Dumb Movies

[MasterTrancer]

Almost any movie on SciFi these days but the worst is the movie that must not be named: Highlander II: The Quickening.

It.
Does.
Not.
Exist.
Period.

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[GrayLinnorm]

Nothing But Trouble, Exit to Eden, Madhouse

l also saw the pre-riffed Planet of Dinosaurs. RiffTrax certainly gave it what it deserved.

 

[Umbran]

I'm not sure I understand what you mean with 'aggressive' dumbness, but "2012" is imho definitely worse (comparing the movies directed by Roland Emmerich). I've never been more bored watching what were supposed to be dramatic action scenes.

The difference is this: 2012 is based in prophecy hokum, and packs its bad science off into one early statement ("The neutrinos are mutating!") and then gets on with destroying the world as an unrepentant action disaster movie with things blowing up. It isn't a smart movie, by any means, but even the title tells you you aren't supposed to take it seriously. Just relax, and accept the genre, and roll with it.

"The Day After Tomorrow", instead, bases itself in currently relevant ecological issues, and it gets them wrong. And then every step of the way, each new effect, is a new piece of bad science - they cannot keep the action rolling without bringing up new ways in which they are wrong. On top of that, the characters make bad decisions even considering the facts as they themselves know them.

Thus, "The Day After Tomorrow" is worse because in order to keep the roller coaster rolling, they have to repeatedly double-down on the stupid.

 

[ExploderWizard]

SKYLINE

Don't. Just....don't.

 

[Ryujin]

SKYLINE

Don't. Just....don't.

It would have been a pretty good movie if it had started during the closing title sequence.

I was listening to a podcast, this morning, that mentioned "Skyline II" was in the works.

 

[Wednesday Boy]

SKYLINE

Don't. Just....don't.

I have not seen Skyline but the How Did This Get Made podcast reviewed it and had one of the writers explain its development. It was pretty interesting.

 

[ExploderWizard]

It would have been a pretty good movie if it had started during the closing title sequence.

I was listening to a podcast, this morning, that mentioned "Skyline II" was in the works.

About 20 seconds before the end of the movie you have the BEGINNING of a posible actual movie!

 

[Ryujin]

About 20 seconds before the end of the movie you have the BEGINNING of a posible actual movie!

Exactly what I mean; hot girl with her bio-cyborg boyfriend, anime/manga style.

 

[Mallus]

My biggest problem with 2012 is it needed more A, B, and C-list celebrities, making it truly the apotheosis of the 1970s Irwin Allen disaster movie genre.

That's basically the films only real problem.

 

[Deset Gled]

The worst movie I have ever sat all the way through was the remake of "Rollerball". Horrible, just horrible.

The most painful movie I ever sat through was Terry Gilliam's "Tideland". I still have not forgiven him for it.