I just sat through Talladega Nights over the weekend. I usually find Will Ferrell movies entertaining even though I know they are not cinematic masterpieces. This one, however, was just bad. I did find myself laughing by the end but I honestly don’t know if that’s because the movie got better or I was just laughing at how bad it was.
I could actually see that. It struck me as a movie that would attract a certain audience. I was expecting something pretty different, though. In many ways, it reminded me of Equilibrium, which I liked, but also has a sort of hit or miss appeal to different audiences. I’m pretty much in the “miss” crowd on V, though. 
Ultraviolet, though. Yeesh.
Since it was the only movie I’ve seen in the last 30 days, I guess Firewall would be the worst, best, and everything in between.
That said, it still sucked pretty hard.
In the past 30 days, I have seen
Prime
The Island
The Matador
Ultraviolet
Desperado
Once Upon a Time In Mexico
…and probably some other ones I am forgetting. These are the ones that stood out as not so great. Out of all of them, I’d have to pick Once Upon a time as the worst. Disjointed plot, people exploding with sparks when you shoot them, a drug lord getting a face transplant…not even Johnny Depp could save this one (though I got a laugh when he said “savvy?” and immediately flashed forward to Pirates OTC)
Flightplan
Was fairly interesting up until the last half hour. Then, as my wife put it, it seemed like they fired the interesting writer and brought in a hack to end it using every cliche you can think of - big explosion, muttering punch-drunk bad guy, the hero (Jody Foster in this case) emerging from the smoke clutching her daughter, everybody she was previously trying convince going “she was right”. Boo.
40 Year Old Virgin.
We rented. We watched. We turned it off after 30 minutes.
Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter
I know. I know. I was in the mood for a “so bad it’s good” movie. It did fulfill the first part. It just failed to fulfill the second part.
I know I am in a minority, but as I dislike Fargo, it is not too surprising I would dislike another dreadfully serious and slow movie by the Coens. I am surprised my wife disliked **The Man Who Wasn’t There **. She loves Fargo. I seem to like the lighter Coen Brother Movies.
Jim
The Corpse Bride.
Watched it last night. It wasn’t that bad - not as good as I’d hoped but it doesn’t really deserve to be in a worst movie thread… I just haven’t seen anything really bad in the last 30 days (I don’t watch many movies).
Also gotta go with Nacho Libre. I like JB and thought the premise was actually pretty promising and ripe for some original humor, and while there wasn’t anything about the movie that was offensive or alienating, it just was never, ever, not once funny.
The Ice Harvest. I usually like John Cusack, but this one sucked.
I was cringing at the beginning too, but IMHO it gets better as the movie goes on. And it’s funnier on repeat viewings. Kind of like Harold and Kumar.
I had heard that **Tomb Raider **was a pretty good brainless action movie, but I watched it for the first time the other night and despite my lowered expectations I thought it was pretty bad.
I saw Meatballs 4 (well, some of it anyway) a few weeks ago. It blew even harder than you would think.
I hated this when I first saw it. HATED. Which really bugged me because I love El Mariachi and Desperado.
A friend of mine saw it and hated it too but ended up being dragged to see it again and decided if you watch it without thinking of it as the third in a trilogy and rather an action ensemble piece you may like it more. But it seems your issue with it was more over style so that might not help you.
There is one really great moment in it. When the two henchmen are told they can torture the prisoner if they want (I can’t remember if it is Banderas or Depp). After a moment one turns to the other and says something like “I was tortured once. I didn’t like it.” So they decide not to torture the prisoner. I really liked that. I immediately wanted these evil henchmen to get away because clearly they weren’t all bad.
“Man Who Wasn’t There” is an odd movie. I can see how people could hate it. I didn’t enjoy it but I didn’t hate it either. It was just a movie that I saw.
Actually, I think they were going to torture the FBI agent guy. But yes, that was the best moment (in my opinion) of the movie. That, and when I figured out what the prosthetic arm was for. The movie itself was just a little disjointed for me. I had seen Desperado (I think they ran it right before this one) and knew some of the plots, but I don’t know, the film just didn’t Mesh well for me. I enjoyed seeing people get shot, and I enjoyed every frame of Salma in those midriff-bearing outfits, I just didn’t enjoy some of the sillier stuff. Oh, and Enrique Igleseas?? That jsut sealed the fact that they were trying to make the movie draw by getting as many names on the marquee as possible. And Antonio is such a pimp, he just signed right up. What can you expect from the man who signed up for The Legend of Zorro and married Melanie Griffith?
For me, it’s probably a tossup between Forbidden Zone and Emamanuelle in Space. I guess I’ll have to give it to Emmanuelle, because a) The Forbidden Zone was kind of badfilm funny in places and b) as far as I could tell, Emmanuelle was not actually in space.
I stayed at a hotel over the weekend and rented “The Breakup”, with Vince Vaugh and Jennifer Aniston. Now, while I enjoyed seeing Jennifer’s bare ass, the movie itself was just flat, and really not that funny. I was very, very dissapointed.
Sky Captain and The World of Tomorrow, and the day after that, and the day after that, and the When the F*** is this thing gonna either get good or end??!?!?
I know that it’s really old, but I finally got a chance to see it on DVD and while the way it was done was impressive – and it might be cool to see a good movie done that way – it was beyond horrible!
I have a feeling that would have made my list had I had time to watch my DVR this weekend.
I like Steve Carrell so I liked it from the first minute on but the better parts are further in to the movie as you say. The moments with the girlfriend and daughter are whatever, I just like it for the hysterical conversations with his friends. I tend to keep TV/movies on as background noise while I’m cooking and 40 Year Old Virgin was on repeat for several months just because I liked tuning in for 40 seconds at a time to catch snippets of dialogue.
“You gotta use your peripherals!”
“Your hat has…sequins…”