Nobody sets out to make a terrible film, and even
the worst films feature a lot of hard work from dozens, if not hundreds, of people.
Not exact matches
It is nice to see the cast back together again and with the plethora of other
bad animated
films that hit the big screen today; this reviewer will always take another Shrek
feature film... or even a Christmas Special.
Very
Bad Things
features a pretty terrific cast; while it
features no real «big time» stars other than Cameron Diaz - who only achieved that status upon the release of Mary, which happened after this
film was already done - it offers a very solid list of quality actors.
The actors did a fine job: Crudup, Angarano, Miller, Tye Sheridan, Thomas Mann (although Olivia Thirlby in a small role had literally one of the
worst performances I have ever seen in a
feature film).
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Feature Collection, Audio was
bad at times, and the
filmed actually rolled once or twice, Like if it was recored off TV.
If you've ever seen «The Room,» a 2003
feature that's been called one of the
worst films of the 21st century, you probably had some burning questions about its leading man, such as: How old is that guy, really?
For better and for
worse, this feels less like a
feature film than a stretched - out Daily Show segment.
After an unfocused 2010 that saw a mix of very good and very
bad films, Roadside Attractions managed to boost its average Metascore by over 7 points last year, thanks to a generally improved slate that
featured a pair of acclaimed documentaries (Project Nim and Thunder Soul) and the timely thriller Margin Call 76.
Surely, supermodel Cindy Crawford's Fair Game - her debut as a
feature film star - couldn't be as
bad as the gossip suggested.
Not thinking it could work as a
feature film, they finally launched a revival series in the late 1980s with Peter Graves back as the head of the Impossible Mission force, but
bad scripts, lack of energy and a writer's strike killed the show after two seasons despite an interesting cast.
Coming - of - age
films have frequently
featured inebriated antics and ill - advised hook - ups, but it's usually the teenagers behaving
badly.
In the wake of a number of star - studded big - budget comedy
features waning at the box office (read Ghostbusters), and once - upon - a-time comedy king Adam Sandler now reaching his core audience on Netflix, A
Bad Moms Christmas serves as an example of how
feature film economics have also changed in a climate where streaming has impacted theatergoing for mid-and-low budgeted
films.
STX Entertainment has announced that it is set to capitalise on the success of the hit comedy
Bad Moms by launching a franchise of
feature film spinoffs, digital shorts, and a reality series, beginning with a
Bad Dads movie, which has been set for a July 14th 2017 release.
When «American Idol» has made such fun of itself by having specials with those rejected by the judges as being far too
bad to be anything but entertainment at their own expense, it is mostly redundant to attempt to make a
feature film doing the same thing.
Bad Samaritan is directed by veteran producer / writer (of the scripts for Universal Soldier, Stargate, Independence Day, Godzilla, «The Outpost») and now filmmaker Dean Devlin, making his second
feature film after directing Geostorm previously.
Summit Entertainment released two new movie stills
featuring the wolfpack from the upcoming
film «The Twilight Saga: Eclipse» aka Eclipse stars Robert Pattinson (The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn), Kristen Stewart (Adventureland, The Runaways), Taylor Lautner, (My Own
Worst Enemy) and Xavier Samuel (Road Train, The Loved Ones).
ABCs of Death 2
features 26 brand new shorts from 26 new directors of acclaimed genre
films like Cheap Thrills, Inside, A Lonely Place to Die, American Mary, Big
Bad Wolves and many more.
This is a
film packed with star power
featuring Matt Damon, Jude Law, Kate Winslet, Gwyneth Paltrow, Marion Cotillard and Laurence Fishburne, as well as lesser known, but equally talented actors; Jennifer Ehle (BBC's Pride and Prejudice), John Hawkes (Winter's Bone) and Bryan Cranston (TV's Breaking
Bad).
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worst) by and about women in the movies.
«Alpha and Omega» is a recurring
feature that examines a famous horror director's best critically received
film and their
worst reviewed...
One of our favourite movies of the latter part of this year in the upcoming The Disaster Artist, James Franco's
feature that looks into the making of the cult
film The Room, one that is heralded as being the Citizen Kane of
bad movies.
After the premiere screening at Sundance of his wonderful debut
feature «Kings Of Summer,» director Jordan Vogt - Roberts — responsible for the short «Successful Alcoholics» and a veteran of «Funny Or Die Presents...» — told the audience his influences for his first
feature included early Amblin
films like «The Goonies» with «elements of [Terrence] Malick,» and most surprisingly, «
Bad Boys II.»
That's how a
film like Bram Stoker's Dracula can
feature some of the
worst performances of the»90s and still be almost wholly redeemed by Francis Ford Coppola's fevered bravado.
Co-starring Catherine Spaak (Il Sorpasso) and Rada Rassimov (Baron Blood), and
featuring another nerve - jangling score by the great Ennio Morricone (The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, The Good, The
Bad and the Ugly), The Cat O Nine Tails remains one of Argento's most suspenseful and underrated
films.
Puzzle is directed by American producer / filmmaker Marc Turtletaub, an experienced indie
film producer, directing his second
feature film after Gods Behaving
Badly in 2013.
Essentially a subversive homage to the B - movie creature
features of the era, the
film doesn't even try to pretend that the monster — which has been dragged up from a river in South America — is going to be the
bad guy.
That Let's Go to Prison remains fairly entertaining throughout is clearly due in no small part to their efforts, and it's hard to entirely dismiss any
film that
features a character singing along (quite
badly, no less) to Technotronic's «Move This.»
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BADLY is the seventh chapter in an eight part exploration of the failure of the American - East Indian co-production of > Hisss (2010), filmmaker Jennifer Lynch's greatly anticipated third
feature film.
The
film also
features some great cameos by Seth Rogen, Kevin Smith and Ken Marino, and though that doesn't make it any less forgettable, it's not a
bad way to spend two hours.
The
film features some pretty good actors acting
badly, and with an especially awful performance by F. Murray Abraham as Cyrus.
So while the Nazis would be the obvious villains in pretty much any other World War II
film (at least any set in the European theater, I guess), only Captain America could
feature a
bad guy like the Red Skull.
The first fifteen minutes or so are the
worst of the
film,
featuring some annoying setup contrivances and lame humour.
A five - minute featurette called «Greetings From Bull Mountain» is the standard five - minute B - roll / soft - sell interview errata that
features a few additional male buttock shots; «King of the Mountain» is a two - minute music video that splices action sequences from the
film together with bloopers and sets it to music (something resurrected in
feature - length form by this year's ESPN's X-movie); and nine chapter - encoded deleted scenes (blissfully sans commentary and running between fifteen seconds and a minute, each) are essentially long «comedy» shticks that prove for as
bad as Out Cold was, it could have been even
worse.
Here's a sneak preview of The Barbie Twilight Collection
featuring Alice and Victoria from in the upcoming
film «The Twilight Saga: Eclipse» aka Eclipse stars Robert Pattinson (The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn), Kristen Stewart (Adventureland, The Runaways), Taylor Lautner, (My Own
Worst Enemy) and Xavier Samuel (Road Train, The Loved Ones).
Jason Bateman makes his directional debut with the upcoming
feature film Bad Words.
Directing his eighth
feature film in just a little over a decade, Drake Doremus has had the good fortune of presenting four different relationship highs and blues / lows volumes at the fest commencing with 2010's Douchebag, followed by 2011's Like Crazy, 2013's Breathe In (review), and proving that when you want something
bad enough you can deliver the goods in breakneck speed in 2017's Newness (review).
Summit Entertainment released an awesome new movie still
featuring Jodelle Ferland as the vampire Bree Tanner in the upcoming
film «The Twilight Saga: Eclipse» aka Eclipse stars Robert Pattinson (The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn), Kristen Stewart (Adventureland, The Runaways), Taylor Lautner, (My Own
Worst Enemy) and Xavier Samuel (Road Train, The Loved Ones).
In a year that, for better or
worse, British
film made a fair amount of noise on the international stage (for every An Education there was a The Boat That Rocked), Andrea Arnold's staggeringly good second
feature demanded that everyone just shut up and listen.
Bad Poetry Tokyo is the debut
feature from Anshul Chauhan, an animator turned indie
film director.
Not to mention, the number of alien
films released in recent years — a handful of which proved to be mediocre or
worse — make it harder to get enthused about yet another blockbuster that
feature extraterrestrials in an apocalyptic scenario (the end - of - the - world sub-genre is, likewise, starting to feel over-saturated at this point).
Well, if we look at other Korean genre
films such as Kim Jee Woon's western THE GOOD, THE
BAD, THE WEIRD, and Bong Joon Ho's creature
feature THE HOST, South Korea certainly has a way of injecting a fresh voice into a tired and familiar genre.
Released in 1995, mere months after the fan favorite In The Mouth Of Madness, Village Of The Damned is an odd duck, a
bad film that never comes close to working as horror, but which
features enough unusual touches and flourishes of staging to put it several notches above dismissible.
However, the level of
bad taste has sunk to an all - new low in what is supposed to be a cute holiday animated
feature, with some events occurring that would probably have made this an R - rated
film if it didn't
feature animation.
Overrated 21 Jump Street Critics and audiences have learned not to expect much from
feature -
film adaptations of half - forgotten television shows from the»80s, so at least some of the excitement that greeted 21 Jump Street seems attributable to shock that the
film wasn't anywhere near as
bad as it looked.
Vogt - Roberts juggled a number of tones in his debut
feature Kings of Summer, which he said was influenced by Michael Bay «s overblown
Bad Boys II — a
film that blended a variety of tenors and genres into one movie.
Roberts first
feature as writer / director is no better or
worse than Ryan Gosling's, just
films on a different scale, but both have a talented eye (and ear) for filmmaking and I think their second
features will be even stronger.
It may also be the
worst film posing as a feel - good holiday
feature for the whole family.
The truth of it gets
worse when she's assigned to a
feature film.
The surprise isn't that, of the three, the
film falls somewhere between good and
bad; it's that Chase has made a
film that is so loudly and clearly screaming to be a television series rather than a
feature film.