What terrible movies have you watched recenty? Superman IV for me. I had forgotten how bad it is.

AMKC

Lex Luther greats a super evil being lol. It was more like something that should have been in a Ghostbusters film and then that god awefull scene where he brings the French Businessmans daughter into space and she is still alive lol sure no air or heat but yep she is still alive. So bad lol. I hope all the people who passed this were sacked just after it flopped in the Cinema all them years ago. It was truly terrible and I speak as someone who loves the first 3 films. Christopher Reeve will forever be the best Superman.

So what God awful films have you watched recently?

silliussoddius

Wasn’t this one of the films that speeded up the demise of the Canon studio?

Mad_maxx

I watched it as I’d never seen it ( don’t think it’s ever been shown before on TV ?) , nothing prepared me for how astonishingly awful it is, like something Ed Wood might have made as the special effects looked like a movie from 1957 rather than 1987 , apparently it cost ten million to make, honestly all of the budget must have gone on wages ?

easily the worst movie I’ve ever seen, makes Superman 3 ( which is fairly terrible) look like Terminator 2

i really love the first two Superman movies, especially the first one

AMKC

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120057202#Comment_120057202

I watched it as I’d never seen it ( don’t think it’s ever been shown before on TV ?) , nothing prepared me for how astonishingly awful it is, like something Ed Wood might have made as the special effects looked like a movie from 1957 rather than 1987 , apparently it cost ten million to make, honestly all of the budget must have gone on wages ?

MUST HAVE YES.

Maybe no one wanted to air it lol.

I mean how thick woukd Lois and tge other Woman hacmve to be to not figure out that Clark is Superman and Superman Clark. There is another terrible scene where Superman let's go of Lois and she does not fall but somehow miraculously flys lol.

It has been on TV before alright do.

easily the worst movie I’ve ever seen, makes Superman 3 ( which is fairly terrible) look like Terminator 2

AH Superman 3 has its problems but yes it's not nearly as bad as 4.

i really love the first two Superman movies, especially the first one

Yes me too.

thegame983

I watched Passenger 57 on christmas day.

Not good.

Larbre34

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120057596#Comment_120057596

Damn sight better than Superman IV.

Christopher Reeve said of it later 'I did it to promote nuclear disarmament, but it was a catastrophe from the start. My association with it did serious harm to my career.'

I did watch about 10 minutes of it this afternoon too. Absolutely dreadful.

Grandeeod

Superman 4 had unmercifully budget cuts. Brought down to 17 million as cannon went out of business. All shot in England with bad consequences. Could have been brilliant. Think it was He Man and the masters of the universe that killed it. Cannon didn't know how to manage big projects. They were a low budget outfit and made some great stuff. Superman 4 was way outside their ability.

Mad_maxx

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120057885#Comment_120057885

Seventeen million wasn’t a small budget in 1986 , honestly it looks like a movie that cost less than a million

BingCrosbee

Watched the Banshees of Inisheirin last night. Worst crap I ever watched, no story, boring, depressing. Dreadful.

AMKC

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120057922#Comment_120057922

It was still less than half what it was originally meant to cost to make ,

Pathé ownership of Cannon

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By 1988, a cooling in the film market and a series of box office disappointments—including the multimillion-dollar production of Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987), whose original $36-million budget was slashed to $17 million—had once again put Cannon in financial woes. The company signed an agreement with Warner Bros. to handle part of their assets; however, the financial loss was staggering. Having purchased Thorn EMI's Thorn EMI Screen Entertainment division in 1986,[28] Cannon Films was severely stretched, and faced bankruptcy. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission began an investigation into Cannon's financial reports, suspecting that Cannon had fraudulently misstated them. On the verge of failure, Cannon Films was taken over by Pathé Communications, a holding company controlled by Italian financier Giancarlo Parretti. Financed by the French bank Crédit Lyonnais, Pathé Communications' takeover of Cannon immediately began a corporate restructuring and refinancing of $250 million to pay off Cannon's debt. By 1989, Golan, citing differences with both Parretti and Globus, resigned from his position and left Cannon to start 21st Century Film Corporation, while Globus remained with Pathé.

Larbre34

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120057963#Comment_120057963

Its an excellent movie. Excellent.

The setting is contrived to be a bubble and thats a plot device you can either accept or not. Think of it as a play.

But what the characterisation says about the human condition, is profound.

And Barry Keoghan is going to win an Oscar for it. And I'm not fanboy-ing here, I've never enjoyed him in anything before.

Gatling

Oddly enough accidentally made the kids sit though Superman IV earlier,

The evil eyes and wft moments from start to finish didn't make it worthwhile couldn't even remember watching this in the cinema when it was originally released,

Thank god Tim Burton revived the superhero genre with his two batmans and which eventually led to the MCU ,

This single handedly killed the franchise for the longest period

AllForIt

Once you get past the 3rd one in a series just forget it.

Superman I and II I love because of the amazing score of John Williams and the beautiful cinematography, esp in S1.

It's always an unusual movie in the way it goes from serious to slap-stick comedy and back again. It all worked somehow.

It's an esp xmas movie for me more than Die Hard because when I were a wee lad RTE had it on as as it's xmas 'blockbuster' movie, and I just fell in love with movie scores ever since.

Of all John Williams scores I'd put his Superman score at his best, with Star Wars a very close second. I know he's done loads of other very good stuff but those too are his all time greats imo.

One eyed Jack

“Virtuosity”, with Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe. Real stinker of a movie, I was looking for something with Denzel in it because he and Russell Crowe are two of my favourite actors (Tom Cruise too).

That reminds me, watched “Poker Face” the other night. It wasn’t difficult to forget I’d watched it, it’s utterly forgettable.

In cinema, the latest Thor movie. It was like a cheesy 90’s G’n’R rock opera. I like rock opera, and I love it when a movie subverts my expectations… but this was shyte from beginning to end 😒

On streaming platforms - “Prey”

Spoiler warning: the protagonist spends most of the movie asleep in the tent. I probably would have done too.

Sgt Hartman

Year One and Nacho Libre, both starring Jack Black. Both movies are a boring mess and a waste of time.

Dav010

Watched Violent Night, it’s a Die Hard meets Santa Clause movie out at the moment, my eyes hurt after watching it. Brutal.

lumphammer2

Superman IV: The Quest For Peace too I'm afraid ... saw it years back but watched again yesterday just to see if it was as bad as I had remembered ... it was ...

Cannon aka Golan Globus produced this film .. that was the first time I noticed ... I'd have very very low expectations regarding anything they did ... they were a low budget company with Middle East roots that made some woeful low budget right wing drivel usually starring Chuck Norris ... you could not expect a decent Superman film from them ... they messed up Masters of the Universe too ... that could have been another Star Wars in someone else's hands ...

Superman 1 and 2 are excellent .. 3 is ok ... forget the fourth one ... it really is as bad as they say ... much worse than 1997's Batman and Robin ... the equivalent low point in the Batman franchise ... for certain ...

RabbleRouser2k

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120058003#Comment_120058003

Oh Superman 4 was shown on TV years ago. I can remember it because of how much of a clusterfudge it was. And how much people were talking about it afterwards. You watch the first two, and even with the bts stuff going on on Superman 2 (Richard Donner getting fired, using a Gene Hackman soundalike and lookalike to finish the film), it's still a good movie.

If you watch the documentary 'Electric Boogaloo: The Story of Cannon films'... you realise how much of a disaster Superman 4 really was. You can even find deleted scenes of Superman 4 on youtube, where we see the first 'Nuclear Man'. The second Nuclear Man (the one in the movie) was a Chippendale's dancer. Never acted again, either.

I mean, Cannon films promised Reeves and co. $32 million, but only delivered $17 million, and may not even have given that much. The budget for Superman (1978) was $55 million. Coupled with that, they were also making Masters of the Universe at the same time, and often took the budget from Superman 4 to pay for MoTU, and then didn't deliver there either. Mattel (the owners of He-man) stumped up the money there too. As did the director.

As for worst film. Deadly Cuts. Awful Irish film. Just awful.

BattleCorp

I was in my Mam's yesterday and Superman IV was on the TV. Couldn't take my eyes off of it because it was so bad.

Holy mother of Jaysus, the special effects. They were absolutely cringeworthy. The special effects on Wanderly Wagon were better. 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣

Mad_maxx

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120057963#Comment_120057963

Be serious, how could The Banshees of Inisherin be the worst movie ever?

Deregos.

Not sure if it's the same movie you're talking about, but I was flicking around the channels and landed upon a clip where Superman was 'straightening' the leaning Tower of Pisa, it looked so woeful I didn't stay watching it.

Because we'd never seen it & the first Zoolander was so good, we decided to watch 'Zoolander No. 2' one evening . . . it was brutally bad, with a such a stupid plot line and generally just so OTT & unfunny, I think seeing it has nearly ruined the first Zoolander for me.

pgj2015

I saw this film about Nazi zombies once, the acting was so bad they made fair city actors looks like Oscar winners. watched about 4 minutes of it before I ejected the DVD and threw it in the bin.

sydthebeat

I didn't realize till yesterday when Superman 2 was on that Mario Puzo wrote the first two Superman movies!!

Makes sense now why they were so well received.

Me, I watched the 1993 Mario brothers movie , my god it's awful

Montage of Feck

Once Superhero movies were considered naff and now that is all that's in the cinema.

lumphammer2

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120058587#Comment_120058587

Cannon aka Golan Globus are the notorious makers of some of the worst movies I have ever seen ... Delta Force ... Braddock: Missing in Action ... all that stuff .. low budget flicks with Chuck Norris ...

They also did an inferior ripoff of Indiana Jones as well ... they ruined Superman and Masters of the Universe ...

The organisation specialised in anti USSR/anti communist flicks with stereotyped characters and .. more often than not .. Chuck Norris fighting and killing them ... The company was founded by a Russian family with anti USSR views hence the propaganda angle ... ironically the 'Russia' of his films resembled more 2022-23 Russia than the USSR ...

I did not watch any of the other Cannon/GG films recently ... but remember a time when the old video rental shops were full of them ... most people of the time would have seen at least some of them as they went through the finite amount of films available in such stores ...

Badly Drunk Boy

While I was in the family home over Christmas, I watched Snowmageddon with my brother (whatever happened in a mysterious snowglobe, happened to the small mountain town!), which was as bad as I expected to be. The obvious thing to do was to check out who wrote it and to see what other delights he had done. This led to us watching The 12 Disasters of Christmas (a bit like the biblical plagues but in a small mountain town) but I refused to watch Independence Day-saster. Fair play to my brother for surviving all three...

I knew what I was letting myself in for...

Badly Drunk Boy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120059406#Comment_120059406

They also did an inferior ripoff of Indiana Jones as well

Would that be King Solomon's Mines  with Richard Chamberlain and Sharon Stone?

FortuneChip

Kindergarten Cop was on TV on New Year's Day.

Arnie is Arnie, so that's forgivable. And I won't give Linda Hunt any bad marks.

Everything else is about this movie is awful.

Rothko

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120058247#Comment_120058247

A lot of people seem to get confused when they see a character driven film rather than one that's driven by the plot. See it all the time when someone complains about a movie where "nothing happens".

breezy1985

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120058247#Comment_120058247

He won't win the Oscar and Robert Downey Jr. in Tropic Thunder can tell you why 😁

As for Superman as much as many of my generation might love them from childhood they really haven't aged well compared to their contemporaries.

I'm thinking my other beloved childhood movies like Indy, Star Wars, Die Hard, Rocky and the better Trek movies (it's older than some of them in fairness)

AMKC

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120058717#Comment_120058717

Not sure if it's the same movie you're talking about, but I was flicking around the channels and landed upon a clip where Superman was 'straightening' the leaning Tower of Pisa, it looked so woeful I didn't stay watching it.

That's from Superman 3 and he is fixing it after he had got rid of his evil self.

I agree it's not great but it's still at least 100 times better than what's in Superman 4 so be happy you missed that one.