What the fuck?
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Lots of films I know I will love that I haven’t seen yet so I don’t have time for “so bad they’re good” films. I fact that’s a category that doesn’t exist for me.
What I consider terrible are films that got good reviews and did well and had good word of mouth but which were fucking stinkers: the Marvel movies (Avengers, Iron Man, Black Panther) that I watched or a Batman movie or two with incomprehensible dialogue that were annoyingly bad and made me pissed off. Or that last Star Wars movie that was so meh that on the bus back with friends and my daughter nobody thought to even mention it once.
Nic cage had to take any movie that paid him because he was so in much debt, so he just made crazy movies for the last few years. I think it actually worked out for him career-wise. He probably would get pigeonholed into 7 national Treasure sequels if that wasn’t the case.
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I saw a film years ago called “Track 29” that had at least half of the audience leaving early.
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Conan O’Brien used to do a skit where he sent questionnaires to celebrities and they would answer his questions. In one, he asked actors how they picked roles in movies. Tom Hanks answered, I look for compelling characters. Thandie Newton said, I look for challenging roles I haven’t tackled before. Nick Cage responded, You mean I can choose what roles I take?
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Can you imagine what it would be like to be his agent?
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Came here to say this. This is the only movie I have walked out on.
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It has a 3% rating, so that probably means one or two critics have ties to Scientology and gave it a thumbs up.
I don’t remember Ecks vs Sever being that bad. Schlock yes. Forgettable, yes. #1? I dunno. I like looking at Antonio Banderas and Lucy Liu, so maybe that helped give it a pass.
Scrolling through the list the only movie I see that jumps out to me that I would stand up and defend is Movie 43.
Granted I only saw it once, but I remember laughing. It’s fucked up humor, childish, and gross. It isn’t for everyone. Still I wouldn’t put it in the top 100.
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That explains the “National Treasure” movies, but not so much “Left Behind” - I can’t imagine it paid much, relative to his usual work, given how low-budget those kinds of movies are.
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How could they not include the truly horrible “Twister”? Terribly stilted dialog, bad science, and laughable special effects (the tornado in Wizard of Oz was more convincing).
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Michael Caine is known as one of those people who will take pretty much any movie role no matter how terrible just because he loves acting so much. Nic Cage seems to follow in these footsteps (although I’m sure his money troubles have also been a motivator).
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It wasn’t great cinema but I don’t think it especially stood out from other contemporary disaster movies for bad effects or dialog. Honestly I was kinda impressed that they went through the effort to drop all that farm equipment and debris onto the road using heavy-lift helicopters in that one scene. They spent real money on the effects.
(Also, it did get 68% positive reviews on the tomatometer.)
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For what it’s worth, Twister is apparently the disaster movie Randall Munroe would want to make.
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I liked How they turned the Storm Into a kind of bloodthirsty fiendish creature. They also used the Very same trick in “The Day After Tomorrow”. In this movie, a gust of cold wind chase/hunts relentlessly the characters.
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I’d watch that.
Also, very easy on the budget. Like in those old movies or TV series where all you see is characters describing what is happening off screen.
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I love his proposed sequel to The Core:
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I survived the location shoots for Twister, that was enough for me to never watch it.
@Otherbrother: primary shooting locations were Boone, Iowa and the surrounding miles and miles of farms. Even in '94, shooting most of a movie on location was expensive. And that’s before renting Chinooks/similar bird to drop stuff. For nearly a year after, it was about the only thing Ames townies would talk about.
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I watched it once on the Independent Film Channel. Interestingly bizarre here and there. Perhaps a product of having to live through the Thatcher years?
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Samurai Cop is worth it for this line from a review on Paste:
The whole thing looks like a movie aliens would make if they were lacking some sort of crucial understanding of how human beings communicated with one another
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