How to tell if a movie sucks.

Ryan Reynolds

Excessive ellipses in the quoted reviews: “Brilliant… acting.” (Edited down from something like “The usually brilliant Laurence Olivier turns in the worst acting of his career.”)

True when it was new and show-offy, but nowadays CGI is as integral as sound and lighting. featurette on the CGI in Zodiac

I see what you did there. :smiley:
So, we’re on page 2, and no one has mentioned Kevin Costner yet? Except for Field of Dreams, of course. Even he could not botch that one.

No, we’re on page 1. You can set the default to 200 posts per page. (Or 150 posts per page. Or 100 posts per page.) User CP -> Edit Options.

Even if the movie IS science fiction or fantasy, if the CGI is the best part of the movie, it sucks. See “Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within”. Actually, don’t see it.

Was in Midnight Express with a major role and it is a GREAT film.

If Howard Stern likes it, it probably sucks.

Midnight Express is a good film, major role for Eric Roberts . . . not so much,

CMC fnord!

Yeah but Eric Roberts was also in Runaway Train (along with Jon Voight and Rebecca DeMornay) and he was awesome there.

He was also great in the very under-rated (and under-viewed) Rude Awakening.

Car chases aren’t always bad.
The French Connection and To Live and Die in L.A. both had great car chase scenes.

They weren’t overdone, were filmed beautifully and both were IMO, epic.

I loved Eric Roberts in Star 80 (which a poster alluded to). But none of that matters, because through the magic of fatherhood he has been kind enough to bestow great pulchritude upon the human race! :wink:

As for my red flag for a bad film…if it’s playing in more than one theater at our city’s multiplex, there’s a 90% chance it sucks.

A warning to all that something went seriously wrong with the movie:

Directed by Alan Smithee

“Featuring Rob Schneider…”

If a movie’s posters are plastered on the sides of buses or taxi cabs, it’s going to suck.

No love for Bull Durham? :confused:

“Directed by Tim Burton”

“Fun for the whole family.”

While there are indeed movies that you can enjoy along with the kids, this blurb usually translates as "any family member not bored by the teletubies would rather be waterboarded by Spongebob than watch this movie."

Movies that have taken 5 years of development tend to suck, because generally, they are being made for the sake of it, rather than because someone has good story to tell

Any movie there the poster features the heads of the main actors photoshopped together against a white background

Any sequel that comes out ten years after the last installment

Nitpick: one episode. I don’t think hers was ever meant to be a recurring character. As I remember, she only had two or three lines anyway. She was the focus of one of the subplots, but more as a living McGuffin than a participant.