On the flip side, the only good scene (in my opinion) is when one of President Roosevelt's generals tells him that a raid on Japan couldn't be done, at which Roosevelt stands up on his polio-ridden legs and says, "Don't tell me it can't be done." Best scene ever.
The problem was that scenes like that are buried underneath the garbage that was the rest of that movie. There are a few good parts in Pearl Harbor but there's so much that made me cringe on how stupid it was.
Bah, if that's what I wanted to see I'd watch Underworld.
Well, you have to understand my POV on that. I actually paid money and took someone else to see that damn movie. I was just looking for something redeeming. And Kate Beckinsale was that one redeeming thing to stare at
The last transformers movie (with the dino bots). As much as I liked the Transformers as kid (don't ask how long ago that was), as much did I hate this latest piece of nonsense. All actors were so incredibly annoying and all robots were incredibly annoying and the story was so damn stupid. I cannot count how often during this movie I just wanted to run away. I liked the first part even though the humans were already kind of annoying, but the robots were cool. With each movie it is getting worse and more stupid. Instead of story, all we get is more boom boom.
Hobbit/five armies. I so much liked the first two parts. Fantasy as fantasy can be. And then this battle overloaded nonsense as the great finale. Very disappointing. And why on earth does the new elf amazon suddenly loose her fighting skills and talk about love? And why always eagles?
Star wars ep. 1 and 2. First one was a silly movie for kids. I guess I was expecting too much from this, but nevertheless, as adult I cannot watch this anymore. I have the feeling that, as soon as children are part of a movie, the movie gets bad. And episode 2...don't know where to begin here. At least the showdown between yoda and doku was kinda nice.
War of the worlds (2005). It could have been a nice movie, but those kids! During the whole movie I just hoped the would get "recycled" by the aliens. First time I felt sorry for Tom Cruise (ever), because he had to deal with those two little monsters for the whole movie.
Probably Jurrasic world. From what I have seen on the trailers the story seems utterly stupid. "Let's create a super smart badass superdino (without lazors) and fight it then with our well trained raptors (also without lazors)". At least the mosasaur and the male main actor look kinda good, so I might watch it and then spent some days complaining about the story.
Maybe the next terminator. Like star wars, transformers and Co, this was part of my great 80s childhood. So I will expect too much and will be utterly disappointed. The trailers already promised me that
Alien 3 (Assembly cut is ok though)
Star Trek TMP
Jurassic Park 3 Mortal Kombat: Annihilation Super Mario Brothers
Everything by Uwe Boll
Most things by Paul W. S. Anderson
Rob Zombie's Halloween 2
Can't think of any other turds atm, I've bolded the worst of the worst.
Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace: Episodes II and III weren't that bad. TPM, on the other hand, sucked so much TRIBBLE$, so hard, that it probably colored most people's opinions of the other two prequels.
The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies: The overarching plot of the trilogy effectively ended in the opening sequence. The remainder of the film was about Thorin, not Bilbo (remember, the trilogy is called The Hobbit, not The Man Who Would Be King Under The Mountain). And with Thorin dead at the end, it is never explained who ultimately gets all that gold - which was the reason he and Bilbo and the others went on their big quest in the first place.
The Lord of the Rings: Not Peter Jackson's trilogy, but the 1978 one-and-done adaptation. This movie is why I don't mind Hollywood breaking up books like HP7, Mockingjay or, well, The Hobbit into two or more parts. Sure, it's a brazen money grab, but it's always better to err on the side of making too many movies out of a story than too few. See also...
Dune: The 1984 David Lynch version featuring Sting (the musician, not the wrestler) and a pre-Picard Patrick Stewart. Again, they tried to squeeze too much story into a 2-1/2 hour film. Gaudy sets, cheap visual effects and a way-over-the-top musical score didn't help the film's case either.
Dune: The 1984 David Lynch version featuring Sting (the musician, not the wrestler) and a pre-Picard Patrick Stewart. Again, they tried to squeeze too much story into a 2-1/2 hour film. Gaudy sets, cheap visual effects and a way-over-the-top musical score didn't help the film's case either.
Don't forget that an entire martial arts style gets turned into a weird sonic gun.
I was expecting to see colonial marines not 21st century earth
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-Lord Commander Solar Macharius
Yeah it was kinda silly, but... the worst parts weren't something they made up for the movie.
Really? So Raiden and Shao Kahn were brothers in the game? With Shinnok as their father? I think not. Also, those unexplained, pointless tattoo things that come to life when a villain dies? That ridiculous animality scene? Ok, animalities were in the various versions of MK3, but never as a serious plot element, or as part of a poorly done Godzilla style fight scene. Also, because they felt compelled to include as many characters as possible, we get overwhelmed with characters that show up for only one scene, with no explanation of their backstory.
MK9 is a perfect example of how that story line could have been adapted for film, just remove the time travel elements and trim the roster a bit and you have something much better than what was filmed. The ONLY thing I enjoyed about the movie was the martial arts, as most of the fighting was still very good.
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I have an idea for what Season 11 should be; Season 11: The Big Bug Fix.
I have not been able to read my bug tickets in over a year, not even the tickets about not being able to see my tickets.
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Really? So Raiden and Shao Kahn were brothers in the game? With Shinnok as their father? I think not. Also, those unexplained, pointless tattoo things that come to life when a villain dies? That ridiculous animality scene? Ok, animalities were in the various versions of MK3, but never as a serious plot element, or as part of a poorly done Godzilla style fight scene. Also, because they felt compelled to include as many characters as possible, we get overwhelmed with characters that show up for only one scene, with no explanation of their backstory.
MK9 is a perfect example of how that story line could have been adapted for film, just remove the time travel elements and trim the roster a bit and you have something much better than what was filmed. The ONLY thing I enjoyed about the movie was the martial arts, as most of the fighting was still very good.
the games don't really delve into Shao Kahn's backstory much. But... if he IS a demi-god, then it would explain why he's the most powerful kombatant in all of Outworld. The games seem to suggest he's just a guy who uses dark magic way too much though.
I thought the Tattoos were a neat touch. It's definitely a magic thing, and the main bad guy is a wizard. while a lot of characters were one-offs in a single scene... To me, that fits the way the games work, since most characters don't stick around in the game either, and some have backstories told in the strategy guides.
But yes, many aspects were not very good. The animality fight scene was a big one since Shao Kahn was easily recognizable, but Liu Kang um... no idea. Looked kinda like a giant mutant rat to me.
Shinnok as the real bad guy? totally works. Familial relationships? yeah... those felt weird. But it's not something the games went into detail with, so it's not that big a deal to me. The idea of an evil god having an evil son makes sense. It also explains WHY Raiden can't use his powers in Outworld, Shinnok said so.
Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace: Episodes II and III weren't that bad. TPM, on the other hand, sucked so much TRIBBLE$, so hard, that it probably colored most people's opinions of the other two prequels.
Actually, TPM was my favourite of the three. RotS was my least.
'I saw a recording of him... killing younglings!'
Not even Ewan McGregor can make that line sound sensible!
the games don't really delve into Shao Kahn's backstory much. But... if he IS a demi-god, then it would explain why he's the most powerful kombatant in all of Outworld. The games seem to suggest he's just a guy who uses dark magic way too much though.
This may have been true at the time the movie came out, I'm not sure. But the more recent games have definetlly fleshed his backstory out more. He's so powerful because he enslaves souls similar to how shang tsung does, infact he's the one that taught shang tsung how to do it. They just use the souls in different ways.
He was always a conquerer, absorbing multiple realms into outworld via the mortal kombat tournament, including reptile's home realm. When he conquered edenia, he took the existing queen, sindel, as his wife, and kitana as his adopted daughter.
Shinnok was completely separate. Thousands (or is it millions?) of years ago Shinnok turned against his fellow Elder Gods in an attempt to rule over all existence. He was defeated, and sealed away in the Netherealm (MKs version of Hell), which further complicates his appearance in the movie (not to mention he looks nothing like his game incarnation).
Now, the first movie was great imho, but the sequel just butchered the plot ... or rather was a string of decent fight scenes connected by vague allusions to a butchered plot that was never truely developed anyway.
It was still better than Super Mario though ... the only thing that movie got right were the costumes of the 2 title characters, and the writers didn't even want to include that! Someone actually had to force that on them, because they weren't really interested in making a "Mario" movie.
Ah yes, the Mario movie was horrible. I get the feeling the people writing the script really had no idea what they were doing.
Enh, anyways, the basic point I was getting at is that most of the things in the film that are different than the games aren't really bad in their own right, just different. But yeah the first was better than the second.
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*hurk* Oh god...
That piece of targ dung.
Christian Slater did a better performance in Star Trek VI.
*busts down your door while wearing a Starfleet uniform*
Time to boldy go, losers.
#this is how you SHOULD collect your crew from shore leave
I actually find any of the scenes from the Japanese POV to actually be pretty decent, too, though that may just be my love of Mako being cast as Kaigun Taishou Isoroku Yamamoto shining through.
Not to mention planning their attacks in an oversized bath tub. Unfortunately without Rubber Ducky Godzilla.
*busts down your door while wearing a Starfleet uniform*
Time to boldy go, losers.
#this is how you SHOULD collect your crew from shore leave
The problem was that scenes like that are buried underneath the garbage that was the rest of that movie. There are a few good parts in Pearl Harbor but there's so much that made me cringe on how stupid it was.
"...It's so cold..."
******nit.
Well, you have to understand my POV on that. I actually paid money and took someone else to see that damn movie. I was just looking for something redeeming. And Kate Beckinsale was that one redeeming thing to stare at
The last transformers movie (with the dino bots). As much as I liked the Transformers as kid (don't ask how long ago that was), as much did I hate this latest piece of nonsense. All actors were so incredibly annoying and all robots were incredibly annoying and the story was so damn stupid. I cannot count how often during this movie I just wanted to run away. I liked the first part even though the humans were already kind of annoying, but the robots were cool. With each movie it is getting worse and more stupid. Instead of story, all we get is more boom boom.
Hobbit/five armies. I so much liked the first two parts. Fantasy as fantasy can be. And then this battle overloaded nonsense as the great finale. Very disappointing. And why on earth does the new elf amazon suddenly loose her fighting skills and talk about love? And why always eagles?
Star wars ep. 1 and 2. First one was a silly movie for kids. I guess I was expecting too much from this, but nevertheless, as adult I cannot watch this anymore. I have the feeling that, as soon as children are part of a movie, the movie gets bad. And episode 2...don't know where to begin here. At least the showdown between yoda and doku was kinda nice.
War of the worlds (2005). It could have been a nice movie, but those kids! During the whole movie I just hoped the would get "recycled" by the aliens. First time I felt sorry for Tom Cruise (ever), because he had to deal with those two little monsters for the whole movie.
Probably Jurrasic world. From what I have seen on the trailers the story seems utterly stupid. "Let's create a super smart badass superdino (without lazors) and fight it then with our well trained raptors (also without lazors)". At least the mosasaur and the male main actor look kinda good, so I might watch it and then spent some days complaining about the story.
Maybe the next terminator. Like star wars, transformers and Co, this was part of my great 80s childhood. So I will expect too much and will be utterly disappointed. The trailers already promised me that
Originally Posted by pwlaughingtrendy
Network engineers are not ship designers.
Nor should they be. Their ships would look weird.
My character Tsin'xing
It is unwatchable unless its the MST3K version.
Star Trek TMP
Jurassic Park 3
Mortal Kombat: Annihilation
Super Mario Brothers
Everything by Uwe Boll
Most things by Paul W. S. Anderson
Rob Zombie's Halloween 2
Can't think of any other turds atm, I've bolded the worst of the worst.
The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies: The overarching plot of the trilogy effectively ended in the opening sequence. The remainder of the film was about Thorin, not Bilbo (remember, the trilogy is called The Hobbit, not The Man Who Would Be King Under The Mountain). And with Thorin dead at the end, it is never explained who ultimately gets all that gold - which was the reason he and Bilbo and the others went on their big quest in the first place.
The Lord of the Rings: Not Peter Jackson's trilogy, but the 1978 one-and-done adaptation. This movie is why I don't mind Hollywood breaking up books like HP7, Mockingjay or, well, The Hobbit into two or more parts. Sure, it's a brazen money grab, but it's always better to err on the side of making too many movies out of a story than too few. See also...
Dune: The 1984 David Lynch version featuring Sting (the musician, not the wrestler) and a pre-Picard Patrick Stewart. Again, they tried to squeeze too much story into a 2-1/2 hour film. Gaudy sets, cheap visual effects and a way-over-the-top musical score didn't help the film's case either.
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Don't forget that an entire martial arts style gets turned into a weird sonic gun.
Yeah it was kinda silly, but... the worst parts weren't something they made up for the movie.
My character Tsin'xing
I was expecting to see colonial marines not 21st century earth
-Lord Commander Solar Macharius
Wasn't a movie? http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0115624/
Originally Posted by pwlaughingtrendy
Network engineers are not ship designers.
Nor should they be. Their ships would look weird.
Really? So Raiden and Shao Kahn were brothers in the game? With Shinnok as their father? I think not. Also, those unexplained, pointless tattoo things that come to life when a villain dies? That ridiculous animality scene? Ok, animalities were in the various versions of MK3, but never as a serious plot element, or as part of a poorly done Godzilla style fight scene. Also, because they felt compelled to include as many characters as possible, we get overwhelmed with characters that show up for only one scene, with no explanation of their backstory.
MK9 is a perfect example of how that story line could have been adapted for film, just remove the time travel elements and trim the roster a bit and you have something much better than what was filmed. The ONLY thing I enjoyed about the movie was the martial arts, as most of the fighting was still very good.
I have an idea for what Season 11 should be; Season 11: The Big Bug Fix.
I have not been able to read my bug tickets in over a year, not even the tickets about not being able to see my tickets.
I find the drama of your signature proof of your immaturity, this means you, DR whiners.
I forgot that steaming TRIBBLE ... I liked how the third one completely ignored it, lol.
Oh and another I forgot about, X-Men: The Last Stand, the only movie I can think of with a sequel dedicated to erasing it from history.
Batman & Robin and Cowboys & Aliens probably come a close 2nd.
Lol, I just saw that listed while browsing on Netflix...tempted to watch it just for the lawlz.
edit: Wow, this might just be it...dayum.
I thought the Tattoos were a neat touch. It's definitely a magic thing, and the main bad guy is a wizard. while a lot of characters were one-offs in a single scene... To me, that fits the way the games work, since most characters don't stick around in the game either, and some have backstories told in the strategy guides.
But yes, many aspects were not very good. The animality fight scene was a big one since Shao Kahn was easily recognizable, but Liu Kang um... no idea. Looked kinda like a giant mutant rat to me.
Shinnok as the real bad guy? totally works. Familial relationships? yeah... those felt weird. But it's not something the games went into detail with, so it's not that big a deal to me. The idea of an evil god having an evil son makes sense. It also explains WHY Raiden can't use his powers in Outworld, Shinnok said so.
My character Tsin'xing
I had almost forgotten! Why cruel universe do you hate my eyes! :eek:
Originally Posted by pwlaughingtrendy
Network engineers are not ship designers.
Nor should they be. Their ships would look weird.
Actually, TPM was my favourite of the three. RotS was my least.
'I saw a recording of him... killing younglings!'
Not even Ewan McGregor can make that line sound sensible!
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In Cold Blood
I refuse to even acknowledge its existence.
This may have been true at the time the movie came out, I'm not sure. But the more recent games have definetlly fleshed his backstory out more. He's so powerful because he enslaves souls similar to how shang tsung does, infact he's the one that taught shang tsung how to do it. They just use the souls in different ways.
He was always a conquerer, absorbing multiple realms into outworld via the mortal kombat tournament, including reptile's home realm. When he conquered edenia, he took the existing queen, sindel, as his wife, and kitana as his adopted daughter.
Shinnok was completely separate. Thousands (or is it millions?) of years ago Shinnok turned against his fellow Elder Gods in an attempt to rule over all existence. He was defeated, and sealed away in the Netherealm (MKs version of Hell), which further complicates his appearance in the movie (not to mention he looks nothing like his game incarnation).
Now, the first movie was great imho, but the sequel just butchered the plot ... or rather was a string of decent fight scenes connected by vague allusions to a butchered plot that was never truely developed anyway.
It was still better than Super Mario though ... the only thing that movie got right were the costumes of the 2 title characters, and the writers didn't even want to include that! Someone actually had to force that on them, because they weren't really interested in making a "Mario" movie.
Enh, anyways, the basic point I was getting at is that most of the things in the film that are different than the games aren't really bad in their own right, just different. But yeah the first was better than the second.
My character Tsin'xing
Wasn't that they didn't know what they were doing, they really did want to make something else. Every Mario reference was essentially forced on them.