WHAT WERE THEY THINKING???
by wbrown21 | created - 23 Jun 2011 | updated - 23 Jun 2011 | PublicThese are movies that make you want to boycott the director, producers, and sometimes the lead actor(s).
Some were even okay attempts at making a good film but they drop the ball in the end.
As you can tell, most are sad attempts at remaking a classic Comic/Cartoon/VideoGame. I need recommendations on remakes that actually succeeded in doing a decent rendition, only two that comes to mind is Superman 1 and Shinobi.
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1. Dragonball Evolution (2009)
PG | 85 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
The young warrior Son Goku sets out on a quest, racing against time and the vengeful King Piccolo, to collect a set of seven magical orbs that will grant their wielder unlimited power.
Director: James Wong | Stars: Justin Chatwin, James Marsters, Chow Yun-Fat, Emmy Rossum
Votes: 79,395 | Gross: $9.35M
I would love to have a sit down face to face with James Wong, Ben Ramsey and Stephen Chow and ask them WHAT ARE YALL SMOKING?
There is no way the 3 were satisfied with this film if they had ever saw 1 cartoon episode.
Even if it made 5 mil in the opening weekend.
2. Son of the Mask (2005)
PG | 94 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Tim Avery, an aspiring cartoonist, finds himself in a predicament when his dog stumbles upon the mask of Loki. Then after conceiving an infant son "born of the mask", he discovers just how looney child raising can be.
Director: Lawrence Guterman | Stars: Jamie Kennedy, Traylor Howard, Alan Cumming, Liam Falconer
Votes: 59,326 | Gross: $17.02M
No comment.
3. Catwoman (2004)
PG-13 | 104 min | Action, Crime, Fantasy
A shy woman, endowed with the speed, reflexes, and senses of a cat, walks a thin line between criminal and hero, even as a detective doggedly pursues her, fascinated by both of her personas.
Director: Pitof | Stars: Halle Berry, Sharon Stone, Benjamin Bratt, Lambert Wilson
Votes: 125,833 | Gross: $40.20M
Picture young Julie Newmar, then Eartha Kitt. Next a well done Pfeiffer performance in Batman 2...
Now Halley Berry.
Not even close.
4. Gigli (2003)
R | 121 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance
Larry Gigli is assigned by a crime boss to kidnap the brother of a prominent district attorney. A beautiful woman known only as Ricki is sent to stay with him to make sure he doesn't mess up the job.
Director: Martin Brest | Stars: Ben Affleck, Jennifer Lopez, Justin Bartha, Terry Camilleri
Votes: 50,729 | Gross: $6.07M
Ha!
5. Jeepers Creepers (2001)
R | 90 min | Horror, Mystery
A brother and sister driving home through isolated countryside for spring break encounter a flesh-eating creature which is in the midst of its ritualistic eating spree.
Director: Victor Salva | Stars: Gina Philips, Justin Long, Jonathan Breck, Patricia Belcher
Votes: 142,639 | Gross: $37.90M
I'm running away from a monster that can't be killed. So i intelligently hop in the nearest car and start the engine. I run over the monster...but do we haul ass outta town....NEVER. Instead, rocket scientists Trish & Darry decide to stop and reverse over the monster....(THAT CAN'T BE KILLED!!!)...then drive over him AGAIN! Ahhhh, for crying out loud.
6. The Village (2004)
PG-13 | 108 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A series of events tests the beliefs of a small isolated countryside village.
Director: M. Night Shyamalan | Stars: Sigourney Weaver, William Hurt, Joaquin Phoenix, Bryce Dallas Howard
Votes: 277,904 | Gross: $114.20M
Poor blind girl.
7. The Adventures of Pluto Nash (2002)
PG-13 | 95 min | Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
In the future, a man struggles to keep his lunar nightclub out of the hands of the Mafia.
Director: Ron Underwood | Stars: Eddie Murphy, Jay Mohr, Randy Quaid, Rosario Dawson
Votes: 27,008 | Gross: $4.42M
From Raw, Delirious, and SNL to Pluto Nash. Let's all just try to forget this ever happened. Okay kids?
8. House of 1000 Corpses (2003)
R | 89 min | Horror
Two young couples traveling across the backwoods of Texas searching for urban legends of murder end up as prisoners of a bizarre and sadistic backwater family of serial killers.
Director: Rob Zombie | Stars: Sid Haig, Karen Black, Bill Moseley, Sheri Moon Zombie
Votes: 93,451 | Gross: $12.63M
I've tried to watch this 1,000 times and i still can't finish it. My finger always hits the power button.
9. Superman Returns (2006)
PG-13 | 154 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Superman returns to Earth after spending five years in space examining his homeworld Krypton. But he finds things have changed while he was gone, and he must once again prove himself important to the world.
Director: Bryan Singer | Stars: Brandon Routh, Kevin Spacey, Kate Bosworth, James Marsden
Votes: 291,432 | Gross: $200.08M
I hated Superman 4 but not as much as this version.
This movie reminds me of a book/film i once had that tried to prove that Jesus was an ordinary man by giving him children. Superman is no ordinary man.
10. Freddy vs. Jason (2003)
R | 97 min | Action, Horror
Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees return to terrorize the teenagers of Elm Street. Only this time, they're out to get each other, too.
Director: Ronny Yu | Stars: Robert Englund, Ken Kirzinger, Kelly Rowland, Monica Keena
Votes: 127,324 | Gross: $82.62M
These are two unstoppable killing machines that terrorized kids when i was growing up. To watch them go at each other like a child slap-boxing contest was nauseating at best.
11. Howard the Duck (1986)
PG | 110 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A sarcastic humanoid duck is pulled from his homeworld to Earth where he must stop an alien invasion with the help of a nerdy scientist and a struggling female rock singer.
Director: Willard Huyck | Stars: Lea Thompson, Jeffrey Jones, Tim Robbins, Ed Gale
Votes: 50,770 | Gross: $16.30M
This still creeps me out a lil. He's kid in a hot smelly duck suit. It's like making an action movie drama about Barney. Hello boys and girls....who's ready to kick butt?
12. X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)
PG-13 | 104 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
The human government develops a cure for mutations, and Jean Grey becomes a darker uncontrollable persona called the Phoenix who allies with Magneto, causing escalation into an all-out battle for the X-Men.
Director: Brett Ratner | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, Famke Janssen
Votes: 541,008 | Gross: $234.36M
2 things, Phoenix was never THAT strong or evil and Prof X would never allow what happened to happen. I truly believe that the writers were desperate. Scott AND Charles.... c'mon.
13. Super Mario Bros. (1993)
PG | 104 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
Two Brooklyn plumbers, Mario and Luigi, must travel to another dimension to rescue a princess from the evil dictator King Koopa and stop him from taking over the world.
Directors: Annabel Jankel, Rocky Morton | Stars: Bob Hoskins, John Leguizamo, Dennis Hopper, Samantha Mathis
Votes: 63,003 | Gross: $20.92M
Mario was casted perfectly but Luigi. Mmmmmm not so much.
14. The Matrix Revolutions (2003)
R | 129 min | Action, Sci-Fi
The human city of Zion defends itself against the massive invasion of the machines as Neo fights to end the war at another front while also opposing the rogue Agent Smith.
Directors: Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski | Stars: Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving
Votes: 543,781 | Gross: $139.31M
So wait, was Neo ever the one? Because, things still seem the same around these parts. Still dark as ever, we're in a Human ant farm and now that it's over what the hell are we going to do about all these damn ships and guns. Riddiculous ending to a somewhat OK concept.
15. Doom (2005)
R | 105 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Space Marines are sent to investigate strange events at a research facility on Mars but find themselves at the mercy of genetically enhanced killing machines.
Director: Andrzej Bartkowiak | Stars: Karl Urban, Rosamund Pike, Dwayne Johnson, Deobia Oparei
Votes: 118,762 | Gross: $28.21M
The last 10 minutes where it mimics the legendary First Person Shooter game fails to make up for the first 60 minutes of my time you wasted.
16. Street Fighter (1994)
PG-13 | 102 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
In the midst of a civil war in South East Asia, a general intensifies the climate of violence by kidnapping 63 UN delegates. To free the hostages, a colonel leads a group of fighters, who will have to use all their skills to be successful.
Director: Steven E. de Souza | Stars: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Raul Julia, Ming-Na Wen, Damian Chapa
Votes: 75,323 | Gross: $33.42M
No sonic boom, hadoken, or shoryuken. All we get is an anorexic Dee Jay and a well done Zangief. Pah-leez
17. Signs (2002)
PG-13 | 106 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A widowed former reverend living with his children and brother on a Pennsylvania farm finds mysterious crop circles in their fields, which suggests something more frightening to come.
Director: M. Night Shyamalan | Stars: Mel Gibson, Joaquin Phoenix, Rory Culkin, Abigail Breslin
Votes: 385,907 | Gross: $227.97M
Stop it with the damn cups of water will ya!
18. Batman & Robin (1997)
PG-13 | 125 min | Action, Sci-Fi
Batman and Robin try to keep their relationship together even as they must stop Mr. Freeze and Poison Ivy from freezing Gotham City.
Director: Joel Schumacher | Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, George Clooney, Chris O'Donnell, Uma Thurman
Votes: 268,218 | Gross: $107.33M
I once read this somewhere:
Batman and Robin get nipples but Batgirl doesn't.
Worst movie of the franchise. Robin was an okay casting.
19. Freddy Got Fingered (2001)
R | 87 min | Comedy
An unemployed cartoonist moves back in with his parents and younger brother Freddy. When his parents demand he leave, he begins to spread rumors that his father is sexually abusing Freddy.
Director: Tom Green | Stars: Tom Green, Rip Torn, Marisa Coughlan, Eddie Kaye Thomas
Votes: 51,400 | Gross: $14.25M
I actually liked the rocket scientist in the wheelchair but this movie was disturbing.
20. The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006)
PG-13 | 104 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
A teenager becomes a major competitor in the world of drift racing after moving in with his father in Tokyo to avoid a jail sentence in America.
Director: Justin Lin | Stars: Lucas Black, Zachery Ty Bryan, Shad Moss, Damien Marzette
Votes: 300,138 | Gross: $62.51M
Paul and Vin are Fast and Furious respectively. Watching this was terrible.
21. Jaws: The Revenge (1987)
PG-13 | 89 min | Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Chief Brody's widow believes that her family is deliberately being targeted by another shark in search of revenge.
Director: Joseph Sargent | Stars: Lorraine Gary, Lance Guest, Mario Van Peebles, Karen Young
Votes: 49,578 | Gross: $20.76M
Should've learned the first time around!
22. White Chicks (2004)
PG-13 | 109 min | Comedy, Crime
Two disgraced FBI agents go way undercover in an effort to protect hotel heiresses the Wilson sisters from a kidnapping plot.
Director: Keenen Ivory Wayans | Stars: Marlon Wayans, Shawn Wayans, Busy Philipps, Maitland Ward
Votes: 163,349 | Gross: $70.83M
Never saw this. Never will. The trailer alone makes this list.
23. Battlefield Earth (2000)
PG-13 | 117 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
It's the year 3000 A.D., and the Earth is lost to the alien race of Psychlos. Humanity is enslaved by these gold-thirsty tyrants, who are unaware that their 'man-animals' are about to ignite the rebellion of a lifetime.
Director: Roger Christian | Stars: John Travolta, Forest Whitaker, Barry Pepper, Kim Coates
Votes: 83,121 | Gross: $21.47M
I actually think this is one of the funniest movies to watch after a few drinks. Just press mute and watch Travolta and Whitaker in dredlocks.
24. Home Alone 3 (1997)
PG | 102 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Alex Pruitt, an 8-year-old boy living in Chicago, must fend off international spies who seek a top-secret computer chip in his toy car.
Director: Raja Gosnell | Stars: Alex D. Linz, Olek Krupa, Rya Kihlstedt, Lenny von Dohlen
Votes: 127,282 | Gross: $30.88M
Nothing beats the original. Please pray for the parents of the future. Stop abandoning these smart kids.
25. Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li (2009)
PG-13 | 96 min | Action, Crime, Fantasy
When a child, Chun-Li sees her father being captured by wealthy gangster Bison. When she grows up, she goes into a quest for justice and bring down the criminal organization Shadaloo which is led by Bison.
Director: Andrzej Bartkowiak | Stars: Kristin Kreuk, Neal McDonough, Michael Clarke Duncan, Chris Klein
Votes: 25,362 | Gross: $8.74M
Give it up already!
26. Ghost Rider (2007)
PG-13 | 110 min | Action, Fantasy, Thriller
When motorcycle rider Johnny Blaze sells his soul to the Devil to save his father's life, he is transformed into the Ghost Rider, the Devil's own bounty hunter, and is sent to hunt down sinners.
Director: Mark Steven Johnson | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Eva Mendes, Sam Elliott, Matt Long
Votes: 252,368 | Gross: $115.80M
Poorly casted.
27. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)
PG-13 | 149 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Sam Witwicky leaves the Autobots behind for a normal life. But when his mind is filled with cryptic symbols, the Decepticons target him and he is dragged back into the Transformers' war.
Director: Michael Bay | Stars: Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson
Votes: 428,641 | Gross: $402.11M
Ancient Decepticons, c'mon, really?
28. Junior (1994)
PG-13 | 109 min | Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
As part of a fertility research project, a male scientist agrees to carry a pregnancy in his own body.
Director: Ivan Reitman | Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Danny DeVito, Emma Thompson, Frank Langella
Votes: 73,021 | Gross: $36.76M
Arnold was pregnant. Nuff said?
29. The Hills Have Eyes 2 (2007)
R | 89 min | Horror, Thriller
A group of National Guard trainees find themselves battling against a vicious group of mutants on their last day of training in the desert.
Director: Martin Weisz | Stars: Daniella Alonso, Jacob Vargas, Michael Bailey Smith, Cécile Breccia
Votes: 67,664 | Gross: $20.80M
Some things are uncalled for. Papa Hades.
30. Cloverfield (2008)
PG-13 | 85 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A group of friends venture deep into the streets of New York on a rescue mission during a rampaging monster attack.
Director: Matt Reeves | Stars: Mike Vogel, Jessica Lucas, Lizzy Caplan, T.J. Miller
Votes: 420,896 | Gross: $80.05M
Take 1 more step and we're saved....Nah, i'd rather go back and search for some girl in a collapsed building.
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