Saw it last night and was almost enjoying the badness of it. It really was an all-around failure - acting, script, direction, CG, art direction and costume, they all sucked spectacularly. I’m not easily appalled by movies and try to find redeeming qualities in even the most bland romantic comedies, but damn, they sure went all the way. Didn’t really know what to expect beforehand, but I did imagine the fairy tale to have at least some significance to the plot other than a 30-second dream sequence.
I really like Amanda Seyfried and enjoyed her performance in Chloe, but this was really something else. It’s probably mostly down to the Twilight director, but I didn’t think that a director could mess up a movie this badly. Oh well, now I know for a fact that I’ll never watch any of the Twilight movies.
So dopers, I put it to you: is Red Riding Hood the Worst Movie of All Time?
At first I thought you were talking about Hoodwinked 2 (Too) and thought “it wasn’t that bad”
No saving quality whatsoever? Nudity, bloopers not cut out, unintentional hilarity?
Well, Amanda Seyfried nudity would indeed save the movie, but it’s not there. There is however lots of unintentional hilarity in the incredibly bad delivery of insanely stereotypical lines. So in that respect I don’t resent having seen it - there was plenty of badness to keep you interested at all times.
For instance: in hunting the wolf, the villagers reach a fork in the road. What do they do?
That’s right, they split up! 10 seconds later they reach another fork. You betcha that they split up again. I guess you can imagine what happens next…
Any discussion of “worst movies of all time” that doesn’t include the phrase “not counting “Plan 9 From Outer Space”” (or “Manos: The Hands of Fate”…take your choice) is off to a bad start.
Ha + :smack:. And now I need to know: any indication that scenes like that were made with some level of awareness how cliched that is?
Forget it, having Amanda play a role with so obvious sexual connotations (or associations) and avoiding nudity is a clear indication of total cluelessness.
Check out Freeway with Reese Witherspoon and Kiefer Sutherland for a more satisfying take on the same story.
This is how I’d script a trailer for a cliched action movie based on Little Red Riding Hood. Nickleback plays during all of this. Doesn’t matter which song, really.
Narrator: * In a world where dreams become nightmares, one girl will find the will… *
“You killed my grandmother, now you DIE!” (extreme close up on RRH’s face)
The strength…
“YEEEAAGH!” crash! snarl! (quick-cut fight scene with lots of robe swooshing)
The wisdom…
(RRH contemplates a fork in the path through the dark forest)
and the love…
RRH: “I knew you’d come” (as the woodsman brushes the hair out of RRH’s eyes)
*To tame the wildest beast of all…her heart. (RRH stands on a hill top above the dark forest. Basket in one hand, a bloody axe in the other)
This summer’s going to be RED HOT!!!*
How close was I? Was the movie as bad as this trailer?
That sounds like a kick-ass film! 
Unfortunately, there’s no robe swooshing, and the love interest is mind-numbingly boring. Also, the plot is not based on the Grimm’s fairy tale at all, the only references are a dream sequence with the “Why do you have such big eyes?” and filling the wolf’s stomach with stones. (The wolf is, of course, a werewolf.)
