Worst Big-Budget Movie
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Objection! Jumanji was a great film. They should have made it more like that...FalloutJack said:
Hey, don't bash Battleship, people! Yes, the movie was awfully written, but noone saw it for the story. I'm thankful Hasbro made it, because fighter jets fans have their movies, badass commando fans have their movies, big land battle fans have their movies, spaceship fans have their movies, but for guys like me who find modern warships awesome, nothing, zero, nada (no, that stupid movie with Steven Seagal doesn't count, 'cause it takes itself seriously and the Big Mo is a better actor than the actors themselves).
Before it, one had to look for obscure warsims with a few modern ships, bad graphics, steep learning curve and two minutes of juggling with the cams (when you have anything more than a map with icons) during the battles in an hour of decrypting the control panels to find the enemy.
Now, we have destroyers firing all of their weapons, from Phalanx to main guns, VLS cells, and even a frigging battleship as a awesome bonus. Yeah, it's what our niche category dreamed of seeing when we were suffering through Dangerous Waters and Harpoon 3 for ten years. Now, we've got it (that and the Missouri scene in MGS4) and I think we're satisfied for the next 20 years.
So thanks Hasbro for having the sheer balls of doing it!
But Battlefield Earth sucked hard, if only because the niche it aimed to satisfy is, well... do I need to say anything more?
Before it, one had to look for obscure warsims with a few modern ships, bad graphics, steep learning curve and two minutes of juggling with the cams (when you have anything more than a map with icons) during the battles in an hour of decrypting the control panels to find the enemy.
Now, we have destroyers firing all of their weapons, from Phalanx to main guns, VLS cells, and even a frigging battleship as a awesome bonus. Yeah, it's what our niche category dreamed of seeing when we were suffering through Dangerous Waters and Harpoon 3 for ten years. Now, we've got it (that and the Missouri scene in MGS4) and I think we're satisfied for the next 20 years.
So thanks Hasbro for having the sheer balls of doing it!
But Battlefield Earth sucked hard, if only because the niche it aimed to satisfy is, well... do I need to say anything more?
The Last Airbender, Transformers, The [FUCKING] Green Lantern.
The first made me hate M. Night, the second was Michael Bay faffing about with explosions and military hardware as usual, and the last one made me want to fly to Ryan Reynolds house and punch him in the throat.
The first made me hate M. Night, the second was Michael Bay faffing about with explosions and military hardware as usual, and the last one made me want to fly to Ryan Reynolds house and punch him in the throat.
You beat me to it. The original Godzilla was great. Low-budget puppet fun with a pretty serious anti-nuclear message. . . And then Hollywood ruined it and turned it into some kind of Jurassic Park rip-off, as if the real Jurassic Park sequels were not bad enough. Those who think Battleship was bad should watch the Godzilla (US) release.Scarim Coral said:
To date, the worst I've seen in theaters...I'm torn between Pirates of Caribbean 3: We Tried Filming Without a Completed Script And It Shows, Star Wars 1-3, and Michael Bay's Transformers 2 or 3(they're practically the same damn movie).
"Yar 3" is the headstone on what was originally a promising film series (Yar 1 is just fun to watch, and it stands tall above its sequels). It takes the problems established in Yar 2, and amplifies them. However, it's definitely more of a sad note for me because the films are very well directed, and I appreciate the tradecraft that goes into them.
Though I wasn't sad at all about Orlando Bloom getting offed at the end. Fuck that guy.
Star Wars 1-3 aren't movies. They're feature-length advertisements for toys comics and games with an astonishingly large budget and special effects. No characters. No plot. Just a collection of talented actors/actresses playing bland nobodies set to a CGI backdrop.
And this ignores the fact that it's STAR WARS.
Transformers 2 and 3...these movies are offensive. The titular characters are fucking B-list side characters, while the real attention is focused on a parade of unfunny and offensive comic relief characters.
If I'm paying money for a movie called Transformers, I'm paying to watch robots do cool shit;
not a D-list episode of Saturday Night Live featuring the posterboy douchebag and She Who Cannot Act.
It's a bad film, but Green Hornet is more boring and bland than offensive.
The rest of those flicks...yeah. They're in the same league as Bay's Transformers in the Bad category, but at least they aren't setting trends in film.
We got the horrendously awful Battleship this year specifically because of the success of Bay's Transformers films, and I don't think they're going to stop trying to copy his style anytime soon.
It only gets the rap it does because it was called the worst movie ever on MST3K.
"Yar 3" is the headstone on what was originally a promising film series (Yar 1 is just fun to watch, and it stands tall above its sequels). It takes the problems established in Yar 2, and amplifies them. However, it's definitely more of a sad note for me because the films are very well directed, and I appreciate the tradecraft that goes into them.
Though I wasn't sad at all about Orlando Bloom getting offed at the end. Fuck that guy.
Star Wars 1-3 aren't movies. They're feature-length advertisements for toys comics and games with an astonishingly large budget and special effects. No characters. No plot. Just a collection of talented actors/actresses playing bland nobodies set to a CGI backdrop.
And this ignores the fact that it's STAR WARS.
Transformers 2 and 3...these movies are offensive. The titular characters are fucking B-list side characters, while the real attention is focused on a parade of unfunny and offensive comic relief characters.
If I'm paying money for a movie called Transformers, I'm paying to watch robots do cool shit;
not a D-list episode of Saturday Night Live featuring the posterboy douchebag and She Who Cannot Act.
The Green Hornet has no business being compared to the series that brought us Skid and Mudflap.Marter said:
It's a bad film, but Green Hornet is more boring and bland than offensive.
The rest of those flicks...yeah. They're in the same league as Bay's Transformers in the Bad category, but at least they aren't setting trends in film.
We got the horrendously awful Battleship this year specifically because of the success of Bay's Transformers films, and I don't think they're going to stop trying to copy his style anytime soon.
There are far worse films than Manos; films that make Manos look like Hamlet.Lightning Brows said:
It only gets the rap it does because it was called the worst movie ever on MST3K.
In fairness, Jumanji was about a board game, rather than adapted from one.MammothBlade said:
Anyway, I'm going to put my vote for X-Men: Wolverine. The only good thing to come out of that movie was that it, along with the Last Stand, drove Fox to create First Class.
i'm surprised this hasn't been hit that hard, but X-men origins wolverine...
i mean come one, that movie was BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD
close second would be Expendable's, it has two leads [plus cameo's] with poor action scenes
also the last airbender movie NEVER HAPPENED, for there is no war in bah sing se
EDIT: oh look at the guy directly above me...
i mean come one, that movie was BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD
close second would be Expendable's, it has two leads [plus cameo's] with poor action scenes
also the last airbender movie NEVER HAPPENED, for there is no war in bah sing se
EDIT: oh look at the guy directly above me...
