The Campaign Builder's Guild

This is a thread for member to rant and rave about shoddy movies that, by all rights, should have been amazing.

It's been awhile since I saw the movie, and since it was only on TV, I never found out the name, but there's this one movie about 'Nam. Specifically, citizen chopper units over the Ho Chi Min Trail. Mel Gibson and Robert Downey JR. Sounds great, right? It sucked. The entire movie seemed to be, "how many climatic scenes can we jam into one script?".

Another movie I watched more Recently was Boondock Saints. Willem Dafoe is an FBI agent on the trail of a small band of vigilantes that style themselves after Angels of Justice. Sounds cool so far, but why FBI? There was a total of about 3 minutes where Dafoe was gay, and the rest of the two hours completely ignored this part of his character. Why?! What about the Brothers' fluency in so many languages if they only used three, and only needed to use two ("english" and "other")? Don't get me started on the jingling crucifixes...


Anybody else got any gripes about shoddy productions of otherwise excellent flicks? I'd loke to hear 'em!

Quote from: CornThere was a total of about 3 minutes where Dafoe was gay

To be fair he was very gay throughout the entire film. When he lost it he went to a gay bar, was caught in bed with another guy when he was called about a crime scene, and then there's the whole scene at the end of the movie where he's pretending to be a prostitute. One of my friends said "Wait, is he gay?" within seconds of dafoe coming on screen. It wouldn't have been the same character if he wasn't.

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Quote from: CornThere was a total of about 3 minutes where Dafoe was gay

To be fair he was very gay throughout the entire film. When he lost it he went to a gay bar, was caught in bed with another guy when he was called about a crime scene, and then there's the whole scene at the end of the movie where he's pretending to be a prostitute. One of my friends said "Wait, is he gay?" within seconds of dafoe coming on screen. It wouldn't have been the same character if he wasn't.

I forgot about the barscene (was it really a gay bar? I thought just the bartender was gay), but all of that could've easily been cut out. The scene with him in bed was the three minutes I was refering to.

Quote from: CornI forgot about the barscene (was it really a gay bar? I thought just the bartender was gay), but all of that could've easily been cut out. The scene with him in bed was the three minutes I was refering to.

Still what about the scene towards the end at Papa Joe's where he brings the mobster upstairs to the bathroom?
And if we cut out that scene we wouldn't know why he was stumbling into the church making a drunken confession to the priest and rocko.

Every. Harry. Potter. Movie.

It's hard for me to find a movie that I can't at least not hate based on its own merits (I even deal with 'based on book' movies by treating them as simply movies), but I have with the Harry potter movies. The actors are horrible almost across the board, they can't be bothered to follow Rowling's less-than-intricate plotlines, and alter the locations and event almost on a whim. The movies don't tell a story, its to see how much you can stroke a character's ego before he breaks into emotion (apparently quite a bit; Radcliffe still hasn't managed it in 4 movies).

QuoteAnother movie I watched more Recently was Boondock Saints.

I forgot about the barscene (was it really a gay bar? I thought just the bartender was gay)[/quote]not caring[/i]. I found it slow, stock, unconvincing, and above all boring. I hate to say that about a movie involving the impact of war on children, but it's unfortunately true.

Three words: Dungeons. And. Dragons.

When I heard that a D&D movie was in the make I was incredibly excited to watch it. After I finally watched it, my only thought was: "And this was what I have wasted 2 hours of my life I won't get back on?". I guess I don't need to tell you how bad the movie was across how many boards.

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I completely agree with Ra-Tiel, and another one.....Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World....it could have easily been great, but somehow ther were only a complete 2 minutes (at the most) of funny.

Batman and Robin - although I think Arnold was a good pick for Freeze (he would have been awesome had he had some 90's cartoon-esque goggles and had the script not been so damned childish), George Cluney as Batman and the constant corny lines are a little too much.

Well, I've so far disagreed with everyone, save Ra-Tiel and the D&D movies.  They were atrocious.

Boondock Saints was brilliant.  I own not one, but two copies of the movie (and, unfortunately, owning two copies doesn't help me much).  Grave of the Fireflies is also brilliant.  It made me sad.  Really sad.

Reign of Fire was my most despised movie.  I really did not like it.  It's the only movie I've ever left the theatre because of.

Worst movie ever: Battlefield Earth

I would have had something to say here but I'm too bothered by someone calling Boondocks Saints "little known."

Jurassic Park 2. I refuse to acknoledge that Jurassic Park 3 exsists.

Sadly enough, JP3 was a hell of a lot better than JP2... which is just a shame.

Ooooh, I know some movies that should have been better.

Star Wars: The Phantom Menace
Star Wars: Attack of the Clones
X-Men 3.... (I still can't talk about this one)