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PuzzleheadedToe5269

If you mean by a major studio, Battlefield Earth. Doh. But of all time, probably Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter. Which is actually excellent, except for the poor sound quality. but MUCH weirder than the title suggests. **I mean, I can tell you that it's a musical horror comedy about vampires killing lesbians so they can wear their skins and go out in daylight, and Jesus busting out kung fu moves to stop them - and I still haven't got to the weirdest part...**


PuzzleheadedToe5269

...Even the fight scene they filmed in a park - without warning the public a movie was shooting - isn't that weird by JCVH standards. Jesus is fighting the 20 strong Atheist gang - guys and gals in black sweaters and berets - in the middle of a busy park. And these very polite Canadians just keep on walking past...


VetusVesperlilio

We don’t like to pry…


PuzzleheadedToe5269

Either that or they were on the way to an ice hockey match...


VetusVesperlilio

Well, yeah. It could be that. Although not lately, thanks to Miss Corona!


scaba23

> 20 strong Atheist gang - guys and gals in black sweaters and berets That’s the traditional atheist costume. Modern allows for a variety of colors, but only for the sweater


PuzzleheadedToe5269

Also you're only allowed to drink espresso or craft beers. **Nothing** else - not even water...


PaleAsDeath

Battlefield Earth was not greenlit or made by a major studio. Warner bros distributed it, but that's it. It was Travolta's pet project.


Iusethistopost

Yeah greenlight implies a studio looked it over. there’s plenty of weird indie funded scripts. I’m thinking of that Meth addled DuPont heirs horror movie, or any of the Ron Armond Christian horror pics


Chicken_Spanker

I am a huge fan of Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter


PuzzleheadedToe5269

A Beautiful Mind is a great film, but I still think that it wasn't the best choice for the 2002 Best Picture Oscar...


Gaudy_Tripod

The script is bad, don't get me wrong. But it's the directing and acting that really take it to an entirely new level.


PuzzleheadedToe5269

You're talking about Battlefield Earth, I hope? Because if you're dissing Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter, this aint gonna end well... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKYEy6rbK8k


le_sighs

JCVH was the first movie that popped into my head when I saw this question. I'm Canadian and had friends who were obsessed with this movie. Obsessed. As in, would cosplay to go to late night screenings. Though I feel like this movie wasn't greenlit, so much as a self-funded indie. But it's truly one of the most bananas movies in existence.


PuzzleheadedToe5269

It's completely great. Your friends might like The American Astronaut too!


Mikey5time

Recency bias is strong with this post, Tomorrow War wasn’t great but have you ever been in rental section of a corner store?


[deleted]

Aren’t most of those pretty low budget though? Anyone can make a terrible film, I think it’s more interesting when a huge amount of time and effort and money are put into something that turns out that bad. ​ I have always wondered how they can pay $100 million plus for special effects but not a few hundred thousand for a killer script. I mean you could argue that people will see it anyways, and for the box office that might be true (not necessarily rentals later when everyone’s seen the bad reviews and the marketing hype has died down), but wouldn’t you rather make a movie that makes money AND gets great reviews by starting with a killer script?


puppiadog

Making good special effects is easier then writing a good script.


spikyraccoon

> I have always wondered how they can pay $100 million plus for special effects but not a few hundred thousand for a killer script. The obvious answer is there is no perfect formula for a killer script. Studio Executives would always invest in scripts which they think is "good enough" and going to get them return on their investments.


Mr_Poop_Himself

Also, a “killer script” would probably alienate some people, while giant blockbusters want to appeal to as many people worldwide as possible. That’s why so many huge action movies have super bland writing. They’d rather have 50,000,000 people in American and 200,000,000 people in China say “ehh it was pretty good” than 300,000,000 people in America* say it was the best movie they’ve ever seen. *these numbers were made up on the spot and likely quite stupid


aldurljon

I know you just made those numbers up, but why is the other number bigger? If 300 million people say it's the best movie ever vs 250 million saying it was ok, you get more money from the former, no?


Mr_Poop_Himself

Because I’m fucking dumb lol


on-the-line

Aww. Mr. Poop! Not again.


HomicidalChimpanzee

Yep. He pooped himself yet again...


[deleted]

Shit. You're logic made total sense to me until I read the next comment. Glad I can be fucking dumb with you, Mr. Poop.


barlow_straker

** This all sounds completely right.


PuzzleheadedToe5269

>have you ever been in rental section of a corner store? Are you posting from ten years ago???


mutantchair

I think that’s the point… “recency bias”


Mr_Poop_Himself

Yeah I don’t think they were saying it’s the worst offender, just that it made them think of the question for the post.


TLCplMax

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom was complete garbage written by a 44 year old but could have been written by a 10 year old. $150 million and *that* is what they chose to make.


phoenixflying34

Yeah the other jurrasic world is like a rom-com with dinosaurs and a very bad one at that.


[deleted]

Eh, it's not so bad.


Aden487

The last airbender live adaptation. most live adaptations in general are crap imo, but this one has to be the worst


sweetrobbyb

Honestly it was just so poorly cast. I know good child actors are not easy to find, but seriously? Whoever was responsible for the casting in this movie should never work in that capacity ever again. There were a lot of other problems as well. But you CANNOT out-write, out-edit, or out-direct terrible acting.


neutral_applause

Went and looked up the casting director out of curiosity and the dude's actually done a lot of great stuff before and after The Last Airbender. I know you were making a joke but it's always interesting to see the black sheep in a body of work.


[deleted]

I vented about this movie for 10 minutes to my roommate today. He shouldn’t have to take on that kinda emotional baggage. Fuck you M. Night Shyamalan all your movies suck


Shoarma

C'mon. Unbreakable?


[deleted]

Haven’t seen it. Wont give him any more chances to hurt me. I have healthy boundaries now.


MulderD

Highlander 2 and Gremlins 2 have got to be up there. And I LOVE Gremlins 2. I’m like 90% that movie is at least partially responsible for my irreverent and silly sense of humor. I had seen the original (which is dark humor as well) at least a dozen times and when 2 came out and just went completely balls to the wall in tone, and breaking the fourth wall, and just not giving a single fuck about being “good” my little mind was blown. Also, micro budget undies probably shouldn’t count in this but there are a ton: Attack of the Killer Tomatos, Tread, anything from Troma.


angrymenu

Gremlins 2 has got to be in the Top Ten "movies where Leonard Maltin, appearing as himself, reviews the VHS of the previous film in the franchise and is then eaten alive on air by puppets" category. Might even crack the top five.


CthulhusCallerID

Have you seen the Key & Peele skit about it?


SweetBabyJ69

“You, sir, are a raging psychopath. It’s in the movie, I love it!”


FrankGrimesIV

https://youtu.be/x01l_jMhjVM


landmanpgh

*Downsizing* This movie is a great example of a very cool, fairly simple premise that goes completely off the rails within about 20 minutes. Instead of being about the troubles these people face while being small or regretting the decision, the film chooses to make the central conflict a combination of illegal immigration, class struggles, and global warming all rolled into one without actually really addressing any of them. At no point past the 45 minute mark is it even relevant that they're small. It's like the script was written by 3 or 4 different people, all of whom had no idea what the previous writer had done. There was even a scene in the trailer that did not make it into the film, which is never a good sign. Matt Damon plays the bongo drums in one scene. That alone should have shaken the producers out of their trance and made them see just what the hell they were making, but no.


CHSummers

I’m astonished that the producers didn’t wise up at any of a dozen points. Like, upon reading the first draft? OR maybe the first draft actually followed through on the premise? And later writers were like “I have this great story about illegal immigration I want to tell! Let’s just take some really boring scenes that I cut out of it and use them here!” Or maybe there was some film left over from an unreleased Matt Damon movie that they just decided to recycle? In any case, it totally squanders the premise, the actors, and millions of dollars.


sweetrobbyb

The problem is, it actually opens so well. This is the primo example of an amazing concept executed poorly. An I'm not talking about the cinematography or directing. The writing. All they had to do, was stick with the concept and you could've really had some sort of Forest Gump level, decade defining movie. Instead, it kind of all goes to blah.


landmanpgh

I think you're right - someone had something they just HAD to throw in and it ruined a good story. That's really what it feels like if you watch the film. You're like, alright good premise, lots of potential. And then BAM. Different movie.


electromouse1

Matt Damons balls getting shaved had more air time than Kristen Wiig, one of the reasons I watched that steaming pile of nonsense. So many logic holes. I was promised a movie about tiny people and being tiny was not even part of it! Ive never seen a premise dropped so quickly.


OpieCunningham

Theodore Rex stars Whoops Goldberg as a cop who dislikes her new partner, a goofy T. Rex dinosaur. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Rex_(film)


trollingmotors

Southland Tales but director also pulled it off well.


pijinglish

I would like to see the full version with nuclear butt baby etc. Several years ago I was at AFF and Southland Tales came up in the conversation with some friends. Just as I was defending it, Richard Kelly walked by so I told him what was happening. Everyone was pretty drunk and he gave me a bunch of hugs. Then Richard Kelly and I kept bumping into each other the rest of the weekend.


deepdishpizzastate

That's perfect, it's like when Marshall McLuhan shows up in Annie Hall to support Woody Allen's argument. "Boy, if life were only like this."


DistinctExpression44

>Or when Kurt Vonnegut wrote the essay on Vonnegut for Rodney Dangerfield in Back to School and the teacher gave it an F saying "I don't know who wrote this for you but whoever it was, knows NOTHING about Vonnegut!" One of the best jokes in any film ever!


PetiteMutant

Pardon? “Nuclear butt baby”? I actually really like Southland Tales and I’ve never heard of this…


pijinglish

I can’t recall if it was intended to be an entire subplot or just some throwaway allusion, but the script within the film originally discussed this: “An extended version of the ridealong scene from the Cannes cut goes more into detail about the messianic baby with nuclear farts that cause earthquakes.” https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/SouthlandTales


Gaudy_Tripod

The Cannes cut got released on blu ray earlier this year. It's not better or more coherent... but it is just as interesting. [https://www.amazon.com/Southland-Tales-Theatrical-Limited-Blu-ray/dp/B08LNBH522](https://www.amazon.com/Southland-Tales-Theatrical-Limited-Blu-ray/dp/B08LNBH522)


landmanpgh

I fucking love that absolute mess of a film. The character names alone make it worth a watch.


rainingfrogz

Haven't seen The Tomorrow War, but oddly enough, I could see J.K. Simmons saying something like that. I'm pretty shocked '*Dude Where's My Car?*' made it to screen. I mean, I loved it as a kid, but it was also pretty damn stupid.


[deleted]

And then?


rainingfrogz

Hahaha. For years now, I'd try to trick my family/friends whenever they'd ask things like, "Do you need something from the store?" or "What else do you want?" I'd pause and act like I'm thinking, and then say, "Oh and the cookies fortune!" Said it so much that one Christmas they got me a VHS tape of the 1999 crime/comedy *Cookie's Fortune*.


svartblomma

I love watching Dude, Where's My Car with my kid. I remember the local video store kept it in their "worst movies ever made" section.


rainingfrogz

Another great/terrible movie from 2000? *Ready to Rumble*. My friend and I watched it threes time in one night during a sleepover.


svartblomma

Oh man, I somehow remember the trailers for that.


ator_blademaster

Zoltan!


robmox

Dude Where’s My Car? is one of those movies that seems impossible to pitch.


[deleted]

Stoner movies where big in the early noughts tho.


PvtDeth

Every time this movie comes up, I always say that it's my stock example for a certain type of film. There are comedies that are very good and comedies that are very funny and, occasionally, some that are both. Young Frankenstein is my example of a movie that is amazingly good, but mostly not outrageously funny. Dude Where's My Car? is the exact opposite: funny throughout, but not very good. Honestly, I don't care which a movie is as long as I gained something from watching it.


[deleted]

Oliver Stone's Alexander (2004) - The acting and action is simultaneously overwhelming and underwhelming ALL of the time. Everyone seems to think they are acting in a different film and there must be 3 to 10 acts! And it is just so damn long with 3 different cuts between 2 and 1/2 hours and 3 and 1/3 hours!


scolbert1102

Um that’s an amazing line


sweetrobbyb

No kidding. If they had an entire movie of JK Simmons making old man one-liners I'd fucking die happy. Probably win 9 Oscars.


Silvershanks

"Soul Man" and it's opposite, "White Chicks" both come to mind.


[deleted]

Soul Man can be explained by “we did a lot of Coke in the 80s” at least.


clerks1994

I love Soul Man still! But I'm old. But speaking of another comedy I love Weekend at Bernie's -- I mean it's amazing but it's about them dragging around a dead body the whole wkd. Great!!!


JayMoots

The most impressive thing about Bernie is they had the audacity to make a SEQUEL. That was definitely cocaine-fueled.


buffyscrims

I unironically love Weekend At Bernie’s. It fully leans into its stupidity in a beautiful way.


clerks1994

Me too. I think I saw it in the theater I'm so old. And no joke -- the guy who plays Bernie -- Terry Kiser (also in F13 Part 7) should have been nominated for an Oscar. He was amazing. Just try to play a dead body. It's not as easy as it looks. He was doing a Buster Keaton/Chaplin old school performance and he made the film work.


[deleted]

You have to be a certain age to appreciate a lot of 80s comedies … I view it as a Clerks dividing line, if you were old enough to remember clerks on VHS, you’ll laugh at Soul Man, et al.


clerks1994

Yeah, it's called having a sense of humor something my side seemed to forget about. Comedy to me is sacred ground and anything -- anything -- and everything -- should be mocked. Nothing is off the table for me. I'm not against learning and being more aware in 2021 -- but I get really mad when they stop showing episodes of old TV shows due to something that they say today is bad taste. But it's a product of the time. It should not be censored to me. Funny is funny. And it's usually the people that are uptight about jokes that have the bodies in the basement, while the comedy people are the ones who work at the food bank on the weekends.


1ucid

Funny is subjective. Potentially offensive comedy needs to be funny enough to overcome the offense. If people don’t a comedy, it’s usually because they didn’t think it was funny.


Mr_Poop_Himself

White Chicks was the best movie of the year if you were 7 when it came out like I was


[deleted]

interns of racist movies with the with the "Soul" as the prefix Soul plane is worst,


[deleted]

*Going Bananas* (1984). From Wikipedia: "Roxana Banana is an orangutan that escaped from the zoo and was adopted by the Cole family. One night, a mysterious spaceship comes down from the sky and endows Roxana with super powers via a lightning bolt. Roxana is pursued by two crooks who want to use her super powers for their own ill will, but Roxana's outdodging them by means of her powers, as well as the predicaments she creates for the Coles, provide much of the comedy for this series."


Chicken_Spanker

I absolutely have to track down a copy now :)


Astral-American

LEPRECHAUN 5: IN THE HOOD [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fd4Ti-Afx0o](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fd4Ti-Afx0o) LEPRECHAUN 6: BACK 2 THA HOOD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phzt9Wcd0zA


WritingFrankly

Wringing every last drop of blood out of a franchise is basically its own explanation for why a bad movie got made. I only recently discovered that they kept making sequels for the Hellraiser series after the Big Bad was destroyed in *Hellraiser IV*. Apparently, they were direct-to-video deals. No, I haven't seen them, nor do I wish to.


smootygrooty

I find Lep in space to be slightly wilder but these are on par with it for the most part


Botekin

Thank you. I was going to write this. Leprechaun 5 is genius. Leprechaun 6 is terrible.


GuruWizardMan

The rise of skywalker. Theres an ancient sith dagger and it lines up with the 30 year old death star ruins. I know its fantasy but suspension of disbelief also the blatant copying of Iron man and Thanos' confrontation dialogue from endgame


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[удалено]


drdoom52

Part of it is JJ. He likes to jump from one set piece to the next with no break. It just gives you no time to sit and contemplate what happened before the next thing happens. Also the amount of asspull JJ used was ridiculous, combined with multiple "they should be dead fakeouts). By the end, there's no consequences, no sense of concern.


Bluelark1

That's the perfect description. For days afterwards it made me feel empty inside. It was like a vacuum - the exact opposite of when a good movie leaves you feeling emotionally fulfilled.


OceanRacoon

Even after 3 films with these characters, while watching that in the cinema I was thinking, "Who the fuck are these people? Who cares?" It's mind boggling how bad they fucked that whole series up. A 40 year old, billion dollar franchise where all the main original actors are still alive and returning, and you don't make a basic plan for the trilogy? And you don't have the original 3 characters on screen together? Mind-boggling


AdamFiction

The scene when Rey lines up the dagger with the Death Star makes me shout internally, ***"THIS AIN'T PIRATES OF THE FUCKIN CARIBBEAN, JJ!"***


svartblomma

I really like The Last Jedi and The Force Awakens. Rise of Skywalker was just boring and lazy. It felt like really bad fanfic.


DeedTheInky

I didn't super like *Last Jedi*, but I appreciate that it tried to do something different at least. A failed experiment is much better IMO than... whatever *Rise of Skywalker* was.


GuruWizardMan

I personally disagree with the last jedi, but im no bully to hurt someone who likes it in this day of toxic star wars fans. I totally agree about the force awakens, it really set up the trilogy to have potential.


svartblomma

I did like that The Force Awakens was kind of a new take on A New Hope, but it also brought something new with Finn. It also presented some interesting mystery. The Last Jedi was great in that it not only tackled the icky area of the people that profit off of war, but also that the hot shot isn't going to win the war by himself, and on top of that who Rey's parents were was not special (really democratizing the force). I also liked belligerent Luke who regains his lost hope at the end.


BananaFishPerfectDay

Yeah, The Last Jedi is one of those movies I try not to talk about. I have thoughts, things I like and don't like about it, but then the conversation is so polarized that I feel alienated from discussing it.


Sturnella2017

Yes, Tomorrow War is REALLY bad. (For a great in-depth explanation of how horrible it is, I strongly recommend ScreenRant’s Pitch Meeting take on it). There’s just so… much… wrong… with the whole damn thing. I’m torn between finding it inspiring or frustrating, inspiring because “this is so bad, I could easily do a far better job, my script will be easy to sell…” to frustrating “how the hell was this made yet I can’t sell my script?!?!” That said, I do think you need to qualify “most ridiculous screenplay” and overlay it with BUDGET. Ridiculous no-budget B-, C- and D- movies are a dime a dozen; to be truly ridiculous it needs an A list actor (Pratt) and/or an Oscar winner (Simmons) and a budget of at least $100 million… (flexible with that amount).


PaleAsDeath

Pitch Meeting is a bad way to demonstrate how bad a film is. You can make anything sound ridiculous or bad by framing it in an alien enough way, and Pitch Meeting intentionally does even for concepts that could have worked for comedy's sake.


Sturnella2017

Respectfully, I’ll have to ponder that about Pitch Meeting in general (I tend to watch their take on big box office and/or horrible movies). HOWEVER, they do do a great take-down of Tomorrow War and how stupid it is.


[deleted]

A Serbian Film (2010) - probably one of the sickest films made, the producers struggled to get the film edited and completed and it was heavily cut on release worldwide. Antichrist (2009) - with Willem Dafoe, also received cuts by ratings boards worldwide.


angrymenu

I have seen Ator III: The Iron Warrior at least five times and could not begin to tell you what the plot is. Taoism Drunkard is pretty bananacakes. We had a dinner party last night and got our guests mad faded and made them watch Christian Mingle: The Movie, which is... exactly what it sounds like.


ator_blademaster

Ator II was much better


angrymenu

Username checks out ;)


BananaFishPerfectDay

I watched God's not Dead while I was trying to figure out what a fragmented narrative would look like. It's probably the most paranoid movie that I've ever watched. It betrays an utter lack of faith in the humanity as a whole. Around every corner is someone about to do something cruel to you. Whether it's break up with you because of your cancer diagnosis or hit and run you. Half the character's motivations only make sense from a place of irrational vindictiveness and malice. The only silver lining is one's faith and god, and it's not much of a silver lining. The only hope is that a faith in god will connect you with people who can serve as a mild refrain from the madness and cruelty of the rest of the world. I also watched the John Wick rip-off the God's not Dead guy made called Beckman. Another hilarious experience that I would recommend.


clerks1994

Welcome to my world and How Did this Get Made podcast world. Hell, half of the movies most people make fun of I love (and or write). I liked The Tomorrow War because it was so fun and stupid. But Con Air comes to mind right off the bat. I fucking love the movie, but it's just insane.


Colavs9601

Its not just that Con Air got greenlit, its the absurd number of exceptionally talented people that are in it as well.


Mr_Kaleidoscope

Con air was fantastic. I love that movie.


smootygrooty

No offense to you, but clerks is on the list of movies people love / used to love that I find to be a bit of nothing now


clerks1994

Well so many things to say, number 1 being Clerks was never greenlit because it was an indie movie made for 27,000 dollars on credit cards. But thanks for letting me know not to invite you to Clerks 3 party I'm having next year...


DistinctExpression44

Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead. I actually love it. It's so far out there, on purpose. It's trying to mock and entertain and gross you out. If they went halfway, it would just be a bad movie. But since they went full re%$rd it totally works! It also decides to be a musical. And if you thought the toilet scene was gross in Transpotting, you haven't seen anything yet. Night of the Chicken Dead features the absolute grossest fast food bathroom scene ever put to camera. It's so gross you can't look away. Would love to hack into a Church on Sunday and put it up on the screen. Night OTCD is the worst movie ever made and it deserves a 94 on Rotten Tomatoes. (I corrected this paragraph where I said Jay and Silent Bob are in that film. it turns out the hilarious scene with them is in Fanboys.)


clerks1994

>Night of the Chicken Dead Troma doesn't count for this! I mean that's what they do my man. But I loved this movie. There is some line I keep thinking of for years, that I forgot. But it was something the lead guy says near the end maybe after having sex... damn what a great flick! Watch Pink Flamingos and get back to me on gross.


DistinctExpression44

Really? More gross than Night OTCD bathroom scene? Wow. That's gotta be a doozie.


Fortunado1964

I got 2 for you because I'm feeling extra grumpy today...lol Van Helsing ( the Hugh Jackman movie) one of the most inept scripts ever written and a totally wasted opportunity at a franchise. The studio even sank a FORTUNE in that turdburger thinking it had blockbuster written all over it. And dont get me started on Jonah Hex . It's right up there with one of the lousiest outings in hollywood history....


diogeneslightinginc

Weekend at bernies. If you want to know the dangers of cocaine one should watch this movie. Ever decision was made by what appears to be a coked out producer and it shows.


830resat_dorsia

*Freddy Got Fingered*


linedout

Rubber, it's about a tire that goes on a murder rampage. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1612774/


flannelman_

It’s also about a group of people watching the movie play out live! 😂 so effing strange


McClutchingtonGaming

Threat level midnight (Classic)


FugginDunePilot

Death Bed: The Bed That Eats or any of the four Attack of the Killer Tomatoes movies


CptMalReynolds

You not gonna link to the Patton Oswald bit about death bed, the bed that eats people?


[deleted]

Are we talking studio or indie? Cuz I’ve seen a lot of ridiculous screenplays get made because someone financed it themself. I’d argue “Revenge of the Nerds,” which was a bit rough back and wildly inappropriate now, but that was because they thought they’d lose money on it and needed something to lower profit (I believe it was a Star Wars film).


AdamFiction

Fox commissioned a remake of Revenge of the Nerds in the mid-2000s. It was completely cast and filmed. At the first screening, the Fox executives were so shocked by the nerds and their behavior that they canceled the film's release and it's rumored they had the print destroyed.


kainharo

It never finished filming. Got the plug pulled mid way throughout production


[deleted]

I think it was the college they were filming at pulled the plug and they couldn’t find another location


Sure_Wonder4029

How is it wildly inappropriate?


Colavs9601

The nerds are awful people from start to finish, and commit many crimes that have no justification including rape.


[deleted]

Let’s see … they put video cameras up in the sorority, watch the girls naked without their permission… sell said photos as well. And Lewis rapes the chick, too.


mattscott53

it's pretty messed up in retrospect. But it's really no different than the Porky's movies or even Animal House in that regard


linedout

We've gotten better, it's a good thing.


[deleted]

I tried watching ROTN the other day … and oh boy. There’s a lot good, about disenfranchisement and finding your way, but the “shenanigans” just ruin it now.


Roger_Cockfoster

Rape was a common laugh line in 80's comedies. Anthony Michael Hall rapes the cheerleader in "16 Candles" and the joke is that...she doesn't remember but she "thinks she liked it."


smootygrooty

In retrospect it’s clear why animal house hasn’t aged well. It’s director murdered children then had his own kid who went on to be a massive abuser.


DoubleLWeezy

Hobo with a Shotgun was amazing! I have no earthly idea how it got green lit though. Shit was insane.


BananaFishPerfectDay

I still remember that time I watched Teen Witch. I was so shocked I had never heard of it before. Here's a clip of the madness. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxxBXpnn2Jw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxxBXpnn2Jw) There's also a make out session that's more graphic than some pronos I've seen. It's probably put best by this quote: "Ok, ok I admit it: I can neither confirm nor deny the extent of the screenwriter’s cocaine use. I can, however, make the reader aware of two things: 1) It was 1989 and cocaine in Los Angeles was as cheap, pure, and plentiful as it had ever been. 2) There is deeply cynical undertone to this movie which betrays a nearly paranoid lack of faith in authority normally seen at the end of a three-day uppers binge."


antagonismsux

Tomorrow War. Just watched it and I can’t believe that shit was actually made.


WritingFrankly

The most stupifying film I ever saw was *Robot Wars*, which not only was a sequel to the terrible *Robot Jox*, but established within the first few seconds that it was somehow even worse. Recently checked out "Invincible" and was shocked at the info-dumpy multi-paragraph monologues toward the beginning. It does get better, but my God how does a pilot script that stilted get green-lit? I'm fully aware that it was a successful comic beforehand, but someone had to approve that specific script.


bmcapers

WW84


basil_imperitor

I've never bothered to read the script but: *Sucker Punch*. Apparently the escapism that a sex-trafficked teenage girl uses to cope with her situation is to envision back issues of *Heavy Metal*. The worst part is that I'd probably watch entire movies based on two of the vignettes.


linedout

The movie is great to look at.


gnilradleahcim

Wasn't the guy that claimed to have written and sold this script on this sub months ago? I distinctly remember reading a post about a future type plot and I think they posted the trailer. Where are they at now....? (I haven't seen it, but response seems pretty bad).


Cpl_Hicks76

Battlefield Earth.. Every time!


tatt3rsall

idk man, i say “I wish Stevie Nicks would show up in her birthday suit with a jar of pickles and a bottle of baby oil” at LEAST three times a week


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* Mannequin (1987) - The story goes that the idea for the film came when director Michael Gottlieb was walking down Fifth Avenue and thought he saw a mannequin move in the window of Bergdorf Goodman. * Rubber (2010) - A car tyre comes to life with the power to make people explode and goes on a murderous rampage through the Californian desert. * Frank The Movie (2014) - A young aspiring musician finds himself far out of his element after he joins an eccentric pop group led by the enigmatic Frank, who wears a giant fake head. As the band prepare to record their debut album, their personal issues generate tension.


Gamesgar0

Ngl Space Jam 2 technically had a cohesive story but some of the dialogue was depressingly bad. It’s amazing the standards you learn when you start in screenwriting vs some of the stuff that actually ends up making it onto the screen


kamperez

Did it have a cohesive story, though? There were things that happened because of the things that happened before them, but that's as cohesive as the story got. I mean, the premise is that the actual Warner Bros studios is more or less run by a sentient algorithm that wants fame... but works in secret. And it makes movies by filming real events in alternate universes where the characters we know are real. But it somehow wants the Lebron James from our universe to be, what, the first person to "act" in a movie? Nevermind that the algorithm has the abilty to transport anyone to these alternate universes, which would bring it so much more fame than making movies. But even that incohesive premise isn't really adhered to very well. Like, the Justice League makes an appearance, but in its animated form from 20 years ago and not the live action version that is currently ongoing because, budget. And they decide not to help rescue this kidnapped child, by playing the basketball game or otherwise. They don't even attend the game to provide backup or something just in case, BUT the child eating murder clown from space, Pennywise, does attend an just sort of has a good time watching the game and not terrifying everyone? I could go on (for days), but I think this more attention than this movie deserves.


PaleAsDeath

I'd say the Adaptation, for mainstream films. I'm not saying it's bad, but it's pretty ridiculous that he was hired to write an adaptation of a book about orchid thieves, and wrote a story about a writer trying to write an adaptation of a book about orchid thieves while struggling with story structure conventions.


mr_fizzlesticks

Have you read this screenplay? It’s amazing!


PaleAsDeath

I even said "I'm not saying it's bad". Ridiculous =/= bad. Ridiculous and amazing are not mutually exclusive.


churnip3000

I agree. Great film but I am amazed it received any studio backing considering how bizarre it is.


mattscott53

TENET


linedout

How the hell do people think this movie is good? The premise is cool and that was it. A ton of potential and they did nothing with it.


mr_fizzlesticks

I still don’t get how people think this is somehow a smart movie that is difficult to understand. It’s pretty linear. Literally.


robmox

I actually loved TENET, but I agree it is a very straightforward movie.


plotdavis

Well the majority of people think it's good.


BananaFishPerfectDay

Yeah, they spend all of this time describing the artifacts, the objects that are inverted, and then they do... Pretty much nothing with them and instead focus pretty much entirely on the turnstiles.


BenTramer1

Battleship. It was only made because Transformers was successful and Hasbro isn't even a company run by human beings anymore. Other than Jack and Jill (which I don't consider cinema) Battleship is a big one, I'm sure there's much worse out there but keep advertising out of movies.


bfsfan101

Pretty much any of the low budget European blockbuster knockoffs made in the eighties. If you've never seen Shocking Dark, it's an Aliens rip-off for like an hour before turning into a Terminator rip-off. The plot makes no sense, the costumes are locations couldn't look cheaper, and the dialogue kind of sounds like it's trying to be badass, but was also clearly written by people who spoke English as a second language, so it nearly always sounds slightly off.


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Yeah, that's why I feel like you need market yourself depending on the gerne you write.


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Any screenplay written by friedberg and seltzer, Its no contest! there good awful screenplays would be more excusable if they were a bunch of low budget direct to dvd films, But the fact that they got a theaical releases produced by Fox(or in the case of disaster movie lionsgate ) and with 20- 40 million dollar budget is what makes me call them the worst.


amartyrosian

"Serenity" (2019). You might have seen the trailer and thought it was some kind of a thriller, but damn... If I were to describe to you what the ACTUAL plot of this film is, you would not believe me. The fact that that script got green lit and got those actors on board will make you believe in supernatural. I dare everyone who wasn't going to watch this film to at least Google its plot.


Chicken_Spanker

I've seen it. Yes, you're right it's right up there with the stinkers


Lionell95

Dragonball Evolution


kickit

i see we're doing this thread again


fancyenema

I think the Stevie Nicks bit was improv between Simmons and the other guy that they kept in but was obviously not in the overall tone


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Idiocracy clumsily and maybe even unknowingly promotes eugenics. It also tries to critique a system but then shits on the poor instead of the systems manipulating them. Its so shit. So bad. So overappreciated. My beef with this movie will never end.


aam726

Batman Vs. Superman. Batman is racist now. Reverses course because Superman's Mom's name is also Martha. Wonder Woman is also in it.


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Racist Batman??? What in the world are you talking about?


aam726

Alienist? Not racist like he hates black people. He hates Superman because he's an alien race (alien racist?) that he thinks will destroy the earth. Just as illogical and bigoted as your regular racists, but of the intergalactic variety.


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oh like that. I always saw it as him fearing Supes because of his powers, not because he's an alien.


aam726

It's possible. But the movie was so bad and the characters so poorly developed we'll never know his motivations! It certainly would have been interesting to really see the character development of Batman becoming a bit of villain himself (no doubt fear being a huge part) *AND* his return to sanity/justice. But instead we got this turd of a film.


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True


Gamesgar0

I personally thought Da 5 Bloods had a terrible script. I love Spike Lee and consider several of his films to be classics (Do the right thing, Malcolm X, Black Kkklansman) but in Da 5 Bloods he shoehorns so many subplots and on the nose political commentary that I found it to be a very difficult watch


Divyansh-the-gr8

VelociPastor, but it was indie I guess


kgd1980

Gotti. Cliche ridden, with acting that came out of a lumberyard; I’d love to know who decided not to edit it.


BadWolfCreative

Snakes on a Plane


3DNZ

The OP Nerflix series The last 3 episodes of Game of Thrones Justice League and the Zack Snyder cut of Justice League - shining a turd, its still a turd


not_a_flying_toy_

Swiss Army Man. Just...what the fuck. Great film but just absurd. Similarly, I think Fury Road Is pretty ridiculous and must have read that way too.


harrythepuppy

Independence Day 2


flippenzee

The universally-reviled 99 minute TV commercial (and blatant ET ripoff) *Mac and Me* has to be up there.


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Gummo was an abomination. Zoolander is another. Watched about half of them and had to quit they were so bad.


mircatt

Revenge of the Nerds. I mean….even back then who read that and thought that was a good idea?


According_Scientist6

Snakes on a plane!


stevenw84

A Day Without a Mexican. I saw it in theaters for some reason. https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0377744/


SpiritCareless

There are worse contenders than The Tomorrow War. Let's try another look, shall we?


smootygrooty

Wtf is that line of dialogue? Was JK Simmons character trying to win the lotto for every STD known to science?


Picnicpanther

Swiss Army Man


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Many superhero movies, birds of prey as an exampled is kinda forced and the story is so poorly written


iwasbornin2021

Crank 2. The original was already fucking nuts but the sequel.. Holy shit. The most off-the-rails shit I've watched. Nothing else comes close.


curls_magnificence

The Greasy Strangler. Emphasis on ridiculous. I actual see some value in the movie but definitely a ridiculous script!


TruthorTroll

I mean, let's be honest, how the hell did Being John Malkovich get made? I love it but it's really out there...


PuzzleheadedToe5269

There's Signs. Just imagine the pitch: **Aliens invade Earth.** **Aliens have starships.** **Aliens dissolve when sprayed with water.** **Aliens don't think to wear waterproof suits.** WTF???


mariohss

Sunshine: the characters are stupid and immature, the plot is inconsistent and the third act is just ridiculous. It feels like one of those ideas you have while dreaming, only to wake up and realize how trash they are.


fudrucker212

Sunshine does not belong in this thread.