Movies Not to See Once or Again
Personal reminder, and perhaps info for others, of bad movies that impacted my life very little, that I wish I had not watched in the first place and a reminder to surely not try them again. Movies that I likely will never think of again (thus the reminder); movies that took a fatal turn somewhere, movies that didn't even make me angry at their badness, for if they did, and I actually remembered them, they would at least approach 'art' in that they got me thinking or evoked an emotion, any emotion.
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- DirectorBrett HaleyStarsBlythe DannerMartin StarrSam ElliottA widow and former songstress discovers that life can begin anew at any age.A movie with potential and always love seeing Blythe Danner, but it really took a wrong turn at one point and never stopped for directions back to a better rating. Most of the plot descriptions of the movie are wrong, which is not a bad thing, but they would have you thinking it has an actual character driven plot, but in reality it meanders all over, guided by the bad script (did have a couple decent, but overused, lines). Just a bla. A big ensemble piece, sort of, but strangely, not used to good character effect, which is a crime of some proportion, as the dinner was all laid out, the writer/director just didn't partake, alas.
- DirectorFernando MeirellesStarsJulianne MooreMark RuffaloGael García BernalA city is ravaged by an epidemic of instant white blindness.A very dystopian sci-fi movie, set in the present, which left me all the more depressed and fearful, the way the world is going at the moment. This kind of sci-fi works best in another time/place, far away, so that it is truly fiction and not just black for no reason. The basic plot is that an epidemic of blindness hits the world and what follows, and it just isn't very interesting. Another movie that tries to do too much, be too much, and wanders around aimlessly too long. And this isn't even a multi story line movie. It seems to allude to several human rights tragedies, most obviously the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw during WWII. Or Guantanamo Bay, post 9-11. Also very precious in its lessons, if they can be called that. This is an intl production, filmed mostly in Canada and Brazil (most of it), with a bit of Japanese involvement. The city could be any city, except not American, even though the two main characters obviously are. Nice intl cast, very diverse, probably the only good point. This movie has no use that I can see. Not for kids, but the morals are on that level; the few that there are. The emotions are trite and one note. Unlike some movies in this list, this one has no potential or 'could have been'. It just was bad and seemingly no reason for it. I'll bet the novel is better (they almost always are), but not sure I even want to go there.
- DirectorLouis LeterrierStarsJesse EisenbergCommonMark RuffaloAn FBI agent and an Interpol detective track a team of illusionists who pull off bank heists during their performances, and reward their audiences with the money.A $75million sort of sci-fi movie (first of a trilogy), the kind of hopeful blockbuster the studios mindlessly (or not) love to put out to get people into the theaters (kids, although Michael Caine and Morgan Freeman have prominent roles), but it's mostly about being uber cool kids. Kids that are magicians and rise to sudden fame due to something they discover. Even though it looks, smells, and tastes like a big budget movie, it has little to offer other than irritation, if you are the kind of person who would rather watch a great director do his work and leave the Hollywood blockbusters to the Sat night crowd. It really feels, at times, like a giant advertisement, the biggest of which is for the next episode. It seems more like a pilot for a TV series than for a movie trilogy, though. I won't be following up on this one or 'trying' to like it again. Funny, Mark Rufallo, whom I like immensely, stars in this (he has already made this list), but hasn't been in much that has been interesting since Eternal Sunshine in 2004. And if you look at his filmography, he is Hollywood's big time workhorse (esp comic books of the superhero kind and 60s TV series' movies) and it is a real waste of a great talent (and hot guy).
- DirectorRoman PolanskiStarsDonald PleasenceFrançoise DorléacLionel StanderIn search of help, two wounded gangsters on the run find refuge in the secluded castle of a feeble man and his wife; however, under the point of a gun, nothing is what it seems.
- CreatorMichael ShowalterDavid WainStarsMarguerite MoreauZak OrthPaul RuddFollows the counselors and campers on their first day at Camp Firewood in the summer of 1981.
- DirectorJeremy Morris-BurkeStarsDan IllianVanessa Morris-BurkeAbigail SavageA desperate man hires an advanced biotech firm to engineer a child while, in the distant future, a corrupt oligarch runs a dead earth awash in genetic inferiority
- DirectorLouis LeterrierStarsSam WorthingtonLiam NeesonRalph FiennesPerseus, a demigod and the son of Zeus, battles the minions of Hades and the Underworld in order to stop them from conquering Olympus and Earth.
- DirectorPeter JacksonStarsMartin FreemanIan McKellenRichard ArmitageA reluctant Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins, sets out to the Lonely Mountain with a spirited group of dwarves to reclaim their mountain home and the gold within it from the dragon Smaug.