The new semi-live action Disney movie, Snow White (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6208148/?ref_=ttrt_ov_i), has an appalling IMDB (https://www.imdb.com/?ref_=nv_home) rating with over 75% of 29,000 viewers giving a rating of one! This is unheard of. It is a true dog of a movie. I think I'll watch it just for the laugh in due course.
Disney really have lost the plot. They can't even do adequate remakes of their own classics.
2001, A Space Odyssey. I have yet to stay awake, every time I've "watched" the movie. I did read the book.
Quote from: Dark Lightning on March 23, 2025, 02:45:36 PM2001, A Space Odyssey. I have yet to stay awake, every time I've "watched" the movie. I did read the book.
I'm... speechless!
Snow Huwhite and A Bunch of CGI Dwarfs Because It Is Politically Incorrect To Hire Actual Dwarf actors For Dwarf Roles is indeed a pile of canine faeces. I don't know about "worst" though. Yeah, it's among the most boring and least inspired, but I have seen a movie or two where the title should have been "Nothing important happens for the next two hours" and "Even less of note happens for the next two hours the sequel" to reserve such judgement.
I think Hollywood is pretty "done" in its current form. Their overpriced, but otherwise lacking productions can barely compete for popularity with indies and streaming service originals. The hunt fior that mythical vast and cinema-going woke audience pretty much killed Disney. Star Wars franchise may never recover, nor will Star Trek or probably even Lord of the Rings. It's not exclusive to Hollywood though. Dr Who drank poison, shot itself and jumped off a bridge too.
Discounting that as a fan of a broken franchise, it's sad to see it in suich a state, it wouldn't even be that much of a problem if a. the studios had good new ideas and b. they focused said ideas towards just-entertaining-the-fucking-audience.
Just watched The Electric State (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7766378/). This apparently cost over $320M. This was the review I left
"Barely adequate.
Apparently this movie cost $320,000,000. Well they didn't spend it on the story that's for sure.
They did spend some of it on Millie Bobby Brown's immaculate post apocalyptic dystopian hair do. Not a single strand out of place (even when they put some pseudo dirt on her face) throughout the entire film.
Chris Pratt and Millie probably did their best fighting a sub-par script which gave the director no chance of creating an atmosphere of anything but a kids story.
It's a classic case of style over substance. The 'look' so overpowers the production that in the end I ended up watching out of morbid curiosity.
A vaguely adequate film. Nothing much to recommend it unfortunately. That $320 million could have given a multitude of first timer actors, directors and crews their break. What a waste :("
Quote from: Asmodean on March 25, 2025, 11:59:12 AMSnow Huwhite and A Bunch of CGI Dwarfs Because It Is Politically Incorrect To Hire Actual Dwarf actors For Dwarf Roles is indeed a pile of canine faeces. I don't know about "worst" though. Yeah, it's among the most boring and least inspired, but I have seen a movie or two where the title should have been "Nothing important happens for the next two hours" and "Even less of note happens for the next two hours the sequel" to reserve such judgement.
I think Hollywood is pretty "done" in its current form. Their overpriced, but otherwise lacking productions can barely compete for popularity with indies and streaming service originals. The hunt fior that mythical vast and cinema-going woke audience pretty much killed Disney. Star Wars franchise may never recover, nor will Star Trek or probably even Lord of the Rings. It's not exclusive to Hollywood though. Dr Who drank poison, shot itself and jumped off a bridge too.
Discounting that as a fan of a broken franchise, it's sad to see it in suich a state, it wouldn't even be that much of a problem if a. the studios had good new ideas and b. they focused said ideas towards just-entertaining-the-fucking-audience.
It looks like Disney has really blown it with these smi live action films :(
Yeah.
They've run out of magic and decided to real-world their older stuff for that mythical "modern audience." Poorly. Add to that injecting current day American politics into fantasy worlds and... They deserve their failures.
excuse me.
allow me to suggest:
krakatoa, east of java
just for starters, krakatoa is
west of java.
it got worse from there.
Quote from: billy rubin on March 25, 2025, 04:13:02 PM...
just for starters, krakatoa is west of java.
it got worse from there.
That's American navigation for you!
One Million Years BC gets my vote as both the worst and the best.
One minor problem it portrayed humans walking with dinosaurs.
Quote from: zorkan on March 29, 2025, 11:13:09 AMOne Million Years BC gets my vote as both the worst and the best.
One minor problem it portrayed humans walking with dinosaurs.
It was a classic example of sexpliotation. How to get Raquel Welch into as few 'clothes' as possible! ;D
How would you have expected people to dress a million years ago?
They didn't have Primark in those days.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSYmJur0Npw
^ That's the kind of movie reminds me of Frank Zappa's "Cheepnis".
Quote from: Tank on March 23, 2025, 10:15:11 AMDisney really have lost the plot. They can't even do adequate remakes of their own classics.
Quote from: Asmodean on March 25, 2025, 02:32:55 PMYeah.
They've run out of magic and decided to real-world their older stuff for that mythical "modern audience." Poorly. Add to that injecting current day American politics into fantasy worlds and... They deserve their failures.
I liked the newish Cruella De Ville and Maleficent.
I don't have a problem with the various Star Wars TV series, this is the way.
Star Trek, GoogleyAI says that's still Paramount, I like the new do on the old movies but I don't understand why they couldn't have thought up something new.
I haven't followed Doctor Who to Disney.
Dr Who is fine.
It has to be seriously bad to compete with classics of bad cinema. I'd say just for a start that Santa Claus Conquers the Martians is worse than just about any product of the 21st century. Supposedly some people like it for its wooden portrayals of poorly written dialog, not to mention the insulting make-up and "special effects" but I found it completely unpalatable. A stinker.
i actually knew the guy who wrote this screenplay.
but this one was bad on purpose, so it doesnt really count.
Quote from: Tank on April 05, 2025, 10:09:18 AMDr Who is fine.
It's preachy.
Star Trek DS9. It had its moments like that. However, remember that double episode where Sisco, [Jadzia] Dax and Bashir ended up going back in time and trying to get out of a sanctuary district?
That is how you do social commentary if indeed you feel compelled to do so. The last seasons of Dr. Who... Just feel like they were written by lazy, talentless people whose only marketable skill is marching around with "Union strike" signs.
Quote from: Tank on April 05, 2025, 10:09:18 AMDr Who is fine.
The ratings tell a different story. First episode of the second season had only 2.0 Million viewers.
Quote from: Tom62 on April 14, 2025, 05:35:14 PMQuote from: Tank on April 05, 2025, 10:09:18 AMDr Who is fine.
The ratings tell a different story. First episode of the second season had only 2.0 Million viewers.
I'm surprised at that. I liked it.