I had to watch Dark dubbed for the same reasons (sadge)Nah, there's a lot of tat around from foreign countries too - just trial and error as with domestic language stuff.
I'm at a bit of an impasse with foreign movies as my wife isn't a native language speaker so needs dubbing as can't keep up with reading English subs but I personally hate dubbing. So we compromise and watch dubbed
Over-rated / terrible movies?
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Nearly all superhero films
All Disney star wars (except rogue one)
All Disney star wars (except rogue one)
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Oh god I had to rack my brains but a clear winner for me.
Life of Pi
I was so close to walking out but instead just played with my phone.
We had a 200 seat cinema to ourselves so I wasn't rude to anyone
F that film I don't care if I'm uncultured or didn't understand the deep bs metaphors of it all... Zzzz
Nope
That film was 4/10 at best and it was getting rated at the time as amazing.
All i can say is Nope. Race card played to max profit.
Life of Pi
I was so close to walking out but instead just played with my phone.
We had a 200 seat cinema to ourselves so I wasn't rude to anyone
F that film I don't care if I'm uncultured or didn't understand the deep bs metaphors of it all... Zzzz
Nope
That film was 4/10 at best and it was getting rated at the time as amazing.
All i can say is Nope. Race card played to max profit.
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Maverick was good because it was a breath of old air from a time when men were men and commies were commies.
Not superheroes, not female remakes just a plane porn action film.
Not superheroes, not female remakes just a plane porn action film.
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I Am Legend (all versions). The whole point of the story is the ending. Without that, it's just a cheesy zombie film.
Anyone who has read it will know exactly what I mean.
Anyone who has read it will know exactly what I mean.
Wait wait wait... they used Tom Cruise to remake The Mummy??!! Absolute blasphemy!!!
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God, I pressed 'like' by mistake ... are you telling me the Mr Creosote or Bigus Dickus bits don't have you in stitches? That's impossible.
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I fell asleep on two separate occasions watching District 9 at the cinema...
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Have read the book multiple times and can’t fathom how script writers for all the movie attempts failed so utterly to grasp that concept. It’s not even that difficult a story to translate to a movie, imo, there’s plenty of ‘action’ in the book so it’s not like it would be dull. They couldn’t even do the dog bit properly in the Will Smith movie.
Not at all, the Carry On movies did that sort of thing much better.
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Can't think of a decent film that was originally a TV series.
Live action films of animated or puppetry kids shows are pants.
Live action films of animated or puppetry kids shows are pants.
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Agreed!
The whole point of the book is his revelation at the end. That's why the films' happy endings are wrong.
My boy read it recently. He didn't like the dog bit, but loved the book. There is some hope for him yet!
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Hate book to film adaptations and real life things that create new characters.
Then when film crew make historical films, get the things correct. Classic film gaffes are like driving a car which was made 20 years after the time the film was set, using modern day terms, having a film poster in background which was released in the 70s, not in the 60s when film was based.
One classic mistake is in the King’s Speech. Film is based over several years yet the Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret stay the same!
Then when film crew make historical films, get the things correct. Classic film gaffes are like driving a car which was made 20 years after the time the film was set, using modern day terms, having a film poster in background which was released in the 70s, not in the 60s when film was based.
One classic mistake is in the King’s Speech. Film is based over several years yet the Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret stay the same!
The Last Jedi - without a doubt. If there a example of how to cripple a franchise, a story this is it. Created by idiots that didnt give a **** about the characters, the story or continuity of its predecessors. All down to Kathleen Kennedy and Rian Johnson in particular.
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The Great Wall. $150m plus marketing, and they made...that.
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Watched Scarface on Friday, Al Pacino is phenomenal but the film's overly long, not very well written and isn't very good.
Yup, worst war movie I've ever seen. Tries to be very serious, but it's complete Hollywood nonsense. I'm surprised Hitler wasn't driving the Tiger himself.
Kelly's Heroes is superb, a good fun movie that doesn't take itself too seriously.