Every Jurassic Park movie after the 2nd one.
The Emoji Movie
Yes. You look at the title of the movie and you go, nope.
You just know there’s some producer out there who is salivating over minion merch.
Waterworld. At the time the most expensive movie ever made and the most spectacular flop of all time.
But I like Waterworld.
I “think” John Carter beat it, but yeah.
John Carter suffered from an awful title.
“Princess of Mars,” would have resonated better with marketing. And is actually one of the book titles.
I must be on my own. I know John Carter flopped phenomenally, but I really liked it. Thought it was a great movie. Was very annoyed when I found out that there may never be a 2nd. Even if there was, at this stage it is very unlikely to be the same cast. IIRC, a lot of the blame was on Disney marketing. But IDK about these things.
Don’t worry brother, I still go back and watch waterworld. I like oceanscapes and post apocalyptic settings. Esthetic can be enough for me.
I did some digging and apparently Waterworld somehow broke even. I remember a lot of the hype around the film at the time was wanting to see if it was really as bad as people said it was.
Neither of those movies were really all that terrible. I enjoyed John Carter. But clearly they didn’t connect with audiences.
Absolutely, I enjoyed both for what they were, Sully fantasy/adventure movies.
A lot of the Movies Sony makes now. Morbius, Kraven, etc.
Those are big budget? I thought they were great low budget movies
marvel
Perhaps, Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star. I have a weird relationship with this movie. I know it’s shit but I can’t help but be fascinated by it. It’s a fun movie to make your friends and family watch with you so you can watch their reaction. I wouldn’t even say it’s so bad it’s good. It’s bad but entertaining at the same time. I watch it and think “how the fuck did this get made?”
Battleship. It’s just such a bizarre license for a movie, and certainly one nobody ever asked for. (Well, outside Hasbro execs clearly desperate for another Transformers-level hit.)
Oddly watchable in a big dumb fun kind of way, at least. And hey, it has Jesse Plemons not playing a total sociopath, so that’s neat.
I’m still waiting for the film adaptation of Checkers.
It’s shit but also entertaining. I kinda wanna watch that one again.
Ohh i forgot another one of my favorite. Ghost in the Shell live action. I love that movie because of Scarlett Johansson, but if you watch the original anime, everything just feels better, and the live action is simply unnecessary.
‘Live action’ remakes of animated classics, or any remake of an already good film.
Remake the ones that had potential. but failed in the execution.
All those Disney live action remakes are sooo bad. People just don’t have the expressiveness of cartoon characters. The Lion King was the worst. The characters were animated and still wooden
I think Christopher Robin and maleficent were good. As long as they’re telling a new story it’s fun to see the old characters. When it’s just the exact same plot but a little darker and live action over animation it’s so dumb. Our CGI just ain’t good enough to justify that.
They’re remaking Moana already, and still a new movie, relative.
Moana is all about the musical performances. I love the whole movie but what is on the screen just kinda punctuates and gives context to the music for me. Frozen is the same way. And they’re thinking they are going to remake all that music and have it be just as good?
It would be like trying to remake The Blues Brothers with Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham just because the original is 40 years old.
There’s a distinction to point out between “absolutely no business getting made” vs “the final product turned out to be shit”. I can’t really think of anything that belongs to the former… I haven’t actually seen most of the films mentioned here so far, except the SW sequels… which turned out to be shit, but that doesn’t mean they shouldn’t have made SW sequels at all: they just shouldn’t have made them shit.
I was more curious about the former but got a lot more of the latter. Unfortunately, it would be difficult to phrase the question to get the desired result. Oh well.
I’d you want to former, I’ll say Arcane. They poured money into that and it shows. They will never be able to count money made by that, though it was great word of mouth and I’m sure increased sales. But they spent like a half-billion dollars on that with no hope of any return. But damn that was a hell of a series.
My initial thought seeing the title was Megalopolis but I don’t know the budget for it. Haven’t seen it yet, so I can’t speak to the quality of it, but I had read a ton of shit talking about how hard it was for Copolla to get it made and then distributed after he did make it. It sounds like the only thing that fits the question.
Definitely worth the watch
Mortal Engines
It seemed like a prime IP to get its time on the big screen, being that it’s got a lot to build off of. But the sheer number of characters that were introduced throughout the movie and the ‘all of this and more awaits,’ really had me overwhelmed with having any continued interest in the “main characters” as the movie entered its third act. There were more issues, but that was the one that really sealed its fate imo.
Im pretty sure I watched this movie but I cant remember how it went
The Hobbit trilogy. It’s hard to understand how Peter Jackson could mess up movie after movie after movie like that.
I like them all ¯_(ツ)_/¯
(Yes I had read the book before they were made)
Simple:
He and his crew had 2 years of prep for Lotr, storyboards, finding locations, making props and sets, etc.
New Line Cinemas forced him to do that same prep in 6 months for the Hobbit. Allegedly they didn’t even fully finish the script and had to cut in Del Toro scenes.
I think it was Prime’s Theater where I learnt that for the Smaug fight scene for movie 2, they planed the set the night before, painted the next morning, filmed, and the paint was still wet when the sets were taken down.
The forced trilogy structure also really hurt it. When the Hobbit film adaptation was initially announced (at the time just two movies, even), I thought that it didn’t make any sense to adapt a book shorter than any of the individual LotR installments into multiple movies. When they revealed it would be a trilogy, I knew it was some studio decision to milk it for money and didn’t have high hopes.
There is actually a fan edit floating around online somewhere called “The Hobbit: Extended Edition” which, contrary to what the name might imply, cuts down the trilogy into a single movie of comparable length to the LotR Extended films. Still not perfect, but a huge improvement in quality just from cutting out all of the extra garbage that didn’t need to be there.
There are a few different edits, but my fave is the M4 Book Edit. It only follows what was covered in the book and cuts out all the additions like the Kili/Tauriel love story (and Tauriel is cut out completely along with Azog until the end), the Dol Guldur stuff, and Gandalf’s escapades outside the party. It cuts the trilogy down to 4hr18min. Aside from a few unavoidably janky transitions, it’s great.
I absolutely adore it for 2 reasons: One, I really dislike the trilogy as a whole, but that’s because of the bloat, which M4 gets rid of. Two, the older I get the harder it is to go through LOTR as often as I like. I usually do an LOTR rewatch once a year, and tried to add in the Hobbit, but usually stopped after the first. It’s just too much time for not enough payoff. With the M4 edit, I’ll get stoned and watch it 5 or 6 times a year.
For as much flack as Jackson gets the for The Hobbit movies, he did a phenomenal job where it counts. There really is a wonderful, true-to-source Hobbit adventure scattered throughout the 8hr52min bloat that is the trilogy.
For funsies, if you like the other bits there’s another fan edit called Durin’s Folk and the Hill of Sorcery that’s 1hr8min that covers Gandalf’s adventure after he fucks off from the party at Mirkwood.
All of the Jurassic Parks sequels.
JP 3 is the best! 92 minutes - all of the action, no tired butt.
Even the Spielberg’s sequel?
Lost World was alright, 3 was meh. The rest are a big bag of:
Especially the Spielberg sequel… After the success of the first movie, Crighton wrote a Lost World novel as a sequel to the FILM, not the first book.
Spielberg jettisoned the book and did his own sequel instead. :(
I really wanted to see the chameleon dinosaurs on film.
Even the original was a massive disappointment if you had read the book.
Yep!
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
lmao
That’s literally why it was my choice. It’s one of the biggest budget films ever… and also one of the biggest flops ever.
Was it? Or are those numbers just Hollywoid accounting. I mean, on paper everybHarry Potter movie was a flop…
At least it was better than Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
Did we watch the same movie? I marathoned all the films and Dial of Destiny is dire. To be honest, only the first film is truly great. I’d probably rank them 1, 3, 4, 2, 5.
Ohh yes, temple of doom is honestly annoying. Last crusade pulled the franchise back from whatever mess is 2.
No way temple of doom is worse than crystal skull right? I guess if you ignore the racism.
Racism? Fuck that. The annoying wise kid and the constantly screaming woman killed that movie!
Crusade > Raiders.
Is it worth watching though?
I couldn’t sit through Grandpa Pants and his Crystal Skull.It was a classic 80s adventure movie. Of course it’s not that old, but it fit the formula perfectly. It’s entertaining, but I honestly don’t remember much about it.
I felt it was significantly worse than Crystal Skull.
