Posts Tagged ‘Bad Movies’

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05-25-2012

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Weekend Roundtable: Inmates Running the Asylum

Weekend Roundtable: Inmates Running the Asylum

The Asylum, that purveyor of ultra-low-budget DTV schlock like ‘Transmorphers‘ and ‘Almighty Thor‘, is back this week with the Blu-ray release of yet another rip-off of a recognizable mainstream property. This time it’s ‘American Warships‘, a film previously known as ‘The American Battleship’ until a lawsuit from Universal triggered a last-minute re-title. As the fine artists and craftsmen at the studio gear up for their next quickie production (after next week’s ‘Abraham Lincoln vs. Zombies‘), we thought that we might use today’s Roundtable to offer up suggestions for their next great “mockbuster.”
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04-04-2012

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Late to the Party, Razzies Announce 2012 Loser(s)

Late to the Party, Razzies Announce 2012 Loser(s)

It wouldn’t be movie awards season without the Golden Raspberry Awards to let some of the air out of Hollywood’s celebratory balloon. Well, actually, this year it would. More than a month after the Oscars ceremony, the official point at which everyone stops caring about movie awards, the committee behind the Razzies finally got around to announcing this year’s prize recipients… or recipient, as the case may be.
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02-15-2012

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Diagnosing and Treating Hollywood’s Disease

Diagnosing and Treating Hollywood’s Disease

There’s no argument that Hollywood is on the decline in theater attendance and home entertainment sales. Numbers don’t lie. But what everyone is speculating about is the “Why?” behind this gradual drop, and how to fix it. Why aren’t people going out to see movies as often as they had in the past, and why aren’t they purchasing hard copies of those movies as much as they used to? Recently, The Wrap asked six experts to chime in on the possible reasons for Hollywood’s dropping numbers and their thoughts on where the medium is headed. Some explanations and theories make perfect sense, while others are worthy of argument.
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01-10-2012

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The Biggest Box Office Bombs of 2011

The Biggest Box Office Bombs of 2011

As the publication does every year, The Hollywood Reporter has made a list of the Top 15 box office bombs of 2011. The definition of “bomb” is based on a comparison of each movie’s budget versus its worldwide box office total. However, as we know, just because a movie didn’t make any money doesn’t mean it was bad. Did all of these movies deserve their sad fate? (Most of them, probably.)
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12-01-2011

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Universal Studios President Admits to Making Crap Movies

Universal Studios President Admits to Making Crap Movies

Earlier in the month, Movieline got a major exec to spill his real feelings about a few of his studio’s recent flops. What he said was not only surprisingly honest, but somewhat brutal to the filmmakers and actors who made those movies, and perhaps shocking for film fans to hear.
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08-12-2011

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Weekend Roundtable: Actors Who Shouldn’t Act Anymore

Weekend Roundtable: Actors Who Shouldn’t Act Anymore

The topic for this week’s Roundtable came pretty easily once I realized that irritating and wholly unfunny “comedian” Danny McBride has both a new movie in theaters and one from earlier this year debuting on video this week. Let’s talk about actors and actresses who just plain need to be stopped from torturing us with their terrible performances.
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08-03-2011

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The Problem with Hollywood (According to Two Successful Writers)

The Problem with Hollywood (According to Two Successful Writers)

I cannot claim to have read the book yet, but after Kyle Smith’s write-up about it in the New York Post, you can bet your ass that I will. Screenwriters Robert Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon have recently published a book titled ‘Writing Movies for Fun and Profit: How We Made a Billion Dollars at the Box Office and You Can, Too!‘ In it, the duo bluntly lay out their brutally harsh opinions about the current state and problems with Hollywood.
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06-15-2011

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Mid-Week Poll: Worse Director – Stephen Sommers or Uwe Boll?

Mid-Week Poll: Worse Director – Stephen Sommers or Uwe Boll?

We established in last week’s poll that most of our readers think that Stephen Sommers is a worse director than Michael Bay. Not to turn this into another Movie Madness tournament or anything, but let’s take this to the next logical level. Who’s worse: Stephen Sommers or Uwe Boll?
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06-10-2011

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Weekend Roundtable: Good Things in Bad Movies

Weekend Roundtable: Good Things in Bad Movies

I’ll be the first to admit that we’ve skewed negative in a lot of our recent Roundtables and polls here in The Bonus View, with topics asking what’s the worst movie, which director is more incompetent, and so forth. To counter-balance that a little, let’s try to acknowledge that even some of the worst movies ever made often have some good quality or redeeming characteristic. That’s what we’re looking for in this week’s Roundtable: Good things in otherwise bad movies.
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06-08-2011

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Mid-Week Poll: Worse Director – Michael Bay or Stephen Sommers?

Mid-Week Poll: Worse Director – Michael Bay or Stephen Sommers?

This week’s poll was inspired by a comment that reader Dail made in response to our last Roundtable. When it comes down to it, who is the worse director: Michael Bay or Stephen Sommers?
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