Worst Blockbuster You Have Ever Seen

marti101

Mine would have to be War Of The Worlds.Whats everybody elses.

Parrish_Crooks

The Day after tomorrow. Or anything by Michael Bay.

Warhammer

Id say the charlies angels films are my worst.

chopperbyrne

Enemy of the State with Will Smith.

Truly awful.

chin_grin

The Dark Knight . Seriously, was well over-hyped.

missingtime

chopperbyrne wrote: »

Enemy of the State with Will Smith.

Truly awful.

Really?!? I liked that a lot.

Transformers for me...

mise

Didnt mind War of the Worlds

Thought Spiderman 3 was complete poo

Guy:Incognito

Warhammer wrote: »

Id say the charlies angels films are my worst.

chopperbyrne wrote: »

Enemy of the State with Will Smith.

Truly awful.

Were either of those ever really bill as blockbusters though?

dr.bollocko

Any of those crappy superhero movies. The X-spider-super mens and the Fantastic four were all terrible.

chopperbyrne

Stekelly wrote: »

Were either of those ever really bill as blockbusters though?

Both were.

Spider-Man 3 is pretty poor. X-Men 3 too.

Black Swan

300! Stiff acting, silly copper filter, poor fx, and way too cliche' in terms of storyline.

BlitzKrieg

spiderman 3, Day after tomorrow and X men 3 were some of the ones I came out most horrified.

This year The Mummy 3 shot high in the wrong catagory.

Creature

All of the films mentioned so far pale in comparison to the awfulness of Batman & Robin. The blockbuster that tried to rech so high yet fell so low.

Handsome Bob

Creature wrote: »

All of the films mentioned so far pale in comparison to the awfulness of Batman & Robin. The blockbuster that tried to rech so high yet fell so low.

I second that. ****ty acting by all. ****ty Dialogue. ****ty Plot. Infuriating campness. Such a shame that Burton's films have to be boxed in with Schumachers. Truely awful stuff.

pauldeehan

I, Robot, I Am Legend and Spiderman 3. All of them for squandering brilliant source material but I,Robot especially because of it's blatent advertising.

LolaLuv

Titanic!

Parrish_Crooks

missingtime wrote: »

Transformers for me...

Thanks. What a load of bollox that film was. The american patriotism, the black stereotyping of one of the autobots, the cheesy dialogue. And the ultimate unrealistic pulling of that hot one by our main protagonist, the 'loser with a heart of gold'. Fcuk off.

Creature wrote: »

All of the films mentioned so far pale in comparison to the awfulness of Batman & Robin. The blockbuster that tried to rech so high yet fell so low.

I don't even know where to start. Poison Ivy? Who said Uma was sexy?! George Clooney?? Batman? George Clooney.... Batman?? NO, sorry! and Iwho can forget "A freeeeeeze is coming"

Oh god.... :eek:

johnny_ultimate

Mostly ones mentioned here:
300 - once you get past the gimmicky visuals, theres not much more except a lot of slow-mo, shouting and grunting.

War of the Worlds - not awful, but it was unfortunately lacking in the thrills you expect from a summer blockbuster. With the exception of the excellent initial invasion, it just descended into dullness. Felt unfinished or something.

Transformers - really didn't see where all the support for this came from. Admittedly I was never a fan of the cartoon, but this just seemed like a childish comedy with a dreadful script and performances. Action wasn't really impressive either.

Any third entry in a superhero franchise - for completely removing any goodwill conjured up by the previous films.

Galvasean

That I've seen in the cinema Spider-Man3

Ever? Batman and Robin.

Although I hear 10,000BC is a strong contender.

tylerdurden94

Fantastic Four sh*te!

I found this Mr Freeze thing pretty funny

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNaDZIrxh-0

Holsten

War of the Worlds... or Peal Harbour.

FionnMatthew

Dreamcatcher

Pigman II

Any of ....

Blade: Trinity
Godzilla
Hellboy
Independence Day
Mission: Impossible II
Pearl Harbor
Star Trek: Insurrection


.... take your pick

Bard

By all accounts, The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor is utterly woeful.

My choices for worst "blockbuster" movies would be (in no particular order):
Armageddon
Waterworld
Pearl Harbor
Species 2
Alien Vs Predator (1 & 2)
Godzilla
Judge Dredd
Big Mommas House
Planet of the Apes (2001)
Stargate
Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace

but the worst of all time? Definitely... Batman & Robin! No contest!

BTW, would anyone put the Matrix Reloaded and the Matrix Revolutions on their "all time worst..." list?

chopperbyrne

Pigman II wrote: »

Star Trek: Insurrection

Nowhere near as bad as Nemesis. Not even close.

If you were a DS9 fan too, Insurrection made much more sense. Showed the desperation of the Federation and particularly Starfleet.

Nemesis though has no redeeming features at all.

Shryke

Fantastic Four 2. The first one was bad so I figured this one might be a slight improvement. Christ alive I was wrong. There were some really stupid goof ups and needless horrible horse ****.

Warhammer

PillyPen wrote: »

Titanic!

that was a fantastic film i cried in it!

LolaLuv

I cried for the 9 bucks and 3 hours I'd never get back.

Warhammer

Galvasean wrote: »

Although I hear 10,000BC is a strong contender.

I saw that film on dvd and zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz i cant have missed anything good in it?

Warhammer

PillyPen wrote: »

I cried for the 9 bucks and 3 hours I'd never get back.

i'l get it back for you.
who took it?

LolaLuv

James Cameron. You'll probably have to break his kneecaps to get it, I heard he's a stingy bastard.

Firetrap

A toss-up between Mission:Impossible and Pirates of the Caribbean 3.

keefg

Independance Day wins this award for me......American "We can do it if we all stick together" flagwaving sh1te if I ever saw it :mad:

Oh Yeah.....dunno if it was a blockbuster or not but I hate everything about Armageddon right down to that awful Aerosmith theme tune.

Mossy Monk

Titanic. One of the biggest loads of **** I have ever seen.

constitutionus

battlefield earth.

mother of god thats muck. how in the name of christ did that guy manage to start his own religion? pearl harbour aint that bad.......if you come into it 90min after your girlfriend

i agree that batman and robin is just plain painfull. i thought the only good thing in it was clooney though. but even the half decent scenes he did with alfred couldnt stop this monstrocity killing the franchise.

have to defend transformers though, how the hell did it lose out on the oscar for special effects to the bleeding polar bears in the golden compas ? (that was a load of ****e too )

The Bollox

Batman & Robin, without a doubt

Deep Impact is a close second (dunno if that was a 'blockbuster' though)

Handsome Bob

The Bollox wrote: »

Batman & Robin, without a doubt

Deep Impact is a close second (dunno if that was a 'blockbuster' though)

Deep Impact is not the worst disaster movie I've ever seen, that title for me would go to The Day After Tomorrow. The ending is ludicrous enough in itself to warrant that title!

ziedth

marti101 wrote: »

Mine would have to be War Of The Worlds.Whats everybody elses.

No question, so bad its good.

brick tamland

Hasnt been mentioned yet but for me Troy wins this one for me

pure tripe

razorblunt

I'm unsure whether to count blokbuster I've seen on dvd as the whole point of a blockbuster is to go to see it for the "cinema experience" so the really dont work at home for their main point.

Anyways worst I've seen:

Day after Tomorrow
War of the Worlds
Spidermen
Superman Returns
10,000 BC
and of course Batman & Robin

marti101

I have to agree Titanic what a load of bull.I slept through half of it [thank God]even then i cant believe people who say its good do they not have any taste/shame at all.Now i know its not a blockbuster but Digimon i would rather stick needles in my eyes than to watch that again.

missingtime

That Colin Farrell movie, Alexander was it??

red dave

Godzilla
Man on Fire - what tripe that was

Handsome Bob

red dave wrote: »

Godzilla
Man on Fire - what tripe that was

:eek: Man, you gotta be ****ting me? That's an amazing film! I wouldn't even class it as a blockbuster either....

constitutionus

maybe we should define what we mean by "blockbuster" ?

to me its a film that was meant to do well at the cinema. the ones that are hyped to the max.

thats why some of the stuff were mentioning bombed big time but on release were meant to be the dogs bollocks.

so batman and robin counts while shawshank redemtion doesnt as no one thought that'd amount to anything when on release.

FionnMatthew

Literal Meaning.

Typically, it just means a film that did really well at the box-office.
A film that didn't is typically called a "Box-office Bomb."
In this reading, an unsuccessful blockbuster is an oxymoron.

But a sh*t blockbuster - that is, one that does really well at the box office, but is utterly tripe, vulgar entertainment - that's probably what the thread is after, in this reading. Stuff like Date Movie, imo.

Connotative Meaning.

But "blockbuster" has come to be associated with the big-budget, large-scale family and/or mass-appeal movies of the 80s and 90s, the sort perfected by the likes of Lucas and Spielberg, mainly because these films did really well at the box-office, and hence the formula was imitated for commercial gain.

So the more accidental qualities of those big-budget movies have come to be at least part of the meaning of "blockbuster" too.

In this reading, an unsuccessful "blockbuster" is not an oxymoron, because films can be intentionally fashioned to be blockbusters, and yet be box-office bombs. They are the most cynical, manipulative, money-grubbing examples of banal formulaic, stupid film-making. So probably this is what the thread is looking for, in this reading.

SoupyNorman

Oh by Jaysus... National Treasure,

And this choice isnt some random pick from my worst movie list. This one is not only at the top but separated from 2nd place by a country mile.

Its just an A typical example of a movie with so much money behind it the... 'ahem'...writers would be put to shame by 100 monkeys on 100 typewriters. The story with more holes in it then something VERY Holy and Humor so terrible it'd reduce Bernard Manning (R.I.P) to tears.

The worst culprit is that sappy faced goon Bruckheimer..He's the real reason for this and countless other abominations. He'd be on the receiving end, If I had 'one free bullet' (I'd try have N. Cage standing behind him)


This riles me up too much.....I have to halt.

Dman001

Alot if ye are saying The Day After Tomorrow and Transformers. I thought these two brilliant films.

yoyo

King Kong or any of the lord of the rings movies, not that I don't like long movies, but I like to be entertained for most of the movie!

Nick

Handsome Bob

Dman001 wrote: »

Alot if ye are saying The Day After Tomorrow and Transformers. I thought these two brilliant films.

The reason I don't care much for The Day After Tomorrow is this; an Ice Age came and went in a matter of what? Days? Even for a disaster movie, that was just ludicrous.

Dman001

LZ5by5 wrote: »

The reason I don't care much for The Day After Tomorrow is this; an Ice Age came and went in a matter of what? Days? Even for a disaster movie, that was just ludicrous.

That's true but I still think it was a very enjoyable film.