Greatest movie to earn a CinemaScore "F"

They really need to make the site searchable by score for dorks like me. I want to see the D-minuses also.

we're just ordinary people
we shoulda waited for the stream

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?

Those movies generally give the audience that sees them what they want.

That's what I'm sayin', though. What made Disaster Movie in particular such an outlier? I'm curious!

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.

those first 2 are good films

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In the Cut is quite good, surprised that's there. Solaris was fine.

I can even make a top 5:

Bug
The Box
mother!
Wolf Creek
In the Cut

Wickerman remake is classic for "KILLING ME WON'T BRING BACK YOUR GOD DAMN HONEY!!!" alone

NARRATOR VOICE: It did.

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.

this is a fierce bad list

My tolerance for badly executed high concept sci-fi is much higher than with any other genre.

― 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

(southland tales is one of my favorite movies of all time though so)

Doctor T and the Women

been curious about this one since I caught a glimpse of Gere's hair

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.

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

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."

been curious about this one since I caught a glimpse of Gere's hair

I couldn't make it through the first 15 minutes

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

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.

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.

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.

I mean, yeah, thank you Disaster Movie.

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.

Maybe they were less willing to see the humor in mass death?

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!!"

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.

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 The Wicker Man [remake]	8

I figured as such.

hey brad, southland tales is one of my favourite movies too, my kind of people :-/

southland tales is a trip!

The 5 of you voted for the box are just baffling to me. I mean you clearly exist, but how?

how shouldn't we exist?

well see, I've got this box here...

oh god help us if Clooney ever has a go at Andrei Rublev

southland tales is a trip!

to the outhouse

The 5 of you voted for the box are just baffling to me. I mean you clearly exist, but how?

― jjjusten, Wednesday, October 18, 2017 8:58 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

your car is a box on wheels

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.