Surprised I had to read through 4 pages to see this first mentioned. It’s been a while since I labored through watching it, but I recall the squirrel had way too much of the story line
Worst Movies Ever
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Surprised I had to read through 4 pages to see this first mentioned. It’s been a while since I labored through watching it, but I recall the squirrel had way too much of the story line
Apparently there’s 6 movies in the home alone “franchise” if you’ll can it that. I’ve seen the first 5, I guess there was a new one last year. The first two are obviously great movies, third and fourth were decent for not having Macaulay Culkin, but the 5th one was just terrible.
It might be enough to get me banned from this site, but....
Talladega Nights.
Talladega Nights.
I watched Green Knight last evening. The more I thought about it, the more I liked it. I can understand why people wouldn't however.
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing,Missouri
Terrible movie. Can’t understand how many awards it was nominated for.
Terrible movie. Can’t understand how many awards it was nominated for.
That's backed up by sales numbers too
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All Time Domestic Box Office for Comedy Movies
This chart contains the top 100 Comedy movies based on the cumulative domestic box office.
www.the-numbers.com
Very few movies have found their way in to the top 25 grossing numbers in recent years, where in other categories (and in this one in the past) you'd expect new hits to climb the ladder simply due to inflation.
The change in movie-watching habits did a ton to kill comedy in theaters.
People have lots of ways to watch movies at home. So what do theaters do? They offer a premium viewing experience that gives lots of amenities and high quality audio\video.
But those premium amenities cost money. So what do people end up spending their money on with the increase in prices? "Safe" bets (such as franchises they already know). Visual spectacles that take advantage of the large displays. Movies people feel like they have to see right away in the theaters because of spoilers.
Comedies, unfortunately, are usually none of those. Most comedies are one-off films. Most comedies are low on visual effects. And there's little spoiler-worry in comedies. Most people are fine waiting a few months to watch a comedy at home.
Comedies do get some revenue when they tick some of those boxes. Of the movies to hit top 25 gross in the last 10 years:
2023- Barbie (not a sequel but kind of part of a large brand)
2015- Pitch Perfect 2 (sequel)
2014- 22 jump street (sequel)
Similarly, this also explains the rise of franchise films (and in particular the MCU as it ticks all the pro-theater boxes). People feel 'safe' going to a movie in a franchise they already know. Even if its not great, they'll rarely feel like they wasted the money entirely.
If you like clip shows designed for slow children, sure.
It's a ******* terrible movie. It's the perfect harbinger of the cynical, creatively bankrupt trash Star Wars and all the other franchises that the House of Mouse has been ruining the past decade.
Notice I said "worst experience in a theater," though, and not "worst movie" (though it's a strong contender for that title, too). I might have posted this on here before, but well why not once more...
I went into The Force Awakens expecting a good film -- maybe not a masterpiece, but at least better than the dull and awkward prequels. The reviews were raving about it (turns out the Mouse is pretty good at splashing cash and/or access and favors to critics when it needs that Rotten Tomatoes score up).
"Star Wars is back!" they said. Maybe we collectively wanted to believe that. But nope.
I happen to be sitting next to a gentleman in the packed theater who embodied every negative stereotype you can imagine about basement-dwelling Star Wars fans. Poorly kept, wearing a white tank top, poor personal hygiene, exactly the kind of manchild you would conjure. And he spent the whole time pointing and gasping at every callback that even a casual fan would understand like it was a religious experience.
When the Millennium Falcon showed up, I think he had a seizure or... well, one might guess. He sat there trembling and banging his fists on his knees like he was playing some congas.
"THERE IT IS THERE IT IS THERE IT IS!!!" Yeah, we know idiot.
I just slumped back in my chair and waited for the lobotomy to be over.
Haven't been back to the franchise since outside of Rogue One, which was meh. Good riddance. I'm gonna go watch Die Hard or Lawrence of Arabia or Ford v. Ferrari or The Favourite or Sorcerer or the K-State game again (or really just anything that is any bit good) to try and get that bad memory out of my head.
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A small list because you requested it...
-- I can take or leave the art style and comic book aesthetic. But the level of gore is at best distracting and most of the time disgusting. It serves no purpose to the plot or themes. Ultimately it's boring.
I know that is sort of Zack Snyder's thing, and on the continuum of "hater" to "defender" of his I'm probably closer to a defender. He's made some good movies, but he's best when he's restraining the "ooh look at the CGI blood splatter!" adolescent tendencies, like in something like Dawn of the Dead.
An aside, but I'm a defender of his version of Watchmen minus the unnecessary at times gore.
-- The real story of the Battle of Thermopylae is a fascinating bit of ancient history. But this just butchers it. I'm well aware The Bridge over the River Kwai and The Great Escape and Patton and Ben-Hur aren't exactly documentaries, but they're grounded in real events that tell a story that is thematically consistent with the actual story or have a compelling character or set of characters at the heart of them. Not here.
-- The Spartans yelling "FREEDOM!" over and over at the end like it was Braveheart just did it in for me. Yes, movies have good guys and bad guys. But taking the Spartans... a HORRIBLY repressive regime where a warrior aristocracy of ~10% the population ground under its feet the serfs and slaves that made up the remainder of the population... as some sort of epitome of liberty while making the Achaemenid Persians, who DID NOT have much of a slave system throughout the empire, and making them into something resembling the Orcs from The Return of the King... it's historically illiterate and borders on racism in portraying the Middle East like that.
The fact it came out in 2006, right at the height of U.S. military involvement in the Middle East during that decade, didn't exactly make those kind of overtones hard to miss and difficult to understand.
-- The acting is terrible. Gerard Butler just screams everything in a Scottish accent like a moron.
It was just annoyingly violent and distractingly dumb. Nothing redeeming about it.
Grownups. I don't know how that many funny people can make such an unfunny movie but they did. Bad comedies in general are the worst IMO, and this is one of the worst ever.
Well said. Hollywood has gotten very lazy, with a few exceptions.That's backed up by sales numbers too
All Time Domestic Box Office for Comedy Movies
This chart contains the top 100 Comedy movies based on the cumulative domestic box office.
Very few movies have found their way in to the top 25 grossing numbers in recent years, where in other categories (and in this one in the past) you'd expect new hits to climb the ladder simply due to inflation.
The change in movie-watching habits did a ton to kill comedy in theaters.
People have lots of ways to watch movies at home. So what do theaters do? They offer a premium viewing experience that gives lots of amenities and high quality audio\video.
But those premium amenities cost money. So what do people end up spending their money on with the increase in prices? "Safe" bets (such as franchises they already know). Visual spectacles that take advantage of the large displays. Movies people feel like they have to see right away in the theaters because of spoilers.
Comedies, unfortunately, are usually none of those. Most comedies are one-off films. Most comedies are low on visual effects. And there's little spoiler-worry in comedies. Most people are fine waiting a few months to watch a comedy at home.
Comedies do get some revenue when they tick some of those boxes. Of the movies to hit top 25 gross in the last 10 years:
2023- Barbie (not a sequel but kind of part of a large brand)
2015- Pitch Perfect 2 (sequel)
2014- 22 jump street (sequel)
Similarly, this also explains the rise of franchise films (and in particular the MCU as it ticks all the pro-theater boxes). People feel 'safe' going to a movie in a franchise they already know. Even if its not great, they'll rarely feel like they wasted the money entirely.
I always enjoyed Will Ferrel, his run from old school to step brothers hasn’t been matched.
I rewatched some of the clips and the GCI did age poorly. Of course it not historically accurate, it’s a fun made up battle of 300 elite soldiers vs an endless army of slaves. I just don’t think it belongs on a worst movie of all time list.
And your list line described the last 3 John Wick movies
I don't expect historical accuracy. Some great historical films play fast and loose with the facts when the story calls for it or are aggressive about simplifying events and the number of characters.
But they don't go 180° in the opposite direction. The only "endless army of slaves" the Spartans would have ever been fighting would have been if their own slaves (the helots) rose up on them. Spartans were notoriously fickle about leaving Sparta to fight because they were so terrified of a slave rebellion. Their martial prowess wasn't designed to defeat other Greeks. It was designed to keep their slaves down.
John Wick started as a screenplay in the early 2000s. It's a pretty straightforward revenge flick.
300 is an "adaptation" of the Battle of Thermopylae, one of the most memorable war stories in the history of our species. When you're dealing with such weighty source material... have at least a little respect for it. John Wick can get away with it because it isn't dealing with such powerful history and literature.
I don't know that its even lazy. Its simply catering to what the audience will buy. And the audience by and large isn't interested in paying theater prices for comedies they can stream in a few months for a fraction of what going to the theater costs.
Ferrell definitely had a great run.
All my friends in high shool liked it but I didn't really understand what was so great.
I'm pretty sure he says both lines. 'Welcome to Earth' immediately after punching the alien then he sits down to smoke a cigar and says the other line.
- Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull - went to see that movie in theaters with friends the summer after graduating from high school and left the theater feeling the same way as the South Park episode about it.
- Independence Day: Resurgence
- Pacific Rim Uprising
- Everything post-Aliens
- Everything post-Terminator 2
- Star Wars sequels but especially the one with the casino planet
- 100% of superhero/comic book movies. No exceptions.
Apparently none of you have seen Terror at Blood Fart Lake.
Birth of Nation - really shouldn't need a reason why
Gone with the Wind
Now, Gone with the Wind is a brilliant piece of film making. And I own a copy. And its a very well made movie on its face value.
However, its very sympathetic tone towards the south during the civil war - or what I see as a very sympathetic stance - bothers me.
Gone with the Wind
Now, Gone with the Wind is a brilliant piece of film making. And I own a copy. And its a very well made movie on its face value.
However, its very sympathetic tone towards the south during the civil war - or what I see as a very sympathetic stance - bothers me.