Wednesday’s What’s Worse? III
October 17, 2007
Filed under Distractions
Today, I’m thinking of pot-holed plots, bizarre or wooden performances, and of course, just plain bad directing (direction?). So with a choice of the following movies, what’s worse?
- The Lake House
- The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
- Bean
- Junior (what was DeVito thinking??)
- Lost in Space
- Star Trek: Generations
- Batman & Robin
- True Crime (did Eastwood make two movies and stick them together with gum?)
- Any of the Spy Kids movies
Tough choice I know. My vote’s with the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen with Lake House a very close 2nd (was Kianu’s onscreen brother supposed to be lobotomised??)
How about you?
Man, you guys get to watch movies????
No fair – I wanna watcha movie!!!!!
(Kicking of legs, gnashing of teeth, lots of pouting and yelling)
I can’t vote in this one – I’ve managed to avoid them all! From the mere thought of the films, I suspect Bean or the Lake House would get my vote.
Interesting how the ladies don’t get to see movies anymore…. But I wouldn’t watch any of the rubbish you listed anyway so I can’t vote…with one exception. I was forced to sit through “Junior” for youth group.
Sorry to hear that Michelle! (Beng forced to watch Junior, I mean)
Actually, I must admit, I’m glad I haven’t seen any of those movies … no loss there really
YOU STAY AWAY FROM LOST IN SPACE. It has so much potential… and yet was relatively poorly delivered. It craps all over the other stuff on the list.
I kinda liked the LOEG. Kinda.
Junior had its moment.
The Lake House was never gonna work – Keanu had just come off 3 of the coolest Sci-Fi films ever, and he isn’t even dressed in black or wearing sunnies or saying “whoa” or anything.
The winner, without question, has to be BEAN. Rowan was clearly only in it for the money.
I did not see Bean, but I think it was the recently made Mr. Bean movie (Rowan Atkinson), right? The orginal Mr. Bean episodes, from BBC TV, are very funny. If Bean is bad, its probably because they tried to America-ize it. Try the originals. Or Rowan Atkinson in the Black Adder series. true british comedy is very funny.
Your opinions Sir Molk are of course quite valid. I especially agree about Bean.
However I would like to point out that Lost in Space was only half a movie. The first half was (in my humble opinion) a 4/5 star movie, the second half a 0/5. Splitting the difference, this would make it a 2/5 in this reviewer’s books…
I think the thing that really ruined it for me was this inconsistency: the Jupiter 2 is strong enough to fly through a solar flare but gets blown up by a rock hitting it.
How’s that work?
Beagoodmom, I agree 100% with your Bean comments. They did indeed try to Americanize it which is wierd because it was already popular. I think also there’s a danger in trying to stretch what is essentially 15 mnute sketch comedy into feature film length. The Simpsons pulled off the morph into movie, but they didn’t change their formula. Bean did. And we all suffered!