Terminator Genisys or Final Frontier
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 10 November 2017 04:46 (six years ago) link
Genisys was fuhuuuuuuuucking garbage
Clones is visually ugly and abysmally acted, but I hated The Phantom Menace more--or it had simply lowered my expectations too much for me to get all that upset about the second prequel film. Voting for the lazy and generic A Good Day to Die Hard, which genuinely feels like an unrelated script that the studio scrambled to barely rewrite to feature John McClane.
The Harry Potter film is one of the gloomier and less enjoyable films in that series, but the Jack Ryan film is a pleasant time-waster (Kenneth Branagh has some hammy fun as the villain, and there's an office break-in scene that's legit exciting). You Only Live Twice is one of the very few Bonds that I still haven't seen.
― iCloudius (cryptosicko), Friday, 10 November 2017 04:56 (six years ago) link
Special place in my heart for The Dead Pool, because it has this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMh6UjbjgRs
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 10 November 2017 04:57 (six years ago) link
Clones is significantly worse than ShatnerTrek
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 10 November 2017 05:02 (six years ago) link
Voting for the lazy and generic A Good Day to Die Hard, which genuinely feels like an unrelated script that the studio scrambled to barely rewrite to feature John McClane.
Apologies if I’m stepping on your joke, but this is the first one since the original that isn’t actual an unrelated script etc etc. Something I just learned from Wikipedia: it was originally called Die Hard 24/7, and there was talk that it would cross over with 24, including featuring Kiefer Sutherland.
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 10 November 2017 07:02 (six years ago) link
Imagine that pitch!
"It's like Die Hard, but set on a TV Show inspired by Die Hard!"
"Make that show 24, and you got a deal!"
"Ka-Ching!"
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 10 November 2017 08:19 (six years ago) link
benji: off the leash! has the best title.
final frontier is pretty bad as star trek movies go but shatner saying "WHAT DOES GOD NEED WITH A STARSHIP?" is better than anything in any of the star wars prequels.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 10 November 2017 08:28 (six years ago) link
I've only seen a few of these but voted Final Frontier because it was so soul-crushing. Star Trek IV is one of the first movies I remember and my parents took me to see V in the theater and sweet Jesus it was bad.
― louise ck (milo z), Friday, 10 November 2017 08:36 (six years ago) link
Rocky v I mean
― Gary Synaesthesia (darraghmac), Friday, 10 November 2017 09:04 (six years ago) link
How is there a Final Destination 5? It's like if they made Weekend at Bernie's 5.Also there are apparently EIGHT American Pie films.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 10 November 2017 09:39 (six years ago) link
Attack of the Clones is an absurd thing. But those Pirates.. movies are the most joyless examples of CGI battle overload you couldn't possibly care about - there's no so-bad-it's-funny element like in AOTC, its too blandly joyless. I haven't seen Dead Men Tell No Tales but tempted to vote for it either way.
― abcfsk, Friday, 10 November 2017 09:50 (six years ago) link
this reminds me i need to watch Muppet Treasure Island
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 10 November 2017 14:59 (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
never understood the widespread disdain for this film, it's so so funny
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 10 November 2017 09:53 (six years ago) link
I'll also go to bat for Muppet Treasure Island. Haven't seen out in a while, but I worked in a video store where we had to watch children's movies all day and I remember it being among the better ones we had in our rotation.
― how's life, Friday, 10 November 2017 10:08 (six years ago) link
I've never been into Star Wars but my son likes it so have now sat through all 8 films and those three prequels are just unsalvagable garbage, cannot remember anything about attack of the clones beyond the chase scene at the start and the painfully awkward romance scenes, it may get my vote
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 10 November 2017 10:11 (six years ago) link
Attack of the Clones was even worse than Phantom Menace imo. Voting for that.
― cajunsunday, Friday, 10 November 2017 10:28 (six years ago) link
sand
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 10 November 2017 10:30 (six years ago) link
it gets everywhere!
― cajunsunday, Friday, 10 November 2017 10:31 (six years ago) link
Are the Hobbit films ineligible? I suppose they're a separate series to LOTR.
― chap, Friday, 10 November 2017 10:35 (six years ago) link
this is attack of the clones vs terminator genisys for me
gonna go with genisys because although every frame of aotc is utter shit, genisys starts with a potentially interesting premise and then proceeds to make the worst imaginable story decisions at every turn - that little glimpse of hope in the first ten minutes or so makes the remaining two hours feel so much worse
― drinkmaster sealcup at yr service (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 10 November 2017 10:55 (six years ago) link
Funny how I thought "Attack of the Clones" was not bad when i first saw it, compared to "Phantom Menace". I rewatched the prequels a few years back and at least "Phantom Menace" tries to be fun (and at times succeeds). I'd watch it over AotC any day
Anyway, haven't seen most of these movies but can't imagine anything is worse than Trek 5
― Vinnie, Friday, 10 November 2017 12:06 (six years ago) link
how about anything w/ that massive bore Captain Picard?
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 10 November 2017 12:33 (six years ago) link
how dare u
― drinkmaster sealcup at yr service (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 10 November 2017 12:39 (six years ago) link
jean-luc picard is a saint
he defeated the borgs!
I downloaded a fan edit of the SW prequels compressed into a single movie with as little Annie and Jar Jar as possible, and it's very enjoyable.
― Fresh Toast (Old Lunch), Friday, 10 November 2017 13:13 (six years ago) link
I haven't seen any of the individual prequels since I saw them in the theater, so I really can't judge them fairly.
I can, however, judge Morbs and his very wrong opinions about Picard. Shame on you, sir.
― Fresh Toast (Old Lunch), Friday, 10 November 2017 13:14 (six years ago) link
His Star Wars was the best Star Wars.
― Fresh Toast (Old Lunch), Friday, 10 November 2017 13:15 (six years ago) link
police academy 5 was a big letdown after all-time series high police academy 4: citizens on patrol
― adam, Friday, 10 November 2017 13:22 (six years ago) link
i mean maybe it's good on its own terms but i find it very hard to approach without comparing the two
― adam, Friday, 10 November 2017 13:23 (six years ago) link
I very tentatively started rewatching the Police Academy series a few years back and was surprised to find that the first two were actually decent and occasionally funny. That was all over by the third one, though.
― Fresh Toast (Old Lunch), Friday, 10 November 2017 13:31 (six years ago) link
I've seen very, very few of these.
I thought Attack of the Clones was far worse than Phantom Menace: after PM didn't provide much more than a basis, I expected Clones to deliver with story progress but it hardly did. I saw the film only once, back then in the cinema, but I've never had any interest in seeing it again. I remember that most of the movie's attention went to the romantic & emotional problems of Anakin Skywalker, as performed by someone who couldn't act.
I've seen the fifth Potter, which was a massive step down from the fourth IMO.
X-Men First Class was pretty great I thought, even if the villains weren't grand.
Seen Bond & pretty sure I've seen all Police Academy movies, I think that's it.
Of the few I know, Clones is definitely the worst.
― Valentijn, Friday, 10 November 2017 13:31 (six years ago) link
special shout-out for superman returns, which manages to capture enough of the charm of richard donner's superman movies to make it even more of a slap in the face when our hero is revealed as both a deadbeat dad and a creepy weirdo using his x-ray vision to spy on his ex
― drinkmaster sealcup at yr service (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 10 November 2017 13:38 (six years ago) link
Also each of Superman's challenges simply involves lifting a heavier thing than the last one iirc.
― chap, Friday, 10 November 2017 13:40 (six years ago) link
Skipped almost all of these.
GOODFinal Destination 5Seed of Chucky
MEHMuppet Treasure IslandA Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream ChildPrometheusStar Wars Episode II: Attack of the ClonesX-Men: First Class
BADBenji: Off the Leash!Friday the 13th: A New BeginningA Good Day To Die HardIce Age: Collision CourseVacation
UGLYStar Trek V: The Final Frontier
― Anne of the Thousand Gays (Eric H.), Friday, 10 November 2017 13:46 (six years ago) link
i love that you skipped almost all of these but still found the time to screen benji: off the leash!
― drinkmaster sealcup at yr service (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 10 November 2017 13:48 (six years ago) link
That was on assignment.
― Anne of the Thousand Gays (Eric H.), Friday, 10 November 2017 14:07 (six years ago) link
Most of those were on assignment.
tbh i prefer my initial assumption that you were a die-hard benji fan who was bitterly disappointed by his fifth cinematic outing
― drinkmaster sealcup at yr service (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 10 November 2017 14:09 (six years ago) link
tbh, I prefer that assumption too
― Anne of the Thousand Gays (Eric H.), Friday, 10 November 2017 14:12 (six years ago) link
"fans used to spend hours in contentious speculation over what benji would be like taken off his leash. well, now the question is answered, but was THIS what we waited seventeen years for? five films and three decades in, it's clear Camp has lost his passion for the series"
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 10 November 2017 14:21 (six years ago) link
and yes - all five theatrical benji films were directed by the same guy! the forthcoming reboot will be helmed by his son if I understand correctly. that's nice.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 10 November 2017 14:23 (six years ago) link
genisys starts with a potentially interesting premise and then proceeds to make the worst imaginable story decisions at every turn - that little glimpse of hope in the first ten minutes or so makes the remaining two hours feel so much worse
otm. it's my vote here bc of how i felt increasingly insulted over the course of two hours
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Friday, 10 November 2017 14:25 (six years ago) link
all final frontier haters:
http://www.millionaireplayboy.com/mpb/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/good_trekv_04.jpg
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Friday, 10 November 2017 14:26 (six years ago) link
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, November 10, 2017 5:33 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i'm with morbs here, the mediocre-to-shitty tng movies are significantly worse than final frontier to me, which at least has stupid shit happening constantly
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Friday, 10 November 2017 14:32 (six years ago) link
final frontier also has that excellent scene where sybock breaks down the mental barriers of the whole crew
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Friday, 10 November 2017 14:33 (six years ago) link
so many choices.
Went for the Die Hard disaster, because I enjoyed all the previous ones (yes I liked the fourth one)
― Ste, Friday, 10 November 2017 14:34 (six years ago) link
First Contact > Generations > Final Frontier > Nemesis > Insurrection
― Monster fatberg (Phil D.), Friday, 10 November 2017 14:37 (six years ago) link
Also Attack of the Clones is good and you are all crazy.
breathtaking switch from otm to v def notm from phil d's last two posts there
― drinkmaster sealcup at yr service (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 10 November 2017 14:39 (six years ago) link
i have the apes dvd set, and i watched all of them except battle. i quit after 20 minutes.
― Einstein, Bazinga, Sitar (abanana), Tuesday, 14 November 2017 05:39 (six years ago) link
Goldeneye is the Bond that people roughly around my age (b. 1978) tend to love the most because it is the first one that we would have seen theatrically with our friends instead of watching on TV with our dads
I was born 78 and I've seen every one since Living Daylights in the cinema... (LD is one of my favourites, perhaps not coincidentally)
― chap, Tuesday, 14 November 2017 14:02 (six years ago) link
im def in that Goldeneye ageset. TBS Bond marathons is pretty much how i've seen most of them.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 14 November 2017 22:30 (six years ago) link
I abhor Brosnan bonds (born in 76) - but i was raised by a Connery loving Mum who barely even tolerated Moore (I personally enjoy Moore btw)
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 14 November 2017 22:41 (six years ago) link
Brosnan is an extremely likable presence and makes a decent Bond, he's kind of halfway between Moore and Dalton for me persona-wise. i don't think those movies are very good overall, though Goldeneye has Sean Bean, one of the best femme fatales, and Martin Campbell does a very good job of directing it. it feels a little lightweight though.
― omar little, Tuesday, 14 November 2017 22:45 (six years ago) link
lol yeah my dad hated Moore and thought he turned the series into a joke. i think he had read some of the books so he was always comparing the films to the books. Moore was the least believable as a trained killer secret agent rather than dopey pretty boy movie star
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 14 November 2017 22:46 (six years ago) link
for a second thought you were saying Sean Bean was the femme fatale
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 15 November 2017 03:16 (six years ago) link
I was
o_O
― omar little, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 03:22 (six years ago) link
"Sean Bean, one of the best femme fatales" needs to be somebody's username
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 06:11 (six years ago) link
That Attack Of The Clones clip is actually the edited version that Lucas released on DVD to make that scene less goofy - I can't find a clip of the theatrical version but her "uh-huh" there is instead a perky "yes!"
― Screamin' Jay Gould (The Yellow Kid), Wednesday, 15 November 2017 11:00 (six years ago) link
I was born in 79 and the Brosnan films are precisely why I never got into Bond
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 15 November 2017 11:07 (six years ago) link
"Gather what troops you can, we've got to get to that hangar!"
iirc, Padme also has no reason to know that Dooku was going to a hangar
― jmm, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 14:40 (six years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Friday, 17 November 2017 00:01 (six years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Saturday, 18 November 2017 00:01 (six years ago) link
I cannot argue.
― gimme the beet poison, free my soul (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 18 November 2017 02:52 (six years ago) link
poll: how many of these fifth films in a series were you aware existed
― mookieproof, Saturday, 18 November 2017 02:55 (six years ago) link
i count thirty
― gimme the beet poison, free my soul (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 18 November 2017 03:05 (six years ago) link
monster
― mookieproof, Saturday, 18 November 2017 04:03 (six years ago) link
very accurate results
― cosmic brain dildo (Sparkle Motion), Saturday, 18 November 2017 06:41 (six years ago) link
I don't hate Genisys, it was stupid action fun. way better than salvation.
― Einstein, Bazinga, Sitar (abanana), Saturday, 18 November 2017 06:59 (six years ago) link
that is a very low bar imo
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 18 November 2017 07:13 (six years ago) link
Genisys was only slightly more tolerable than a prostate exam
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Saturday, 18 November 2017 15:35 (six years ago) link
prostate exam is all over in a couple of minutes so no
― faked potato (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 18 November 2017 15:36 (six years ago) link
With genisys it didn't even matter who you were there with so no
― fake pato is kind of racist, dude (darraghmac), Saturday, 18 November 2017 15:52 (six years ago) link
Assuming the one vote for Seed of Chucky was a misunderstanding of the poll topic.
― Anne of the Thousand Gays (Eric H.), Saturday, 18 November 2017 16:18 (six years ago) link
at first I thought this was the Die Hard with my boy Olyphant in it and I was briefly incensed
― Simon H., Saturday, 18 November 2017 16:29 (six years ago) link
http://www.benji.com/JoeCamp/ImagesJoe/B&Me-web.jpg
a friend of mine is reading this as research for a "you must remember this" style podcast on Benji. can't wait to hear the real dirt on the troubled shoot for benji: off the leash!
― the pleather of pleather paul (Doctor Casino), Friday, 15 December 2017 14:34 (six years ago) link
Benji was a total coked-out diva on the set, iirc.
― Oiled Launch (Old Lunch), Friday, 15 December 2017 14:39 (six years ago) link
"Oh, Heavenly Dog!" or get out.
― Monster fatberg (Phil D.), Friday, 15 December 2017 14:49 (six years ago) link
omg it got its own thread: Benji: Off the Leash!
― the pleather of pleather paul (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 21 December 2017 16:09 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NooW_RbfdWI
this is shaping up to look like it coulda been a contender imo
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 8 February 2018 01:42 (six years ago) link
more stuff that was in the crazy sayles script iirc
― adam the (abanana), Thursday, 8 February 2018 06:43 (six years ago) link
based on reviews, JURASSIC WORLD: FALLEN KINGDOM seems as if it could either have been a contender in this thread, or a classic case of "the previous one was so bad that nobody even cared that this was worse"
― This is a total Jeff Porcaro. (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 26 June 2018 21:08 (five years ago) link
Wow, I figured improving on the last one would've been the easiest thing in the (movie-related) world. Guess trying is still hard.
― A Frankenstein + A Dracula + A Mummy That's Been Werewolfed (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 26 June 2018 21:39 (five years ago) link
Worst Sixth Film In A Series
― Doctor Casϵϵno (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 25 August 2018 01:14 (five years ago) link