What Should Never Had Been

[Thundarr]

Mortal Kombat is probably the best of the crop, but it was still a fairly terrible movie that hasn't aged well at all upon repeating viewings.

I disagree. I find Mortal Kombat very enjoyable, even after all these years. The backstory actually makes sense, it has several very memorable scenes and lines, and the SFX still hold up today. The sequel was crap, but the original was awsome.

"This is where you fall down."

 

[Kurosawa]

I saw this thread and thought "Hmm, I wonder how long it'll take for some asshat to say Watchmen." Four posts in. Way to be predictable, SHH.

I was expecting Star Wars prequels earlier than Watchmen to be honest. Instead first mention was Clone Wars, which is too minor (for SW) a movie to fret over and has led to an awesome animated series.

For my money: The "X-Men" movies. Or as I call them,

WOLVERINE

and his little Mutie Sidekicks.

1-4.

 

[Obi-Ron]

RoboCop 2 & 3.

"RoboCop" was genius. Every sequel, comic, cartoon, etc it spawned were unwatchable.

 

[Iron_Stark]

Harry Potter, all of those goddamn movies

 

[MoPlaYa]

Dragonball: Evolution

 

[Drizzle]

Harry Potter, all of those goddamn movies

They were goddamn books first.

 

[Iron_Stark]

They were goddamn books first.

Like Twilight, they should've stayed that way.

 

[<(o_o)>]

Ultraviolet.

 

[El Payaso]

Iron Man 2.

It should have happened but we're in a time where you can make a sequel that's better than an original movie which was good already, so it should have happened at least being as good as the original.

Okay, fail at the third part. But don't ruin things in the second movie!!!

 

[JeetKuneDo]

Watchmen.

"This poster is afraid of me. I have seen his true face. The streets are extended gutters and the gutters are full of blood and when the drains finally scab over, all the vermin will drown. The accumulated filth of all his poor taste in movies will foam up about his waist and he will look up and shout "Save me!"... and I'll whisper "no."

My pick is:

Watch Episode 1 sometime....the first 10 minutes is pretty darn awesome. Then Scobby-Doo enters and everything turns into crap. It actually possible the entire trilogy could have been incredible if he hadn't shown up.

 

[Gunga Diner]

Watchmen.

I'm kinda glad I'm not the only one who feels this way. I enjoyed parts of the film, but it kinda lives and dies on the page.

 

[Gunga Diner]

"This poster is afraid of me. I have seen his true face. The streets are extended gutters and the gutters are full of blood and when the drains finally scab over, all the vermin will drown. The accumulated filth of all his poor taste in movies will foam up about his waist and he will look up and shout "Save me!"... and I'll whisper "no."

My pick is:

Watch Episode 1 sometime....the first 10 minutes is pretty darn awesome. Then Scobby-Doo enters and everything turns into crap. It actually possible the entire trilogy could have been incredible if he hadn't shown up.

Somebody needs to watch the Plinkett review of Episode 1.

 

[JeetKuneDo]

Somebody needs to watch the Plinkett review of Episode 1.

Point me in that direction, brother.

 

[K'Prime]

Street Fighter Legend of chun li
Eragon
catwomen
twitter
George W.bush's presidency

to many things to name really.I'd go insane..but Watchmen wasn't one of em.

 

[bullets]

Super Mario Bros, for one. Awesome game series, absolutely NO reasonable material to make a movie from (not one, single "your princess is in another castle!). Also, anything "adapted" from a board game. The reported Monopoly movie comes to mind...

I know Super Mario Bros was a terrible movie but I still think it should of happened . It was a lot of fun to watch when I was younger. I don't think they could ever do the game justice though .


The board games movies are a bad idea waiting to happen. Also Where's Waldo is in development , they should can that idea.

 

[night0205]

So... many of you are missing the point of this thread... I think. Unless, I'm mistaken, the thread is about films that were adapted from another source material, that works well for that material, but not as a film. I didn't think this was a thread about complaining about what movies you hate, but what ones from another medium don't work as a movie.
This is hard for me however, because some movie adaptions are not bad because the material couldn't have worked for a movie, but because the filmmaker screwed up teh material and just made a bad movie.
The Last Airbender is a great example. From the animated series, it works great, and I believe if handled right, could have worked for live action, but M Night is an idiot.
Let me try and think of one that just does not work as a film... It's hard because I don't see movies that look like they will suck... OK... even though I'm not a huge fan of Dragonball... I think that is a great example of something that does not work for a film structure.

Oh, and Super Mario Bros... would never work for a film. That may be the best example.

 

[bullets]

I liked my Where's Waldo example but can't see why someone would put a bad sequel. That's kind of going against the grain of the thread.

 

[echostation]

Donner Superman... what a lousy piece of ****, seriously miscasting by Margot Kidder and the stupid thing being the LOVE story aspect all over again with Goofy clark. The focus should have been on Earth's greatest warrior and hero, not some stupid love story of reversing the spin of the Earth's rotational axis and trying to make people believe that will reverse time. Even in the heightened highly loose logic of the film, that was such a dumb plot point. Jokey Lex with a land scheme with the annoying Miss Tesmaucher. They really just screwed the pooch on that.

 

[Brian Braddock]

The Matrix Reloaded and Matrix Revolutions - should have left well enough alone; the original simply didnt require any sequels.

 

[Brian Braddock]

Donner Superman... what a lousy piece of ****, seriously miscasting by Margot Kidder and the stupid thing being the LOVE story aspect all over again with Goofy clark. The focus should have been on Earth's greatest warrior and hero, not some stupid love story of reversing the spin of the Earth's rotational axis and trying to make people believe that will reverse time. Even in the heightened highly loose logic of the film, that was such a dumb plot point. Jokey Lex with a land scheme with the annoying Miss Tesmaucher. They really just screwed the pooch on that.

Quite honestly - with all due respect, I couldnt disagree more.

 

[dark_b]

Donner Superman... what a lousy piece of ****, seriously miscasting by Margot Kidder and the stupid thing being the LOVE story aspect all over again with Goofy clark. The focus should have been on Earth's greatest warrior and hero, not some stupid love story of reversing the spin of the Earth's rotational axis and trying to make people believe that will reverse time. Even in the heightened highly loose logic of the film, that was such a dumb plot point. Jokey Lex with a land scheme with the annoying Miss Tesmaucher. They really just screwed the pooch on that.

 

[Jordacar]

Highlander 2: The Quickening

If only they'd skipped this and gone straight to the TV series.

 

[Gunga Diner]

Okay, I actually laughed out loud.

At work. In front of everybody.

 

[Gunga Diner]

Point me in that direction, brother.

You're in for a treat.
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Part 1 of 7

What the reviewer, Mr Plinkett, says is that the problems with Episode 1 weren't just Jar-Jar or Midi-Chlorians. The problem is that it's an incredibly weak piece of storytelling. The characters are uninteresting and impossible to relate with, there seems to be no clear motivations or interesting conflicts. The movie is, in general, a huge mess. I have yet to find a single person who can actually tell me what that movie was about.

But I'm a whiny fanboy. If you enjoyed it, there's nothing wrong with that.

 

[Jackasscoley15]

What the reviewer, Mr Plinkett, says is that the problems with Episode 1 weren't just Jar-Jar or Midi-Chlorians. The problem is that it's an incredibly weak piece of storytelling. The characters are uninteresting and impossible to relate with, there seems to be no clear motivations or interesting conflicts. The movie is, in general, a huge mess. I have yet to find a single person who can actually tell me what that movie was about.

Pretty much sums up how I feel about the prequels in general.