How Movies You Hated Could Have Been Better

[Vault101]

U-571: Make the allies British and it becomes a perfect movie.

Wall-E: He never leaves the planet. There is no dialogue whatsoever. Even if the running time is only 30 minutes it's still an improvement.
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I dunno...that seems a little "artsy just to be artsy" if that makes sense

AVATAR.....just smarten up the plot a bit and get rid of the heavy handed moralism..treat your audience like they ARNT total dipshits

 

[Vault101]

Alien vs. Predator - I would have not ruined it by probably sticking like glue to the original graphic novel. Machiko Noguchi was a badass character who handled her shit pretty well when it hit the fan. I also would have not based it on earth. Or based it 5 months after its release. Also, Queen Alien having its head popped off with an airlock is way fucking cooler than dumping it in the ocean. ***** probably survived, way to drop the ball.

was it based on a comic?

anyway...make it eather a scary or atmosphereic action film...DONT make it a teen slasher flick (because thats what I was thinking)

take your lessons from Predators (damn that movie was a blast)

 

[Scarim Coral]

Films like Eragon and The Last Airbender should of been more "faithful" or "accurate" compare to the original source materials. This however doesn't mean it got to 100% perfect and I'm fine with some changes (but not too much) due to the time restraint. I mena would of you stay over 3 hours to watch the accurate version of Lord of the Ring in the cinema?

 

[Dogstile]

Here's a tip for the film "Centurion".

I have just spent the entire film watching this tiny gang of soldiers run. Occasionally you had decent combat, but a lot of it was running. How about at the end of the film it shows the soldiers actually achieve something.

In this film, they achieve nothing. At all. I was thoroughly enjoying the film until the end.

 

[Squilookle]

U-571: Make the allies British and it becomes a perfect movie.

Wall-E: He never leaves the planet. There is no dialogue whatsoever. Even if the running time is only 30 minutes it's still an improvement.
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I dunno...that seems a little "artsy just to be artsy" if that makes sense

when you say 'artsy just to be artsy' you're talking only about Wall-E, right? I don't really see how changing a nationality in the other movie could be seen as artsy.

In Wall-E's case, I only wrote it like that because after those events everything started going downhill- the stupid fat humans, the missions to look for life on Earth even though the CEO of the company decided it should be left alone (WTF was that about), the contradictory villain Auto (who was absolutely right about the humans not going back), the thrillseeking nonchalant captain, and the ridiculous idea that humans that got so bad at running a planet that it effectively died could abandon it for space, forget just about EVERYTHING they know about the world, get just about too fat to walk, and then come back when just one plant was struggling to survive and everything just turns out dandy?

The first part of the movie was brilliant- but once it goes into space I see it as every bit as bad as Cars.

 

[reecenolan]

For me it had to be the new A-Team movie as it didn't really pay attention to the original series' asthetic. I think its literally about 5 minutes in and theres already someone lying dead on the ground. If my memory serves me right only one person died in the 5 seasons that the A-Team broadcast for, so in conclusion I think they should have stuck to what the the original was all about like the over the top cartoonish like violence.

PS: Im loving other peoples aspects on other movies too, makes me look at them in a new perspective

 

[redisforever]

Okay, I think Revenge of the Sith is the worst Star Wars prequel movie of the three. Yes, I know it's often praised the best, but not to me. Here's what I get from the movie:

--Jedi are insanely weak. If they have to fight more than three opponents, they're toast.

--To turn to the dark side, all it takes is one sentence.

--All the tech in the world can't save someone's life if they decide they don't have a reason to live.

--Speaking of a reason to live, how about those two bundles of joy you just had? You know, the ones that are going to want their mommy?

--Amazing CGI does NOT equal a great battle. It actually equals too much information on screen to follow.

--"These Wookies are all dead." Okay, what does that have to do with anything?

--In order to be on the Jedi, you need to have zero experience with lightsaber combat. Unless you are a senior member.

So, how would I fix all of this? I will give it my best shot

1) When Order 66 is given, the Jedi go down like punks. At least Ki-Adi took one (or was it two?) whole clone trooper with him. Keep in mind that these are the best Jedi, as many of them were on the Council. I always seem to recall Jedi have a danger sense that warns them that something is off. Oh yeah! Remember, Yoda used it! So, here's what should have happened. Show the Jedi fighting for their lives against the clones, and keep cutting to different scenes. It starts with Ki-Adi deflecting a shot into a clone trooper, then cuts to Ayla leaping away and igniting her saber. Keep cycling, showing the Jedi cutting down the clones but slowly being overwhelmed. Finally, when it cuts to Yoda clutching his heart, but back to each Jedi and show them dead, surrounded by clone corpses. At least they went out fighting. While were at it, the 501st should have had to climb over a small mountain of their brothers while attack the temple. A fifteen year old body took out five of them alone before they killed him.

2)Anakin's fall should have simply been written better. He is on his knees weeping about what he's done, and all the Emperor has to say is, "You're fulfilling your destiny." Oh, is that it? Okay. I'm off the murder all my friends and little children now because it's my destiny. How do I know? Because the very enemy I've been helping to track down all this time told me so, and I believe him over all of you. To fix this, we would need to rewrite several things from all three movies, and there's simply not enough time. A quick summary: Make the Jedi seem like they are becoming corrupted as their decisions go more along with political power. Currently being done in Fate of the Jedi.

3)Dear God, Padme. You fail as a mother. You would rather die and weep in self pity than raise your kids, who should be the sole focus of your life now. Let's not forget that Leia mentions that she remembers you! Way to fix this: have Padme live on Alderaan, but the shock of what Anakin has done--and is still doing--is SLOWLY killing her over the years, like cancer. Plot hole from the first trilogy filled and Padme is no longer second worst parent in the Star Wars universe.

4)Go back and watch Return of the Jedi's space battles. Then compare that that to Revenge of the Sith. In Jedi, you get shots of random pilots talking, random ships exploding, and random battles. In Sith, it's Obi and Anakin talking in their cockpits while so many lights flash outside that you can't tell what's going on.

5)Every time I see this scene, I keep checking the Wookies to see if Yoda, Chewie and Tarffle are hiding under the corpses. They are not as far as I can tell. So that raise the question: Why is this scene here? To fix it, add what I just said into the scene.

6)You know when Mace goes with three other Jedi to arrest the Emperor? Did you see how quickly those other three went down? One literally stood there and let the Emperor stab him. Pathetic. At Least Fisto blocked ONCE before he went down. So much for the great swordsmen Jedi. To fix this, Palpatine need to split them up, fight them one at a time, and perhaps call in some guards for a distraction. Kind of like how Darth Maul Force shoved Obi away so he could fight Qui. Shove away Fisto, finish off Tin before Fisto can recover. Stuff like that.

Major bonus points if anyone actually bothered to read this whole thing. Sorry it's so long, but this movie makes me angry because I love Star Wars.

Alright, you fixed the movie! All this should say is "George Lucas, use some logic!"
We have to send this to him, before he re-releases it to theaters, which he will.


OT: If Doom hadn't been a dreary, murky, poorly made mess, maybe it would have been good. Hell, make the zombies look like zombies for a start. Look:


Those zombies look like they just woke up, and are wearing pajamas! Also, again, like for Star Wars, LOGIC! How the hell does he jump over that creature?
And this is from the best part of the movie. I didn't see this part in theatres, I left 45 minutes into it.

 

[SammiYin]

The Deer Hunter, Whoo boy
It's 3 hours long, cut that down to 2 hours at most.

More Vietnam please, don't make the focus of the film just a tiny interval in the middle.

I don't care how well developed the characters are, if it takes a whole fucking hour at the beginning, and another 1 and a half at the end, you're doing something wrong. So condense the characters and make the film actually interesting.

All I've got at the moment, I watched all the way through this and was only half awake at the Russian Roulette bit.

 

[Sarah Kerrigan]

How to improve 'The Blaire Witch Project' (Bare with my, folks...)

MAKE IT MORE SCARY! FOR THE LOVE OF GOD IT WAS TOO DAMN PREDICTABLE!!

Ok, I'm done.

 

[The Virgo]

*snip*

Okay, I finally got the chance to read this and I must say that I agree whole heartedly with everything you said ... EXCEPT for ONE small thing:

Okay, I think Revenge of the Sith is the worst Star Wars prequel movie of the three.

I myself think that Episode One was both the worst prequel and by far the worst Star Wars movie. Of course, that's just me.

*snip*

I also got the chance to read what you said and I agree with you. I've never seen the comics, but I agree that it should have tried to stay closer to the source material. Hell, everything based on a pre-existing subject should try and stay close to the source material.

 

[The Virgo]

Oh, guys, I just thought of another movie that could have used an overhaul, but just at the end: Law Abiding Citizen. However, this does contain spoilers, so if you haven't seen the movie, don't read. Warning: contains a rant. :-/

Spoiler

The movie was great up until the last thirty minutes. I mean, come on! This guy was so fucking smart that he bought properties, tunneled into every single solitary confinement cell so no matter which one they put him in he could escape and could build a robot armed with a .50 caliber machine gun and anti-tank rockets, but he didn't even have the fucking sense to install an anti-tamper device on the bomb ... or even have FUCKING SECURITY CAMERAS IN HIS MOTHERFUCKING GARAGE?!!! Hey writers, you really expect me to believe that a guy with the fuckin' IQ of God didn't even have enough sense to build goddamn security devices in the auto shop?! What fucking bullshit! The plot was contrived so that Jaime Foxx would win and Gerard Butler (in my opinion, the hero of the movie) would lose.

Butler deserved to win! >:-(

What should have happened is that they never found the auto body shop and the bomb in the building had an anti-tamper device. It was going to be impossible to disarm it, much less move it and the timer was ticking down. So, Foxx rushes back and confronts Bulter in the cell and begs him to deactivate the bomb. Bulter agrees to do so, but on the condition that he's released. Foxx finally, albeit reluctantly, agrees, Butler deactivates the device and we cut to a cold afternoon and Butler is getting released. He shakes Foxx's hand as says "Hey, no hard feelings." He then gets in the cab and it drives away.

Foxx is pissed at this and then, suddenly, something catches his eye: An abandoned auto body shop. We then see different scenes of him hacking into Butler's files (not personally him, but with the help of whoever did it in the original movie) and finds out that it belongs to him. He then, with the help of that other guy, breaks into the place and THEN that's when they find everything. Just as the other guy mentions how Butler never had an accomplice, that it was him the whole time, Foxx picks up a picture of Butler and his wife and daughter. On the back reads, "Never forget what's most important in your life."

Foxx studies the picture and the screen dissolves into that same final scene where he's at his daughter's cello recital.

That's how I would have fixed it. Kudos to anyone who took the time to read it. What do you think?

 

[FalloutJack]

In the interests of not sounding like a complainer and just deciding on a funny answer, I have decided to let an expert handle this in my place. So, without further ado, Dara O'Briain.


Jokey answers aside, our laughable disaster movie could've been a little better if it didn't rape physics. Like if it was determined that the core of the planet had gone unstable through the release of too much heat, pressure, and energy from rocks with nuclear half-life. Half the Earth's heat is from the natural release of energy from the ore occurring deep within ground. You could do this stuff in a less bullshitty way, or just go for bullshit and go full-parody, making fun of disaster movies.

 

[Romblen]

Spoiler: Mine is a simple change, just take the last 5 minutes out of Repo Men. Why? Read the spoiler if you don't mind me spoiling it for you.

At the end of Repo Men they reveal that the last half of the film was actually a dream, and because it was a dream, nothing they did in the second half actually mattered.

Repo Men is still the only movie for me where the ending ruined everything else.

 

[Wintermoot]

the TF movie
1. GET BETTER MECH DESIGNS!!! look I,m not g1 enthusiast but the designs look like a tornado swept over a scrapyard design something along the lines of "g1 ver. Katoki" the same as then but updated and more detailed

2. focus on the mech,s/robots.

the "spoof" movies
just don,t make them or make actual jokes.