A filmmaker's guide to doing everything wrong

[ShinkanPo]

A filmmaker's guide to doing everything wrong... with sequels.

Hah Mike's story about him watching Mortal Kombat anihilation still makes me laugh.

I like the part were you said some people just left the Cinema when the part where Liu Khang turned into a dragon came up!

@Mike

 

[BisexualMMA]

Battlefield Earth.
A vanity project, with beyond over the top scenery chewing by Travolta.
"Crap ceiling!"
The dialogue is ridiculous, the cinematography is sometimes bizarre, the story is incredibly stupid and has a glaring plot hole...

So bad it's a fun watch.

Travolta was giving a masterful performance in Battlefield Earth while you were still learning how to spell your name.

 

[BisexualMMA]

Look at how miserable Harrison and Shia seem to be about appearing in that poster.

 

[OverCoronavirus Pressure]

Look at how miserable Harrison and Shia seem to be about appearing in that poster.

Part time

 

[fdswer]

Someone didn't read the ope

No I did, the new Star wars are complete and utter shit in every way. You couldn't make the last Jedi worse if you tried.

 

[OverCoronavirus Pressure]

No I did, the new Star wars are complete and utter shit in every way. You couldn't make the last Jedi worse if you tried.

The cinematography is fine. Three acting is fine. The set pieces are fine. It's a decent film. You may not have enjoyed the story arc but that's not the same thing. Its hardly an incompetent film.

 

[fdswer]

The cinematography is fine. Three acting is fine. The set pieces are fine. It's a decent film. You may not have enjoyed the story arc but that's not the same thing. Its hardly an incompetent film.

No it fucking sucks and I have to question the mental health of people that think The Last Jedi was a decent film.

 

[OverCoronavirus Pressure]

No it fucking sucks and I have to question the mental health of people that think The Last Jedi was a decent film.

Well your ad hominem argument with zero examples is a convincer for sure

 

[Agent Mulder's Hair]

Wild Wild West

 

[OverCoronavirus Pressure]

Wild Wild West

The criticism I remember about it ... was that it was badly miscalculated?
Messy script?

 

[Agent Mulder's Hair]

The criticism I remember about it ... was that it was badly miscalculated?
Messy script?

I'm not sure if it was a script problem or what but it's just bizarre in all the wrong ways. It's kind of hard to watch.

 

[Chesten_Hesten]

The worst sincere, intended-to-be-great films. NOT decent films with the errors any film has.

Let's get the two most obvious out of the way, universally known:

Ed Wood's Plan 9 from Outer Space and Tommy Wiseau's The Room.
They represent many of the problems under discussion.
In general:
Story problems: the character motivations and responses are confusing. Events are confusing.
Traditional three act structure is out the window, creating a mess.

Bad acting. "You're tearing me apart, Lisa!" Um...

Bad dialogue. I hate sand.

Bad line reads. "Was that really the best take??"

Bad direction. Ghostbusters 2016, enough said.

Continuity, crew and editing errors: "Wasn't that eye-patch on the other side in the last shot?"
"Wait, is there a scene missing??"
"Oop, there's the boom mic..."

Pacing: " The action is boring me."

Go...

Here you go.


Entertaining though, check this love scene

 

[fdswer]

Well your ad hominem argument with zero examples is a convincer for sure

The movie is the only argument I need

 

[OverCoronavirus Pressure]

The movie is the only argument I need

Actually, it isn't, but I'll let you argue with yourself from here.
Keep pissing into the wind.

 

[OverCoronavirus Pressure]

Here you go.


Entertaining though, check this love scene

Holy balls.

So 70's, much nostalgia

 

[fdswer]

Actually, it isn't, but I'll let you argue with yourself from here.
Keep pissing into the wind.

The movie pissed all over the franchise

 

[Chesten_Hesten]

Holy balls.

So 70's, much nostalgia

The decade of the honestly bad movie.

 

[OverCoronavirus Pressure]

The decade of the honestly bad movie.

No more so than the 80's... which was also the decade of the best movies ever. Just the action movies alone are fantastic.

There was a very distinct flavor of cheese particular to each decade.

 

[Amerikuracana]

I think Prometheus could be looked at for bad screenplay and editing.
The overarching story is amazing and full of depth and potential. The look, design, filming, and atmosphere are also excellent.

The way the scenes, characters and dialogue unfold to tell the story are so sloppy and incoherent, it sucks the life out of an otherwise phenomenal movie.

I'm still sad about it. Then covenant? Damn man, damn.

You know what.. Being that I'm actually a tv and movie exec, undercover here, I think I'm going to green light a Prometheus reboot in a couple years, and do it right.

 

[Amerikuracana]

The cinematography is fine. Three acting is fine. The set pieces are fine. It's a decent film. You may not have enjoyed the story arc but that's not the same thing. Its hardly an incompetent film.

Truth is in the middle. The actual workers in Hollywood, the people that make movies pretty, may have done their job.. But the "story arc" is so off it ruins performances.

Finn babbling to phasma; stuttering and fast talking.. No good. Asian girl kissing out of nowhere; looked bad.

Laura derns face when she is turning the ship around ends up looking stupid, when you realize how much that event botches the whole series and things that were done.