The only film I've seen on here is Solaris, which I saw in the theater, and it was perfectly fine, possibly more watchable than the Tarkovsky version.
― Moodles, Wednesday, 20 September 2017 23:26 (yesterday) Bookmark
Can you FP a post twice?
― calzino, Thursday, 21 September 2017 08:45 (six years ago) link
Are a lot of these here cos theyre really violent horror flicks or something? I mean wolf creek is a hard watch but its not a bad movie and I dont even like horror films.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 21 September 2017 08:49 (six years ago) link
...actually the article sort of answered that, I should have read it all first dur.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 21 September 2017 08:50 (six years ago) link
Wolf Creek is a good film
― Shat Parp (dog latin), Thursday, 21 September 2017 09:00 (six years ago) link
I never heard of this thing before this week and now im seeing references to it everywhere. So these are films where basically the entire audience came out hating it?― good art is orange; great art is teal (wins), Thursday, September 21, 2017 1:29 AM (six hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
same here. and earlier this week, just a couple days ago, my partner said the same thing, like "i've never heard of this thing and now it's everywhere."crepey tbh― Karl Malone, Thursday, September 21, 2017 1:31 AM (six hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
The turns out not-so-rare CinemaScore "F" always gets a fresh round of attention every time each film that earns it is released. Then, since no one sees most of these movies, people forget all about its existence until the next time a movie gets an "F."
― Anne of the Thousand Gays (Eric H.), Thursday, 21 September 2017 13:03 (six years ago) link
I think 19 movies in 31 years counts as rare, though it's interesting that a disproportionate number are from the last decade or so
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Thursday, 21 September 2017 13:15 (six years ago) link
The really weird thing looking at their site is that pretty much anything under a "B" is reasonably rare.
― Anne of the Thousand Gays (Eric H.), Thursday, 21 September 2017 13:33 (six years ago) link
That matches most preference rating systems. On a five star system most people rarely rate things lower than 4 unless they really didn't like it. On ten point systems I think the waterline is 7.
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 21 September 2017 13:52 (six years ago) link
ordinary fuckin' people are generally satisfied with any movie as long as they get to pig out and text
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 21 September 2017 14:33 (six years ago) link
Ordinary people grade movies on whether they're worth $11 or if you should wait to stream.
― Anne of the Thousand Gays (Eric H.), Thursday, 21 September 2017 14:35 (six years ago) link
They really need to make the site searchable by score for dorks like me. I want to see the D-minuses also.
― jmm, Thursday, 21 September 2017 14:41 (six years ago) link
we're just ordinary peoplewe shoulda waited for the stream
― Neanderthal, Thursday, 21 September 2017 15:28 (six years ago) link
It's really telling that basically none of the movies which are broadly viewed as execrable and irredeemable are on this list. Like, am I to believe that Disaster Movie is really the only instance among many similar attempts when general audiences failed to connect with bottom-of-the-barrel LCD pabulum?
― Scott Staph (Old Lunch), Thursday, 21 September 2017 15:41 (six years ago) link
Those movies generally give the audience that sees them what they want.
― Anne of the Thousand Gays (Eric H.), Thursday, 21 September 2017 15:42 (six years ago) link
That's what I'm sayin', though. What made Disaster Movie in particular such an outlier? I'm curious!
― Scott Staph (Old Lunch), Thursday, 21 September 2017 15:43 (six years ago) link
8mm is another 'bad' movie I think has a great soundtrack.
Cliff Martinez is the master of this: Solaris, Contagion, Only God Forgives...all great soundtracks.
― Eazy, Thursday, 21 September 2017 15:45 (six years ago) link
those first 2 are good films
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 21 September 2017 16:10 (six years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Wednesday, 18 October 2017 00:01 (six years ago) link
In the Cut is quite good, surprised that's there. Solaris was fine.
― akm, Wednesday, 18 October 2017 13:23 (six years ago) link
I can even make a top 5:
BugThe Boxmother!Wolf CreekIn the Cut
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Wednesday, 18 October 2017 13:26 (six years ago) link
Wickerman remake is classic for "KILLING ME WON'T BRING BACK YOUR GOD DAMN HONEY!!!" alone
― frogbs, Wednesday, 18 October 2017 14:06 (six years ago) link
NARRATOR VOICE: It did.
― Monster fatberg (Phil D.), Wednesday, 18 October 2017 14:20 (six years ago) link
I've only seen The Box and Solaris. I enjoyed both!
Out of those two, I guess Solaris is technically the better movie, but an ambitious but flawed movie like the box is ultimately more interesting.
My tolerance for badly executed high concept sci-fi is much higher than with any other genre.
― silverfish, Wednesday, 18 October 2017 14:54 (six years ago) link
this is a fierce bad list
― pulled pork state of mind (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 18 October 2017 14:59 (six years ago) link
― silverfish, Wednesday, October 18, 2017 7:54 AM (nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
same, although you can add horror in for me
the bait-and-switch of the box, which starts out as a pretty standard, gorgeously shot thriller that eventually pursues its paranoid delusions all the way to their ends, is still so thrilling to me. donnie darko had a similar narrative evolution but dude executes it much better in the box imo
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Wednesday, 18 October 2017 15:06 (six years ago) link
(southland tales is one of my favorite movies of all time though so)
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Wednesday, 18 October 2017 15:07 (six years ago) link
Doctor T and the Women
been curious about this one since I caught a glimpse of Gere's hair
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 18 October 2017 15:28 (six years ago) link
It's odd. I'm not surprised its on the list--the packed house I saw it with on opening night didn't know what to make of it.
― iCloudius (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 18 October 2017 15:31 (six years ago) link
CinemaScore's surveying the audience who will go to a movie's opening day cold, having seen a trailer or advertisement at most, has illuminated a social demographic that needs a full-blown research study
who are these people, and why do they go to these movies
― mh, Wednesday, 18 October 2017 15:40 (six years ago) link
What I love about The Box is that I imagine the studio sitting Richard Kelly down after the commercial and (mostly) critical fiasco of Southland Tales and being like "OK dude we'll give you ONE more chance, but we're going to stick you with a hoary old, no-fail Twilight Zone trope so nothing goes off the rails. That work for you?"
"...sure."
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Wednesday, 18 October 2017 15:50 (six years ago) link
I couldn't make it through the first 15 minutes
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 18 October 2017 15:51 (six years ago) link
Right. What Dr. T scoring an F mainly suggests to me, though, is that Richard Gere had a lot more currency in 2000 than I would have expected.
― iCloudius (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 18 October 2017 15:52 (six years ago) link
I was thinking about writing a column about these films in chronological order but I couldn't finish the first one, Eye of the Beholder. It might actually be the worst of the bunch, just so dour and self-important and uselessly sadistic. The novelty of KD Lang being in it wears off quickly too.
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Wednesday, 18 October 2017 16:11 (six years ago) link
Hadn't heard of that one before, but I suppose it is encouraging that, for a list that seems to punish the offbeat, ambitious or potentially divisive, some of these movies really are just crap.
― iCloudius (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 18 October 2017 16:13 (six years ago) link
I mean, yeah, thank you Disaster Movie.
― Anne of the Thousand Gays (Eric H.), Wednesday, 18 October 2017 16:14 (six years ago) link
That one puzzles me, if only because I'm having a hard time imagining what the paying audience was for it in the first place beyond, I suppose, people who's first choice (and second, and third...) was sold out? And, if this series of movies (meaning post-Scary Movie spoofs) does have fans, what is it about Disaster Movie that could possibly leave a fan of Date Movie or whatever so bitterly disappointed? I almost want to watch it to find out. Almost.
― iCloudius (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 18 October 2017 16:17 (six years ago) link
Maybe they were less willing to see the humor in mass death?
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Wednesday, 18 October 2017 16:19 (six years ago) link
I saw disaster movie in theaters. it was wild. the only other people there besides me and my friend were a family of four that left 20 minutes in and a trio of siblings probably 6 to 11 years old that were completely silent the whole time, except when the Hancock starring Will Smith parody happened, upon which they all yelled "Hancock!!"
― qualx, Wednesday, 18 October 2017 17:33 (six years ago) link
remember this was the first friedberg seltzer movie to totally flop. the dream was over, and it's not like these movies actually had a real following (except dumbasses like me). also I can confirm that it was genuinely "worse" than the other ones simply because the other ones looked like they cost more than maybe $500 and 2 days to make. it was so bad.
― qualx, Wednesday, 18 October 2017 17:38 (six years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Thursday, 19 October 2017 00:01 (six years ago) link
The Wicker Man [remake] 8
I figured as such.
― Anne of the Thousand Gays (Eric H.), Thursday, 19 October 2017 03:30 (six years ago) link
hey brad, southland tales is one of my favourite movies too, my kind of people :-/
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Thursday, 19 October 2017 03:32 (six years ago) link
southland tales is a trip!
― mh, Thursday, 19 October 2017 03:51 (six years ago) link
The 5 of you voted for the box are just baffling to me. I mean you clearly exist, but how?
― jjjusten, Thursday, 19 October 2017 03:58 (six years ago) link
how shouldn't we exist?
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Thursday, 19 October 2017 03:58 (six years ago) link
well see, I've got this box here...
― Number None, Thursday, 19 October 2017 06:44 (six years ago) link
oh god help us if Clooney ever has a go at Andrei Rublev
― pulled pork state of mind (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 19 October 2017 09:45 (six years ago) link
to the outhouse
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 19 October 2017 11:22 (six years ago) link
― jjjusten, Wednesday, October 18, 2017 8:58 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
your car is a box on wheels
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Thursday, 19 October 2017 11:49 (six years ago) link
i continue to believe that "doctor t and the women" is a sequel to "the 5000 fingers of dr t", and i will not be convinced otherwise.
― bob lefse (rushomancy), Thursday, 19 October 2017 17:03 (six years ago) link