I've got to say that Happy Madison did one damn good movie in Grandma's Boy and even that had flaws. But overall it was, IMO, great and hilarious. What the fuck happened? Adam Sandler got fat, lazy and figured out a way to make himself money while doing relatively nothing, getting as you said a vacation for him and his friends out of it.Marter said:The 4 Worst Films of 2015
It's end-of-the-year list time! This time, the worst movies of 2015.
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GrumbleGrump said:No Jupiter Ascending? For reals?
Jesus fuck. To think I PAID to see it. Uuuuugh.
I thought Jupiter Ascending was one of the better movies this year. I actually had a better "Star Wars" experience with this movie than I did with The Force Awakens. Speaking of Star Wars, why did everybody complained that Jupiter Ascending relied on tropes? Star Wars was a textbook of tropes from The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell. I thought the ending of Jupiter Ascending was somewhat subversive. The Wachowskis admitted that this was a science fiction fairy tale. So, the choice that Jupiter Jones made at the end was anti-climatic, but did make a bigger point. Overall, I thought Jupiter Ascending was the most underrated movie of the year.Hawki said:So, bottom 10 films I've seen this year, confining them to films seen in cinemas or released in Oz in 2015:
10) Truth
9) Phoenix
8) Walking the Camino: Six Ways to Santiago
7) A Walk in the Woods
6) The Hard Problem
5) Pan
4) Fantastic 4
3) Jupiter Ascending
2) Learning to Drive
1) The Secret in Their Eyes
Weird, considering the story was a meandering mess, the lore is laughable, the action was overdone, the characters were unlikeable, the CGI was extremely noticeable, the acting is subpar, the dialog is stupid and the entire movie begins nowhere and ends nowhere.KissingSunlight said:I thought Jupiter Ascending was one of the better movies this year. I actually had a better "Star Wars" experience with this movie than I did with The Force Awakens. Speaking of Star Wars, why did everybody complained that Jupiter Ascending relied on tropes? Star Wars was a textbook of tropes from The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell. I thought the ending of Jupiter Ascending was somewhat subversive. The Wachowskis admitted that this was a science fiction fairy tale. So, the choice that Jupiter Jones made at the end was anti-climatic, but did make a bigger point. Overall, I thought Jupiter Ascending was the most underrated movie of the year.
This. To me, J. Ascending has a fascinating premise (probably been done before admittedly), one that's absolutely squandered in execution. To me, this is what people claim the Star Wars prequels to be, rather than what they actually are (not saying Ep. 1 and 2 are without flaws). There's a huge universe waiting to be explored in J. Ascending and instead we focus on planet ownership, plus that Jupiter itself is a disempowered protagonist throughout the whole thing.GrumbleGrump said:Weird, considering the story was a meandering mess, the lore is laughable, the action was overdone, the characters were unlikeable, the CGI was extremely noticeable, the acting is subpar, the dialog is stupid and the entire movie begins nowhere and ends nowhere.
Weird.
Yeah, that makes it more infuriating to me. It's like if the movie didn't focus on Jupiter then it could have a shot at being actually decent. Focus on the morality of genetic manipulation. Focus on wars between the owners of planets. Focus on the bounty hunters. Focus even in the fucking bureaucracy, with a mind snappy enough you can make a sort of grim comedy out of it. But no, let's focus on the boring toilet scrubber that somehow hasn't yet applied for a modeling job yet.Hawki said:This. To me, J. Ascending has a fascinating premise (probably been done before admittedly), one that's absolutely squandered in execution. To me, this is what people claim the Star Wars prequels to be, rather than what they actually are (not saying Ep. 1 and 2 are without flaws). There's a huge universe waiting to be explored in J. Ascending and instead we focus on planet ownership, plus that Jupiter itself is a disempowered protagonist throughout the whole thing.
That's just like, your opinion maaaaaan. I kindda liked Jupiter Ascending too. Unless, of course, everyone must think as you do?GrumbleGrump said:Weird, considering the story was a meandering mess, the lore is laughable, the action was overdone, the characters were unlikeable, the CGI was extremely noticeable, the acting is subpar, the dialog is stupid and the entire movie begins nowhere and ends nowhere.
Weird.
It was personally offensive to video gamers, I gather. This is a site made up almost entirely of video gamers. Ergo, it's going to poll worse on this site than the rest of the world. No mystery there.Hawki said:This is kind of taking the thread in a different direction, but was Pixels actually THAT bad? I didn't see it, but in the scope of my personal experience, the most hated films I've seen this year were Fan4stic (opinion on that is mentioned above) and Paranormal Activity (didn't see it), whereas Pixels had a bit of a miff, and then fade away while at least F4 kept popping up. I'm not trying to defend the movie, as again, haven't seen it, but nothing I've seen or read about it suggests it was so horrible to be the absolute worse, only lacklustre (bar the "trophy wife" thing).
Hey, look on the bright side, I've given you a chance to vent your spleen.
Well that's just shame on you. I wouldn't pay to see ANY young adult movie in theatres nowadays, especially the ones where they try to turn Channing Tatum into someone serious.GrumbleGrump said:No Jupiter Ascending? For reals?
Jesus fuck. To think I PAID to see it. Uuuuugh.
Spider RedNight said:Well that's just shame on you. I wouldn't pay to see ANY young adult movie in theatres nowadays, especially the ones where they try to turn Channing Tatum into someone serious.
OT: Also band wagon here but Pixels should REALLY be on this list, man.