Bad Films I watched this weekend

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qube_TA

8,402 posts

244 months

Tuesday 16th December 2014
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tobinen said:
The Zero Theorem - Managed to reach 45 mins still none the wiser and was tempted to eject and move on with my life. Watched it to the end and wished I had bailed out. ste
I really enjoyed that, not his best work but thought it was great, looked fantastic.

Now if you want a duffer, try Debug - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2769184

It might have been better if they'd had more than the £15 it cost to make it. They seem to have just borrowed bits of plot from Event Horizon, 2001 etc with the crew of a spaceship stuck with an evil computer AI. It's all a bit too ham.

4/10



SpudLink

5,669 posts

191 months

Tuesday 16th December 2014
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blindswelledrat said:
Wow, I think that is the worst IMDB score I have ever seen. That must be awful
I assume this is one of those God awful films Wesley Snipes has to make to cover his multi million dollar tax bill.

qube_TA

8,402 posts

244 months

Tuesday 16th December 2014
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blindswelledrat said:
irocfan said:
Gallowwalkers - Wesley Snipes. Poor, poor, poor. Some reasonable moments but a wasted opportunity frown 20%

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0829176/?ref_=nv_sr_2
Wow, I think that is the worst IMDB score I have ever seen. That must be awful
Doesn't help when your lead gets arrested for tax evasion and sentenced to 6 years whilst in the middle of filming smile



FourWheelDrift

88,375 posts

283 months

Tuesday 16th December 2014
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SpudLink said:
blindswelledrat said:
Wow, I think that is the worst IMDB score I have ever seen. That must be awful
I assume this is one of those God awful films Wesley Snipes has to make to cover his multi million dollar tax bill.
Not even in the bottom 100 - http://www.imdb.com/chart/bottom

If your children play up over the next 2 weeks threaten to show then Saving Christmas.

irocfan

40,152 posts

189 months

Tuesday 16th December 2014
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FourWheelDrift said:
SpudLink said:
blindswelledrat said:
Wow, I think that is the worst IMDB score I have ever seen. That must be awful
I assume this is one of those God awful films Wesley Snipes has to make to cover his multi million dollar tax bill.
Not even in the bottom 100 - http://www.imdb.com/chart/bottom

If your children play up over the next 2 weeks threaten to show then Saving Christmas.
dear LORD!!! Talk about bonkers...

Ator the Invincible (1984) - "Muscle-bound Ator and his mute Asian sidekick travel from the ends of the Earth to save his aged mentor from the evil mustachioed Zor."
Turks in Space (2006) - "A family of Turks try to adapt to life in a new solar system."

JonRB

74,394 posts

271 months

Tuesday 16th December 2014
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irocfan said:
Turks in Space (2006)
I can't help but read that in the style of the Muppets.

Turrrrrrrrks innnnn SPAAAAAAAAAACE.........


Pickled

2,051 posts

142 months

Tuesday 16th December 2014
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The Counsellor, there used to be a time when a film with Ridley Scott's name on it, meant you could expect something pretty decent, he really has lost the plot with this and Prometheus. 2+ hour long film and yet the was no real development of plot or character, even Cameron Diaz doing the splits and humping a Ferrari California didn't make up for the rest of it.

Tuvra

7,920 posts

224 months

Wednesday 17th December 2014
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Haunting in Connecticut 2 (Netflix). Not scary in the slightest, a bit odd, a bit predictable and bloody boring. Switched it off about 3/4 through.

rambo19

2,737 posts

136 months

Wednesday 17th December 2014
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A clockwork orange;
could not see what all the fuss is about......

grumbledoak

31,499 posts

232 months

Wednesday 17th December 2014
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rambo19 said:
A clockwork orange;
could not see what all the fuss is about......
Agreed. The book is well worth reading. The film is rubbish.

FourWheelDrift

88,375 posts

283 months

Wednesday 17th December 2014
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Some might say Kubrick withdrew his film because he knew it was crap rather than because of the apparent violence portrayed.

RESSE

5,692 posts

220 months

Thursday 18th December 2014
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Cannonball Fever on Movies for Men (1915hrs).

Giving this another go and my previous post back in the Summer was correct.

A film so bad I cannot believe it is being nrepeated tonight.

st on an epic scale.

Bullett

10,873 posts

183 months

Thursday 18th December 2014
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Sucker Punch - Looks promising right? Girls in skimpy outfits, fighting, giant samurai, nazi zombie soldiers, helicopters, dragons, orcs. What could go wrong?

Lots apparently. it lacks any sense of peril, the fights get tedious, the characters are one dimensional, it's the old dream within a dream/bullet time/you control your destiny bks we've seen a million times before. It looks like a bad video game cut scene.

13 year old boys might be impressed, everyone else avoid.

2/10

Hooli

32,278 posts

199 months

Thursday 18th December 2014
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JonRB said:
irocfan said:
Turks in Space (2006)
I can't help but read that in the style of the Muppets.

Turrrrrrrrks innnnn SPAAAAAAAAAACE.........
Not just me then hehe

anonymous-user

53 months

Thursday 18th December 2014
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FourWheelDrift said:
SpudLink said:
blindswelledrat said:
Wow, I think that is the worst IMDB score I have ever seen. That must be awful
I assume this is one of those God awful films Wesley Snipes has to make to cover his multi million dollar tax bill.
Not even in the bottom 100 - http://www.imdb.com/chart/bottom

If your children play up over the next 2 weeks threaten to show then Saving Christmas.
I was scanning down that list thinking "If Going Overboard isn't on this list, I'll eat my own face". Glad to see it popped up at #8 - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096870/?ref_=chtbtm_t...

Without a shadow of a doubt the worst film I've ever seen. Someone gave me it on DVD a few years ago.. why they put that kind of evil on me I will never know. I watched about the first 25 minutes of it, then took the DVD out of the player and destroyed it. Snapped it into about 6 pieces and binned it.

This item of Trivia from IMDB sums it up.. "The camera crew forgot to bring a box of lenses on the ship, so the director of photography was forced to shoot with the wrong lenses."

Alapeno

1,391 posts

146 months

Friday 19th December 2014
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Olympus Has Fallen.

It has taken the title of worst film I saw in 2014. Which is no mean feat seeing as we only have a few days left of the year. It raises so many questions...

Why would well paid actors agree to do this film?

And why did the performance of all these actors come across so badly? I've seen them in other films.

Why was everyone in it 100 points lower on IQ than Gerard Butler?

Why were the enemy extremely clever but then when faced with the prospect of Gerard Butler, become incredibly stupid?

Why, even with a seemingly massive budget, did it manage to look like a B-movie?

Just why?


Bullett

10,873 posts

183 months

Friday 19th December 2014
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ash73 said:
On the contrary, I think it's very good once you understand it - good review here and here

You've been sucker punched wink
As a satire it fails even harder than if it was a straightforward exploitation movie. You can't just make the exact same movie and then go haha look I'm actually exploiting you the audience. I don't buy the female fantasy empowerment bit either as they are only empowered in a fantasy inside a fantasy probably inside a fantasy. It feels more like a statement about mental illness than empowerment.

He does raise some interesting points in that video. I noticed that sweet pea was notably more prim than the other girls, that it started on stage etc but I think the argument that the CGI sequences were bad on purpose and only sucked in geeks as her dancing was overt and sucked in perverts is tenuous.

Tycho

11,554 posts

272 months

Friday 19th December 2014
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Hello Carter.
Utter drivel with absolutely no likeable characters in it at all. I really didn't care what happened to any of them and couldn't wait until it finished.

Hope Springs.
Billed as a RomCom but had no comedy in it at all.

Tiggsy

10,261 posts

251 months

Friday 19th December 2014
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Tycho said:
Hope Springs.
Billed as a RomCom but had no comedy in it at all.
Although...something good about it. Maybe for anyone married? (although I got divorced after watching it so who knows!!!)

Tycho

11,554 posts

272 months

Friday 19th December 2014
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Tiggsy said:
Tycho said:
Hope Springs.
Billed as a RomCom but had no comedy in it at all.
Although...something good about it. Maybe for anyone married? (although I got divorced after watching it so who knows!!!)
I am married and the wife thought it was crap as well!
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