Worst Big-Budget Movie

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I have to go with Transformers: Dark of the Moon... I should have stopped watching these after the sequel, which was utterly terrible, but I think the third one takes the cake. I cannot even bring myself to pirate the piece of shit, it gives me night terrors.

 

[hotdogoctopus]

NEED I SAY MORE?

What is wrong with Kingdom of the crystal skull it's no more crazy than the other movies.

No one said it wasn't.

 

[Arkynomicon]

Oh I never get all offended by movies that often unless it is a particularity jarring sequel to something I loved.

Matrix 3 and Terminator 3 was pretty damn silly and stupid.

 

[Captain Anon]

After having recently worked my way through the Avatar: The Last Airbender series (great show btw) I decided that I may as well give the movie a go. I knew going in it'd be bad and figured it might be good for a few laughs, but I underestimated its incredible crapness. I don't think I've ever seen a big-budget film be this incompetent on so many levels.

I won't bore you with rants about how they stray from the source material, because a) it's not that big of a deal to me and b) The Last Airbender is terrible enough on its own merits. It's a miscast, awfully acted, awkwardly written, weakly choreographed, unevenly paced and poorly directed pile of shit.

The water effects looked decent, though.

So, TOPIC: What's the worst big-budget movie you've ever seen?

dancebending!!! WTF!!!!

 

[Sean Hollyman]

Dragon Ball Evolution, it was like the worst thing since tuna, I felt offended by this movie.

Goku was an idiot, (not in the Goku way) Chichi was the popular girl, The great ape was Piccolo's servant, and Mai was Piccolo's assistant, and Roshi just felt really weird. And for some weird reason the movie makes Dragonball as one word. And since when does the Kamehameha heal people? And where was Goku's tail?

 

[GistoftheFist]

Now how about making a thread for best low-budget movies? I could think of a few to contribute.

On topic however, i'd have to say the horrible Grinch remake. Ugh.

 

[Lazy]

Now how about making a thread for best low-budget movies? I could think of a few to contribute.

That thread would be over pretty quickly.

 

[Raika]

It depends on your definition of 'big budget', but Green Lantern is what springs immediately to mind.

I'd also like to take this opportunity to point out that Repo! The Genetic Opera is still the worst film ever made.

 

[RustlessPotato]

X-men: first class. I hate that film, with its cheezy dialogue like :" how do want society to accept you, if you can't even accept yourself ? " or "You don't have to steal, in fact, you won't ever have to steal again". That and the guy who played Xavier sounded like he went for a British accent.

It's also supposed to be set in during the cold war, and this may sound like nitpicking, but they could have made a bit more effort on the way everyone is dressed. Nothing looked like it was set during the cold war. Little things like 2012 AD clothing in 1960 etc annoy me.

Then you have the cast. Xavier and Magneto go out to find more mutants and eventually gather a little group of mutants (I will just say that I found the "sonar" guy damn ridiculous ). You get to know their names and powers, but the film never really connects you with the characters apart from " these are mutants with cool mutant powers ". Then they get killed and it is supposed to be a sad moment, but it just felt they introduced those characters JUST to have them killed. No catharsis what so ever.

The film also retcons some of the characters, like how Xavier got in his wheelchair etc..

Luckily Kevin Bacon was in it.

 

[Brendan Stepladder]

The Last Airbender movie. I couldn't help but watch as M. Night raped my childhood.

 

[Poetic Nova]

Somewhat every movie since '05/'06 with only a few exceptions.

 

[Jakub324]

James Cameron's Avatar. The only thing that was good about that one was the quality of the effects and if I had $400m in my pocket, I could make some decent effects. Acting: not amazing. Plot: The Last Samurai did the same thing but a hundred times better.

 

[SkullKing84]

NEED I SAY MORE?

I liked the last Indiana Jones movie; it felt very much like the past movies. The only scene that i hated was the monkeys swinging tree scene with whats-his-face.


Oh, the last air bender was BAD!

 

[Darth Sea Bass]

I'm just gonna go with anything Michael Bay has or ever will do in the future. With the exception of The Rock and Armageddon.

 

[doomspore98]

Probably green lantern. God that movie was terrible.

 

[hotdogoctopus]

NEED I SAY MORE?

I liked the last Indiana Jones movie; it felt very much like the past movies. The only scene that i hated was the monkeys swinging tree scene with whats-his-face.


Oh, the last air bender was BAD!

Blech. It would have felt like the rest of the movies if it hadn't.. been made on a computer, included the transformers/even stevens douche, featured russians instead of nazis, etc.

Luckily we're all entitled to our opinions. Until our robot overlords assume control of course.

 

[SpectacularWebHead]

John Carter

The most boring, uneventful fantasy movie ever. I'd take Transformers and Sucker Punch over JC in a heart beat. They were dogshit, but atleast they were memorable dogshit. I can look back at those movies and think, "God, that was fucking terrible."

John Carter is absolutely nothing happening for 2 and a half hours, with an art direction that seems to come straight out of Xena: Warrior Princess. It made Avatar look like Ben-Hur.

250 billion dollars well spent.

Hell yeah! A story about a Civil War veteran that gets transported to Mars and gets caught up in a war between factions of aliens and humans; with 250 million dollars in budget and the guy who wrote and directed Finding Nemo and WALL-E at the helm? You seriously couldn't make that even remotely interesting?! Why?!

Also I'm going to say X Men Origins Wolverine...

You want to know why no one has mentioned that up till now?

Because none of you even fucking remember it.

X men origins did what no-one before could do.
It killed deadpool.
For shame marvel.
For shame.

 

[NLS]

Has everyone forgotten about that hideous thing that went by the name 2012?
Bleh!

 

[MammothBlade]

Battleship

I question the criticizing of a movie based on a boardgame, knowing going in that this kind of a stretch really hasn't been perpetrated since Clue, and Clue had more to work with on top of being a comedy. HOWEVER, I rather enjoyed Battleship no matter how ridiculous it was. It deserves cult status for having the balls to push the envelope that far. It's a 'flick', but as a flick I'm not complaining. Yes, of course it's silly. You can't make a battleship turn with a sudden drop of the anchor. They're not built for that. But I don't care. It's got rule of cool, baby.

Now, much to my disappointment, GIJOE didn't really deliver. Much more to work with and not much to show for it.

Objection! Jumanji was a great film. They should have made it more like that...

 

[Rufus Shinra]

Hey, don't bash Battleship, people! Yes, the movie was awfully written, but noone saw it for the story. I'm thankful Hasbro made it, because fighter jets fans have their movies, badass commando fans have their movies, big land battle fans have their movies, spaceship fans have their movies, but for guys like me who find modern warships awesome, nothing, zero, nada (no, that stupid movie with Steven Seagal doesn't count, 'cause it takes itself seriously and the Big Mo is a better actor than the actors themselves).

Before it, one had to look for obscure warsims with a few modern ships, bad graphics, steep learning curve and two minutes of juggling with the cams (when you have anything more than a map with icons) during the battles in an hour of decrypting the control panels to find the enemy.

Now, we have destroyers firing all of their weapons, from Phalanx to main guns, VLS cells, and even a frigging battleship as a awesome bonus. Yeah, it's what our niche category dreamed of seeing when we were suffering through Dangerous Waters and Harpoon 3 for ten years. Now, we've got it (that and the Missouri scene in MGS4) and I think we're satisfied for the next 20 years.

So thanks Hasbro for having the sheer balls of doing it!

But Battlefield Earth sucked hard, if only because the niche it aimed to satisfy is, well... do I need to say anything more?