geralmar
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Post by geralmar on Dec 15, 2017 7:34:57 GMT
Paramount's stupendously awful "The Oscar" (1966). Still shamefully unavailable on DVD.
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Dec 15, 2017 10:07:03 GMT
Michael Bay's the Island, and the first two Transformers (since I didnt bother with the rest). His directing style is devoid of coherence and he doesn't know how to shoot spfx scenes.
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Post by politicidal on Dec 17, 2017 19:09:25 GMT
Changing my vote to 'Fan4stick' (2015). What a colossal phoned-in bore.
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Post by mikef6 on Dec 17, 2017 20:19:38 GMT
I’m not even going to start listing any films in the superhero category (including Transformers) because the few I have seen (some of the biggest hits) have been terrible and I’m just not interested in seeing more. It would be easier to list the one’s that were at least half-good (the two Michael Keaton Batman films back in the mid-‘80s). I feel much the same way about most modern big-budget would-be blockbuster hits – whether they make it or fail.
Here are some from the past that famously (and deservedly) flopped:
The Conqueror (1956). John Wayne as Genghis Khan (“Say, you are beautiful in your wrath.”)
Boom (1968). Thud. Liz Taylor and her Dickie Burton in a turgid romance between a minister and a Bad Girl (“Hot sun, cool breeze, white horse on the sea, and a big shot of vitamin B in me!”)
Love Story (1970). “Love means never having to say you’re sorry.” Who in the name of sanity came up with that one?
Myra Breckinridge (1970). Film critic Rex Reed has an operation that turns him into Raquel Welch. Wait…what? “I am Myra Breckinridge, whom no man will ever possess.”
Subarashiki Nichiyobi (One Wonderful Sunday) (1947). My second all-time favorite director, Akira Kurosawa, was responsible for this painful, embarrassing, squirm inducing, flop sweat producing supposedly uplifting post-WWII film for Japanese audiences. (“All you people, applaud. All you young lovers, applaud for your dreams.”)
P.S. I have never seen R.I.P.D. and don’t have it on my calendar for the foreseeable future.
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Post by HumanFundRecipient on Dec 26, 2017 1:32:33 GMT
Godzilla (1998)
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