry Potter, the Lion Witch & Wardrobe, and choose your favorite animated CGI film (final fantasy, perhaps?)

I am Legend sucked floppy donkey dick. This guy is a major in the army and his idea of how to hunt deer is to chase them in a Mustang through the city.... come on people!

Harry Potter 5 sucked slightly less floppy donkey dick, but it was lame.

Lord of the Rings 3 definitely sucked the balls that were castrated from the donkey with the floppy donkey dick, but I know my opinion is in the minority on that one.

by **InkL0sed** on Tue Jul 01, 2008 10:06 pm

Basically every blockbuster ever. Thread closed.

by **muy_thaiguy** on Tue Jul 01, 2008 11:25 pm

The Village
Boogeyman
Phantom of the Opera

Enough said.

by **Iliad** on Tue Jul 01, 2008 11:34 pm

gdeangel wrote:
wrestler1ump wrote:What are some really bad movies that you have seen that were really popular and were supposed to be big hits when they came out? I Am Legend was garbage, and the Golden Compass was absolute horse shit.

Golden compass wasn't bad, other than being a knock off of Harry Potter, the Lion Witch & Wardrobe, and choose your favorite animated CGI film (final fantasy, perhaps?)

I am Legend sucked floppy donkey dick. This guy is a major in the army and his idea of how to hunt deer is to chase them in a Mustang through the city.... come on people!

Harry Potter 5 sucked slightly less floppy donkey dick, but it was lame.

Lord of the Rings 3 definitely sucked the balls that were castrated from the donkey with the floppy donkey dick, but I know my opinion is in the minority on that one.

Wow wow wow. Where do I start
Golden compass was not a knock off a harry potter. And it is the POLAR OPPOSITE of the Narnia chronicles. Golden compass was the Anti-Narnia, the antidose of anti-Church messages opposed to Lewis pro-Christianity messages. Cannot believe that you thought it was a knock off. Harry potter I can agree with, I am legend was awesome(notice how he had enough food anyway, it was more for fun than for actual food).

And lords of the rings were absolutely fucking brilliant. Just orgasmic. Enough blaspheming from you

by **HapSmo19** on Wed Jul 02, 2008 1:02 am

Pearl Harbor.<-----perriod

by **hawkeye** on Wed Jul 02, 2008 1:17 am

Iliad wrote:Wow wow wow. Where do I start
Golden compass was not a knock off a harry potter. And it is the POLAR OPPOSITE of the Narnia chronicles. Golden compass was the Anti-Narnia, the antidose of anti-Church messages opposed to Lewis pro-Christianity messages. Cannot believe that you thought it was a knock off. Harry potter I can agree with, I am legend was awesome(notice how he had enough food anyway, it was more for fun than for actual food).

And lords of the rings were absolutely fucking brilliant. Just orgasmic. Enough blaspheming from you

Aside from this being QFT, I have to say that there is now way that The Golden Compass movie could be a knock-off, because it is based off a book which as Iliad said was totally anti-church, thus the opposite of the Narnia books.

by **suggs** on Wed Jul 02, 2008 3:58 am

Titanic. *insert your "sunk like the.." joke here*

by **suggs** on Wed Jul 02, 2008 3:59 am

The final Matrix film was really dull.

by **DAZMCFC** on Wed Jul 02, 2008 4:49 am

this thread is piss poor to say the least. everyone has different tasts. look at the all time favourite films, 2 off the top 3 were flops when they were released.

It's a Wonderful Life (Flop, but genius)
Shawshank Redemption (flop, but genius)

'nough said.

by **suggs** on Wed Jul 02, 2008 5:09 am

Didn't know Shawshank was a flop :shock:

Genius film.
Well I'll be damned.

by **Nobunaga** on Wed Jul 02, 2008 7:21 pm

... Snakes on a Plane.

...

by **InkL0sed** on Wed Jul 02, 2008 7:40 pm

Nobunaga wrote:... Snakes on a Plane.

...

Blasphemy!

by **static_ice** on Wed Jul 02, 2008 7:48 pm

suggs wrote:The final Matrix film was really dull.

The last 2 of those were pretty bad, especially after all the hype and waiting created after the first one.

by **suggs** on Wed Jul 02, 2008 7:51 pm

Word.
Did love the first one though.
But who cares about that, when we can cynically sneer at the last two!

by **gdeangel** on Wed Jul 02, 2008 10:36 pm

I am always amazed at how people pan AvP (the first one). It was schlock, but enjoyable schlock. Anyone see the sequel?

Also, whether CS Lewis sodomized himself with a cresche in his basement while writing the Narnia books, I don't see the relevance. Narnia: talking animals. Golden compass: talking animals. And noone even mentioned the obvious Star Wars parrallel, i.e., Star Wars: Pirate (Han), Prince (Luke), Princess (Lea), Brute (Chewie) and comic relief (Droids). Golden Compass: Pirate (Sam Eliot), Princess (the girl), Princes (TBD - maybe the boy with the knocky knees), Brute (Polar Bear). And to top it off, we get the "I am your father Luke" line right there in the first movie. It's like a second life for the great things from Star Wars before Jar Jar and that annoying "Ani" and "Princess Amatildeo, Amadilidodido, Amealia... a...a... Amadinijad... whatever" were even a twinkle in George Lucas's eye.

by **Juan_Bottom** on Wed Jul 02, 2008 11:03 pm

M. Night's best days are behind him.

by **Hologram** on Wed Jul 02, 2008 11:12 pm

InkL0sed wrote:
Nobunaga wrote:... Snakes on a Plane.

...

Blasphemy!

Prophet of Evil!

by **Hologram** on Wed Jul 02, 2008 11:14 pm

gdeangel wrote:I am always amazed at how people pan AvP (the first one). It was schlock, but enjoyable schlock. Anyone see the sequel?

The first AvP was terrible in all the senses of what you would think a movie should be, but somehow still enjoyable. However, AvPR was three different kinds of suck and four kinds of shit.

by **Iliad** on Thu Jul 03, 2008 12:38 am

gdeangel wrote:I am always amazed at how people pan AvP (the first one). It was schlock, but enjoyable schlock. Anyone see the sequel?

Also, whether CS Lewis sodomized himself with a cresche in his basement while writing the Narnia books, I don't see the relevance. Narnia: talking animals. Golden compass: talking animals. And noone even mentioned the obvious Star Wars parrallel, i.e., Star Wars: Pirate (Han), Prince (Luke), Princess (Lea), Brute (Chewie) and comic relief (Droids). Golden Compass: Pirate (Sam Eliot), Princess (the girl), Princes (TBD - maybe the boy with the knocky knees), Brute (Polar Bear). And to top it off, we get the "I am your father Luke" line right there in the first movie. It's like a second life for the great things from Star Wars before Jar Jar and that annoying "Ani" and "Princess Amatildeo, Amadilidodido, Amealia... a...a... Amadinijad... whatever" were even a twinkle in George Lucas's eye.

Then you are very shallow and missed out a lot. Granted btoh the movies toned down the books messages but you can still see them. And http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FiveManBand. That is a very common setup.

It was not a copy of Star Wars or Narnia. You should read the books and the anti-Narnianess really comes through. If you just look and think "talking animals" then you're generalising and going to miss a shitload in movies.

by **hawkeye** on Thu Jul 03, 2008 1:35 am

Iliad wrote:
gdeangel wrote:I am always amazed at how people pan AvP (the first one). It was schlock, but enjoyable schlock. Anyone see the sequel?

Also, whether CS Lewis sodomized himself with a cresche in his basement while writing the Narnia books, I don't see the relevance. Narnia: talking animals. Golden compass: talking animals. And noone even mentioned the obvious Star Wars parrallel, i.e., Star Wars: Pirate (Han), Prince (Luke), Princess (Lea), Brute (Chewie) and comic relief (Droids). Golden Compass: Pirate (Sam Eliot), Princess (the girl), Princes (TBD - maybe the boy with the knocky knees), Brute (Polar Bear). And to top it off, we get the "I am your father Luke" line right there in the first movie. It's like a second life for the great things from Star Wars before Jar Jar and that annoying "Ani" and "Princess Amatildeo, Amadilidodido, Amealia... a...a... Amadinijad... whatever" were even a twinkle in George Lucas's eye.

Then you are very shallow and missed out a lot. Granted btoh the movies toned down the books messages but you can still see them. And http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FiveManBand. That is a very common setup.

It was not a copy of Star Wars or Narnia. You should read the books and the anti-Narnianess really comes through. If you just look and think "talking animals" then you're generalising and going to miss a shitload in movies.

I think I just had an intellectu-gasm. If you can't see the slighty less blatantly obvious stuff then you obviously have an IQ of around room temperature.

by **gdeangel** on Thu Jul 03, 2008 11:10 am

Boy, somebody sounds like they need to testify! Golden Compass = Updated CGI version of Star Wars with Kids.

Call it a parody of Narnia if you want - "Hey, Jim Bob, look at that! C.S. Lewis told us that the anti-christian secular witches who want to oppress the talking animals, but actually it's the secular bureaucrats who outlawed all the magic compasses, free thinking, yadda yadda yadda and want to get rid of the talking animals... Boy, I'm glad they cleared that up for me. And look at that - Nicole Kidman must be Luke Skywalker's mother 'cause a little Jewish girl like that there Natalie Portman could never give birth to a fine Aryan lad like LUKE!"

Looks like I caught a case of your intellectual diarrhea...

by **gdeangel** on Thu Jul 03, 2008 11:42 am

Juan_Bottom wrote:M. Night's best days are behind him.

Was Lady in the Water the worst movie shrouded in "mystery" that built up this hype and then was complete fizzle!

I mean, what the heck was that Gorf or whatever the hell it was called doing in the dryer? They showed that in the preview, and then had it in the film, and nothing ever happened. The animal couldn't open a door handle, and somehow it got into the dryer, closed the door (which has no handle inside) and then turned the drier back on with the switch that was on the outside of the dryer. I mean... that's a lot of work if all you get out of it is a promo shot!