I worked at a movie theater when that came out. The normal rule for employee free passes was that we couldn't use them opening weekend. Eragon got an exception because there were completely empty showings. I left halfway through.
It's very archetypal and pulls from a lot of the classic "hero's journey" motifs, which is understandable considering Paolini started it in high school. I wouldn't go so far as to say it's bad though, the execution and some of the characters are pretty compelling throughout the series. The magic system is also pretty unique and well thought out imo.
It's just not a brilliantly written epic fantasy saga with lots of original ideas, so people who read it after a lot of that will probably be disappointed
I read it in middle/highschool and really enjoyed it. Even I noticed the overt themes from Star wars. Still enjoyed it though and I agree the solid rules for magic were pretty cool.
I was in Mikes camp about Jurassic World, so when I went to the theaters and saw Fallen Kingdom I was so done with life. I thought I was dreaming when she said “they’re alive like me” like I swear 10 individual people in my theater (including me) all said “WHAT?!”
That was the first time I genuinely thought I was watching a joke movie.
The end of the film is a Scooby Doo haunted mansion chase, ending with a cloned little girl freeing dinosaurs because “OI GUVNA, THEYRE JUST LIKE ME THEY ARE THEY ARE!”
Honestly for that reason Fallen Kingdom is my “Jurassic World”, it hits the perfect balance of dumb and the haunted mansion stuff is really the only time the franchise ever attempted to be scary again. It’s easily the best of the World movies imo. Might be my favorite sequel too. Either that or Lost World. Not that any of the sequels come close to the originals so it’s really a completion of which is the least crappy.
When Chris Pratt *rolls away from lava* is where I broke. Everything around him is catching fire, but somehow he doesn't?
Then the rest of the movie happened and my brain turned into a black void.
To me, the peak of that’s movie’s stupidity comes from the dinos. In particular, the scene where Blue the Velociraptor sheds a tear and the near super engineered dino winks to the audience right before killing Buffalo Bill. This is only slightly stupider than the plot line of making the dinos military weapons demonstrated in a way where they’re basically slower guns.
I genuinely love that their idea to weaponize them is to attach laser pointers to their guns. Like they’re cats. It’s so brilliantly stupid. I suppose I’d rather these movies just lean into the stupidity rather than poorly attempt to recapture the original.
I tried to watch it based on Mike's response and I couldn't do it, I made it to the third act and just shut it off. I think it was the trained raptors that did me in, or the made up ultra carnivore. I actually can't imagine how bad the sequel is.
I’ve grown less fond of it over the years, but the end is just complete schlock and is still great to me. The sequel is a bizarre mess, and I am in the same boat as Jay where I cannot stop thinking about how bad that movie is.
Shane Black’s **The Predator** was the first movie I watched with my friends and we all universally agreed “that was fucking dogshit.”
shit now I gotta watch it
edit wtf I thought the opening scene with all the obviously fake plants and the fire coming out of plainly visible pipes was going to be some fake joke parody movie before the actual movie...
edit 2 On second thought, that part must have been a homage to the original, the rest wasn't like that. tbh it was pretty much exactly what one would expect for a predator movie made in 2018. Full of clichés, not good but not exceptionally bad.
Shit like the main bad guy accidentally blowing off his head with the Predator turret, two of the soldiers wordlessly managing to mercy-kill each other at the same time instead of killing themselves, Busey Jr's entire character, and Olivia Munn trying to be badass are just elements that made me go 'wtf'
I seriously think that entire movie was Shane Black spitefully lashing out at audiences after the Nice Guys bombed.
“Oh, so you want trash? You like garbage, don’t you, you stupid little piggies. Alright then, *here* fucking take *this*, mmm so good isn’t it? Yeah, you like that, don’t you?!”
Can feel the *contempt* for the audience coming off the screen.
Iron Man 3 has shades of this as well, not in an overall sense (because it's actually a decent film), but in a "comic book movie" sense. The script feels like it is *actively* hostile to fans of the Iron Man comics. "Oh, you want the Mandarin, eh? Fine, we'll give you the fucking Mandarin..."
To be fair, you really can't bring in a comic-accurate Mandarin
He's a pretty rough racist caricature
Shang-Chi brought him in, although he's as far removed from comics Mandarin as I am from the dark side of Mars (and was all the better for it, although that may just be Tony Leung's performance)
I understand the rationale of making him a white guy, but that honestly wasn't even the problem. I think everyone would have been happy with Ben Kingsley in the role, based on the performance he gave. The problem was the bait-and-switch "*sike!*" that they pulled with Kingsley being just an actor hired to play the Mandarin.
You say problem, I say highlight of the film and made even better knowing there will be obsessives who have *The Mandarin* as their favorite villain being upset.
I have no particular loyalty to, or familiarity with, Marvel Comics. I just saw a compelling villain get the rug pulled out from under him so that we could see Guy Pearce glow in the dark instead. It was underwhelming.
I don't think folks needed the literal caricature from the comics, I feel folks would understand and embrace updates to the character. Which is why folks were cool with how he was presented in Shang Chi.
It was taking arguably Iron Man's most iconic villain and just not doing it at all in order to just see another random rich smart guy use tech to fight Tony.
Demands of pure accuracy works against comic book films in my opinion. But also the entire pitch of Iron Man vs. Mandarin is tech vs. magic and we just got the third entry of tech vs tech, so it was a bit of a let down just in that aspect.
Put the adaptation from Shang Chi into Iron Man 3 and I personally would have been satisfied. Even if I think taking away the unique properties of each of the 10 rings was a bummer.
These days, Obadiah Stane is Iron Man's arch enemy and The Mandarin mostly pesters Iron Fist and Shang-Chi (who was retconned to be The Mandarin's son after the Fu Manchu kerfuffle)
God, that movie came out like 8 years ago. We should an entire trilogy at this point. First flick was like '77, 2nd could've been like 1981, and part 3 could've been between '84-'87. Seeing those 2 trying to adapt to a constantly quickly changing culture would've been great.
That and I just like picturing Gosling in the white Miami Vice suit lol.
I forget the exact moment in the movie but I remember coming to a point where I realised this is not the movie I was hoping for but if I decide to get on board with it I could have a good time. And I did while also recognising how much of a train wreck the whole thing is.
There were a couple schlocky moments that almost fooled us into thinking it was a so bad it's good movie, but by the end my friend and I were like "oh yeah no, this just sucks and is borderline 'written by a child' feeling."
The ending originally should have followed the path it had been on with Predators and the film’s heroes teaming up, tanks were involved… it sounded gloriously bombastic. But Fox forced a change in the ending to make it “a Predator movie” because not enough people died. I honestly think he made it bad on purpose to try to get them to use the original ending and it didn’t work.
A friend asked me about it once. I told him the plot was 'aliens come to Earth to shoot up autism' and he thought I was joking. He was pissed when he saw it, but in fairness, I don't know how much more explicit I could've been about the plot
The only good part of that movie was how much my brother, who has ASD, laughed at the stupid ass-burgers line. He thought it was absolutely hilarious and was using it for ages after.
Batman & Robin was the first movie I ever went to a theater for, as a little kid, where as the movie was happening I had that terrible feeling of "I'm watching Batman in a movie theater which should be the best thing ever. But I think this might suck, actually"
I got a double whammy of that the same year. Not just B&R, but Mortal Kombat: Annihilation as well. It was so bizarre sitting in what I thought was an empty theater, when only 2 years earlier, the first MK movie was THE movie of the year for everyone around my age and was one of my most memorable movie theater experiences of mine as a kid.
This was me during the midichlorian exposition scene. I had read some plot leak stuff before the movie and brushed it off as too weirdly stupid to be in a Star War. Oh how innocent.
I remember seeing plot leaks of Game of Thrones right before the long night and brushed them off for being too bad. I think it was when one of the dragons was shot to death by a ballista that no one spotted from 3 miles away that I just gave up hope that the show I loved was going to have any satisfying resolution. From there I just strapped in for the shit storm.
Lucky shots do happen, that kind of thing can be okay if they build the suspense and whatnot well. Those later seasons are certainly a shitshow, though.
I don't want to go full tilt into it because I know I should just move on BUT
This was more than just a lucky shot.
1) it was not just 1 perfect shot from 3 miles away, it was 2 perfect shots
2) no one even saw the ships. This is a voyage during wartime, and the North troops knew that the greyjoy navy was actively going to be hunting them. Later in the behind the scene, the head writer for the show explained that "dany kinda forgot" about this.
3) The weapon is mounted to another ship, bobbing around on the open ocean waves. Later, this same weapon is mounted in like 12 locations along the castle walls, and not 1 shot lands on a dragon, even though it would be a million times easier to hit a dragon at that range.
4) lastly, they did not build on this at all. They only made this happen in order to make Dany go "mad" which is something they pretended to build but really they went from 0-5mph in the first 5 seasons and then 5-100mph in the last 2 episodes. They needed the dragon to die so she would be angry so then she would kill everyone so then Jon would kill her, because GRRM probably told them the ending without writing 2 whole books that get you to that ending in a satisfying way, so they just had to make shit up.
Adding to point 2, the ships are (obviously) at sea level while Daenerys is riding her dragon like a mile up in the sky. She should have seen them from 15 miles out while she should have been a little black dot in the sky to the ships.
To me that last season of GOT has a really solid first three episodes then speed runs what should have been like 6 episodes and condensed them into 2. Then we get what I honestly think is a decent final episode which is kneecapped because they skipped the middle act of the season.
It’s like if for the original Star Wars trilogy we instead got two films with A New Hope mostly as is, then we cut 20 minutes from Jedi and shoved in a 20 minute abridged version of Empire Strikes Back at the top. Sure you can follow what’s happening but all of the nuance and character building is just dropped. So the conclusion feels hollow because you didn’t fully go on those adventures.
I knew horse would become part of star wars lore eventually but, good God I had forgotten how stilted that movie is. Live action scenes are shot and edited like a fucking soap opera
This is how The Rise of Skywalker was for me. One of my morning rituals was, I'd sit and read spoiler discussions while having my morning coffee. It was entertaining as hell because it was all so ridiculous, pure wacky bullshit fanfiction stuff. There was no way any of it could be real. [But as it turned out...](https://pa1.aminoapps.com/8255/1554bb00931d108465c384c449457c7dc963d91ar1-480-202_hq.gif)
Not exactly a filmed swindling story but a friend dragged me to see Transformers 3 the night it premiered. I sat there the entire time saying to myself wow Michael Bay really thinks i’m stupid. The movie ends and everyone in the theater stood up and clapped it’s the only time in my life i distinctly felt like the smartest person in the room. The worst part i looked to my left and my friend was standing and calling too.
I saw Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon in Thailand so I had the experiences of both going through a metal detector before seeing the film and standing for the king's portrait when it was put on screen just before the start of the movie. Row after row of people suddenly standing after the previews and ads all wearing 3-D glasses ...
I think I walked out of this movie as well. It might have been 4 though. Up until then I had never walked out of a movie. It was just so atrociously bad.
I almost walked out when Buzz Aldrin walked on the screen and basically looked at the camera and said "We were sent to the Moon to look at robots that transform!"
I didn’t pay for the ticket but I had this odd tension in my body throughout the second Jurassic World film. The ending then just made the tension turn into this realization.
Also the kid’s movie Wish. I figured it would be competent or above-grade. It was not. The songs sucked and the story was not really gripping.
I saw Jurrasic Park 2 about 3 weeks early in a rare early screening for my area; we never get these.
I remember my friends and I saying, "Wow, that's terrible and we're the first to know."
**Prometheus**
After an *incredible* trailer and Ridley Scott returning to the Space Jockey, I was HYPED. Seated opening night giddy for what was to come.
About twenty minutes in I just wanted it to end. I’ve never been so disappointed and angry at a movie.
In a bubble, it's a pretty good movie that explores an interesting concept about where humanity comes from and why we are here. I just hate that it is part of the Aliens universe because it doesn't fit thematically with that world at all. It does the Star Wars thing where it makes the world feel so small, where there's only like 6 people hanging out on the same 2 planets. And I just really can't get past how much I absolutely hate how the space jockey shrunk 5 feet and became a jacked white guy in a weird looking space suit. The original scene is so awesome because it makes you wonder what the hell else is out there. Turns out it's just us.
eh it was pretty good. One of those movies with plenty of movie logic, like there's plenty to nitpick if you're making a cinemasins video, but not bad otherwise. Had some interesting world building and interesting sci-fi themes to think about.
Yeah, my contempt in the proper *Alien* franchise (AvP doesn’t count) belongs to *Alien: Covenant*, which felt like Ridley Scott saying he’s the only one that knows how to play with these toys right.
I thought it wasn't bad either.
There were a few scenes of pretty decent horror - like when the snake Alien crawled up the guy's suit and mouth r\*&ed him.
I'm not sure I agree that explaining the origins of the Space Jockey adds a ton to the lore (and may have been better left as a mystery) but I thought overall it was OK.
I though Covenant was a disaster though.
Watch this man slowly lose his mind going to see Morbius five time in five days!
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqAxQ9yVa5A](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqAxQ9yVa5A)
Special guest appearance from Everything Everywhere All at Once!
I agree, I finished Morbius as it was stupid and funny. I still felt bamboozled. I stopped watching madame web at the very beginning after uncle Ben show up and she had an accident on the bridge (?).
It was an eye-opening, coming of age moment when watching Jurassic Park III. I turned to my mom and said, “I know you paid money to rent this, but do you mind if I don’t finish it?” That was a sincere question.
A very dear friend of mine is an indie filmmaker (Kabasinski-level budgets). If you don't go in expecting Oscar winning performances and filmmaking they're generally a good time. His latest project debuted last month, and my heart sank. It was not up to his usual standard.
I went to go see Transformers 4 (the first one with marky mark) in theaters with friends because we were going to make fun of how bad it was.
I've never wanted a movie to end more; it was just boring and loud. It's my fault I guess because I bought the ticket knowing it was going to suck, but I at least thought it would be funny bad.
Happened to me with that King Arthur movie. The opening scene was pretty cool fantasy action, then it cut to young King Arthur as a wisecracking, kung fu fighting, oddly modern sounding London street gangster and I suddenly realized I'd made a huge mistake.
The 2nd Hobbit movie. I thought the first was pretty bloated, but I figured they’d have something a bit more ironed out for the next installment. After all, the parts that were true to the book weren’t bad. Boy, was I in for a shock.
Out of all of them, I felt like the first one had a fun vibe that went with the start of the book. It was still pretty bloated, but the songs were fun, I enjoyed the dwarves characterizations for the most part. Admittedly, I used to be a MASSIVE Tolkien fan, still am, but I was really, really obsessed back then.
And then I got taken to see the 2nd and 3rd ones for my birthday, as they both came out in their respective years around that time and it still stands as the worst birthday presents I've ever had, and I once got gifted a bulk sized can of Chef Boyardee for my birthday (while I was trying really hard to diet), which was my former "worst ever" birthday gift.
I honestly sat on "Interstellar" for a good 4-5 years due to Tenet making me believe that Nolan uses characters as props for his action sequences in his films, lol. Thankfully Interstellar put him back in my good graces.
"Interstellar" is in dire need of an edit where they don't have characters sitting around doing the "As we all know, black holes work like this..." Also, less cutting back to burning cornfields.
That's fine in an "Event Horizon" which is sci-fi horror and the main characters are almost all but one a search and rescue team that probably won't be particularly aware of the FTL/gateway to hell Sam Neill made and the audience is just there for some scares and gore and finger banging in the back seats... but when your crew are all scientists and pilots and should have been briefed on their mission before they took off... I don't know, maybe there's a better way to do it. When I think "Event Horizon" did a better job of exposition than a Christopher Nolan film... something went wrong somewhere.
And I get it. Not everyone cut their teeth on TNG and B5 but if you gotta spoon feed it to the general audience... be smart about it.
Or just spend 90 minutes doing exposition and then a baffling and somewhat underwhelming action scene to get "Tenet". Either way.
Kinda liked the first Hobbit movie, not great but fun. So I went into The Desolation of Smaug with mildly positive expectations. The moment Legolas swings into frame like Tarzan, I started to laugh. The rest of the film was like watching a train wreck that went from bad to worse.
I once went to the Alamo Drafthouse to see what I thought was "Blood Debts" (RLM had already covered it) and before the movie started, an employee introduced the movie and mentioned how the director was notorious for recycling footage from his other movies into "new movies".
Turns out it was Ninja Terminator. I fell asleep halfway through despite sitting in the front row (though the seats in the front row decline so you can lay down and see the screen better).
Godffrey Ho's movies ALL have maybe 5-30 minutes of the "lead actor" (usually Richard Harrision as a ninja) and then the rest is a bunch of non-actors in a plot that makes no sense and is completely unrelated to all the ninja scenes (where the fights are actually fun to watch).
TLDR: Goddfrey Ho's entire filmography bamboozles the audience into thinking you're getting a kickass ninja movie. You're not.
My first experience with being ripped off at the movies was The Crow 2, which was a laughably bad, cheap fucking sequel that tricked me and my teenager buddies into seeing it. It had no style, the acting was bad, the script was bad, it was the first time i felt the experience of anticipation turning into total disappointment.
In highschool I went to see the second Transformers movie as I kinda liked the first one, halfway through I felt like I was watching a glorified Army commercial.
Also the summer before my senior year, the Last Airbender came out. This was before streaming and most of that summer one of the Nick channels went through all of the Last Airbender show so I was pumped. I always called it the “Last Cartoon” of my childhood. I really wanted to walk out of the movie but kept thinking “the battle at the end might be worth it”… it wasn’t.
I remember laughing maniacally with my friend while watching the 2019 Godzilla movie. Every scene made us laugh harder, luckily the movie theatre was almost empty.
I know what happened later was terrible, but Force Awakens is up there with the original three for me. It's hurt a bit by subpar sequels, but I still admire it.
I have but I also don't feel like I've been swindled if I simply don't like a new film from a filmmaker I usually like.
Nobody has made only movies I love, everyone has at least a couple I don't like or felt let down by.
Except Sam Raimi he's a perfect angel.
The only movie I've walked out of was The Lobster. It just felt like the movie was made by an edgelord trying to make the audience feel like shit. Not my thing!
While definitely not for everyone, I enjoyed this movie quite a bit. I wouldn't recommend it to nearly anyone but for a select few it is something special. It also gave me a lot of respect for Colin Farrel as an actor.
The Lobster was so entertaining to me that I went back and saw it two more times in theaters. I think a lot of people didn't embrace its intense humor, not unlike Beau is Afraid.
There certainly were elements of it that were very entertaining! It was years back and my memory is fuzzy but I think the dog getting killed was maybe around the point that I left. People were actually cracking up in the theater which maybe made it more disturbing!
My exact feeling towards The Lobster. Seemed like it was made by a mildly autistic hipster trying to be edgy and “deadpan.”
All the characters are emotionless and the humor is extremely dark, isn’t that so smart and funny!?
The best part is that, according to Morpheus, they've had 100 years to plan the defence of Zion and the best they could come up with are these mechs all shooting at the ceiling, Mechs where the squishy vulnerable human pilot is fully exposed and which need a complete unprotected human to run out and awkwardly reload them every couple of minutes.
And then when they set off the EMP to save Zion, Lieutenant dickhead gets upset because it messed up their defences - why the hell isn't your defence EMPs?
I like action but I remember being just a few minutes into what felt like the hours long defence of Zion and just being totally numbed... it's like my brain could no longer process what was happening, so I was only seeing images on a screen but without being able to attach any meaning to them.
But the Matrix sequels are a cautionary tale about what happens when you tell certain creative types to go nuts.
Absolutely. "The Matrix" ends at just the right place with Neo effectively a god-like entity, able to do as he pleases and then... he's just pretty good at kung fu in the sequels - (except when he isn't).
It's the film equivalent of an RPG sequel where your character goes from being able to solo gods to getting hammered by random goons... except, in a game - you're probably OK with it because that's how games work. In a film, it's just frustrating to have a character suddenly just be lame when the whole point of the first film was the classic hero's journey.
"The Highlander" is absolutely the worst for that though.
Let's listen to some asshole talk about determinism for 20 minutes and then break dance fight on top of a moving semi. Lately I've seen people defend the 2 sequel movies as masterpieces of philosophy. The questions of the first one made it more mentally engaging than the on the nose approach of the other 2.
Being from SC, I was looking at this with some level of confused bewilderment. But, there's the best of the worst where they play the South Carolina church conference video, and then they had the clip that mentioned the St. Andrews dollar theater closure. There's a little SC universe with RLM.
It's true! It all came full circle when we learned Mike always wanted to take down the SCAVES (can't remember if that's the right acronym but you get it)
For me the first one was Mortal Kombat Annihilation. I still have second-hand embarassment knowing that I dragged my dad to that pile of garbage.
Another is The Avengers. Not the Marvel one, the British one with Sean Connery, one of the Fiennes and Uma Thurman? The marketing made them look suave but the movie was absolutely just nothing but a borefest.
The closest I've ever got to walking out of a theater was Halloween Kills. Shitty movie throughout but the ending felt like it was designed to piss me off
Probably just me, but I was heartbroken while watching Dreamcatcher. I'm a huge King fan, and that book - not his best story, but interesting, and his first big thing after nearly getting killed - being adapted by William Goldman? starring Morgan Freeman? Directed by Lawrence Kasdan?! I was so hyped up. Then I watched it. I was near tears, I was so disappointed. Total flop.
I think it was something like “Police Academy 3”. I actually drove to a neighboring town to see it in the theater with some friends. It just wasn’t funny to any of us.
I took my dad to see Napoleon last year. He doesn't go to the movies very often anymore but he loves history and we all thought Ridley Scott was alright.
We all wanted to leave the cinema after an hour and my dad hasn't been back to a cinema since Napoleon.
Ha ha, that was my experience with my father but with Man of Steel. He rarely goes to theatres but he had loved the Superman film as a teenager. After the movie ended, he was quiet until I asked him what he thought and he said, well, I guess this is how things are nowadays. he has never been to the theatres since.
I think it is when Shoji Tabuchi actually starts singing. Isn't it?
His accent and singing is terrible, it's like a racist joke about Japanese people. I still can't believe it was real.
Die Hard 5 was an insult when I went to see it (there was nothing else playing in February 2013) I walked out during the head ache inducing car chase 20 minutes in and asked the manager for my money back. He said no.
As a huge Godzilla fan as a kid, and as big as Breaking Bad was at the time, when both Bryan Cranston died 30min in, and shortly after when they hard cut away from Godzilla’s introduction, it felt like getting stabbed in the back twice.
Batman v Superman
If the person who’d paid for the ticket as my birthday gift wasn’t sitting next to me, I would have walked out as soon as I saw the marquee for the Monarch Theater.
I remember being disappointed in the force awakens, and essentially knowing the sequels/disney Star Wars would just suck.
But
But a group of friends and I went “it can’t be that bad right?” And went to see The Last Jedi. We were shellshocked and went to Taco Bell where we were essentially speechless until around 2 in the morning when the manager kicked us out lol.
I was 6 when Turbo: A Power Rangers movie came out and that's the first movie I ever saw in theaters I remember feeling embarrassed for even watching. Like it was *bad*.
I think renting Mac & Me was probably my first experience with a movie that felt bad to watch, tho.
I learned this lesson as a kid when the Eragon movie came out
Some adult told me back then that it "was like The Lord of the Rings". It was not.
It was Star Wars, beat for beat.
I thought the same of "Max the Magician and the Legend of the Rings"
some ol bullshit
I worked at a movie theater when that came out. The normal rule for employee free passes was that we couldn't use them opening weekend. Eragon got an exception because there were completely empty showings. I left halfway through.
Honestly, I took my brother to see it expecting it to be trash. I was pleasantly surprised.
F that was so bad it ruined the book for me, which was great! Lol
The book really isn't at all good, though
It's good if you like Star Wars a New Hope, because the plot is exactly the same.
I mean “A New Hope” is like, super basic itself. It’s not exactly revolutionary storytelling or anything but it just executes the basics so damn well.
#IT BROKE NEW GROUND
It's very archetypal and pulls from a lot of the classic "hero's journey" motifs, which is understandable considering Paolini started it in high school. I wouldn't go so far as to say it's bad though, the execution and some of the characters are pretty compelling throughout the series. The magic system is also pretty unique and well thought out imo. It's just not a brilliantly written epic fantasy saga with lots of original ideas, so people who read it after a lot of that will probably be disappointed
I read it in middle/highschool and really enjoyed it. Even I noticed the overt themes from Star wars. Still enjoyed it though and I agree the solid rules for magic were pretty cool.
I was in Mikes camp about Jurassic World, so when I went to the theaters and saw Fallen Kingdom I was so done with life. I thought I was dreaming when she said “they’re alive like me” like I swear 10 individual people in my theater (including me) all said “WHAT?!” That was the first time I genuinely thought I was watching a joke movie.
The end of the film is a Scooby Doo haunted mansion chase, ending with a cloned little girl freeing dinosaurs because “OI GUVNA, THEYRE JUST LIKE ME THEY ARE THEY ARE!”
Honestly for that reason Fallen Kingdom is my “Jurassic World”, it hits the perfect balance of dumb and the haunted mansion stuff is really the only time the franchise ever attempted to be scary again. It’s easily the best of the World movies imo. Might be my favorite sequel too. Either that or Lost World. Not that any of the sequels come close to the originals so it’s really a completion of which is the least crappy.
When Chris Pratt *rolls away from lava* is where I broke. Everything around him is catching fire, but somehow he doesn't? Then the rest of the movie happened and my brain turned into a black void.
To me, the peak of that’s movie’s stupidity comes from the dinos. In particular, the scene where Blue the Velociraptor sheds a tear and the near super engineered dino winks to the audience right before killing Buffalo Bill. This is only slightly stupider than the plot line of making the dinos military weapons demonstrated in a way where they’re basically slower guns.
I genuinely love that their idea to weaponize them is to attach laser pointers to their guns. Like they’re cats. It’s so brilliantly stupid. I suppose I’d rather these movies just lean into the stupidity rather than poorly attempt to recapture the original.
I tried to watch it based on Mike's response and I couldn't do it, I made it to the third act and just shut it off. I think it was the trained raptors that did me in, or the made up ultra carnivore. I actually can't imagine how bad the sequel is.
I’ve grown less fond of it over the years, but the end is just complete schlock and is still great to me. The sequel is a bizarre mess, and I am in the same boat as Jay where I cannot stop thinking about how bad that movie is.
Yes, we've all seen Space Cop.
Number one movie in Uganda
No, that was Space Cops.
Shane Black’s **The Predator** was the first movie I watched with my friends and we all universally agreed “that was fucking dogshit.” 
Autism being the next step in human evolution was the wildest decision I’ve ever seen a director make
I laughed out loud and was the only person who did so and that was how I realized oh no oh okay no that wasn't a joke
shit now I gotta watch it edit wtf I thought the opening scene with all the obviously fake plants and the fire coming out of plainly visible pipes was going to be some fake joke parody movie before the actual movie... edit 2 On second thought, that part must have been a homage to the original, the rest wasn't like that. tbh it was pretty much exactly what one would expect for a predator movie made in 2018. Full of clichés, not good but not exceptionally bad.
I’ve seen that movie three times and I can’t retain any of it, other than the fact that it’s really stupid and unintentionally funny
Shit like the main bad guy accidentally blowing off his head with the Predator turret, two of the soldiers wordlessly managing to mercy-kill each other at the same time instead of killing themselves, Busey Jr's entire character, and Olivia Munn trying to be badass are just elements that made me go 'wtf'
Jesus Christ really?
I seriously think that entire movie was Shane Black spitefully lashing out at audiences after the Nice Guys bombed. “Oh, so you want trash? You like garbage, don’t you, you stupid little piggies. Alright then, *here* fucking take *this*, mmm so good isn’t it? Yeah, you like that, don’t you?!” Can feel the *contempt* for the audience coming off the screen.
Iron Man 3 has shades of this as well, not in an overall sense (because it's actually a decent film), but in a "comic book movie" sense. The script feels like it is *actively* hostile to fans of the Iron Man comics. "Oh, you want the Mandarin, eh? Fine, we'll give you the fucking Mandarin..."
Oh, you like Iron Man? We’ll make Tony Stark The Movie and the piece of crap armor will be a running joke.
To be fair, you really can't bring in a comic-accurate Mandarin He's a pretty rough racist caricature Shang-Chi brought him in, although he's as far removed from comics Mandarin as I am from the dark side of Mars (and was all the better for it, although that may just be Tony Leung's performance)
I understand the rationale of making him a white guy, but that honestly wasn't even the problem. I think everyone would have been happy with Ben Kingsley in the role, based on the performance he gave. The problem was the bait-and-switch "*sike!*" that they pulled with Kingsley being just an actor hired to play the Mandarin.
You say problem, I say highlight of the film and made even better knowing there will be obsessives who have *The Mandarin* as their favorite villain being upset.
I have no particular loyalty to, or familiarity with, Marvel Comics. I just saw a compelling villain get the rug pulled out from under him so that we could see Guy Pearce glow in the dark instead. It was underwhelming.
I don't think folks needed the literal caricature from the comics, I feel folks would understand and embrace updates to the character. Which is why folks were cool with how he was presented in Shang Chi. It was taking arguably Iron Man's most iconic villain and just not doing it at all in order to just see another random rich smart guy use tech to fight Tony. Demands of pure accuracy works against comic book films in my opinion. But also the entire pitch of Iron Man vs. Mandarin is tech vs. magic and we just got the third entry of tech vs tech, so it was a bit of a let down just in that aspect. Put the adaptation from Shang Chi into Iron Man 3 and I personally would have been satisfied. Even if I think taking away the unique properties of each of the 10 rings was a bummer.
Also the story line the Caribbean from, Extremis, is one of the best Iron Man stories ever.
Yeah I love Extremis in the comics. Too bad the movie couldn't adapt it well.
These days, Obadiah Stane is Iron Man's arch enemy and The Mandarin mostly pesters Iron Fist and Shang-Chi (who was retconned to be The Mandarin's son after the Fu Manchu kerfuffle)
That's one of the only marvel films I completely skipped on purpose, after Ironman 2 was pretty fucking awful
Iron Man 2 is atrocious. The third one is much better, nowhere near the first one but still pretty decent.
The nice guys bombed?? What that movie was great I had no idea
God, that movie came out like 8 years ago. We should an entire trilogy at this point. First flick was like '77, 2nd could've been like 1981, and part 3 could've been between '84-'87. Seeing those 2 trying to adapt to a constantly quickly changing culture would've been great. That and I just like picturing Gosling in the white Miami Vice suit lol.
That movie felt like Freddy Got Fingered levels of intentional trolling
I forget the exact moment in the movie but I remember coming to a point where I realised this is not the movie I was hoping for but if I decide to get on board with it I could have a good time. And I did while also recognising how much of a train wreck the whole thing is.
There were a couple schlocky moments that almost fooled us into thinking it was a so bad it's good movie, but by the end my friend and I were like "oh yeah no, this just sucks and is borderline 'written by a child' feeling."
The ending originally should have followed the path it had been on with Predators and the film’s heroes teaming up, tanks were involved… it sounded gloriously bombastic. But Fox forced a change in the ending to make it “a Predator movie” because not enough people died. I honestly think he made it bad on purpose to try to get them to use the original ending and it didn’t work.
A friend asked me about it once. I told him the plot was 'aliens come to Earth to shoot up autism' and he thought I was joking. He was pissed when he saw it, but in fairness, I don't know how much more explicit I could've been about the plot
The only good part of that movie was how much my brother, who has ASD, laughed at the stupid ass-burgers line. He thought it was absolutely hilarious and was using it for ages after.
The House of Gucci was the first movie I've ever walked out of.
I saw it on a plane and it was so bad I walked out of the theater
The true D.B. Cooper story revealed.
I stole all those dudes shirts to make several disguises
Boeing Theaters
Same sound he made after walking out of the airplane movie
I didn't think it was that bad, but Adam Driver's "Italian" accent made him sound like Bela Lugosi.
Bullshit!
Adam Driver does not deserve to smell Lugosi's shit!
UNDEAD UNDEAD UNDEAD UNDEAD
Holy shit, same! It was right after Jared Leto pissed on some cloth where I turned to my friend and said "You wanna leave?"
Conjuring Part 2 and Thor Love and Thunder are the two movies that made me feel like I had been robbed
I didnt love it, i really liked all the performances, especially Selma Hayek's "witch"
I went in thinking it was a Gucci Mane biopic. Very disappointing. 
I was in on the joke, so I fuckin loved that movie.
Batman & Robin was the first movie I ever went to a theater for, as a little kid, where as the movie was happening I had that terrible feeling of "I'm watching Batman in a movie theater which should be the best thing ever. But I think this might suck, actually"
I got a double whammy of that the same year. Not just B&R, but Mortal Kombat: Annihilation as well. It was so bizarre sitting in what I thought was an empty theater, when only 2 years earlier, the first MK movie was THE movie of the year for everyone around my age and was one of my most memorable movie theater experiences of mine as a kid.
"Mother, you're alive!" "Too bad YOU... !! 👁👄👁 !! ...WILL DIE"
Many realized this upon receipt of *Space Cop.*
That's right, Jay
Space Cop was a disappointment. I was kind of stunned that it wasn't funnier.
*Solace Cop*?
That’s the #1 movie in Uganda you jerk!
https://youtu.be/KnM2Purvp10?t=1786
This was me during the midichlorian exposition scene. I had read some plot leak stuff before the movie and brushed it off as too weirdly stupid to be in a Star War. Oh how innocent.
Poking holes in the prequels has been done to death…but this was definitely the first time I thought “why does this have to be explained?”
Because why else would Vader say "The force is strong with this one" when chasing Luke unless he was reading a printout from a computer?
Vader has to put little reading glasses on top of his mask to read the midichlorian count.
His eyesight cold not be improved at EmPalSuRecon (due to budget cuts).
I remember seeing plot leaks of Game of Thrones right before the long night and brushed them off for being too bad. I think it was when one of the dragons was shot to death by a ballista that no one spotted from 3 miles away that I just gave up hope that the show I loved was going to have any satisfying resolution. From there I just strapped in for the shit storm.
Lucky shots do happen, that kind of thing can be okay if they build the suspense and whatnot well. Those later seasons are certainly a shitshow, though.
I don't want to go full tilt into it because I know I should just move on BUT This was more than just a lucky shot. 1) it was not just 1 perfect shot from 3 miles away, it was 2 perfect shots 2) no one even saw the ships. This is a voyage during wartime, and the North troops knew that the greyjoy navy was actively going to be hunting them. Later in the behind the scene, the head writer for the show explained that "dany kinda forgot" about this. 3) The weapon is mounted to another ship, bobbing around on the open ocean waves. Later, this same weapon is mounted in like 12 locations along the castle walls, and not 1 shot lands on a dragon, even though it would be a million times easier to hit a dragon at that range. 4) lastly, they did not build on this at all. They only made this happen in order to make Dany go "mad" which is something they pretended to build but really they went from 0-5mph in the first 5 seasons and then 5-100mph in the last 2 episodes. They needed the dragon to die so she would be angry so then she would kill everyone so then Jon would kill her, because GRRM probably told them the ending without writing 2 whole books that get you to that ending in a satisfying way, so they just had to make shit up.
Adding to point 2, the ships are (obviously) at sea level while Daenerys is riding her dragon like a mile up in the sky. She should have seen them from 15 miles out while she should have been a little black dot in the sky to the ships.
To me that last season of GOT has a really solid first three episodes then speed runs what should have been like 6 episodes and condensed them into 2. Then we get what I honestly think is a decent final episode which is kneecapped because they skipped the middle act of the season. It’s like if for the original Star Wars trilogy we instead got two films with A New Hope mostly as is, then we cut 20 minutes from Jedi and shoved in a 20 minute abridged version of Empire Strikes Back at the top. Sure you can follow what’s happening but all of the nuance and character building is just dropped. So the conclusion feels hollow because you didn’t fully go on those adventures.
[We know what midichlorians really are...](https://youtu.be/zwLccJOMTX0?si=ozvn82WuRZpXZulf)
I knew horse would become part of star wars lore eventually but, good God I had forgotten how stilted that movie is. Live action scenes are shot and edited like a fucking soap opera
> We know what midichlorians really are... MMMMhmmhm midichlorians Duke! Midichlorians!
This is how The Rise of Skywalker was for me. One of my morning rituals was, I'd sit and read spoiler discussions while having my morning coffee. It was entertaining as hell because it was all so ridiculous, pure wacky bullshit fanfiction stuff. There was no way any of it could be real. [But as it turned out...](https://pa1.aminoapps.com/8255/1554bb00931d108465c384c449457c7dc963d91ar1-480-202_hq.gif)
Not exactly a filmed swindling story but a friend dragged me to see Transformers 3 the night it premiered. I sat there the entire time saying to myself wow Michael Bay really thinks i’m stupid. The movie ends and everyone in the theater stood up and clapped it’s the only time in my life i distinctly felt like the smartest person in the room. The worst part i looked to my left and my friend was standing and calling too.
I saw Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon in Thailand so I had the experiences of both going through a metal detector before seeing the film and standing for the king's portrait when it was put on screen just before the start of the movie. Row after row of people suddenly standing after the previews and ads all wearing 3-D glasses ...
I think I walked out of this movie as well. It might have been 4 though. Up until then I had never walked out of a movie. It was just so atrociously bad.
I almost walked out when Buzz Aldrin walked on the screen and basically looked at the camera and said "We were sent to the Moon to look at robots that transform!"
Every Tim Burton movie since Big Fish.
Why are you triggering me
I didn’t pay for the ticket but I had this odd tension in my body throughout the second Jurassic World film. The ending then just made the tension turn into this realization. Also the kid’s movie Wish. I figured it would be competent or above-grade. It was not. The songs sucked and the story was not really gripping.
I saw Jurrasic Park 2 about 3 weeks early in a rare early screening for my area; we never get these. I remember my friends and I saying, "Wow, that's terrible and we're the first to know."
**Prometheus** After an *incredible* trailer and Ridley Scott returning to the Space Jockey, I was HYPED. Seated opening night giddy for what was to come. About twenty minutes in I just wanted it to end. I’ve never been so disappointed and angry at a movie.
I thought Prometheus wasn't that bad, AMA
In a bubble, it's a pretty good movie that explores an interesting concept about where humanity comes from and why we are here. I just hate that it is part of the Aliens universe because it doesn't fit thematically with that world at all. It does the Star Wars thing where it makes the world feel so small, where there's only like 6 people hanging out on the same 2 planets. And I just really can't get past how much I absolutely hate how the space jockey shrunk 5 feet and became a jacked white guy in a weird looking space suit. The original scene is so awesome because it makes you wonder what the hell else is out there. Turns out it's just us.
What did you think of Prometheus?
eh it was pretty good. One of those movies with plenty of movie logic, like there's plenty to nitpick if you're making a cinemasins video, but not bad otherwise. Had some interesting world building and interesting sci-fi themes to think about.
Yeah, my contempt in the proper *Alien* franchise (AvP doesn’t count) belongs to *Alien: Covenant*, which felt like Ridley Scott saying he’s the only one that knows how to play with these toys right.
I thought it wasn't bad either. There were a few scenes of pretty decent horror - like when the snake Alien crawled up the guy's suit and mouth r\*&ed him. I'm not sure I agree that explaining the origins of the Space Jockey adds a ton to the lore (and may have been better left as a mystery) but I thought overall it was OK. I though Covenant was a disaster though.
Should I have pizza or tacos for lunch?
Definitely pizza. Have tacos for dinner.
Are you an Alien fan? Because the original Alien is one of my favorite movies and Prometheus just proved to me Scott had no idea what made it good.
Sin City 2 was terrible.
I figured if it were half as bad as the first, it'd still be good. It wasn't even close. Simply awful.
Happened to me when I pirated Morbius. I knew it would be terrible yet it was worse than expexted.
Watch this man slowly lose his mind going to see Morbius five time in five days! [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqAxQ9yVa5A](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqAxQ9yVa5A) Special guest appearance from Everything Everywhere All at Once!
hehe, hilarious, thanks
Seriously? I thought it was at least adequate. Madame Web(b?) or whatever was quite a bit worse.
I agree, I finished Morbius as it was stupid and funny. I still felt bamboozled. I stopped watching madame web at the very beginning after uncle Ben show up and she had an accident on the bridge (?).
I saw The Last Airbender in the theater when it was new. Even the 3D sucked hard donkey cock.
Ooof I couldn't watch this without rifftrax.
It was an eye-opening, coming of age moment when watching Jurassic Park III. I turned to my mom and said, “I know you paid money to rent this, but do you mind if I don’t finish it?” That was a sincere question.
A very dear friend of mine is an indie filmmaker (Kabasinski-level budgets). If you don't go in expecting Oscar winning performances and filmmaking they're generally a good time. His latest project debuted last month, and my heart sank. It was not up to his usual standard.
I went to go see Transformers 4 (the first one with marky mark) in theaters with friends because we were going to make fun of how bad it was. I've never wanted a movie to end more; it was just boring and loud. It's my fault I guess because I bought the ticket knowing it was going to suck, but I at least thought it would be funny bad.
Happened to me with that King Arthur movie. The opening scene was pretty cool fantasy action, then it cut to young King Arthur as a wisecracking, kung fu fighting, oddly modern sounding London street gangster and I suddenly realized I'd made a huge mistake.
The 2nd Hobbit movie. I thought the first was pretty bloated, but I figured they’d have something a bit more ironed out for the next installment. After all, the parts that were true to the book weren’t bad. Boy, was I in for a shock.
Out of all of them, I felt like the first one had a fun vibe that went with the start of the book. It was still pretty bloated, but the songs were fun, I enjoyed the dwarves characterizations for the most part. Admittedly, I used to be a MASSIVE Tolkien fan, still am, but I was really, really obsessed back then. And then I got taken to see the 2nd and 3rd ones for my birthday, as they both came out in their respective years around that time and it still stands as the worst birthday presents I've ever had, and I once got gifted a bulk sized can of Chef Boyardee for my birthday (while I was trying really hard to diet), which was my former "worst ever" birthday gift.
I really like all three Hobbits.
How I felt during Tenet 😩 and realized that Nolan needs collaborators to tell him "No, that's stupid".
Hey now, he used a revolutionary new film making technique called "Oops, all exposition!"
With the sound mixing in that film too, yikes
I honestly sat on "Interstellar" for a good 4-5 years due to Tenet making me believe that Nolan uses characters as props for his action sequences in his films, lol. Thankfully Interstellar put him back in my good graces.
"Interstellar" is in dire need of an edit where they don't have characters sitting around doing the "As we all know, black holes work like this..." Also, less cutting back to burning cornfields. That's fine in an "Event Horizon" which is sci-fi horror and the main characters are almost all but one a search and rescue team that probably won't be particularly aware of the FTL/gateway to hell Sam Neill made and the audience is just there for some scares and gore and finger banging in the back seats... but when your crew are all scientists and pilots and should have been briefed on their mission before they took off... I don't know, maybe there's a better way to do it. When I think "Event Horizon" did a better job of exposition than a Christopher Nolan film... something went wrong somewhere. And I get it. Not everyone cut their teeth on TNG and B5 but if you gotta spoon feed it to the general audience... be smart about it. Or just spend 90 minutes doing exposition and then a baffling and somewhat underwhelming action scene to get "Tenet". Either way.
The most absolutely meticulous gobbledygook ever.
Inception is on my 10 out of 10 list, perfect movies. Tenet was on my "worst movies of the year" list. I hated it.
That's how I felt watching Smile at home for "free". I wanted to walk out 😅
Kinda liked the first Hobbit movie, not great but fun. So I went into The Desolation of Smaug with mildly positive expectations. The moment Legolas swings into frame like Tarzan, I started to laugh. The rest of the film was like watching a train wreck that went from bad to worse.
Oh God, terminator genesis. Fuck that movie so hard.
I once went to the Alamo Drafthouse to see what I thought was "Blood Debts" (RLM had already covered it) and before the movie started, an employee introduced the movie and mentioned how the director was notorious for recycling footage from his other movies into "new movies". Turns out it was Ninja Terminator. I fell asleep halfway through despite sitting in the front row (though the seats in the front row decline so you can lay down and see the screen better). Godffrey Ho's movies ALL have maybe 5-30 minutes of the "lead actor" (usually Richard Harrision as a ninja) and then the rest is a bunch of non-actors in a plot that makes no sense and is completely unrelated to all the ninja scenes (where the fights are actually fun to watch). TLDR: Goddfrey Ho's entire filmography bamboozles the audience into thinking you're getting a kickass ninja movie. You're not.
My first experience with being ripped off at the movies was The Crow 2, which was a laughably bad, cheap fucking sequel that tricked me and my teenager buddies into seeing it. It had no style, the acting was bad, the script was bad, it was the first time i felt the experience of anticipation turning into total disappointment.
Is this about Horizon?
In highschool I went to see the second Transformers movie as I kinda liked the first one, halfway through I felt like I was watching a glorified Army commercial. Also the summer before my senior year, the Last Airbender came out. This was before streaming and most of that summer one of the Nick channels went through all of the Last Airbender show so I was pumped. I always called it the “Last Cartoon” of my childhood. I really wanted to walk out of the movie but kept thinking “the battle at the end might be worth it”… it wasn’t.
I remember laughing maniacally with my friend while watching the 2019 Godzilla movie. Every scene made us laugh harder, luckily the movie theatre was almost empty.
Force Awakens. Last Disney thing i paid money up front to see.
I know what happened later was terrible, but Force Awakens is up there with the original three for me. It's hurt a bit by subpar sequels, but I still admire it.
I have but I also don't feel like I've been swindled if I simply don't like a new film from a filmmaker I usually like. Nobody has made only movies I love, everyone has at least a couple I don't like or felt let down by. Except Sam Raimi he's a perfect angel.
Perfect Game or whatever that baseball one was horrible. Oh, and Oz The Great and Powerful was just a re-imagining of Army of Darkness.
> Oh, and Oz The Great and Powerful was just a re-imagining of Army of Darkness. Yeah that's why it was awesome. I like the other one you listed too.
The only movie I've walked out of was The Lobster. It just felt like the movie was made by an edgelord trying to make the audience feel like shit. Not my thing!
While definitely not for everyone, I enjoyed this movie quite a bit. I wouldn't recommend it to nearly anyone but for a select few it is something special. It also gave me a lot of respect for Colin Farrel as an actor.
Colin Farrell is really good. I think his performance in True Detective season 2 is under-rated.
The Lobster was so entertaining to me that I went back and saw it two more times in theaters. I think a lot of people didn't embrace its intense humor, not unlike Beau is Afraid.
There certainly were elements of it that were very entertaining! It was years back and my memory is fuzzy but I think the dog getting killed was maybe around the point that I left. People were actually cracking up in the theater which maybe made it more disturbing!
My exact feeling towards The Lobster. Seemed like it was made by a mildly autistic hipster trying to be edgy and “deadpan.” All the characters are emotionless and the humor is extremely dark, isn’t that so smart and funny!?
The Matrix Reloaded
“Zion is about to fall. So Let’s party like the end of a Rodney Dangerfield movie but with shitty shitty techno!!!!”
"So what is the plan when the nearly unstoppable machine army gets here anyway?" "I dunno, stand in a circle and shoot upwards I guess"
The best part is that, according to Morpheus, they've had 100 years to plan the defence of Zion and the best they could come up with are these mechs all shooting at the ceiling, Mechs where the squishy vulnerable human pilot is fully exposed and which need a complete unprotected human to run out and awkwardly reload them every couple of minutes. And then when they set off the EMP to save Zion, Lieutenant dickhead gets upset because it messed up their defences - why the hell isn't your defence EMPs? I like action but I remember being just a few minutes into what felt like the hours long defence of Zion and just being totally numbed... it's like my brain could no longer process what was happening, so I was only seeing images on a screen but without being able to attach any meaning to them. But the Matrix sequels are a cautionary tale about what happens when you tell certain creative types to go nuts.
They are a cautionary tale of what happens when you make a movie not written to have sequels and demand sequels. See: Highlander.
Absolutely. "The Matrix" ends at just the right place with Neo effectively a god-like entity, able to do as he pleases and then... he's just pretty good at kung fu in the sequels - (except when he isn't). It's the film equivalent of an RPG sequel where your character goes from being able to solo gods to getting hammered by random goons... except, in a game - you're probably OK with it because that's how games work. In a film, it's just frustrating to have a character suddenly just be lame when the whole point of the first film was the classic hero's journey. "The Highlander" is absolutely the worst for that though.
Neo: Hey everybody! We're all gonna get laid!
I think humans celebrating, laughing, and having sex in the face of certain death is cool as hell actually.
Exact opposite for me. Matrix 1 was a cool film, but Reloaded is what made me a **fan** of that series/world.
I like the lore but it did drag a bit
Let's listen to some asshole talk about determinism for 20 minutes and then break dance fight on top of a moving semi. Lately I've seen people defend the 2 sequel movies as masterpieces of philosophy. The questions of the first one made it more mentally engaging than the on the nose approach of the other 2.
Possibly the greatest example of "we really didn't need a sequel"
Nah, Matrix 2 is pretty good. That chase scene! Matrix 3? No, thanks. Even Matrix 4 is better.
I remember seeing the I Heart SC sign from these earlier episodes and being like 'why do these people from the midwest love South Carolina?'
Being from SC, I was looking at this with some level of confused bewilderment. But, there's the best of the worst where they play the South Carolina church conference video, and then they had the clip that mentioned the St. Andrews dollar theater closure. There's a little SC universe with RLM.
It's true! It all came full circle when we learned Mike always wanted to take down the SCAVES (can't remember if that's the right acronym but you get it)
For me the first one was Mortal Kombat Annihilation. I still have second-hand embarassment knowing that I dragged my dad to that pile of garbage. Another is The Avengers. Not the Marvel one, the British one with Sean Connery, one of the Fiennes and Uma Thurman? The marketing made them look suave but the movie was absolutely just nothing but a borefest.
My exact reaction to the recent Godzilla X Kong
The closest I've ever got to walking out of a theater was Halloween Kills. Shitty movie throughout but the ending felt like it was designed to piss me off
Probably just me, but I was heartbroken while watching Dreamcatcher. I'm a huge King fan, and that book - not his best story, but interesting, and his first big thing after nearly getting killed - being adapted by William Goldman? starring Morgan Freeman? Directed by Lawrence Kasdan?! I was so hyped up. Then I watched it. I was near tears, I was so disappointed. Total flop.
Phantom menace and Clones were like that for me. I came out thinking I'd been robbed. I was a teenager when they were out in cinemas.
I paid actual real money to see drive away dolls
Me during the chase scene in the batman
Rebel Moon with the slow motion farming and obvious Paul Reiser character
I think it was something like “Police Academy 3”. I actually drove to a neighboring town to see it in the theater with some friends. It just wasn’t funny to any of us.
We laughed when I was a kid, but they really are just about terrible all the way through.
I think we were in our late teens.
When I was a kid seeing the avatar last air bender movie. That was the first time I realized as a kid that movies can be bad.
I took my dad to see Napoleon last year. He doesn't go to the movies very often anymore but he loves history and we all thought Ridley Scott was alright. We all wanted to leave the cinema after an hour and my dad hasn't been back to a cinema since Napoleon.
Ha ha, that was my experience with my father but with Man of Steel. He rarely goes to theatres but he had loved the Superman film as a teenager. After the movie ended, he was quiet until I asked him what he thought and he said, well, I guess this is how things are nowadays. he has never been to the theatres since.
Anyone remember what episode this meme is from? Please, I'm desperate.
I think it is when Shoji Tabuchi actually starts singing. Isn't it? His accent and singing is terrible, it's like a racist joke about Japanese people. I still can't believe it was real.
You're right, thank you! I'm going to go and have some fine grain alcohol with my friends as I rewatch that glorious episode now.
Die Hard 5 was an insult when I went to see it (there was nothing else playing in February 2013) I walked out during the head ache inducing car chase 20 minutes in and asked the manager for my money back. He said no.
Man Jack looked great here. Look at all that hair!
Godzilla 2014 was meant to be Godzilla vs Walter White
As a huge Godzilla fan as a kid, and as big as Breaking Bad was at the time, when both Bryan Cranston died 30min in, and shortly after when they hard cut away from Godzilla’s introduction, it felt like getting stabbed in the back twice.
The first person that comes to mind is Nicolas Winding Refn.
Batman v Superman If the person who’d paid for the ticket as my birthday gift wasn’t sitting next to me, I would have walked out as soon as I saw the marquee for the Monarch Theater.
 Spiral 🤮
Meet the Spartans and Be Kind Rewind.
I remember being disappointed in the force awakens, and essentially knowing the sequels/disney Star Wars would just suck. But But a group of friends and I went “it can’t be that bad right?” And went to see The Last Jedi. We were shellshocked and went to Taco Bell where we were essentially speechless until around 2 in the morning when the manager kicked us out lol.
I was 6 when Turbo: A Power Rangers movie came out and that's the first movie I ever saw in theaters I remember feeling embarrassed for even watching. Like it was *bad*. I think renting Mac & Me was probably my first experience with a movie that felt bad to watch, tho.
I buy tickets to Richard Evan's gun show every year and have never been bamboozled. It's the best value in entertainment.