Movies that were a waste of money when Serenity 2 could have been green lighted.

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UPDATED: Tuesday, August 1, 2006 07:49
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SMARTBUTDUMBBLONDE

Thursday, July 27, 2006 4:56 PM

STORMBREAKER!!!
That is £4 I am(well, my dad) never getting back! It was awful!! If that kid was anymore wooden, I could have knocked nails in him and built a house. Plus, Everything was over the top streotypically english, like marines having a cup of tea, in the middle of an important training exercise. ugh! not everybody in England lives in London and goes to private schools, you know. I almost expected them to all go and have tea with the queen.
BTW, how come whenever there is an evil woman in a film, nines time out of ten she has an eastern european accent?

Oh, and The Breakup too.

98% of teens have smoked pot, if you are one of the 2% that haven't, copy this into your signature

JUTIN

Thursday, July 27, 2006 5:01 PM

the list of movies that should not have been made could be a lot shorter, if you made the list movies that are good...

I haven't been to the theater since FEBRUARY!!

ZOID

Thursday, July 27, 2006 5:28 PM

My nomination(s): Almost any comic book-based movie, and at least half of the animation movies. The latest X-Men and Superman movies were a phenomenal waste of everyone's time and money. I enjoyed "Batman Begins", but I'd readily trade it for a Serenity sequel, because BB wasn't that good.

I'm not saying there should be no comics-movies -- "V for Vendetta" was a fresh idea -- just that there should be less of a headlong rush to the rubbish bin to try to scrounge up old fishwrap and put it on film...

As to animation, even Pixar is running out of original ideas. Currently in theatrical release (and enjoying good box office) is their "Cars", which is virtually a scene-for-scene remake of 1991's "Doc Hollywood". I loved that movie, and I enjoyed the animated treatment, too; but, I already knew the story, and it took some of the fun out of it, for me.

Original stories. Like Firefly. Is that too much to ask?

Critically,

zoid

P.S.
It never fails to amaze me how much more I love the SereniFly universe with each viewing. It's, like, consciousness-expanding, man. Somebody opined recently that they couldn't understand how they themselves could love it, given Firefly's Western-mixed-with-scifi backdrop. Set me to thinking...

Firefly isn't a Western, it's a science fiction frontier story: The expansion of humanity into new habitats. I find JW's vision of how and why we'll engage in that expansion infinitely more believable than the Utopian visions we've traditionally been presented in movies and television...
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"I aim to misbehave." -Capt. Mal Reynolds, Serenity, a.k.a. 'the BDBOF'

HERA

Thursday, July 27, 2006 5:45 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Misstressahara:
Ah, here's another one. You Me and Dupree. Another movie about an idiot screwing over a friend and being rewarded for it. Ya, that's real deep.

I agree. Another example of a studio taking a "hot at the moment" actor and plugging them into a similar vehicle that they know will sell. Nothing new here, nothing new to say, just the same vapid entertainment quality.

I saw a preview, though, to a Ben Stiller movie (I dislike him intensly, BTW) that I will see in the threater. It looks funny as hell, and has an interesting premise.

http://www.dtheatre.com/read.php?sid=3780

It reminds me of one of my favorite books I read as when I was a kid.

"It Looks Alive to Me!"
Thomas Baum
The exhibits at the Museum of Natural History come alive as a young boy searches during the night for the stolen moon rock.

-Hera

"Wanna?" – Mal to Kaylee, Out of Gas

ARCLIGHT

Thursday, July 27, 2006 8:07 PM

This seems like a good thread to post this to, so.

Amazon.com is going into the movie producing biz. Could this bode well for us ‘versewise? Amazon has got to know how well Serenity/Firefly DVDs sell maybe they’ll option the rights to one (or both) of the shows and then…then…maybe…

http://www.variety.com/VR1117947477.html

ONEMANSHORT

Thursday, July 27, 2006 8:28 PM

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Originally posted by magdalena:

My turn - Big Momma 1 & 2, White Chicks, You, Me & Dupree (I am a big fan of all three main actors but it was just the same old same old...), Any of the spoofs of like Scary Movie, Date Movie...ho hum..., Ace Ventura Pet Detective 2 (yeah - I know it's going back a bit but that's time & money I'll never get back!!), Robin Hood - Prince of Thieves (mimic Kevin Costner in thick USA accent "I'm Robin, of Locksly")... , anything by Woody Allen with the exception of Match Point , almost anything with Dustin Hoffman (exception being Tootsy) - both Allen and Hoffman are so overrated!!! and Hoffman did not deserve that Oscar for Rain Man... -, Charlie's Angels 2, Ametyville of Horror... anyone want to stop me?

Hey Magdalena!
I have to agree with most of these. I also hate Woody Allen, despite everyone singing his praises. But I did love Match Point, it was quite creative and Woddy Allen wasn't in it (thank God). I recently saw Monster House and almost threw up on myself in disgust about how much money they must have put into that movie when they could have produced something great. One objection-okay two-Ace Ventura has always been one of my guilty pleasures, okay it had bad acting and a crappy plot, but it also had Jim Carrey being crazy and lots of animals, which I'm a sucker for. Also I've always loved Dustin Hoffman, he's been in quite a few movies I've loved (Rain Man, Tootsie, Runaway Jury, I Heart Huckabees, Meet the Fockers, Finding Neverland, and The Graduate) so I gotta disagree with you there. But despite all this, I would easily throw all these movies (and Dustin Hoffman) in a trash can just to see Serenity 2 made

LWAVES

Thursday, July 27, 2006 8:31 PM

Well I gotta jump in and say that I like horrors and I was really looking forward to Wolf Creek.
What a big pile of smuggled black market beagle crap.
It was supposed to be a true story (or based at least) but what happened to the girls was just made up. How could anyone know what actually happened?

On to other movies I think any "comedy" where the so called actor puts on silly voices, disquises or pulls funny faces (see Martin Lawrence, Adam Sandler and some Jim Carrey movies for examples).

Anything starring Ashley Judd these days coz they are all the same movie. Also Harrison Ford falls into this category.

I loved the first couple of American Pie's but all the countless rip offs just want binning.

My Super Ex Girlfriend. Oh dear oh dear.

And on that bombshell....

NVGHOSTRIDER

Thursday, July 27, 2006 9:09 PM

Okay, so I sat through Bloodrayne this weekend as a favor to my sister. Aside from seeing Kritanna Loken really getting down in one certain scene, I almost got sick. Almost slapped my mother for bearing me to a world that would allow such crap. It was so bad that not even Michael Madsen could make it any better.
Now that is bad.
F you Uwe Boll. F you and the horse we shoulda ate!

"...And them chains them chains
Their 'bout to drag me down"

CHRISISALL

Thursday, July 27, 2006 9:16 PM

Aeon Flux, that dough could've been used on Serenity II. It even covered some of the same ground that Serenity did, and not nearly as well.
Oh, and EVERY OTHER GORRAM MOVIE SINCE 2005, too.

Chrisisall

MISSTRESSAHARA

Thursday, July 27, 2006 9:47 PM

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Originally posted by Moose:
Quote:
Originally posted by Misstressahara:
Well there's the new Miami Vice movie out. As if we NEEDED another old tv show made into a movie...

Yeah, what are they thinking? Bringing a TV show to the big screen...sheesh.

Actually, I can't watch any movie (or TV show) preview nowadays without thinking "They coulda made more Firefly with that money..."

Don't even get me started about the SciFi Channel's "Original" Movies....

Now hold on there Moose, maybe I had said it the wrong way, yes of course Firefly was a tv show made into a movie but the original poster asked to choose mediocer films that were made that shouldn't have seen the light of day when the time could have been spent into a Serenity sequel and I chose Miami Vice because frankly it's just another shoot em up let's put our brains on hold cashbin fair. I feel the same about The Dukes of Hazzard movie (wtf?) and Starskey and Hutch (theat was a beloved show of mine that they just ripped apart and screwed over) mindless drivel made for no reason other than the executives have NO IDEA about how to make original movies anymore, so they're going DEEP into the tv vaults redoing shows that had it's day.

I mean the Honeymooners movie with an all African American cast? I'm not meaning to offend anyone but it JUST DOESN'T WORK. There was a reason it worked on tv in it's time. Gleeson was a good comedian (I wouldn't say great) in an era where that kind of comedy fit. You ask anyone out there about that movie and they'll say, "Oh yeah, I forgot they made that."

That's the legacy of this centuries contribution to entertainment.

If I'm a bitch, then life just got interesting

Oh, and anything with Ashton Kutcher. Just what IS the appeal of that kid? I look at him and see an un-talented actor who just happened to be on the right show at the right time. No no no.

And though it may anger Chrisisall, Fantastic Four. Had they not gone so camp and made the story more believable got a better actor to play Reeds and followed Doom's ORIGINAL story instead of doing what they did it could have been worth the $8.00 spent, but they muddled it like they do with everything else and we could have been spared this monstrosity and discussing plans for seeing the S sequel.

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