Amber Heard and Odette Yustman seems to have a trend, where they star
in awful movies, asking them to play little more than pretty stereotypes, yet hitting every note regardless.
Scanning the SVI's hallways leading from the front offices to multiple build garages at the rear of their building, I see photos of old projects; 1989 Corvette ZR - 1 LT - 5 V - 8, the turbo system for the original Fox - platform Mustang SV0 (circa 1984), and the certified 198 - mph PPG Pace Car used
in the awful movie, The Wraith (1986).
Not exact matches
Kinda like
in the old
movie Invasion of the Body Snatchers when Donald Sutherlands character the end of the
movie points to the guy on the street and makes that
awful screaming noise «outing» the last known human!
This 1998 blockbuster was so exquisitely
awful that it's hard to pick a single instance of bad science
in it, since the
movie is essentially 99.44 percent steaming garbage.
Even if is not perfect for his
awful villains, some unfunny jokes and the character of Captain Underpants not appering much
in the film, is still better than any animated
movie like Cars 3 o LEGO Ninjago M
movie like Cars 3 o LEGO Ninjago
MovieMovie.
It takes an
awful lot of material to fill three discs, especially when,
in the case of Ridley Scott's Oscar - winning Gladiator, the
movie has already been packaged twice (a theatrical cut and a «Director's Signature» cut).
I went
in thinking I was going to watch a really
awful movie, but it exceeded my expectations easily and is one of my favorite comedies of the summer.
When I first saw the trailer for this
movie I thought it was good to be another
awful horror film, but the twist led by the characters played by Bradley Whitford and Richard Jenkins makes this one of the most inventive horror films I've seen
in a while.
I've never been a fan, as a rule of horror
movies, however, the trailer drew me to this one and i'm glad it did, the
awful acting we usually get
in horror
movies wasn't there this time round,
in fact, the whole cast were excellent, the special effects were really very good and the humorous, intelligent dialogue (another thing you don't usually get
in horrors) was brilliant, loved the film, Chris Hemsworth, although with less to do
in this than he does
in Thor, was great
in it too.
While weed was a big part of the comic misunderstandings that fueled the plot of the first
movie, and works
in similar fashion here as well, the fact is that both films operate on a higher plane than an
awful lot of sludgy spliff flicks.
Wow, this
movie is
awful, I mean the CGI is the worse I have seen this year, (although I, Frankenstein might beat this
movie), the acting is horrible, Kellan Lutz is so bland, he makes fellow Twilight star look like Marlon Brando
in comparison, the love interest is just as bland, then the
Wonderfully well acted and with a stunning cinematography, this delicious road
movie finds an
awful snowball of trouble for two unfortunate women
in this sexist society - and the setting of such story
in the south of the U.S. makes its feminist statement even more significant.
No one has apparently been able to answer the first two, but director / star James Franco does a hell of a job on the third
in «The Disaster Artist,» the story of Tommy Wiseau, the man behind a truly
awful movie that became a cult classic.
Both a classic
movie for kids and a remarkable portrait of childhood, E.T. is a sci - fi adventure that captures that strange moment
in youth when the world is a place of mysterious possibilities (some wonderful, some
awful), and the universe seems somehow separate from the one inhabited by grown - ups.
The
movie's various problems are compounded by its regrettable lack of strong horror elements, as Gillespie places a consistent emphasis on set - pieces of a decidedly lifeless nature (eg there's a palpably
awful Children of Men - like sequence
in which Jerry attacks a car full of potential victims).
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.
The
movie is fairly faithful to the book (except for a couple of
awful invented scenes at the end), and yet so much is lost
in the transfer.
Slightly less believable are the specifics that get the group to play a game
in a clearly haunted hill - top building, an
awful decision that's never justified as anything other than «something that would happen
in a horror
movie».
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).
All of these
awful people exist
in the real world, sadly, but when making a
movie that features
awful people, it helps to make them, well, slightly less
awful, or at the very least somewhat human.
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.
Well,
in order of gross, there's the so - so antepenultimate «Harry Potter» picture «Half - Blood Prince» ($ 934.4 m), excellent second Middle - Earth picture «The Two Towers,» ($ 926m), mildly disappointing animated sequel «Shrek 2» ($ 919.8 m), very strong, R - Patz - featuring Potter «The Goblet Of Fire» ($ 896.9 m), two disappointing «Ice Age»
movies, «Dawn Of The Dinosaurs» ($ 886.7 m) and «Continental Drift» ($ 877.2 m), the original and best «Lord of the Rings»
movie «The Fellowship Of The Ring» ($ 871.5 m), very good YA adaptation «The Hunger Games: Catching Fire» ($ 864.9 m), Lucas» galactic finale «Revenge Of The Sith» ($ 848.8 m), and
awful second «Transformers» «Revenge Of The Fallen» ($ 836.3 m).
That's an
awful lot of white people for a
movie so clearly set
in Japan (George Takei is not the only Asian - American actor out there, people), but that's a subject for a longer conversation.
The perpetually versatile Moore, soon to be seen as the title character's frightening momma
in Kimberley Pierce's new take on «Carrie», is said to be merely «
in talks» at this stage (but she's not known to be too picky; one of her last films was that
awful «6 Souls»
movie).
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.
The year itself was
awful in an almost incalculable number of ways, but at least we had a ton of fantastic
movies to distract us from the constant barrage against truth and decency.
It should have been a cheap
movie with
awful special effects (the dragons really are terrifying) that came and went
in the summer and was forgotten once you left the theater, but instead it's a smart, well written, well directed chiller that really manages to get under your skin.
While almost none of the
movie makes an
awful lot of sense
in the logic department, the action is great fun and nearly non-stop, all the while giving us an army of scenery - chewing performances from the likes of Depp and Geoffrey Rush (who makes just a perfect «evil» pirate captain, as opposed to Depp's «good» pirate captain).
Well, if you mashed - up the worst parts of the infamous «Howard the Duck,» «Gigli,» «Ishtar» and every other
awful movie I've seen since I started reviewing professionally in 1981, it wouldn't begin to approach the sheer soul - sucking badness of the cringe - inducing «Movie 43,» which has been dumped on an unsuspecting public without advance press screen
movie I've seen since I started reviewing professionally
in 1981, it wouldn't begin to approach the sheer soul - sucking badness of the cringe - inducing «
Movie 43,» which has been dumped on an unsuspecting public without advance press screen
Movie 43,» which has been dumped on an unsuspecting public without advance press screenings.
Story), who also executive - produced, everything about the
movie screams «woman's entertainment»
in a way that gives that phrase an
awful sound.
And the script relies way too heavily on rude, tasteless humor (especially
in the final half hour) and over-the-top /» shock - value» scenes, which come - off as desperate and absolutely ridiculous — including an insane brawl
in the middle of a street between rival scout troops (that you'd ONLY see
in the
movies) and an
awful climax involving a rival business mogul (Peter Dinklage).
wow this trailer looks
awful... film might be semi-decent but the ceiling isn't high
in this
movie..
The paltry domestic and worldwide box - office take illustrated that it was, surprisingly, possible for a modestly budgeted, eagerly anticipated
movie with a seemingly built -
in audience that stars Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Kristen Wiig, Will Ferrell, and Penélope Cruz to lose money, if it's
awful enough.
It's not quite as
awful as Lynch's last effort, the horror - comedy «Knights of Badassdom,» but while the idea of watching a scantily - clad Hayek fight her way through yakuza henchman and prostitutes - turned - assassins may sound like a ton of fun, «Everly» is never able to match its B -
movie aspirations, instead forced to flounder
in the gutter like the filthy, exploitative grindhouse film that it is.
And
in his anger — a fury that looks an
awful lot like righteousness
in the wrong light — he comes close to emerging as the
movie's tortured soul.
The philosopher Stanley Cavell has called the classic screwball
movies like The
Awful Truth (1937) and The Lady Eve (1941) «comedies of remarriage,»
in which couples are rudely bounced from their Edenic connubial gardens and reunited (after a series of farcical / magical contrivances)
in a spirit of wry realism: This time they know they'll live bumpily ever after.
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?»
Doom is a so - so
movie that has its moments, some good and some
awful, but isn't anywhere near the landmark work
in the world of
movies as it was when it changed the video game scene forever back
in 1993.
While it's nice to see Allen stepping back
in front of the camera for the first time since «Scoop,» that's not exactly the best of omens considering how
awful that
movie turned out to be.
He's been mangled
in bad TV
movies and a truly
awful straight to video
movie and survived to become one of the cornerstones of the Marvel cinematic Universe.
They're
in the same league because The Room is what these «classics» are — a simply god -
awful movie made with such unpredictable creative vision that you can not help but be amazed.
Sure, there are some outright
awful films like Elektra, Hulk and X-Men: The Last Stand, but Fantastic Four is a trying experience because it's halfway to being a stellar entry
in the Marvel
movie catalog.
The final straw to break this god -
awful film's back comes
in the form of some nausea - inducing serious romantic developments late
in the
movie (does every loser have a hot babe girlfriend?)
(It might dawn at some point
in the film that this is exactly like an execrable Spanish sex farce called Kilometer 0 — and if it does, hand -
in - hand with that recognition is the realization that you've wasted an
awful lot of your brain retaining memories of terrible
movies.)
Even
in movies where he's not exactly playing bad people, he's still the guy that
awful things happen to.
We spend a lot of time examining skeletons
in the closets of major celebrities - the god -
awful horror
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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.
Mocking Leo aside, it should be said that The Revenant is not an
awful movie, which is what I knee - jerk expected going
in.
Despite a pair of sequels that failed to live up to the first film (
in fact, some might even say they were downright
awful), Disney makes so much money from the «Pirates»
movies that the decision to do another installment wasn't much of a decision at all — especially when most fans were clamoring for one.
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.