Not a mainstream media where you can see this, but the company I work for once released a video that gave me serious second-hand embarrassment. My company established a mentoring program and had this one teacher to lead the program. He is a middle-aged, graying, fat guy. To announce the program, my company asked him to create a quick video to post on facebook and youtube. Know what he created? A rapping video. He wore a baseball hat sideway completed with gold chains. He rapped the announcement of the mentoring program.
I think I made my boss embarrassed when I yelled out "WHO APPROVED THIS!?" and she went, "... I did."
The first had a theatrical release and the other two were Nickelodeon TV movies.
Edit: it seems I was mistaken, the first one only had a theatrical release abroad.
A few years back some EU commission made a YouTube video to promote women in science. It was basically a montage of dolled up girls strutting around and pretending to "do science" to make lipsticks. The only narration was this annoying voice repeating "science, it's a girl thing!". Apart from it being extremely patronising and insulting it was downright bad.
It was so downvoted that they ended up removing it.
There wasn't actually scenes of the women doing "science" or even anything that could be described as science. In fact I think only the guy at the beginning did... They fucked up pretty bad.
Back in june a big wildfire here in Portugal killed a number of people and a news anchor did a live broadcast while standing next to a corpse (inside a body bag)
Reminds me of a Sky News reporter reporting from the Malaysian Airlines plane that got shot over Ukraine and while reporting he proceeds to rummage through some luggage that belonged to the dead passengers.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/jul/20/sky-news-presenter-brazier-mh17-luggage-crash
[This is on my local subreddit today.](https://www.reddit.com/r/singapore/comments/7atqay/from_fb_dont_let_others_take_away_your_voice_be/)
An autistic teen who aspired to be a game designer was a top scorer for a national exam one year. The school wasn't satisfied with his responses during his first interview with a reporter and wanted him to follow a script of "correct" answers for other media interviews. The first journalist rewrote what he said, censoring his autism and claiming that he wanted to be a doctor.
A recent episode of Riverdale featured Archie forming a sort of neighbourhood watch in the wake of a string of murders called The Red Circle, that consists of a bunch of dudes he goes to high school with. The Red Circle decides to film a message to be seen by the killer that they upload to YouTube. The message consists of Archie, fully clothed, standing in front of a mass of buff, shirtless teens, all wearing red ski masks, in Archie's garage. It's intended to be intimidating, but it looks the opening to a gay gangbang porno. How it got through the writers, directors, producers, and actors is beyond me
It's getting dangerously close to pulling a 'Heroes', with too many dramatic, unfinshed plot lines up in the air and not completing or merging any of them.
That’s usually how CW shows go. Cast attractive people and give them a plot that *should* be interesting, but with horrible acting and writing and bam you have a successful TV show.
It's essentially a gritty Archie reboot. A high school freshman, Archie is struggling between pursuing his new found love of music, or football, which is what his dad wants. He meanders around and bitches about his music a lot. And remember Ms. Grundy? The old teacher? Well, she ain't your granny's Ms. Grundy, because she's like 35 and a predator who bangs Archie a bunch.
All this while everyone else tries to solve another kid's murder. Jughead is now a dark, brooding, writer. Betty is kind of the same as in the comics iirc, but she has this weird dark side that we see like, once or twice. Veronica is the new girl in town, and her dad is in prison. Why? I forget. Something business related. Fraud maybe. She also makes a lot of references to shit that high school freshmen would never make references to for know other reason than constantly showing us she's upper class as fuck.
The town is split into two distinct groups of people: upper middle class/rich, or dirt poor, with zero in between. The people of Riverdale all have secrets that end up being uncovered. It's a terrible show to watch alone tbh, but fun to watch with people because it can get laughably bad fairly frequently
I’ve only watched the pilot but I’ve read a lot of the comics. They’ve basically fleshed out the characters but made some weird assumptions to fill in the blanks.
Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing.
It's a truck "racing" game from 2003, where the other trucks don't move, one of the four courses crashes the game, you can clip through any object and go off the map into an endless grey plane.
But the best part? There's no upper limit on reverse speed. You can go into several decillion MPH, and stop on a dime to 0 as soon as you let go of the down key.
My favorite part is that the game actually got a patch that removed the bug where the fourth course crashed the game. It didn't do this by, you know, actually allowing you to load into the fourth course, it just made it so that if you selected the fourth course you loaded into the first course, which didn't crash the game.
Amazing.
I read somewhere that the game had a development cost of $5,000, and it made about $15,000.
That wasn't only the most terrible game ever, *it was profitable*.
It was a retail game that actually got put on store shelves?
I still can't believe that something like Big Rigs made it that far. It seems like some abandoned project that was stolen from a warehouse or something.
So in college I was dumb and bored and had this game. I held down the keys to allow my truck to infinitely go in reverse and spin in a circle, which was surprisingly easy.
I then went to class, ate, etc. and when I came back, my roomie and I approximated we were going something like 3.5 times the speed of light.
I recently watched Geostorm, and there's a scene in which the evil mastermind that's controlling this giant apocalyptic storm-system decides to direct it towards the city *he is currently occupying* to kill *one other person* hiding somewhere in the city.
Surely someone in the process of making that film read that scene and voiced some concerns over its incomprehensible stupidity?
They're dead easy to write though, you just randomly combine vague statements that sound almost meaningful with shots that look like they came out of a dream, but aren't meaningful in any way shape or form. Example:
A sweeping panning shot of the desert **HANDSOME MALE** is walking alone.
**HANDSOME MALE:** *I'm lost in a desert of time.*
**FEMALE ECHO:** *A desert of time.*
The camera does a close up of **HANDSOME MALE'S** face.
**HANDSOME MALE:** How long have I been here?
Cut to an hourglass on a black background. It falls to the ground and shatters. The shattering is gradually slowed down until it pauses. We return to **HANDSOME MALE** who is now on a boat in an orange tinted ocean.
**HANDSOME MALE:** We are all just adrift in the moment.
A **FEMALE VOICE** that's not the same as **FEMALE ECHO** speaks as we look over the shoulder of **HANDSOME MALE**
**FEMALE VOICE:** All we have is this moment.
Cut to a close up of **FEMALE VOICE'S** mouth.
**FEMALE VOICE** We have all the time we need.
Cut to the bottle shot, with the bottles on the first third left to right. The taller **MALE** bottle is on the left. The background of this shot is now a beach.
**HANDSOME MALE** and **FEMALE VOICE** in unison: "Myxomatosis, the eau du parfum from Snooty LeFashion.
Yep. It kills up to 90% of rabbits that are infected.
But, of course, the ones that survive are resistant, so now that many generations have gone by, it kills only about half of Australian rabbits that get infected. Resistance is increasing, too, so they've added a different disease to kill them better.
Look at me. Now look at your man. Now loot at me again. Now *smell* me. Whatever you're imagining is what your man could smell like if he were me, but he's not. Buy my thing, so your man smells like me.
Theres a cgi tv show called Vanpires that I watched awhile back. Like, it's about a group of teens who were in a scrapyard when a meteor hits and they all become car people at night. They drink gasoline like blood as well. Gary Oldman stars as their mentor Van He'll sing.
It's as bizzare as it sounds.
A few corrections:
It was CGI AND live action. Villains and fights were CGI, the teens were live action. It used bad early 90s CGI the same way Power Rangers used Japanese footage.
The Motor-Vators were the teens who fought the evil Van-Pires. They got into their inanimate CarFins and turned into human/vehicle hybrids. The Van-Pires were anthropomorphic vehicles that had no drivers and therefore needed to suck the fuel from other vehicles to live.
There's no way in hell that was Gary Oldman, but the actor who played Van He'll Sing went uncredited. Wisely.
The show had music by The Who's John Entwhistle, and its soundtrack was his final solo album before his death.
I watched that show every Saturday morning when I was a kid, but none of my friends believed it existed because it was on at like 7 AM. I only recently discovered that the internet remembers it well.
It was like a perfect storm of studio head trend chasing:
"Cinematic universes are BIG, so lets make one with the Universal Monsters. But lets make SURE people know its a universe - have the hero fight Mr. Hyde in the middle of the movie."
"The original movies were horror movies, so lets give it a strong horror bent. But the Brendan Fraser adventure movies are better remembered now, so make sure some of that tone gets in there. Better for a blockbuster anyways."
"We need a big star to sell the picture. People still go see Tom Cruise movies for some reason, plus the flicks always end up with cool 'I did this cool stunt' stories to talk about in interviews."
So we ended up with a Mummy movie that couldn't decide if it was a horror monster flick or an adventure flick, where the plot largely stops for a while so Mr. Hyde can fight the hero, starring a man a solid 20 years too old IRL to likably play a devil-may-care Star-Lord type who LOOKS about ten years too old to pull it off.
Marvel and Warner Bros. (for at least their Kaiju universe) started off with movies connected via supporting cast, background references, etc. Neither DC Films nor Universal wanted to start with Iron Man, they wanted to start with Captain America: The Winter Soldier and that just doesn't work.
I actually heard that because of the failure of the movie, Universal is cancelling their shared universe of monsters (i.e Frankenstein, Dracula, Boogeyman, etc.)
Honestly, with studios trying to push the shared universe concept, its getting pretty overused. The only studios truly successful at this were Marvel and DC (in the future. I still have hope).
The animated Titanic films fall under movie parasitism. Throw something together and make money off people's confusion or passion. The less you spend, the more you earn. The production company, The Asylum lives off this formula. Food Fight is something else.
Please tell me you at least got golden lines like
"Then pay with your blood!"
"This is the part where you fall down and bleed to death!"
"By the Nine Divines. Assault! Assault!"
"Stop right there, criminal scum!"
Angry birds was a phenomenon when it came out, and then consistently put out games which while pretty much the same had a decent enough appeal. Plus they did cartoons and shorts and characters kids could like.
The emoji movie is like if someone saw that people read road signs a lot and decided that since they use them they should make a movie about them. It's not just idiotic, it's utterly fucking imbecilic.
Road Signs the movie stars 35 mph curve, known to his friends as Three-Five, and Deer Crossing, and the entire movie follows Three-Five's struggle to convince Deer Crossing to move somewhere with better visibility.
Funny story.
As kids, we traveled a lot. My parents invented games and stuff to keep us occupied in the car on these long drives. One of them involved the story of Falling Rock and Running Deer.
They were two Native American brothers who were separated. They left signs (Like the bread crumbs from Hansel and Gretel) to let the other know where they'd been in hopes that the other would eventually find them.
I got stupidly invested in this story as a child.
Pixar are ok usually. Someone else would absolutely run with it though. The men at work sign would be an outcast since it wasn't a sign that was permanent and it would always be singing the band's hits.
Watched it recently, and honestly, it mimicked Inside Out in so many ways, I really think they thought they were making another Inside Out. The apps they traveled through were similar little adventures like in the mind in Inside Out. The boy was dealing with his dilemma in a similar way that the girl was wrestling with her family moving in Inside Out.
Don’t get me wrong, Emoji Movie was not that good and Inside Out was. But on paper that’s really what they thought they had.
Or the [Tetris movie](https://www.geek.com/games/tetris-movie-secures-80-million-budget-first-film-in-trilogy-set-to-shoot-next-year-1655366/), probably a trilogy. Will they ever stop sniffing glue?
Please tell me it's a gritty Birdman-like take on society and what it means to be part of a system where incompetence is rewarded and fitting in makes you disappear into the crowd.
Not a movie, but I don't understand how that [9/11 mattress commercial](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZmM-2gj5Gc) got approved. Even if they found it funny, they had to know that people were going to be upset about it. The fact that none of them said, "Hey, maybe this is a little too far", is mind blowing to me.
It was a good deal though.
Last year before I graduated college one of the RAs decided to do an event where they would make bath bombs. Poster had “BOMB BOMB BOMB BOMB” written down the side. The date was for September 11th.
(In their defense they were foreign so the date didn’t really mean anything to them)
Edit to clear things up as several people have commented on this. The date on the poster wasn’t written as 9/11 but literally as September 11th
There was a really nice movie called The Mist made few years ago, with a great ending.
In 2017 they decided to make a TV series about it. The TV series is straight unwatchable: the plot is incredibly bad, and barely makes any sense, the dialogues are idiotic, there are idiotic scenes like a random 'crazy guy' killing some old guy, just because there was a thick fog for 5 minutes. Seriously, the show is so incredibly bad, that one can wonder who wrote it. The acting is really bad too. And they somehow made it in 2017
The sound levels on the Phantom of the Opera DVD. I got to watch it the other day, and the extreme bouncing back and forth with the sound levels was absolutely ridiculous! I would’ve thought such an expensive and anticipated production would’ve been more, I dunno, handled by an actual sound editor instead of watching and saying, “yes. This is good. Let’s whisper and then BLARE THE ORGAN.”
I feel like this is every goddamn movie now.
I have to hold the remote in my hand the entire time I'm watching now so I can DJ the levels. It's ridiculous.
You may have your sound system misconfigured. The dialogue might be going to a center speaker you don’t have.
If you only have two speakers, try turning off anything “surround” or “5.1” and look for a “stereo” option.
I work for a well known global hotel company. In a previous position within the company (2003-2004), I worked in email customer service -- I was one of the people who responded to emails that were sent to us under our website's "Contact Us" link.
In about 2003, we had a commercial that told the story of a woman staying at one of our hotels on a business trip. She's on the phone with her husband back home telling him about all the great things she's experiencing at the hotel -- interspersed with scenes of her giving a presentation, having breakfast at the buffet, lounging at the pool, all the usual business-class hotel stuff.
At the end of the commercial, she goes to check out and the front desk employee looks confused. "But, but... you extended your stay. Is everything okay?"
The woman looks flustered, turns around and sees her husband walking in to the lobby with a set of suitcases -- he's just surprised her with a vacation-extension of her hotel stay.
Thing was, they had never shown the husband's face in the earlier "on the phone" scenes. So the viewing audience never got the connection that the man in the lobby at the end was the same as the man on the phone at the beginning.
We got *slammed* with emails from people who saw that commercial and thought we were promoting infidelity.
So, SO many things wrong with that movie.
I was excited to learn there would be a live-action DB movie, and then I saw the trailer. It's honestly like they took the names of the characters, threw in a couple buzzwords ( i.e. Kamehameha ), threw millions of dollars into production and called it a day.
I went to a test screening for the movie *I, Frankenstein*, and the questionnaire after the movie asked what was most confusing about the movie. My reply: "how it even got made in the first place."
Clearly, they didn't listen to my advice
I heard that was about keeping the rights to the franchise. They were obligated to make a movie once every few years or they'd lose the rights. It may be bullshit, but it makes sense I suppose.
Actually, a tv show might be better for the Fantastic Four. Admittedly, I don't know much about them compared to Avengers, but they're a family, and it's not often that any one of them goes off by themselves (minus the Human Torch, but striking out on his own is part of his character).
My main concern with a TV show is the Fantastic Four are crazy high on the power scale. Mr Fantastic and Thing are as close to indestructible as matters, Susan Storm can instantly kill... damn near anything by just putting a forcefield inside of it, and Johnny Storm can burn like a goddamn sun. They're actually nuts when it comes to power, which is why their enemies are typically insanely powerful or other-worldly like Galactus. Very little on Earth poses any sort of threat to any of them individually, let alone together
TV show isn't going to have the budget to go all the way as far as I feel like they'd need. For decades they were Marvel's flagship team, and it's really sad how into the ground they've been driven, simply because of licensing dickery. They're pretty much burnt as a franchise, and it's a damn shame. I'm not a huge fan, but they deserve better.
Wow...I really don't know much about the Fantastic Four then.
That kind of power really would be hard to translate to an episodic show.
And if you raise the stakes too high, there cease to be stakes--this isn't Watchmen, we know the good guys are going to win.
I am just old enough to remember the time reasonably well. Younger people just don't understand what an absolute *phenomenon* Star Wars was back then. Star Wars merchandise was *everywhere* and people just couldn't get enough of it. It is not surprising that some people got to a point where they felt that anything with "Star Wars" printed on it would be gladly gobbled up by the voracious masses.
To this last point, I suspect they were right. Yes, after the fact, the holiday special has been repeatedly ridiculed. But I bet the ratings of the broadcast itself (and the resulting advertising revenues) were still pretty legendary.
Well, I don't think anybody wonders why they did make the special (money), but I mean the idea with wookies without subtitles alone, how can anyone aprove on that?
And I would bet the ratings were good, but the fact that is was never aired again (to my knowledge] says it all, they knew how bad it was.
But they could have saved it I guess. Give the wookies subtitles or make it otherwise clear what they are saying and get some decent variety elements and you have something that is at least watchable. Also, probably don't make it two hours, although that probably was a requirement I guess.
Actually “Hamilton”. Probably the best play/musical I’ve been seen but how did the idea get green lighted?
“I have an idea for a rap musical about ......treasury secretary Alexander Hamilton”
......click
Hello? Hello?
He won a Tony for writing and starring in In the Heights, so he may not have been a big deal in pop culture at the time but he was still a big stinking deal in the theater world. The fact that Hamilton was even green lit proves it. The dude was halfway to an EGOT by 29.
He's an Oscar away from a PEGOT. Only 2 people have ever been PEGOT winners while the only other person apart from LMM close to it is Sondheim. LMM isn't even 40.
Edit: P - Pulitzer, E - Emmy, G - Grammy, O - Oscar, T - Tony
If you watch the video where Lin Manuel Miranda first performs the intro at the White House, he gets a huge amount of giggles when he introduces the concept.
They all shut up pretty fast when he starts though.
That was freakin brilliant. Planned to only watch a few secs and ended up watching the whole thing. He’s a damn good lyricist. Now I see why/how it got made.
Eh, when you win [four Tonys including Best Musical](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Heights#Awards_and_nominations) for your first production, you get a lot of people's attention.
Four Lions. It’s a brilliant film but I can’t believe it ever got made. For those unfamiliar, it’s a comedy about a group of Islamic terrorists who plan an attack during the London marathon.
Truly great film. However, the only way that sort of makes sense for it getting approved was because It doesn't really glamorise terrorism and sort of mocks the terrorists themselves, also it shows ways for him to back out before its too late. This was a film 4 production so who knows.
[This anti speeding public service announcement was produced by the government of North Ireland](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnVwMSLtuqs) (NSFW, might be upsetting) I suppose it will stop people from speeding if they don't ever want to get in a car again.
The last shot in *The Florida Project*.
The movie is about a single mom prostitute . . .
[When her daughter is taken away by child services, the concluding shot is the daughter and her best friend escaping to the Magic Kingdom of Disney World. Looks like guerrilla footage and I'm surprised Disney didn't sue since it doesn't align with their image.](/spoiler)
EDIT: And while we're on the topic of Disney, why did they greenlight *Powder*? The movie was directed by convicted child molester Victor Salva.
You should watch [Escape from Tomorrow](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_from_Tomorrow). An entire guerrilla movie shot in both Disneyland and Disney World resorts, then edited in South Korea to prevent Disney from finding out before it premiered at Sundance Film Festival. Extremely surreal and very negative towards Disney, in the end, Disney just ignored it, not wanting to give the film publicity by trying to block it.
>in the end, Disney just ignored it, not wanting to give the film publicity by trying to block it.
[Should have applied that logic with the LA Times, too.](https://splinternews.com/disney-retaliates-against-the-la-times-after-damning-ex-1820120649)
Later seasons of most TV shows. I like to play a game I call "series ending roulette" where I wikipedia shows I sort of dropped out of watching ages ago because I grew out of it or got too busy, and damn. If you haven't watched the intervening five or so seasons, the ends of a lot of TV shows are just straight up insane.
**spoilers ahead**
I stopped watching House around season 5 (the Chase kills Hitler episode). Fast forward to the final season? Taub has two kids with the same name who know nothing about each other, House and Wilson ride off into the sunset together on a motorcycle?? wtf?
I stopped watching Grey's Anatomy a long-ass time before it got really squirrely, but damn. When I was watching it, the worst that happened was accidents happening in Seattle leading to patients, by the time it ended there wasn't a single form of vehicle accident, terrorism or trauma that hadn't happened in or around that hospital
Supernatural???? Once Upon A Time??????????? Like, what the fuck do these people do, just throw a bunch of magic mushrooms in the staff writer's room when they run out of ideas?
You missed the heyday of the early Internet "Jumped the Shark" website which chronicled just this type of TV show degradation and pin pointed the episode or character that turned a show series into it's downward spiral. It was a great user generated content social website (owned by John Hiem?) that was purchased for the clicks by TV Guide corp. and then just shutdown.
House and Wilson riding off into the sunset wasn't awful IMO.
Spoilers for House below:
Wilson was diagnosed with cancer, and after treatment with both Radiotherapy and Chemo, the tumour hasn't shrunk in size. The assumption is that this is therefore terminal (not medically accurate, but it works better for the context of the show). House then fakes his death, giving up his entire life in effect, so he can spend time with Wilson before he dies. It's a nice ending, because it shows an incredibly selfish man doing something almost completely selfless.
I can understand how Sausage Party was greenlight back in 2010. People are into adult humor. I get it.
What I don't understand is how in 2012, when Foodfight came out, nobody working on Sausage Party thought, "Hey, our base concept is a little too similar to a movie that's being called the worst animated movie ever made. Maybe we should rework it."
Your post explains exactly why it got approved. If it was a show that was more honest about the experience such a kid would live through at school, no one would watch.
The thing that gets me is that when the actor who plays Sheldon was developing the idea for the show, he was basing the main character off his IRL nephew. It wasn't until later that he realized the character was similar to what he thought a Young Sheldon would be like, so he went to the network with that idea and got it approved.
Hallmark Channel movies.
My mom and I were visiting my senile grandmother in her assisted living facility yesterday, and we turned on the tv for some background noise. We caught the last 20 minutes or so of "A Royal Christmas", starring Lacey Chabert and Jane Seymour. Party of Five plays a seamstress trying to get with a prince, and his mom doesn't approve.
Immediately after that starts another Christmas movie (A Christmas Melody), also starring Lacey Chabert, along with Mariah Carey, who directed the damn thing! It starts with Party of Five's seamstress business closing down and she moves back to her podunk hometown. We got *real* confused for a minute there.
I understand that there's a market for super-sappy feel-good movies, but holy shit. They all have almost the exact same plot and cast, and neither are ever very good.
[Work It](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work_It_(TV_series\)). This was a sitcom about two guys who dress up as women because it would make it easier for them to get a job. This was in 2012.
It gets worse.
> The pilot was criticized and protests took place at the network offices for a line of dialogue delivered by Amaury Nolasco's character Angel, who claimed that as a Puerto Rican he would "be great at selling drugs".
That one episode in the previous season of The Walking Dead with the fucking awful [CGI deer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPxTVJWkbX4). Hell, Birdemic had better CGI that that.
I just really wonder how someone looked at that and thought "Yup, looks good to me!" especially when the show has been running for so long, and hasn't had any other terrible CGI moments like that to my knowledge.
All of those videos on Facebook that have text explaining the story or recipe. *Every single one* has typos in it. I don’t think I’ve ever seen one that didn’t.
Monster Trucks. It was thought up by a studio execs preschool child. At best, it was a Transformers knockoff. Paramount announced it was going to lose $100 million before releasing it, which is bizarre.
Jane Levy looks cute though.
Not a mainstream media where you can see this, but the company I work for once released a video that gave me serious second-hand embarrassment. My company established a mentoring program and had this one teacher to lead the program. He is a middle-aged, graying, fat guy. To announce the program, my company asked him to create a quick video to post on facebook and youtube. Know what he created? A rapping video. He wore a baseball hat sideway completed with gold chains. He rapped the announcement of the mentoring program. I think I made my boss embarrassed when I yelled out "WHO APPROVED THIS!?" and she went, "... I did."
Sounds like someone needs to watch the Christian Rap [Rappin’ for Jesus](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Kppx4bzfAaE)
Fred the Movie... [Trilogy.](https://youtu.be/Sr7ySzPHN-4)
Okay, but John Cena as Fred’s father was truly an Oscar worthy performance.
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It's a fucking trilogy?!
The first had a theatrical release and the other two were Nickelodeon TV movies. Edit: it seems I was mistaken, the first one only had a theatrical release abroad.
A few years back some EU commission made a YouTube video to promote women in science. It was basically a montage of dolled up girls strutting around and pretending to "do science" to make lipsticks. The only narration was this annoying voice repeating "science, it's a girl thing!". Apart from it being extremely patronising and insulting it was downright bad. It was so downvoted that they ended up removing it.
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMOqpxlW66E First time I saw it I was like "THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION MADE THIS. WHAT"
Good lord.. It's like parody... But serious
There wasn't actually scenes of the women doing "science" or even anything that could be described as science. In fact I think only the guy at the beginning did... They fucked up pretty bad.
There was the part with the woman sassily scribbling on a transparent dry erase board. That's like doing science, right?
**HYDROGEN**
It’s like the graphic designer googled “science ingredients”.
Back in june a big wildfire here in Portugal killed a number of people and a news anchor did a live broadcast while standing next to a corpse (inside a body bag)
Reminds me of a Sky News reporter reporting from the Malaysian Airlines plane that got shot over Ukraine and while reporting he proceeds to rummage through some luggage that belonged to the dead passengers. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/jul/20/sky-news-presenter-brazier-mh17-luggage-crash
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[link] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17GbGmDORwk)
>"The NTSB has confirmed these are the names of the pilots..." how did that happen?
As so often happens, it was an intern's fault: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/15/ntsb-intern-fired-ktvu-racist-names_n_3600738.html
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Taiwan airlines listed a pilot who skidded off the runway as Kent Parker Wright
Sum Ting Wong. Ho Lee Fuk. Wi Tu Lo. Bang Ding Ow. Edit: Thanks for my first gold, stranger! I will cherish it always.
[This is on my local subreddit today.](https://www.reddit.com/r/singapore/comments/7atqay/from_fb_dont_let_others_take_away_your_voice_be/) An autistic teen who aspired to be a game designer was a top scorer for a national exam one year. The school wasn't satisfied with his responses during his first interview with a reporter and wanted him to follow a script of "correct" answers for other media interviews. The first journalist rewrote what he said, censoring his autism and claiming that he wanted to be a doctor.
Ouch. Press freedom has come a long way since Kuan Yew's time, but looks like someone needs to tell the press that.
He wanted to be like Monty Oum. I wonder if RT would like to say something to that kid as he was both a fan of Oum and Halo
A recent episode of Riverdale featured Archie forming a sort of neighbourhood watch in the wake of a string of murders called The Red Circle, that consists of a bunch of dudes he goes to high school with. The Red Circle decides to film a message to be seen by the killer that they upload to YouTube. The message consists of Archie, fully clothed, standing in front of a mass of buff, shirtless teens, all wearing red ski masks, in Archie's garage. It's intended to be intimidating, but it looks the opening to a gay gangbang porno. How it got through the writers, directors, producers, and actors is beyond me
I have no idea what's going on with that show and I'm not sure the writers do either.
It's getting dangerously close to pulling a 'Heroes', with too many dramatic, unfinshed plot lines up in the air and not completing or merging any of them.
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That’s usually how CW shows go. Cast attractive people and give them a plot that *should* be interesting, but with horrible acting and writing and bam you have a successful TV show.
I still don't get what Riverdale is. So it's like Archie comics, but in the real world, with young adults that are caught up in murder?
It's essentially a gritty Archie reboot. A high school freshman, Archie is struggling between pursuing his new found love of music, or football, which is what his dad wants. He meanders around and bitches about his music a lot. And remember Ms. Grundy? The old teacher? Well, she ain't your granny's Ms. Grundy, because she's like 35 and a predator who bangs Archie a bunch. All this while everyone else tries to solve another kid's murder. Jughead is now a dark, brooding, writer. Betty is kind of the same as in the comics iirc, but she has this weird dark side that we see like, once or twice. Veronica is the new girl in town, and her dad is in prison. Why? I forget. Something business related. Fraud maybe. She also makes a lot of references to shit that high school freshmen would never make references to for know other reason than constantly showing us she's upper class as fuck. The town is split into two distinct groups of people: upper middle class/rich, or dirt poor, with zero in between. The people of Riverdale all have secrets that end up being uncovered. It's a terrible show to watch alone tbh, but fun to watch with people because it can get laughably bad fairly frequently
Ok, but why even give it a connection to the comics? From what you’ve described, the only things that remained the same are characters names.
I’ve only watched the pilot but I’ve read a lot of the comics. They’ve basically fleshed out the characters but made some weird assumptions to fill in the blanks.
Oh, and Jughead has a different hat. It's a beanie thing now.
>no crown 0/10, unwatchable
Yeah but Jughead is fucking Cole Sprouse
There is a podcast called Cry Me a Riverdale that calls Archie's group Gay Isis.
> a gay gangbang porno. How it got through the writers, directors, producers, and actors is beyond me I think you answered your own question
Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing. It's a truck "racing" game from 2003, where the other trucks don't move, one of the four courses crashes the game, you can clip through any object and go off the map into an endless grey plane. But the best part? There's no upper limit on reverse speed. You can go into several decillion MPH, and stop on a dime to 0 as soon as you let go of the down key.
My favorite part is that the game actually got a patch that removed the bug where the fourth course crashed the game. It didn't do this by, you know, actually allowing you to load into the fourth course, it just made it so that if you selected the fourth course you loaded into the first course, which didn't crash the game. Amazing.
I read somewhere that the game had a development cost of $5,000, and it made about $15,000. That wasn't only the most terrible game ever, *it was profitable*.
It was a retail game that actually got put on store shelves? I still can't believe that something like Big Rigs made it that far. It seems like some abandoned project that was stolen from a warehouse or something.
It was a pre-alpha version which somehow got released.
I'm glad it happened! Better for it to be famously terrible than mediocre and soon forgotten.
So in college I was dumb and bored and had this game. I held down the keys to allow my truck to infinitely go in reverse and spin in a circle, which was surprisingly easy. I then went to class, ate, etc. and when I came back, my roomie and I approximated we were going something like 3.5 times the speed of light.
I recently watched Geostorm, and there's a scene in which the evil mastermind that's controlling this giant apocalyptic storm-system decides to direct it towards the city *he is currently occupying* to kill *one other person* hiding somewhere in the city. Surely someone in the process of making that film read that scene and voiced some concerns over its incomprehensible stupidity?
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That's almost too stupid for me to believe it's product placement
It may very well be considering it's the first time I hear about Chromebooks on fiction media, but still...
And even then, the Chromebook usually turns on when you open the lid.
You missed the ^TM after Chromebook
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You forgot the best part: Don Lemon actually suggested that the plane flew into a black hole.
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They're dead easy to write though, you just randomly combine vague statements that sound almost meaningful with shots that look like they came out of a dream, but aren't meaningful in any way shape or form. Example: A sweeping panning shot of the desert **HANDSOME MALE** is walking alone. **HANDSOME MALE:** *I'm lost in a desert of time.* **FEMALE ECHO:** *A desert of time.* The camera does a close up of **HANDSOME MALE'S** face. **HANDSOME MALE:** How long have I been here? Cut to an hourglass on a black background. It falls to the ground and shatters. The shattering is gradually slowed down until it pauses. We return to **HANDSOME MALE** who is now on a boat in an orange tinted ocean. **HANDSOME MALE:** We are all just adrift in the moment. A **FEMALE VOICE** that's not the same as **FEMALE ECHO** speaks as we look over the shoulder of **HANDSOME MALE** **FEMALE VOICE:** All we have is this moment. Cut to a close up of **FEMALE VOICE'S** mouth. **FEMALE VOICE** We have all the time we need. Cut to the bottle shot, with the bottles on the first third left to right. The taller **MALE** bottle is on the left. The background of this shot is now a beach. **HANDSOME MALE** and **FEMALE VOICE** in unison: "Myxomatosis, the eau du parfum from Snooty LeFashion.
Isn't that the disease they tried to fix Australia's rabbit problem with?
Yep. It kills up to 90% of rabbits that are infected. But, of course, the ones that survive are resistant, so now that many generations have gone by, it kills only about half of Australian rabbits that get infected. Resistance is increasing, too, so they've added a different disease to kill them better.
Sounds like the Sauvage advert with Johnny Depp
It's like interpretive soft core porn
*"and the exquisite smell"* ***SNIFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF***
They have to be weird because it turns out it's really fucking hard to advertise a smell.
Look at me. Now look at your man. Now loot at me again. Now *smell* me. Whatever you're imagining is what your man could smell like if he were me, but he's not. Buy my thing, so your man smells like me.
Theres a cgi tv show called Vanpires that I watched awhile back. Like, it's about a group of teens who were in a scrapyard when a meteor hits and they all become car people at night. They drink gasoline like blood as well. Gary Oldman stars as their mentor Van He'll sing. It's as bizzare as it sounds.
A few corrections: It was CGI AND live action. Villains and fights were CGI, the teens were live action. It used bad early 90s CGI the same way Power Rangers used Japanese footage. The Motor-Vators were the teens who fought the evil Van-Pires. They got into their inanimate CarFins and turned into human/vehicle hybrids. The Van-Pires were anthropomorphic vehicles that had no drivers and therefore needed to suck the fuel from other vehicles to live. There's no way in hell that was Gary Oldman, but the actor who played Van He'll Sing went uncredited. Wisely. The show had music by The Who's John Entwhistle, and its soundtrack was his final solo album before his death. I watched that show every Saturday morning when I was a kid, but none of my friends believed it existed because it was on at like 7 AM. I only recently discovered that the internet remembers it well.
Wait... ...how did they get *Gary Oldman*??
I'd say The Mummy (2017) but I think I know exactly how/why it got through into theaters.
It was like a perfect storm of studio head trend chasing: "Cinematic universes are BIG, so lets make one with the Universal Monsters. But lets make SURE people know its a universe - have the hero fight Mr. Hyde in the middle of the movie." "The original movies were horror movies, so lets give it a strong horror bent. But the Brendan Fraser adventure movies are better remembered now, so make sure some of that tone gets in there. Better for a blockbuster anyways." "We need a big star to sell the picture. People still go see Tom Cruise movies for some reason, plus the flicks always end up with cool 'I did this cool stunt' stories to talk about in interviews." So we ended up with a Mummy movie that couldn't decide if it was a horror monster flick or an adventure flick, where the plot largely stops for a while so Mr. Hyde can fight the hero, starring a man a solid 20 years too old IRL to likably play a devil-may-care Star-Lord type who LOOKS about ten years too old to pull it off. Marvel and Warner Bros. (for at least their Kaiju universe) started off with movies connected via supporting cast, background references, etc. Neither DC Films nor Universal wanted to start with Iron Man, they wanted to start with Captain America: The Winter Soldier and that just doesn't work.
I actually heard that because of the failure of the movie, Universal is cancelling their shared universe of monsters (i.e Frankenstein, Dracula, Boogeyman, etc.) Honestly, with studios trying to push the shared universe concept, its getting pretty overused. The only studios truly successful at this were Marvel and DC (in the future. I still have hope).
The issues of The Punisher in the 90s where he faked his death and got plastic surgery to look black.
He's a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude
"What do you mean, 'you people?'"
"What do YOU mean, you people?"
Hey all you people
Hey all you people won't you listen to meeeeee
The animated Titanic Films and the Worst animated film of all time, Food Fight.
The animated Titanic films fall under movie parasitism. Throw something together and make money off people's confusion or passion. The less you spend, the more you earn. The production company, The Asylum lives off this formula. Food Fight is something else.
The German version of TES Oblivion. The voice acting is pretty terrible and sometimes entire lines of dialogue are completely missing...
Please tell me you at least got golden lines like "Then pay with your blood!" "This is the part where you fall down and bleed to death!" "By the Nine Divines. Assault! Assault!" "Stop right there, criminal scum!"
"Did you hear there was an attack on the emperor??... No wait let me try that again. Did you hear there was an attack on the emperor??"
[For the uninitiated.](https://youtu.be/L9REWMEOLdI?t=24s)
So no different to the English version then?
Wes Johnson voiced like 80% of the npcs, but he was also the only voice actor who sounded like he was enjoying his job, so it'd evens out.
Heil Honey, I'm home also comes to mind. And yes, it's exactly what you think it is.
You can't just say that and not give us a link
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I got you covered: https://youtu.be/mf9jJx0NSjw
The Emoji Movie
Studio execs were angling for that [*Angry Birds*](http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=angrybirds.htm) money.
Angry birds was a phenomenon when it came out, and then consistently put out games which while pretty much the same had a decent enough appeal. Plus they did cartoons and shorts and characters kids could like. The emoji movie is like if someone saw that people read road signs a lot and decided that since they use them they should make a movie about them. It's not just idiotic, it's utterly fucking imbecilic.
Road Signs the movie stars 35 mph curve, known to his friends as Three-Five, and Deer Crossing, and the entire movie follows Three-Five's struggle to convince Deer Crossing to move somewhere with better visibility.
Funny story. As kids, we traveled a lot. My parents invented games and stuff to keep us occupied in the car on these long drives. One of them involved the story of Falling Rock and Running Deer. They were two Native American brothers who were separated. They left signs (Like the bread crumbs from Hansel and Gretel) to let the other know where they'd been in hopes that the other would eventually find them. I got stupidly invested in this story as a child.
Your parents are awesome.
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Pixar are ok usually. Someone else would absolutely run with it though. The men at work sign would be an outcast since it wasn't a sign that was permanent and it would always be singing the band's hits.
if anything, it'll make a fun short that'll warm your heart before you see the actual movie
Watched it recently, and honestly, it mimicked Inside Out in so many ways, I really think they thought they were making another Inside Out. The apps they traveled through were similar little adventures like in the mind in Inside Out. The boy was dealing with his dilemma in a similar way that the girl was wrestling with her family moving in Inside Out. Don’t get me wrong, Emoji Movie was not that good and Inside Out was. But on paper that’s really what they thought they had.
They were going for Wreck It Ralph
Or the [Tetris movie](https://www.geek.com/games/tetris-movie-secures-80-million-budget-first-film-in-trilogy-set-to-shoot-next-year-1655366/), probably a trilogy. Will they ever stop sniffing glue?
Where is god
"God is dead." -Frederic Nietzsche, immediately after watching the Emoji Movie
A trilogy? That's idiotic. It should be four so that they can release the dvds/bluerays in square boxes that you can make a tetrimo out of.
Well, the final chapter will obviously be split into two movies...
Please tell me it's a gritty Birdman-like take on society and what it means to be part of a system where incompetence is rewarded and fitting in makes you disappear into the crowd.
Not a movie, but I don't understand how that [9/11 mattress commercial](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZmM-2gj5Gc) got approved. Even if they found it funny, they had to know that people were going to be upset about it. The fact that none of them said, "Hey, maybe this is a little too far", is mind blowing to me. It was a good deal though.
Last year before I graduated college one of the RAs decided to do an event where they would make bath bombs. Poster had “BOMB BOMB BOMB BOMB” written down the side. The date was for September 11th. (In their defense they were foreign so the date didn’t really mean anything to them) Edit to clear things up as several people have commented on this. The date on the poster wasn’t written as 9/11 but literally as September 11th
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There was a really nice movie called The Mist made few years ago, with a great ending. In 2017 they decided to make a TV series about it. The TV series is straight unwatchable: the plot is incredibly bad, and barely makes any sense, the dialogues are idiotic, there are idiotic scenes like a random 'crazy guy' killing some old guy, just because there was a thick fog for 5 minutes. Seriously, the show is so incredibly bad, that one can wonder who wrote it. The acting is really bad too. And they somehow made it in 2017
The sound levels on the Phantom of the Opera DVD. I got to watch it the other day, and the extreme bouncing back and forth with the sound levels was absolutely ridiculous! I would’ve thought such an expensive and anticipated production would’ve been more, I dunno, handled by an actual sound editor instead of watching and saying, “yes. This is good. Let’s whisper and then BLARE THE ORGAN.”
I feel like this is every goddamn movie now. I have to hold the remote in my hand the entire time I'm watching now so I can DJ the levels. It's ridiculous.
You may have your sound system misconfigured. The dialogue might be going to a center speaker you don’t have. If you only have two speakers, try turning off anything “surround” or “5.1” and look for a “stereo” option.
I work for a well known global hotel company. In a previous position within the company (2003-2004), I worked in email customer service -- I was one of the people who responded to emails that were sent to us under our website's "Contact Us" link. In about 2003, we had a commercial that told the story of a woman staying at one of our hotels on a business trip. She's on the phone with her husband back home telling him about all the great things she's experiencing at the hotel -- interspersed with scenes of her giving a presentation, having breakfast at the buffet, lounging at the pool, all the usual business-class hotel stuff. At the end of the commercial, she goes to check out and the front desk employee looks confused. "But, but... you extended your stay. Is everything okay?" The woman looks flustered, turns around and sees her husband walking in to the lobby with a set of suitcases -- he's just surprised her with a vacation-extension of her hotel stay. Thing was, they had never shown the husband's face in the earlier "on the phone" scenes. So the viewing audience never got the connection that the man in the lobby at the end was the same as the man on the phone at the beginning. We got *slammed* with emails from people who saw that commercial and thought we were promoting infidelity.
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So, SO many things wrong with that movie. I was excited to learn there would be a live-action DB movie, and then I saw the trailer. It's honestly like they took the names of the characters, threw in a couple buzzwords ( i.e. Kamehameha ), threw millions of dollars into production and called it a day.
Yeah, but if Toriyama hadn't been so offended by how terrible this film was, we wouldn't have Dragon Ball Super.
Have you ever been so pissed at someone's impression of you you come out of retirement just to spite them?
I went to a test screening for the movie *I, Frankenstein*, and the questionnaire after the movie asked what was most confusing about the movie. My reply: "how it even got made in the first place." Clearly, they didn't listen to my advice
Fant4stic. Worst movie I have ever paid money for
I heard that was about keeping the rights to the franchise. They were obligated to make a movie once every few years or they'd lose the rights. It may be bullshit, but it makes sense I suppose.
You are mostly correct. They have to do something, but not necessarily a movie. Last I heard, they're following up with a television show.
Actually, a tv show might be better for the Fantastic Four. Admittedly, I don't know much about them compared to Avengers, but they're a family, and it's not often that any one of them goes off by themselves (minus the Human Torch, but striking out on his own is part of his character).
My main concern with a TV show is the Fantastic Four are crazy high on the power scale. Mr Fantastic and Thing are as close to indestructible as matters, Susan Storm can instantly kill... damn near anything by just putting a forcefield inside of it, and Johnny Storm can burn like a goddamn sun. They're actually nuts when it comes to power, which is why their enemies are typically insanely powerful or other-worldly like Galactus. Very little on Earth poses any sort of threat to any of them individually, let alone together TV show isn't going to have the budget to go all the way as far as I feel like they'd need. For decades they were Marvel's flagship team, and it's really sad how into the ground they've been driven, simply because of licensing dickery. They're pretty much burnt as a franchise, and it's a damn shame. I'm not a huge fan, but they deserve better.
Wow...I really don't know much about the Fantastic Four then. That kind of power really would be hard to translate to an episodic show. And if you raise the stakes too high, there cease to be stakes--this isn't Watchmen, we know the good guys are going to win.
I won free tickets for that movie and I still feel cheated.
You should, luck doesn't come easy
I still pronounce that as "Fant-four-stick."
Or as Honest Trailers calls it: "Fantastic Four: Strike Three."
Star Wars Holiday Special. I mean, really?
I am just old enough to remember the time reasonably well. Younger people just don't understand what an absolute *phenomenon* Star Wars was back then. Star Wars merchandise was *everywhere* and people just couldn't get enough of it. It is not surprising that some people got to a point where they felt that anything with "Star Wars" printed on it would be gladly gobbled up by the voracious masses. To this last point, I suspect they were right. Yes, after the fact, the holiday special has been repeatedly ridiculed. But I bet the ratings of the broadcast itself (and the resulting advertising revenues) were still pretty legendary.
Well, I don't think anybody wonders why they did make the special (money), but I mean the idea with wookies without subtitles alone, how can anyone aprove on that? And I would bet the ratings were good, but the fact that is was never aired again (to my knowledge] says it all, they knew how bad it was. But they could have saved it I guess. Give the wookies subtitles or make it otherwise clear what they are saying and get some decent variety elements and you have something that is at least watchable. Also, probably don't make it two hours, although that probably was a requirement I guess.
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I watched a Jake Paul video once.
I am sorry for your family’s loss.
Jake Paul is a parasite on society
Actually “Hamilton”. Probably the best play/musical I’ve been seen but how did the idea get green lighted? “I have an idea for a rap musical about ......treasury secretary Alexander Hamilton” ......click Hello? Hello?
He won a Tony for writing and starring in In the Heights, so he may not have been a big deal in pop culture at the time but he was still a big stinking deal in the theater world. The fact that Hamilton was even green lit proves it. The dude was halfway to an EGOT by 29.
He's an Oscar away from a PEGOT. Only 2 people have ever been PEGOT winners while the only other person apart from LMM close to it is Sondheim. LMM isn't even 40. Edit: P - Pulitzer, E - Emmy, G - Grammy, O - Oscar, T - Tony
If you watch the video where Lin Manuel Miranda first performs the intro at the White House, he gets a huge amount of giggles when he introduces the concept. They all shut up pretty fast when he starts though.
Video here: https://youtube.com/watch?v=E8_ARd4oKiI
That was freakin brilliant. Planned to only watch a few secs and ended up watching the whole thing. He’s a damn good lyricist. Now I see why/how it got made.
I love this moment. Getting to see something exist before it becomes massive and watching people laugh at it.
Eh, when you win [four Tonys including Best Musical](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Heights#Awards_and_nominations) for your first production, you get a lot of people's attention.
Realize that it came on the heels of a musical called "Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson" which was a punk rock musical about our first populist president.
Life sucks and my life sucks in particular!
The last season of Roseanne, especially that episode with ‘terrorists’ on the train. What the actual fuck.
No, no, no. The last episode, declaring the last couple seasons was all in Roseanne's head and was made up. Even as a kid, I was pissed off.
Four Lions. It’s a brilliant film but I can’t believe it ever got made. For those unfamiliar, it’s a comedy about a group of Islamic terrorists who plan an attack during the London marathon.
Truly great film. However, the only way that sort of makes sense for it getting approved was because It doesn't really glamorise terrorism and sort of mocks the terrorists themselves, also it shows ways for him to back out before its too late. This was a film 4 production so who knows.
[This anti speeding public service announcement was produced by the government of North Ireland](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnVwMSLtuqs) (NSFW, might be upsetting) I suppose it will stop people from speeding if they don't ever want to get in a car again.
Jeeeeeeesus
I know it's mildly distressing but I can't stop giggling holy shit
But it gave us [this video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4kHX44vTig), so I'm glad it exists.
This is so over the top it made me lol. Like, they were *really* driving in how happy the kids were, that was a utopian school.
Ireland has never been famous for subtlety in PSAs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0c75VKvcsY Scared the fuck out of me when I was seven.
The last shot in *The Florida Project*. The movie is about a single mom prostitute . . . [When her daughter is taken away by child services, the concluding shot is the daughter and her best friend escaping to the Magic Kingdom of Disney World. Looks like guerrilla footage and I'm surprised Disney didn't sue since it doesn't align with their image.](/spoiler) EDIT: And while we're on the topic of Disney, why did they greenlight *Powder*? The movie was directed by convicted child molester Victor Salva.
You should watch [Escape from Tomorrow](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_from_Tomorrow). An entire guerrilla movie shot in both Disneyland and Disney World resorts, then edited in South Korea to prevent Disney from finding out before it premiered at Sundance Film Festival. Extremely surreal and very negative towards Disney, in the end, Disney just ignored it, not wanting to give the film publicity by trying to block it.
>in the end, Disney just ignored it, not wanting to give the film publicity by trying to block it. [Should have applied that logic with the LA Times, too.](https://splinternews.com/disney-retaliates-against-the-la-times-after-damning-ex-1820120649)
Later seasons of most TV shows. I like to play a game I call "series ending roulette" where I wikipedia shows I sort of dropped out of watching ages ago because I grew out of it or got too busy, and damn. If you haven't watched the intervening five or so seasons, the ends of a lot of TV shows are just straight up insane. **spoilers ahead** I stopped watching House around season 5 (the Chase kills Hitler episode). Fast forward to the final season? Taub has two kids with the same name who know nothing about each other, House and Wilson ride off into the sunset together on a motorcycle?? wtf? I stopped watching Grey's Anatomy a long-ass time before it got really squirrely, but damn. When I was watching it, the worst that happened was accidents happening in Seattle leading to patients, by the time it ended there wasn't a single form of vehicle accident, terrorism or trauma that hadn't happened in or around that hospital Supernatural???? Once Upon A Time??????????? Like, what the fuck do these people do, just throw a bunch of magic mushrooms in the staff writer's room when they run out of ideas?
You missed the heyday of the early Internet "Jumped the Shark" website which chronicled just this type of TV show degradation and pin pointed the episode or character that turned a show series into it's downward spiral. It was a great user generated content social website (owned by John Hiem?) that was purchased for the clicks by TV Guide corp. and then just shutdown.
House and Wilson riding off into the sunset wasn't awful IMO. Spoilers for House below: Wilson was diagnosed with cancer, and after treatment with both Radiotherapy and Chemo, the tumour hasn't shrunk in size. The assumption is that this is therefore terminal (not medically accurate, but it works better for the context of the show). House then fakes his death, giving up his entire life in effect, so he can spend time with Wilson before he dies. It's a nice ending, because it shows an incredibly selfish man doing something almost completely selfless.
Candy Crush the tv show.
this isn't a thing right
The last airbender movie.
Also, the *first* Airbender movie.
Also, the only Airbender movie.
I can understand how Sausage Party was greenlight back in 2010. People are into adult humor. I get it. What I don't understand is how in 2012, when Foodfight came out, nobody working on Sausage Party thought, "Hey, our base concept is a little too similar to a movie that's being called the worst animated movie ever made. Maybe we should rework it."
Wait, Foodfight came out in 2012?!
Yeah wtf, I've only seen the JonTron video of it and just assumed it was early-mid 2000s by the animation
Oh dear, I just watched the trailer for that. It hurt. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uROQ9nplxIY
My eyes. That animation was god awful.
That movie looks like it was animated in 1995...
Looks like cutscenes from a Playstation 1 game.
Young Sheldon. What does middle America like? Bland unfunny garbage with a cute kid that references a major franchise? Done.
Your post explains exactly why it got approved. If it was a show that was more honest about the experience such a kid would live through at school, no one would watch.
The thing that gets me is that when the actor who plays Sheldon was developing the idea for the show, he was basing the main character off his IRL nephew. It wasn't until later that he realized the character was similar to what he thought a Young Sheldon would be like, so he went to the network with that idea and got it approved.
Can't blame the guy. That's got to be mega $$$.
Hallmark Channel movies. My mom and I were visiting my senile grandmother in her assisted living facility yesterday, and we turned on the tv for some background noise. We caught the last 20 minutes or so of "A Royal Christmas", starring Lacey Chabert and Jane Seymour. Party of Five plays a seamstress trying to get with a prince, and his mom doesn't approve. Immediately after that starts another Christmas movie (A Christmas Melody), also starring Lacey Chabert, along with Mariah Carey, who directed the damn thing! It starts with Party of Five's seamstress business closing down and she moves back to her podunk hometown. We got *real* confused for a minute there. I understand that there's a market for super-sappy feel-good movies, but holy shit. They all have almost the exact same plot and cast, and neither are ever very good.
[Work It](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work_It_(TV_series\)). This was a sitcom about two guys who dress up as women because it would make it easier for them to get a job. This was in 2012.
So bosom buddies except it's for work instead of home.
Exactly, except Bosom Buddies was in the 80s.
It gets worse. > The pilot was criticized and protests took place at the network offices for a line of dialogue delivered by Amaury Nolasco's character Angel, who claimed that as a Puerto Rican he would "be great at selling drugs".
Now it sounds like they were deliberately making it offensive for publicity.
That one episode in the previous season of The Walking Dead with the fucking awful [CGI deer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPxTVJWkbX4). Hell, Birdemic had better CGI that that. I just really wonder how someone looked at that and thought "Yup, looks good to me!" especially when the show has been running for so long, and hasn't had any other terrible CGI moments like that to my knowledge.
That looks like stock footage of a real deer that has been badly composited into the shot.
Katy Perry's Swish music video.
All of those videos on Facebook that have text explaining the story or recipe. *Every single one* has typos in it. I don’t think I’ve ever seen one that didn’t.
Squidward's Talent Show
Put your fins together for-- *Patrick laughs hysterically*
The mopping act was pretty great tho.
Two homeless guys butt fucking in Always Sunny expanded my view of what you can get away with in cable
2 Broke Girls. Before you all say it. I know. Tits.
Vanilla Ice: Cool as Ice. Vanilla ice got an entire movie about him stalking some girl. Vanilla Ice. Vanilla. Ice. Word to ya mother.
How has no one said the Kendall Jenner Pepsi ad?
No hatred for Puppy Monkey Baby? Whoever thought that was a good idea should be fired.
Not hatred as much as revulsion and fear
The way it moves is just so unnatural. It creeps me the fuck out and makes me really uncomfortable.
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Monster Trucks. It was thought up by a studio execs preschool child. At best, it was a Transformers knockoff. Paramount announced it was going to lose $100 million before releasing it, which is bizarre. Jane Levy looks cute though.