The Worst Big Budget Hollywood Blockbusters

[Figs]

Which ones are you referring to.

I guess I was thinking of films that weren't intended to be rather than ones that became blockbusters do to the money they brought in. Alien is a good example of a film I didn't feel should be considered a "blockbuster", compared to something like Transformers. Which is released in the summer because it's expected to be one of those big money makers.

I could be wrong though.

 

[Alchemyst]

X-Men Origins: Wolverine
TMNT
Van Helsing
The Last Airbender
Robin Hood
Friday the 13th (Remake)
A Nightmare on Elm Street (Remake)
Speed 2: Cruise Control
Judge Dredd
Rush Hour 3
Fantastic Four
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
Superman Returns

 

[bullets]

I guess I was thinking of films that weren't intended to be rather than ones that became blockbusters do to the money they brought in. Alien is a good example of a film I didn't feel should be considered a "blockbuster", compared to something like Transformers. Which is released in the summer because it's expected to be one of those big money makers.

I could be wrong though.

I think most of the films I listed were budgeted over thirty million (which was way more than they deserved) . I think people consider Alien because it's made so much money and the others were given a bigger budget . So Alien could be called a blockbuster but not a big budget blockbuster.

 

[Thebumwhowalks]

Ridely Scott had just made a movie called 'The Duelists' with Harvey Keitel, about guys in ye olde costume drama time having sword duels, then he saw 'Star Wars' and said 'wth am I doing making movies with Harvel Keitel in tight white pants and a twirly moustache fencing some bozo when I could be making movies like this?' And that's why he made 'alien', so that was his attempt at a big Star Wars blockbuster production, Blade Runner being the next.

edit:; he said this, not in these exact words iirc, on a doc I saw on tv years ago.

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[quote = Secret Fawful]
Alien:
I like the creature. I think it's unique, and I do think that it is a revolutionary design. All of this goes down the toilet once I see the movie and see it in action. It's unintentionally hilarious and downright comical to me. It's a guy in a suit. This is the sort of thing I find cheesy enough in B movies, which I also love, but in Alien, I don't feel it works. I know that it's supposed to represent the human aspects of the creature, but it could have been done much better if it wasn't a guy in a suit. I like Aliens. I don't think that Aliens has guys in suits. If it did it wasn't nearly as apparent. Also, the way the Alien gets people in the film is freaking hilarious. There's no tension for me. It's not stalking them and hidden and seemingly intelligent like Predator the way people claim. It just shows up and kills. Tension gone. The scene where it gets Dallas is more like someone playing a prank and going BOOGIE BOOGIE! with its arms out than a killing machine. As soon as I saw that, the movie was ruined for me. I almost got back into it a bit, but then Ash became an android. An android with yogurt blood. It just didn't work for me. The android in Aliens didn't either; none of the androids in that universe do. Yogurt blood. No.[/quote]

I think this is a little unfair, about the only scene where the Alien blantantly looks like a guy in a costume to my eyes, is in the scene where he gets Dallas. Apart from that, it is very well realised and shot, we all know it is a guy in a suit as they did not have CGI or real aliens living on Earth like they do nowadays. But I think it is shot so well, bar that one scene, that you can quite easily suspend your disbelief and get into the movie. It's either that or disbelieve your suspenders and go back to wearing normal trousers, and i know what I would sensibly choose.

 

[S.A.A.D.]

Avatar doesn't deserve to be in this thread. Just came in here to say that.

Agreed.

 

[DACrowe]

Seriously? Action figures? Transformers that grunt for 2.5 hours? You can't find out what Prime and Bonecrusher are doing in that pic?

Oh they look cool, but since I didn't watch the cartoon I have no idea who any of them are other than Prime and Bumblebee. One narrates the whole film and is blue/red and the other is yellow and plays jive radio for conversation.

I had no idea the evil robot there was Bonecrusher because all of the non-Prime/Bumblebee Transformers get about five seconds of introduction and we're supposed to keep track of who is who (besides the one that keeps humping Megan Fox's leg). What I see is a good robot fighting an evil robot. But if the good robot wasn't prime, I'd have no idea Who's on first, What's on second, etc. I actually thought that was Megatron (I know the name but not the character), so by telling me it was Bonecrusher you made the movie slightly more understandable. Though, I didn't even know there was a character named Bonecrusher in that movie.

 

[JAK®]

No offense, but if you really couldn't tell which character was which, that's on you, not the movie.

 

[Batman713]

Alien
The Shining
2001: A Space Odyssey
Batman Returns
Batman Forever
Superman II
Superman IV
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Dukes of Hazzard
Starsky and Hutch
Rush Hour 3
Scooby-Doo
Scooby-Doo II: Monsters Unleashed
Batman and Robin
Terminator 2
Terminator 3
Transformers
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Star Wars: Episode One - Three
Star Trek: Insurrection
Baby Geniuses
Baby Geniuses 2

Obvious troll is obvious.

 

[DACrowe]

I actually loves this movie and still do, sure its alittle inaccurate but its still fun and entertaining. I think they said in the movie though that he bought the slaves but they elected to stay on his farm instead of running away. It wasnt that far fetched ethier for the british to enlist the black folk as body casualites. If you didnt like it thats cool, I respect other peoples decisions.

To each their own, but seriously it is not just far fetched, it is unfathomable that South CArolina planter living on that big of a plantation would buy slaves, free them, and pay them fair wages for doing the work of slaves. There was no enlightened human rights activist in the Southern ruling class, particularly SC that seceded after Lincoln's election less than a century later for the very fear of having that right infringed upon. For the record the British did free slaves if they served the British Army. Many went to Britain after the war ended.

It was Hollywood BS to PC their hero for a modern audience. If they didn't want to tackle slavery, they shouldn't have made him a plantation owner as they already departed from the real Swamp Fox long ago. And Tarlton was bad enough as a butcher who took no prisoners and killed the sick and injured. But turning the British into Nazis who burned a whole town alive inside a Church like it we were in Warsaw was again Hollywood BS that had to make the British ridiculously evil. The American forces were in the right and Tartlton was already a bastard, no need to make him a Hans Landa-type.

I can enjoy some historically inaccurate films (not so coincidentally, the mostly fictional Braveheart is fantastic), but this was just too much. And it wasn't done to make it a better movie, it was just dumbed down for mass consumption, so I did take offense to its treatment of history.

 

[Fanticon]

What about

Epic Movie
Meet the Spartans
Date Movie
Employee of the Month
The Tourist

those don't count...we're talking about movies with 100m dollar budgets that bomb.

I'll go with Australia.

 

[DACrowe]

No offense, but if you really couldn't tell which character was which, that's on you, not the movie.

....yes. Because this was such great character development from the first movie:


Sorry the video quality (and sound) is bad, but I only spent two minutes searching for it. However, in this sequence all the non-Megatron bad guys (and the nameless one that died in the desert) are introduced for the first time in the third act and are introduced by captions/subtitles appearing beneath the screen. And then we're supposed to keep up with who the **** is who in the last 20 minutes of the movie when all the non Prime good guys did was stand in the background while hiding in Shia's backyard, literally pissing gasoline on John Tuturro and making sex jokes about the two leads.

The only people who knew who the robots were are the fans. Everybody else was there for CGI explosions and Megan Fox working on auto parts in slow motion.

 

[Alchemyst]

Alien
The Shining
2001: A Space Odyssey
Batman Returns
Batman Forever
Superman II
Superman IV
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Dukes of Hazzard
Starsky and Hutch
Rush Hour 3
Scooby-Doo
Scooby-Doo II: Monsters Unleashed
Batman and Robin
Terminator 2
Terminator 3
Transformers
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Star Wars: Episode One - Three
Star Trek: Insurrection
Baby Geniuses
Baby Geniuses 2

.....pause.....

 

[Why Are You Crouching Spock?]

Transfomers 2 is probably the worst movie I have seen.
Transfotmers 3 will once again show humanity is dumb and should probably be nuked.

 

[Octoberist]

How can anyone put down The Shining, 2001, Terminator 1 and 2 on here?

face palm to the clear and mighty heavens.

 

[bullets]

those don't count...we're talking about movies with 100m dollar budgets that bomb.

I'll go with Australia.

Well I'll give you the others but The Tourist was budgeted at 100 million.

 

[Octoberist]

The Tourist DID bomb but yeah, to me it was one of the worst movies of last year. I say that only because of the potential it had, and how it wasted its talented cast.

 

[DACrowe]

double. Sorry. Please delete.

 

[DACrowe]

A few more I just had to do:

Twilight: New Moon

Turns out Edward Cullen sucks in more ways than one. Same can apply to the franchise too.


GI Joe: Rise of the Cobra:

You know you're in trouble when this is a few dozen times better than the actual Hollywood movie:



Okay....I'm done. I just wanted to put that Funny or Die clip on here, because it is hilarious.

 

[danoyse]

No offense, but if you really couldn't tell which character was which, that's on you, not the movie.

No, it was definitely the movie.

The first Transformers I could tolerate. The second was over 2 hours of garbage that seemed like it was written by a group of obnoxious 13-year-old boys on a sugar high.

 

[Octoberist]

The second Transformers was a big mess.

 

[Alchemyst]

The second Transformers was a big mess.

Agreed, Revenge of the Fallen was a hot mess from start to finish.

 

[Octoberist]

I don't mind mindless action but you gotta that well too. Revenge of the Fallen was just too long, the pacing was bad, and there was A LOT OF filler moments that added nothing to the movie. Plus, you're stuck with the Twins during the second act, so you're not even spending time with the Transformers from the first film besides Bumblebee (who can't even talk for some odd reason)

 

[Tacit Ronin]

Most of them are bad. Only a handful of them are good.

 

[Fanticon]

Well I'll give you the others but The Tourist was budgeted at 100 million.

oh haha...i breezed right over that you had that in there. t:

 

[bullets]

GI Joe: Rise of the Cobra:

You know you're in trouble when this is a few dozen times better than the actual Hollywood movie:



Okay....I'm done. I just wanted to put that Funny or Die clip on here, because it is hilarious.

^ Qft.


I actually enjoyed watching GI Joe. As an adaptation it was terrible but decent popcorn film.