Thursday, July 3, 2014

Ten bad movies to show a film class

   This is not a list of horrible movies to show a modern day film class to these are movies that were badly made that are perfect to show a film class to in my opinion. These movies are not necessarily movies I hate, but I think are bad enough to the point where these should be used as examples to show future film makers what not to do. This is all my opinion and there are a lot more worst movies out there but in my opinion these are movies that you can teach an hour class on. You can also call this my "mini-reviews" for the movies listed and this isn't in a specific order.


10.) Endless Love
 When I first planned this list I wanted at least one romance movie in here and it was between this and the notebook. The reason I didn't go with the notebook is because of the fact that at least the notebook is shot beautifully and is a little bit compelling when we get to the scenes when they are old.
  Endless love however is a lot more boring and is way worse when it comes to the typical clichés of romance movies that people hate. Good girl falls in love with bad boy, disapproving parents (even though they are right), sappy dialogue etc.
  Also a  Nicholas Sparks movie adaptation has at least an interesting subplot going on in the background, with Endless love the romance is it and it is super boring.




9.) Godfather part III
     I chose this out of all the movie "threequels" because of the fact the godfather III hurts the worst out of any of the terrible "threequels" in movie history. Godfather I and II were hailed as two of the greatest movies of all time and for the next one to be this bad stings as both a godfather fan and a movie fan. A lot of people blame Sofia Coppola (great director, bad actor) for this but there is a lot more wrong with the godfather part III from other bad acting and bad script problems. It's a perfect example of how not to end a trilogy.


8.)Amazing Spider-man 2
    Now I don't hate the amazing spider-man 3, I can actually rewatch this film and still be really entertained and like it but when it comes to this, Iron man 2 or Spider-man 3 for over-blown, too much studio interference this wins. I have said that when a studio doesn't interfere enough they end up getting a mess but when a studio interferes too much they can also get a big mess. Sony obviously trying to catch up to Marvel's avengers focused way too much on Easter eggs and building up to a sinister six movie than telling a cohesive story. You can tell the director Mark Webb wanted to tell more of a teen love drama (he specialty and the best part of the movie) then he did a superhero movie. There was just too much going on, too many things underdeveloped and not enough time to tell a good movie. It's also sad because Sony had experienced this before with Spider-man 3 and they repeated their mistakes.


7.) Les Miserables
  I loved Les Miserables, I have two different soundtracks of the movies, I even liked Russell Crowe's singing in the movie but I acknowledge it is not that good of a movie. The acting is great for the most part but the reason you show Les Miserables is because for a few reasons.
  First how essential cinematography is in a movie and why too much Shaky cam in a movie is a bad idea. With Les Miserables the camera is so close to a person's face and never kept still and I don't think people realize how important a cinematographer is to a movie until he or she has been horribly crippled yet still forced to stand while holding a camera.
  Second that make sure the people you hire can actually sing. I was in the minority where I liked Russell Crowe's singing ( I have a bad taste in music) but I acknowledge there are so many other better singers ( i.e Norbert Lewis, Javert from the 25th anniversary musical.)
  Third, like I mentioned in my Jersey Boys review transferring the bad parts of a musical to try to stick to it. Too much was kept and not enough was changed in this movie to make the story more cohesive.


6.)Star Wars Attack of the clones
  I liked the star wars prequels the same way I liked the original trilogy, I liked all the movies equally but not with the same fan boy obsession as some people or watched them in aw. I watched all of the Star Wars movies before I found out what big of a role they played in cinema, and while  I do respect all of the things the star war movies have done for cinema I have a very passive relationship with all of the movies.
  That being said Star Wars Attack of the clones is one of the worst examples of too much creative control and too much pandering to fans ever. The problem with the Star Wars prequels is George Lucas never had a no man on the prequels, someone who will call out all of his bad ideas. This movie is worst than Phantom menace because it pan-handles more to it's fans and of the dull romance.




5.) We're the Millers
  To many people the worst thing for a comedy to be is either offensive, unfunny or stupid. To me the worst thing a comedy could be is boring. I hate We're the Miller's with a passion and that's because it was a waste of 90 minutes that I am never getting back. The difference between an unfunny movie and a boring movie is that an unfunny movie at least has jokes in it where as a boring movie has either no jokes or so few jokes that are at least twenty minutes apart from each other. The movie is also a good example of a really flat premise that is really nothing.


4.) Green Lantern
  After watching the movie Green Lantern is a good example of bad special effects in a movie. Their are worse special effects in worse movies but when it comes to a modern day movie with the special effects we have today and it's also a good example of the overuse of CGI. The Star wars special effects have been called out on this but at least with the star wars prequels they wore actual clothes and looked pretty. This also to show film students because it's an example on how not to budget a movie.




3.)Eight Crazy Nights
 Eight Crazy nights is not only an example of a bad animated movie and a bad Christmas Special. It's offensive, the character's are annoying, it's way too mean spirited for it's own good, bad voice acting and one of the worst product placements scenes ever- it makes Space Jam look like a subtle product placement movie. On the bright side it does have good animation but everything else is complete shit and proves that Adam Sandler should not write a movie.


 2.)Paranormal activity: The Marked ones
  I would have typed the paranormal activity series but that would have been cheating and so I put the most recent one. The paranormal activity series is an example of running a horror series into the ground and the overuse of jumps scares instead of building up sense and waiting for the scares. Out of most of the run-into the ground horror movie series the Paranormal activity series stings the most because the first two were amazing and very unique but as the series went on they stopped building suspense, they relied more on jump scares and it started to become very confusing and stupid. It's a perfect example of how not to make a horror series and series decay.


 1.) Fred the Movie
   This is a movie that is the perfect example and taking something popular and turning into a shitty movie. I never liked Fred but even if something is popular that doesn't mean it deserves a movie. It's also a movie that accomplishes nothing, is about nothing and has characters that you would like to shoot with an AK-47. Not everything deserves a movie and Fred was one of them.




 I hope you enjoyed this, I hope to do more list in the future (expect Ten Good movies to show a film class later down the line) and have a happy fourth of July weekend!

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