Bad Films I watched this weekend

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ZesPak

24,420 posts

195 months

Tuesday 7th April 2015
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toon10 said:
honest_delboy said:
The Drop - with Tom Hardy, fell asleep before the end
biggrin I really liked this movie. It is very slow and takes time to build but then I like that sort of thing. My other half was expecting Goodfella's style guns, torture and exploding buildings wihing the first 5 minutes and this film doesn't do that much to her dismay.
I liked the drop as well, quite a nice plot twist as well.
Not the "body dropping" John Wick as mentioned before, but very good nonetheless and the build up is great.

Nom de ploom

4,890 posts

173 months

Tuesday 7th April 2015
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Hooli said:
The Deer Hunter, it was on TV sunday. Never seen it before & no idea at all why anyone likes it or raves about it as some do. Unmitigated ste. Drunk annoying yanks for 2 1/2 hours with a bit of badly done war film inbetween. No characters or anything, just utter dross.
get your coat.

its brilliant

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Number 5

2,748 posts

194 months

Saturday 11th April 2015
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Plastic, currently being shown on Sky Movies.......what a load of old st!

Pommygranite

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14,229 posts

215 months

Sunday 12th April 2015
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Fast & Furious 7.

F'ing terrible.

It's not a car film now it's just a bad action film with a few cars put in.

All the car scenes are sped up and stupid - head in crash, get out without a scratch. They couldn't even get the cinematography to look half decent or exciting.

Just so many 'da fun' and 'but that just wouldn't happen' scenes you start to just be taken for a fool.

Horrific cliched one liners.

Ok but unbelievable fight scenes

You know it's bad when Statham actually looks like the only one taking it seriously.

A few laugh out loud moments but not in a good way.

Too long.

Stupid plot.

Just horrible and dire.

It really would be a 4/10 film on IMDB if it weren't for the sympathy vote.

It has no heart, no soul and no character.

But sad at end but look past that and you've just got a b grade waste of 140 minutes.

stephen300o

15,464 posts

227 months

Sunday 12th April 2015
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Yeah the other six were top notch!...

Another dreadful series.. Watched transformers with added Marky Mark, looking more and more like Gordon Ramsey.
Over two and a half hours of it.

Matt..

3,586 posts

188 months

Sunday 12th April 2015
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Black Sea.

How is this even close to 81% on Rotten Tomatoes? It's terrible.

chris watton

22,477 posts

259 months

Sunday 12th April 2015
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Matt.. said:
Black Sea.

How is this even close to 81% on Rotten Tomatoes? It's terrible.
I know, it started off well enough, but the script was awful, all the choices/decisions they made were the polar opposite of what real people would have done!


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Number 5

2,748 posts

194 months

Sunday 12th April 2015
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Transporter 3..... ste!


I bet that Audi autobox hates Jason Statham as he keeps forgetting he's not in a manual and is forever ramming it into park, reverse, neutral, drive...



http://youtu.be/qjD5yCL0sZc



driving

Oh and five minutes before the scene in the clip above Jason had rode through the drivers window on a stolen BMX and smashed the window but luckily he must have managed to find an Audi dealership on route that by pure chance it had a near side front window in stock for a 2008 Audi S8 W12 as the window was replaced for the rest of the film which ironically was nearly the cause of his death as he plunged to the bottom of a lake in the car and couldn't get out meaning he had to escape through the rear window


yes




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Watchman

6,391 posts

244 months

Monday 13th April 2015
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Seventh Son

I'm not sure whether Jeff Bridges has had a stroke at some point - he has a particularly odd speech impediment. It's noticeable in all his recent films but definitely not in Thunderbolt & Lightfoot.

Anyway, I used to think his presence was likely to guarantee a good film but despite some fantastic hits including True Grit where he was perfectly cast, I find his involvement in most films as a distraction. In fact, I arrive at the beginning of his films with a sense of suspicion. His weird speech impediment couldn't save him in Seventh Son - it was just truly horrible. I got about 40 mins in before I binned it.

Black Hat

This was a marketing disaster - or so the wiki says. Pitched entirely incorrectly, it was both a box office AND a critical bomb. The wiki suggests this was all down to the marketing campaign. I'd say it was because the film was dull. I think I managed 20 mins.

JustinP1

13,330 posts

229 months

Monday 13th April 2015
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ash73 said:
toon10 said:
thismonkeyhere said:
'Only God Forgives'. ste.

Same director and lead as 'Drive', and a similar film in many ways. However, whilst I rate 'Drive', this'un was weird, slow, dull, childish, pointless, silly, unrealistic, etc, etc.

Some of it felt like some kind of 6th form project film. 'I know, let's frame some long, drawn out shots though doorways, cos that'll be, like, well arty'.

bks. Avoid.
Oh I'd forgotten about this one. Truly awful and I quite liked Drive.
I loved it, Kristin Scott Thomas was amazing, and despicable. I appreciate I'm in a minority of one but there you go.
I've been a fan of Nic Winding Refn right from when he did the Pusher films and Drive is superb IMHO.

I gave Only God Forgives the benefit of the doubt despite the panning it got by critics.

There are some lovely shots there, and some tense moments, and the heart of it is a gangster flick set in the far east. Right up my street.

I guess the 'partner film' to this one is 'The Counsellor'. Great actors, great director, great idea, well shot, should be fantastic but at the end of it, you just go.... 'Meh... Hmmm....'

toasty

7,441 posts

219 months

Monday 13th April 2015
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chris watton said:
Hooli said:
The Deer Hunter, it was on TV sunday. Never seen it before & no idea at all why anyone likes it or raves about it as some do. Unmitigated ste. Drunk annoying yanks for 2 1/2 hours with a bit of badly done war film inbetween. No characters or anything, just utter dross.
This was one of the first videos I ever rented way back in 1983! I too found it boring (I was only 16, though) and have never watched it again since.
I'm glad I'm not the only one. It's such a dull film with one exceptional scene.

speedtwelve

3,510 posts

272 months

Monday 13th April 2015
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I agree. The 45 min wedding sequence was unforgettable! wink

littlebasher

3,767 posts

170 months

Tuesday 14th April 2015
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Watchman said:
Seventh Son

I'm not sure whether Jeff Bridges has had a stroke at some point - he has a particularly odd speech impediment. It's noticeable in all his recent films but definitely not in Thunderbolt & Lightfoot.

Anyway, I used to think his presence was likely to guarantee a good film but despite some fantastic hits including True Grit where he was perfectly cast, I find his involvement in most films as a distraction. In fact, I arrive at the beginning of his films with a sense of suspicion. His weird speech impediment couldn't save him in Seventh Son - it was just truly horrible. I got about 40 mins in before I binned it.
If you got 40 minutes in, that's 20 minutes longer than i could tolerate!

Watchman

6,391 posts

244 months

Tuesday 14th April 2015
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littlebasher said:
Watchman said:
Seventh Son

I'm not sure whether Jeff Bridges has had a stroke at some point - he has a particularly odd speech impediment. It's noticeable in all his recent films but definitely not in Thunderbolt & Lightfoot.

Anyway, I used to think his presence was likely to guarantee a good film but despite some fantastic hits including True Grit where he was perfectly cast, I find his involvement in most films as a distraction. In fact, I arrive at the beginning of his films with a sense of suspicion. His weird speech impediment couldn't save him in Seventh Son - it was just truly horrible. I got about 40 mins in before I binned it.
If you got 40 minutes in, that's 20 minutes longer than i could tolerate!
My wife was insistent we give it a decent chance but even she conceded it was a waste of "life" to watch it any further. smile

vrsmxtb

2,002 posts

155 months

Tuesday 14th April 2015
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Just watched a UK indie film, Kelly + Victor.

Boy meets girl, they shag and then date. Girl strangles boy during sex. Girl cuts "Kelly + Victor" in boys back. Boy freaks out. Boy gets lonely, misses kinky sex. Boy and girl get together again. Girl strangles Boy properly. Girl cries. Film ends.

Why do I watch these things!?

KrazyIvan

4,341 posts

174 months

Wednesday 15th April 2015
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I finally gave in and agreed to watch 50 shades of ste, after all it can't be that bad, Jamie Dornan was great in The Fall, and the rest of the cast and crew are all fairly well known, so the poor storyline should not be that big an issue...right, how wrong could I be? Turns out it really us as bad as they say. It's like a porn movies where even the sex scenes are awful. There is no one aspect ( script, acting, directing, camera work, costumes, sound) that is the reason for it being so bad, each area sucked equally. How with so much money thrown at it was it allowed to be this bad.

What really gets me though is the amount of women who happily shout about seeing it 5/10/15 times. I lasted an hour then called it a day, even my wife couldn't quite get over how shocking it was.

I will be stunned if they make the rest.

Bullett

10,873 posts

183 months

Wednesday 15th April 2015
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It doesn't need to be good to get sequel it just needs to make money and those women seeing it 10+ times will be the reason it does.

See F&F and Twilight franchises for further details.

Negative Creep

24,942 posts

226 months

Wednesday 15th April 2015
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Bullett said:
It doesn't need to be good to get sequel it just needs to make money and those women seeing it 10+ times will be the reason it does.

See F&F and Twilight franchises for further details.
Twlight yes, but most of the F&F films have been well reviewed by both critics and audiences (Furious 7 is currently 82% on RT)

hebangsthedrums

86 posts

170 months

Wednesday 15th April 2015
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The Sweeney (2012) - so bad it was funny. I'm pretty sure they get a generic cockernee caper script, then just add extra 'slaags' and 'princesses' whenever Ray Winstone is cast. Also Plan B - stick to music. Or maybe don't even do that...

groundcontrol

1,539 posts

190 months

Wednesday 15th April 2015
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garyhun said:
The Tree of Life.

Brad Pitt, Sean Penna and Jessica Chastain (old Murph in Interstellar).

The story of a family in Texas, and especially the eldest son witnessing the loss of innocence and struggles with his parents' conflicting teachings.

It's pointlessness is only matched by its pretentiousness imo. 2/10
Stunned you actually managed to derive a plot from that. I couldn't tell what it was about, nothing as far as I could tell.

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