OK seeing there are all these threads for favourite tv shows, favourite movies, etc, here's my alternative thread about the worst movies you've seen. Off the top of my head (in no particular order)....
1) "Batman And Robin" - you know you're in trouble with a movie when Arnold Schwarzenegger provides the best acting in it!
2) "The Phantom Menace" - George Lucas pulls down his pants and empties his bowels all over our childhood. The sad thing is that the younger generation who didn't grow up with the original three Star Wars movies think that THIS is the best of the lot!!
3) "Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull" - as if destroying Star Wars wasn't enough, Lucas and Spielberg join forces to turn this classic trilogy into a joke. Amazingly they spent something like ten years coming up with the plotline for this rubbish. Even more amazingly, Harrison Ford recently said he wants to do a fifth Indiana Jones movie! Has he not heard that adage about not returning to the scene of a crime?
4) "North Country" - what you get when writing a movie by numbers. Its all there, from the rebellious teen to the best friend dying from the latest "in" disease. Also the sort of movie that the target audience (ie women) thinks is a brilliant movie simply due to the subject matter. I've said it before and I'll say it again, movie audiences are ******. The girl I saw it with said it was so powerful: the only thing powerful about it was the urge it gave me to retch.
5) "King Kong" - Peter Jackson loses it after the fantastic "Lord Of The Rings" trilogy. The dinosaur stampede is one of the stupidest things ever put to the silver screen. A good example of why classic movies should NOT be remade by a rabid fan with too much money at his disposal.
6) "G.I. Joe" - I was forced to see this on my birthday in Borneo, by a girl I'd met there. Two hours of my life I will never get back.
7) "Double Team" - Jean-Claude Van Damme and Dennis Rodman - need I say more? Easily the worst Van Damme movie ever, and I'm including his directorial attempt "The Quest" in that. Dennis Rodman went on to star in the very worst action movie in the history of all movie-making, "Simon Sez"
8) "Titanic" - a overblown turgid film wallowing in its own pomposity, somehow beloved by all and which made James Cameron 'King of the World'. He followed it up a bit later with a similarly overblown turgid film wallowing in its own pomposity, "Avatar"
9) "Terminator Salvation" - the first two Terminators were classics of their genre (see, I don't hate all James Cameron movies!), the third...well, not so much. The fourth installment really just sunk the series entirely. But what can you expect if you pass the helm over to a nerdy white guy with a try-hard rapper name, McG, whose previous credits include television's "Pussycat Dolls Present: The Search For the Next Doll" and "Pussycat Dolls Present: Girlicious"?
10) "Transformers" and "Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen" - seriously, how does Michael Bay keep making movies??!! At least James Cameron has done some good ones!
11) "Lost In Space" - I really can't work out if Matt Le Blanc is deliberately playing his role in this the way Joey from "Friends" would, or if he actually is that bad of an actor....
12) "10,000 BC" - know anything about Palaeontology, Archaeology, any of the -ologies at all? Enough said.
1) "Batman And Robin" - you know you're in trouble with a movie when Arnold Schwarzenegger provides the best acting in it!
2) "The Phantom Menace" - George Lucas pulls down his pants and empties his bowels all over our childhood. The sad thing is that the younger generation who didn't grow up with the original three Star Wars movies think that THIS is the best of the lot!!
3) "Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull" - as if destroying Star Wars wasn't enough, Lucas and Spielberg join forces to turn this classic trilogy into a joke. Amazingly they spent something like ten years coming up with the plotline for this rubbish. Even more amazingly, Harrison Ford recently said he wants to do a fifth Indiana Jones movie! Has he not heard that adage about not returning to the scene of a crime?
4) "North Country" - what you get when writing a movie by numbers. Its all there, from the rebellious teen to the best friend dying from the latest "in" disease. Also the sort of movie that the target audience (ie women) thinks is a brilliant movie simply due to the subject matter. I've said it before and I'll say it again, movie audiences are ******. The girl I saw it with said it was so powerful: the only thing powerful about it was the urge it gave me to retch.
5) "King Kong" - Peter Jackson loses it after the fantastic "Lord Of The Rings" trilogy. The dinosaur stampede is one of the stupidest things ever put to the silver screen. A good example of why classic movies should NOT be remade by a rabid fan with too much money at his disposal.
6) "G.I. Joe" - I was forced to see this on my birthday in Borneo, by a girl I'd met there. Two hours of my life I will never get back.
7) "Double Team" - Jean-Claude Van Damme and Dennis Rodman - need I say more? Easily the worst Van Damme movie ever, and I'm including his directorial attempt "The Quest" in that. Dennis Rodman went on to star in the very worst action movie in the history of all movie-making, "Simon Sez"
8) "Titanic" - a overblown turgid film wallowing in its own pomposity, somehow beloved by all and which made James Cameron 'King of the World'. He followed it up a bit later with a similarly overblown turgid film wallowing in its own pomposity, "Avatar"
9) "Terminator Salvation" - the first two Terminators were classics of their genre (see, I don't hate all James Cameron movies!), the third...well, not so much. The fourth installment really just sunk the series entirely. But what can you expect if you pass the helm over to a nerdy white guy with a try-hard rapper name, McG, whose previous credits include television's "Pussycat Dolls Present: The Search For the Next Doll" and "Pussycat Dolls Present: Girlicious"?
10) "Transformers" and "Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen" - seriously, how does Michael Bay keep making movies??!! At least James Cameron has done some good ones!
11) "Lost In Space" - I really can't work out if Matt Le Blanc is deliberately playing his role in this the way Joey from "Friends" would, or if he actually is that bad of an actor....
12) "10,000 BC" - know anything about Palaeontology, Archaeology, any of the -ologies at all? Enough said.
) and Star Wars by the same (even though the story was largely already there) and far too much CG.
). Check out youtube for clips from such wonders as "Komodo", "Komodo vs Cobra", "Razorback", "Megalodon", and best of all "Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus".......
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