Bad films that should have been good...

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...and what you would do to fix them.


I'll start with the obvious: The Phantom Menace.

Firstly, I'd give Lucas a good hard kick in the balls. Then I'd ethnically cleanse Naboo, find a better actor to play Anakin, remove all that political nonsense as well as the midichlorians.







I came up with the idea for this thread all by myself and anyone who says otherwise is a liar.
 
Sex and the City 1 & 2; I'd feed everyone involved to zombies so they're never ever made.

I've never even seen them and they offend me.

Edit, not saying that they should have been good, but a zombie munch fest is always good, that's my reasoning.
 
Dune - same answer as I gave to film I wanted remade. The book is awesome but the film was dire. Granted a lot of stuff in the book goes on inside the mind but surely a far better film could come from the story.
 
Robin Hood.

It's got value, but the draw of a dry plank.

Funny thing is, you could keep everything in the film and turn it in to the epic it should have been.. it just needed some emotion.
 
Alien vs Predator, two of the best franchises and the opportunity to make something epic and all we get is steaming piles of turd. We wanted lots of Aliens a few predators and some Marines and loads of carnage and suspense.

Transformers 1&2, although part of me did enjoy it, it was most definitely a case of style over everything. Those two bloody "gangsta" mini robots....why. It was like Jar Jar Binks all over.

Phantom Menace & Attack of the Clones, don’t think there’s much that already hasn’t been said.
 
Alexander - a film about the most successful military leader in history. His campaigns took him beyond the edge of the known world. He lived an extremely interesting and exciting life. Somehow Oliver stone totally failed to convey this. Alexander comes across as extremely wet. Yes he had an interesting private life, but by focussing on that excessively Stone seemed to have missed the main story.
 
Silent Hill - The first moments of entering the town showed how it SHOULD have been. It followed the game shot for shot and it was scary because of it.

So yeah to make it good i'd, y'know, make it follow the plot of the game.


Pandorum - Same plot, less of the kung-fu in space.


Pirates of the Caribbean 2 + 3 - Shot kira + orlando out of a cannon in the first scene.
 
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richyfingers said:
Alien vs Predator, two of the best franchises and the opportunity to make something epic and all we get is steaming piles of turd. We wanted lots of Aliens a few predators and some Marines and loads of carnage and suspense.

Transformers 1&2, although part of me did enjoy it, it was most definitely a case of style over everything. Those two bloody "gangsta" mini robots....why. It was like Jar Jar Binks all over.

Phantom Menace & Attack of the Clones, don’t think there’s much that already hasn’t been said.
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I agree with you on transformers 2, however the first one I thought was pretty good.
 
Oooo and, Alien Resurrection - Got rid of the entire band of 'lovable rogues'. Just had Ripley, the android and that marine guy who helped them out. The premise was great, it's just that band of pirates were utterly cringe worthy and considering they were the majority of the main cast, the film was doomed.
 
I like this game!

The Untouchables - Removed the soundtrack. Completely. Oh and replaced Kevin Costner with someone, anyone, else.
 
Max Payne should have been good, the two games were absolutely amazing, the story could have been gritty and at times slightly disturbing, maybe taking some of the comic book-ness from the games and transporting them into the film somehow but instead we got some Hollywood bull**** with Mark Wahlberg who refused to even bother playing the games so how was he ever going to fit into the character properly? Absolute trash which could have been amazing.
 
Chicken #16 said:
Johnny Depp's musical version of Sweeny Todd. Cut out the singing for a start
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But...then...it wouldn't have been an adaptation of the musical...

I was thinking about this the other day and figured that it'd have to be ANYTHING by Michael Bay. I like some of his movies but I definitely think they'd benefit from having a script that was not full of dialogue people do not say in real life...
 
Woody__ said:
But...then...it wouldn't have been an adaptation of the musical...

I was thinking about this the other day and figured that it'd have to be ANYTHING by Michael Bay. I like some of his movies but I definitely think they'd benefit from having a script that was not full of dialogue people do not say in real life...
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Or constant massive explosions...
 
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