Yes! Battlefield Earth.
I stayed for the whole movie because I couldn’t believe how bad it was.To me battlefield earth falls under the “so bad it begins to loop back around into Cheesey fun” category.
I especially love how what are essentially cave men find F16 fighter jets from the past and not only do the jets and old fuel work, but the cave men know how to start them and fly them effectively.
L Ron really outdid himself on that gem.
really outdid himself
You should see what he saved for the non-fiction section.
It really was something.
Ok but the book is actually really good though. It’s hilarious that they never explain how they learned how to fly and operate the machinery
That movie suffers from the source material being fucking ridiculously long and weird. Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000 is like 1000 pages or so. Also it’s L Ron Hubbard so the book is just weird and creepy at times.
They used to get paid by the word back then.
For a writer he was not concise in his explanations.
I watched the trailer and it looked so good. I was really waiting for it for a half year or so. You can imagine my disappointment.
mAn aNiMaL!!1
My dumbass father liked eragon, I couldn’t even give it a fair shot as a movie bc I was too caught up in how they absolutely butchered the storyline of the books.
So I went and saw it on a weekend with a buddy just because we liked seeing movies. We went into it with no idea what it was about besides “epic dragon movie”. I watched so many fans of the book get up angrily about 35 minutes in and storm out.
We talked to one of the theatre employees and they said that they had never received so many refund requests for a bad film before Eragon.
And rightfully so. That movie was an utter atrocity.
Are we talking Star Was Holiday Special bad, or is it the sort of thing you could watch while laughing at it? Because my friend has a big weed stash and needs to know about movies like that.
Justice for his family at home where the fuck is the entire second part of the story…
How has nobody mentioned the live-action Avatar: The Last Airbender movie? I saw it as a kid and even I wanted to leave.
A live-action Avatar movie? I’d heard there was a live-action series, but there’s definitely no ATLA movie.
The Dark Tower. Was so embarrassed that I brought my wife thinking someone could possibly take 8 books and boil them down to 95 minutes that I made us leave a half hour in. It trivialized everything about the books in the worst way possible.
Also, Nacho Libre. Just couldn’t do it. I don’t ding JB for it at all but really bad.
Not even Idris Elba could save that mess of a movie.
Iris Elbow is the James Bond we deserve.
Autocorrect really did a number on your comment.
Idris Elbow is aware of the effect he has on autocorrect.
Do you think him and Benadryl Cucumbersmash are friends?
I think he would have made a great luchador.
Get back to your ready room and tend to your lizard babies.
There are bad adaptations, and then there’s the Dark Tower, which was akin to a full palm-open slap to the fans while desperately hoping they could maybe appeal to some movie goers that were unfamiliar with the books, which it failed to do spectacularly.
Most of Steven King books end up this way. It’s pretty much expected at this point.
Never read the books because I heard they end badly and that’s a hell of a time commitment.
They end fine. Genuinely, read the first book, and read the last chapter of the last book. Ignore everything else.
They could’ve had a motherfucking FRANCHISE
I saw the South Park Bigger, Longer, and Uncut movie in theaters as a kid. I lived in a small town adjacent to a small city, and there weren’t many other people in the theater. During the scene where the boys are watching the Terrace and Phillip movie and the theater-goers walk out, so did everyone else in our real life theater. It was surreal. We had a great time watching the rest of the movie by ourselves.
I can’t imagine not loving every second of that movie. I still sing Uncle Fucker to myself.
Around the time the movie was released I worked over nights stocking at a Toys R Us. As soon as the store closed I would connect my discman to the PA system and we would listen to music all night. One day we were working later than usual because of Christmas, no one told us the store had actually opened and Uncle Fucker was playing over the PA.
Son of the mask. I don’t know what I was thinking.
Who doesn’t want to see a poorly trained child actor try and fill Jim Carrey’s shoes?
Oh! Oh! I know the answer! It’s me! Me!
I think the creepy CGI baby weirded me out
That movie Wanted where Jolie curve balls bullets and Freeman reads the future by means of textile production
Great movie, despite the ridiculousness
I loved that movie when I was 14
I loved that movie… Reminded me of shoot-em-up around the same era
That one is not bad if you go in knowing that it’s just fucking ridiculous. It’s great for a bad b-movie night.
The screaming in that movie made me want to punch the shit outta the guy getting dragged around by Jolie. God, he screams so annoyingly!
It’s worth it when you get to the end and hear Morgan Freeman utter the line “Will someone, PLEASE! Shoot this motherfucker!”
The really surprising bit is that it’s based on a comic where the characters aren’t assassins, they’re super-villains.
As much as I hate the toxic POS that is Mark Millar, he did write a good comic book there. Shame about the shitty film.
For my parents, their walk out because it was terrible movie was Pulp Fiction
…Yeah I don’t listen to them for movie recommendations
To be fair if they went into it not knowing how graphic Quentin Tarantino movies usually are, then I can see why they’d leave. It’s got literal rape and sodomy in it.
No, they just found the plot too confusing and “badly written”
Bruno, what a crappy movie
LOL yes! As soon as the urethra spoke, one third of the audience left. Yeah it’s a bad movie but I loved how the audience squirmed.
I think the first people left after the scene where the camera POV enters the urethra
We don’t talk about Bruno
No, no, no, no.
I felt like the real prank was on me for having paid money to watch it
Wow, I never knew Jimmy from Downton Abbey was in Eragon. Goddamn, and Jeremy Irons and Djimon Hounsou? This movie was stacked and yet it failed so hard. Bad writing or what?
From what I’ve gathered they essentially betrayed every single principle, lesson, and character development that the books explored beautifully.
Think M Night’s “The Last Airbender” compared to the original Cartoon or Dragon Ball Evolution compared to the Anime.
Think M Night’s “The Last Airbender” compared to the original Cartoon
I try not to. But that clears it up for me, thanks.
In other news, though, the new Netflix Airbender and One Piece are fucking dope.
I couldn’t get into either of those but I don’t think I’m the target audience either.
I’m not exactly either, but I watched One Piece like 5 times in a row. It’s just so bizarre and irreverent. I love Monkey D. Luffe so much.
Stacked is right! I just looked up the cast, and it’s wild to see some of these names. I didn’t know John Malkovich was in it?? I didn’t pay any attention to this flick when it came out… I just heard it was ass and filed it under “Nah” in my head. Yeah, looks like the script was just unsalvageable.
Zoolander 2. I should’ve walked out with them.
I’m kind of happy I didn’t know they made a second Zoolander. I love the first one and it’d break my heart to see them try and capture lightning in a bottle twice.
Keep it that way. It was painful to sit through, and it takes a lot for me to actively dislike a piece of media. Even when it’s things that are widely considered to be bad I tend to just feel indifference.
My dad and I walked out of Paul Blart Mall Cop about 20-30 minutes in. No idea what possessed us to go in the first place lol
Your dad left because Paul Blart awoke some feelings in him and he was afraid that if he stayed, he would have fallen in love with Paul Blart
It’s called Blart Heart and it’s a very powerful love affliction that Kevin James traps Dad’s into.
I wish that I had walked out of D-War /Dragon Wars back in 2007. That movie was such a piece of shit that I begrudge the minutes of my life that I’ll never get back. There’s like five cool minutes of some wyverns flying around fighting helicopters and the rest isn’t just bad, it’s boring. Go watch Reign of Fire instead and see Matthew McConaughey get absolutely unhinged. Definitely the superior trashy dragon movie.
Reign of fire is a masterpiece of dragon fiction. Christian bale, Gerard butler, and shirtless, bald, McConaughey with a tank and an axe (for what ever reason). What else could one ask for?
I walked out of that Marine recruitment movie. Battlefield Los Angeles?
Those kind of movies I tend to skip now. I used to see them a lot more frequently when my kids were very little. I’d take a couple hours of leave at work and leave early and go nap in an empty theatre at 11 in the morning on a Tuesday.
I loved Battleship, though
You don’t mean Top Gun, do you? That was made with recruitment money and was rather awesome.
Maybe he means World War Z?
Did you mean Battle: Los Angeles with Aaron Eckhart?
I can only think of one. The original movie of The Barnyard. It’s a kids movie, of course, and it was never going to be great, but kids were asking to leave that movie. That’s impressive.
