I thought of him more as an interplanetary Mussolini. Might’ve been the accent.
Catwoman, the 2004 film with Halle Barry, isn’t great, but it is not that terrible.
I never saw it, but it spawned a great quote:
“First of all, I want to thank Warner Brothers. Thank you for putting me in a piece of shit, god-awful movie… It was just what my career needed.”
-Halle Berry, 2005 Golden Raspberry Awards
Maybe he thought the movie was pretty good and was angry at all the bad press? </speculation>
Oddly, they had their chance to go for the costumes as in the books, but didnt.
Well hell, they don’t want to get tied to “Song of the South” either, but they’ve still got three log flumes, character merch, and the theme song dedicated to it and running strong.
Well, “like” is a bit strong, but COCKTAIL didn’t deserve the Razzie for Worst Picture.
Hoping for the former and understanding of the latter.
Um, Sharif is Egyptian. For millennia Arabs were trash from the hinterlands, cadging for scraps.
Definitely agree with Last Action Hero and Dark City. It does seem like LAH has finally started to get some of the appreciation it deserves. I think it’s a fantastic parody of action movies that clearly teases with love, not scorn.
One I enjoyed was Stir of Echoes with Kevin Bacon. IIRC, it came out right when the Sixth Sense did, too. I think it would’ve been a lot bigger if it hadn’t had such unfortunate timing.
Not all of these were flops, just generally disliked or heavily criticised.
I liked the sequels to Pirates of the Caribbean that Gore Verbinski made. I also liked his Lone Ranger movie.
I liked the Hobbit movies PJ made, and his King Kong. I guess he and I are on a similar wavelength maybe.
I didn’t like the first two Jurassic Park movies, I only like JPIII. That seems to be the opposite of most other people.
I liked John Carter. I wish it had been marketed a bit better, and didn’t resemble so many other movies out at the same time. Such as another one I liked, Prince of Persia.
I like Cars and Cars 2, and The Good Dinosaur. However I didn’t like Inside Out.
Paul Blart Mall Cop is better than anyone gives it credit for.
I quite liked Mortdecai, though I understand why it didn’t do well.
And an overlooked and generally disliked Spielberg movie, The Terminal, is quite sweet.
Have you seen any of Peter Jackson’s early films? Meet the Feebles, for example, is interesting; it’s like if The Muppet Show was subject to the two-click rule.
Oh yes, I’m from New Zealand. I saw Bad Taste back when nobody knew who he was. The only PJ film I haven’t watched is The Lovely Bones.
I rather enjoyed Cutthroat Island, for all that the narrative was a bit of a mess. I mean, when you’ve got Frank Langella riding a cannonball through the side of a ship what’s not to love?
I also thought that Hudson Hawk was a great movie. I think it caught a lot of flack because people expected it to be more of a typical Bruce Willis action movie, or more traditional scifi. But if you realized it was a little of both, but done with a lot of campiness, it was a fun movie.
My personal pick based on the OP’s premise is Sucker Punch. God, I love this movie.
I guess if the longer directors cut had been shown originally, more people would have understood the layers of what was going on, but the movie had a unique twisted plot, great visuals and CGI, all the girls were freaking gorgeous, and there was a lot of action to go along with a kickass soundtrack.
I mean, come on – a mentor, a quest, a fight with gigantic Japanese feudal warriors equipped with mini-guns – a fight through WW1 trench battlefields filled with mechanical steam-powered Nazis – a castle filled with orcs featuring a battle scene between a fire-breathing dragon and a B-25 with one prop and one jet engine.
And this is just a few highlights. A lot of little details and symbolism throughout.
It ain’t Citizen Kane, but for a ‘temporarily suspend reality’ kind of movie, this is my favorite of all time.
The Muppet Show on acid.
It’s hilarious. 
What’s you opinion of the Christoper Lambert version?
My first PJ film was Meet The Feebles. My second was Dead Alive (aka Braindead). And I’ve seen the Hobbit/LOTR films. I’ve only seen parts of The Frighteners.
There was a wonderful Bad Movie Review of it that I am unable to find, although this one will do in a pinch:
This is the first of the New Film Versions of Beowulf, so it gets some credit for that, despite its re-imagining the story as set in a (post-apocalyptic?) futuristic industrial wasteland.
Besides reviving the Beowulf-as-film thing, it also introduced two innovations that showed up later in the Zemeckis version. I suspect the filks associated with that CGI version probably watched this one because:
[spoiler]
1.) This is the first adaptation of the story I’m aware of where Hrothgar is Grendel’s father, as in the Zemeckis film
2.) In this film, as in the later Zemeckis version, Grendel’s mother can take the form of a beautiful, sexy woman, rather than the Hag or Monster she’s usually portrayed as.
3.) Also, in both of those versions, Grendel’s mom is depicted using CGI imagery in all her forms. [/spoiler]
So I think it was an influential film, and “historically” interesting. But it’s not my favorite version to watch (although I own a copy). Not unless the only other thing on is Say Yes to the Dress.
John Carter of Mars
Shame too, i would have liked to see the entire series in movie form
So would I, as I’ve said.
When I was on a panel discussing the film (and how it had been mishandled by the Powers-That-Be at Disney), I wore a T-shirt on which I’d transferred a copy of this fan-made poster for the follow-up movie (that never was), John Carter and the Gods of Mars: