Andrew Blair Jan 30, 2017
Sometimes, the best of intentions don't always lead to the best movie. Here are 19 films where everything didn't quite go to plan...
As Alan Parker said ‘no one sets out to make a bad film’. Yet in spite of good intentions, sometimes a project doesn't quite go to plan. We're going to look at a bunch of movies here that aren't always well liked, and give a flavour of the problems the beset them.
So, in no particular order, here are twenty of the films that have ever been made, which are considered by at least one sentient being to be bad. That's not the interesting thing about them....
Robin Hood (2010)
Ethan Reiff and Cyrus Voris had written a spec script with a twist on the Robin Hood legend: the Sheriff of Nottingham was the hero, a sort of medieval forensic investigator, and Robin was the bad guy.
Sometimes, the best of intentions don't always lead to the best movie. Here are 19 films where everything didn't quite go to plan...
As Alan Parker said ‘no one sets out to make a bad film’. Yet in spite of good intentions, sometimes a project doesn't quite go to plan. We're going to look at a bunch of movies here that aren't always well liked, and give a flavour of the problems the beset them.
So, in no particular order, here are twenty of the films that have ever been made, which are considered by at least one sentient being to be bad. That's not the interesting thing about them....
Robin Hood (2010)
Ethan Reiff and Cyrus Voris had written a spec script with a twist on the Robin Hood legend: the Sheriff of Nottingham was the hero, a sort of medieval forensic investigator, and Robin was the bad guy.
- 5/30/2016
- Den of Geek
Paramount tried a few approaches in the new Terminator reboot. But if a franchise hits the doldrums, how can a studio resurrect it?
Fingers are being crossed at Skydance and Paramount Pictures that the critical mauling handed out to Terminator: Genisys last week won't be reflected fully in the box office numbers. So far, the plan for a new trilogy of Terminator films is arguably just about alive, courtesy of a total gross for the new film of $131m worldwide. That's below expectations, but if it can eventually crawl its way to $400m, that's probably enough to move ahead with a Genisys sequel (it'd be more than the hugely-acclaimed Mad Max: Fury Road).
But even if a new film gets greenlit, it's clear that things have to change again. As many have pointed out, the consensus is now that there have been more bad-to-middling Terminator films than good ones,...
Fingers are being crossed at Skydance and Paramount Pictures that the critical mauling handed out to Terminator: Genisys last week won't be reflected fully in the box office numbers. So far, the plan for a new trilogy of Terminator films is arguably just about alive, courtesy of a total gross for the new film of $131m worldwide. That's below expectations, but if it can eventually crawl its way to $400m, that's probably enough to move ahead with a Genisys sequel (it'd be more than the hugely-acclaimed Mad Max: Fury Road).
But even if a new film gets greenlit, it's clear that things have to change again. As many have pointed out, the consensus is now that there have been more bad-to-middling Terminator films than good ones,...
- 7/7/2015
- by simonbrew
- Den of Geek
Today’s cinema goer is treated to a riches of technology. However, time after time, these riches result in a poor story. Why is one punishing the other?
I don’t and can’t believe that anything will replace story as the most important aspect of any film. One only has to look at Hollywood’s “Golden Age” and the Far East masters of story and screen, championed by the likes of Wong Kar-Wai, to see the significance of story. If you were to select your favourite ever scene from any motion picture, it would be vital to the story. I would also say that the vast majority of them are not reliant on tech, but a still camera which is capturing great imagery, character and dialogue.
Technology has become a danger to the magic of story. There is no reason why these two cannot compliment each other perfectly. Look...
I don’t and can’t believe that anything will replace story as the most important aspect of any film. One only has to look at Hollywood’s “Golden Age” and the Far East masters of story and screen, championed by the likes of Wong Kar-Wai, to see the significance of story. If you were to select your favourite ever scene from any motion picture, it would be vital to the story. I would also say that the vast majority of them are not reliant on tech, but a still camera which is capturing great imagery, character and dialogue.
Technology has become a danger to the magic of story. There is no reason why these two cannot compliment each other perfectly. Look...
- 6/7/2012
- by Jamie McCloskey
- Obsessed with Film
I’ve heard it said many times: “Why can’t Hollywood come up with an original idea?”
In his 2004 article The Art of Adaptation, film pundit Toby Osborne put forward that ‘85 per cent of movies are adaptations’. And of course, for many successful blockbusters there’s a sequel and a video game, then a prequel and then a straight to DVD bargain feature. Before you know it you’re shaking your head through the credits of BloodRayne: The Vampening and wondering just how the hell it came to this.
Adapting a movie from another source is an appealing concept to Hollywood money men for a number of reasons. Paramount though is the prospect of a ready-made audience. Great literature, comic books or video games tend to garner fervent fan bases; die-hard groups of devotees, who have usually been deeply moved by the source material. These are the groups that the...
In his 2004 article The Art of Adaptation, film pundit Toby Osborne put forward that ‘85 per cent of movies are adaptations’. And of course, for many successful blockbusters there’s a sequel and a video game, then a prequel and then a straight to DVD bargain feature. Before you know it you’re shaking your head through the credits of BloodRayne: The Vampening and wondering just how the hell it came to this.
Adapting a movie from another source is an appealing concept to Hollywood money men for a number of reasons. Paramount though is the prospect of a ready-made audience. Great literature, comic books or video games tend to garner fervent fan bases; die-hard groups of devotees, who have usually been deeply moved by the source material. These are the groups that the...
- 9/7/2011
- by Stuart Bedford
- Obsessed with Film
Yep, it's more dwarves. You would think this was a Snow White movie or something. Anyway, following the reveal of Dori, Nori and Ori yesterday, today we get our first look at Óin and Glóin, played by John Callen and Peter Hambleton, in Peter Jackson's "The Hobbit." Like the trio yesterday, these two are part of the group who participate in The Quest of Erebor, an adventure recounted in “Unfinished Tales” that takes place before the events in “The Hobbit,” in which Gandalf organizes the taking of Lonely Mountain whose treasure is guarded by the dragon Smaug. The brothers are…...
- 7/8/2011
- The Playlist
Even though the first Hobbit movie doesn’t arrive in theaters for a year and a half, it seems the filmmakers are insistent on making sure fans approve of what they’re doing with the individual characters. Fine by us, since now we can share yet another pic from the upcoming Peter Jackson epic. This time, instead of Martin Freeman or Ian McKellan striking a new pose as Bilbo Baggins and Gandalf, respectively, we get our first look at Nori, Dori and Ori, three brothers played by Jed Brophy, Mark Hadlow and Adam Brown. The trio is featured most prominently in The Quest of Erebor, an adventure which takes place before events in The Hobbit in which Gandalf organizes the taking of Lonely Mountain whose treasure is guarded by a dragon named Smaug. The brothers are part of a group of...
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- 7/7/2011
- by affiliates@fandango.com
- Fandango
Sylvester McCoy is best-known to science fiction fans as the seventh Doctor in the BBC's Doctor Who series, taking over the role from Colin Baker from 1987 to the cancellation of the original series in 1989. But there's a very good chance that the Scottish-born theatre, film and TV actor may gain a whole new surge of popularity in the years ahead as he sets off to New Zealand to join director Peter Jackson and theatrical colleague and friend Ian McKellen to make two movies of Tolkien's The Hobbit, wherein he'll play the part of the wizard Radagast, a character from Middle Earth who was omitted from the original trilogy.
Even after the cancellation of Doctor Who, McCoy was never allowed to leave the Time Lord behind, and has participated in numerous audio and multimedia projects playing the Seventh Doctor over the last 21 years. The latest of these reprises a Doctor Who...
Even after the cancellation of Doctor Who, McCoy was never allowed to leave the Time Lord behind, and has participated in numerous audio and multimedia projects playing the Seventh Doctor over the last 21 years. The latest of these reprises a Doctor Who...
- 3/11/2011
- Shadowlocked
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