Horrible, Awful movies that don't deserve their own threads.

[stray]

Sure, I liked those too. His parts in them were in the same vein, although I don't think the movies as a whole were as good as those other two. Especially Good Will. *still surprised that Yeg hasn't seen it*

[Yegolev]

I'm sure I was playing FFVII instead.

[Sky]

Speaking of washed up comedians, how about Steve Martin? And in the spirit of the thread, even though I've only seen a couple scenes of it, the Pink Panther remake he did.

[stray]

I haven't seen it. It must have been OK.. err... maybe...? Because another one is already coming out.


Novacaine was probably the last cool thing he did... and that was more dark comedy, I guess.

God, that guy used to be great though, you're right.

Speaking of which, Eddie Murphy, king of washed up comedians.

[HaemishM]

Take Awakenings and Good Will Hunting, for example. Both are subdued doctor types, but really different, believable people.

One Hour Photo
Insomnia

I also thought Jakob The Liar was better than people said.

I've actually not seen Good Will Hunting either, but both One Hour Photo and Insomnia are fantastic films with Robin Williams in them where he does a damn good job not being Robin Williams. He has good moments acting, most of the time they are when he's being someone that is not himself.

[Oban]

Outpost...   A movie about Zombie Nazis and The Unified Field Theory.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0892899/

[Amarr HM]

I was gonna refer to One Hour Photo when I read that anti Robin Williams remark but I chickened out  It's a good flick along with all the others you have mentioned.

[Merusk]

I haven't seen it. It must have been OK.. err... maybe...? Because another one is already coming out.

My nephew loved it.  But he's 10 and his dad worked on LOTRO so his taste is suspect.

[Yegolev]

Steve Martin has indeed lost it.  I saw a play he did where Picasso and Einstein were talking at a cafe, and at the end Elvis shows up in a cloud of smoke.  For a while I figured I wasn't highbrow enough, but now I think I just wasn't high enough.

Also the man lives in a concrete house.  Like everything is raw concrete.

Reminds me of another absolutely horrible movie: The Jerk 2.

[Lakov_Sanite]

Steve Martin has indeed lost it.  I saw a play he did where Picasso and Einstein were talking at a cafe, and at the end Elvis shows up in a cloud of smoke.  For a while I figured I wasn't highbrow enough, but now I think I just wasn't high enough.

Also the man lives in a concrete house.  Like everything is raw concrete.

Reminds me of another absolutely horrible movie: The Jerk 2.

pics of said house? I'm curious.

I always think of eddie murphy and steve martin in the same vein, comedians who in their prime were edgy and funny but somehow got suckered into making pg13 disney movies. Three amigos would be an exception to the rule but that was more an action movie than a family movie.

Robin williams gets suckered into this trap as well, even when he's being spastic. Have you seen his HBO specials? he's a million times funnier when he can work blue but when he can't, you get mrs doubtfire which is just watered down. Williams though at least keeps his feelers out for some different types of roles. 

Oh and x-men3, total shite.

[Yegolev]

pics of said house? I'm curious.

Not finding anything in a google, so I will have to ask my wife where she heard that.  Or maybe Merusk knows something about it.

I am reminded that Bringing Down the House was also terrible.

[stray]

Steve Martin has indeed lost it.  I saw a play he did where Picasso and Einstein were talking at a cafe, and at the end Elvis shows up in a cloud of smoke.  For a while I figured I wasn't highbrow enough, but now I think I just wasn't high enough.

Also the man lives in a concrete house.  Like everything is raw concrete.

Reminds me of another absolutely horrible movie: The Jerk 2.

pics of said house? I'm curious.

I always think of eddie murphy and steve martin in the same vein, comedians who in their prime were edgy and funny but somehow got suckered into making pg13 disney movies. Three amigos would be an exception to the rule but that was more an action movie than a family movie.

Robin williams gets suckered into this trap as well, even when he's being spastic. Have you seen his HBO specials? he's a million times funnier when he can work blue but when he can't, you get mrs doubtfire which is just watered down. Williams though at least keeps his feelers out for some different types of roles. 

Oh and x-men3, total shite.

My theory about Eddie Murphy is that after he got busted with that disgusting-ass tranny, he made some private vow to his wife to be a good family man. He then took it so much to the extreme, that even his movie roles changed.

Bill Murray is the only one left keepin' it real.

[Sky]

You can usually tell when an actor/ress has kids. They start doing VO work for disney and making lame family-friendly garbage.

[stray]

Johnny Depp did it too, but managed to still make a cool choice.

[Ingmar]

Steve Martin was on Fresh Air yesterday, was a pretty interesting interview.

[Merusk]

pics of said house? I'm curious.

Not finding anything in a google, so I will have to ask my wife where she heard that.  Or maybe Merusk knows something about it.

News to me. I'd have to see pics of the house, but bare concrete was very big in the 50s with the Modernists.  It can be pulled-off very well, so I wouldn't call him crazy for it without seeing the place first.  If it looks like your average basement, well..he's a nutter.  It more than likely looks like one of these though.

[Amarr HM]

Bill Murray is the only one left keepin' it real.

Right on!

[lamaros]

On my flight to Japan the other week I saw the following:

Sex and the City
Indiana Jones and the glowing glass space aliens.

Sex and the City was painful enough that I only watched about 5mins, but after watching about 10mins of Indiana whatever that 5miniutes somehow came to see really well done.

[IainC]

On my flight to Japan the other week I saw the following:

Sex and the City
Indiana Jones and the glowing glass space aliens.

Sex and the City was painful enough that I only watched about 5mins, but after watching about 10mins of Indiana whatever that 5miniutes somehow came to see really well done.

I had a similar experience on a flight to the States. The default 'not kids, not Hugh Grant' movie was 2 Fast, 2 Furious. I made it through about 8 minutes before I had to go back to watching the little aircraft icon on the map.

[Oban]

That aircraft icon on the map is pretty cool.  Unless you fly United, then the icon just stays over Europe the whole trip.

[Sir T]

Oh and x-men3, total shite.

The first half of that was actually pretty good... then they completely lost it for the second half.

[Abagadro]

Bill Murray is the only one left keepin' it real.

Those Garfield movies are indeed the shiznit.

[Lakov_Sanite]

Oh and x-men3, total shite.

The first half of that was actually pretty good... then they completely lost it for the second half.

killing off cyclops and prf x is good? it was horrible writing from beginning to start, hell MAYBE if they used phoenix as something other than a way to kill off two actors who were smart enough not to sign up for a fourth movie but as it was the whole phoenix threat sorta faded away for the mutant cure storyline which could have theoretically been done well but was botched horribly.

[stray]

Bill Murray is the only one left keepin' it real.

Those Garfield movies are indeed the shiznit.

OK, I forgot about that. Hewitt was really damn cute in them though..

[Sir T]

Oh and x-men3, total shite.

The first half of that was actually pretty good... then they completely lost it for the second half.

killing off cyclops and prf x is good? it was horrible writing from beginning to start, hell MAYBE if they used phoenix as something other than a way to kill off two actors who were smart enough not to sign up for a fourth movie but as it was the whole phoenix threat sorta faded away for the mutant cure storyline which could have theoretically been done well but was botched horribly.

There was an RL reason for the Cyclops thing. He had signed for the Superman movie before X3 so he could only give them a few days filming, so they had to make the most of them. His scenes in X3 were excellent. As for Xavier it was a pretty good death scene that advanced the storyline up to that point, so I don't have a real problem with it. (And he can still come back, based on the fairly daft scene at the end of the credits)

Agree completely on the rest of the comments.

[Sky]

Johnny Depp did it too, but managed to still make a cool choice.

Yeah, but he's Johnny fucking Depp. He's getting better with age (Tim Robbins excluded, of course, wtf).

X4: The Phoenix will circle the earth really, really fast and bring back Prof X. 

[Sir T]

X4: Magneto Vs Gandalf 

And speaking of Eddie Murphy and crimes against film

[Phildo]

I think Showtime had some redeeming moments, in particular Shatner's cameo.  Damn.

[stray]

Well, Shatner is basically the best shitty actor who ever lived. Or who ever will live. He can't do any wrong, even by being bad.

[TheWalrus]

The Thin Red Line. It was free and I still walked out. Ditto on Eyes Wide Shut. Horrid movies.

[Lakov_Sanite]

....is Phildo's avatar jeff goldblum? 

[schild]

Maybe.

[Phildo]

An appropriate thread for this.  Based on a true story:

[Votan]

Hudson Hawk.....about as close to Battlefield Earth as you can get.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVAVCW2t_TE

[Oban]

I liked Hudson Hawk, not all of it, but it was kooky.