TraeHave you ever been to a movie so terrible that you saw people leaving the theater? Which one was it?
My dumbass father liked eragon, I couldn’t even give it a fair shot as a movie bc I was too caught up in how they absolutely butchered the storyline of the books.
So I went and saw it on a weekend with a buddy just because we liked seeing movies. We went into it with no idea what it was about besides “epic dragon movie”. I watched so many fans of the book get up angrily about 35 minutes in and storm out.
We talked to one of the theatre employees and they said that they had never received so many refund requests for a bad film before Eragon.
And rightfully so. That movie was an utter atrocity.
Are we talking Star Was Holiday Special bad, or is it the sort of thing you could watch while laughing at it? Because my friend has a big weed stash and needs to know about movies like that.
If it was that campy, it might have been endearing. No, it’s a “I could have spent this time playing checkers with myself” kind of bad. I was a big fan of the books so I felt like I should sit through the whole thing just to say I watched it but I couldn’t keep myself awake. I couldn’t care less about any of the characters by the end of it.
Justice for his family at home where the fuck is the entire second part of the story…
Out of curiosity, what was wrong with it? I never read the books, and watched it years later on late night cable, and it seemed ok. Typical pre-teen bland fantasy. Perfectly fine on enough weed
It’s been so long, I just remember that they generally cut a ton of major elements of the story and completely changed the end bc they had no intention of ever making a sequel, at least not one remotely based off of the books. I remember being excited to see certain things happen, and they just… didn’t.
ScubusThey tried to blend all the books together and fucked everything up so bad a second movie is impossible.
Just a couple things I remember:
Galbatorix, the king and one of the last dragon riders, constantly claims he wants “his stone” back. That “stone” is a dragon egg and he should know this better than anyone.
Urgals, which in the books are basically orcs, are literally just humans with helmets.
They gave Durza, the villain of book 1, Shruikan, Glabatorox’s dragon. Which was then promptly defeated. Thing is, when dragons die, their rider is likely to die as well(galby is a special case, his original dragon died already). This is especially problematic because {MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD} Galbatorixs final plan is to breed his dragon with the lead characters dragon to bring back the dragon race he destroyed. Also, Galbatorix’s dragon would have most likely the strongest remaining dragon heart (“eldunari”) which are the source of galbatorix’s powers.
Tl;Dr: it’s not worth finishing the series because the entire rest of the plot would make no sense. The book series is literally my favorite series with >10000 series read.
It’s been my favourite series for so long, it’s so hard to explain to someone why it’s so good because it just sounds like another fantasy adventure series, but it’s so gosh darn good.
That wasn’t Shruiken, that was, like, a shadow dragon he summoned with his shadow power or something. Created for the movie so they could have a more exciting climax than a one on one sword duel ended by an elf magically shattering a ruby as large as a house directly over said duel before diving into it on the back of a pissed off dragon, providing the distraction needed for the hopelessly outmatched hero to stab the unholy abomination through the heart. That might sound awesome to you, because it is. Shruikan was the post credits reveal.
Ah fair. Though also to be fair, isn’t the star rose about the size of a football field? At least that’s how I always envisioned it. Good God, that’s such a great series
jordanlundI’ve been to movies so terrible I left!
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan
youtu.be/vhidWw1yWR8
A Passage to India
youtu.be/UxaPT6UbdAE
Hackers
youtu.be/Rn2cf_wJ4f4
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
youtu.be/frdj1zb9sMY
Greystoke The Legend Of Tarzan, Lord Of The Apes Trailer 1984
I understand the first three, but I have to fundamentally disagree with you as much as humanly possible on Rogue One being terrible. I absolutely respect your right and and opinion to think so, but for me it’s one of the best representations of what Star Wars should be in the space fiction genre.
What was it about Rogue One that bothered you so much that you couldn’t finish?
Cardboard characters, plot holes, and going against everything the original trilogy stood for.
It got on my bad side when they introduced Cassian by having him murder a completely innocent person, something the Empire would do.
Then, later in the film, when it’s his fucking job to assassinate a legitimate military target, he gets all sweaty and - OH - JUST… CAN’T… PULL… THE… TRIGGER… No explanation, no character development… just because… That was when I walked out.
The real reason of course, is more complicated. The original writer/director fucked things up so colossally he was actually removed from the picture and a new guy was brought in to re-write and re-shoot. Cassian’s change in tone was because of the two different creators.
amorpheusI also found Rogue One incredibly overrated. Nothing that they play up feels earned, and I didn’t get invested at all, possibly for some of the reasons you mentioned.
DominusOfMegadeusYou are correct and the other person is incorrect. Or possibly trolling.
I didn’t like Rogue One either. 🤷🏻♂️
Hackers is a masterpiece.
teftSo is Rogue One. This guy has an odd view of what a bad movie is that’s for sure.
Rogue One is mid. I wouldn’t walk out but also, it’s not one I’d have paid to see in the theater in the first place.
Meh… Rogue One is only a masterpiece when compared to the other Disney SW movies. Compared to all movies, it’s … pretty good, but “masterpiece” is a big stretch.
I’d argue that every single star wars movie was been cheap or just decent enough compared to some of some of their shows and animated series. Honestly, the best works were probably season 1 of Mandalorian, Ahsoka, Andor and Rogue One.
Sure, we have rose colored sunglasses when we look back to the OG trilogy, but their better works weren’t part of the mainline trilogies.
Yea the other content definitely beats the movirs. Even a good few games are quite excellent.
Not really, I loved the original trilogy that Rogue One dumps all over.
Ewwww, a Cracked video. You really just have shit taste for entertainment.
Watch it and tell me where he’s wrong.
Hint - He’s not wrong.
First of all, how dare you make me watch that hack. Second, I did watch, and he is, very wrong. But third and finally, even if he is not wrong, that doesn’t make Rogue One any less of a good movie. All he spouts is opinions, not facts, and his opinions suck balls.
HACK THE PLANET!!!
oxjoxRogue One is easily the best Star Wars movie since the original trilogy.
but that’s not a high bar.
It’s not even a good movie, much less a good Star Wars movie.
There are longer absolute takedowns of it, but I like this one:
tetris11A lot of these Star Wars stories, especially the newer ones, focus far too much on the actions of a few “destiny” babies whose achievements you basically never doubt because of the golden carpet rolled out for them wherever they go. They’re stories designed around hero roles to appeal to the narcissist in all of us, classic Disney princess style.
Rogue One and Andor made me believe in people again. The actions of a few counted, sure, but it was the actions of the many that drove the story forward and was by far the most inspiring thing to come out of the entire series.
JakdraculaYes! Battlefield Earth.
I stayed for the whole movie because I couldn’t believe how bad it was.
I stayed for the whole movie because I couldn’t believe how bad it was.
To me battlefield earth falls under the “so bad it begins to loop back around into Cheesey fun” category.
I especially love how what are essentially cave men find F16 fighter jets from the past and not only do the jets and old fuel work, but the cave men know how to start them and fly them effectively.
L Ron really outdid himself on that gem.
It really was something.
Ok but the book is actually really good though. It’s hilarious that they never explain how they learned how to fly and operate the machinery
I don’t know that I’d call it really good, but it made more sense. At least until they nuke the alien home world and the whole thing blows up because it’s hollow and filled with explosive gas for some reason.
Still, you can always tell illiterate motherfuckers when they trash talk a novelist, even a pulp novelist, based on a movie adaptation.
The book is fucking terrible but it’s great pulp scifi. It’s obvious that by the time he wrote it nobody dared edit him, so there’s multiple parts of the book that repeat but worded slightly differently, and in general the plot etc just aren’t great and the whole thing is thinly veiled Scientology propaganda (“Psychlo catrists” – psychiatrists, ie. 'ol Ron’s worst enemy). But if you take it for the pulpy weird mess it is, it’s fun.
That’s what happened for me, I read the book as a teenager and didn’t know anything about Ron or scientology so when I read it, all I saw was a piece of scifi
really outdid himself
You should see what he saved for the non-fiction section.
Not even F16s, Harriers. Notoriously hard to fly and constantly breaking down.
That’s right, Jesus. I haven’t watched that movie in like 20 years so I just took a shot in the dark at what jets were really popular at the time and we were flying the shit out of F16s during the Gulf War.
Harriers were fucking nightmares for the mechanics and avionics techs that worked them.
oatscoopDidn’t the humans use the “learning machine” to teach themselves advanced knowledge? The same machine the alien overlords put Jonnie in to teach him their language?
Sounds like you actually know. It’s been over 2 decades since I saw that movie, but I’m sure they handwaved it with something like that.
That movie suffers from the source material being fucking ridiculously long and weird. Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000 is like 1000 pages or so. Also it’s L Ron Hubbard so the book is just weird and creepy at times.
They used to get paid by the word back then.
Harlan Ellison Educates Robin Williams about LRH
For a writer he was not concise in his explanations.
I watched the trailer and it looked so good. I was really waiting for it for a half year or so. You can imagine my disappointment.
mAn aNiMaL!!1
one of the people walking out was me.
I’ve watched that movie at least four times since it’s on the RiffTrax twitch channel rotation. Even with some great riffs, it’s such a slog, but at least we got a running “blow the dome!” joke out of it.
Not a terrible movie by any means but Doctor Sleep. Poor elderly folks just weren’t prepared for certain events
Hmm, are we talking like Clockwork Orange level events?
I’ve never heard of this movie before? Would you personally recommend watching it for any particular reason?
originaluciferi liked doctor sleep, i would recommend it. you might want to watch The Shining first, as its technically a sequel.. but stands firm on its own.
Both reading and watching The Shining really helped me appreciate what Flannigan pulled off in making Dr. Sleep. He kept all the lore and nostalgia of Kubrick’s movie and also found a way to put back most of the King material that Kubrick had abandoned.
It’s a sequel to the shining. It’s pretty good but not amazing.
I don’t remember what would gave scared folks out, but probably something about the… you know what, enjoy.
It has some disturbing (not sexual) stuff with kids. Some people can’t stomach that. Otherwise, it’s a pretty tame pseudo-horror film.
Doctor Sleep surprised me with how good it was, I was fully prepared for a let down, but I ended up really enjoying it
addieGoing back a bit, but that old Bruce Willis ‘classic’ Hudson Hawk. The projector film broke about an hour in, and everyone cheered and about half the people in the cinema took the opportunity to walk out, never to return.