I have just been subjected to 'Mother' with Jennifer Lawrence.
DO NOT EVEN THINK ABOUT WATCHING THIS FILM!!!
Anything with:
Russell Crowe
Adam Sandler
Matt or Damon Afflek
Keanu Reeves
Rap
Superheroes
Mike Myers
Christian Bale
Russell Crowe
Any member of SNL. (Not including the original not ready for primetime players)
Ben Stiller
Mellisa McCarthy
Rap
I heard about that Mother! movie -- even the review was incoherent, and they were really trying to sort it out.
The worst movie I've seen lately was The Snowman, with Michael Fassbender (why I chose it in the first place). Very confusing and worse, when I read the book I saw the movie had made massive changes to the plot, none of which improved the story. At all.
Quote from: Sandra Craft on August 29, 2018, 10:36:02 PM
I heard about that Mother! movie -- even the review was incoherent, and they were really trying to sort it out.
The worst movie I've seen lately was The Snowman, with Michael Fassbender (why I chose it in the first place). Very confusing and worse, when I read the book I saw the movie had made massive changes to the plot, none of which improved the story. At all.
The movie was extremely disappointing. Those books are so good. Making a movie that bad from a book that was that good took some work.
Quote from: Tank on August 29, 2018, 08:51:59 PM
I have just been subjected to 'Mother' with Jennifer Lawrence.
DO NOT EVEN THINK ABOUT WATCHING THIS FILM!!!
Haven't seen it and won't, based on your post. But reading about it makes it seem like an allegory from the first part of Genesis, with mother being nature or the Earth and Him being God. Great actors - too bad it sucked.
Quote from: Ecurb Noselrub on August 30, 2018, 09:34:23 AM
Quote from: Tank on August 29, 2018, 08:51:59 PM
I have just been subjected to 'Mother' with Jennifer Lawrence.
DO NOT EVEN THINK ABOUT WATCHING THIS FILM!!!
Haven't seen it and won't, based on your post. But reading about it makes it seem like an allegory from the first part of Genesis, with mother being nature or the Earth and Him being God. Great actors - too bad it sucked.
Yes you're correct about the source material. The really annoying thing is that Jennifer Lawrence puts in a cracking performance, but the story develops so slowly and then gets so weird that her performance is overwhelmed. Great shame for her. Javier Bardem, who is so good in No Country for old men, labours with a part that is so bland it could have been done with a cardboard cut out! It's a bit of a vanity piece for the director I think.
The Room. It's wildly regarded as the worst movie ever
Quote from: Tank on August 30, 2018, 11:32:22 AM
Quote from: Ecurb Noselrub on August 30, 2018, 09:34:23 AM
Quote from: Tank on August 29, 2018, 08:51:59 PM
I have just been subjected to 'Mother' with Jennifer Lawrence.
DO NOT EVEN THINK ABOUT WATCHING THIS FILM!!!
Haven't seen it and won't, based on your post. But reading about it makes it seem like an allegory from the first part of Genesis, with mother being nature or the Earth and Him being God. Great actors - too bad it sucked.
Yes you're correct about the source material. The really annoying thing is that Jennifer Lawrence puts in a cracking performance, but the story develops so slowly and then gets so weird that her performance is overwhelmed. Great shame for her. Javier Bardem, who is so good in No Country for old men, labours with a part that is so bland it could have been done with a cardboard cut out! It's a bit of a vanity piece for the director I think.
Sounds like the director's labours were in vainity then . . .
Quote from: Dave on August 30, 2018, 03:10:18 PM
Quote from: Tank on August 30, 2018, 11:32:22 AM
Quote from: Ecurb Noselrub on August 30, 2018, 09:34:23 AM
Quote from: Tank on August 29, 2018, 08:51:59 PM
I have just been subjected to 'Mother' with Jennifer Lawrence.
DO NOT EVEN THINK ABOUT WATCHING THIS FILM!!!
Haven't seen it and won't, based on your post. But reading about it makes it seem like an allegory from the first part of Genesis, with mother being nature or the Earth and Him being God. Great actors - too bad it sucked.
Yes you're correct about the source material. The really annoying thing is that Jennifer Lawrence puts in a cracking performance, but the story develops so slowly and then gets so weird that her performance is overwhelmed. Great shame for her. Javier Bardem, who is so good in No Country for old men, labours with a part that is so bland it could have been done with a cardboard cut out! It's a bit of a vanity piece for the director I think.
Sounds like the director's labours were in vainity then . . .
:eyeroll:
Quote from: Velma on August 30, 2018, 09:21:19 AM
The movie was extremely disappointing. Those books are so good. Making a movie that bad from a book that was that good took some work.
Work of the "what the hell were
you thinking" variety.
I used to be a member of a group who called themselves the "Gummy Bear Fan Club". We used to get together to watch all manner of animated and other films and have a laugh together or discuss serious things as the case may be. However, on one occasion we watched "Godzilla and the Cosmic Space Monster". You may be familiar with "steady-cam" technology. Well, this movie was filmed with "shaky-cam", on top of which the animation of the monsters was pathetic and the story hopeless, the acting fraught. All in all this movie is a real turkey. It's not even so bad it's good. It's just bad.
Quote from: Bluenose on August 30, 2018, 11:59:25 PM
I used to be a member of a group who called themselves the "Gummy Bear Fan Club". We used to get together to watch all manner of animated and other films and have a laugh together or discuss serious things as the case may be. However, on one occasion we watched "Godzilla and the Cosmic Space Monster". You may be familiar with "steady-cam" technology. Well, this movie was filmed with "shaky-cam", on top of which the animation of the monsters was pathetic and the story hopeless, the acting fraught. All in all this movie is a real turkey. It's not even so bad it's good. It's just bad.
Not even bad enough to be good?
Quote from: Tank on August 31, 2018, 06:21:05 AM
Quote from: Bluenose on August 30, 2018, 11:59:25 PM
I used to be a member of a group who called themselves the "Gummy Bear Fan Club". We used to get together to watch all manner of animated and other films and have a laugh together or discuss serious things as the case may be. However, on one occasion we watched "Godzilla and the Cosmic Space Monster". You may be familiar with "steady-cam" technology. Well, this movie was filmed with "shaky-cam", on top of which the animation of the monsters was pathetic and the story hopeless, the acting fraught. All in all this movie is a real turkey. It's not even so bad it's good. It's just bad.
Not even bad enough to be good?
Correct, the film is so far mired in the abyss of badness it's almost transcendent.
Quote from: Tank on August 29, 2018, 08:51:59 PM
I have just been subjected to 'Mother' with Jennifer Lawrence.
DO NOT EVEN THINK ABOUT WATCHING THIS FILM!!!
:whew: Good thing I didn't watch it!
I watch pretty much everything that comes to theatres, but the trailer for 'Mother' really put me off.
I currently have in my possession The Best Worst Movie Ever Made. Not the documentary about the film, but the abomination known as Troll 2 itself. It is fantastic in its ridiculousness. There are zero trolls in the film. The film is not a sequel. The title was an attempt to trick people into thinking it was the sequel to the somewhat popular Troll which was completely unrelated in any way.
If you like movies that are so bad that they are fun to watch give it a try and then read the back story. It's frigging hilarious. Written and produced by an Italian crew armed with nothing more than an Italian-English dictionary for translation and filmed in Utah. One of the "actors" was an escaped mental patient.
Quote from: jumbojak on September 02, 2018, 03:35:18 PM
I currently have in my possession The Best Worst Movie Ever Made. Not the documentary about the film, but the abomination known as Troll 2 itself. It is fantastic in its ridiculousness. There are zero trolls in the film. The film is not a sequel. The title was an attempt to trick people into thinking it was the sequel to the somewhat popular Troll which was completely unrelated in any way.
If you like movies that are so bad that they are fun to watch give it a try and then read the back story. It's frigging hilarious. Written and produced by an Italian crew armed with nothing more than an Italian-English dictionary for translation and filmed in Utah. One of the "actors" was an escaped mental patient.
Sounds great! :lol:
Some movies can be bad on purpose and end up being funny. "Caveman" with Ringo Starr and Dennis Quaid is juvenile and looks like a bunch of guys from a college fraternity said "hey, let's make a movie this afternoon". But it ends up being entertaining.
Quote from: Ecurb Noselrub on September 02, 2018, 08:11:35 PM
Some movies can be bad on purpose and end up being funny. "Caveman" with Ringo Starr and Dennis Quaid is juvenile and looks like a bunch of guys from a college fraternity said "hey, let's make a movie this afternoon". But it ends up being entertaining.
From my experience 99% of college fraternity based films earn a place in the "Terrible Movies Hall of Fame - Gross Behaviour Category". (Or are they of documentary level?)
Whereas, of course, the British "The Young Ones" TV series was an example of excellent humour . . .
Agreed Ecurb. Caveman was actually brilliant. As was the original Airplane. Movies that are designed to be dumb, can be intelligently written.
Then of course are the movies that you are sure a going to be absolutely terrible and turn out to be quite excellent. for me, Shaun of the Dead was in this category.
The Darkest Minds (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4073790/).
As far as teen movies go, this was definitely one of the worst. Highly derivative (X-men, anyone?), boring enough to keep you thinking 'OMG is this movie ever going to end?!' and a waste of your time and money.
If you haven't already subjected yourself to this dystopian crap, steer clear.
Quote from: Bluenose on September 03, 2018, 06:43:18 AM
Then of course are the movies that you are sure a going to be absolutely terrible and turn out to be quite excellent. for me, Shaun of the Dead was in this category.
Quite right. Admittedly I watched Shean of the Dead with very low expectations so it came out well. But because of that I thought Hot Fuzz would be good and it turned out mediocre at best so ended up in the bad film bin.
Quote from: xSilverPhinx on September 29, 2018, 01:19:15 AM
The Darkest Minds (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4073790/).
As far as teen movies go, this was definitely one of the worst. Highly derivative (X-men, anyone?), boring enough to keep you thinking 'OMG is this movie ever going to end?!' and a waste of your time and money.
If you haven't already subjected yourself to this dystopian crap, steer clear.
Noted.
I love a really good bad movie.
And MST3K versions of them.
...
But *not* Birdemic!
The new Robin Hood movie definitely belongs in this thread. It wasn't even in the "so bad it's good" category. I feel cheated and want my two hours back!
Bumblebee. Why did I even agree to watch that movie? ::)
Was that animated or live action?
There was I film that I watched when I was a kid. If I'm remembering correctly the title is "twin-headed shark"
At first, it was interesting but as you watch the film you will be bored and find it funny.
Last night good wife and I opted for a ticket to Ad Astra. We endured for a while but decided to leave mid movie for a more entertaining pursuit like going home to take a nap. Photography was very impressive, story line was a snoozer.
Yes Tank, "Mother" is a sickening repulsive film.
I also go along with No One's list of bad actors. Superheroes. . Yuck!!! They cause more damage and destruction than the bad guys! Just comic book crap! Disaster movies are just as silly, and you will notice in every one that the main character is estranged from his wife and kids and his wife's new partner is always an arsehole!
I'd like to add the following to the list of bad actors.
Val Kilmer
John Cusack
Steven Seagal
Owen Wilson
Ben Affleck
Nicolas Cage
And Roger Moor was never any good as James Bond.
I do like westerns and one (in my opinion) not to miss is "Lonely are The Brave" with Kirk Douglas.
Quote from: Icarus on September 25, 2019, 12:06:03 AM
Last night good wife and I opted for a ticket to Ad Astra. We endured for a while but decided to leave mid movie for a more entertaining pursuit like going home to take a nap. Photography was very impressive, story line was a snoozer.
Bugger. I was going to see that next week.
You might like it Tank. There is no accounting for tastes and so, to each his own.
The Princess Bride Remake.
I like Ad Astra a lot. It's not an action movie. And it's not quite 2001, but it's in a similar vein.
Quote from: Icarus on September 25, 2019, 12:06:03 AM
Last night good wife and I opted for a ticket to Ad Astra. We endured for a while but decided to leave mid movie for a more entertaining pursuit like going home to take a nap. Photography was very impressive, story line was a snoozer.
I'm probably going to watch it tomorrow. I'm between that and Joker.
I also liked Joker. It was very dark with no good in it, but very well done. In the same kind of vein as Requiem for a Dream, but not as depressing.
Quote from: Davin on October 07, 2019, 04:44:20 PM
I also liked Joker. It was very dark with no good in it, but very well done. In the same kind of vein as Requiem for a Dream, but not as depressing.
I ended up watching Joker, and enjoyed it very much. I'm guessing there's going to be an Oscar nomination for Joaquin Phoenix coming out of it.
Well that was 2:15 I won't get back, nor the £23 I spent.
Ad Astra.
Crap.
Quote from: Tank on October 18, 2019, 10:41:39 PM
Well that was 2:15 I won't get back, nor the £23 I spent.
Ad Astra.
Crap.
Aww noooo!
We're planning a date-night next week to see it. Why so bad?
Quote from: Siz on October 18, 2019, 10:44:45 PM
Quote from: Tank on October 18, 2019, 10:41:39 PM
Well that was 2:15 I won't get back, nor the £23 I spent.
Ad Astra.
Crap.
Aww noooo!
We're planning a date-night next week to see it. Why so bad?
Too long, horrendous technical mistakes, irrelevant plot diversions, actors are the wrong ages for the characters.
Quote from: Tank on October 18, 2019, 10:41:39 PM
Well that was 2:15 I won't get back, nor the £23 I spent.
Ad Astra.
Crap.
holy shit
twenty-three quid?
the most expensive motion picture i remember from london back in wilson's day was ten shillings.
Quote from: Tank on October 18, 2019, 11:00:15 PM
Quote from: Siz on October 18, 2019, 10:44:45 PM
Quote from: Tank on October 18, 2019, 10:41:39 PM
Well that was 2:15 I won't get back, nor the £23 I spent.
Ad Astra.
Crap.
Aww noooo!
We're planning a date-night next week to see it. Why so bad?
Too long, horrendous technical mistakes, irrelevant plot diversions, actors are the wrong ages for the characters.
Someone summed it up as "Brad Pitt sulks in space".
Quote from: Sandra Craft on October 20, 2019, 12:29:13 AM
Quote from: Tank on October 18, 2019, 11:00:15 PM
Quote from: Siz on October 18, 2019, 10:44:45 PM
Quote from: Tank on October 18, 2019, 10:41:39 PM
Well that was 2:15 I won't get back, nor the £23 I spent.
Ad Astra.
Crap.
Aww noooo!
We're planning a date-night next week to see it. Why so bad?
Too long, horrendous technical mistakes, irrelevant plot diversions, actors are the wrong ages for the characters.
Someone summed it up as "Brad Pitt sulks in space".
Brad Pitt sulks in space. (https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/sep/22/ad-astra-review-brad-pitt-james-gray)
I didn't like Ad Astra too much either. Is it just me or was it difficult to 'connect' with any of the characters? I just sat there looking at the screen not really giving a fuck about any of them.
Quote from: xSilverPhinx on October 20, 2019, 09:26:01 PM
I didn't like Ad Astra too much either. Is it just me or was it difficult to 'connect' with any of the characters? I just sat there looking at the screen not really giving a fuck about any of them.
I agree. No connection to the characters or their motivations either.
i never saw this one, but when i was a kid in southeast asia the cinemas were full of them
Quote from: billy rubin on October 26, 2019, 09:54:49 PM
i never saw this one, but when i was a kid in southeast asia the cinemas were full of them
I love those silly martial arts movies. They are so funny.
early bruce lee is awful. i saw the big boss in a hot metal building with wall fans when it came to kuala lumpur. before the martial arts movies the action filmz an asia were all medeival chinese knights and warlords, history pieces. they all disappeared and were replaced by kung fu/karate/wing chun.
a sea change, almost overnight
Quote from: billy rubin on October 27, 2019, 11:23:41 PM
early bruce lee is awful. i saw the big boss in a hot metal building with wall fans when it came to kuala lumpur. before the martial arts movies the action filmz an asia were all medeival chinese knights and warlords, history pieces. they all disappeared and were replaced by kung fu/karate/wing chun.
a sea change, almost overnight
You lived in KL? I was planning to visit my long-distance Malaysian boyfriend there some years ago. We saw each other regularly anyway, because he was a flight attendant on Air Malaysia. But then, as one does, I got involved with someone new, so never went there. I really would have liked to visit the Petronas Towers, though.
i waz there before that, as a teenager. the british had only finally left singapore a few years earlier.
KL waz a wonderful place. monitors and monkeys in the road, mostly all colonial architecture and kampongs. the only two tall buildings were the few western hotels and parlimen house. the old structures were all festooned with epiphytes thar drifted in from the jungle.
loved it there.
Quote from: billy rubin on October 28, 2019, 12:03:46 PM
i waz there before that, as a teenager. the british had only finally left singapore a few years earlier.
KL waz a wonderful place. monitors and monkeys in the road, mostly all colonial architecture and kampongs. the only two tall buildings were the few western hotels and parlimen house. the old structures were all festooned with epiphytes thar drifted in from the jungle.
loved it there.
Sounds like an exotic place. :tellmemore:
all gone now.
like with most anybody who makes it to a certain age, the places i passed through no longer exist.
i don't know whether any of you have seen the fall
tarsem singh
a motion picture made completely without CGI. nothing but traditional camera work, and a vision on the part of the cinematographer.
my family hates it because they say it's morbid, but to me it's a magnificent dream sequence made into a motion picture using a technology already obsolete at the same time as it was a triumph of the art
pain:
grace:
sheer compositional beauty
people tell me that they hate this film. i don't understand why.
Quote from: billy rubin on November 05, 2019, 12:05:09 AM
i don't know whether any of you have seen the fall
tarsem singh
a motion picture made completely without CGI. nothing but traditional camera work, and a vision on the part of the cinematographer.
my family hates it because they say it's morbid, but to me it's a magnificent dream sequence made into a motion picture using a technology already obsolete at the same time as it was a triumph of the art
people tell me that they hate this film. i don't understand why.
Visually it reminds me of "Un Chien Andalou" or "Baron Munchhausen". I like the imagery...
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen is fanfuckingtastic!
(https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcRPcOAVUmMVke45Y6KH8h9yyL3rNzmd3-lE7Ld5JcaSzpAtSkje)
I had no expectations and thus loved it.
Quote from: Tank on January 22, 2020, 09:46:20 PM
I had no expectations and thus loved it.
The source material is a bit interesting but the movie was odd on so many levels and poorly done even my low expectations were frustrated.
Quote from: xSilverPhinx on January 27, 2020, 01:05:18 PM
Quote from: Tank on January 22, 2020, 09:46:20 PM
I had no expectations and thus loved it.
The source material is a bit interesting but the movie was odd on so many levels and poorly done even my low expectations were frustrated.
Had you seen the stage show?
Quote from: Tank on January 27, 2020, 08:31:16 PM
Quote from: xSilverPhinx on January 27, 2020, 01:05:18 PM
Quote from: Tank on January 22, 2020, 09:46:20 PM
I had no expectations and thus loved it.
The source material is a bit interesting but the movie was odd on so many levels and poorly done even my low expectations were frustrated.
Had you seen the stage show?
No, just snippets on Youtube.
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMWU0MGYwZWQtMzcwYS00NWVhLTlkZTAtYWVjOTYwZTBhZTBiXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMTkxNjUyNQ@@._V1_UX182_CR0,0,182,268_AL_.jpg)
Tried too hard to be funny. Was not funny.
Martin Lawrence is about as funny as losing both balls to testicular cancer, then coming home to find your family has been slaughtered.
Quote from: No one on February 10, 2020, 06:54:39 PM
Martin Lawrence is about as funny as losing both balls to testicular cancer, then ...... coming home to find your family has been slaughtered.
I was expecting something else, maybe coming home to find Nigella cooking a romantic meal.
Coming home to find your family slaughtered would be pretty bad too I suppose.
Quote from: Bad Penny II on February 11, 2020, 07:27:59 AM
Quote from: No one on February 10, 2020, 06:54:39 PM
Martin Lawrence is about as funny as losing both balls to testicular cancer, then ...... coming home to find your family has been slaughtered.
I was expecting something else, maybe coming home to find Nigella cooking a romantic meal.
Coming home to find your family slaughtered would be pretty bad too I suppose.
I'd be pretty happy coming home to find Nigella cooking any damn thing she likes! :D
Why do I feel like watching a bad movie? I must be coming down with something. :notsure:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVjGAxuijeY
i actually watched this once.
now i cant even finish the preview
Quote from: billy rubin on November 28, 2020, 11:48:28 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVjGAxuijeY
i actually watched this once.
now i cant even finish the preview
That preview was awful. I can't imagine watching the movie itself. I'd need a few beers in me I think to not care.
Quote from: billy rubin on November 28, 2020, 11:48:28 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVjGAxuijeY
i actually watched this once.
now i cant even finish the preview
What in the actual fuck
was that? I don't watch a lot of movies (the last one my wife and I went to was some schlock about the early space program, and bedamned if I remember the name).
Quote from: billy rubin on November 28, 2020, 11:48:28 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVjGAxuijeY
i actually watched this once.
now i cant even finish the preview
Bizarre!
i hate to admit i know about this stuff, but its an example of 1980s drive-in movie sexploitation films. lots of pretty girls, a thin plot to get them into skimpy clothing, and then some baudy scenes to make the teenagers laugh.
my ex sort of brother in law wrote the screenplay for this one
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XKwteCwCSMw
their redeeming quality is thar they mostly dont take themselves seriously, so they misz that special category of film that is really really bad without trying to be
Quote from: billy rubin on November 30, 2020, 04:14:35 PM
i hate to admit i know about this stuff, but its an example of 1980s drive-in movie sexploitation films. lots of pretty girls, a thin plot to get them into skimpy clothing, and then some baudy scenes to make the teenagers laugh.
my ex sort of brother in law wrote the screenplay for this one
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XKwteCwCSMw
their redeeming quality is thar they mostly dont take themselves seriously, so they misz that special category of film that is really really bad without trying to be
I just had my nurse practitioner prescribe some pain pills. After I get high on them I might watch this otherwise I don't think I could take it.
the scene where the frog lady drags the silks around was suppozed to be a mating scene. but tge director could figure the screenplay out so he just told the actress go get some cloth and wave it instead
same brother in law wrote the novelization version of schwarzenegfar's terminator 2 screenplay
Quote from: Randy on November 30, 2020, 06:27:07 PM
Quote from: billy rubin on November 30, 2020, 04:14:35 PM
i hate to admit i know about this stuff, but its an example of 1980s drive-in movie sexploitation films. lots of pretty girls, a thin plot to get them into skimpy clothing, and then some baudy scenes to make the teenagers laugh.
my ex sort of brother in law wrote the screenplay for this one
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XKwteCwCSMw
their redeeming quality is thar they mostly dont take themselves seriously, so they misz that special category of film that is really really bad without trying to be
I just had my nurse practitioner prescribe some pain pills. After I get high on them I might watch this otherwise I don't think I could take it.
:snicker:
Quote from: billy rubin on November 28, 2020, 11:48:28 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVjGAxuijeY
i actually watched this once.
now i cant even finish the preview
I watched this on a new season of Elvira. Not sure if I could watch it again.
Bad films are a dime a dozen.
But the popcorn and drinks are $67.87.
Quote from: MarcusA on May 12, 2023, 10:28:56 AMBad films are a dime a dozen.
Quote from: No one on May 12, 2023, 10:39:17 AMBut the popcorn and drinks are $67.87.
This right-fucking-here. Gospel. :this:
I don't watch films no more, too much kiddie shit.
when i first saw thgis, i didnt think it was a bad film
certainly a period piece
I went and saw The Marvels for some reason. I fully understand why it's taking a box office death dive. A sad cat lady movie, poorly disguised as a superhero flick. No character development to speak of, wooden cast in wooden roles with a couple of exceptions who fail to save the film, "no" redeeming qualities... Yeah. Avoid.