The Top Ten Movies that Went Wrong? Well, everyone has their own list (I’d have to include Phantom Menace, the film that single-handedly destroyed the dreams of a hundred million nerds). Though I’ve seen two of these (which do you think?), and they were … yeah … pretty damned bad.
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Batman & Robin **curls up in the fetal position**
Waterworld **I liked it**
So, two.
You got one of them. Never did see Waterworld. Thought B&R was … well, I kept expecting Adam West and Burt Ward to pop out of the shadows, shake their heads with disgust, and vanish again.
Did you actually see Catwoman?
Okay, based on probability:
Catwoman
Or
Inchon
or
Battlefield Earth (because I know a lot of people that saw it thinking it was a SciFi movie or had read the book)
B&R — worse than Catwoman. Batman as Father Knows Best. Burton’s Gotham turned into Kirbyesque AynRandTown. Geeks in Hell watch this turd on a continuous loop.
Catwoman — awful.
Both those movies accomplished what I had thought impossible. Made actresses I had the hots for look lame, lame, lame in skimpy costumes.
Waterworld — Stan, you have to be kidding. Nobody’s seen land for decades and they have plenty of working jetskis? And fuel? And where did enough water to cover Earth four miles deep come from? You want a waterworld, fine, set the flick on some other planet for frack’s sake. Not to mention sucky plot and sucky acting.
The Conqueror comes around on tv every once in a while but I keep on missing it — never in synch with a train wreck movie mood.
Yes, I saw Catwoman — and lived to tell the tale.
Not all that horrifically awful — but, really, nothing to recommend it. Which, given the cast, is a damned shame.
Of course, the same is true of B&R. I mean, George Clooney? Arnold Schwarzenegger? Jim Carey? This should have been fried gold, but instead it turned out to stink on ice.
I must confess to a sneaking desire to see Battlefield Earth — if only for the awfulness.
I’ve only seen Waterworld and Batman & Robin. Waterworld, if they’d managed to put exactly the same material on film without spending an insane amount of money (say, by working in a tank instead of filming in the ocean), would’ve been a typical post-apocalyptic B-movie. Illogical and full of plot holes, reasonably entertaining, and forgotten in a few years. But everyone knew how much money it had cost, and that changes expectations.
B&R, however, had no redeeming value that I can recall.
I misspoke, btw — Jim Carrey (as the Riddler) was not in B&R; that movie had Mr Freeze (Schwarzenegger) and Poison Ivy (Uma Thurmann) (with Bane thrown in for good measure).
Carrey, along with Tommy Lee Jones (Two-Face) was in Batman Forever, the previous Bat-flick, with Val Kilmer in the title role. Which was, actually, a not very good movie, but not laughably not good.
“Moves” or “movies”?
I don’t know what you mean … (blinks innocently)