BookBarbarian
Expert Long Rester
Do you think the upcoming 2 Dune movies by Denis Villeneuve won't have enough time to do it properly then?
Bad Movies You Liked
Do you think the upcoming 2 Dune movies by Denis Villeneuve won't have enough time to do it properly then?
100% this. Dune as a novel is a masterpiece of a novel, but is almost impossible to portray visually. Too many philosophical bits. Lynch's Dune is a masterpiece of cinema, even if it makes a mess of the novel. See also: The Shining, The Mist (and a lot of other Stephen King stuff), Blade Runner, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.
Also, I can watch this over and over again (PG language):
Ryujin
Legend
Have you seen the Captain America with Mjolnir scene set to that song? Awesomeness
BookBarbarian
Expert Long Rester
Indeed! very fittingHave you seen the Captain America with Mjolnir scene set to that song? Awesomeness
Imaculata
Hero
I honestly don't know. Atleast they are doing more than one movie, but that still probably means they'll have to leave a lot of stuff out. And as @Deset Gled rightfully pointed out, there's a lot of stuff in the books that doesn't lend itself to film.
Celebrim
Legend
Second list.
National Treasure - Silly but fun, played with an earnestness by Nicholas Cage in the sort of role he was born to play. (Mentioned by someone else.)
Man on Fire - Denzel Washington elevates pretty much anything he appears in.
Payback - Mel Gibson plays a bad guy revenging himself on other bad guys.
Hook - Cheesy but lovable film filled with childish wonder. Hated by adults that have forgotten their happy thoughts.
Over the Top - 80's sound track sports movie, featuring big rigs and professional high stakes arm wrestling. Well from the bottom of Stallone's worst output, and actually probably nearer the top.
Tron Legacy - I'll second this as better than its reviews might suggest.
Some people have mentioned 'Dark Crystal' and 'Labyrinth', but both of those movies have Rotten Tomatoes critic and audience scores above 70%, which I would feel is objectively well above 'bad movie' territory. If we are going to accept "performed poorly in its initial box office", we are going to end up talking about 'It's a Wonderful Life', 'Bladerunner', 'Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory' (Gene Wilder), 'Hugo' and the 'Shawshank Redemption' as examples of bad movies that we like.
As for Dune, what you have there is a big budget mess of a movie that gets almost everything wrong and yet occasionally has enough of the source material peaking out from under the filthy rags it is asked to wear that it manages some gravitas amidst all the terrible direction and script adaptation decisions. Patrick Stewart and a similarly robust cast certainly helps in that regard. I personally feel that the LotR trilogy is a similar mess, elevated only by much better decisions regarding its production design and artistic direction, and the fact that the long run times allows audiences to forget just how much of the trilogy is genuinely bad. Yes, yes, they get the 'Red Day' speech spot on, but those moments where they stick to Tolkien's dialogue and staging and so get something wonderful are few and far between.
National Treasure - Silly but fun, played with an earnestness by Nicholas Cage in the sort of role he was born to play. (Mentioned by someone else.)
Man on Fire - Denzel Washington elevates pretty much anything he appears in.
Payback - Mel Gibson plays a bad guy revenging himself on other bad guys.
Hook - Cheesy but lovable film filled with childish wonder. Hated by adults that have forgotten their happy thoughts.
Over the Top - 80's sound track sports movie, featuring big rigs and professional high stakes arm wrestling. Well from the bottom of Stallone's worst output, and actually probably nearer the top.
Tron Legacy - I'll second this as better than its reviews might suggest.
Some people have mentioned 'Dark Crystal' and 'Labyrinth', but both of those movies have Rotten Tomatoes critic and audience scores above 70%, which I would feel is objectively well above 'bad movie' territory. If we are going to accept "performed poorly in its initial box office", we are going to end up talking about 'It's a Wonderful Life', 'Bladerunner', 'Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory' (Gene Wilder), 'Hugo' and the 'Shawshank Redemption' as examples of bad movies that we like.
As for Dune, what you have there is a big budget mess of a movie that gets almost everything wrong and yet occasionally has enough of the source material peaking out from under the filthy rags it is asked to wear that it manages some gravitas amidst all the terrible direction and script adaptation decisions. Patrick Stewart and a similarly robust cast certainly helps in that regard. I personally feel that the LotR trilogy is a similar mess, elevated only by much better decisions regarding its production design and artistic direction, and the fact that the long run times allows audiences to forget just how much of the trilogy is genuinely bad. Yes, yes, they get the 'Red Day' speech spot on, but those moments where they stick to Tolkien's dialogue and staging and so get something wonderful are few and far between.
Li Shenron
Legend
I don't understand how can Labyrinth and Temple of Doom can be considered flops, at least in Europe they were (and still are) very popular. Doom might have been the worst of the 3 old Indy movies, but it's like saying silver is a flop because you have gold and platinum...
Now for REALLY bad movies I actually liked, I have an outing to make: I watched and laughed at almost all Rob Schneider's flicks.
Now for REALLY bad movies I actually liked, I have an outing to make: I watched and laughed at almost all Rob Schneider's flicks.
cbwjm
Seb-wejem
Labyrinth was amazing and is still one of those movies that I'd be happy to sit down and watch again.
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