Bad Films I watched this weekend

[Phil Dicky]

The Lone Ranger...started watching it a couple of weeks ago and turned it off because....well it's st.
Started watching it again a couple of days ago, just to see if I was missing something, guess what I wasn't it's totally totally st

[andyjo1982]

Anchorman 2. Really poor follow up to a the first film, which I loved.

[Negative Creep]

g3org3y said:

World War Z.

Some good effects but one can't create a sense of peril when your protagonist is seemingly invincible (surviving plane crashes and large metal shards piercing his abdomen).

I understand the book is better?

The book is superb (and has absolutely nothing to do with the film)

[CC07 PEU]

Pebbles167 said:

I watched Battlefield Earth

lol!

[droopsnoot]

I watched "Cannonball Fever" (third of the Cannonball run films) the other day as it was on freeview somewhere. Terrible. Makes the first one look well-acted and not over-the-top in any way. Main character appears to have a Countach, except it's clearly a fake one, not least because it's got a glass sunroof and seriously wobbly doors. After about ten minutes I ended up fast-forwarding through any bits that didn't have the cars in, so if there was a story to it, I can't say what it was. Some nice engine sounds, but not really related to the cars on screen. Waste of twenty minutes.

[Regiment]

Total Recall remake, a big step down from the original classic.
Lone Ranger, a movie that I found to not know whether it wanted to be fun and action packed or serious.

[rj1986]

Not this weekend, but a while ago, i saw 2a SyFy channel specials.

1 with Kevin Sorbo of TV's Hercules, and Carmen Electra. It was about killer croc's or snakes or something. Anyway, One scene on a boat sees Kevin yelling at people to get out of the water, from a bench- his leg clearly wrapped up in bandages.
I noticed this shot was a bit odd, like it didnt belong. 3 minutes later, it was revealed why.
The 3 minutes after this shot played out as Sorbo injuring his leg, getting in bandaged up and then yelling at the people - They had taken a shot from 3 minutes later in the film, and used it twice!

Another one was about a mexican cop with a motorcycle. I turned off after 10 minutes when
a) he was riding his motorcycle, they couldn't afford to film him riding it- so they took a still of him on the bike, and using CGI, just moved it along a piece of road, slightly scaling him up for size.
b) for a traveling montage, they used about 45-60 seconds of scenery going past, where they have clearly just filmed it out of the window on their drive home from the studio. I think it even stopped at a cross-road at one point.

[rohrl]

I saw Star Wars - Episode One for the first time on Saturday.

I missed the first half hour but I'm still entirely confident in my assessment that it was total and utter rubbish entirely unworthy of carrying the Star Wars name.

Where to start? The precocious little moon-faced brat Anakin deserved a clip round the ear at five minute intervals throughout though I'd have been happiest had Liam Neeson just shot him in the head. His character was unlikeable and implausible in equal measure.

Jar-Jar fking Binks. Who on the planet didn't immediately despise him? I am generally speaking not an advocate of genocide but in his kind's case an exception arises.

Ewan McGregor's awful Alec Guinness impression was most off-putting and entirely unnecessary.

Natalie Portman was as dull as ditchwater. I didn't care if her character lived or died.

In short it was abysmal. Worse than I expected.

[jbudgie]

chris watton said:

pidsy said:

The worlds end - not funny. Seems half hearted by pegg and frost.

I'm sure someone will be here to tell me I'm missing something but I really didn't rate it.
Hot fuzz and Shaun of the dead were silly funny films but this was just poor. Slow start, terrible characters, more crappy aliens.

I too love Shaun of the Dead and, albeit to a slightly lesser extent, Hot Fuzz, but didn't like The Worlds End at all - perhaps it's a law of diminishing returns thing....

Agreed, didn't think much of World's End either, was looking forward to it as well.

[Halmyre]

rohrl said:

Where to start? The precocious little moon-faced brat Anakin deserved a clip round the ear at five minute intervals throughout though I'd have been happiest had Liam Neeson just shot him in the head. His character was unlikeable and implausible in equal measure.

If you think he's bad wait until you see Hayden Christiansen.

[XM5ER]

Phil Dicky said:

The Lone Ranger...started watching it a couple of weeks ago and turned it off because....well it's st.
Started watching it again a couple of days ago, just to see if I was missing something, guess what I wasn't it's totally totally st

Absolute crap (film). Yet another "look at those terrible capitalists" Hollywood bullst movie.

And Johnny (Depp), you really don't need to put anything more in the pension pot, stop doing these terrible movies and show us how well you can act again.

[rohrl]

Halmyre said:

rohrl said:

Where to start? The precocious little moon-faced brat Anakin deserved a clip round the ear at five minute intervals throughout though I'd have been happiest had Liam Neeson just shot him in the head. His character was unlikeable and implausible in equal measure.

If you think he's bad wait until you see Hayden Christiansen.

Thanks for the warning but I think it unlikely I'll ever watch films two and three. I only watched Episode One to see if it was as bad as everyone said it was.

I'm still in awe of its crapness four days later and amazed that anyone involved with the film could have watched it and been proud at what they produced.

[Adam B]

Bad Neighbours

Bad neighbours, fking awful film. I find Seth Rogen hit and miss but this is definitely a miss, I laughed 3 times, and groaned a hell of a lot more, it seems to have been made with 18 year olds in mind, thick ones at that. Avoid!

[DAmiJO]

Adam B said:

Bad Neighbours

Bad neighbours, fking awful film. I find Seth Rogen hit and miss but this is definitely a miss, I laughed 3 times, and groaned a hell of a lot more, it seems to have been made with 18 year olds in mind, thick ones at that. Avoid!

Don't say that man, I was looking forward to it

[CR6ZZ]

rohrl said:

Thanks for the warning but I think it unlikely I'll ever watch films two and three. I only watched Episode One to see if it was as bad as everyone said it was.

I'm still in awe of its crapness four days later and amazed that anyone involved with the film could have watched it and been proud at what they produced.

Give Episode III a go. It is easily the best of the "First" three.

[GarryDK]

Bachlorette

utter utter ste.

[Adam B]

DAmiJO said:

Adam B said:

Bad Neighbours

Bad neighbours, fking awful film. I find Seth Rogen hit and miss but this is definitely a miss, I laughed 3 times, and groaned a hell of a lot more, it seems to have been made with 18 year olds in mind, thick ones at that. Avoid!

Don't say that man, I was looking forward to it

Maybe its just me, reviews are inexplicably good - are you 18 and like dick jokes / American Pie 5? If so maybe you will enjoy it

[P-Jay]

jbudgie said:

chris watton said:

pidsy said:

The worlds end - not funny. Seems half hearted by pegg and frost.

I'm sure someone will be here to tell me I'm missing something but I really didn't rate it.
Hot fuzz and Shaun of the dead were silly funny films but this was just poor. Slow start, terrible characters, more crappy aliens.

I too love Shaun of the Dead and, albeit to a slightly lesser extent, Hot Fuzz, but didn't like The Worlds End at all - perhaps it's a law of diminishing returns thing....

Agreed, didn't think much of World's End either, was looking forward to it as well.

I had suspected that given there was much less hype about this one than 'Shaun' and 'Fuzz' it might have some issues - but as above, it's not very funny, the story is silly, but not 'good silly' and the sort of twist at the end that was building up for 90 mins was pretty obvious from the start - mostly because it's shown, at the start.

The disc I had was slightly damaged so the last 5-10 mins didn't play properly - I don't feel cheated by that.

[chris watton]

P-Jay said:

jbudgie said:

chris watton said:

pidsy said:

The worlds end - not funny. Seems half hearted by pegg and frost.

I'm sure someone will be here to tell me I'm missing something but I really didn't rate it.
Hot fuzz and Shaun of the dead were silly funny films but this was just poor. Slow start, terrible characters, more crappy aliens.

I too love Shaun of the Dead and, albeit to a slightly lesser extent, Hot Fuzz, but didn't like The Worlds End at all - perhaps it's a law of diminishing returns thing....

Agreed, didn't think much of World's End either, was looking forward to it as well.

I had suspected that given there was much less hype about this one than 'Shaun' and 'Fuzz' it might have some issues - but as above, it's not very funny, the story is silly, but not 'good silly' and the sort of twist at the end that was building up for 90 mins was pretty obvious from the start - mostly because it's shown, at the start.

The disc I had was slightly damaged so the last 5-10 mins didn't play properly - I don't feel cheated by that.

There was only one part in the whole film that made me laugh, and that was the 'knock-door-'run' bit, that lasted all of, what, 10 seconds?

[DAmiJO]

Adam B said:

Maybe its just me, reviews are inexplicably good - are you 18 and like dick jokes / American Pie 5? If so maybe you will enjoy it

i watched it this morning, best bits were in the trailer huh
only lol when he smashed his head on the ceiling fan, and a little chuckle when they crossed streams