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[–] 1 point 1 year ago

Cats (2019)

  • Directed by Tom Hooper, a guy who doesn't know shit about cinematography but somehow had two previous films gain critical ablation despite this.

  • Released years, even decades after the West End and Broadway shows had been discontinued.

  • Relied heavily on a star-studded cast featuring Ian McKellen, Rebel Wilson, James Corden, Idris Elba, Judi Dench, Jason Derulo and Taylor Swift.

  • Horrifically bad CGI which costed an absolute tonne to produce because Hooper was an arrogant arsehole and didn't listen to the people on his crew who actually handled special effects for a living.

  • Most of the songs are significant downgrades compared to the original stage show, i.e. musical vs film version of Magical Mr Mistoffelees.

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  • [–] 67 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    Borderlands. How did they spend that much money and none of the decision makers stop and think "nope this is crap"

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    Still have to see it. I'm in no rush, but since I am a Borderlands fan, I have to know.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    It’s really bad. Like, nearly unwatchable.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    so like get the boys together, take a few shots of tequila and smoke something dank AF

    then watch it?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Are you familiar with Edward 40-Hands?

    Participants have a 40oz of Steel Reserve (or similar) duct taped to each hand. You may not remove the bottles until both are empty. The tradition is to watch old kung fu movies but this movie is absolutely acceptable. I advise wearing gym shorts; you WILL need to piss before you are done.

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  • LOL I can't say if I have ever had more then a sip of a Steel Reserve. One of my best friends growing up developed a bad case of alcoholism and he drank those things religiously. I would rather just smoke some weed and get a little buzz then fucked up drunk like those are guaranteed to do !

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I've seen far worse movies, movies that are truly unwatchable.

    I know nothing about the source material and I get the impression that's the difference here between those who think this is a terrible movie instead of just another mediocre comic book movie. As someone who had never read comics, they're all equally meh to me but I wouldn't call any of them unwatchable.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Fair enough. It’s one of my favorite games, because I played it through with my best friend right before he passed away in an accident, so it’s really emotionally valuable to me. Seeing what they did with the movie was pretty offensive in that regard, to me.

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  • [–] 52 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I'm still waiting for the film adaptation of Checkers.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago

    The moment they announced Cats I knew it wasn't going to work.

    First, the story sucks. A bunch of cats prancing around and learning not to be a dick to that one cat.

    Second, Cats is a spectacle. The reason you go see Cats in a theater is for the spectacle. Everyone is dressed up and dancing around. It's meant to be an experience. You can't translate that to film.

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  • [–] 91 points 1 year ago* (12 children)

    '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.

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  • [–] 30 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    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

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    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.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    It's how Disney retains the trademark on the product. Like, Snow White, for instance. If the trademark was coming up, they'd rather crap out a bad movie then let the IP go to public domain.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Live action remakes are the end point of capitalism in media. Take something that people liked made money, and do it again with the same formula but a fresh coat of paint. No need to hire writers or spend time making a good story, just use the last one. No risks were ever taken.

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  • [–] 36 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    All of the Jurassic Parks sequels.

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    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.

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  • [–] [S] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    It honestly was fine for a kids movie. The story was so generic that it was impossible to mess up and would work with any character/setting.

    I was disappointed with how boring it was. They should’ve leaned way more into the emoji aspect.

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  • [–] 34 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    A lot of the Movies Sony makes now. Morbius, Kraven, etc.

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  • [–] 30 points 1 year ago

    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.

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  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    Waterworld. At the time the most expensive movie ever made and the most spectacular flop of all time.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    I "think" John Carter beat it, but yeah.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Neither of those movies were really all that terrible. I enjoyed John Carter. But clearly they didn't connect with audiences.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    Absolutely, I enjoyed both for what they were, silly fantasy/adventure movies.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Yeah, I was upset they didnt continue John Carter, it was just a fun zany scifi movie. I think it was the advertising that killed it, but if they had stuck with it I think it could have done well.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] [S] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

    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 only the desired result. Oh well.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    If you want the 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.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Makes me think of the Warcraft movie. Warcraft actually has some good lore to get into, it could totally be made into a good movie. Of course they botched it though.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (13 children)

    Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    At least it was better than Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Is it worth watching though?
    I couldn't sit through Grandpa Pants and his Crystal Skull.

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  • [–] 81 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    The Hobbit trilogy. It's hard to understand how Peter Jackson could mess up movie after movie after movie like that.

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  • [–] 65 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

    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.

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