pointless films or plots

the_pen_turner

I was watching unstoppable last night. I missed the start so didn't know how the train ended up running away.

early on an old guy puts his train in front and tries to slow it down by breaking.
he gets derailed and killed.
later on the 2 main guys have to risk their lives for nothing to stop it
eventually a guy in a pick up drives along beside it and a guy jumps on board and turns off the train.

the 2 main guys section was a complete waste and pointless. the guy in the pick up could have stopped it several times before that. and the guy in the train that got derailed could have easily walked back onto the train and turned it off
so stupid. half the film served no purpose



anyone got any other films that are pointless

Cee-Jay-Cee

10 minutes films don’t really draw in the crowds.

You should get out more...do ya the world of good.

the_pen_turner

Cee-Jay-Cee wrote: »

10 minutes films don’t really draw in the crowds.

You should get out more...do ya the world of good.

there are lots of films out there where all 2 hours of the film actually add to the story.

qwerty ui op

The action scene at the end of skyfall, the part around the big house is fine normal James bond stuff but when M and this old boy head over to a little church making no attempt whatsoever to protect themselves, she just plonks herself down in the middle of the church and the guy starts casually walking around the place as if to pass the time.

freshpopcorn

Titanic!

SimonTemplar

qwerty ui op wrote: »

The action scene at the end of skyfall, the part around the big house is fine normal James bond stuff but when M and this old boy head over to a little church making no attempt whatsoever to protect themselves, she just plonks herself down in the middle of the church and the guy starts casually walking around the place as if to pass the time.

I love the movie but the part around the big house was more Home Alone than normal James Bond.

SimonTemplar

Gus Van Sant's completely pointless shot for shot remake of Psycho. It was a complete carbon copy of the original except for the bizarre insertion of random cloud shots during the shower scene and bad acting

KungPao

As a fan of trains, Unstoppable could have been decent if not for the awful shaky cam

Junkyard Tom

The Bus that Couldn't Slow Down.

SimonTemplar

I kinda linked Unstoppable. Decent old school action movie. Not trying to be anything more than than and decent chemistry between Pine and Denzel.

Jayesdiem

The Last Jedi or anything by Marvel. Crap irony-based humour, a social equality agenda that slaps you right in the face, unconvincing CGI, aimless plots, awkward dialogue, predictable outcomes, overly-frequent releases, rubbish CGI, an over reliance on explosions, illogical physics, cynical product placement, disproportionate hype, substandard acting and horrendous CGI.

the_pen_turner

SimonTemplar wrote: »

I kinda linked Unstoppable. Decent old school action movie. Not trying to be anything more than than and decent chemistry between Pine and Denzel.

I agree but their characters served no purpose to the film. there should have been no need for any of what they did if the first guy had simply walked back and turned off the train

bodhrandude

KungPao wrote: »

As a fan of trains, Unstoppable could have been decent if not for the awful shaky cam

There was also Runaway Train from the early eighties with Jon Voight and Eric Roberts.

AllForIt

freshpopcorn wrote: »

Titanic!

Why, because we knew the ending?

ArnoldJRimmer

Birdman, an absolute pile of steaming sh!te. Waited the whole film for something to happen, and then it was over. And this incoherent mess somehow cleaned up at the Oscars

Oldtree

I just watched Snowman, from a job nesbo book. I know his books are popular but the film was a pointless waste of time. The main man Michael fassbender just seemed to be wandering around picking up clues here and there with no cohesive rhyme or reason to it all and things happening to other characters for the sake of it to fill time.

Pointless and plotless.

Agricola

Anything featuring capes, lycra and a fúck tonne of CGI.

I wish they'd just ban superhero movies at this stage. Hoovering up so much money which could be used to make original, interesting, mindless blockbusters.

Royale with Cheese

Over Christmas I got bored and decided to watch an old film I'd heard mentioned a good few times but had never seen.... Fast Times at Ridgemont High.

It is the definition of a pointless film. There are various subplots, each as pointless as the next. Then the film ends, thankfully after only about 90 minutes.

Robert Power

Judge Dredd 1995. Dredd is accused of killing a journalist in obvious violation of his duty to uphold the law. It is established that murder = illegal. So he spends the movie assaulting and killing countless FELLOW JUDGES who were literally just doing their jobs. Then at then hes a Judge again! Dude you spent the last hour murdering people

Agricola

ArnoldJRimmer wrote: »

Birdman, an absolute pile of steaming sh!te. Waited the whole film for something to happen, and then it was over. And this incoherent mess somehow cleaned up at the Oscars

Had the same feeling from that.

Not surprised though. It was award bait, a film about acting and actors, and the struggling fallen hasbeen. They eat that shít up in hollywood.

qwerty ui op

Whiplash (the drummer trying to be a great drummer) was another very average movie that won a **** tonne of awards, Again it's connected to the struggles or people in entertainment business - how far they're willing to go for us.

diomed

Top Gun.

soups05

the_pen_turner wrote: »

I was watching unstoppable last night. I missed the start so didn't know how the train ended up running away.

early on an old guy puts his train in front and tries to slow it down by breaking.
he gets derailed and killed.
later on the 2 main guys have to risk their lives for nothing to stop it
eventually a guy in a pick up drives along beside it and a guy jumps on board and turns off the train.

the 2 main guys section was a complete waste and pointless. the guy in the pick up could have stopped it several times before that. and the guy in the train that got derailed could have easily walked back onto the train and turned it off

if you had seen it from the start you would know its based on a true story. the crazy 8's

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSX_8888_incident

so while the parts did not fit with your view, they were there because the actual people were there. Don't quit your job to become a film critic lol

Sky King

ArnoldJRimmer wrote: »

Birdman, an absolute pile of steaming sh!te. Waited the whole film for something to happen, and then it was over. And this incoherent mess somehow cleaned up at the Oscars

It was a film makers **** fest. Lots of shouting in it too. You know...because conflict is the essence of drama....or some shyte.

Add in the awful distracting arrhythmic jazz drumming soundtrack for a terrible film going experience. I fking hated it.

_Dara_

ArnoldJRimmer wrote: »

Birdman, an absolute pile of steaming sh!te. Waited the whole film for something to happen, and then it was over. And this incoherent mess somehow cleaned up at the Oscars

‘Cept for Ed Norton’s scenes which were so goddamm watchable as he always is. The big moody eejit. :P

_Dara_

Royale with Cheese wrote: »

Over Christmas I got bored and decided to watch an old film I'd heard mentioned a good few times but had never seen.... Fast Times at Ridgemont High.

It is the definition of a pointless film. There are various subplots, each as pointless as the next. Then the film ends, thankfully after only about 90 minutes.

I enjoyed it. I liked that it didn’t

turn the abortion into some melodramatic dilemma, which would have been the obvious way to go. The way the film handled it was refreshing.

Mister Vain

Runaway car.

AndyBoBandy

KungPao wrote: »

As a fan of trains, Unstoppable could have been decent if not for the awful shaky cam

What really annoys me in that film is when its Denzel & Captain Kirk in the carriage, and the camera is constantly rotating around the carriage!

Once you’ve noticed it it becomes really annoying.

Also, the news reports in the film, they seemed to have every last detail about everyone involved in the runaway train almost immediately!! They even knew Denzel just got his P45!
They even had a picture of the guy who’s fault it was...... that was taken the same day it happened!!

I’d say that’s the type of film where Denzel & Kirk would have filmed all their scenes over a 3/4 day period. Job done, cheque is in the post.

elefant

qwerty ui op wrote: »

Whiplash (the drummer trying to be a great drummer) was another very average movie that won a **** tonne of awards, Again it's connected to the struggles or people in entertainment business - how far they're willing to go for us.

You're the first person I've ever heard of that didn't really enjoy Whiplash.

Jayesdiem

+1 for Birdman. I felt I did the right thing in turning it off well before the end. Clearly a thinly veiled attempt for Hollywood to jerk off all over itself.

The_Valeyard

Pointless film.


Battlefield Earth. Biggest stinking pile of crap ever created. Worse than The Phantom Menace, worse than Catwoman, worse than The Last Airbender.

Cookie_Monster

soups05 wrote: »

if you had seen it from the start you would know its based on a true story. the crazy 8's

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSX_8888_incident

so while the parts did not fit with your view, they were there because the actual people were there. Don't quit your job to become a film critic lol

'based' is a very loose term. There is very little in common apart from the concept, even a quick read of the wiki article confirms this.

Boscoirl

They could have cut 9 hours out of lord of the rings if they just fly in like they flew out

bucketybuck

the_pen_turner wrote: »

I agree but their characters served no purpose to the film. there should have been no need for any of what they did if the first guy had simply walked back and turned off the train

I guess you're not a fan of "Raiders of the lost ark" then...

Ulysses Gaze

Star Wars Episodes 1-3. Completely unnecessary films that added nothing to Episodes 4-6.

Made by George Lucas purely to fatten his bank balance.

Badly written, badly directed, badly acted ****e. All 3 of them.

Plopsu

Royale with Cheese wrote: »

Over Christmas I got bored and decided to watch an old film I'd heard mentioned a good few times but had never seen.... Fast Times at Ridgemont High.

It is the definition of a pointless film. There are various subplots, each as pointless as the next. Then the film ends, thankfully after only about 90 minutes.

Both Jennifer Jason Leigh and Phoebe Cates take their tops off. That's the point!

Plopsu

Boscoirl wrote: »

They could have cut 9 hours out of lord of the rings if they just fly in like they flew out

While it's never explained in the movie, there is apparently a reason for this. IIRC, the eagles have a non-interventionist policy due to the fact that something they did in the past was largely responsible for Sauron's rise to power in the first place (though that raises the question of why they help Gandalf several times).

the_pen_turner

bucketybuck wrote: »

I guess you're not a fan of "Raiders of the lost ark" then...

no .I hate all of the indi films and similar stuff

the_pen_turner

soups05 wrote: »

if you had seen it from the start you would know its based on a true story. the crazy 8's

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSX_8888_incident

so while the parts did not fit with your view, they were there because the actual people were there. Don't quit your job to become a film critic lol

that doesn't bear any resemblance t the film. they slowed down a run away train that had breaks applied and ran up beside it to turn it off.


still pointless film half of it added nothing to the film

valoren

bucketybuck wrote: »

I guess you're not a fan of "Raiders of the lost ark" then...

The primo example of a pointless plot.

The nazis would have found the head piece and would have found the ark in the Well of Souls, they would have opened it before taking it to Hitler and they still would have been killed by the wrath of God regardless of Indy.

Another for me is The Matrix.

Once Neo was killed, in any way shape or form, he was always going to be 'The One'. He needed to die to become operational so to speak. It ends with him giving the Machines a stern rebuke about their carry on over the phone and then he flies off on a jolly. Pointless. As a stand alone film is is unsatisfying. The Matrix still exists.

The sequel then showed that his being The One was actually completely pointless anyway as he was merely an intentional plant all along, in a wash rinse repeat destruction cycle of Zion, after some dancing in Zion and psycho babble nonsense.

razorblunt

Splitting the Hobbit into 3 movies, sorry, 3 terrible movies.
The CGI was appalling, it was like a video game for the most part.
Pure gluttony and greed.


Special mention to the plot of Superman Returns. Lex Luthor wants to use kryptonite to create an island and build Real Estate on.
Never mind the fact is built like a melted welly.

AndyBoBandy

razorblunt wrote: »

Splitting the Hobbit into 3 movies, sorry, 3 terrible movies.
The CGI was appalling, it was like a video game for the most part.
Pure gluttony and greed.

This irked me as well. I didn't enjoy them at all.

LOTR - 3 books became 3 movies (cut the last hour or so off the last one and overall they're a good watch)
The Hobbit - 1 book became 3 movies (3 terrible movies, apart from the odd few good sequences).

loyatemu

any sequels that ruin the original - "Highlander 2" is a good example; they were aliens? FFS!

remakes that dumb down the original - e.g. the English language version of "The Vanishing"

Mister Vain

Titanic 2
Speed 2
Dumb & Dumber to

me_irl

I liked Birdman...

redcup342

Sharknado and it's amazing sequel Sharknado 2

Sebastian Dangerfield

I watched Geralds Game recently and couldn't get what all the fuss was about. Woman gets trapped in the house and has to escape - fair enough. What was all that stuff about Joubert about? What did it add - what purpose did it serve?

valoren

AndyBoBandy wrote: »

This irked me as well. I didn't enjoy them at all.

LOTR - 3 books became 3 movies (cut the last hour or so off the last one and overall they're a good watch)
The Hobbit - 1 book became 3 movies (3 terrible movies, apart from the odd few good sequences).

It's the inverse square law of nature applied to a movie trilogy.

The Lord of the Rings, a rich thematic novel, they initially pitched as 2 movies but ended up making 3. Three books, Three movies. There was more than sufficient 'source' material to warrant 3 movies without diluting the overall quality i.e. the initial source of power was very high.

With The Hobbit, it was the opposite. One children's book extended to 3 overly long movies. It could have and should have been one brilliant movie, but it was all about the $$$. The 'source' material wasn't as rich and the quality was diluted producing 3 sh1t films.



r = Fellowship of the Ring r2 = The Two Towers r3 = The Return of the King

Agricola

The main gripe I had with the Hobbit was the Disneyfication of the trilogy compared to the LoTR. Ok, admittedly it is a lighter story aimed at children but Jackson just went completely overboard with it, aided and abetted by the CGI which he didnt have 20 years ago.

He mentioned he wanted people to have the two trilogies on the one shelf, a 6 film Middle Earth extravaganza, but really the Hobbit is so different in tone to the earlier films that they don't feel like they belong together at all.

YFlyer

Junkyard Tom wrote: »

The Bus that Couldn't Slow Down.

Or the milk float.

PotatoSpud

SimonTemplar wrote: »

Gus Van Sant's completely pointless shot for shot remake of Psycho. It was a complete carbon copy of the original except for the bizarre insertion of random cloud shots during the shower scene and bad acting

You forget that shot of Vince Vaughn masturbating.