Johnny Depp, Gwyneth Paltrow and Ewan McGregor turn in arguably their worst performances with this simply
awful movie about a shady art dealer trying to recover a stolen painting.
Not exact matches
My only consolation in seeing this horrible
movie exist is that it wraps up the
awful Alessa story and tells the audience that it's opening things up for the far superior one - shot twilight zone stories
about individuals being tormented in Silent Hill, a place they can never understand, like James Sutherland.
There is nothing more I can say
about Alexander other than that it is a perfectly
awful movie.
By ordinary
movie standards it's
awful, but fans of cinematic dementia should have fun for
about half an hour.
One reason it's hard to believe in the Coens» characters or their surroundings is that just
about everything that isn't borrowed from the original Ladykillers comes from an earlier Coen
movie (except the changing expression on the painting of Munson's late husband, which can be traced back to any number of
awful Hollywood haunted - house
movies).
People are far less likely to trash the
movie if asked
about it as they emerge from the theater (and they still have the ticket stub in their pocket) than they are a few days later, when they are more likely to look back on it as a trial - by - fire bonding experience, and yowl
about how hilariously
awful it was to sit through.
But, deep in the bowels of the Palais des Festivals, there is another Cannes that no one talks
about, where distributors desperately try to hawk
awful - sounding
movies that may not actually exist, with
awful - looking posters full of has - beens and never - weres.
Story), who also executive - produced, everything
about the
movie screams «woman's entertainment» in a way that gives that phrase an
awful sound.
But then a funny thing happened: Ever so gradually, word got out
about just how
awful the
movie was — how this near - tragic waste of an estimated $ 6 million budget might be appreciated as an accidental comedy — and audiences started coming to see for themselves.
Why the hell am I bothering asking serious questions
about a
movie so
awful?!
I could talk
about how Tara Reid can not act, how half of the cast are so lumbered with the role of red shirt that they don't have a personality or even a name, or how some of the dialogue is so cringe - worthy that you have to pause the
movie to let the
awful line sink in (although some of the puns appeal to the terrible comedian within me — «jumping the shark?»
I don't know an
awful lot
about the latest
movie from them Broken Lizard chaps, but that's not to say that i'm not intrigued...
Given that the beginning of the summer
movie season is just
about here, let's take a look at the ungodly amount of films that'll be opening over the course of the next four months and see what looks good, what looks
awful, and what will top the box office whether it sucks or not.
Hook and Tiger Lily have a romantic subplot that no one cares
about and Peter spends a lot of time being a really
awful brat — which jives with what a selfish asshole Peter Pan is in literature, so at least they got that right — and there's a giant blind crocodile but Hook never loses his hand because Warner Brothers thought they were launching a franchise and could do that in another
movie.
For a
movie based on fact, it feels an
awful lot like fiction, and that may be why it took so long for someone to make a film
about Kuklinski's life.
Here is a
movie that is not just bad on the merits of it's inexcusable plot - it's a
movie about a hitman that is kidnapped and unwillingly given sexual reassignment surgery - but equally
awful in it's production value and lead performance.
What else... I mean, there's no point in talking
about something so absurdly god -
awful, but these big budget
movies and the effects are on par with The Last Starfighter for CG and Superman IV for flying effects.
A
movie that ends up being
about the
awful abuse of power as much as
about that last - gasp period before journalism shifted from being a conduit of reliable information into a circus act of celebrity reporters riding unicycles of distortion and deceit, Spotlight is especially admirable in its restraint, not only in its approach to unsettling material but also in the relatively muted acting by all concerned.
Seriously bizarre and laughably
awful, this low - budget horror
movie throws in just
about every shopworn idea under the sun, excepting anything that might be considered scary, alluring, or entertaining.
Dominion (Syfy)-- an
awful adaptation / continuation of a mediocre
movie about a war between humans and angels.
A comic - book
movie, a heist
movie, and a biopic
about the Iran - Contra affair might not seem to have much in common, but in the new trailers for each of these
movies, they're all being sold the same way: with music that sounds an
awful lot like Kanye West's «Black Skinhead.»
Yes, I am
about to say this, but Tatum isn't
awful in this
movie.
Though «Walking Dead» star Lauren Cohan deserves credit for committing to the silly premise, «The Boy» is so terrible in just
about every respect — from its complete lack of scares, to the
awful sound design — that it's astonishing the
movie has any admirers at all.
They also talk
about their favorite scary
movies, porn star cameos and a bunch of other
awful shenanigans in the newly - revived Internet - only segment.
The
movie is
awful, from the script's blending of Southern charm and Jewish slang, to the over-the-top performances by its actors, but when an internet posting begins a rumor that star Marilyn Hack (Catherine O'Hara) should garner an Oscar nomination come awards time, the film's publicist (John Michael Higgins) goes into overdrive, generating even more buzz
about possible nominations for its other two stars, Victor Allen Miller (Harry Shearer) and Callie Webb (Parker Posey).
From a critical perspective it is an
awful awful movie that adds ideas that retroactively hurt the better Alien
movies, though it might be an hyperbolic statement that will depend how much one does care
about that aspect, since certainly Ridley Scott is more interested in using the IP to do creative visuals to tell a really weak allegory of christian themes.
People need to not forget the
awful reality of violence, because there's really nothing good
about it despite what your
movies and videogames might say.
The two part extravaganza is packed with nonsense like some early talk
about burgers, a bit of terrible fishing advice, as much
awful planning as ever and a reflection on the many, many times Delaney cried in
movies during 2014.