The worst part of that was how you could tell the writers were trying to come up with some new catchphrases, without making it obvious that's what they were doing.
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The worst part of that was how you could tell the writers were trying to come up with some new catchphrases, without making it obvious that's what they were doing.
[ooc] I saw the test film where this was actually proposed with Liotta as Rick Blaine. You just predicted part of the flaws in the script - Liotta did what he could with what he had, but thankfully this was nipped in the bud.[/ooc]
Big Fat Disaster (2017)
This adaptation of the Beth Fehlbaum book was not well-liked for many reasons, especially the fat-shaming of the protagonist by her own family (according to Jennifer Aniston, who played Colby's mother, director Brett Ratner tried to turn her and Danielle MacDonald, who played Colby, against each other for real and, also, fat-shamed the latter off-camera, which caused both to vow never to work with Ratner again--it also didn't help that Brett Ratner's career would be derailed by a combination of the #MeToo movement and his behavior on this movie; the other members of the cast backed up their claims (none of them liked the movie, either)). This film was nominated for Razzies for Worst Picture (losing to Holmes and Watson), Worst Director (Brett Ratner), Worst Actress (Danielle MacDonald), Worst New Star (MacDonald again), and Worst Supporting Actress (Jennifer Aniston), winning the Worst Director, Worst New Star, and Worst Supporting Actress awards (both MacDonald and Aniston actually showed up to accept the awards and used their speeches to trash the movie and apologize for starring in it). Thankfully, we did get something good out of it--Aniston and MacDonald would star in the successful Netflix limited series Dumplin' (2018) and both were nominated for Emmys for their roles; watch that instead of this disaster.
Fittingly, when this movie came out, a lot of critics used a variation of the movie title to describe this movie and why it was bad...
This adaptation of the Beth Fehlbaum book was not well-liked for many reasons, especially the fat-shaming of the protagonist by her own family (according to Jennifer Aniston, who played Colby's mother, director Brett Ratner tried to turn her and Danielle MacDonald, who played Colby, against each other for real and, also, fat-shamed the latter off-camera, which caused both to vow never to work with Ratner again--it also didn't help that Brett Ratner's career would be derailed by a combination of the #MeToo movement and his behavior on this movie; the other members of the cast backed up their claims (none of them liked the movie, either)). This film was nominated for Razzies for Worst Picture (losing to Holmes and Watson), Worst Director (Brett Ratner), Worst Actress (Danielle MacDonald), Worst New Star (MacDonald again), and Worst Supporting Actress (Jennifer Aniston), winning the Worst Director, Worst New Star, and Worst Supporting Actress awards (both MacDonald and Aniston actually showed up to accept the awards and used their speeches to trash the movie and apologize for starring in it). Thankfully, we did get something good out of it--Aniston and MacDonald would star in the successful Netflix limited series Dumplin' (2018) and both were nominated for Emmys for their roles; watch that instead of this disaster.
Fittingly, when this movie came out, a lot of critics used a variation of the movie title to describe this movie and why it was bad...
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2017's Gone with the Wind remake trying to be politically correct in a setting immediately after the American Civil War was a bigger bomb than Nagasaki. Despite the anorexic script the acting picks were surprisingly solid: Taylor Swift played a hell of a Scarlett O'Hara alongside Macaulay Caulkin as a surprisingly dark but exceptional discount Rhett Butler. I'll have to agree with those who compare his performance to Ledger's Joker.
Family Guy: The Movie
Released in Summer 2006 by Twentieth Century Fox
What can you really say about this one other than bad things?
Released in Summer 2006 by Twentieth Century Fox
What can you really say about this one other than bad things?
Yeah
Yeah, it wrecked Seth MacFarlane's career (deservedly so, IMO), and became the first animated movie to win multiple Razzie Awards, including for Worst Picture; Mila Kunis and Alex Borstein both trashed this after it came out...
Yeah, it wrecked Seth MacFarlane's career (deservedly so, IMO), and became the first animated movie to win multiple Razzie Awards, including for Worst Picture; Mila Kunis and Alex Borstein both trashed this after it came out...
Maybe some details about why the whole plot was stupid and how the musical interludes fell flat?
Let me count the ways...
There was an awkward "gangsta rap" by Peter.
There wasn't really a plot at all. It felt more like multiple episodes pasted together for ninety minutes.
Audiences expressed their discomfort with the arc between Chris and Mr. Herbert, but at the same time they shrugged off the arc with Meg and Quagmire.
Speaking of Quagmire, he did a whole song and dance routine about how he's fathered so many children around the world.
Let's not forget about those unnecessary Simpsons cameos. It was nice to see those characters on screen, but it stalled the plot.
BUT....this was back when Brian was still the voice of reason instead of the pretentious jerk he becomes in later seasons.
PLUS...Seth MacFarlane used cutaway gags in this film to try to warn viewers about John Kricfalusi's attraction to underage girls...except it took TWELVE YEARS for people to finally listen!!!
Oh God, that was just wrong on so many levels, eg. the scene where he shows up at the countryside wedding to take the bride by force. Of course, the script tries to redeem its own tastelessness with the pseudo-feminist punchline of her asking if she can keep her spiked heels on, and having a fetish for that he says yes, and then she kicks him in the nuts while he's looming over her. We then get a close-up of Uday's face, doing an "o" mouth while the soundtrack plays chirpy-bird "crazy" music.
But the absolute worst thing about that movie was how the producers bought the rights to the name of the old Fox News comedy show, so they could make the full-title "The 1/2 Hour News Hour Presents: Uday", in order to appeal to the dozen or so people who are nostslgic for that show.
There was that 1968 movie of 'Lord of the Rings' that starred the Beatles. Man, that absolutely reeked of amateur dramatics.
If it wasn't the that disaster (and the subsequent bickering & blame game), they may still be together to this day.
(POD Brian Epstein lives, the Beatles can/scale back the Magical Mystery Tour movie, land the rights for LoTR, and spend 1968 filming that & recording related songs for the soundtrack)
If it wasn't the that disaster (and the subsequent bickering & blame game), they may still be together to this day.
(POD Brian Epstein lives, the Beatles can/scale back the Magical Mystery Tour movie, land the rights for LoTR, and spend 1968 filming that & recording related songs for the soundtrack)
Wasn't there a rumour recently that Tarantino was showing some interest in making a prequel?
Sounds like something he could pull off - a generally unknown movie to everyone but b-movie fetishists, the rights would be dirt cheap, and there's scope for showing how that Vader guy became some kinda angry cyborg, given how hollywood is kinda big on "origin stories" nowdays. Give it some grit, and he might have something.
Yeah, sad how it ended up for that guy, eh? After Uday tanked his career, he went back to the UK, thinking he could just return to university and continue his work on anti-racist movements. But no one in academia who was serious about anti-racism wanted anything to do with him. (Can't imagine why!)
I believe he's now hosting a podcast where he just inveighs against liberals and leftists for having no sense of humour. Someone told me they heard him interviewing Dennis Miller.