Not pinning this thread as it’s probably nicer to focus on the best shows than the worst, but curious to see what everybody’s biggest disappointments where
I haven’t heard a single good thing about the Borderlands movie
Well, I never played the game so I went in knowing nothing. I got it for free.
From that stand point, I’d give it a 7.5/10. It was no worse than Guardians/Galaxy 3. It had some funny moments and some good action. I watched it to the end, which puts it ahead of a lot of other movies that got way less hate.
For an average moviegoer its a below-average action comedy with bad action scenes and weird shit.
For a Borderlands fans its a steaming pile of shit, with the worst casting choices, ignoring the source material, the lore. They just used the name and the idea if the BL world to create some nonsense story with an expensive soundtrack.
They were laser-focused to create a cast made out of big names and recreate the Guardians of the Galaxy formula. Even this didn’t work, there is little to no chemistry between the main characters and the whole plot is just stupid and makes no sense.
They didn’t even fuck it up in a fun way. Super Mario Bros (the first one) was batshit crazy, but still invoked a shocking variety of details from the games, back when there really was not much to those games. All of the Uwe Boll dreck is at least camp as hell. Resident Evil knows it’s stupid, and refuses to break eye contact.
Borderlands arrives years late, pleases nobody, and takes no risks. It is of low quality. It’s not even fun to talk about.
the crow reboot has to be up in the top 3 of the worst this year
When the original came out I was a teenager who wore all black listened to NIN and was into comic books. In other words the perfect demographic for that movie. And I absolutely loved it. My friends and I would watch it all the time. I’ve continued to watch it and enjoy it throughout the years.
After seeing the first preview for the new one, I had zero interest in seeing. So much so, that I had completely forgotten about it again until reading your comment.
It sounds like I need to add this to my never watch list. Along with every single terminator movie after T2.
good call.
the original is so perfect, its timeless. it perfectly captures the source material.
this… reboot… is a moneygrab. a boardroom written and directed piece of waste that literally no one should ever watch. that it ever made it to actual theater screens shows what these big corporations really think of the general public.
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Matt Damon gave an interview and made this point. Back when he started producing in the 1990s the DVD release gave a movie a second life. That gave the creators a little leeway to play around. Now a movie is tie to a big opening weekend, so the makers have to stick closer to the formula.
That doesn’t make sense anymore. Streaming is the post-theater “second life” for movies now.
Madame Web. Like half of the movie is just her going “what, I’m time traveling?!?” and it wasn’t even meme-worthy like Morbius. I genuinely regretted being awake for the film.
I walked away to do something else for 30 minutes in the middle and I don’t think I missed anything. It was very much like a Hallmark movie. Doesn’t help that Dakota Johnson can’t act her way out of a paper bag, and the rest of the cast just phoned it in.
I just saw the Beetlejuice sequel and it stunk. I wanted to like it and remembered hearing good things, but in hindsight people stopped taking about it real fast and now i can’t wait to forget it as well
Did it have the story telling depth of a legendary movie? Gods no…but it was fun. Felt exactly like the old Beetlejuice cartoons when I was a kid. I think people need to lower their expectations and just have a bit of fun sometimes. Not every movie should be a life-altering experience.
I just watched it for the first time last night, it was a fun popcorn movie and gave me a few good laughs. My only real complaint is that they shoved too many plot lines into the movie. They could have completely left out Delores, Jeremy, and Rory and it would have been just as good if not a better movie. Each was met with a such unsatisfying ending to their stories it felt like the writers didn’t know what to do with them either.
