OT - Movie you HATE, from an actor/director you like?
January 25th, 2022 at 10:18 AM ^
My wife and I used to watch this movie in the middle of winter, just to see the sunshine. Same thing with "Fool Gold". Of course now that we live in Southwest Florida we no longer need this fix.
January 25th, 2022 at 10:00 AM ^
That "The Beguiled" remake by Sofia Coppola. What a steaming load in the middle of a filmography I otherwise adore.
January 25th, 2022 at 10:46 AM ^
So you liked Somewhere and On The Rocks?
January 25th, 2022 at 10:06 AM ^
Hangover III
The first was a classic. The second was a clear retread but still had its moments. It was clear from the first 15-20 minutes of the third one that it was a pure cash grab and that Helms, Cooper and Galafinakis came back just for the paycheck. Was just a flat out awful movie with no redeeming qualities, and I strongly debated walking out by halfway through.
Another was Hail Caesar from a few years ago. Had a great cast lined up with Josh Brolin, Clooney, Jonah Hill, and a few others, and apparently everyone else loved it. My wife and I came out of the movie and both felt just underwhelmed, bored, and feeling like we wasted our time and money.
January 25th, 2022 at 10:13 AM ^
TOTALLY with you on Hail Caesar. A rare Coen Brothers misfire. I didn't laugh. I wasn't entertained. And it felt like it lasted 4 hours.
January 25th, 2022 at 11:39 AM ^
To each his own, and I think it's a lower/mid-tier Coens' film (though their filmography is crazy deep) but the scene where the minister, Catholic and Orthodox priests, and rabbi are debating the nature of Christ as the producer is trying to figure out how to make a film that won't offend anyone had me rolling on the floor.
Rabbi: "Young man, you don't follow for a very good reason, these men are screwballs. God has children? What? And a dog? A collie maybe? God doesn't have children. He's a bachelor. And very angry."
January 25th, 2022 at 10:14 AM ^
Darren Aronofsky has made some great movies - The Wrestler, The Black Swan. He's also had some disasters but Mother is the worst.
Apparently he wrote the screenplay in a weekend and you watch it and think, wow it took him that long?
January 25th, 2022 at 10:38 AM ^
Good choice. Put Requiem For A Dream in his win column as well. I did like Mother! a bit more than you did, but I'm also never going to watch it again.
January 25th, 2022 at 12:05 PM ^
How do you leave Pi off your greats list?
January 25th, 2022 at 10:17 AM ^
Good thread. I disagree with most of you! Ha
Actor: I'm not the biggest Michael Caine fan on earth, but Jaws: The Revenge is an abomination.
All actors/actresses will end up in something bad at some point. Director is a bit more interesting because they have (some) control over most of their projects.
John Frankenheimer: The Island of Dr. Moreau - astonishingly awful
Joe Dante: Piranha
Stephen Spielberg: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
January 25th, 2022 at 12:15 PM ^
This is a paraphrase but Michael Caine said this about Jaws 3 :
I never saw it in the theaters but the house it paid for is fantastic!
He has always been pretty open about sometimes just making movies for a buck
January 25th, 2022 at 1:22 PM ^
Fun fact: Michael Caine didn't attend the Academy Awards the year he won Best Supporting Actor for Hannah and Her Sisters because he was filming Jaws: The Revenge.
My Joe Dante pick is The 'Burbs.
January 25th, 2022 at 10:23 AM ^
Hands down its "Bridges of Madison County", was 5 years before I could watch another Clint Eastwood movie!
January 25th, 2022 at 11:35 AM ^
That was terrible casting. Didn't he cast himself? Ugh. It's a great book if you like that sort of thing but I would've cast Isabella Rossellini or Nastassja Kinski and maybe Ed Harris.
January 25th, 2022 at 10:25 AM ^
Prometheus made so little sense that I left the theater angry.
January 25th, 2022 at 10:48 AM ^
It's soooo bad... but also kinda good? I've seen it 10 times.
January 25th, 2022 at 10:34 AM ^
Dustin Hoffman trying to go alpha dog in Outbreak didn't go over well with me
January 25th, 2022 at 11:41 AM ^
I couldn't help but see Michael Dorsey (Dorothy Michaels) from Tootsie. He really didn't bring much to that role, or maybe there just wasn't that much there in the script.
January 25th, 2022 at 10:35 AM ^
The Life Aquatic - hate that movie but enjoy most of Wes Anderson’s other movies
January 25th, 2022 at 10:52 AM ^
Wes Anderson's was at his best with Owen Wilson co-writing. Noah Bombach and Roman Coppola pale in comparison to the Butterscotch Stallion. Total downers.
January 25th, 2022 at 10:38 AM ^
Easy one for me: Steven Spielberg and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
I have always wondered how it was possible that a seasoned, legendary storyteller like Steven Spielberg could see "nuking the fridge" in a script and thought "I'll bet I can make that work..."
January 25th, 2022 at 10:41 AM ^
Punch Drunk Love (PT Anderson also made Boogie Nights, Magnolia, There Will Be Blood)
The novelty of Adam Sandler doing something completely different (and well!) wears off quickly. It's a sloppy mess of irritating garbage. Could have been a very entertaining short. Sidenote: The DVD extra Mattress Man commercial with Philip Seymour Hoffman is awesome and almost makes up for what a shitty movie this is.
January 25th, 2022 at 10:42 AM ^
I'll add another one, I LOVED the matrix when it came out. The new one to me was nostalgic but felt like a dud.
January 25th, 2022 at 2:01 PM ^
The Wachowskis are sort of notorious for duds. I think the generally accepted take is that The Matrix is their one big hit. I appreciated Speed Racer for what it was.
January 25th, 2022 at 10:42 AM ^
Kurbrick. He's my favorite director, but Eyes Wide Shut is shit.
January 25th, 2022 at 10:51 AM ^
Clint Eastwood. Unforgiven, Mystic River, Letters from Iwo Jima, Gran Torino, Changeling, and American Sniper are all great.
How anyone, who has ever watched and appreciated boxing, liked Million Dollar Baby is beyond me. The last fight is so obscenely stupid that it destroys the whole movie. The champ throws an egregious back elbow in the first round, immediately after the ref had warned her for throwing Swank into the ropes and taking a swing, and the ref says and does absolutely nothing about the elbow. 10 seconds later and the champ double elbows Swank to the ground and only loses a point. The champ then punches Swank while she is on the ground and the ref doesn't notice despite it being insanely obvious. Fight should already be over by DQ.
Start of the third round and Swank hooks the champ and throws three punches into her back/ass. Ref does nothing. Then comes the coup de grace of a corner man laying a stool down on its side in the corner, which has never happened in the history of boxing. Every corner man has that stool in the corner and upright in less than one second.
It's such a horrible, stupid ending that it made me despise the entire movie.
January 25th, 2022 at 11:51 AM ^
January 25th, 2022 at 12:36 PM ^
Ummm, while the fight and its ending circumstances are a bit contrived - and they could have gotten there without that contrivance - its outcome is, decidedly not, the end (nor even the climax) of the movie.
January 25th, 2022 at 3:25 PM ^
I know there is more movie after the final fight with the euthanasia controversy, but I didn't even care at that point. The fight was so unrealistic that I completely checked out. It would have been as realistic if she ended up in the hospital from being attacked by a flock of flamingos during the last fight.
January 25th, 2022 at 10:51 AM ^
Prometheus and Alien Covenant. Prometheus was a big let down. Then they decided it needed to continue that story?
January 25th, 2022 at 10:55 AM ^
Actor: I generally like Tom Hanks in everything but I find The Ladykillers to just be awful. I also agree about Ryan Reynolds being bad in Green Lantern and I'd add I really like Michael B. Jordan but his run as The Human Torch in F4 is gawd awful.
Actress: Natalie Portman and Rachel McAdams are both fun actresses but I HATE Portman in the three prequel Star Wars movies and while Aloha is a boring movie overall I find McAdams just wasted there.
Director: George Lucas and the prequels stand out, but beyond that directors seem to be more fluid. Like, I really like some of David Fincher movies but I also don't enjoy Aliens 3, and I like early Cameron Crowe movies but you couldn't pay me to see Aloha or We Bought a Zoo again.
January 25th, 2022 at 11:42 AM ^
Ladykillers is a good answer for both Hanks and the Coen brothers (it's easily their worst film).
January 26th, 2022 at 5:54 PM ^
Portman was awful in all 3 Star Wars prequels. But those movies were terrible. Her an Anakin had zero chemistry
January 25th, 2022 at 11:06 AM ^
This will probably get me kicked off the site, but Unforgiven directed/starred in by Clint Eastwood. It's boring to me, and he has so many other westerns that I greatly prefer.
January 25th, 2022 at 11:38 AM ^
I watched Unforgiven once and then immediately put on Tombstone and The Magnificent Seven(The real one not the Denzel Washington remake) afterwards to cleanse my palate.
I understand he was going for something different there, but a better version of that movie made in 1953.
January 25th, 2022 at 11:13 AM ^
Any of the Poirot movies without David Suchet. I like Kenneth Branagh, Peter Ustinov, John Malkovich, etc. But Suchet should have been the only person ever allowed to portray Poirot.
January 25th, 2022 at 11:15 AM ^
Danny Boyle’s Yesterday. An interesting premise and Beatle’s licensed-film wasted on a trite plot and boring characters. It just follows the plot of a million other movies where guy is tempted by fame…does he choose it or the girl who loved him before he was famous? (He chooses the girl, surprise surprise!).
The main character is boringly good. Sure, he pretends the Beatle’s catalog was his original work, but feels bad about it the whole time. Imagine Groundhog Day, but Phil is played by a bashful good guy. Would Phil have learned anything had he not done some morally gray things? Nothing interesting would happen, and nothing interesting happens in Yesterday. Even the big finale conversation with John was empty. What a waste.
January 25th, 2022 at 11:24 AM ^
Patriot. I love Mel Gibson Movies, but not this one....
January 25th, 2022 at 11:35 AM ^
You don't typically love Roland Emmerich...do you?
It's okay, you can tell me. A couple of his films are two of my guilty pleasures tbh. I'm a safe person to tell.
January 25th, 2022 at 11:25 AM ^
Oh God,
Tim Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), which is obviously a remake of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971). Just such a tacky, boring, cringey spit-in-the-face rendition of a timeless, memorable classic. The music was annoying, the cast was insufferable--speaking of which, this movie has a both a director and star actor that I both otherwise like but HATED in this movie--Johnny Depp's rendition of Willy Wonka is just AGONIZING. Easy the worst role he has ever played. It's just so awkward and cringey, like he has no idea what he is supposed to be going for with the character. Which tbf, that is usually a consequence of poor direction, Tim Burton in this case, but still just sad and painful to see Depp play a role like this so badly.
Also while I'm on the subject, fuck Grandpa Joe. He's a scumbag, freeloading, selfish piece of shit in any adaptation of this story.
January 25th, 2022 at 11:29 AM ^
Why would you ever do that to such a classic? Johnny Depp's portrayal was awful. So were his teeth.
January 25th, 2022 at 11:28 AM ^
I love Frances McDormand but I hated Nomadland.
January 25th, 2022 at 1:40 PM ^
Nomadland should have been a TV series.
January 25th, 2022 at 1:43 PM ^
Agree. A very boring and depressing movie.
January 25th, 2022 at 11:32 AM ^
Wild Wild West for Will Smith. He's had a ton of great films, but that was a stinker.
January 25th, 2022 at 2:36 PM ^
Anything Will Smith has done in the past decade or so has been a stinker. The way his career has swooned in the past few years is pretty wild. Bad movie choices, weird AF family, and the fact that his characters have the same personality in almost every movie.
January 25th, 2022 at 11:34 AM ^
Pretty much anything after The Village from M. Night.
January 25th, 2022 at 11:41 AM ^
The Last Airbender was an abominable stain on humankind that warranted a minimum life imprisonment sentence for Shyamalamadingdong.
January 25th, 2022 at 12:02 PM ^
Wrote mine below before seeing this--great minds think alike. I tossed Village in the bin though, too.
January 25th, 2022 at 1:11 PM ^
The Village is one of a handful of films that I would have walked out on had it not been for other people being with me. I absolutely, positively HATED that twist.
Shyamalan's last great movie was Split. I watched Old while flying to Atlanta a month ago...it was OK; its major problem besides the dialogue was the casting of the kids' parents. That was completely and utterly wrong.