The difference between this movie and a masterpiece
The opinions I give here are mainly based on the scenario flaws.
Now OF COURSE, this list and what is said in it is highly subjective.
For the purpose of this list I am defining 2 kind of flaws:
Note: I actually enjoyed many of these movies, I am just saying I felt like their potential was not fully used.
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Now OF COURSE, this list and what is said in it is highly subjective.
For the purpose of this list I am defining 2 kind of flaws:
- The technical flaw i.e. an obvious inconsistency
- The pffff flaw i.e. "why the hell did you write something so lame you unpredictable writer"
Note: I actually enjoyed many of these movies, I am just saying I felt like their potential was not fully used.
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- DirectorLana WachowskiLilly WachowskiStarsKeanu ReevesLaurence FishburneCarrie-Anne MossWhen a beautiful stranger leads computer hacker Neo to a forbidding underworld, he discovers the shocking truth--the life he knows is the elaborate deception of an evil cyber-intelligence.Pfff: Neo wakes up when Trinity says she loves him. So lame. I understand some girls were watching the movie too, but was it really necessary?
- DirectorDanny BoyleStarsCillian MurphyRose ByrneChris EvansA team of international astronauts is sent on a dangerous mission to reignite the dying Sun with a nuclear fission bomb in 2057.Technical: The guys have the technology to reach the sun and stuff, but somehow the shield was not automatically adapting to the sun's position. A single guy had to do the computations on his own? How comes the Icarus 2 software couldn't do it himself? Come onnnn...
Pfff: A crazy galactic warrior monk touched by god? Really? That twist is a bit disappointing. - DirectorLee Jeong-beomStarsWon BinKim Sae-ronKim Tae-hoonA quiet pawnshop keeper with a violent past takes on a drug-and-organ trafficking ring in hope of saving the child who is his only friend.Pfff: So how did the girl survive? The bad guy kung-fu killer suddenly changed his mind for no specific reason and killed the surgeon? Very unlikely.
- DirectorBong Joon HoStarsSong Kang-hoKim Sang-kyungKim Roe-haIn a small Korean province in 1986, two detectives struggle with the case of multiple young women being found raped and murdered by an unknown culprit.Pfff: The dumb teenager gets hit by the train, at the very moment he was about to reveal the secret? Naaahhhh
- DirectorCharles ChaplinStarsCharles ChaplinVirginia CherrillFlorence LeeWith the aid of a wealthy erratic tippler, a dewy-eyed tramp who has fallen in love with a sightless flower girl accumulates money to be able to help her medically.Technical: The guys don't speak. Kidding.
- DirectorDanny BoyleLoveleen TandanStarsDev PatelFreida PintoSaurabh ShuklaA teenager from the slums of Mumbai becomes a contestant on the show 'Kaun Banega Crorepati?' When interrogated under suspicion of cheating, he revisits his past, revealing how he had all the answers.Pfff: So at the last question, he realizes the girl is alive. Good. And so... He loses interest for the game and answers randomly because he doesn't care now that he has the girl?
When I suggested it was inconsistent someone (ok, a girl) answered: "He only wanted to find his love, the money didn't count". That's crap. If he had lost the money, the movie wouldn't have its happy ending. So he has no reason to lose interest in the game, that's lame writing. - DirectorEric BressJ. Mackye GruberStarsAshton KutcherAmy SmartMelora WaltersEvan Treborn suffers blackouts during significant events of his life. As he grows up, he finds a way to remember these lost memories and a supernatural way to alter his life by reading his journal.Technical: As in many movies involving time traveling there are too many inconsistencies to list them all.
-Sometimes Ashton comes back from his travels, sometimes he doesn't, depending on what pleases the writers.
-He had no reason to take that knife, except to shoot that fancy scene where the creepy child holds the knife.
Pfff: Every time he comes back for another life everything is or all white and perfect, or all black and miserable. Nuance doesn't exist. Once the girl is a queen, the other time she's a whore. That's way too simple and naive. - DirectorJames GrayStarsJoaquin PhoenixGwyneth PaltrowVinessa ShawA Brooklyn-set romantic drama about a bachelor torn between the family friend his parents wish he would marry and his beautiful but volatile new neighbor.Technical/Pfff: Sooooo, when you book tickets for a top secret flight, of course, you leave the family computer without closing the window, so that the next one who uses it pops up on the tickets page.
Very clever, James Bond level style. - DirectorRodrigo CortésStarsRyan ReynoldsJosé Luis García-PérezRobert PatersonPaul is a U.S. truck driver working in Iraq. After an attack by a group of Iraqis he wakes to find he is buried alive inside a coffin. With only a lighter and a cell phone it's a race against time to escape this claustrophobic death trap.Technical:
Case study: You catch a guy. You want him dead, and have nothing to obtain from him. What do you do?
Answer: You kill him.
Answer of the guys who wrote buried: You give him a Blackberry for free, you bury him alive, making sure he has enough batteries and network to call for help. Then you just wait until he dies. (???) - DirectorGeorge LucasStarsEwan McGregorLiam NeesonNatalie PortmanTwo Jedi escape a hostile blockade to find allies and come across a young boy who may bring balance to the Force, but the long dormant Sith resurface to claim their original glory.Pfff: So how did Anakin become a bad guy?
Well, it was basically just an annoying stupid teenager rebellion. Come onnnn. The subject wasn't rich enough to find something else? - DirectorGeorge LucasStarsHayden ChristensenNatalie PortmanEwan McGregorTen years after initially meeting, Anakin Skywalker shares a forbidden romance with Padmé Amidala, while Obi-Wan Kenobi discovers a secret clone army crafted for the Jedi.
- DirectorGeorge LucasStarsHayden ChristensenNatalie PortmanEwan McGregorThree years into the Clone Wars, Obi-Wan Kenobi pursues a new threat, while Anakin Skywalker is lured by Chancellor Palpatine into a sinister plot to rule the galaxy.
- DirectorTony GilroyStarsJeremy RennerRachel WeiszEdward NortonAn expansion of the universe from Robert Ludlum's novels, centered on a new hero whose stakes have been triggered by the events of the previous three films.Technical: So Edward Norton wants to cancel the whole supermen thing, because he wants to make sure all of this remains secret and discreet. So what does he do? HE TRIES TO KILL EVERYBODY. ALRIGHT MAN, NICE MOVE. Everyone knows that's the way you keep things clean and calm. Killing a whole lab of researchers, and secret agents. Especially when these secret agents are the supermen you created. How could this perfect plan possibly go wrong?
- DirectorRidley ScottStarsOrlando BloomEva GreenLiam NeesonBalian of Ibelin travels to Jerusalem during the Crusades of the 12th century, and there he finds himself as the defender of the city and its people.Pfff: Orlando Bloom is obviously a good guy, so good he is stupid, so gooood the whole plot is stupid.
- DirectorJames CameronStarsSam WorthingtonZoe SaldanaSigourney WeaverA paraplegic Marine dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission becomes torn between following his orders and protecting the world he feels is his home.Pfff: Trees good, mean machines bad.
Pfff: Me blue person, me needs you white person. - DirectorRoland EmmerichStarsJohn CusackThandiwe NewtonChiwetel EjioforA frustrated writer struggles to keep his family alive when a series of global catastrophes threatens to annihilate mankind.Pfff: Does it need words. No I am not going to comment the scenario. After all nobody watches such movies for the scenario.
- DirectorRoland EmmerichStarsDennis QuaidJake GyllenhaalEmmy RossumJack Hall, paleoclimatologist, must make a daring trek from Washington, D.C. to New York City to reach his son, trapped in the cross-hairs of a sudden international storm which plunges the planet into a new Ice Age.Technical/Pfff: So the father wants to find his son to save him. He therefore starts a dangerous expedition to find him. He kills his friends on the way who were somehow willing to sacrifice themselves for this hopeless mission (brave brave dudes).
But, huhh... what were you going to do when you find your son? Nothing right? Because actually you have NOTHING more than he already has. Actually he just DOESN'T NEED YOU. This whole mission is pointless.
Fortunately for the writers, the cold goes away before the expedition ends, so that this huge inconsistency
remains kind of hidden. - DirectorRidley ScottStarsNoomi RapaceLogan Marshall-GreenMichael FassbenderFollowing clues to the origin of mankind, a team finds a structure on a distant moon, but they soon realize they are not alone.Technical/Pfff/TerribleMovie:
I... I don't know what to say.
From the inconsistent beliefs in god of the characters, to the guy who loses hope after 5 hours of searching even though they already made huge discoveries, to the "let's remove our helmets", to the zombie who somehow lost himself to pop up in this movie, to the...
Nothing works in this scenario. Nothing nothing nothing. - DirectorJames CameronStarsSigourney WeaverMichael BiehnCarrie HennDecades after surviving the Nostromo incident, Ellen Ripley is sent out to re-establish contact with a terraforming colony but finds herself battling the Alien Queen and her offspring.Pfff: So the girl doesn't die after being taken by the aliens? Naaahhhh I don't think so. Cameron you soft heart.
- DirectorRupert WyattStarsJames FrancoAndy SerkisFreida PintoA substance designed to help the brain repair itself gives advanced intelligence to a chimpanzee who leads an ape uprising.Technical: A scientist is infected by a dangerous virus and starts coughing blood. He therefore roams in the city, spreading the disease, instead of going to an hospital. Of course.
- DirectorNeil BurgerStarsBradley CooperAnna FrielAbbie CornishA mysterious pill that enables the user to access 100% of his brain's abilities transforms a struggling writer into a financial wizard, but it also puts him in a new world with many dangers.Technical: He didn't need to borrow that money.
Technical: There is no reason why he wasn't able to pay back that money.
Technical: When he realizes he's gonna need other pills, he just has a few left. Didn't see that coming huh clever boy? Very very consistent with the over-intelligent dude you're supposed to be.
Pfff: Nobody believes he's actually gonna jump. - DirectorSam MendesStarsTom HanksTyler HoechlinPaul NewmanA mob enforcer's son in 1930s Illinois witnesses a murder, forcing him and his father to take to the road, and his father down a path of redemption and revenge.Pfff: The last minute arrival of the killer, the boy too good to shoot, the last second shot of the father...
Soooo laaaame... - DirectorRidley ScottStarsHarrison FordRutger HauerSean YoungA blade runner must pursue and terminate four replicants who stole a ship in space and have returned to Earth to find their creator.Pfff:
What the bad guy is basically saying at the end: "So now that you are at my mercy, you, the guy I chased the whole movie and who killed all my friends, I am going to let you go for no reason. Have a good life, high five." (???) - DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsEric BanaDaniel CraigMarie-Josée CrozeAfter the Black September capture and massacre of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympics, five men are chosen to eliminate the people responsible for that fateful day.Technical: Have you noticed that every single time a character is given some attention in the movie, he gets killed in the next 15 minutes?
It works a few times and then becomes predictable and annoying. - DirectorJoel SchumacherStarsColin FarrellKiefer SutherlandForest WhitakerPublicist Stuart Shepard finds himself trapped in a phone booth, pinned down by an extortionist's sniper rifle. Unable to leave or receive outside help, Stuart's negotiation with the caller leads to a jaw-dropping climax.Technical:
Almost genuine quotation from the movie:
"-I'm a killer, I kill pedophilians and terrorists.
-So why do you want to kill me ?
-Because you cheated on your wife.
-But it doesn't make any sense !
*beep* Oh god you're right... Too late, let's make the movie anyway." - DirectorAntoine FuquaStarsMark WahlbergMichael PeñaRhona MitraA marksman living in exile is coaxed back into action after hearing of a plot to kill the President. After being-double crossed for the attempt and on the run, he sets out for the real killer and the truth.Pfff: Killing all the bad guys without answering any question is a way to end a movie. Maybe not the most thoughtful and deep though.
- DirectorPeter BergStarsJamie FoxxChris CooperJennifer GarnerA team of U.S. government agents are sent to investigate the bombing of an American facility in the Middle East.???: This movie is actually racist.
- DirectorBrian HelgelandStarsMel GibsonGregg HenryMaria BelloAfter a successful heist, Porter is left for dead. Once he recovers, he seeks vengeance and wants his share of the money.Pfff: So the guy wants his revenge and doesn't accept any sensible negotiation. Not a too complex concept.
- DirectorDuncan JonesStarsJake GyllenhaalMichelle MonaghanVera FarmigaA soldier wakes up in someone else's body and discovers he's part of an experimental government program to find the bomber of a commuter train within 8 minutes.Pfff: So the young guy knows more about what's happening than the scientist who built the whole thing because he "feels" it?
Naahhhh...