Robin Williams actually made a great Theodore Roosevelt in the Night at the Museum movies, I thought - both in appearance and in behavior. But he was a terrible Eisenhower - actually looked more like Truman!
http://www.hotflick.net/flicks/2006_Night_at_the_Museum/006NTM_Robin_Williams_023.jpg
http://www.empireonline.com/images/uploaded/lee-daniels-robin-williams-dwight-d-eisenhower.jpg
The World’s End had ideas for about three good movies, but they were all just mixed in together with no time to do any of them justice.
I find it very difficult to pick just one film. I’d very much like to specify a number of films. There were so many stinkers. But I’d have to plan a list first before posting.
Oh. This was indeed a terrible film. It’s very hard to understand how and why someone would spend so much money (actually “waste” more money would be more accurate) paying so many talented people to make such a turkey.
Holy Shit! So many better things to do with all that money.
Zombie movies are a very interesting topic and probably deserve a thread of their own. Maybe more than just one. But this film had nothing useful to contribute.
There was one movie (sorry I forget the name - but it may have had the word “warm” in the title as in “warm blooded”) that did have something useful to say. It explained how the curse of zombies could be ended. I found that very interesting because if it was ever possible that there could be such a thing as a zombie plague, it would be great to know how to put an end to it and this film actually had a suggestion that would be valuable.
Aside from listing any specific films, I think it would be most useful to just list some of the interesting items that could be discussed about zombies.
I used to think they were all out to lunch. But then I saw …
Dawn of the Dead Dawn of the Dead (2004) - IMDb
and
Zombieland Zombieland (2009) - IMDb
They were both very pleasant surprises.
Zombieland was just extremely well done. It was an excellent comedy. Woody Harrelson was terrific. I never imagined such a funny movie could ever be made about zombies. I had previously considered zombies to be a completelly stupid subject.
Dawn of the Dead was an ordinary zombie move. But it was just very well done and the characters were actually very interesting. Sarah Polley did a great job (just as she usually does) and it left me surprised again that such a good film could ever be made about zombies.
Lazlo Hapsburg - You’re thinking of “Warm Bodies” - and yeah - it’s a great (if different) zombie film.
I personally liked WWZ - and I have read the book as well - certainly things could have been done better, but I still enjoyed it.
Warm Bodies. Funnier and not as teenyboppery as I thought. Pretty decent, sappy sometimes. Zombieland is of course one of the better ones from the last few years. Woody playing himself (less pot), Emma Stone hurts exactly nothing, and not-Michael Cera is better than is-Michael Cera. I also appreciate them lowering public ignorance by dispelling the Twinkie myth.
There are so many zombie movies that you have to be selective. If I see something along the lines of “George Romero’s…” I can safely ignore it. His older stuff is fine, and I don’t think I’ve actually seen the new Dawn all the way though, but his movies have been some real stinking corpses lately.
The one star you didn’t mention was Bill Murray. Wasn’t he great? I’ll never forget that line that Emma Stone said about him and her funny bone. Excuse me. But I seem to have forgotten it just now. It’ll come back to me.
:smack:
Spoilers! Also that part felt a little forced. I am a big fan of actors playing themselves, Woody’s gushing felt a bit strong. But I’m also a fan of actors being willing to insult/kill themselves, so…
I really wanted to say Moonrise Kingdom, but a) I didn’t see it, and b) turns out it was released in 2012.
So, I’ll have to go with Gangster Squad. Very derivative – even as an homage, it’s been done many times, and much better – but it wasn’t that bad. I think the art direction/production design should even get an Oscar nomination.
I’m actually sorry Grown-Ups 2 came out so bad. It’s not that I like it – I haven’t even seen it – but part of it was filmed at Stackpole Field, where my daughter MilliCal plays goalie for her high school’s field hockey team.
I gotta go see it, even if on DVD, just to see those scenes. Ted already gave me the mini-golf on Route 1 (also in our town), featuring the Giant Fluorescent Orange T. Rex (with fluorescent green eyes) during the opening credits.
I’m calling it a tie between Olympus Has Fallen and Sharknado.
Olympus Has Fallen was a pretty good flick. And Sharknado doesn’t qualify as it wasn’t a theatrical release.
OHF was terrible. Sharknado I counted because it was on the linked list in post #4.
Also, the OP didn’t specify “theatrical release”.
I think the only reason* Olympus has Fallen* is getting so many votes is that no one else saw White House Down and that was a requirement for the OP.
To use the cast so poorly really disappointed me. This was the first time I could recall Brad Pitt sleepwalking through a performance. I think Matthew Fox was also in the movie, but his screentime was so short that it’s puzzling why they brought him in in the first place.
Warm Bodies, maybe? I think that came out last year.
Absolutely. Woody Harrelson steals every scene he’s in.
I much prefer Romero’s original Dawn, but the remake wasn’t half bad. It’s probably Zack Snyder’s best film next to Watchmen.
I must have less descriminating taste than most of the posters here. I enjoyed Elysium, World War Z, Star Trek, GI Joe Retaliation, Wolverine, The World’s End, and some of the others mentioned. Maybe some weren’t great movies, but I didn’t hate any of them, and wouldn’t call any the worst movie of 2013.
Did anyone see Machete Kills? Now *that *would be a valid contender for worst movie.
I saw two movies where the White House was attacked, and one of them was much worse than the other; can’t remember which was which, though, so maybe I agree with the people saying Olympus has Fallen was the worst movie of 2013, and maybe I don’t.
The Last Stand was also a bad movie. Not worst of 2013 bad, but bad.
I, too, loved Zombieland.
Was it the one with Jamie Foxx as President? Because that was *White House Down. *
I don’t agree.
Goddamn it, brain.
I didn’t see a ton of movies this past year, but yeah. What you said.
Maybe it’s difficult to be objective, being a fan of the franchise, but A Good Day To Die Hard definitely sends it out not with a bang, but with a whimper.
I loved all 4 of the other ones, for the record.