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Title: Biggest Movie Disappointments
Post by: Ball on November 30, 2006, 03:44:05 PM
For me, the one that stands out is casting Jodie Foster's dad as the Alien in "Contact".

I remember being young, staying up late at night, watching that crappy film in anticipation of seeing the alien.  

I wanted slime, i wanted lots of legs and eyes, i wanted green skin... and it was her ****ing dad.

what a disappointment.
Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: DiabloTX on November 30, 2006, 03:51:12 PM
Ok, we talking mistakes or disappointments?
Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: Ball on November 30, 2006, 03:52:03 PM
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Originally posted by DiabloTX
Ok, we talking mistakes or disappointments?


sorry - yes that was what i was looking for.
Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: Charon on November 30, 2006, 03:53:35 PM
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Ok, we talking mistakes or disappointments?


Pearl Harbor kinda covers both of those for me :mad: Though it does deliver in a MST3K manner.

Charon
Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: DiabloTX on November 30, 2006, 03:55:01 PM
That's easy for me.

George Lucas' writing and directing the first 3 episodes of Star Wars.

I can't even watch epi. 4 - 6 now without thinking "what could have been..."

Bastard ruined my biggest childhood thrill.
Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: BlueJ1 on November 30, 2006, 03:56:30 PM
Lord of the rings let me down. Shoulda stayed a book.

Pearl Harbor takes the cake tho.
Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: indy007 on November 30, 2006, 03:58:03 PM
All of the Jaws sequels...

Making a movie about a man's conflicted sexual desires, putting him in an F-14, and calling it Top Gun...

Casino Royale... James Bond wins all the chips after going all-in on a hand... with a far lower chip count to begin with. Not exactly how poker works.

In Gladiator you can see gas cylinders on the back of some of the chariots.
Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: DiabloTX on November 30, 2006, 03:58:20 PM
Oh come on, you KNEW Pearl Harbor was gonna suck.  Michael Bay?  Ben Affleck?  How could it avoid the suckage???

Personally, I really love TLOTR but that's an entirely different debate.
Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: DiabloTX on November 30, 2006, 03:59:54 PM
Oh, and Team America...acting was really stiff and what's up with all those damn strings?? HELLO???? Green screen anyone??? Jeeeez.

;)
Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: Ball on November 30, 2006, 04:00:31 PM
I love LOTR, amazing films.
Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: Ball on November 30, 2006, 04:01:07 PM
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Originally posted by DiabloTX
Oh, and Team America...acting was really stiff and what's up with all those damn strings?? HELLO???? Green screen anyone??? Jeeeez.

;)


yeah, talk about amateur. :rolleyes:
Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: Vulcan on November 30, 2006, 04:04:55 PM
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Originally posted by DiabloTX
Oh, and Team America...acting was really stiff and what's up with all those damn strings?? HELLO???? Green screen anyone??? Jeeeez.

;)


Yeah but those sex scenes were raunchy ;)
Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: DiabloTX on November 30, 2006, 04:07:36 PM
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Originally posted by Vulcan
Yeah but those sex scenes were raunchy ;)


Heck yeah, esp. the unrated director's cut! :huh
Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: BlueJ1 on November 30, 2006, 04:13:58 PM
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Originally posted by Ball
I love LOTR, amazing films.


The battles yes. And how they made Ents look so bad arse.
Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: Skuzzy on November 30, 2006, 04:16:20 PM
The Fountain.  Geez, was that an awful movie.  It is officially the worst movie I have ever seen now.  Displacing Pulp Fiction and Battlefield Earth as the worst ever.

What was even worse;  I have not been to a movie in about 6 months.  Missed some really good ones to end up seeing this garbage.
Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: wooley on November 30, 2006, 04:22:54 PM
Biggest mistake?

Americans capturing the Enigma machine in U-571.
Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: Debonair on November 30, 2006, 04:42:21 PM
that movie should have been U-505.
Adm. Gallery's book about that would have been a good basis for the movie

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Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: Thrawn on November 30, 2006, 04:58:10 PM
Pearl Harbour.
Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: Halo on November 30, 2006, 05:15:07 PM
Beg to differ, Skuzzy -- Pulp Fiction is one of the best films.  Challenging plot sequence is quite daring, and it works big time.

For a really lousy film, how about any of the latest Bill Murray Stone Face farces?  How could one of the great comedians think great drama is commensurate with least emotion?

Murray strives for Death of a Salesman and achieves Death of a Comedian.
Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: 68Hawk on November 30, 2006, 05:23:30 PM
Pushing Tin comes to mind as a colossal failure.  

And I've been on the U505 a number of times.  You're so right that they should have made the movie around that sub.
Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: Treize69 on November 30, 2006, 05:30:13 PM
Only 2 movies I've never managed to sit all the way through- Entrapment and Alexander. Both were so Fn godawful that I turned them off.

I'm seriously considering suing Oliver Stone two get those two hours of my life back after Alexander, and I had Entrapment back at the Blockbuster I rented it from in less elapsed time than it would take to sit through the whole thing.

Wing Commander follows closely behind, but at least I made it to the credits on that POS.

EDIT- Almost forgot- never made it all the way through Being John Malkovitch either. Never laughed once and was so bored I turned it off and went to do the dishes.
Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: Viking on November 30, 2006, 06:23:35 PM
How can you not love LOTR?

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:)
Title: Re: Biggest Movie Disappointments
Post by: JB88 on November 30, 2006, 06:25:25 PM
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Originally posted by Ball
For me, the one that stands out is casting Jodie Foster's dad as the Alien in "Contact".

I remember being young, staying up late at night, watching that crappy film in anticipation of seeing the alien.  

I wanted slime, i wanted lots of legs and eyes, i wanted green skin... and it was her ****ing dad.

what a disappointment.


okay, i can agree with you on that...huge let down, but i felt that it was nicely counter balanced by that long bit of total silence in the beginning of the film when the "camera" extended beyond the earths first radio transmittions.

for some reason i really enjoyed that,
Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: JB88 on November 30, 2006, 06:27:06 PM
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Originally posted by DiabloTX
That's easy for me.

George Lucas' writing and directing the first 3 episodes of Star Wars.

I can't even watch epi. 4 - 6 now without thinking "what could have been..."

Bastard ruined my biggest childhood thrill.


yep.

pure disney-style suckage
Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: Major Biggles on November 30, 2006, 07:24:33 PM
i have to attest to alexander, that film was so boring. i don't even know how it ended, just turned off the TV, it was a total waste of time.

i'd agree with furby on contact, the dad bit was really lame. you see her travel across the galaxy, see a huge alien world, then see her dad on a beach? what the hell is that?!?!
Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: kamilyun on November 30, 2006, 07:44:35 PM
Waterworld

The Postman

Heck, almost anything that Kevin Costner directs...
Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: BlueJ1 on November 30, 2006, 07:45:15 PM
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Originally posted by kamilyun
Waterworld

The Postman

Heck, almost anything that Kevin Costner directs...


I liked them. Not how they ended. But I did.
Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: megadud on November 30, 2006, 07:52:29 PM
AI made me want o kill everyone because it was so bad it made me angry at the world. Also naplean dynomite was one of the worst, i do not see how that did so good, terrible.
Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: Mace2004 on November 30, 2006, 08:00:41 PM
TOPGUN.  Filming was absolutely great...everything else sucked.

Stupidest film editing:  Maverick goes into a flat spin...over the desert....lands in the ocean about 80 miles away.  

Stupidest line of the movie:  "Maverick's in a spin....and he's headed out to sea!"

Stupidest character:  A hot blond PHd with fishnet stockings teaching TOPGUN students tactics.  If this movie really wanted to be accurate she, and about 10 other chicks would have actually been boffed in the O'club head and that's the only time you'd see them in the entire movie.

Second stupidest line:  "She's a civilian so you DON'T salute her!"  (as freaking if)

Stupidest event:  All four catapults on a CVN convieniently go down right after Maverick is launched.

Sapiest moment:  Does any freaking moron really believe we fly with pictures of our loved ones stuck in our instrument panels???

Most accurate shouldhavegonefurther moment:  Boffing a chick on the countertop in the men's head at the O'club.

Stupidest tactic:  The famous aileron roll guns defense.
Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: BlueJ1 on November 30, 2006, 08:01:00 PM
I got in trouble with my girlfriend for making fun of AI while watching it. One of my comments was "The aliens are so advanced they travel in cardboard boxes."
Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: lasersailor184 on November 30, 2006, 08:35:21 PM
Hitch hiker's guide to the galaxy.  Anyone who questions this should report to the US Department of Castration.
Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: Skuzzy on November 30, 2006, 08:43:36 PM
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Originally posted by Halo
Beg to differ, Skuzzy -- Pulp Fiction is one of the best films.  Challenging plot sequence is quite daring, and it works big time.
It's all a matter of opinion Halo.  Pulp still is the only movie I ever got up and walked out on.  "The Fountain", I just took a nap, then left.
Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: cav58d on November 30, 2006, 08:45:38 PM
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Nuff Said
Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: lukster on November 30, 2006, 08:47:58 PM
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Originally posted by Treize69
Only 2 movies I've never managed to sit all the way through- Entrapment and Alexander. Both were so Fn godawful that I turned them off.


With ya 100% on Alexander. If my sons hadn't been with me I woulda walked out on that one.
Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: DREDIOCK on November 30, 2006, 08:52:30 PM
One of the wost casting jobs I've seen was Jack Black in the Remake of King Kong

And Eddie Murphy in any of the remakes hes been in.
Nutty prof. Dr Doolittle etc
Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: Leslie on November 30, 2006, 09:22:02 PM
What do y'all think about the movie "Troy" with Brad Pitt?  I liked it.

Far as worse movie ever made...probably "Love Story."  Most disappointing movie for me is "The Thin Red Line."  I don't think I've watched the entire movie (on a vcr tape I recorded) after playing it several times.  It came out after "Saving Private Ryan" which was a tough act to follow.  Guess it was more of a philosophical (artsy?) movie than a shoot em up.  Still it was too slow moving for me.

Guess the coolest movie I've seen recently on cable is "The Island."  I heard "Borat" was funny but will wait for it to come on cable.  Not many Christmas choices so far for the big screen ( I only go about once a year.)  Thought LOTR was a great movie.

Took me several times watching "Pulp Fiction" before I accepted it.  The best part was where the boxer goes back to get the watch and the hitman is in the bathroom and left his Mac-10 on the kitchen counter.  Yikes!!!




Les
Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: ujustdied on November 30, 2006, 09:35:40 PM
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Originally posted by lasersailor184
Hitch hiker's guide to the galaxy.  Anyone who questions this should report to the US Department of Castration.


ohh man i went to see that crap in the movies. probably the worst movie Ive ever seen in my whole 16 years on the earth. i fell asleep through the movies at the theater and i never fall asleep.

ohh and the grudge. did any of yall know what the hell was going on in that movie. holy macral that movie totally sucked balls.

i also thought kung pow what a pretty gay arse movie.


i really liked the new king Kong, i thought that was a pretty kick prettythang movie.

one of my favorite movies was Rock Star now yall probably thought that movie sucked. but i thought the songs in the movie were pretty cool all the songs in the movie that the band sings are original. (i think)
Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: -tronski- on November 30, 2006, 09:37:42 PM
Troy was pretty ordinary indeed....and Geroge Lucas tried valiantly to kill my childhood

Waterworld, and U571 are a good afternoon wasters...but seriously how could you not like LOTR, or Pulp Fiction?!?

 Tronsky
Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: Golfer on November 30, 2006, 09:57:51 PM
I liked The Island though it got horrible reviews.

I think I just like Scarlett Johansson, though...

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Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: Mini D on November 30, 2006, 10:21:12 PM
Don't go getting all fancy and clever when the real answer is painfully obvious:

Ishtar
Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: ByeBye on November 30, 2006, 10:24:19 PM
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Originally posted by Mini D

Ishtar


Sometimes I wonder why I'm the only one that thinks that movie was funny.
Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: Mace2004 on November 30, 2006, 10:37:42 PM
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Originally posted by ByeBye
Sometimes I wonder why I'm the only one that thinks that movie was funny.


Oh, so you're the one.:D
Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: lasersailor184 on November 30, 2006, 10:40:23 PM
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Most disappointing movie for me is "The Thin Red Line." I don't think I've watched the entire movie (on a vcr tape I recorded) after playing it several times. It came out after "Saving Private Ryan" which was a tough act to follow. Guess it was more of a philosophical (artsy?) movie than a shoot em up. Still it was too slow moving for me.


Yes, Saving Private Ryan did suck.  Though I forgive Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg.  They gave us Band of Brothers.
Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: tapakeg on November 30, 2006, 10:41:23 PM
Signs.   An alien species is advanced enough to travel to our planet that is made up of 3/4 of what can kill them, and their big pre-attack plan is to run around naked on rooftops and make crop circles?


Fantastic Four.  Ok, jumping on the bandwagon that is the superhero blockbuster.........let me get this straight, you made Jessica Alba...THE INVISIBLE WOMAN?  


Don't even get me started on "Firebirds"
Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: Dux on November 30, 2006, 10:52:33 PM
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Originally posted by tapakeg
Don't even get me started on "Firebirds"


lol... "Snort THAT, Sucker!" :huh
Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: lukster on November 30, 2006, 10:59:09 PM
At what point is a movie so bad that it becomes good?

Is it at "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes"?
Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: mosgood on November 30, 2006, 11:07:18 PM
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Originally posted by Mini D
Don't go getting all fancy and clever when the real answer is painfully obvious:

Ishtar


There wasn't a scene in the movie that wasn't painful to watch.  All time worst movie ever..
Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: Slash27 on November 30, 2006, 11:18:30 PM
I think you guys are getting off topic some. We can name **** for nothing movies all day, but what are the biggest let downs?


 I was pretty disappointed with Independence Day. I thought they had a good chance to make some sweet combat scenes but the entire US air defense being made up of the same cloned F-18 killed that. Seemed pretty lazy not mix in some other stuff. And the part where the guys roll their eyes at Randy Quaid when he starts talking about being abducted by aliens while organizing an attack on the aliens.:huh

King Kong and that last X-Men movie are the most recent for me.


 I cant believe you BlueJ, LOTR was great.:D
Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: Golfer on November 30, 2006, 11:23:51 PM
Iron Eagle was also terrible...

but I cannot stop myself from quoting it all the damn time.  Just today I left the following message on my buddy's phone:

"They wern't runnin' they were just getting out of the way.  Now move your butt...get out of the range of those guns!"

You must have Snake on the brain.

Hey nice shot colonel...anything else you wanna send over?
Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: Slash27 on November 30, 2006, 11:27:45 PM
"Doug, I aint going to make it"

"CHAPPY!!!!!!!"
Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: RightF00T on November 30, 2006, 11:41:11 PM
Biggest movie mistakes?



Thats simple...anything airing on SciFi.  Talk about B-Movie City, oh how I wish MST3K was still around to lay the smack down on the abominations coming out of Canada.
Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: Leslie on November 30, 2006, 11:42:15 PM
Old movie:

Does anyone remember the movie where Sean Connery is a sorcerer and lives in what looked like a giant floating tiki god chiminea moving slowly about 100 feet off the ground?  Inside there was a huge cache of modern weapons laying about.  The action took place in Scotland mainly, but the floating fortress could appear anywhere.  That was a weird one..:D





Les
Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: lukster on November 30, 2006, 11:45:15 PM
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Originally posted by Leslie
Old movie:

Does anyone remember the movie where Sean Connery is a sorcerer and lives in what looked like a giant floating tiki god chiminea moving slowly about 100 feet off the ground?  Inside there was a huge cache of modern weapons laying about.  The action took place in Scotland mainly, but the floating fortress could appear anywhere.  That was a weird one..:D





Les


The only two movies I've seen that could resemble that are Zardoz and Highlander.
Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: Leslie on November 30, 2006, 11:58:56 PM
Zardoz sounds like it Lukster, thank you.



Les
Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: DREDIOCK on December 01, 2006, 12:17:25 AM
Biggest movie mistakes

anything and everything that has this guy in it

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The very sound of his voice coupled with his speaking style and accent makes me want to throw things at the screen.

Man to me its worse then fingernails downa blackboard.

Horrid actor ta boot
Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: Ball on December 01, 2006, 02:30:08 AM
what?! wedding crashers is a great film!
Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: Angus on December 01, 2006, 02:41:06 AM
Worst? Sooo many. Independence day, the New King Kong, Signs, Waterworld, you named them.
But why did nobody name Steven Seagal?
Man, I thought Under Siege was ok. but anything else...not.
Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: moot on December 01, 2006, 03:15:21 AM
I've seen so many movies that I don't keep track of spoilers anymore.. I make a conscious effort to keep my disbelief suspended so as to not miss out on the gems amidst the charcoal, so that a movie has to really suck before I have no choice but to tell myself I have better things to do, and walk out.
Those movies I forget quickly, unless they're bad enough to feature in MST3K.

But off the top of my head, Pierce Brosman cast in any role other than the snobbish scientist in Mars Attacks.
Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: Leslie on December 01, 2006, 03:23:57 AM
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Originally posted by Angus
Worst? Sooo many. Independence day, the New King Kong, Signs, Waterworld, you named them.
But why did nobody name Steven Seagal?
Man, I thought Under Siege was ok. but anything else...not.



Is that the one with the battleship?  U.S.S. Alabama?  Filmed here in Mobile on the Alabama.




Les
Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: Angus on December 01, 2006, 03:28:11 AM
Yep. I guess. Thought it was the Missouri,  but not sure anyway.
Tommy Lee stole the scene though.
Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: Jackal1 on December 01, 2006, 07:45:50 AM
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Originally posted by Skuzzy
 Pulp still is the only movie I ever got up and walked out on.  


:O

You gotta be kidding.

"The AK-47. When every *&^&*^&*^*&(^(* in the room must die."


What`s not to like? :D
Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: XNachoX on December 01, 2006, 09:33:15 AM
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Originally posted by Jackal1
:O

You gotta be kidding.

"The AK-47. When every *&^&*^&*^*&(^(* in the room must die."


What`s not to like? :D


That's Jackie Brown, not Pulp Fiction!
Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: Skuzzy on December 01, 2006, 09:54:37 AM
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Originally posted by Jackal1
:O

You gotta be kidding.

"The AK-47. When every *&^&*^&*^*&(^(* in the room must die."


What`s not to like? :D
Not a fan of violence for the sake of violence, I suppose.  If I wanted that, I could go watch "Friday the 145th: When Sally Butchered Harry".  I was not a big fan of the Matrix either, but it was better than Pulped Friction.
Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: Halo on December 01, 2006, 10:05:58 AM
One way to think about Pulp Fiction and other violent films, and gore films and horror films and sex films and war films and all disturbing topics, is as training material to help cope with some of the uglier aspects of life which might happen to any of us somewhere, some time.  

Like bad language, we don't want to be so shocked or stunned by bad things that we cannot cope with them if they happen to us or escape their consequences.  

For example, Pulp Fiction taught me to avoid surly guys carrying big guns.  Whew, sure glad to learn that.
Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: Mace2004 on December 01, 2006, 10:09:02 AM
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Originally posted by Halo

For example, Pulp Fiction taught me to avoid surly guys carrying big guns.  Whew, sure glad to learn that.


Yeah, important safety tip there....I gotta write it down:aok
Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: Angus on December 01, 2006, 10:09:06 AM
How about just watching...some soft disney stuff then?

C'mon, Pulp Fiction was stunning. But that's a bit vulgar as well ;)
Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: Viking on December 01, 2006, 10:20:07 AM
Quote
Originally posted by Golfer
Iron Eagle was also terrible...

but I cannot stop myself from quoting it all the damn time.  Just today I left the following message on my buddy's phone:

"They wern't runnin' they were just getting out of the way.  Now move your butt...get out of the range of those guns!"

You must have Snake on the brain.

Hey nice shot colonel...anything else you wanna send over?



I am Kolonell Akir Nakesh! Prepare to die Iron Eagle!
Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: Ball on December 01, 2006, 11:44:21 AM
whats that film about the B-17, where the ball turret gunner gets trapped inside his turret... so he draws some cartoon wheels and they magically appear on the plane and stop him getting squished?
Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: Skuzzy on December 01, 2006, 12:08:15 PM
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Originally posted by Angus
How about just watching...some soft disney stuff then?

C'mon, Pulp Fiction was stunning. But that's a bit vulgar as well ;)
Actually, I enjoy a good animated film.  I go to movies for entertainment.  I can get all the reality I want everyday outside the movies.  I don't go to movies looking for the meaning of life, or anything along those lines.  I go to them to be entertained.  That's my cup of tea, it may not be yours, which is fine by me.

For me, violence for the sake of violence is not entertaining in a movie.  Simple.  I see nothing stunning nor brilliant about Pulp Fiction.  Quite the opposite actually.  My terms would probably be boring and simplistic, right up there with any number of 'B' movies, just less entertaining.

Oh, I am not putting down anyone for thier opinion, why is it mine is drawing such a reaction?  What people find entertaining is a pretty subjective and, possibly, a personal matter.  Why not just respect that?

Quote
Originally posted by Ball
whats that film about the B-17, where the ball turret gunner gets trapped inside his turret... so he draws some cartoon wheels and they magically appear on the plane and stop him getting squished?
That was an episode of "Amazing Stories".  Episode 1 if I recall correctly.
Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: RedDg on December 01, 2006, 12:53:53 PM
Quote
Originally posted by Ball
whats that film about the B-17, where the ball turret gunner gets trapped inside his turret... so he draws some cartoon wheels and they magically appear on the plane and stop him getting squished?


That was the first episode of Steven Speilberg's Amazing Stories.

That one had a very young Kevin Costner as the B-17 Captain.
Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: Mace2004 on December 01, 2006, 03:05:40 PM
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Originally posted by RedDg
That one had a very young Kevin Costner as the B-17 Captain.


At the pinnacle of his career evidently  :rofl
Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: Neubob on December 01, 2006, 03:11:58 PM
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Originally posted by Mace2004
At the pinnacle of his career evidently  :rofl


Unless of course you count Costner's winning best Best Picture, Best Director and being nominated for Best Actor in a movie that took a total of 7 oscars in 1990.
Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: Skuzzy on December 01, 2006, 03:18:43 PM
That pre-supposes you put stock in the Oscars as a measuring stick for the quality of anyone who works in hollywood.

Just saying.
Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: Neubob on December 01, 2006, 04:58:36 PM
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Originally posted by Skuzzy
That pre-supposes you put stock in the Oscars as a measuring stick for the quality of anyone who works in hollywood.

Just saying.



Aside from the Oscars and Golden Globes, Dances with Wolves was also well recieved by the general public, was critically acclaimed, and was a financial success as well.  Yes, many movies that win best picture are overrated. Many directors that win best director Oscars are overrated, as are the writers who win Best Screenplay. Movies that earn all 3, however, did something right, and in a big way. Like it or not, this movie did many thnigs right, and rightfully earn Costner a place as a movie maker.

On a personal note: I saw it, and although I was not always drawn into the character's plight, I can say, without a doubt, that it was visually impressive, that its production values were on par with the best, and that suspension of disbelief was total. It was a big, impressive movie that many people enjoyed and will continue to enjoy despite what the director did in his subsequent career.

Just saying.
Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: DREDIOCK on December 01, 2006, 05:22:52 PM
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Originally posted by Skuzzy
Not a fan of violence for the sake of violence, I suppose.  If I wanted that, I could go watch "Friday the 145th: When Sally Butchered Harry".  I was not a big fan of the Matrix either, but it was better than Pulped Friction.


Wow Thought it was only me that thought the Matrix sucked



Dont thnk I've ever seen Pulp fiction.
Just didnt appeal to me.

I'll take your word for it though
Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: DREDIOCK on December 01, 2006, 05:28:18 PM
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Originally posted by Neubob
Aside from the Oscars and Golden Globes, Dances with Wolves was also well recieved by the general public, was critically acclaimed, and was a financial success as well.  Yes, many movies that win best picture are overrated. Many directors that win best director Oscars are overrated, as are the writers who win Best Screenplay. Movies that earn all 3, however, did something right, and in a big way. Like it or not, this movie did many thnigs right, and rightfully earn Costner a place as a movie maker.

On a personal note: I saw it, and although I was not always drawn into the character's plight, I can say, without a doubt, that it was visually impressive, that its production values were on par with the best, and that suspension of disbelief was total. It was a big, impressive movie that many people enjoyed and will continue to enjoy despite what the director did in his subsequent career.

Just saying.


I liked "Dances with Wolves" and Im not a huge Costner fan.

the only part I didnt like about it was the white woman.
The Way the Indians were portrayed was great
Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: sluggish on December 01, 2006, 05:31:41 PM
I'm sure I'll get flamed for this but although I'm not a Tom Cruise fan Vanilla Sky is a film I can watch over and over again.  It is so multi-layered that I catch something new every time I see it.  It was critically panned and most people didn't like it but I thought it was brilliant.
Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: Regular on December 01, 2006, 07:27:53 PM
Charlies Angels and Bad Boy series are suck.
Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: JB88 on December 01, 2006, 07:32:25 PM
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Originally posted by lasersailor184
Hitch hiker's guide to the galaxy.  Anyone who questions this should report to the US Department of Castration.


one of my favorite books of all time (first three in series rocked...so long and beyond, mistake)

movie was pretty much a mistake.  though zaphod was done rather well.

IMHO.
Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: Sandman on December 01, 2006, 07:35:17 PM
Biggest recent let down was King Kong. I expected so much more from Peter Jackson.

I'm also wondering who had the bright idea that Jack Black could act in a more "serious" role.

As for "Contact," wasn't the book written similarly to the movie. IIRC, there were more people on the machine, but there weren't any slimy aliens.
Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: ujustdied on December 01, 2006, 07:42:13 PM
hmm i don't know my whole family really liked the new King Kong. the special effect were nicely done.


now i thought a really great movie that came out was Bad Santa that movie was priceless.
Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: JB88 on December 01, 2006, 07:44:44 PM
i thought the personification of kong was supremely well done.

the dinosaurs were crap, but i enjoyed it overall.
Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: sluggish on December 01, 2006, 08:29:34 PM
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Originally posted by Sandman
Biggest recent let down was King Kong. I expected so much more from Peter Jackson.

I'm also wondering who had the bright idea that Jack Black could act in a more "serious" role.

 


Got to agree with you although the bug scene was great.
Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: tapakeg on December 01, 2006, 11:19:20 PM
Oh yeah, Independence Day...........


Ok, making something new that Orson Wells did decades ago, they kill the aliens with a virus, wait.....a computer virus.  One question....
What did they do, corrupt their .exe files?  Were they running Windows?

I can't get a mac to talk to a pc, and they just up an created a virus that will infect alien computers?



Moving along......

If the death star could destroy a planet, why did they have to wait until the moon was out of the way to destroy the planet in Star Wars?  Why didn't they blow up the moon?

If Gandolf could summon those big prettythang eagles at the end to save Frodo and Samwise, couldn't he have saved everyone a lot of walking and summoned them at the beginning to drop the dam ring in the volcano from the air?



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Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: DREDIOCK on December 02, 2006, 12:46:59 AM
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Originally posted by Sandman
Biggest recent let down was King Kong. I expected so much more from Peter Jackson.

I'm also wondering who had the bright idea that Jack Black could act in a more "serious" role.

 


I kept looking at Black and kept thinking Chris Farley.

Black fit that role like an abortion clinic in the Vatican
Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: Max on December 02, 2006, 11:56:33 AM
Borat blows :t
Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: Skuzzy on December 02, 2006, 12:02:31 PM
You actually went and saw that Max?  LOL!
Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: Max on December 02, 2006, 12:20:20 PM
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Originally posted by Skuzzy
You actually went and saw that Max?  LOL!


Saw a couple of outtakes on the net. One was pretty funny...the cheese thingy:

Borat: What's this?
Supermarket guy: Cheese
Borat: and what's this?
Supermarket guy: Cheese

repeat 100x :D

The movie wasn't worth the price of a small popcorn.
Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: Hap on December 02, 2006, 02:00:29 PM
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Originally posted by ByeBye
Sometimes I wonder why I'm the only one that thinks that movie was funny.


You're not ByeBye.  There are some very funny parts in it.  The arms negotiation being one.

Regards,

hap
Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: Hap on December 02, 2006, 02:03:17 PM
Angus, I like "soft Disney."

Disney is good.  Pinocchio -- 101 Dalmatians -- Snow White

Regards,

hap

p.s. Mrs. Miniver also good --> very good for family viewing esp given the armed conflict we wage.  Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce Holmes and Watson -- good.
Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: WilldCrd on December 02, 2006, 04:46:54 PM
The remale of War of the Worlds = TOAL SUCKAGE
i really dont understand why the world is sooooo enamored with Tom crude.
is there a bigger ego on the planet? or a person more full of there own superiorority? personally everything he has done since risky bussiness was suckage
The last samuri COULD have been a great movie IF they had cast someone else in toms role
Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: ByeBye on December 02, 2006, 04:55:46 PM
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Originally posted by Neubob
Aside from the Oscars and Golden Globes, Dances with Wolves was also well recieved by the general public, was critically acclaimed, and was a financial success as well.  Yes, many movies that win best picture are overrated. Many directors that win best director Oscars are overrated, as are the writers who win Best Screenplay. Movies that earn all 3, however, did something right, and in a big way. Like it or not, this movie did many thnigs right, and rightfully earn Costner a place as a movie maker.

On a personal note: I saw it, and although I was not always drawn into the character's plight, I can say, without a doubt, that it was visually impressive, that its production values were on par with the best, and that suspension of disbelief was total. It was a big, impressive movie that many people enjoyed and will continue to enjoy despite what the director did in his subsequent career.

Just saying.


I agree.

I thought Dances with Wolves was a very good  film. I'm no fan of Costner, but that was a good film and he fit the role well.
Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: Slash27 on December 02, 2006, 06:27:21 PM
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Originally posted by tapakeg


If the death star could destroy a planet, why did they have to wait until the moon was out of the way to destroy the planet in Star Wars?  Why didn't they blow up the moon?

If Gandolf could summon those big prettythang eagles at the end to save Frodo and Samwise, couldn't he have saved everyone a lot of walking and summoned them at the beginning to drop the dam ring in the volcano from the air?



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1. They needed the moon for the new "Mall of the Empire"

2. You cant trust birds with shiny objects.
Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: DiabloTX on December 02, 2006, 11:35:11 PM
Almost forgot:  David Arquette as a young Gus McCrae in "Dead Man's Walk."  Was like getting my fingernails ripped out one by one watching him butcher a character that Robert Duvall made so memorable.
Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: Billy Joe Bob on December 03, 2006, 02:41:20 AM
Silent Hill
video game movies SUCK!
Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: straffo on December 03, 2006, 03:19:20 AM
The core

http://www.intuitor.com/moviephysics/core.html

That's the worst of the worst.
Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: Jackal1 on December 05, 2006, 06:07:06 AM
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Originally posted by Skuzzy

Oh, I am not putting down anyone for thier opinion, why is it mine is drawing such a reaction?  



Because you are TeH Skuzzster and you carry the wrath stick. :)
Revenge drinketh a pale ale. :rofl
Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: moot on December 05, 2006, 06:10:53 AM
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Originally posted by straffo
The core

http://www.intuitor.com/moviephysics/core.html

That's the worst of the worst.

You're just biasing it for the 100% pure french frenchman character :p
Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: Blank on December 05, 2006, 06:51:11 AM
i hate Jurassic park with a vengence.

read the book before hand and really enjoyed it.

point of the book: to get back to the control room over a dinosaur covered island to stop the ship from reaching the mainland. (wont spoil why they have to stop the ship).

Film: How the child hating Scientist comes to love children by the end.

Just hate it.

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Also did you notice the Laptop used to make and download the virus in Independance day was an Apple Laptop, its kind of ironic its an Apple what with the normal apples 'dont have a virus problem'.

see where that attitude got the aliens ;-)
Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: Holden McGroin on December 05, 2006, 07:23:32 AM
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Originally posted by Blank
Also did you notice the Laptop used to make and download the virus in Independance day was an Apple Laptop, its kind of ironic its an Apple what with the normal apples 'dont have a virus problem'.


Goldblum's Apple did not have a virus problem.  It just was a carrier to infect the alien's Wintel based computer system.
Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: Angus on December 05, 2006, 07:29:17 AM
(http://www.moviemistakes.com/chimagefree.php?image=3363.jpg)

A chariot from Gladiator...
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Post by: Shaky on December 05, 2006, 01:03:51 PM
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Originally posted by tapakeg



If the death star could destroy a planet, why did they have to wait until the moon was out of the way to destroy the planet in Star Wars?  Why didn't they blow up the moon?
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Well...they actually had to wait untill the big planet moved out of the way of the moon...the rebel base was on a moon :)
Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: Mace2004 on December 05, 2006, 04:16:32 PM
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Originally posted by tapakeg
Oh yeah, Independence Day...........


Ok, making something new that Orson Wells did decades ago, they kill the aliens with a virus, wait.....a computer virus.  One question....
What did they do, corrupt their .exe files?  Were they running Windows?

I can't get a mac to talk to a pc, and they just up an created a virus that will infect alien computers?
 


They actually uploaded a Beta version of Explorer 7.
Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: Skuzzy on December 05, 2006, 04:19:50 PM
I think it was Vista, or Office 2007.  Or a Sony music CD.
Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: vorticon on December 05, 2006, 07:25:44 PM
of what i've actually seen in theaters over the past year or so...

cars was pretty dissapointing, mater was the only thing that saved it.

the davinci code was crap, i was expecting something better given the amount of whining that was done.

that harry potter movie was pretty bad as well, teen angst in a movie based of of childrens books...ick

almost everything else was garbage to, but i didnt have any expectations...only things that were worth the cost was lucky number slevin and over the hedge.
Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: lazs2 on December 06, 2006, 08:58:39 AM
two really bad ones with something in common were..

Paint your wagon and some other musical with Bruce Willets in it where they sang through heists in order to time things... much better than watches apparently.

Paint your wagon had Clint Eastwood and Lee Marvin breaking out in song... I was embarassed for em... but, at least it had good scenery... the One with Bruce was mostly in dark, empty buildings.

Action heroes at the peak of their careers doing muisicals.... really bad idea..

lazs
Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: Suave on December 06, 2006, 09:09:51 AM
You gotta be ****tin me. I saw "Paint your Wagon" referenced to on the simpsons and I thought it was a joke.

Basically the scene is this. Bart and Homer rent this clint eastwood western because they think it's going to be a kick bellybutton action flick, but as they are watching it clint and the old gray guy break into song about painting wagons. Much to the male simpsons dismay.

I just thought it was a joke. Like the planet of the apes musical.
Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: Airscrew on December 06, 2006, 09:22:13 AM
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Originally posted by lazs2
two really bad ones with something in common were..

Paint your wagon and some other musical with Bruce Willets in it where they sang through heists in order to time things... much better than watches apparently.

Paint your wagon had Clint Eastwood and Lee Marvin breaking out in song... I was embarassed for em... but, at least it had good scenery... the One with Bruce was mostly in dark, empty buildings.

Action heroes at the peak of their careers doing muisicals.... really bad idea..

lazs

that Bruce Willis movie was "Hudson Hawk"  he didnt like it either.  It was made during his "Moonlighting" years right around the same time he did "Blind Date"   I kinda liked "Hudson Hawk" despite the singing, but I dont know why
Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: Mace2004 on December 06, 2006, 10:16:48 AM
How about all except the first and second Star Wars?  Specifically Lucas' blatant attempt to play to six-year olds and providing additional post-release toy marketing with cuddley little killer Teddy Bears and the retarded Jar-Jar in Episode 1?  How about the abysimal selection for Anakin in the last two movies?  From what I could see, Darth Vader was primarily the result of Whining Teen Angst.  "Obi-wan won't let me do this, Obi-wan won't let me do that, Obi-wan doesn't trust me, Obi-want never lets me do anything!"  If Obi-wan had only "grounded" Anakin and given him a little "tough love" everything would have been hunky dory.
Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: TinmanX on December 06, 2006, 11:29:44 AM
You gotta love the guild for banning Lucas from ever directing another movie. It's a shame they relented and let him make Howard The Duck. Shoulda banned him again straight after.

Not gonna say a word against LoTR, those movies are still making me money.

Alexander was poor - strayed very far from historical accuracy.

Troy was kinda fun but it's a shame Sparta was represented in the way it was but no-one wants to hear my thesis on ancient Greek city states.

Jack Black only got the role in Kong cos he did such a fine job of ripping the piss out of Jacksons precious at the MTVMA's.
Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: lazs2 on December 06, 2006, 02:19:33 PM
suave... yep.. it was real allright...  like a nightmare but real..

Oh... once one of my former wives rented "the prince of tides"... I fell assleep about 4 hours into it but when I woke up it was still on and I had to watch the last 3 or 4 hours or so of it.

That was a bad movie.  Like being stuck in the womans channel or something.

lazs
Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: Debonair on December 06, 2006, 02:23:56 PM
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Originally posted by lazs2
...Action heroes at the peak of their careers doing muisicals.... really bad idea...


bad idea even for flaming homosexuals on their decline
Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: lazs2 on December 06, 2006, 02:28:54 PM
is it possible that debonair actualy said something that I not only understand but... agree with?

lazs
Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: Debonair on December 06, 2006, 02:38:40 PM
zOMG!!11:O :O :O :O :O :O
(http://orlyowl.com/upload/files/no_wai_langur_2.JPG)
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Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: evenhaim on December 06, 2006, 03:03:05 PM
iron eagle was filmed in israel with israeli planes and the enemy were iaf kfires and mirages lol and they claimied the planes where usaf hahah yah right look at the paint scheme pure desert baby
Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: LePaul on December 06, 2006, 03:46:03 PM
If you do a search on YouTube, you'll find the raw Israeli Air Force footage.  Its only about 13 minutes.  So if those clips in the movie seemed to repeat themself a lot...its all they had.  Seeing it when I was 15, even I noticed that scene to scene, the armament configurations kept changing.

One thing that makes me roll my eyes with any movie with fighter jets in them....they always show them in constant full afterburner.  If they only knew how fast a fighterjet eats thru fuel...they'd change that.
Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: Ball on December 06, 2006, 03:52:27 PM
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Originally posted by LePaul
One thing that makes me roll my eyes with any movie with fighter jets in them....they always show them in constant full afterburner.  If they only knew how fast a fighterjet eats thru fuel...they'd change that.


No G effects either
Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: Squire on December 06, 2006, 03:54:10 PM
Howard the Duck.

Hands down. ;)
Title: Biggest Movie mistakes
Post by: Ball on December 06, 2006, 04:04:23 PM
Not seeing Elisha Cuthbert naked in "The Girl Next Door"