Name your "Stupid Movies"

[Dis]

hey!

Star Trek 5 is on HBO right now!

talk about stupid movies

old men climbing mountains. mmm, yeah that is realistic.

The special effects are horrible. It's a step back from earlier works. Start Trek 2 had better effects. Even The Next Generation (which was on air at the time I believe) had better special effects.

[Sprayber]

Originally posted by Spec
--Independence Day (Ooooh....America saves the earth and no one else could!! )
Spec.

It was made in the US. What do you expect. If you want a movie where the UK, France, San Marino, or any number of countries save the world then perhaps they should make one.


Besides how much sepension of disbelief would be required to see anyone but the USA save the world. I mean really, it just cant happen. Even 007 had the CIA helping out every now and then.

[Dis]

hey, I just watched Star Trek V all the way through.

I guess I'm one of those people who like watching stupid movies.

[Imran Siddiqui]

'The Avengers'.

Someone thought that was good?

I'm so going to flamed for this one, but 'Shawshank Redemption'.

[Lord Merciless]

Independence Day - Yeah, space traveling aliens have Mac interface.

Starship Troopers - Today's US military can wipe out these guys (mobile infantry) in 10 minutes or less.

Gladiator, Braveheart, U571, Pearl Harbor = Raping History.

Clear and Present Danger - Turned a nice piece of Tom Clancy into MIA.

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by Sikander
I found the Indiana Jones series, Independance Day, the first Batman movie all to be horrible.

Ok, while I've disagreed with a few, I am baffled at people who don't like Indiana Jones. I mean, what isn't to like about Raiders? It's a great old fashioned adventure story that doesn't pretend to be anything other than that. It does its job convincingly and, IMO, brilliantly.

[Guynemer]

Originally posted by Rufus T. Firefly
2) Any movie based on an old TV show

The Fugitive?

7) Any John Grisham adaptation

Actually, the latest--Runaway Jury--is quite good.

[Dis]

also Naked gun is based off an old tv show.

while it is stupid, it is funny stupid

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by Guynemer
The Fugitive?

Doesn't count, as it was itself based on a book, Les Miserables.

[Guynemer]

Touche.


Frankly, I found "Titanic" to be completely abyssmal. The two main characters were, by far, the least interesting characters in the entire film. The love story was utterly inane. The fact that this piece of dreck beat "L.A. Confidential" for Best Picture still makes my skin crawl.

[Boris Godunov]

"Titanic" really must be taken as two separate movies: The pukey, hokey love story and the recreation of the actual events of the sinking.

On the later, Cameron does a decent job, particularly in the physical depictions. His accuracy in terms of events and characters ranges from good to really lame (depicting Ismay as an idiot who didn't know who Sigmund Freud was really irked me). He certainly created, IMO, some breathtakingly vivid moments during the sinking (in particular, the moments when Jack and Rose aren't around).

[Guynemer]

That's very true. The "other movie" is pretty darn good; I enjoyed that movie. I would have loved to have gotten the chance to spend more time with the ship's designer, owners, etc. And the wreck itself is astonishing--in fact, I didn't have a problem with Cameron winning best director; the wreck alone earned him that much.

But I just wanted to punch Leonardo DiCaprio right in his pretty face every time he was on the screen. Annoying bugger. As for Kate Winslet... a very good actress. She didn't show it in that film, however.

[Boris Godunov]

Go watch A Night to Remember. While the special effects are pretty bad (though not for 1958), the movie is so well done and meticulous it puts Cameron to shame. And you can see how many scenes he outright lifted.

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by Dr Strangelove
I know I'm going to catch heck from a couple of posters we all know, but I'd also like to add: "Gods and Generals" as one of the stupidest movies ever made.

Dwarfed by "They Died With Their Boots On," where Errol Flynn plays an Indian-loving George Armstrong Custer.

[Datajack Franit]

Hey, that was one of the best movies ever made, where the story takes place in outer space...

PLEASE tell me you were kidding.. Lost in space...



Titanic was completely screwed up by DiCaprio

Another terrible movie: everything produced by Disney after Beauty and the Beast