The Big Picture: The Terrible Twenty Films of 2014 Part 2

[V4Viewtiful]

I think most of the hate directed at these 2 is nostalgia driven. People who grew up with these films and never wanted a reboot/new live action film for a film they loved years ago.

You might be right about "most" of the hate but to be honest Robocop reboot IS a worse film's. Not as creative, not as memorable, a visual blur bore, heavy handed politics a 12 year old would think is insightful. The characters aren't all that inspiring either. Total Recall did the same things, that movie sucks

As for TMNT, did the movie need such a convoluted plot?


The thing is, a reboot is good if it doesn't lose the spirit of the original but if you can't do that why even use the name sake? Like Bob said TMNT could easily have been swapped for Street Sharks (which I'd like to see).

 

[V4Viewtiful]

I'm hoping for a good Christian movie or movie based from Biblical narratives that is actually good.
I'm tired to evading giving reasons to my sister why I want to not watch certain films because I lack the heart to tell her "It looks awful and terrible". I respect her opinions on certain films and I don't want to influence her perception of them if she sincerely chooses to watch them. I'm just tired of finding an honest way to explain "PLEASE DON'T FORCE ME TO WATCH IT" without being a dick.

I'm confident it is possible to do good Christian movies. I suppose the lack of funding could be an issue since there seems to be a "that's lame" stigma attached to the idea of faith.

We live in hope. It's most likely also quite a mega irony to benefit financially from Religion.

Prince of Egypt. If you (somehow) haven't seen it, it is probably one of the best animated movies ever made too, with great music.

One of the best theological movies ever made.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

I haven't seen that TMNT movie, but given everything I've heard about it, it saddens me that my 7 year old nephew apparently loves it.

 

[RavingSturm]

TMNT -Tmnt wasnt that bad, the forced plot tying everything was what made it awful. It was pretty ok for what it was.

Interstellar - It was a bloated mess, reminds me a lot of Contact and other movies that force to swallow a lot of the slow paced boring preachy exposition.

Godzilla - succeeded in making a Hollywood version of G complete with scenes of boring people to break up the monster mash.

Anabelle- anything even remotely connected to movies like Conjuring, Insidious or James Wan turns me off.

Tusk - Kevin Smith really is a talentless hack. Go back to making low budget movies where the characters debate pop-culture and other pre-pubescent nonsense.

Sin City 2 - anything with Eva Green's tatas is good! lol. They should have made this movie and the first one back to back and showed this one first. They let too much time pass before making this one.

Robocop - pointless remake without the dark humor, satire and over the top violence of the original just like Total Recall.

ASM2 - What the hell is Edward(Twilight) doing in a ASM movie? The whole hung up over girfriend story is so boring and uninteresting.

 

[Grape_Bullion]

Just rename this "Some Bad Movies and a Nerd's Bias". Amazing Spiderman 3 could be objectively perfect and Bob would still shit all over it.

 

[Nurb]

Was he using the "cultural appropriation" thing unironically or part of a joke?

 

[badmunky64]

No. Just No. Emo Parker from #3 is the worst Spiderman scene. Amazing was bad, but not Original 3 bad. Nothing is worse than Original 3 bad

 

[Grabehn]

While I don't think it's dreadful, the problem that I had with Amazing Spiderman 2 was that I was bored, and if there's one thing I don't like is being bored.

I was watching the movie, paused it halfway through and started playing something, and when I realized it was still paused I closed it. and about a week later I remembered that I stopped it, so I went back to watch it and was still bored.

 

[Mikeyfell]

I predicted God's Not Dead to be number 1. It was leagues worse than Amazing Spider Man 2, but admittedly I'm not one of the guys who's life will be completed by Spiderman finally getting into the Avengers.

 

[newwiseman]

My five year old twin nephews loved the new ninja turtles movie, then I showed them the first movie. They agree the old one is more fun.

 

[KazeAizen]

I predicted God's Not Dead to be number 1. It was leagues worse than Amazing Spider Man 2, but admittedly I'm not one of the guys who's life will be completed by Spiderman finally getting into the Avengers.

I would've said that if not for last year's list where he put Man of Steel at number. He's admitted that on balance it isn't a terrible film. He thinks its a bad Superman movie but not an outright piece of garbage. However it was the biggest let down of the year for him. As lists are personal things a big let down can outweigh a worse film. Especially if it something near and dear to you.....also he's never titled a review "The Movie that broke Moviebob" before so that could've been a dead give away.

 

[Jennacide]

The best part of how awful Spider-Man 2 was is that it was an attempt to keep the Spider-Man franchise away from Marvel, and ended up doing so much damage to Sony they're already in agreements with Marvel to release the rights and just publish the future Spider-Man movies, not make them at all. That sure was worth the money blown, wasn't it?

 

[Paul Nhhdmmsh]

Orci & Kurtzman are the pits. Not really liking their buddy Lindelof either. I wish all 3 would just quit permanently. On another note, I'm surprised Left Behind didn't make the top(or is that the bottom) 10.

 

[PunkRex]

Theres a lot of european forum goers on here and it pains me to imagine what they must think when introduced to these crazy american/religious propaganda movies. For what its worth though Bob saw them, other than I Origins to a lesser exist, 90% of americans are unaware any of these movies exist. They're sort of like the Christian Patriot version of Art house film. Actually Forget I said anything about Christian patroits they're too hard to explain too. Why Bob bothered to watch them is beyond me. I don't think any of these played in most theaters.

Don't worry fella, despite what the more vocal individuals of the internet may lead you too believe, I would argue most Europeans don't consider most Americans, fat, racist, Christian cowboys.

Wait... Kevin Sorbo was in... that? This is really disappointing. He was Hercules, dammit!

Sorbo has gone kinda nuts, I'm not really surprised that he'd be in anything just to get more screen time. That said, the movie is his kind of crazy.

Oh, no, not Sorbo too. Why do childhood icons always end up with the crazies?

 

[Dakkagor]

So it looks that - to at least some extent - Bob's SJW tendencies are starting to invade his critical faculties, i.e. his ability to do his job. Looks like I'm going to have to look elsewhere for my film reviews. AGAIN.

What? What film made it onto this list due to 'SJW tendencies'? Or has SJW become gamergater code for 'someone who doesn't agree with me or my narrow world view.'

Curious to which movie you are objecting to being in his Top Ten Worst. My guess would be American Sniper. Is it? Now I am hoping that it is American Sniper because, if it's not, that means it's likely is God is Dead. By the way, you might confusing the social justice warrior with his liberalism or maybe they are the same in your mind. Oh god, is the movie I, Origins?

I too am curious. Doubt we'll get an answer though.

 

[azriel2422]

I agree with the movies he chose, and though I don't think the new TMNT was a great movie, I reluctantly admit that I enjoyed watching it. Megan Fox is just the worst, but fortunately she is not a major focus of the movie once the Turtles show up. I bought it on Blue Ray and have watched it a few times since. I can't say that for the recent Spider-Man movies(which I haven't bought any after Spiderman 2) or ANY Transformers movie. I was entertained by the turtles; I don't think it was the offensive cinematic experience that Bob did. But to each his own .

 

[Comradeweldor]

Is anyone else having problems with the videos lately? All I seem to get is an ad for the escapist YouTube channel and that it.

 

[Crazy Zaul]

A few of those I've never even heard of.

 

[T8B95]

In I Origins is that...no, it can't be...

*Looks it up on IMDB*

God fucking damn it. Michael Pitt's in it. Michael Pitt from Boardwalk Empire, Seven Psychopaths, and Hannibal.

Jesus Christ. Did he lose a bet or something?

 

[lionday]

On one hand, the Christian movies do look really bad, especially I Origin which looks like it completely misunderstands/misrepresents Hinduism and other eastern philosophies.

On the other hand, I can't help but think the various western atheists basically invited this type of stuff to happen due to happily walking into the "we're gonna take away Christmas and call you all dummies for believing in God" trap that was set years ago. If they had just not been dicks about the whole thing there wouldn't be nearly as much open hostility toward the very idea of atheism.

Haven't seen I Origin. ( Though it doesn't look like a christian movie more like a creationist. There is a difference.)

Anyways I watched God's not Dead and found it.... not as bad as I expected and actually fun to watch, to make fun of. Honestly the movie is harmless, not the best, not top 2 worthy but still a pretty bad film.

Though that kid hitting scene, man did I like that.
The father isn't displayed as evil you see him instantly regret his choice. However it's understandable why he made that choice and you feel terrible for the family. It was a surprising scene.