Movies that went wrong...

[TheArsenal]

League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

If it were to have come out for the first time now, then I feel it would have been given the treatment that it deserves. It's clear the studio didn't trust the material and instead of a decent adaptation, we got a pretty miserable, laughable, shadow of the books. I try my best not to prejudge films, but when I saw the "LXG" tag, I smelled trouble.

 

[miraclefan]

League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

If it were to have come out for the first time now, then I feel it would have been given the treatment that it deserves. It's clear the studio didn't trust the material and instead of a decent adaptation, we got a pretty miserable, laughable, shadow of the books. I try my best not to prejudge films, but when I saw the "LXG" tag, I smelled trouble.

Same here. When I saw all the posters for ''LXG'' I thought they were ''TRYING'' to make this movie in to the X-MEN! I mean the charactor posters had a ''STRONG'' resemblance to the X-men one's!

 

[Orintho]

Die Another Day: There was quite a lot of stuff in the first half that kicked ass. There were a lot of new places they could go with a tortured and weary Bond. But then they turn it into a Roger Moore movie.

So true.

 

[Rii]

The death toll is the point of the film. You're supposed to be uneasy with it. The autopsy scene is supposed to be queasy. Ripley's death is her final act. People misread it as a suicidal gesture, when it's not. The Xenomorphs have taken everything in her life from her -- they took her friends, they took her career, they took her daughter (since she grew old and died between the first two films), they took her substitute family, now they were taking her body. Ripley goes to her death, not out of some suicidal impulse, but because she's fighting to the last breath in her body.

This is what I like about Alien 3, thematically it hits all the right notes for Ripley. Unfortunately the execution isn't quite there.

I never read the book so I can't actually comment on that. I can imagine that might be off-putting.
And I totally agree that Starship Troopers is underrated. I'm not quite sure I'd call it a classic, but I definitely think it's great.

Good film, good book. The two have nothing to do with each other.

 

[Jax]

Lady in the Water - Not even the critics can work out the plot

ST Nemesis -clone and oh look theres a car thingy in the movie Why is this space battle so oddly slow.

X Files I Want To Believe - Why is this a CSI plot, wheres my X Files

 

[miraclefan]

I never read the book so I can't actually comment on that. I can imagine that might be off-putting.
And I totally agree that Starship Troopers is underrated. I'm not quite sure I'd call it a classic, but I definitely think it's great.

Good film, good book. The two have nothing to do with each other.

Which happens alot in Hollyweird!

 

[mostly_nameless]

I'm going to pick Dark Knight too. I looked forward to this one since I saw Begins and hated almost every minute of it. By the time they totally wasted the character of Two-Face as a tangent in the horrible last act of this loser, I hated it violently.

The only parts I think I liked were the parts where Alfred and Bruce interacted and the part where the stupid employee tried to blackmail Lucius.

I kind of had some hope for Mummy 3 too, but it was so unwatchable that I didn't see it until it came to DVD and then I gave away the DVD. There were good actors and somewhere under there, I suspect there was a good story, but it all came together as crap.

 

[RobertScorpio]

Lady in the Water - Not even the critics can work out the plot

ST Nemesis -clone and oh look theres a car thingy in the movie Why is this space battle so oddly slow.

X Files I Want To Believe - Why is this a CSI plot, wheres my X Files

Good picks...

LADY IN THE WATER was just..dumb.

Nemesis couldn't be worse if it tried. I wonder if Harlan demanded his money back after seeing it.

And XFILES I WANT TO BELIEVE...I just saw this two days ago. Ummmm...how much money was wasted on this turkey. Could have gone to feed a lot of homeless people.

Rob

 

[miraclefan]

Robocop 2,3 Jet-pack? seriously?