I dunno what counts as big budget, but 30 Minutes or Less was seen as tasteless in how it was based on a real-life serious event that had occurred.
On a false advertising note, the movie's run time is 1 hour, 23 minutes. Bullshit.
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I've seen the video of that dude getting blown up. Pretty crazy
not sure if it was "big budget" but Madame Web.
It was, essentially, a Spider-Man prequel that simply didn't need to happen story wise. It introduced a bunch of characters from the comics that do indeed have Spider-Man like powers but in the film they simply "suggest" it. You had a villain whose entire purpose for doing what he did was he had a dream where said "spider people" killed him. You had Uncle Ben shoed in to simply say to the audience 'hey, HEY ASSHOLE! look...It's a Spider Man Prequel!" and THAT was the ONLY connection to Peter Parker.
It's like having a Star Wars Prequel where Uncle Owen is in it and he's hanging out with a bunch of people who could potentially be Padawans but we're not sure and they're being hunted cause some random Sith had a dream that sure, they could potentially be Jedi one day. Now none of them actually are but they COULD be one day, just not in this movie.
Loveble Sidekick: The Untold Story of My Rise to Fortune
starring
Lovable Sidekick - as Himself
Scarlett Johansson - as Lola
It had no business being made, so it wasn't.
Yeah, sure, but the full penetration sex scene was a bit over the top.
Title of your sex tape!
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.
Every Jurassic Park movie after the 2nd one.
A lot of the Movies Sony makes now. Morbius, Kraven, etc.
I was playing Spider-Man 2, where Kraven is a major character, when this movie came out and I wasn't even aware of it. It is also now available on Netflix.
i first heard of kraven from the game, spiderman instead of the movie, i think the GAME cutscenes are better than the movie.
I'd like to add Uncharted to that, please.
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Waterworld. At the time the most expensive movie ever made and the most spectacular flop of all time.
You fucking take that back right now...
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 agree, but Dianey was desperate to create a new franchise. It was their response to Iron Man and the anticipated success of the MCU.
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, silly fantasy/adventure movies.
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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.
It would have been a great Sci Fi miniseries, and eventually a movie. They didn't prep the groundwork for the franchise and casted very poorly
I also liked it. But i think that it was completely miscast.
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.
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.
Like the Queens Gambit but checkers would be hilarious
All I need to know is, does anyone say, "You sank my battleship!"?
Yes, they work in the line "they're not gonna sink this battleship!". When you're committed to this absurd premise, you pretty much have to say it.
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'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.
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.
You actually wrong about this one. Those movies make bank. Suburban moms ruin everything.
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