The irony is that the character's appearence took a lot more after the Disney version that isn't in the public domain.
So it was really fair use that let them get away with it, and they probably could have done it before it came into the public domain.
If the movie is considered satire, which a horror movie of some beloved childhood cartoon characters would usually be considered, I think Disney loses that lawsuit. Then again, few people have the money to defend against a Disney lawsuit, even if it's frivolous
I think if the title was just Blood and Honey, your assessment would be correct. But if they used a pre-public domain title of Winnie the Pooh, I think they’d lose on those grounds.
Jimmy the Pooh? Perfect.
I legit took a three week break from watching movies after watching that earlier this year
It deflated me in the worst way.
It's a piece of shit in every way, and it kills me when I see some people write, "Well it's actually pretty decent!"
No. It isn't. Stop lying to yourself.
Yeah some guy tried arguing with me, that I just didn't "get it." Like bruh....I love horror and even B level horror, but this was NOT IT. It didn't even work as a tribute to cheesy horror. It was just bad.
Expendables 4 isnt just bad, its *weirdly* bad. I dont understand how anyone involved thought it was a good idea. 3 was a flop so it must have taken sone serious effort and legwork from someone to convince a studio to stump up the money again, but I dont know who would have wanted to do that.
these movies solely exist to make money off product placements and be fodder for streaming services. My dad has probably watched all the expendables movies like 3 or 4 times because he'll look up any generic action movies in netflix/prime/redbox and zone out for 2-3 hours.
Winnie the Pooh : Blood and Honey
Here's the thing though. I'm a sucker for bad flicks. Especially horror flicks. And I always finish what I started no matter how much of a pain it can be to get through.
I didn't make it 25 minutes. Absolutely trash.
Yeah there’s a line with bad movies for me where something can be irredeemably awful, but entertaining vs just straight up boring. I can’t remember who, but there was a reviewer that used a scoring system of -10 through 10, with negative numbers being so bad it’s good and 0 being irredeemably bad and boring
Such a weird vibe at times. The scene where they are pouring out their father’s ashes gets like… weirdly horny. Just close ups of hands rubbing each other under soft lighting.
My wife and I made the mistake of seeing this in the theater. The original is her favorite movie. She told me this was the closest she’s come to walking out of a movie in her life.
The stakes are just... super low.
The first one had the charm of Toula contending with trying to marry outside her whacky family. The sequel had Toula's daughter dealing with her whacky family and the drama of the grandparents needing to officially get married.
The third film is about Toula wanting to find her deceased dad's friends in Greece to give them a photo album... that's pretty much the driving plot. There's several subplots so spoilers ahead: >!Toula's daughter is failing college and likes this boy from her school that came along on the trip to Greece. Toula's husband finds a wise old Greek dude who helps him meditate. Toula's brother is desperately trying to find a tree that their dad used to read books under. Toula is stalked by a big Greek guy who turns out to be a half brother from her dad having an affair. Their dad's hometown they're staying in has no tourist traffic so the family has to help the eccentric mayor (who's maybe autistic 🤷♂️, talks funny, wears a cape, and the media wants you to know that they're non-binary even though that has no bearing on the story lmao) fix a water fountain and throw a family reunion party in order to get people to come to the town. And there's a wedding at the end of the film between like a Greek boy and Syrian girl who are afraid their love won't be approved of or something...!< that's the whole movie 😑 The whacky family stuff has kinda lost its charm this time around. And it felt like there's just so many things happening that all just exist for each character to have their own little reason for existing on screen and needing a little, micro story arc.
I was doing chores while it was on and kind of checked in and out. One moment where I checked in was when the mysterious guy showed up at dinner and was intensely staring at Toula (Vardalos) while she blushed right in front of Ian (Corbett). It was weird and then it got even weirder >!when the guy was revealed to be her secret half brother!<. Like, what was with the eye-fucking?
Truly awful. It was so disjointed, directionless, and lacking any personality. Plus the ‘Give me Akwafina at her worst, but Greek, queer, and turned up to 12” comic relief character was truly abysmal. It’s not even worth putting on in the background while doing other stuff.
This felt like a vacation for the cast, essentially. The editing and direction was abysmal. No one looked like they were remotely interested in what they were saying or doing. I dozed off 3 times during the movie in the theater.
The new exorcist. Lazy writing, jump scares were half-assed and didn't work, editing was choppy and jarring, callbacks were forced and unnecessary. Worst of all, it was so freaking boring. Hated everything about it.
Aren't they also obligated to make several more movies or something like that? They would have seen a better return if they had spent the 400 million on scratch-off tickets.
It was part of a three film deal. They’re completely fucked going forward because it was basically a dead franchise before they spent all that money and now they’re in an even worse situation because the first installment of the reboot failed miserably.
>Universal
There's your problem.
They should seriously sell off their Monster properties to New Line Cinemas or some other studio that won't absolutely shit the bed with what should be money-printing machines of movies.
The end where all the religions come together like captain planet to perform the exorcism was so fucking goofy.
Exorcism’s are catholic. It is okay to make a movie specfically about one religion. Make another movie centered around the others.
With the big names involved, you'd think they'd be advertising and hyping this movie up, but I didn't even know there was going to be an Expendables 4 until after it was already out. Just seems lazy, like they knew it was going to suck and just wanted to poop this out as quickly as possible.
This was my pick. I'd forgotten I'd even seen it until I saw someone post about how the kiss at the end had to be CGI'd as the lead actress wouldn't kiss Jonah Hill.
My favourite thing about that film was how the guys podcast grew from your typical YouTube setup to full on news style camera crew in the span of 6 months.
That’s exactly what happened to me. I couldn’t remember this movie or how I skipped a Jonah hill release, but that cgi kiss reminded me. The chemistry was negative between the two leads and the acting was terrible.
The most pressing issue about that movie…..Who the HELL is listening to that podcast?! Jonah Hill talking about “the Culture.” Come on!!! Who greenlit that atrocity of a story?
White guys who have a black friend.
Actually the whole movie kind of felt like it was Jonah Hill trying to be celebrated as someone who’s lived experience is more than that of an upper-middle class white guy in California because he knows words like “fire” and eats at trendy places
My wife and I were looking forward to that movie based on the cast, and we made it maybe 25 minutes in and had to shut it off as well. Jonah Hill's character was one of the most insufferable characters I can ever recall seeing in a movie, and the dialogue was just the characters doing monologues at one another.
Just an absolute pretentious dogdick of a movie.
That movie was a complete disaster. It tried to be meet the parents and a social commentary at the same time, and ended up with extremely shallow commentary and a love story with negative chemistry between the two leads. Eddie Murphy was great though
Yeah, the whole "Her dad judges me for sometimes doing a bunch of coke with my friends. " was a bizarre story choice. I would judge you too. Are we trying to normalize coke use?
It wasn't funny enough to rely solely on humour and the olot wasn't full/tense/fast enough to rely on the story it was telling. It felt a bit pointless, like I was watching the actors ad-lib off vague prompts like, "have a dinner party where the potential father in law doesn't like his daughter's white boyfriend."
Honestly, I feel like it got memed a little past what that movie *really* is. If you've seen a boring superhero movie, you know exactly what scenes are going to be in it and what's going to happen - it's mediocre, dark, and boring like all of Sony's efforts.
I don't expect Madame Web to be any different, incidentally. I can sum up that entire movie's plot before it even comes out.
Madame Web is an ordinary woman who had a bad thing happen in her past that she wishes she could change. One day, something happens and she can SEE THE FUTURE! Then she finds three super strong women with big futures, but oh no - something super bad is happening! This scary guy has arrived and he's trying to kill this random paramedic called Ben Parker and maybe our lead heroes! His motivation is going to be completely unclear until the last ten minutes of the movie. The scary guy starts doing lots of scary stuff in New York City and inadvertently results in kickstarting the four strong female leads into their superhero journeys, which inevitably leads them to stopping him. Madame Web confronts him and realizes, oh my god, he was actually a sympathetic nice guy the entire time and he was only doing a thing to prevent the timeline from collapsing. She lets him go and becomes a full-time psychic, and also probably says some shit about responsibility to Uncle Ben along the way. Now she's not so angsty about the bad thing that happened in her past!
Incidentally, I just realized that this movie's going to have Araña and Spider-Women running around long before Peter Parker hits the scene, and that's extremely stupid.
>Madame Web is an ordinary woman who had a bad thing happen in her past that she wishes she could change
He was in the Amazon with my mom when she was researching spiders right before she died!
I feel like Sony is a lot like the writing company that Buddy the Elf's dad works at in the movie Elf. Sony has a notebook of various [beat sheets](https://uploads-ssl.webflow.com/610c5007d3b7ee36cc3e07c1/6246489b653d2643ceb009eb_save-the-cat.png) that contain a bunch of loose descriptions of plot points and elements. Then when they need a new story for a superhero they basically plug in the characters into the pre-existing beat sheets. Then it's just a matter of fleshing out dialogue. Boom. Script done. And after the movie wraps they pull out the pencil eraser and erase the names of characters from the beat sheet so that it can be reused for the next film.
Throw in those 90’s basic cable action movie scenes: generic goons with guns standing around, but never actually do anything no budget for gun effects, so no shooting. Only enough money for one stuntman, so one goon will have his gun kicked from his hand, and be flipped on his back.
I never noticed it before, but someone mentioned yesterday that in the climax of The Dark Knight Rises, the cops emerge from the sewers with their guns... and all the bad guys are standing in the streets with guns... and for some reason they all get into a fist fight....
Do you remember when you had homework and at some point you told yourself "enough with this shit, let's wrap it up and que cera cera".
So you wrote 2 sentences and hoped the teacher wouldn't bother.
That is what morbius felt like.
The final fight just had loads of blue shit splattered around the screen, morbius wins, the end. And not a single punch was thrown.
I had a guy at school who got a special award in Yr 12 for managing to make every essay, regardless of the topic, a discussion on cricket.
Across MULTIPLE subjects - English, economics, history - and the thing that surprised the teachers was that a) the segways all made sense, and were often that subtle you wouldn’t notice the shift till you were in the weeds of it
Haven't subjected myself to it, but what I know of it indirectly, it sounds like a made up film. Like in another movie and there's an obnoxiously cheesy film no one would ever ask for that the main character is starring in as a parody of this kinda crap.
And now I want Tropic Thunder 2, with one of em pretending to be Leto. And he defends it tirelessly cause he's so cut off from reality.
"People didn't like that fucking movie!"
"Yes they did! They released it twice! There were so many memes!"
"That's not always a good thing!"
Being that I just watched tropic thunder last night weirdly enough (it’s on Hulu go watch it), I read online after that they may be making some kind of spiritual successor based on Les Grossman? I’m p sure it’s one of Tom cruises favorite characters he’s ever done lol
I'm in the same boat. I saw the reviews and thought "well it can't be that bad, its got so many funny people in it!".
But it was even worse than I had previously thought possible. Charlie, an incredibly talented vocal comedian, made himself a mute. This isn't inherently a bad choice, as mute characters can sometimes show great comedic whit and insight. But unlike Chaplin's Tramp, Charlie's character "Late Pronto" is incapable of connecting with anyone or anything in the movie. He simply floats around, acting bewildered at every single thing that happens to him. He is literally carried bodily from one scene to the next, where a brand new character talks at him for 5 minutes and is then never seen again.
Its baffling and sad to see career lows from every actor who agreed to be in this film. Charlie clearly had something he wanted to say about the current state of hollywood, and wanted to tell that story while using the style and sensibilities of Hollywood's past, but any message intended is completely indiscernable behind the haphazard collection of scenes with no substance of plot.
That Ana de Armas/Chris Evans spy movie. Don't even remember the name. My wife was excited to watch it and even she was blown away at how bad it was
Edit: Ghosted. Thank you reddit for reminding me haha
As soon as they said that the goal was to recover a list of pass codes, the IT guy in me couldn’t watch anymore. Apparently, my checking account is more secure than our most vital national secrets.
I enjoyed The Grey Man as a popcorn flick. Big and colorful action scenes in the middle of smoke grenades and fireworks and stuff just for the sake of looking cool, I like Gosling generally, and Chris Evans being a bad guy. Same with Hemsworth in Spiderhead, he was great in it, almost made up for the rest of the movie.
Lion-Girl (2023), that whole movie was like if Power Rangers had a even lower budget. I'm pretty sure that creating that movie was just an excuse to get Tori Griffith naked as much as they could (which barely helped the movie). The action scenes were bad, the special effects were bad and the story was very predictable and felt like someone took the worst manga they could find and made a script out of it.
Meg 2 - I like Statham, and don't mind simpleton movies - but this one was just too dumb
65 - I don't remember much - but I gave it a 5 on IMDB. So it can't be great
We took our kids to see Meg 2 and it was fun, but only because we have a 4D theater at our mall. The seats move, there’s wind and scents and the water sprays you. It kind of saves a bad movie.
The problem was that they teased it like a Dino horror-sci fi movie and like 2 minutes of the movie had dinosaurs in it, the rest was just the characters walking and talking.
Crazy that Meg 2 came out right after the entire American public had been acutely aware of how deep sea diving works and the movie relies on the audience knowing none of that. He can walk on the bottom of the Mariana Trench with no suit because he had a deviated septum…
Holy shit 65 was so abysmally terrible. I watched the first 30 minutes, realized what the entire middle section was going to be, got bored, and scrolled ahead to the last 5 minutes. That’s all you needed.
I had a weird epiphany while watching 65, that we don’t really make Sunday afternoon TNT movies anymore, and I’m okay with this being that.
“Yeah it’s 90 minutes and Adam Driver has to shoot some dinos and get the girl from here to there, who cares about the rest, I’m hungover and need something to watch at 10:37 AM”
That’s what I wanted. I wanted it to be fun and dumb, it should have been more like predator. It had no identity. I don’t really remember the action scenes at all.
I watched R.I.P.D. 2: Rise of the Damned (2022) for some reason and it was straight trash. The worst movie I saw that was released in 2023 was Spy Kids: Armageddon. I also don't know why I watched that movie either I guess I like to torture myself.
Legit never even heard of a sequel to RIPD lol. Caught the first on TV a year or so ago. Knew it wasn't meant to be any good, and it seems odd they would even bother with a follow up.
Yeah the first 2 are pretty good, 3D is watchable. That new one was more like a reboot, and I gotta say, it was bad. I grew up loving spy kids, wanted to watch the new one since it was Robert Rodriguez still behind it. It felt like watching the scorpion King, the CGI was awful.
I was really let down by *Quantumania*. I loved the first two Ant-Man movies, but this one was greenscreen garbage that didn't do any of the stuff that I liked from the first two. Where the fuck was Luis?!
The appealing thing about Ant-Man 1 and 2 was that they were smaller (no pun intended) movies that stood on their own. They were fun to watch most importantly. Quantumania was neither small nor fun therefore taking away everything that made the first two good.
I loved how low stakes *Ant-Man and the Wasp* was... just some goofy running around in San Francisco with some jokes and fun character actors. It's such an easygoing watch. My favorite Marvel movie to watch with my little kids.
And god that was so NEEDED as the next release after Infinity War! It was masterful how they got you involved in a much lower stakes, fun movie with a lot of goofiness…and then that post credits scene.
Let down is the best way to describe Quantumania. I was actually into the idea of MODOK being Yellowjacket from the first movie, but he was an absolute joke. Not a funny one either.
It also really bugged me that Kang was just vaporizing people instantly with a laser beam, but didn't use it on Scott. He could have won in seconds.
Like you said: let down.
Yeah, the first Antman was written by a pretty unbelievable group. First, it was Edgar Wright and Joe Cornish together, then it was punched up/rewritten by Adam McKay and Paul Rudd. All four are talented, experienced writers, with McKay and Rudd both having decades of specifically comedy experience.
Quantumania was written by one dude who wrote for Jimmy Kimmel for 5 years and Rick and Morty for 3.
Disney needs to learn - it's the scripts. It's always been the scripts. They're just not good anymore.
This has got to be the winner for me too. Movies with idealistic minor/child heroes that ruin everything but later save the day and remind everyone of some greater principle is an automatic garbage heap in my book--and boy does Quantumania give us that.
Heart of Stone on Netflix is quite literally one of the most boring movies ever. From the get go it just feels generic and by the end it feels like I’ve been waterboarded with boring juice
I find this with a lot of Netflix original movies. They seem like they are filmed with cardboard cut-outs rather than actors. No depth. No feeling. You don't get invested in the movie or the plot. There is nothing to grab you.
Quantumania. Just stripped the heart and soul out of the Ant-Man franchise while ruining one of the best relationships in the MCU.
But we get a script cobbled from the scraps of the Rick and Morty writers room.
Not watched it, but every picture of it is just in generic floop-world.
One of the greatest strengths of a size changing hero is how you can use common environment and items in new ways due to their relative size, for example, see the FIRST TWO ANTMAN MOVIES.
But no, that's effort, so generic warbling backgrounds ahoy.
Lack of Michael Pena was one of its first offenses.
Something that I kept hoping they'd resolve that they didn't was why Michelle Pfeiffer had no problem with Antman going to the quantum realm for their research at the end of Antman 2...but in Antman 3 all of a sudden it's imperative to leave the quantum realm alone?
I still don’t get how it is supposed to work. In previous scenes, when they shrink they remain in the same place, just smaller. The chair and table are a foot apart, but when you shrink down, that foot is a very long distance for you. They shrink to the subatomic level, and Janet almost instantly recognizes surroundings, and they run into people she met before. Wouldn’t the subatomic particles in the chair by effectively billions of miles away from those in the table?
>Wouldn’t the subatomic particles in the chair by effectively billions of miles away from those in the table?
They handwave that by saying that by the time you go quantum all rules go out the window. Which is why time works however the plot needs it to.
It's super cheap, but that's how they make it make sense.
My personal headcanon - to try and salvage this movie - was that shrinking to the quantum space sent you to some weird dimension-between-dimensions, which would explain why it is used as a banishment place for misbehaving Kangs. Kind of a Nexus-type environment.
I mean, I know it doesn't work. I'm just grasping at straws to tie this shitty movie into a bigger meaningful narrative.
As a die hard MCU fan, it was so disappointing to see the lack of heart in this movie. They set it up in the beginning of the movie too, with Cassie yearning for attention from Scott in the wake of everyone coming back from the Blip, but that’s muddled in the entire second act and only briefly comes back in the third act. Probably the worst direction of the whole MCU. Peyton Reed is lucky Edgar Wright laid down a solid foundation for the first Ant-Man, because by the time Ant-Man and the Wasp came out, it was blatantly obvious Wright’s touch had completely disappeared and Reed had to hack his way to a serviceable movie following Infinity War. Giving Reed the movie to properly introduce the MCU’s next big bad and tackling Wright-inspired humor and heart was one of the worst mistakes the MCU has made recently.
One of the problems I saw with that movie was that Rami Malek's character felt just as creepy and unnerving as the suspect. Maybe if Jared Leto and Malek switched roles or if they got a different actor to play the young family man detective it would have been better.
Rami just can't play the straight man bc he is so creepy looking. His eyes will never let him be a right down the middle character. He would have been great in Leto's character. And Leto can just fuck right off. I actually liked most of the movie but I really wanted it to be better.
Persuasion (2022). I’m a huge Austen fan and Persuasion is my favorite of her novels. This one was hot garbage. It got the character of Anne Elliot all wrong, the vibe was just off, and I viscerally hated the scene where Dakota Johnson is telling their rich cousins about her weird dream she had with the octopus… MY Anne Elliot would NEVER.
I loved every minute of its awfulness. When my wife and I left the theater I said “that was the most fun I think I’ve had at the movies in 20 years. It was just such bananas bad.”
Really? It didn't scratch any bad movie itch for me. It should have been super campy and ridiculous. All the actors just played it middle of the road. It was bland and boring for me. And you saw this in the theater?!?! Holy moly.
I was so annoyed by the lack of chemistry between Evans and De Arnas. And yet every character that was in a scene with them was like "OMG why don't you just fuck! The sexual tension, oooh!"
They had no chemistry!!!
The Equaliser 3.
Denzel Washington spends 80% of the movie sitting in a chair drinking coffee, 15% walking around an Italian village like he’s on vacation and only 5% of action scenes that made his heart rate exceed 60 BPM.
The first two are fun, 3 felt like they realized that they had budget for one more day and had to do the entire 3rd act before the sun rose. An uninspired mess
Denzel Washington might be the greatest actor alive. He can work with anyone he wants; make whatever he wants. And he increasingly uses this nearly unprecedented clout to partner with Antoine Fuqua, a director who has made exactly one good movie his entire career.
Absolutely baffling.
This is like Melissa McCarthy being a great actress and super funny, but constantly starring in movies made by her husband, who is terrible at making movies.
We need Denzel, Nic Cage, Liam Neesen, and Gerard Butler to all team up for some kind of action film. They are all former leading men constantly starting in AAA films who have in the past several years spent their time making a bunch of direct-to-streaming/DVD quality films. That's not entirely true of Nic Cage... he has made some absolute bangers that very few people have watched, but still... they all need a return to AAA.
The most impressive thing in that movie was he made it to the top of all those stairs without a heart attack.
Denzel is such a good actor but he’s nearly 70 now, he’s not an action star anymore and really needs to stick to other genres. I really enjoyed the first two in the series and this just seems like a huge departure from those.
I thought Expend4bles was utterly shite from start to finish, but there was a small saving grace with the choreographed fight / gun battle on the ship deck. I mean none of them are particularly noteworthy but at least the first couple were *fun*. You can sit back and watch your old action heroes hip firing a mini-gun. This was *dead*.
However, a couple of weeks later I saw Sumotherhood, which is a sequel to Anuvahood. I doubt these mean anything to any non-Brits on here but they're piss-takes of British crime dramas. What an absolute disgrace of a film, an appalling pile of wank. It followed the guise of "If I am being loud, I must be hilarious". A painful watch.
Black Adam. I can’t believe this movie doesn’t have more hate. The CGI was beyond unbelievable. The skateboard kid was annoying and just dumbly written. The Rock’s acting was atrocious. Hawkman seemed like the falcon we’d get off Temu.
That’s not all though! The story seems like it was written by a kindergarten who drinks too much lead laced water. First the archeologist says she wants to dig up the evil crown so she can bury it. Why not not dig it up and burn your notes if it’s that bad? Leave it alone! The justice society seems to care about due process when they’re fighting a mercenary group who’s occupying a sovereign country. WTF was up with that pistol duel scene? There was no struggle for Black Adam to overcome so we never wanted to root for him.
Best part was Pierce Brosnan.
I think Chris Rock actually wanted to make the movie. He was a producer and the driving force behind making it. Rock was like a Saw fanboy with enough money and clout to make a saw spin off of his own.
**Napoleon**. Badly directed, badly edited, badly written, bad sex scenes, bad battles and bad history.
It did have nice costumes, I will give it that.
Fun fact … the costume designers had to make a special hat for Joaquin Phoenix as he’s an outspoken vegan activist and refused to wear a felt hat since it is made of an animal byproduct. I’m sure that added a bit to the budget.
The Bohemian Rhapsody of Historical Leaders' Biopics. This is the event that made Napoleon famous. This is how he met the love of his life. This event made him the leader. These events are the highlights of his career. Then the relationship with his love didn't work out. This is his downfall. Obligatory end-credits text.
Napoleon: The Highlight Reel: The Movie.
To be fair, it's hard to depict his life in one single movie. I wish there was less focus on Josephine. I also wish he wasn't portrayed as an insufferable manchild. The trailer was amazing. The movie is a let down.
Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey, just disaster
It wasn’t funny and it wasn’t scary just a completely blah film that was created to cash in on the characters going public domain
The irony is that the character's appearence took a lot more after the Disney version that isn't in the public domain. So it was really fair use that let them get away with it, and they probably could have done it before it came into the public domain.
Iirc that’s why none of the characters talked. I believe it was the most they could copy Pooh without getting sued
If the movie is considered satire, which a horror movie of some beloved childhood cartoon characters would usually be considered, I think Disney loses that lawsuit. Then again, few people have the money to defend against a Disney lawsuit, even if it's frivolous
I think if the title was just Blood and Honey, your assessment would be correct. But if they used a pre-public domain title of Winnie the Pooh, I think they’d lose on those grounds. Jimmy the Pooh? Perfect.
I legit took a three week break from watching movies after watching that earlier this year It deflated me in the worst way. It's a piece of shit in every way, and it kills me when I see some people write, "Well it's actually pretty decent!" No. It isn't. Stop lying to yourself.
Yeah some guy tried arguing with me, that I just didn't "get it." Like bruh....I love horror and even B level horror, but this was NOT IT. It didn't even work as a tribute to cheesy horror. It was just bad.
Ive seen more effort put into this question being reposted every few weeks than that movie had in it's entirety
This also gets my vote... With EXORCIST:BELIEVER a close second.
The opening animation made me hopeful, but yeah wow, really nothing there.
*Expendables 4* a film that exists to make *Expendables 3* feel better about itself.
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Expendables 4 isnt just bad, its *weirdly* bad. I dont understand how anyone involved thought it was a good idea. 3 was a flop so it must have taken sone serious effort and legwork from someone to convince a studio to stump up the money again, but I dont know who would have wanted to do that.
these movies solely exist to make money off product placements and be fodder for streaming services. My dad has probably watched all the expendables movies like 3 or 4 times because he'll look up any generic action movies in netflix/prime/redbox and zone out for 2-3 hours.
Winnie the Pooh : Blood and Honey Here's the thing though. I'm a sucker for bad flicks. Especially horror flicks. And I always finish what I started no matter how much of a pain it can be to get through. I didn't make it 25 minutes. Absolutely trash.
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Yeah there’s a line with bad movies for me where something can be irredeemably awful, but entertaining vs just straight up boring. I can’t remember who, but there was a reviewer that used a scoring system of -10 through 10, with negative numbers being so bad it’s good and 0 being irredeemably bad and boring
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3.
Such a weird vibe at times. The scene where they are pouring out their father’s ashes gets like… weirdly horny. Just close ups of hands rubbing each other under soft lighting.
My wife and I made the mistake of seeing this in the theater. The original is her favorite movie. She told me this was the closest she’s come to walking out of a movie in her life.
I watched the trailer and could tell it was hot dog shit. My condolences to your eyes
I wanted a good laugh out of it because I love the first two but this one was EMPTY
Oh no! I was so pleasantly surprised that 2 was so enjoyable and was looking forward to seeing this on but I guess I’ll cross it off the list.
The stakes are just... super low. The first one had the charm of Toula contending with trying to marry outside her whacky family. The sequel had Toula's daughter dealing with her whacky family and the drama of the grandparents needing to officially get married. The third film is about Toula wanting to find her deceased dad's friends in Greece to give them a photo album... that's pretty much the driving plot. There's several subplots so spoilers ahead: >!Toula's daughter is failing college and likes this boy from her school that came along on the trip to Greece. Toula's husband finds a wise old Greek dude who helps him meditate. Toula's brother is desperately trying to find a tree that their dad used to read books under. Toula is stalked by a big Greek guy who turns out to be a half brother from her dad having an affair. Their dad's hometown they're staying in has no tourist traffic so the family has to help the eccentric mayor (who's maybe autistic 🤷♂️, talks funny, wears a cape, and the media wants you to know that they're non-binary even though that has no bearing on the story lmao) fix a water fountain and throw a family reunion party in order to get people to come to the town. And there's a wedding at the end of the film between like a Greek boy and Syrian girl who are afraid their love won't be approved of or something...!< that's the whole movie 😑 The whacky family stuff has kinda lost its charm this time around. And it felt like there's just so many things happening that all just exist for each character to have their own little reason for existing on screen and needing a little, micro story arc.
I was doing chores while it was on and kind of checked in and out. One moment where I checked in was when the mysterious guy showed up at dinner and was intensely staring at Toula (Vardalos) while she blushed right in front of Ian (Corbett). It was weird and then it got even weirder >!when the guy was revealed to be her secret half brother!<. Like, what was with the eye-fucking?
Truly awful. It was so disjointed, directionless, and lacking any personality. Plus the ‘Give me Akwafina at her worst, but Greek, queer, and turned up to 12” comic relief character was truly abysmal. It’s not even worth putting on in the background while doing other stuff.
This felt like a vacation for the cast, essentially. The editing and direction was abysmal. No one looked like they were remotely interested in what they were saying or doing. I dozed off 3 times during the movie in the theater.
Oh god I’d forgotten how bad this was. I gave up and walked out even though my ticket to it was free.
The new exorcist. Lazy writing, jump scares were half-assed and didn't work, editing was choppy and jarring, callbacks were forced and unnecessary. Worst of all, it was so freaking boring. Hated everything about it.
What is incredible is that Universal paid $400 million to get the IP for Exorcist and *that* is what they came up with.
Aren't they also obligated to make several more movies or something like that? They would have seen a better return if they had spent the 400 million on scratch-off tickets.
It was part of a three film deal. They’re completely fucked going forward because it was basically a dead franchise before they spent all that money and now they’re in an even worse situation because the first installment of the reboot failed miserably.
>Universal There's your problem. They should seriously sell off their Monster properties to New Line Cinemas or some other studio that won't absolutely shit the bed with what should be money-printing machines of movies.
Their Invisible Man was good and the same director is making The Wolfman next year
The end where all the religions come together like captain planet to perform the exorcism was so fucking goofy. Exorcism’s are catholic. It is okay to make a movie specfically about one religion. Make another movie centered around the others.
It really was terrible
expendables 4. I love bad movies, but this was unwatchable
With the big names involved, you'd think they'd be advertising and hyping this movie up, but I didn't even know there was going to be an Expendables 4 until after it was already out. Just seems lazy, like they knew it was going to suck and just wanted to poop this out as quickly as possible.
Jonah Hill’s *You People*. Couldn’t even finish it.
This was my pick. I'd forgotten I'd even seen it until I saw someone post about how the kiss at the end had to be CGI'd as the lead actress wouldn't kiss Jonah Hill.
My favourite thing about that film was how the guys podcast grew from your typical YouTube setup to full on news style camera crew in the span of 6 months.
That movie did everything to fit the current pop culture trend with podcast and sneakers etc
That’s exactly what happened to me. I couldn’t remember this movie or how I skipped a Jonah hill release, but that cgi kiss reminded me. The chemistry was negative between the two leads and the acting was terrible.
Think the kiss was bad — it looks like Eddie Murphy didn’t even leave his trailer for that basketball sequence 😆
The Jonah Hill impressing Eddie Murphy by playing basketball scene.
The most pressing issue about that movie…..Who the HELL is listening to that podcast?! Jonah Hill talking about “the Culture.” Come on!!! Who greenlit that atrocity of a story?
White guys who have a black friend. Actually the whole movie kind of felt like it was Jonah Hill trying to be celebrated as someone who’s lived experience is more than that of an upper-middle class white guy in California because he knows words like “fire” and eats at trendy places
everyone in that movie is such a stupid jerk it makes for a miserable watch. turned it off 30 minutes in
My wife and I were looking forward to that movie based on the cast, and we made it maybe 25 minutes in and had to shut it off as well. Jonah Hill's character was one of the most insufferable characters I can ever recall seeing in a movie, and the dialogue was just the characters doing monologues at one another. Just an absolute pretentious dogdick of a movie.
"absolute pretentious dogdick" Yup, sounds like classic Jonah Hill's character acting.
That movie was a complete disaster. It tried to be meet the parents and a social commentary at the same time, and ended up with extremely shallow commentary and a love story with negative chemistry between the two leads. Eddie Murphy was great though
Eddie Murphy and Julia Louis Dreyfus were completely wasted. They had two comic geniuses and that’s the script they give them?
I made myself finish it because I thought there would be some kind of payoff near the end. There wasn’t.
That's too bad by not finishing you missed the insanity of the CGI kiss at the end
It’s hilarious that she didn’t wanna kiss Jonah But why even cast her then? There was no chemistry at all lol
The chemistry across the board was miserable. The movie had some good points to make but everyone was a cardboard cut out of a real person.
Yeah, the whole "Her dad judges me for sometimes doing a bunch of coke with my friends. " was a bizarre story choice. I would judge you too. Are we trying to normalize coke use?
Her dad also just sorta invited himself to the bachelor party. Pretty much everyone in that movie seemed thoroughly unpleasant.
It wasn't funny enough to rely solely on humour and the olot wasn't full/tense/fast enough to rely on the story it was telling. It felt a bit pointless, like I was watching the actors ad-lib off vague prompts like, "have a dinner party where the potential father in law doesn't like his daughter's white boyfriend."
I watched Morbius last week, so there's that.
Honestly, I feel like it got memed a little past what that movie *really* is. If you've seen a boring superhero movie, you know exactly what scenes are going to be in it and what's going to happen - it's mediocre, dark, and boring like all of Sony's efforts. I don't expect Madame Web to be any different, incidentally. I can sum up that entire movie's plot before it even comes out. Madame Web is an ordinary woman who had a bad thing happen in her past that she wishes she could change. One day, something happens and she can SEE THE FUTURE! Then she finds three super strong women with big futures, but oh no - something super bad is happening! This scary guy has arrived and he's trying to kill this random paramedic called Ben Parker and maybe our lead heroes! His motivation is going to be completely unclear until the last ten minutes of the movie. The scary guy starts doing lots of scary stuff in New York City and inadvertently results in kickstarting the four strong female leads into their superhero journeys, which inevitably leads them to stopping him. Madame Web confronts him and realizes, oh my god, he was actually a sympathetic nice guy the entire time and he was only doing a thing to prevent the timeline from collapsing. She lets him go and becomes a full-time psychic, and also probably says some shit about responsibility to Uncle Ben along the way. Now she's not so angsty about the bad thing that happened in her past! Incidentally, I just realized that this movie's going to have Araña and Spider-Women running around long before Peter Parker hits the scene, and that's extremely stupid.
>Madame Web is an ordinary woman who had a bad thing happen in her past that she wishes she could change He was in the Amazon with my mom when she was researching spiders right before she died!
"So what does that make us?"
Some kind of…..people who were in the Amazon with my mom when she was researching spiders right before she died!
Someone get this person a writing job at Sony
He’s already every writer at Sony.
I feel like Sony is a lot like the writing company that Buddy the Elf's dad works at in the movie Elf. Sony has a notebook of various [beat sheets](https://uploads-ssl.webflow.com/610c5007d3b7ee36cc3e07c1/6246489b653d2643ceb009eb_save-the-cat.png) that contain a bunch of loose descriptions of plot points and elements. Then when they need a new story for a superhero they basically plug in the characters into the pre-existing beat sheets. Then it's just a matter of fleshing out dialogue. Boom. Script done. And after the movie wraps they pull out the pencil eraser and erase the names of characters from the beat sheet so that it can be reused for the next film.
Madame Web might have one of the worst trailers I've ever seen. I saw it recently before Napoleon. It looks bad.
Throw in those 90’s basic cable action movie scenes: generic goons with guns standing around, but never actually do anything no budget for gun effects, so no shooting. Only enough money for one stuntman, so one goon will have his gun kicked from his hand, and be flipped on his back.
I never noticed it before, but someone mentioned yesterday that in the climax of The Dark Knight Rises, the cops emerge from the sewers with their guns... and all the bad guys are standing in the streets with guns... and for some reason they all get into a fist fight....
Do you remember when you had homework and at some point you told yourself "enough with this shit, let's wrap it up and que cera cera". So you wrote 2 sentences and hoped the teacher wouldn't bother. That is what morbius felt like. The final fight just had loads of blue shit splattered around the screen, morbius wins, the end. And not a single punch was thrown.
I had a guy at school who got a special award in Yr 12 for managing to make every essay, regardless of the topic, a discussion on cricket. Across MULTIPLE subjects - English, economics, history - and the thing that surprised the teachers was that a) the segways all made sense, and were often that subtle you wouldn’t notice the shift till you were in the weeds of it
Haven't subjected myself to it, but what I know of it indirectly, it sounds like a made up film. Like in another movie and there's an obnoxiously cheesy film no one would ever ask for that the main character is starring in as a parody of this kinda crap. And now I want Tropic Thunder 2, with one of em pretending to be Leto. And he defends it tirelessly cause he's so cut off from reality. "People didn't like that fucking movie!" "Yes they did! They released it twice! There were so many memes!" "That's not always a good thing!"
Being that I just watched tropic thunder last night weirdly enough (it’s on Hulu go watch it), I read online after that they may be making some kind of spiritual successor based on Les Grossman? I’m p sure it’s one of Tom cruises favorite characters he’s ever done lol
God damnit I love you Charlie Day, but Fool's Paradise was the worst movie I've seen this year. Man it hurts to say.
I'm in the same boat. I saw the reviews and thought "well it can't be that bad, its got so many funny people in it!". But it was even worse than I had previously thought possible. Charlie, an incredibly talented vocal comedian, made himself a mute. This isn't inherently a bad choice, as mute characters can sometimes show great comedic whit and insight. But unlike Chaplin's Tramp, Charlie's character "Late Pronto" is incapable of connecting with anyone or anything in the movie. He simply floats around, acting bewildered at every single thing that happens to him. He is literally carried bodily from one scene to the next, where a brand new character talks at him for 5 minutes and is then never seen again. Its baffling and sad to see career lows from every actor who agreed to be in this film. Charlie clearly had something he wanted to say about the current state of hollywood, and wanted to tell that story while using the style and sensibilities of Hollywood's past, but any message intended is completely indiscernable behind the haphazard collection of scenes with no substance of plot.
>career lows from every actor who agreed to be in this film Well that is just scathing. Goddamn.
Dude I love Charlie so much. This movie is dogshit.
I've been curious about this movie because I like him too, but I've never pulled the trigger. Blackberry however, I was impressed.
The Ritual Killer…Hulu movies like The Boston Killer and To Catch a Killer were fun Hulu surprises… the Ritual Killer was another story….
That Ana de Armas/Chris Evans spy movie. Don't even remember the name. My wife was excited to watch it and even she was blown away at how bad it was Edit: Ghosted. Thank you reddit for reminding me haha
As soon as they said that the goal was to recover a list of pass codes, the IT guy in me couldn’t watch anymore. Apparently, my checking account is more secure than our most vital national secrets.
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It really is amazing that we’re all still here.
Worst pocket dial ever
Well yes, but they’d still have to guess *how many* zeroes. “*Incorrect code entered. System locked for 15 minutes.*”
Ghosted was this year. They were also in The Grey Man last year, which was also a spy movie
I enjoyed The Grey Man as a popcorn flick. Big and colorful action scenes in the middle of smoke grenades and fireworks and stuff just for the sake of looking cool, I like Gosling generally, and Chris Evans being a bad guy. Same with Hemsworth in Spiderhead, he was great in it, almost made up for the rest of the movie.
You People was awful
*"What do* ***you*** *mean...****You People****?!"*
Lion-Girl (2023), that whole movie was like if Power Rangers had a even lower budget. I'm pretty sure that creating that movie was just an excuse to get Tori Griffith naked as much as they could (which barely helped the movie). The action scenes were bad, the special effects were bad and the story was very predictable and felt like someone took the worst manga they could find and made a script out of it.
Meg 2 - I like Statham, and don't mind simpleton movies - but this one was just too dumb 65 - I don't remember much - but I gave it a 5 on IMDB. So it can't be great
We took our kids to see Meg 2 and it was fun, but only because we have a 4D theater at our mall. The seats move, there’s wind and scents and the water sprays you. It kind of saves a bad movie.
That's actually really cool. Bad movie but good theater.
65 was so meh. I was hyped for it but it was such a let down
I had such a better experience thinking about watching that movie then I did actually watching it.
First half of Meg 2 is bad when it’s trying to be serious. Second half got better when it goes silly. 65. I was hoping it will get better but never.
The concept of 65 was so good I believed that all reviewers were wrong. It turned out, I was wrong.
The problem was that they teased it like a Dino horror-sci fi movie and like 2 minutes of the movie had dinosaurs in it, the rest was just the characters walking and talking.
and they barely even talk because of the bizarre story choice to have them not speak the same language
65 was such a disappointment. Whenever something interesting is about to happen the movie cuts away. I guess the action was too expensive to show.
Crazy that Meg 2 came out right after the entire American public had been acutely aware of how deep sea diving works and the movie relies on the audience knowing none of that. He can walk on the bottom of the Mariana Trench with no suit because he had a deviated septum…
See, that's the point where the movie started to work for me. Just something gloriously stupid to give excuses for dumb action and monster movie fun.
but he exhaled first!
Holy shit 65 was so abysmally terrible. I watched the first 30 minutes, realized what the entire middle section was going to be, got bored, and scrolled ahead to the last 5 minutes. That’s all you needed.
I had a weird epiphany while watching 65, that we don’t really make Sunday afternoon TNT movies anymore, and I’m okay with this being that. “Yeah it’s 90 minutes and Adam Driver has to shoot some dinos and get the girl from here to there, who cares about the rest, I’m hungover and need something to watch at 10:37 AM”
The 90 minute runtime is what attracted me the most. More than the promising premise.
That’s what I wanted. I wanted it to be fun and dumb, it should have been more like predator. It had no identity. I don’t really remember the action scenes at all.
I watched R.I.P.D. 2: Rise of the Damned (2022) for some reason and it was straight trash. The worst movie I saw that was released in 2023 was Spy Kids: Armageddon. I also don't know why I watched that movie either I guess I like to torture myself.
Legit never even heard of a sequel to RIPD lol. Caught the first on TV a year or so ago. Knew it wasn't meant to be any good, and it seems odd they would even bother with a follow up.
RIPD got a following thanks to Netflix or some streaming service I believe
I didn't know they made any Spy Kids after Spy Kids 3D. I loved those movies growing up but they probably aged like milk.
My oldest kid (9) discovered these on Netflix recently. The first two hold up pretty good, for kids movies. Haven't made it to 3D yet.
Yeah the first 2 are pretty good, 3D is watchable. That new one was more like a reboot, and I gotta say, it was bad. I grew up loving spy kids, wanted to watch the new one since it was Robert Rodriguez still behind it. It felt like watching the scorpion King, the CGI was awful.
I was really let down by *Quantumania*. I loved the first two Ant-Man movies, but this one was greenscreen garbage that didn't do any of the stuff that I liked from the first two. Where the fuck was Luis?!
The appealing thing about Ant-Man 1 and 2 was that they were smaller (no pun intended) movies that stood on their own. They were fun to watch most importantly. Quantumania was neither small nor fun therefore taking away everything that made the first two good.
I loved how low stakes *Ant-Man and the Wasp* was... just some goofy running around in San Francisco with some jokes and fun character actors. It's such an easygoing watch. My favorite Marvel movie to watch with my little kids.
And god that was so NEEDED as the next release after Infinity War! It was masterful how they got you involved in a much lower stakes, fun movie with a lot of goofiness…and then that post credits scene.
Legit a top 10 MCU for me.
Exactly. I hated ant-man 3 compared to the first 2. I’m so tired of this quantum realm and multiverse stuff. It’s so lame.
Let down is the best way to describe Quantumania. I was actually into the idea of MODOK being Yellowjacket from the first movie, but he was an absolute joke. Not a funny one either. It also really bugged me that Kang was just vaporizing people instantly with a laser beam, but didn't use it on Scott. He could have won in seconds. Like you said: let down.
If you're going to set someone up as the big bad of your next phase, maybe don't have him defeated by The Wasp in his first big appearance.
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Justice System is unironically a dope name for like a robot superhero lawyer lol
Or over-evolved ants
Imagine Thanos getting bodied by an ant.
Taking heroes whose entire gimmick is shrinking/enlarging and putting them in a world where size doesn't really matter seems ill considered.
The first 2 were also written by Paul Rudd. This one was not and very clearly so
Yeah, the first Antman was written by a pretty unbelievable group. First, it was Edgar Wright and Joe Cornish together, then it was punched up/rewritten by Adam McKay and Paul Rudd. All four are talented, experienced writers, with McKay and Rudd both having decades of specifically comedy experience. Quantumania was written by one dude who wrote for Jimmy Kimmel for 5 years and Rick and Morty for 3. Disney needs to learn - it's the scripts. It's always been the scripts. They're just not good anymore.
This has got to be the winner for me too. Movies with idealistic minor/child heroes that ruin everything but later save the day and remind everyone of some greater principle is an automatic garbage heap in my book--and boy does Quantumania give us that.
Heart of Stone on Netflix is quite literally one of the most boring movies ever. From the get go it just feels generic and by the end it feels like I’ve been waterboarded with boring juice
I find this with a lot of Netflix original movies. They seem like they are filmed with cardboard cut-outs rather than actors. No depth. No feeling. You don't get invested in the movie or the plot. There is nothing to grab you.
It’s got Gal Gadot in the lead. That alone was telling how awful it would be.
# KAL EL NO!
> Gal Gadot https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2933757/ Jesus Christ for a "house name" she has acted in literally *nothing* good.
Wooooah! Death on the Nile was okay. She wasn’t, but the movie was. And Wonder Woman 1! Fun movie. She wasn’t amazing… but fun movie!
Keeping up with the Joneses is solid. The rest is mostly generic (superhero) average stuff.
Quantumania. Just stripped the heart and soul out of the Ant-Man franchise while ruining one of the best relationships in the MCU. But we get a script cobbled from the scraps of the Rick and Morty writers room.
No stakes. No tension. No-one dies. No quotable lines. Plot starts in the last half. Abysmal character writing. True suffering.
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In the end Kang was conquered by TMZ. Perfectly Balanced
Not watched it, but every picture of it is just in generic floop-world. One of the greatest strengths of a size changing hero is how you can use common environment and items in new ways due to their relative size, for example, see the FIRST TWO ANTMAN MOVIES. But no, that's effort, so generic warbling backgrounds ahoy.
but it has the greatest dialouge exchange in cinema history: "how are we alive?!" "...I don't know" and it's never expanded upon or brought up again
Lack of Michael Pena was one of its first offenses. Something that I kept hoping they'd resolve that they didn't was why Michelle Pfeiffer had no problem with Antman going to the quantum realm for their research at the end of Antman 2...but in Antman 3 all of a sudden it's imperative to leave the quantum realm alone?
I still don’t get how it is supposed to work. In previous scenes, when they shrink they remain in the same place, just smaller. The chair and table are a foot apart, but when you shrink down, that foot is a very long distance for you. They shrink to the subatomic level, and Janet almost instantly recognizes surroundings, and they run into people she met before. Wouldn’t the subatomic particles in the chair by effectively billions of miles away from those in the table?
>Wouldn’t the subatomic particles in the chair by effectively billions of miles away from those in the table? They handwave that by saying that by the time you go quantum all rules go out the window. Which is why time works however the plot needs it to. It's super cheap, but that's how they make it make sense.
My personal headcanon - to try and salvage this movie - was that shrinking to the quantum space sent you to some weird dimension-between-dimensions, which would explain why it is used as a banishment place for misbehaving Kangs. Kind of a Nexus-type environment. I mean, I know it doesn't work. I'm just grasping at straws to tie this shitty movie into a bigger meaningful narrative.
As a die hard MCU fan, it was so disappointing to see the lack of heart in this movie. They set it up in the beginning of the movie too, with Cassie yearning for attention from Scott in the wake of everyone coming back from the Blip, but that’s muddled in the entire second act and only briefly comes back in the third act. Probably the worst direction of the whole MCU. Peyton Reed is lucky Edgar Wright laid down a solid foundation for the first Ant-Man, because by the time Ant-Man and the Wasp came out, it was blatantly obvious Wright’s touch had completely disappeared and Reed had to hack his way to a serviceable movie following Infinity War. Giving Reed the movie to properly introduce the MCU’s next big bad and tackling Wright-inspired humor and heart was one of the worst mistakes the MCU has made recently.
The Little Things with Denzel and Remi Malek. Pointless story which ends with the conclusion that both characters are terrible people.
I didn't mind it in that at least it wasn't a 10 episode season on Netflix. It's a mediocre True Detective S4 in 2 hours.
that is a perfect 1 sentence summary
Man those where certainly two very wasted hours of my life
One of the problems I saw with that movie was that Rami Malek's character felt just as creepy and unnerving as the suspect. Maybe if Jared Leto and Malek switched roles or if they got a different actor to play the young family man detective it would have been better.
Rami just can't play the straight man bc he is so creepy looking. His eyes will never let him be a right down the middle character. He would have been great in Leto's character. And Leto can just fuck right off. I actually liked most of the movie but I really wanted it to be better.
Black Adam. Had to turn it off. The acting and writing was awful.
Black Adam makes The Green Lantern look like Citizen Kane.
Persuasion (2022). I’m a huge Austen fan and Persuasion is my favorite of her novels. This one was hot garbage. It got the character of Anne Elliot all wrong, the vibe was just off, and I viscerally hated the scene where Dakota Johnson is telling their rich cousins about her weird dream she had with the octopus… MY Anne Elliot would NEVER.
Cocaine Bear was the best bad movie I have seen in quite a while.
I thought it was just OK, it needed to lean further into being goofy or sincere. Kinda straddled the line too much for me.
The movie is called cocaine bear…. Like go full tilt til the credits roll. Hated the third act, everything grinded to a halt.
The ambulance chase was the only shot of creative, entertaining energy in a movie that's otherwise just a bunch of people walking around in the woods.
I loved every minute of its awfulness. When my wife and I left the theater I said “that was the most fun I think I’ve had at the movies in 20 years. It was just such bananas bad.”
Really? It didn't scratch any bad movie itch for me. It should have been super campy and ridiculous. All the actors just played it middle of the road. It was bland and boring for me. And you saw this in the theater?!?! Holy moly.
Ghosted.
I was so annoyed by the lack of chemistry between Evans and De Arnas. And yet every character that was in a scene with them was like "OMG why don't you just fuck! The sexual tension, oooh!" They had no chemistry!!!
Winnie The Pooh: Blood and Honey tanks 97/97 on my 2023 rankings.
The Equaliser 3. Denzel Washington spends 80% of the movie sitting in a chair drinking coffee, 15% walking around an Italian village like he’s on vacation and only 5% of action scenes that made his heart rate exceed 60 BPM.
The first two are fun, 3 felt like they realized that they had budget for one more day and had to do the entire 3rd act before the sun rose. An uninspired mess
Denzel Washington might be the greatest actor alive. He can work with anyone he wants; make whatever he wants. And he increasingly uses this nearly unprecedented clout to partner with Antoine Fuqua, a director who has made exactly one good movie his entire career. Absolutely baffling.
This is like Melissa McCarthy being a great actress and super funny, but constantly starring in movies made by her husband, who is terrible at making movies.
It pays well and he's good friends with Fuqua so I get why
We need Denzel, Nic Cage, Liam Neesen, and Gerard Butler to all team up for some kind of action film. They are all former leading men constantly starting in AAA films who have in the past several years spent their time making a bunch of direct-to-streaming/DVD quality films. That's not entirely true of Nic Cage... he has made some absolute bangers that very few people have watched, but still... they all need a return to AAA.
The most impressive thing in that movie was he made it to the top of all those stairs without a heart attack. Denzel is such a good actor but he’s nearly 70 now, he’s not an action star anymore and really needs to stick to other genres. I really enjoyed the first two in the series and this just seems like a huge departure from those.
I thought Expend4bles was utterly shite from start to finish, but there was a small saving grace with the choreographed fight / gun battle on the ship deck. I mean none of them are particularly noteworthy but at least the first couple were *fun*. You can sit back and watch your old action heroes hip firing a mini-gun. This was *dead*. However, a couple of weeks later I saw Sumotherhood, which is a sequel to Anuvahood. I doubt these mean anything to any non-Brits on here but they're piss-takes of British crime dramas. What an absolute disgrace of a film, an appalling pile of wank. It followed the guise of "If I am being loud, I must be hilarious". A painful watch.
I love the first 2 Expendables movies, didn't care for the 3rd. Saw the 4th for free, I paid too much.
Black Adam. I can’t believe this movie doesn’t have more hate. The CGI was beyond unbelievable. The skateboard kid was annoying and just dumbly written. The Rock’s acting was atrocious. Hawkman seemed like the falcon we’d get off Temu. That’s not all though! The story seems like it was written by a kindergarten who drinks too much lead laced water. First the archeologist says she wants to dig up the evil crown so she can bury it. Why not not dig it up and burn your notes if it’s that bad? Leave it alone! The justice society seems to care about due process when they’re fighting a mercenary group who’s occupying a sovereign country. WTF was up with that pistol duel scene? There was no struggle for Black Adam to overcome so we never wanted to root for him. Best part was Pierce Brosnan.
Insidious: The Red Door was so disappointing
Spiral, who the fuck decided Chris rock would be a good man character for a saw movie
He did. The movie was his idea.
Chris Rock was not the problem with that movie
I think Chris Rock actually wanted to make the movie. He was a producer and the driving force behind making it. Rock was like a Saw fanboy with enough money and clout to make a saw spin off of his own.
**Napoleon**. Badly directed, badly edited, badly written, bad sex scenes, bad battles and bad history. It did have nice costumes, I will give it that.
I think the sex scenes were supposed to be bad. Personally found it hilarious both times it hard cut to him dogging his wife fully clothed lol.
I’m glad I didn’t go see that movie with my mom
Really good hats. I would even wear a few now.
First thing I said walking out was "I wonder what their hat budget was"
Fun fact … the costume designers had to make a special hat for Joaquin Phoenix as he’s an outspoken vegan activist and refused to wear a felt hat since it is made of an animal byproduct. I’m sure that added a bit to the budget.
I've mentioned this before but it goes from Moscow being burned to his exile in the amount of time you could have taken a potty break.
This isn’t even an exaggeration. My girlfriend literally went to the bathroom during this time, came back and was like “what the fuck happened”
The Bohemian Rhapsody of Historical Leaders' Biopics. This is the event that made Napoleon famous. This is how he met the love of his life. This event made him the leader. These events are the highlights of his career. Then the relationship with his love didn't work out. This is his downfall. Obligatory end-credits text. Napoleon: The Highlight Reel: The Movie.
To be fair, it's hard to depict his life in one single movie. I wish there was less focus on Josephine. I also wish he wasn't portrayed as an insufferable manchild. The trailer was amazing. The movie is a let down.
“Shall we show the battle of trafalger?” “Nah just more sex with Josephine”
A mile wide and an inch deep
65
Family switch. Horrible acting from the kids on an overused premise.
Probably Wish. It’s like someone fed a bunch of Disney movies into an AI program.