Very funny, on Howard the Duck. I actually just picked up issue #1 at a second hand store here in town, a little boxing around the edges. I can't watch the first Resident Evil without seeing Black Widow on screen, and you are forcing me to rewatch Gran Torino, because I don't remember it being that bad. Milla Johovich in that movie absolutely killed Scarlett Johansson for me.
Shockingly enough Gran Torino was well received by critics. It's a personal taste of mine I guess...the acting was laughably bad so I couldn't get passed that.
The overall positive sentiment towards that movie is a big head-scratcher for me
Made the terrible mistake of PVRing it, and could only take 10 minutes of it before it was swiftly stopped and deleted.
Oh I forgot about this one. I made it through the whole thing simply because I loved the book and wanted a full comparison, but it's just bad. They rush through everything that made the book good, and when your lead actor simply can't act there's not much else that matters
Shockingly enough Gran Torino was well received by critics. It's a personal taste of mine I guess...the acting was laughably bad so I couldn't get passed that.
The overall positive sentiment towards that movie is a big head-scratcher for me
It was well received because it was a good movie. I agree personal taste though but I thought it was a good movie. You thought Eastwood was bad in the movie?
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It was well received because it was a good movie. I agree personal taste though but I thought it was a good movie. You thought Eastwood was bad in the movie?
Pretty much every actor beside's Eastwood was awful in that movie. It's pretty much exactly the performances you'd expect when you hire actors with no experience.
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I thought Only God Forgives was great movie. Definitely not a mainstream movie, and actually quite slow paced, but that kind of added to it. The police chief was great, as was his mother.
Pretty much every actor beside's Eastwood was awful in that movie. It's pretty much exactly the performances you'd expect when you hire actors with no experience.
That was the point. The "actors" were taken from real life with no acting experience to play the roles of the characters they were portraying.
That was the point. The "actors" were taken from real life with no acting experience to play the roles of the characters they were portraying.
Fair enough, but I would have traded authenticity for actors who could capably fill a role. It was distracting and IMO completely took away from the movie.
It was an interesting experiment, I am not sure why they felt compelled to do it though.
Maybe ummm.....because it made for a good movie that was very well received? There are a lot of very poor movies that I'm not sure how studios were compelled to film but that movie is definitely not one of them.
Maybe ummm.....because it made for a good movie that was very well received? There are a lot of very poor movies that I'm not sure how studios were compelled to film but that movie is definitely not one of them.
The "authentic casting" isn't why it was a good movie. It was a good movie because it was a decent story. Unfortunately the acting was legitimately distracting in its badness.
The "authentic casting" isn't why it was a good movie. It was a good movie because it was a decent story. Unfortunately the acting was legitimately distracting in its badness.
Again this is just your opinion that the bad acting was distracting as we are talking about a movie that was widely acclaimed. I've seen movies that were widely acclaimed that I didn't personally like but I can differentiate between what I don't like and what's simply awful which would have a place in a worst movie's list. I can understand a person not liking Gran Torino but putting it on an all time worst movie list shows how little you know about what a truly bad movie is.
Again this is just your opinion that the bad acting was distracting as we are talking about a movie that was widely acclaimed. I've seen movies that were widely acclaimed that I didn't personally like but I can differentiate between what I don't like and what's simply awful which would have a place in a worst movie's list. I can understand a person not liking Gran Torino but putting it on an all time worst movie list shows how little you know about what a truly bad movie is.
I tend to avoid bad movies altogether - you won't catch me watching Ender's Game, for example. I generally follow the critics with my movie selection so anything that's truly awful I won't watch, period. The exceptions are movies I was dragged to along with buddies (Resident Evil, Sucker Punch).
This thread is Top 5 movies you've ever seen...I could give you every Adam Sandler movie made over the last decade and they're worse than Gran Torino, but I couldn't be bothered to watch them. If that makes it so that I'm not an "expert" on bad movies then I'm pretty ok with that.
For me, for a movie that was so well acclaimed, GT was just so obviously lacking. Laughable dialogue and obviously the acting as mentioned, was awful. I love Clint Eastwood, but if anyone else had directed that film I think the critics would have been a lot harder on it.
The only movie I have seen that I have truly hated was Where the Heart is. My wife can talk me into seeing a lot of movies that I don't really want to see but this is the one that I will never let her talk me into seeing.
I think Spacehunter was the first 3D movie I ever saw, so it blew my mind when it came out.
As far as terrible movies, on successive weekends last month I saw two of the worst ever:
Spongebob Squarepants: Sponge out of Water
Fifty Shades of Grey
I'm now scared to go back to the movie theatre.
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I've actually done a seriously good job of avoiding wasting hours of my time on garbage movies... the entire list is probably comprised of scary movies I had to watch because some girl wanted to, or dumb movies (scary movie) that someone else wanted to watch in a larger group. Few of which I've seen all of.
I honestly cannot make a list.
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