The Awesome Concept of Bad Movies

[Kyanbu The Legend]

Originally Posted by Aerozord

now maybe I dont look up a wide enough variety of movie reviews, but wasn't Twilight universally regarded as trash by movie critics? sales well, but that doesn't mean anyone with creditable opinion views it as good.

Pretty sure even the media sees it as just a horrible movie.

I usually steer clear of movies simply because I'm paying way too much to accidentally see a bad movie.

Machete was pretty over the top but over all it was still a damn awesome movie. Worth the $30+ my uncle spent to take me and my grandmother to see it.

[rpgdemon]

I greatly enjoyed Hot Tub Time Machine, though! It was quite funny, and I would say that it was good value for my money.

[Archbio]

It actually would be less bad if you'd done it out of masochism.

Anything by Roland Emmerich is bound to have a good concept, even a great set up; but horrible execution is sure to follow, at least by the movie's midpoint.

[Krylo]

Originally Posted by Bells

See the Warriors Way... you have Cowboys, Ninjas, Fallout/Borderlands-esque desert scenario... how can you screw THAT up?

Lack of juxtaposition between action and drama, and a lack of justification or reasonable story information, combined with an inability to overcome the common man's suspension of disbelief. Which is probably tied to the lack of a story.

You can't just drop ninja from out of nowhere onto roof tops unless you've somehow justified ninja having the ability to drop out of nowhere onto rooftops with something that seems plausible within the fictional universe you have created.

The failure to do that makes what the writers/producers/whatever think was an 'awesome' scene into something that just tears the audience out of the movie and back into reality. A jarring rip away back to reality, that it is hard to return to the movie to afterward.

Or, to put it more concisely--it's because they are letting people who are the equivalent of thirteen year old socially awkward and uneducated nerds write and do whatever they think is awesome, instead of letting people who actually know how to make a cohesive movie do the scripting, directing, and producing.


THAT SAID, Cowboys and Aliens looks surprisingly non-shitty for the concept, just judging by the trailers. The name kind of makes it hard to take seriously, which is going to make it hard to get past the average viewer's reality sensors, but the actual cinematography, acting, and writing, doesn't seem much worse than a standard action flick (which still isn't GOOD mind you, especially not these days, but hey).

And I Am Number Four just... well, that trailer tells me nothing about what it's about other than someone can shoot lasers out of their hands or something, I guess, and someone wants to kill them.

Gives me Jumper Vibes. And I thought Jumper was perfectly ok. Just not as a stand alone movie... but the series it was based on was a SERIES, so I really felt the PR machine should have spent more time explaining that the story wouldn't be adequately resolved in one movie.

Judging Jumper as a stand alone movie would be like judging the Fellowship of the Rings in a vacuum (it'd be pretty shit if people didn't know there were a couple sequels coming).

That's a bit off key, though. Mostly I just wanted to say that I Am Number Four doesn't seem to fit with the other two movies there. It feels more story driven than 'HOLY SHIT COWBOYS AND NINJAS OR SOMETHING' driven.

[Bells]

Cowboys and Aliens wins points by the simple fact that you have Han Solo and James Bond on the same screen fighting aliens while being Cowboys (which also brings Han Solo and Indiana Jones a step closer together) so that ok...

As for Number 4, you saw that other movie "Push" ? It's generic super flick crap, and the whole "i'm number 4 out of 9" gives me a either Alien vibe or Highlander vibe.

The main focus for me was that the Energy blast the kid gives in the trailer is a HUUUUGE ripoff of Ironman's pulse blasters....

...also, a Highlander Reboot could be cool.

[Marc v4.0]

Speaking of Push, that is one movie that I really enjoyed. I was actually surprised to find out it wasn't based off a novel or comic. As far as generic super flicks go, I thought it was really well done (That's not saying a lot, but still, more then you can expect these days). Again, worth my 7.50 in entertainment value alone.

[Magus]

Yeah Push was a really odd movie, my sister bought it on DVD and it was really quite unexpectedly good. I should rewatch it because it was quite great.

NOTE this is the super hero movie Push, not the book Precious was based on.

Anyway lots of people hate Starship Troopers, I on the other hand think it is the greatest movie since sliced bread. Er, greatest movie since a movie about sliced bread.