I had the misfortune of seeing epic movie something I would usually avoid like the plague. It got atrocious reviews and I hope all the other film critics have arranged the one who gave it a fresh review to die an untimely death through over exposure to the carcinogenic substance which is epic movie. Most of my friends have to worst taste in movies and often I just point blank refuse to go along with them if they don't pick a decent movie and they think I'm a snob because of it which is probably true. But this was for one of my friend's birthday parties and I haven't quite gotten to the point of refusing to go to someone's party because of the movie, in hindsight I probably should have.
I've often wondered under what criteria a movie can be judged as truly awful and not the so-bad-it's-god type or just plain boring. I think for a movie to be truly bad it needs to be trying, have the best intention of being meaningful or entertaining and usually look like money and effort has gone into it and just fail abysmally every step of the way. The movie needs to make you want to be anywhere else but where it is, it needs to turn your stomach and make you want to cover your ears, not a movie which just puts you to sleep or you start talking over it but one where even talking over it while your in the same cinema as it is disturbing. That's why I think a lot of the low budget, laughably bad movies don't make the cut because they actually provide entertainment through how bad it is thud giving them something to recommend them.
The only thing worse than a horrible movie in my opinion is a good movie which decides to screw over it's entire premise in the last quarter of the film which I believe Yahtzee has already categorized in games as "Indigo prophecy syndrome." Worse still is when it's something you weren't expecting to be good but actually start enjoying it and then towards then end it falls exactly to your low expectations and then exceeds them.
An example of that was the movie Sunshine which I didn't expect much from and has obviously divided critics and I reckon would have got a score around the 70s or maybe 80s if the had removed the third act. The story follows a spaceship team trying to re-ignite the sun which is slowly dying out by dropping a nuclear payload into to it and scientific stupidity aside it made for quite a good plot. Sure it lacked much character development but that wasn't what the movie was about since you could tell they were all dead from the start there wasn't really much change of the old movie trick of giving someone a strong background and a couple of emotional scenes and then killing them hoping to somehow to uprise the audience with that utterly predictable trick. The movie itself looked gorgeous with a great, gloomy, hyper realistic style and draw dropping shots of the sun. The other thing which was satisfying was that though predictable the deaths of the characters happened in what felt like perfectly natural ways, simply forgetting to adjust the shields while doing complex trajectory calculations cause one passenger to blame himself and commit suicide and the crew quite reasonably leaves another to die to save the oxygen when their green house catches on fire from the sun. Over all it felt quite organic at least in my opinion and there were a couple of simple but creepy shots like the half-second flashes of the other ships dead crew when they board it which usually means the aliens start coming out but thankfully nothing supernatural happened, or so I thought.
Then the last part of the movie startsand pardon me for spoilers. To roughly paraphrase "RRGGGHHH!!! SPACE ZOMBIE!!" the ship suddenly gets boarded by a superhuman survivor from the other ship and starts doing nasty things to the crew with a scalpel delivering such lines as "For seven years I spoke with God. He told me to take us all to Heaven" and "At the end of time, a moment will come when just one man remains. Then the moment will pass. Man will be gone. There will be nothing to show that we were ever here... but stardust.". It's like the the script writer suddenly died of a heart attack and they need to make the movie longer so they just cut up random pieces of Resident Evil dialog and stuck phrases together. Now I don't care if it was meant to be a metaphor for insanity or evil or whatever it was still a space zombie and all pretense of a insane old man barely holding on to life goes out the window when he survives multiple scalpel stabs. Needless to say it ends with every cliche in the book including the dodgy crew member finding a change of heart and sacrificing himself for the greater good as he embraces the damsel in distress as they go hurling into the sun manual controlling the nuclear bomb and finally getting a one in a million shot placing it in just the right place.
Whats The Worst Movie Ever Made?
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It's not a bad movie just the end part. Oh and I always use metacritic because with RT a movie can be just "alright" and get very good reviews if everyone at least didn't hate it. Something with 92% on RT can get a 70 avg on metacritic, plus I like metacritcs layout a good way to browse through opinions and why something polarized critics if it's basically all "meh" 70 reviews or some people loved it and some people hate it.
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Starship Troopers 2 (Could also probably win the worst sequel award)
The movie is so horrid I haven't been able to finish it.
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Another nomination for the worst sequel: S. Darko
It's like they absolutely didn't understood why Donnie Darko was a good movie.
The movie is so horrid I haven't been able to finish it.
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Another nomination for the worst sequel: S. Darko
It's like they absolutely didn't understood why Donnie Darko was a good movie.
frenchfrog wrote:Another nomination for the worst sequel: S. Darko
It's like they absolutely didn't understood why Donnie Darko was a good movie.
*twitch* There was NO SEQUEL to Donnie Darko. Any such sequel would be a horrible idea. *twitch* I have never seen a sequel to Donnie Darko. *twitch* Such a thing COULD NOT HAPPEN!
xander
frenchfrog wrote:Starship Troopers 2 (Could also probably win the worst sequel award)
The movie is so horrid I haven't been able to finish it.
The third one wasn't much better.
Wouldn't a director's cut of Donnie Darko be so cool? I wonder why they didn't do that.xander wrote:frenchfrog wrote:Another nomination for the worst sequel: S. Darko
It's like they absolutely didn't understood why Donnie Darko was a good movie.
*twitch* There was NO SEQUEL to Donnie Darko. Any such sequel would be a horrible idea. *twitch* I have never seen a sequel to Donnie Darko. *twitch* Such a thing COULD NOT HAPPEN!
xander
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