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What have been some really, really bad decisions in the world of entertainment?

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    Tail Docker
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    " get lucky" sounds so cool! -Linda Martin, c.a 2013..


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    beta maximum
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    Transformers.


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    krudler
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    Let's wait 19 years to make the next Indiana Jones movie! people will love seeing an old age Indy run around with that twatwaffle from Transformers.


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    preytec
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    The matrix. Why didn't the machines just use cows?


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    nullzero
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    ****


    "This third album is probably our best yet, now where's that pile of coke?" - Noel Gallagher 1997.

    Glazers Out!



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    Sunnyisland
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    Garth brooks concerts being cancelled















    Lol lol good luck


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    beta maximum
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    preytec wrote: »
    The matrix. Why didn't the machines just use cows?

    That would be really milking it.


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    IvaBigWun
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    beta maximum wrote: »
    Transformers.

    The sequels definitely. But I thought the original was great craic


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    Custardpi
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    IvaBigWun wrote: »
    Ghostbusters 3 to have an all female lead cast with the very annoying Melissa McCarthy?

    http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/film/10346944/New-Ghostbusters-movie-may-go-all-female

    This cannot happen!


    What have been some really, really bad decisions in the world of entertainment (film, TV etc)?

    Why not? You can be pretty much guaranteed that whoever is in the reboot it won't be a patch on the original film. An all female cast would at least be a bit different, could be interesting.


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    IvaBigWun
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    krudler wrote: »
    Let's wait 19 years to make the next Indiana Jones movie! people will love seeing an old age Indy run around with that twatwaffle from Transformers.

    And.

    And! Let him survive a nuclear explosion by hiding in a fridge. It'll be grand.


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    everlast75
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    IvaBigWun wrote: »
    Ghostbusters 3 to have an all female lead cast with the very annoying Melissa McCarthy?

    http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/film/10346944/New-Ghostbusters-movie-may-go-all-female

    This cannot happen!


    What have been some really, really bad decisions in the world of entertainment (film, TV etc)?

    What are the women gonna do, vacuum up all the ghosts? Amirite men, eh eh?


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    IvaBigWun
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    Custardpi wrote: »
    Why not? You can be pretty much guaranteed that whoever is in the reboot it won't be a patch on the original film. An all female cast would at least be a bit different, could be interesting.

    Because Bill Murray.

    End of debate ;)


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    Banjo String
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    Ricky Gervais.

    Somewhere, someone along the line decided he was 'funny', unfortunately for all and sundry this tag seems to have stuck.

    Seriously. Maybe I'm a prude but I definitely don't get his humour.


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    IvaBigWun wrote: »
    Ghostbusters 3 to have an all female lead cast with the very annoying Melissa McCarthy?

    This cannot happen!

    It didn't bother anyone when the original had all male leads. Don't see the problem with female leads for a change.


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    Links234
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    preytec wrote: »
    The matrix. Why didn't the machines just use cows?

    I think I heard that originally the script had it that they were using the humans for processing power, and not batteries. A load of really cool things from the script never made it in to the finished product


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    IvySlayer
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    IvaBigWun wrote: »
    And.

    And! Let him survive a nuclear explosion by hiding in a fridge. It'll be grand.

    Let's have 3 scenes with gophers, and have Shia LaBeouf swing through the jungle with monkeys!


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    LizzieJones
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    Letting Jimmy Savile have a tv show.


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    wendell borton
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    IvaBigWun wrote: »
    The sequels definitely. But I thought the original was great craic

    I had transformers and watched the cartoon as a kid, but can't watch the movies its just a vomit inducing blur of CGI.


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    IvaBigWun
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    Banjo String wrote: »
    Ricky Gervais.

    Somewhere, someone along the line decided he was 'funny', unfortunately for all and sundry this tag seems to have stuck.

    Seriously. Maybe I'm a prude but I definitely don't get his humour.

    He is arguably the most divisive comedian/comedy writer of all time. Definitely the most divisive English one


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    Arthur Beesley
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    IvySlayer wrote: »
    Let's have 3 scenes with gophers, and have Shia LaBeouf swing through the jungle with monkeys!

    Would have been better with meerkats.


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    Custardpi
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    Letting Eamon Dunphy have his own chat show would have to be up there. Anyone remember it? Made Pat Kenny look like David Letterman by comparison.


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    IvaBigWun
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    Candie wrote: »
    It didn't bother anyone when the original had all male leads. Don't see the problem with female leads for a change.

    I dont think it would be a problem if those 3 female leads were of a standard that matched the original actors in the first two films.

    Melissa McCarthy isnt of that standard. Melissa McCarthy isnt even in the same continent of that standard.


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    lc180
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    The guy who gave Justin Bieber a record contract should be tried at the Hauge for war crimes


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    takamichinoku
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    The WWE Network
    Most anything involving Vince Russo
    Naming your wrestling company TNA

    Atari producing more copies of Pac Man than there were people owning 2600s
    The 3DO
    Apple Pippin
    Nintendo Virtual Boy

    A whole load of things involving Nicolas Cage
    John Carney following up his breakout hit Once with a film about Simon Delaney pretending to be an alien
    Hiring Marlon Brando for just about anything in the latter half of his career
    Cutting the **** out of Once Upon a Time in America

    Frank Sinatra doing a sci-fi concept album in the late 70s about how Uranus is love, among other things



    ...I dunno, I'll think of better ones later.


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    Adamantium
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    An old one:

    Fox cancelling Firefly and Joss Whedon not going back to it (with all the grunt he has now as of 2014), instead he is focusing on Marvel shiitee.

    What happened to Firefly afterwards with Netflix and DVD/BluRay is akin to what happened to the original Star Trek in the 70's and 80's after it was cancelled, there's a head of steam built for it come back on name alone. aka The Next Generation


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    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
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    Any decision made by RTE.

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



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    Pherekydes
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    Simon Cowell was invented.


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    Wibbs
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    Decca turning down the Beatles because "guitar bands weren't the future". Actually they got the bum's rush all over the place only getting picked up by Parlophone, an EMI niche label known for classical and comedy stuff.

    Giving Buddy Holly the controls of the plane...

    Howard the duck. Heaven's gate. Waterworld.

    Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.



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    IvaBigWun
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    takamichinoku wrote: »
    Atari producing more copies of Pac Man than there were people owning 2600s

    And let us never forget (or remember?) ET, The Game http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.T._the_Extra-Terrestrial_%28video_game%29
    E.T. is frequently cited as a contributing factor to Atari's massive financial losses during 1983 and 1984. It was generally believed that as a result of overproduction and returns, millions of unsold cartridges were buried in an Alamogordo, New Mexico landfill.


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DTjLG3usQo


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    boobar
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    Tom Cruise playing Jack Reacher


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