Matthew on 1/8/2007 at 10:21
Good point, I immediately assumed the former but you are quite correct.
henke on 1/8/2007 at 10:23
I must say that Plan9 did not live up to my expectations(of how bad it would be). But I guess that that's just because when you expect everything to be utter shit you're constantly amazed when you find something in it that's less than dreadfull. The actors that played the pilot and his wife were alright. I guess they were the two actors in the movie who were actually professionals and not just buddies of Mr. Wood. But yeah, I think that expectations weigh into your enjoyment of a movie as much as anything else.
Anyway, my boring personal list of the most underwhelming movies I've seen:
Be Cool - everyone just tried too hard, except for the screenwriter. Only good parts was Cedric the Entertainer and Andre Benjamin's characters.
XXX - I normaly love mindless action and the trailer for XXX had me pumped but the actual movie just turned out to be kinda shit. Too much bad dialogue and not enough action. And when there was action, it wasn't that spectacular.
My Lucky Stars - old Jackie Chan flick with too much embarasingly bad lowbrow comedy and too little asskicking.
Phydeaux on 1/8/2007 at 11:09
Quote Posted by henke
Be Cool - everyone just tried too hard, except for the screenwriter. Only good parts was Cedric the Entertainer and Andre Benjamin's characters.
Oh god. I've never been as disappointed in a movie as I was in this. I can only claim that I forgot to mention this movie myself because I must have been repressing it to the back of my mind.
Get Shorty was great. Denis Farina was hysterical. The US3 soundtrack was terrific.
Be Cool was 99.9% absolute shit. The .01% was the joke Chili made about how PG-13 sequels sucked because you can only use the F Word once (to which he says "fuck that"). And that was at the very beginning of the movie (and it was all downhill from there). Sure, I've seen worse movies (not many though), but at least with those I was expecting them to be lousy. With
Be Cool, I was expecting at least a modicum of what made
Get Shorty so fun to watch, and I was sorely disappointed. In retrospect, the inclusion of Vince Vaughn should have been a giveaway to it's shittiness.
Brian T on 1/8/2007 at 11:15
Plan 9 is pretty bad but I don't think it's quite as mind blowingly bad as it's reputation. I chuckled a bit (metaphorically) but I don't even think it's the worst 1950s B movie. There's one called variously Ro Man or Robot Monster that I thought was worse (ie better)
(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_Monster)
Shakey-Lo on 1/8/2007 at 11:26
Quote Posted by Brother Renault
Wow. Now Revolutions, I can see. I can never understand where the hatred comes from for Reloaded. If for nothing else, just a few really just amazing sequences make that film worth watching.
Ok, maybe its time I explained myself.
(I never watched Revolutions, by the way, for obvious reasons)
The part where I really rolled my eyes was when some asian-looking guy (its been a while) was a doorman and the entire scene went something like this:
Doorman: I'm sorry.
Neo: For what?
Doorman: For this.
[overly long, blatantly choreographed, epileptically edited and utterly pointless martial arts fight]
It was just this sort of thing that ran through the entire film. Rather than being a smart and edgy techno-thriller like the original film, it was just a string of pointless action sequences.
Quote:
Morpheus: The robots are coming!!! So let's all dance for 10 minutes in slow motion..... FOR NO REASON!!
Quote:
Neo: I can fly away from these agents at any time, but lets fight them for 10 minutes... FOR NO REASON!!
Quote:
Monica Belucci: You must make out with me for 10 minutes... FOR NO REASON!!
Quote:
The Architect: What with all these pointless and overly long action sequences, the Wachowskis forgot the existential undertones of the first film, so now I'll just ramble on a pretentious and magniloquent speech for 10 minutes...
etc etc.
I should also clarify that I thought the first film was good but not great; I'm not a Star Wars-esque fanboy getting angry over a sequel, I just thought it was a terrible and tedious film.
SD on 1/8/2007 at 12:53
Quote Posted by Shakey-Lo
The robots are coming!!! So let's all dance for 10 minutes in slow motion..... FOR NO REASON!!
Just because you didn't understand the rave scene doesn't mean it was pointless.
Muzman on 1/8/2007 at 13:01
I think the point was a lot of good points in a lot of damp singlets, from memory.
Shakey-Lo on 1/8/2007 at 13:11
Quote Posted by SD
Just because you didn't understand the rave scene doesn't mean it was pointless.
enlighten me.
SD on 1/8/2007 at 13:17
Oh, there must be hundreds of explications of this one on the Internet. Let's see.
*Googles*Try (
http://www.wylfing.net/essays/matrix_reloaded.html#rave) this. It seems to cover most bases.
The fundamental problem with the Matrix series (especially the second and third films) is that it is a thoughtful philosophical treatment of the nature of humanity masquerading as a vacuous popcorn blockbuster.
