Ghost Ship. It had a great opening for a film. Too bad the rest of the film went to shit after.
I've never seen so many people walk out of a film before. All I remember about this movie was seeing numerous people leave the theater. I think about 20 people left in all.
The movie was forgettable and dull.
Agreed, it's a mess that is professionally produced and enjoyable for its (to me barely canon) use of a fascinating property. It has some very late 90s stuff that dates it badly, which only makes it more enjoyable to watch without taking seriously. I also find it quite coherent tonally, since its clashing design briefs means it doesn't fail as purely comedy or a drama as different players might have preferred it to be, because it's a rather light, action-based combination of the two. About as mundane a middle as you can find with the series, and more enjoyable than AVP.
As bad and corny as it is, I would gladly take this movie over Prometheus and Covenant. These prequels basically aborted the whole concept by taking the alien out of Alien, now the creature is just a product of a malfunctioning android with daddy issues playing around with black goo from tall albino humans.
Ghost Ship. It had a great opening for a film. Too bad the rest of the film went to shit after.
I've never seen so many people walk out of a film before. All I remember about this movie was seeing numerous people leave the theater. I think about 20 people left in all.
The movie was forgettable and dull.
Ghost Ship. It had a great opening for a film. Too bad the rest of the film went to shit after.
I've never seen so many people walk out of a film before. All I remember about this movie was seeing numerous people leave the theater. I think about 20 people left in all.
The movie was forgettable and dull.
Ghost Ship. It had a great opening for a film. Too bad the rest of the film went to shit after.
I've never seen so many people walk out of a film before. All I remember about this movie was seeing numerous people leave the theater. I think about 20 people left in all.
The movie was forgettable and dull.
I don’t even remember the name of the Italian chick. I just call her “Nice Titties.” Those were nice titties.
Ghost Ship was such a bad movie. Not the worst horror movie I’ve seen, but it could’ve been much better. I know exactly one person that watches it every Halloween and I’m just like why
I'll defend Hellraiser 5 Inferno and Judgement. Those were good. As to why the franchise went into decline it could be blamed on part 3 selling out and trying to appeal to a wider audience and later the Weinstein's getting the franchise.
actually enjoy them both somewhat for different reasons. and considering what came afterwards even AVP is serviceable in an inoffensive way - they didn't go full overboard with stronk womyn, "the thing" atmosphere and giving the predators some character without ruining them or the previous movies retroactively.
It's not exactly a unique opinion any more, but I really enjoyed the first Tomb Raider film with Angelina Jolie, but never hear anything said about its sequel (which I am not familiar with) - has anybody seen?
I did and gotta admit I hardly remember anything about it. it was the one with the water at the end? or pandorras box?
which also means it couldn't have been that bad, but I vaguely remember I preferred the first one
Alien Resurrection is one of those so bad its good kind of films. Fucking Ripley clones, a mad scientist trying to make out with a Xenomorph through the glass, a gun toting midget in a wheelchair, motherfucking Ron Perlman destroying the mood of whatever scene he’s in, and a human-xenomorph hybrid screaming “OH NO!” as its innards get sucked out into space.
Alien 4 is a terrible Alien movie but a passable movie in its own right. I have to say that for all its multiple flaws there are some elements I really like: Sigourney Weaver is great as the hybrid in all honesty. It's a dumb concept but she's great. Fun fact: they had to cut the basketball scene earlier than they'd like because Ron Perlman broke character when Sigourney rear-shot the basketball through the hoop. They take it to the last frame they could and you can just see him starting to yell or laugh or whatever it was he did. Dumbfuck - never break character till the director yells cut! I also liked seeing the xenomorph's swimming underwater. Also, Brad Dourif's weird face is second in cinema only to his daughter's weird face (who somehow manages to look like her dad and be hot at the same time - don't ban me!)
Worst movie I've seen in recent times is the 2018 Tomb Raider reboot.
I knew it was going to suck from literally the opening narration, when I learned how loose an adaption it was going to be and it was only downhill from there, almost every single interesting element and character from the 2013 game was systemically scrubbed out of the movie, I was aghast that they didn't even bother to include Jonas or Sam despite Sam being crucial to the game's story line.
The whole thing just felt cheap and dull, the only decent scene being the one with the plane wreck as that was the only thing resembling something from the game.
And yet I've heard somehow that garbage is getting a sequel?
There's much to hate in that movie but a thematic mistake I felt was the
way the curse turned out to be a real (though not realistic) disease. You have an organization that supposedly acquires and uses magic items but then it's a bait and switch on something magic actually existing.
That seems to conflict somehow.
Okay, my turn. Going to cheat and submit a movie I actually think is really good but basically had zero budget to work with and therefore is deprived of special effects for nearly the entire movie and when they do appear they're... adequate.
Ginger Snaps and Ginger Snaps 2. I adore these weird little movies about a girl who thinks her sister might be turning into a werewolf. I've heard it called a feminist movie but if it is, it's in the old-fashioned sense of female perspective and topics rather than 3rd wave "men bad, women good" stuff. I like the movie because characters are actually intelligent, the mother is whole next-level cringe and there's some actual brutal lines. The sequel also contains one of my favourite comebacks. (MAJOR SPOILERS. Do not read unless you've seen the movie or totally certain you never will):
Bridgette: I'm stronger than you.
Ginger: That's not how I remember the first fifteen years of your life.
Bridgette: Well it's how I remember the last fifteen minutes of yours!
Alien 4 is a terrible Alien movie but a passable movie in its own right. I have to say that for all its multiple flaws there are some elements I really like: Sigourney Weaver is great as the hybrid in all honesty. It's a dumb concept but she's great. Fun fact: they had to cut the basketball scene earlier than they'd like because Ron Perlman broke character when Sigourney rear-shot the basketball through the hoop. They take it to the last frame they could and you can just see him starting to yell or laugh or whatever it was he did. Dumbfuck - never break character till the director yells cut! I also liked seeing the xenomorph's swimming underwater. Also, Brad Dourif's weird face is second in cinema only to his daughter's weird face (who somehow manages to look like her dad and be hot at the same time - don't ban me!)
There's much to hate in that movie but a thematic mistake I felt was the
way the curse turned out to be a real (though not realistic) disease. You have an organization that supposedly acquires and uses magic items but then it's a bait and switch on something magic actually existing.
That seems to conflict somehow.
Okay, my turn. Going to cheat and submit a movie I actually think is really good but basically had zero budget to work with and therefore is deprived of special effects for nearly the entire movie and when they do appear they're... adequate.
Ginger Snaps and Ginger Snaps 2. I adore these weird little movies about a girl who thinks her sister might be turning into a werewolf. I've heard it called a feminist movie but if it is, it's in the old-fashioned sense of female perspective and topics rather than 3rd wave "men bad, women good" stuff. I like the movie because characters are actually intelligent, the mother is whole next-level cringe and there's some actual brutal lines. The sequel also contains one of my favourite comebacks. (MAJOR SPOILERS. Do not read unless you've seen the movie or totally certain you never will):
Bridgette: I'm stronger than you.
Ginger: That's not how I remember the first fifteen years of your life.
Bridgette: Well it's how I remember the last fifteen minutes of yours!
For me, I loved how the Xenomorphs figured out to disembowel one of their own so their blood can melt an opening in their cage to escape from. That’s pretty fucking metal.
For being a very low budget schlockfest I enjoyed Astron-6's Father's Day. The website for the movie is down now, I think I watched it on amazon? Might be hard to find.
Really like one of the songs from the soundtrack too: We R The Universe. Has a cool 80's metal vibe to it, sung by Count Smokula.
Austin Powers 3. It is painful to watch when you see the first two movies that are really good, and then the third one is a glorified Family Guy parody.
Here are some bad movies but more 3 or 4/10 movies than worst movies ever
A Sound of Thunder, based on a book by Ray Bradbury, movie is bad and look like a made for tv movie despite it having a $80 million budget, plot is "When a scientist sent back to the prehistoric era strays off the path he causes a chain of events that alters history in disastrous ways.", however the movies never goes deep in the subject and we get a made for syfy like movie without the awful comedy those movies have.
what $80million budget gets you in 2005
Chappie and Elysium, not sure what happen to Neill Blomkamp, the idea behind both movies are as good as District 9 however the the execution is not, with Elysium it lacked the weirdness and strong characters of District 9, while Chappie had the opposite issue due to the casting of Die Antwoord which while do have weirdness and have strong personalities are just too much and got on my nerves way to fast, however the result is the same between the movies where you just don't care about anyone.
Vice and the Big Short, both Adam McKay movies who did Will Ferrell movies before those, these issues have the same issues which is it likes to talk down to the audience, worst is in the Big Short where he stop the film to get random celebrities to talk about subjects they clearly have no knowledge about and does anyone really need Selena Gomez to explain the 2008 recession to them.
Searching, no idea how this movie is looked at well, "After his 16-year-old daughter goes missing, a desperate father breaks into her laptop to look for clues to find her." which is a neat idea and John Cho does do a good job however the script, story and most of the actors feel like out of a lifetime movie, none of the twists and turns fell anything but comical far from the realism the movie wants to go for, the movie also has a totally idiotic final twist in order to have a happy ending.
I can't figure out how anyone with a functioning brain can enjoy the Fast and the Furious movies. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy a good dumb popcorn movie sometimes also, but Jesus those movies are a whole other level of stupid and pointless.
I can't figure out how anyone with a functioning brain can enjoy the Fast and the Furious movies. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy a good dumb popcorn movie sometimes also, but Jesus those movies are a whole other level of stupid and pointless.
I can't figure out how anyone with a functioning brain can enjoy the Fast and the Furious movies. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy a good dumb popcorn movie sometimes also, but Jesus those movies are a whole other level of stupid and pointless.
I'm pretty sure that I've fallen asleep during every single Fast and the Furious flick I've been forced to see. I don't give a shit about the characters and even the car scenes don't hold me.
My brother asked me to see the new Black Christmas remake with him. You know a movie's going to be shit when there's a menstrual cup joke immediately after the title card. And it becomes a plot device at the end! Yet another movie where the intense saturation of fourth wave feminism, social justice warrior-ism, and #metoo was a bigger priority than anything else. If I wanted to consume that shit I'd go to Tumblr or Twitter. Cary Elwes's monologue explaining the black magic and university founder cult at the end was pretty damn funny, but for the most part it was a very boring movie.
Anaconda can be pretty fun, it's everything that awful Syfy movies promise to be but never have the budget to deliver (and unsurprisingly its sequels went on to become those things), but it is definitely bad.
If you haven't seen it, Lake Placid is a much better giant reptile movie from that period, which also developed into endless worthless Syfy-style sequels.
The last one I remember actively disliking or thinking was awful was Arrival. That film about the linguist trying to communicate with Aliens. Everyone raved about how great it was, but god did I find it boring. It's not bad in the sense of having bad visuals or acting, but it's just boring. You can see the twists and turns miles away. I think it was the only time I actively got out my phone to browse the internet during the film while in a cinema, and no one else seemed to give a shit that I was doing so.
