Bad Films I watched this weekend

[Adamski69]

Don't know if it's already been mentioned but I got tricked into watching 'Into the Woods' by the female contingent in the house. Cast looked great and trailer not appalling.... Oh how wrong can one person be...

Truly truly the biggest pile of dung ever to make it onto the screen. Hang your heads in shame all who had anything to do with it.

Should have gone here and read a few reviews first. Generally global hatred for it I think...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2180411/reviews?ref_=t...

[Zoon]

Locke - with Tom Hardy

Absolute ste, summary:- Tom Hardy drives a BMW X5 up the M1 from London. The End

[TCEvo]

Zoon said:

Locke - with Tom Hardy

Absolute ste, summary:- Tom Hardy drives a BMW X5 up the M1 from London. The End

Knew nothing about Locke before watching it a couple of months ago but I thought it was very good.

[SWoll]

Zoon said:

Locke - with Tom Hardy

Absolute ste, summary:- Tom Hardy drives a BMW X5 up the M1 from London. The End

I can only assume you accidentally watched the whole thing on mute?

[Brigand]

SWoll said:

Zoon said:

Locke - with Tom Hardy

Absolute ste, summary:- Tom Hardy drives a BMW X5 up the M1 from London. The End

I can only assume you accidentally watched the whole thing on mute?

Well, some people need constant explosions and fast editing to enjoy a movie. This film shows you don't need all that to have an engrossing story.

[TREMAiNE]

Zoon said:

Locke - with Tom Hardy

Absolute ste, summary:- Tom Hardy drives a BMW X5 up the M1 from London. The End

Absolutely brilliant film. Let me guess what your favourite film is - Transformers?

[poing]

Battle of Los Angeles

Not to be confused with Battle Los Angeles which was also bad but not in comparison to this. The official trailer contains ALL the best bits of the film so please save yourself 90 minutes of your life and just watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vqud_up4e6w

Just to be clear, this film was on the SyFy channel on a Saturday afternoon so I didn't go into expecting Oscar winning stuff but I did expect something better than I got.

I have a theory that this was made by a kid using his pocket money, he obviously got his best friend to do the special effects for free using a Casio watch and the cast were clearly a combination of various homeless people and the local mental institutions drama class.

A particular favourite thing was slow motion scenes to create drama, the only problem being they didn't have that technology so the actors moved/walked slowly. Everything around them moving at normal speed. Walk in slow motion around the room and see how stupid you look, yup that's what it looked like.

Now I think about it, has there ever been a good file with Los Angeles in the title?

[Brigand]

I believe it was made by the Asylum company (I may be wrong) and they specialise in making 'copycat' movies that are very low budget, straight to TV affairs. They are deliberately bad.

[Pesty]

Johnnytheboy said:

I watched Raging Bull for the first time on Saturday.

Maybe not "bad" but certainly not the masterpiece I'd been led to expect.

I know it was based on a real boxer's life, but I'm sure a plot could have been fashioned out of it somehow, rather than it just starting and ending at seemingly random points.

Plus, the Italian/American Dialogue gets to be a bit of a joke:

"I'm going to get some food"
"you're going to get some food?"
"Sure, I'm going to get some food, I'm hungry"
"You're hungry?"
"Sure, I'm hungry"
"You're always eating"
"So I'm always eating"
<etc for another five minutes until the director decides it's time to show us another slightly overly theatrical boxing match>

Like taxi driver I didn't understand the hype. I watched them both when I was young and didn't enjoy them. Watched them both again when I was a lot older and loved raging bull. Actually I think it's better than taxi driver which is just a little over rated imo.

Plus it has some really good swearing.

[poing]

Brigand said:

I believe it was made by the Asylum company (I may be wrong) and they specialise in making 'copycat' movies that are very low budget, straight to TV affairs. They are deliberately bad.

Spot on, that's exactly who it was and it explains a lot too. It was basically Independence Day without the budget, if they set out to make bad films then they did very well. Maybe I should have gone into expecting Sharknado or similar and it would have been different.

[Efbe]

Insurgent.

dull, dull dull. This is the sequel to divergent, which I didn't mind too much. But this one is completely different, with the same characters, it managed to lose any interest, character intrigue, just anything.

[littlebasher]

Big game

Ok, it has Samuel L Jackson in it but it felt like a kids film to me.

Bit disappointing.

[Pesty]

Rage

Nic cage. I should have known better. So bad.

[Adam B]

littlebasher said:

Big game

Ok, it has Samuel L Jackson in it but it felt like a kids film to me.

Bit disappointing.

Cleaner, also SLJ, also utter pants - 3/10

Edited by Adam B on Monday 20th July 16:00

[vxr8mate]

The Watch. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1298649/

The plot makes no sense
For a comedy with such actors it should have been much funnier
It seems the entire film is made up of sketches with tenuous links to make an entire movie
Whoever cast Ayoade must have owed a serious favor

1/10

[Negative Creep]

vxr8mate said:

The Watch. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1298649/

The plot makes no sense
For a comedy with such actors it should have been much funnier
It seems the entire film is made up of sketches with tenuous links to make an entire movie
Whoever cast Ayoade must have owed a serious favor

1/10

They seemed to make the mistake that just being really vulgar was funny. Odd when you consider everyone involved is capable of so much more

[durbster]

Watch The Hangover Part II last night. I thought the first one was OK and remembered reviews saying this was basically the same film again, so figured it'd offer a few chuckles.

I'm honestly not sure what it was supposed to be. The first one was a comedy but this had no jokes. I don't mean I didn't find the jokes funny - I mean there just weren't any.

Also, almost everyone in it was either hateful, ridiculous or both, and the plot was only absurd due to laziness and not creativity. The opening dialogue where they clumsily set the scene was like listening to a first draft.

It's not a good measure of a comedy film that the only time I chuckled was during the end credits.

[Speckle]

Pesty said:

ash73 said:

It just says I'm experienced enough to know when not to bother; your mind is made up. I enjoyed the film from the very first minute Woody conned a couple at the airport, I thought he was hilarious. How can you not like his character? The film is about illusion, sleight of hand and trickery, it's actually about the magic, that's what the style you hate so much represents, the revenge plot everyone is so desperate to unpick is just a sideline imo. Prestige is about obsession, not magic, I love that too but it's completely different. That's my interpretation anyhow.

Yes my mind is made up. I didn't like the film just as yours is about liking it. However look at the difference at your post above, different opinions is good, of course you wouldn't have changed my mind. The film bored me I wasn't entertained so I posted in this thread.

If you had posted that instead of the heavily patronising and deliberately provocative posts that appeared I wouldn't have even bothered replying and we could have saved a lot of pixels. Your posts were provocative, you know it. The you didn't get it so you didn't like it was your implication it's trite and lazy and unbecoming of you and that other chap. ( actually reading that again you even manage with the " no point " and " desperately" lines to get digs in where they really are not nesesary)

It has been a while since I watched the film but, I seem to remember enjoying it at the time. Reading you two go back and forth, I feel compelled to watch it again this weekend, just to make sure!

[thismonkeyhere]

'Lockout' - disappointing SciFi thing starring Guy Pearce. Promised so much; delivered so little.

Chock full of monstrous cliches - including all the characters, plot holes, unbelievable plot devices, etc etc

Had a few good moments, so I managed to see it through to the end, but really not good.

Shame, as I really rate Guy Pearce.

[Veeayt]

Pixels - basically, good idea sandtlerized. The man has no charisma at all. 3/10