The original is sloggy as fuck, but the remake whittled the runtime down quite a bit. I found that more enjoyable. Which did you see?
Ah, well. I dug it. I thought it was like TNG's "The Bonding" but R rated and thinky-er. Y'know, what with the living brain-planet bringing dead loved ones back.
I got the gist Section 31 was keeping transwarp beaming under wraps, but Khan stole it. Seriously, as much as Emory Erikson's ghost would be screaming "yes, bitches!! Transporer pads win!!" wiping out starships overnight would fuck up that universe as surely as this world if I found neutrino power, and could tell everyone how to put it in their cars with parts at the hardware store.
Tarkovsky can be a bit, uh, meditative. He made films for those that thought 2001 isn't ponderous enough... I loved what this sci-fi film made in the Soviet Union used as a futuristic city: Tokyo! Apparently, in the future, the Russians will have put aside Cyrillic for Japanese writing! I liked the Soderbergh/Clooney version. And it's much more accessible than the original.
Maybe I’ll give it another chance I just remember falling asleep the first time I watched it so I never went back to it.
Score: A Hockey Musical I'm not even slightly exaggerating when I say I left the theatre the closest to committing suicide I've ever been in my entire life.
All the live action Transformers movies for sure. The most recent Matrix movie was pretty bad. The Star Wars sequel movies… not awful but very disappointing. Those movies were a mess IMO. I’m pretty careful about what I watch. If I know it’s not going to be good or if it has gotten a lot of bad reviews I won’t waste my time. Or if I’m getting bored I’ll just stop watching it and do something else.
I think the absolute worst I've ever seen in a theater--so bad I couldn't believe it as I was watching it--was a sequel I was really looking forward to: Highlander 2: The Quickening. Good lord, that was hot garbage.
Oh, God...Jaws: The Revenge (aka Jaws 4). Awful, just awful. Particularly awful moment: Lorraine Gary's character has a flashback to an event she was not present at. I like what Michael Caine (who was at a definite lowpoint in his career when he made it) has said about the film:
I've been looking up lists of worst movies and those two consistently show up along with Caddy Shack 2 and Police Academy 4. I like the Police Academy movies, damnit.
Burton's was more accurate to the book though. The Oompah Loompah songs were the ones from the book. Veruca's punishment was the one from the book. But yeah, the Gene Wilder version is a classic for a reason.
Has biodome been mentioned yet? Then there was that Tom Green movie my mind refuses to let me remember.
Too many to list, but just off the top of my head (and fresh from the Oscars) I'd have to say that Denis Villeneuve's Dune is easily the most overrated films in recent memory. Given the director's pedigree and amazing visuals, I expected more than a snore-fest that largely went nowhere. But, the source material is definitely problematic. Same could be said of Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy. To each his own. (P.S. - anyone who wants to accuse me of not liking Dune because there wasn't enough "pew pew" can fuck off. Stanley Kubrick's 2001 is probably my favourite sci-fi film of all time, and many folks accuse it of being a snore-fest.)
problem is, I like something about every movie I see. Either that or I'm more picky about what I watch. I really don't have a list of worst movies. As already stated I liked Being John Malkovich. A lot. When he entered himself and the universe became malkoviched I lol'd. I loved Solaris, the original 1976 Russian release and the Clooney remake. Natascha McElhone melted my heart. I even liked Clooney's butt. But Viola Davis really stole the movie. The book by Stanislaw Lem was very good (even though a translation). Even the Twilight Saga I managed to digest the several times my wife made me watch. I admit my attention wandered a bit. Even Blair Witch. Even The Room.
I'm like this 99% of the time. My list in the OP is seemingly big, but it's a teensy speck compared to the mountain of movies I've seen.
Even my ex didn't make me slog through that nightmare and she was a slave driver. I feel sorry for you.
Nah, I liked the absurdity of it all. The studio basically gave Tom Green money to do what he wanted and didn't realize just how crazy he was.
I actually like some of the cinematography/stunts in this one. It's not like it was trying to be anything more than an over the top action movie. But yeah.... some of that dialogue was terrible! Worse than I remember.
Y'know something I never hear mentioned about "Signs"? Apparently, in the universe of this movie, the Christian God and aliens co-exist. This raises a bunch of questions. Did Christian God create the aliens too, just to send them our way, so he could tell us how to kill them through Mel Gibson's dead wife? Or does every alien planet have it's own God? Like every Marvel planet has a baby Celestial?
It took me a while for this one to bob to the surface of my memory: Captain Ron. I do not know if it has been mentioned yet, but obviously birdemic and the sharknado movies.