I’m glad to see that Ben Affleck’s Argo – about the six Americans rescued from Iran during the 1980 hostage crisis – is right up near the top of “historically inaccurate”. Particularly irksome is this bit:
President Jimmy Carter acknowledged that “90% of the contributions to the ideas and the plan were Canadian.” New Zealand also helped, but the movie lays all the praise on the U.S.
Yes! Best quote-#that looks like you…with breasts."
Role Models.
The Replacements; https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/replacements . To this day, I’ll stop to watch if I happen to be flipping through channels.
Damn, I was going to post both these comments. We should hang out some time!
I love The Core for one scene only. When the Crazy Scientist tells the Military Guy that it will take “A Hundred Billion Dollars” to build the MacGuffin Technology needed to save the world, the Military Guy asks, “Will you take a check?”
But that’s just the part you see in the trailer.
In the movie, Science Guy turns to the Military Guy, and says, “Why not use your credit card? You’ll get points that way.”
I looove The 13th Warrior, which does indeed get a shitty 33% on Rotten Tomatoes. I even own it on DVD, somewhere. But then I liked the Michael Crichton source book. It’s chockablock with ahistorical nonsense as well, particularly in the category of a lot of the set dressing like most of the armor, Viking steeds (no they didn’t ride heavy horses) and utter tosh like grinding down a two-handed sword into a scimitar.
But I’m a sucker for the clever take on Beowulf and I think the actors mostly acquitted themselves…adequately. How’s that for a ringing endorsement!
Yo, have you seen Skidoo?
One of my favorite “bad” recent movies would have to be Gods of Egypt. It has a whopping 15% on Rotten Tomatoes. Gerard Butler didn’t even try to mask his Scottish brogue and the only Egyptian involved in the film was the director, Alex Proyas. The story was fun and the visual effects hold up fairly decently.
Yes! That’s it exactly!
I have never watched God’s of Egypt, and I probably never will, but somehow, somewhere I read an review of how that was the worst movie ever made by Becky Chambers and I discovered her writing. So, thank you Gods of Egypt!
I recently watched all of my Top Ten Favourite 80s Fantasy Movies* and one of them was Krull, which is objectively awful, but has a faithful following, and I love it despite desperately wanting to reach in and fix its flaws.
I don’t know if it’s considered a bad movie, but the only Jurassic Park/World movie I like is Jurassic Park III. I think it’s the only one that understood what it was trying to be and nailed it.
I liked Tomorrowland. I don’t know why so many didn’t. I also liked Pirates of the Caribbean II and III, I still don’t understand what people dislike so much.
One of the Pixar movies nobody seems to like, The Good Dinosaur, is actually really fun. (Meanwhile the one everyone praised that same year, Inside Out, I really do not like at all)
*Well, nine watched so far. Tenth tonight.
It was really, really, really bad.
I’m not sure how to convey how bad it was.
And I wanted to like it. Still awful. Terrible. Not remotely good.
The most interesting about it is how it ever got made.
I liked UHF, Caveman, Hudson Hawk, Weekend at Bernies 1, Clue, The Adventures of Ford Fairlane, Big Trouble in Little China, Oscar, Fifth Element, 13th Warrior
Probably more, I tend to like more movies than dislike movies [though I am not overly fond of Cowboy/western films, I liked The Shootist and there is something primally grabbing about the John Wayne ‘Fill your hand, you son of a bitch’ that just really grabs me, though. Classic more balls than brains type action.] I will actually admit that I dislike and can not understand why people worship [for lack of a better word] a film like The Godfather or Apocalypse Now - the film The Freshman sort of makes fun of it for me - a film studies prof so into The Godfather he seems to make his entire class about how amazing the film is, to the point of he speaks every line in the film while they watch it in class, and he pretty much worships the ground upon which the godfather in the film walks upon … the film itself is actually funny and I will tend to watch it when it hits TV. I think it was panned so I probably need to add it to the list above.
“Nightwing” was not liked. By anyone.
The bat wings’ visible suppports. Great close-ups of them maniacally gnawing away at something bloodied. Flying directly into camera, like the viewer’s being attacked. David Warner’s sanctimonious, sweaty acting.
Saw it with a friend in the theatre in grade nine, and when it showed DW 4X4ing through the desert with “Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue” as soundtrack, I was like - what the hell is Crystal Gayle being tied in with vampire bat hunting? Steve goes - “She’s in the trunk.”
Never got around to actually reading the reviews, but I’m pretty sure that “Food of the Gods” was not a widely critcally acclaimed movie as a multple-Oscar shoo-in, or favourite of Pauline Kael or (well maybe? 
) John Simon.
It masochistically turned me on to the great Marjoe Gortner, who sucked me down the rabbit hole of “Star Crash”, along with a re-appreciation of his psychotic roles in “Viva Knievel” and “Earthquake”, the latter being maybe one of the first-ever creepy incel roles. (disgruntled, paranoid bagboy who’s apparently “misunderstood”)
This one made my jaw drop. I can’t believe it’s that low. The scene of the Arab diplomat learning the Viking’s language just by listening to them for several weeks/months by itself should give it a higher rating.
Do you know about Gortner’s life before turning to acting?:
And there’s this, which I have to break up into three lines for some reason:
http://
www.sarahkernochan.
com/documentaries/index.html
Alex Proyas? Shit, that’s all you had to say (to quote Jules). He’s one of those directors I’ll always give a shot (another is David Twohy).
I dearly love Tank Girl and will watch it whenever I come across it.
The same goes for Little Nicky.
I agree. It was like The Kentucky Fried Movie turned up to 11.