Yes! Battlefield Earth.
I stayed for the whole movie because I couldn’t believe how bad it was.To me battlefield earth falls under the “so bad it begins to loop back around into Cheesey fun” category.
I especially love how what are essentially cave men find F16 fighter jets from the past and not only do the jets and old fuel work, but the cave men know how to start them and fly them effectively.
L Ron really outdid himself on that gem.
Not even F16s, Harriers. Notoriously hard to fly and constantly breaking down.
That’s right, Jesus. I haven’t watched that movie in like 20 years so I just took a shot in the dark at what jets were really popular at the time and we were flying the shit out of F16s during the Gulf War.
Harriers were fucking nightmares for the mechanics and avionics techs that worked them.
It really was something.
Ok but the book is actually really good though. It’s hilarious that they never explain how they learned how to fly and operate the machinery
That movie suffers from the source material being fucking ridiculously long and weird. Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000 is like 1000 pages or so. Also it’s L Ron Hubbard so the book is just weird and creepy at times.
They used to get paid by the word back then.
For a writer he was not concise in his explanations.
I’ve watched that movie at least four times since it’s on the RiffTrax twitch channel rotation. Even with some great riffs, it’s such a slog, but at least we got a running “blow the dome!” joke out of it.
one of the people walking out was me.
I saw the South Park Bigger, Longer, and Uncut movie in theaters as a kid. I lived in a small town adjacent to a small city, and there weren’t many other people in the theater. During the scene where the boys are watching the Terrace and Phillip movie and the theater-goers walk out, so did everyone else in our real life theater. It was surreal. We had a great time watching the rest of the movie by ourselves.
I can’t imagine not loving every second of that movie. I still sing Uncle Fucker to myself.
As someone from Oklahoma, the fact that Uncle Fucker has a similar melody and ending pleases me to no end. Sorry, edit to add, to Oklahoma the musical song
Treys a notorious musical nerd, so that tracks.
Barnyard. My daughter and I used to go see EVERY kids movie when she was between 5 and 12 yrs. Let me tell you, I have learned to enjoy some shitastic movies. Then came Barnyard. 30 minutes in, it was so bad, I leaned over to my (then 6 years old) daughter and said “Sweetie, do you like this movie?” She looked at me with the most serious face and just said “No”.
I bet she looks back on those memories with you very fondly and realizes how much you love her.
Weirdly enough the barnyard TV show was weirdly good. Like it was bad but also kinda ok in that weird way that after awhile you stop caring that its vaguely bad and it actually ends up ok.
Relevant Dick Tits story.
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My dumbass father liked eragon, I couldn’t even give it a fair shot as a movie bc I was too caught up in how they absolutely butchered the storyline of the books.
So I went and saw it on a weekend with a buddy just because we liked seeing movies. We went into it with no idea what it was about besides “epic dragon movie”. I watched so many fans of the book get up angrily about 35 minutes in and storm out.
We talked to one of the theatre employees and they said that they had never received so many refund requests for a bad film before Eragon.
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Out of curiosity, what was wrong with it? I never read the books, and watched it years later on late night cable, and it seemed ok. Typical pre-teen bland fantasy. Perfectly fine on enough weed
They tried to blend all the books together and fucked everything up so bad a second movie is impossible.
Just a couple things I remember:
Galbatorix, the king and one of the last dragon riders, constantly claims he wants “his stone” back. That “stone” is a dragon egg and he should know this better than anyone.
Urgals, which in the books are basically orcs, are literally just humans with helmets.
They gave Durza, the villain of book 1, Shruikan, Glabatorox’s dragon. Which was then promptly defeated. Thing is, when dragons die, their rider is likely to die as well(galby is a special case, his original dragon died already). This is especially problematic because {MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD} Galbatorixs final plan is to breed his dragon with the lead characters dragon to bring back the dragon race he destroyed. Also, Galbatorix’s dragon would have most likely the strongest remaining dragon heart (“eldunari”) which are the source of galbatorix’s powers.
Tl;Dr: it’s not worth finishing the series because the entire rest of the plot would make no sense. The book series is literally my favorite series with >10000 series read.
It’s been my favourite series for so long, it’s so hard to explain to someone why it’s so good because it just sounds like another fantasy adventure series, but it’s so gosh darn good.
It’s been so long, I just remember that they generally cut a ton of major elements of the story and completely changed the end bc they had no intention of ever making a sequel, at least not one remotely based off of the books. I remember being excited to see certain things happen, and they just… didn’t.
How has nobody mentioned the live-action Avatar: The Last Airbender movie? I saw it as a kid and even I wanted to leave.
A live-action Avatar movie? I’d heard there was a live-action series, but there’s definitely no ATLA movie.
There’s a running joke where ALTA fans pretend the movie doesn’t exist.
Oops- I mean… movie? What movie?
There aren’t any live action series’ either yet.
There is no movie in Ba Sing Se
It’s like when people say there’s a Highlander 2.
Apparently that was a hit in the UK because they call everyone benders in it.
Watched a ton of people exit Battlefield Earth. Two granny aged women sitting near me walked out of Wolf of Wall Street once Jonah Hill pulled his dick out (in the film, not in the theater)
Across the universe… like half of the theatre walked out. It truly was a piece of shit movie.
A guy in the row in front of me exasperatedly said ’ I did the wrong damn drugs for this shit’ as he walked out.
Okay fucking THANK YOU. I remember that movie being absolute shit and I would have walked out if I wasn’t on a date with someone I was super into, but that was an absolutely terrible hot mess of a movie and it felt like all of my friends loved the movie and I’m like are you sure this is the same movie???!?!
Some people told me they thought it was amazing.
They were all the pretentious douche types who unironically wore berets to poetry slams back then. The movie was terrible and I love beetles music.
I can tell you that the “right drugs” are two hits of acid and misbelief that Paul McCartney had a hand in producing it. Because that’s how I first saw it and though it was pure genius. Watched it sober a few days later and was like “what the hell is this?”
The Dark Tower. Was so embarrassed that I brought my wife thinking someone could possibly take 8 books and boil them down to 95 minutes that I made us leave a half hour in. It trivialized everything about the books in the worst way possible.
Also, Nacho Libre. Just couldn’t do it. I don’t ding JB for it at all but really bad.
There are bad adaptations, and then there’s the Dark Tower, which was akin to a full palm-open slap to the fans while desperately hoping they could maybe appeal to some movie goers that were unfamiliar with the books, which it failed to do spectacularly.
Never read the books because I heard they end badly and that’s a hell of a time commitment.
They end fine. Genuinely, read the first book, and read the last chapter of the last book. Ignore everything else.
Huh, it’s one of my favorite endings of all time and I consider it genius. One man’s trash I guess
Okay, maybe I will read them.
Most of Steven King books end up this way. It’s pretty much expected at this point.
Hey now, The Mist, The Shining, Salem’s Lot, Storm of the Century, 1408, Rose Red (Depending on your tastes of course, it’s bad, but very watchable) that would like a word. Hell, Silver Bullet and Maximum Overdrive Are also not bad if you enjoy less than great movies.
Yea, but most have been a bust and pretty bad in my experience.
Not even Idris Elba could save that mess of a movie.
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Autocorrect really did a number on your comment.
Idris Elbow is aware of the effect he has on autocorrect.
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I think he would have made a great luchador.
Get back to your ready room and tend to your lizard babies.
Being cast as someone that is a clone of Clint Eastwood is not what I’d call a good casting.
Except if they knew it was just one single movie and Odetta wasn’t in it.
They could’ve had a motherfucking FRANCHISE
Nacho Libre is easily one of my favorite movies of all time, and I specifically avoided watching it because Jack Black was doing just terrible shit at the time. Now, my closest and oldest friends and I quote it at each other all these years later. I am truly sorry you didn’t like it!
While not a bad movie, I saw a guy get up and leave after loudly giving an unhinged rant during Detective Pikachu
Reason: A line from the title character about “How can you NOT believe in Climate Change at this point?”
Same genius nearly got his ass beat by a members of a mostly black audience when he complained about Miles Morales being black during a Spider-Man preview in front of Black Panther
I didn’t walk out of the Avatar movie, but most people did. Halfway through someone opened the door to the theater and yelled in, “avatar sucks!” Normally I’d be a bit put out by such a disturbance, but in this case it was actually the most enjoyable and funniest part of the movie. (Last Airbender just in case)
Is this avatar or airbender you’re talking about (you mentioned both)? I thoroughly enjoyed Avatar as have most people I’ve mentioned it to.
I imagine they mean M. Night’s 2010 movie, The Last Airbender. I thought this was pretty obvious, but upon Googling learned that his film was not called Avatar: The Last Airbender like the show is.
Not really related but one time I went to a movie showing and no one else was there. Two individuals came in at separate times and sat on both sides of me right next to me and I was so uncomfortable at this situation I left. In hindsight it was a horror movie and maybe they were too nervous to see it alone but it’s often on my mind.
I had a friend in college who took a course where they were supposed to break nonverbal norms. They decided to break the norm that you’d don’t sit right next to people in a movie theater. They & their partner went to a nearly-empty theater for a film and sat on each side of the only people there. I now have headcanon that that was you.
Saw Lost Highway with two friends - only one couple was in the theater with us. Halfway through, we all started discussing what the fuck was going on in the movie we were so confused.
You’re giving me fond memories of midnight movies when I was in college at the student theater. Ten or fifteen in the theater playing Mystery Science Theater 3000 with every movie.
I remember when we watched The Shining, people gave a standing ovation any time the screen showed the black and white text showing the day of the week.
When they showed Stand By Me, we yelled, “BEAM ME UP! BEAM ME UP!” when they were running from the train.
When they showed Stargate, two guys stood up and just started having a loud conversation in the aisle. And no one told them to shut up.
Not a bad movie at all, but it was so fun watching people with kids leaving the Sausage Party: what were they expecting?
I was escorted out of a movie once.
The movie was called Quarantine. I don’t remember if there were, but I don’t remember any warnings before going to see the movie or when the movie started. So anyways there’s a lot of flashing in the movie and I had multiple seizures.
I watched an elderly couple walk out of The Aristocrats. It just added to the whole experience. But on top of that, the movie started with Morgan Freeman narrating some bullshit about cold weather. Some penguins appeared on screen and everyone collectively realized they had accidentally started playing fucking March of the Penguins!
All around a night well spent
Now I want to hear Morgan Freeman tell the aristocrats joke in that slow and careful Morgan Freeman way.
Asteroid City
It is Wes Anderson’s movie. Really out there even for him.
I quite liked it. But a couple sitting in the same row first started shifting in their seats. Fake laughing at weird moments. Then whispering. 5 mins later they walked out with an obvious fuck this i dont care strut.
No one else left, but you could feel others were considering it.I would have left AC early but I kept hoping it would have a point
Have been surprised to see that Wes Anderson have historically got fairly mixed reviews. The best ones like Grand Budapest Hotel are in the 80s on metacritic, some classics like The Life Aquatic are in the 60s. The past two recent movies (French Dispatch and Asteroid City) are both on 75 which is above average for him.
Personally like all of them but can see why the later ones are more divisive with audiences.
