"Getaway" and wanting to watch terrible movies

While looking on rottentomatoes.com, I stumbled upon this movie, that seems to be in cinemas in America.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hM7BB16PkAw

It is currently on 0% on rottentomatoes. 0%. Not even one good review. In comparison, Movie 43, which some agree is the worst movie of this year, is on 4%. Admittedly Getaway might increase in reviews, but the apparent terribleness of the movie really makes me want to see it.

Anyone else get like that?

Gokei

Even though I knew it was going to be terrible, I sat through the hobbit.

It was as bad as I expected, but I just wanted to see it.

GorillaRising

I think sometimes critics just want to pick on a movie. Maybe it's the cast, the budget or a combination of factors that means a film should be better than it is, but there is no way in hell that this movie is THAT bad.

fluke

This looks like pure hokum but nothing from that trailer reeks of anything deserving 0%

Ethan Hawke seems to have a pretty erratic profile of late - from stuff like this to the critically lauded 'Before' films.

krudler

GorillaRising wrote: »

I think sometimes critics just want to pick on a movie. Maybe it's the cast, the budget or a combination of factors that means a film should be better than it is, but there is no way in hell that this movie is THAT bad.

The Lone Ranger was critically savaged but I enjoyed it more than most of the other summer movies this year.

watched that trailer in the op, it looks completely average. some of the shots in the chase scenes are nicely done, I refuse to believe that's worse than Movie 43 :pac:

Driveby Dogboy

In before...

Gokei wrote: »

Even though I knew it was going to be terrible, I sat through the hobbit.

It was as bad as I expected, but I just wanted to see it.

Oh wait...


Although I didn't think it was brilliant myself, it wasn't anywhere near as low as4%

GorillaRising

krudler wrote: »

The Lone Ranger was critically savaged but I enjoyed it more than most of the other summer movies this year.

watched that trailer in the op, it looks completely average. some of the shots in the chase scenes are nicely done, I refuse to believe that's worse than Movie 43 :pac:

Exactly. It couldn't possibly be that bad!

Haven't seen the Lone Ranger, but I think it looks great fun!

krudler

GorillaRising wrote: »

Exactly. It couldn't possibly be that bad!

Haven't seen the Lone Ranger, but I think it looks great fun!

TLR isn't perfect, far from it, its way, waaaay too long but the climax is fantastic.

johnny_ultimate

Getaway just seems bland and unimaginative rather than offensively bad. The thing about Rotten Tomatoes is they don't weight reviews - so it's theoretically possible for a mere, instantly forgettable mediocrity to get either 100% or 0%. Still, can't see any reason to go to see the film, although it will inevitably significantly outperform any of the actual good films released alongside it.

krudler

I like Ethan Hawke so I'd probably watch it on Netflix or something, he's had a real mixed bag of a career but I always find him watchable.

Doodlebug

Reddit admins spotted some spamming of its threads for this movie, trying to generate some hype, but it seems they have pulled back from accusing Warner Bros. from involvement.

Like others here, I would probably give it 20 mins if it comes out on Netflix, just out of curiosity now - no such thing as bad publicity?! :P

donaghs

I'm curious too about movies with terrible reviews. Usually they are as bad as expected, but sometimes you come across a gem like The Cable Guy (1996).

Woo. It's gone up to 1% on rottentomatoes.

Banjaxed82

Set in Europe and everything. That's brilliant

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

I think this is only being released today (Aug 30th) in the US, so how there could be any informed reviews on Rotten Tomatoes I don't know. The thing I've seen most in regards to this film is people saying it's a rip off of Drive. I haven't seen Drive so I assume they're basing that on the guy driving a car in it?

I quite like Selena Gomez, as it goes. I doubt she'll ever be troubling the likes of Meryl Streep for Oscars but of all those Disney kids she seems the most likable and she seems to be genuinely trying to transition from child star to adult by working hard rather than, for example, prancing around in flesh couloured underwear gyrating on a 40 year old man while he sings a song about blurred lines of sexual consent, just off the top of my head that one... But yeah, this film is PG 13, so all of Gomez's teen/tween fans will probably flock to see it over the holiday weekend and it'll do good box office even if it's critically panned.

MJ23

Con Air, the best crap film ever. It's so bad that it's good.

Skerries

MJ23 wrote: »

Con Air, the best crap film ever. It's so bad that it's good.

take that back or I'll make you put the bunny in the box!

triplejointed

Tanya's island - the worst and most laughable movie out there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7x0874cOf0E

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johnny_ultimate

I love the way the AV Club are displaying their review for this on the main page. Getaway as the main title, 'stay away, stay away' as the sub.

Looking at the trailer for Getaway and I'm not really seeing how it can be so critically derided. Sure it looks like generic crap but I doubt it's anywhere near as bad as most are making it out to be. It seems to be the kind of throw away trash that you watch post pub when you've more alcohol than anything else in your system and it certainly looks vastly superior to Scary Movie 5 or any of those other spoof films.

As a result of medication I'm on due to screwing up my leg I've spent the last week or so unable to sleep till sometime after dawn and as such have been catching up on quite a lot of the smaller films I missed this past year. To liven things up a little I thought that I'd throw on getaway and kill 90 minutes with a little mindless mayhem.

First off it's hard to understand the universal hate that the film has been on the receiving end of. Yes, it's a pretty terrible film, of that there is no doubt but it's nowhere near as bad as some of the bigger budget blockbusters we've seen in recent years. there's nothing offensively bad here though at the same time it's a film that does absolutely new or interesting. Visually it's something of an oddity. The decision to shoot on a variety of cameras and utilse dozens per set up most likely looked great on paper and it was a decision that paid off magnificently well on Crank High Voltage. Here it's less successful with the quality of image varying widely from second to second and the atrocious editing gives the entire film the look and feel of something thrown together to look as snazzy and fast as possible. There's no symmetry to any of it and the rapid, cutting style means that most of the onscreen action is lost in a flurry of over the top and constantly changing imagery. There's no sense of place to the action as it unfolds and the entire thing feels like something a child created using his toy cars. You get the impression that this is a film where the director takes great pride in the fact that he destroyed dozens of cars, which impressive as it may soon does not a good film make.

There are a number of impressive shots, including a quite cool but baffling one take car chase toward the end that's just pointless and exists solely to look nice. In fact the entire film suffers from trying far too hard to look impressive while forgetting to include anything resembling a coherent story, characters or set pieces that have any impact. The entire film is like watching someone play a video-game and not a particularity good one at that.

What Hawke and Gomez are doing here I have no idea. I assume that for Hawke it was an easy pay day and an opportunity to play around in some fast cars of which the film has many and I half suspect that the entire film was paid for by the makers of the rather snazzy car that features in every scene. Gomez, coming off of Spring Breakers gives a truly terrible performance here and the motivation behind her characters inclusion are insultingly stupid. I assume that when writing the script the writers felt that it needed a female character and just wrote he in as an after thought. There's not a single believable character here and the villain played by Voight is amongst cinemas blandest. He has absolutely no presence and his final scene which is a pathetic set up for a sequel is just tiresome.

Getaway is the find of film that looks great on paper. An 80 minute car chase that utilise no CGI and instead relies on good old fashioned stunt work and real cars smashing into one another. Sadly the execution leaves a whole lot to be desired. The script is a shambles and the whole thing couldn't have taken up more than 4 or 5 pages and of that at least 3 would have been wasted. There are worse films out there and Getaway isn't even close to 2013's worst offering but it's a pretty poor effort all round and one that really belongs on late night TV back in the early 90s.