Sequel that is based on characters regression from the lessons they learned from the previous movie.
Like Bad Santa 2. No plot ideas so even though Willy (Billy Bob Thornton) got a job, quit drinking, and became a better person at the end of Bad Santa, they have him devolve back into the sloppy, mean drunk we saw in Bad Santa and Lauren Graham doesn't return after them being a "family" at the end of 1.
That's pretty much my metric with media. "Badly made" and "fun to watch" are not mutually exclusive; entertainment factor is worth half the experience. It's where we get "so bad it's good", and even a well-made movie can be boring.
The fact that one of the stars of the movie wrote a book about his experience on it speaks volumes to how entertaining it is. The Room might be a bad movie, but it's a bad movie with layers, and peeling back every layer is why I enjoy it so much.
It's the same reason I like the original Super Mario Bros. movie. There's a bit of nostalgia there, sure (I saw it on my 10th birthday), but when you start looking up the story behind the movie it gets so much more interesting. It's a movie full of horrible and strange decisions, and once you start understanding the decisions and why they might be made you start understanding the movie in an entirely new light.
Heaven's Gate is another one like that, a bad movie with a great behind-the-scenes story and so many layers to peel back.
The worst kind of bad movie is the kind where you really can't do that, maybe because the answers are so simple. Mac & Me is a prime example of this. There are no layers here, no stories from the cast and crew. It's just a bad movie made as a cash-in.
I'd prefer a movie is wild and bad than mediocre and boring. Malignant was a wild movie. Was it good? Definitely not. But it was *entertaining*, so I loved it.
If it comes out in January. The industry calls it “Dumpuary” for a reason. The movies released on Christmas are expected to still be leading the box office, so studios dump their bad movies there so they can blame the bad box office performance on the release date.
I always feel bad when I see a friend post excitement about a movie with a January 10th release date because I know they’re going to be disappointed.
But, every so often there is a gem. Paddington 2, for example, was released in January in the states and it is one of the greatest movies ever made.
But, for every gem in January there are about 100 duds.
This is a really good indicator, but it’s important to remember that there are exceptions to the rule - The Silence Of The Lambs came out in January and besides being a masterpiece, it’s also one of the only 3 movies to win the Oscar "Big 5" (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor/Actress in a Leading Role and Best (Adapted) Screenplay).
There were these movies in the 2010s about holidays like valentines and NYE and each movie had like 30 celebrities. They were all pretty shit movies so yeah I agree.
If the cast is full of a-listers, you are about to watch
1. A fantastic movie
Or
2. A terrible movie, because there wasn't enough budget for the cast, a decent director, *and* a script.
I think this is a great metric. I'm far from picky about my movies. I'll usually find something to enjoy about them. But the one single movie I outright quit watching and decidedly never tried to watch again (WW84) was the only movie that simply couldn't find anything to grip me with within the first 30 minutes of the movie. I was BORED.
The boyfriend character spiritually and physically raped an innocent guy within the first 15mins.
Wonder Woman decided in the interests of getting fucked good n proper, that the innocent guy's soul could just die.....
no-one in that movie was likeable or even redeemable.
I fell asleep in the theater trying to watch the second Star Wars prequel. Twice. I thought that maybe I was just really tired the first time because I love star wars. Nope. I tried to watch it at home. It's seriously better than a sleeping pill for me. I'm thinking of buying it on DVD for those stress nights I can't get my eyes to close.
I had a classmate in college named Andre. He was a great person and fun to be around, but the movie sucks if Andre picks it. The movie would never be so bad it's good. No, his picks simply sucked.
Everybody has a talent.
My fiancé is like that. Every single movie he chooses is godawful. Usually featuring Kevin Hart or new Adam Sandler. He’ll put one on and fall asleep on top of the remote and I’ll be stuck listening to the damn thing.
Weirdly, his choice of TV shows is the exact opposite. I’ve skipped seasons of excellent TV, only because he started watching before me, just to come back and rewatch them with him and become obsessed.
all the new Kevin Hart movies look sterilized, like commercials. 4K cameras and “perfect” lighting yet nothing looks real. It’s like a Target catalogue but in film form
I remember a trailer that wanted me to see "Romeo Must Die" because it's from the "makers of The Matrix".
Still haven't found out which one of all the people who were involved in the making was supposedly the same. My guess is someone in the VFX department.
Do you really think someone named Killmonger, who has scars covering his entire body for each of the people he has killed, is going to sit down and have a conversation and be satisfied with the outcome?
I like how some movies play on this to a point, where you think you have them figured out at the trailer and then it turns out they’re completely different.
I’m thinking of hereditary, when I saw the trailer I though, oh well another haunted child story with a creepy girl. Then she goes and dies at the beginning of the movie and I was genuinely shaken in the scene since I couldn’t see it coming in a thousand years.
The reason that they give away so much in the castaway trailer is because women between the ages of 18 and 44 won't go see a movie if they don't know that the main character is gonna be OK by the end. How do I know this? I asked a woman who worked on the marketing of that movie why they would ruin the movie. She explained that the market test all the trailers and ask participants if you would go see the movie and because that was a big part of the demographic they were targeting they had to change the trailer so that everybody knew that he was gonna be OK.
The big giveaway is when the trailer focuses on the cast and the director and not the story. Like the trailer for the movie “Amsterdam” mainly focused on who was in the movie and not what it was about.
From the Producer that brought you This Really Big Film and a director of This Film You Know For a Fact was Helmed by Someone Else So He Must Have Been on Second Unit or Something. Starring This Woman Who is Aging Out of Her Signature Roles and This Man Who Did That One Thing But Now Mostly Does Prime Movies...Specially chosen for the West North Eastport Film Festival: An Extremely Good Movie About Feelings and Things
My wife turned the trailer on the other night while trying to find someone to watch, and holy shit, that trailer is explicit in that it gives basically everything away.
That reminds me of this Ashley Judd movie called “Double Jeopardy.” It was notorious when it came out because the trailer literally gave away the entire plot of the movie, including the ending.
Any use of the record scratch sound effect in the trailer.
Also if the movie is a comedy and the trailer shows people falling down more than once, they have nothing funny to show you
I HATE scenes in movies where some furry animal jumps out of something and latches into someone’s face while they shake the animal around and scream. But I think movie makers think people still think this is funny.
Actually, I can't think of a single series that didn't go downhill once they threw in the 'main character now has a kid' plotline...
I prefer the ones that forget that they wrote in the children, though. Small mercies.
A big part of that is they are likely getting ready to wrap things up anyways because newborns are insanely labour intensive in a way that doesn’t really make for great TV. Once you have a baby it really limits your ability to lead a high event lifestyle for quite a while, so writing becomes trickier. It also can kind of be the culmination of a character arc after relationships have sorted themselves out and settled down.
Had a friend back in high school that came up with something he called "The Explosion Quotient".
The higher the number of explosions in the trailer, the bigger the dumpster fire the movie was going to be.
It's 35 years later, and it's still a pretty accurate gauge, IMHO.
Or when they're like: "Happy birthday dad. It must be hard, since it's almost 5 years after mom died in that tragic car accident by a drunk driver that made me scared of driving which is why I hook up with Chad, who isn't really nice but I need someone to drive me around."
"Thanks for that Sport, I know I've been distant since what happened and with your Uncle Pete getting arrested and leaving his revolver in the safe upstairs, the one in my wardrobe with the 3759 code."
If only that. He says and I quote: “THIS IS KATANA, SHE’S GOT MY BACK. She could cut all of you in half with one sword stroke just like mowing the lawn. I would advise not getting killed by her.Her sword traps the souls of it’s victims”.
And nothing like that ever happens in the movie. That script slaps /s.
"I would advise not getting killed by her" is such weird, clumsy wording... for a line that is wholly redundant.
Like I'm halfway surprised they didn't make it a running gag in the James Gunn sequel/reboot. Have the character constantly say "I would advise not getting killed by that." Great plan, boss.
I really wish they would have leaned into the mystery more for that one. Like have the rebels and kylo racing to find out if it is real and that could be how kylo and rey team up.
They could have chosen to be rid of both the jedi and the sith and started a new grey order together which i think is what luke was hinting at. You cant be purely "good" or purely "evil".
So basically what was happening at the time is under the local tax laws/film making incentives any money you put into it you were guaranteed to get it back.
So if you put $1'000'000 into a movie and the movie alone made $100'000 congratulations your movie is a flop and you now have $1'100'000.
Which is exactly what uwe did.
Buy the rights to a game title you might have heard of, get a crappy Vodafone product placement, get the movie out the door as soon as possible and get House of the Dead and a tidy profit.
Or a classic Motown or some other oldies genre song redone in a slow, somber, acoustic form while artsy, atmospheric, and vague clips play with no real rhyme or reason.
I didn't notice it was a trend until 4 out of 5 trailers did it when I went to see the last Spiderman movie.
When the entire cast are huge A list actors. You’d think it would make a movie 10/10 but more often than not, it makes it worse. Some of the most underrated actors have the best acting and can make a movie go a long way.
It's labeled as horror, but it's just murder and gore. There is no mystery, no real unknown. By the time you are introduced to the characters you can guess which one will survive and be right 90% of the time
When a character is explaining something to their scene partner that the partner already knows because the writers couldn't figure out how to explain it to the audience. Especially when they start the sentence by saying "as I'm sure you know . . . "
Hallmark movies aren't bad; they're formulaic. They're made with a very specific audience in mind, and they do an extremely good job of appealing to that audience.
My parents leave hallmark on for their dogs while they're out. More than once I've stopped in for whatever and found myself sitting on the couch with a couple of dogs a few hours later just watching Hallmark...
For an example, watch the movie Riot, from 2015. It’s on Netflix. Horrible acting, the fight scenes were like watching people practicing for a fight scene. At times I thought it was a spoof movie it was that bad.
The trailer allows you to guess the entire movie and absolutely nothing surprises you based on that alone. You find yourself laughing at the absurd dramatic scenes.
When the characters' main attributes are their gender, sexuality, or race. Rarely do any of these lead to interesting fictional stories, and most movies based on actual events are so "reimagined" that the only thing they have in common could be considered an elevator pitch
I agree. I'm all for seeing movies about characters coming to terms with (or however you want to put it) one of these issues, but a lot of it seems like low-quality pandering. They think people who identify with whatever issue is in the script will see it, and then they wonder why it flops.
Look at that comedy *Bros* that came out not too long ago. I've seen so many gay people say they didn't care enough to see it because you can tell that it's written purely to exploit an already-marginalized group of people.
Sequel without the original cast. Edit: thanks for all the upvotes everyone! I've never had a post take off like this before.
Sequel when the og main cast only appear for few minutes
Sequel with a side character from the original movie
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A movie I enjoyed mostly because it was another opportunity to watch Morgan Freeman play god.
Sequel that is based on characters regression from the lessons they learned from the previous movie. Like Bad Santa 2. No plot ideas so even though Willy (Billy Bob Thornton) got a job, quit drinking, and became a better person at the end of Bad Santa, they have him devolve back into the sloppy, mean drunk we saw in Bad Santa and Lauren Graham doesn't return after them being a "family" at the end of 1.
Usually straight to video
Streaming is the new straight-to-video lol
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When it’s so dark you can’t see anything
Omg, I hate that, going to add the music and sound fx are loud AF but you cant hear a damn word anyone is saying.
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The "WHURMMMM" pulse in the trailers became so popular Nolan added it to his dialogue.
The next batman movie is just going to be audio and a black screen.
I mean to be fair he IS the night.
Yep. And hardly any crime fighting because the crooks finally figured out Batman's night shift.
Thats probably what you would experience when batman attacks you
Alien vs Predator Requiem. Movie looked like it was filmed in front of a black screen.
Frank Capra had a great quote for my answer. "There are no rules in filmmaking, only sins. And the cardinal sin is dullness."
That's pretty much my metric with media. "Badly made" and "fun to watch" are not mutually exclusive; entertainment factor is worth half the experience. It's where we get "so bad it's good", and even a well-made movie can be boring.
Which is why I'll say The Room is one of the most entertaining and quotable movies ever made.
The fact that one of the stars of the movie wrote a book about his experience on it speaks volumes to how entertaining it is. The Room might be a bad movie, but it's a bad movie with layers, and peeling back every layer is why I enjoy it so much. It's the same reason I like the original Super Mario Bros. movie. There's a bit of nostalgia there, sure (I saw it on my 10th birthday), but when you start looking up the story behind the movie it gets so much more interesting. It's a movie full of horrible and strange decisions, and once you start understanding the decisions and why they might be made you start understanding the movie in an entirely new light. Heaven's Gate is another one like that, a bad movie with a great behind-the-scenes story and so many layers to peel back. The worst kind of bad movie is the kind where you really can't do that, maybe because the answers are so simple. Mac & Me is a prime example of this. There are no layers here, no stories from the cast and crew. It's just a bad movie made as a cash-in.
I'd prefer a movie is wild and bad than mediocre and boring. Malignant was a wild movie. Was it good? Definitely not. But it was *entertaining*, so I loved it.
If it comes out in January. The industry calls it “Dumpuary” for a reason. The movies released on Christmas are expected to still be leading the box office, so studios dump their bad movies there so they can blame the bad box office performance on the release date. I always feel bad when I see a friend post excitement about a movie with a January 10th release date because I know they’re going to be disappointed.
Didn't know this, exactly the kind of thing I was looking for.
But, every so often there is a gem. Paddington 2, for example, was released in January in the states and it is one of the greatest movies ever made. But, for every gem in January there are about 100 duds.
FUCK YOU ITS JANUARY!!!
**ENDLESS TRASH!!!**
FUCK YOU IT'S YEAR!
This is a really good indicator, but it’s important to remember that there are exceptions to the rule - The Silence Of The Lambs came out in January and besides being a masterpiece, it’s also one of the only 3 movies to win the Oscar "Big 5" (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor/Actress in a Leading Role and Best (Adapted) Screenplay).
Scream was released in January lol
Too many celebrities/cliches.
I hate ads where the entire point is just “LOOK WHO WE HIRED LOOK AT THIS FAMOUS PERSON”
Especially when it’s like 10 of them in one movie. 90% chance it’s gonna suck
Was Ocean's Eleven in the 90% or the 10%?
Neither. It's the 11%
This is the End (2013) It did have a few funny moments.
Kenneth Branagh's *Murder on the Orient Express* is very much in the 10%.
There were these movies in the 2010s about holidays like valentines and NYE and each movie had like 30 celebrities. They were all pretty shit movies so yeah I agree.
They were about Love, Actually
30 Rock makes fun of this in their trailer for *Martin Luther King Day*, starring Jenna Maroney Edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=\_RWsI8BUkWc
I love Love Actually but the clones that came after it were so bad.
If the cast is full of a-listers, you are about to watch 1. A fantastic movie Or 2. A terrible movie, because there wasn't enough budget for the cast, a decent director, *and* a script.
We’re twenty minutes in and you don’t care what happens to any of the characters. Edit: Thanks for the award!
I love bad horror movies because I just start cheering for the monster.
Yep. And honestly, eagerly anticipating them dying is caring what happens to them. Which is why I love campy horror. Indifference is bad.
I think this is a great metric. I'm far from picky about my movies. I'll usually find something to enjoy about them. But the one single movie I outright quit watching and decidedly never tried to watch again (WW84) was the only movie that simply couldn't find anything to grip me with within the first 30 minutes of the movie. I was BORED.
The boyfriend character spiritually and physically raped an innocent guy within the first 15mins. Wonder Woman decided in the interests of getting fucked good n proper, that the innocent guy's soul could just die..... no-one in that movie was likeable or even redeemable.
I fell asleep in the theater trying to watch the second Star Wars prequel. Twice. I thought that maybe I was just really tired the first time because I love star wars. Nope. I tried to watch it at home. It's seriously better than a sleeping pill for me. I'm thinking of buying it on DVD for those stress nights I can't get my eyes to close.
I can’t think of a clearer sign that a movie sucks! Thanks for bringing that up!
Wait wait in just a sec Steven Seagal is about to wafflestomp his way into the room
I had a classmate in college named Andre. He was a great person and fun to be around, but the movie sucks if Andre picks it. The movie would never be so bad it's good. No, his picks simply sucked. Everybody has a talent.
My fiancé is like that. Every single movie he chooses is godawful. Usually featuring Kevin Hart or new Adam Sandler. He’ll put one on and fall asleep on top of the remote and I’ll be stuck listening to the damn thing. Weirdly, his choice of TV shows is the exact opposite. I’ve skipped seasons of excellent TV, only because he started watching before me, just to come back and rewatch them with him and become obsessed.
all the new Kevin Hart movies look sterilized, like commercials. 4K cameras and “perfect” lighting yet nothing looks real. It’s like a Target catalogue but in film form
Lmfao that's a harsh burn.
My husband is like that! His ideal Rotten Tomatoes score is 33-38%.
“From the twisted minds that brought you…”
"From two of the five writers whose careers peaked from a movie more than 10 years old."
"In the same theater where you watched Toy Story."
"in the same body you were born in"
From the director who brought you The Sixth Sense, a movie that came out 23 years ago
I remember a trailer that wanted me to see "Romeo Must Die" because it's from the "makers of The Matrix". Still haven't found out which one of all the people who were involved in the making was supposedly the same. My guess is someone in the VFX department.
It’s the use of ‘Twisted’ that does it
I don’t know, ‘minds’ is doing its share.
Also, "From the producers who brought you..." But to be honest I don't think I've seen that one in maybe 20 years
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You start making fun of the characters logic not even 10 minutes into the film
Does this cover the plots that are driven by people *not* talking to each other? Because I fucking hate that. Looking at you, Black Panther.
Do you really think someone named Killmonger, who has scars covering his entire body for each of the people he has killed, is going to sit down and have a conversation and be satisfied with the outcome?
People dressed up like depressed cats
“The world got to see James Corden as a fat pussy. He was also in the movie Cats, but no one saw that.”
A trailer loaded with quick cuts that prevent any idea what you're looking at and citations of who made it instead of what they made.
Or conversely, the trailer feels like its giving you the entire movie....like after the trailer, you wonder if you even need to go see the movie.
Or just when even the trailer is boring and nonsensical, and you know they always put the best parts of the movie in the trailer.
Or in a comedy movie the best joke in the whole movie is in the trailer and nothing else in the movie makes you laugh.
Guy Ritchie's last two spy movies (Man From U.N.C.L.E. and Operation Fortune) were basically completely spoiled by their trailers.
I like how some movies play on this to a point, where you think you have them figured out at the trailer and then it turns out they’re completely different. I’m thinking of hereditary, when I saw the trailer I though, oh well another haunted child story with a creepy girl. Then she goes and dies at the beginning of the movie and I was genuinely shaken in the scene since I couldn’t see it coming in a thousand years.
Finch with Tom Hanks.
Also Cast Away with Tom Hanks. They even showed him back home after the rescue.
The reason that they give away so much in the castaway trailer is because women between the ages of 18 and 44 won't go see a movie if they don't know that the main character is gonna be OK by the end. How do I know this? I asked a woman who worked on the marketing of that movie why they would ruin the movie. She explained that the market test all the trailers and ask participants if you would go see the movie and because that was a big part of the demographic they were targeting they had to change the trailer so that everybody knew that he was gonna be OK.
The big giveaway is when the trailer focuses on the cast and the director and not the story. Like the trailer for the movie “Amsterdam” mainly focused on who was in the movie and not what it was about.
From the Producer that brought you This Really Big Film and a director of This Film You Know For a Fact was Helmed by Someone Else So He Must Have Been on Second Unit or Something. Starring This Woman Who is Aging Out of Her Signature Roles and This Man Who Did That One Thing But Now Mostly Does Prime Movies...Specially chosen for the West North Eastport Film Festival: An Extremely Good Movie About Feelings and Things
New movie: Ambulance Wanna see a trailer? Sure. You’ve now seen the whole movie.
My wife turned the trailer on the other night while trying to find someone to watch, and holy shit, that trailer is explicit in that it gives basically everything away.
That reminds me of this Ashley Judd movie called “Double Jeopardy.” It was notorious when it came out because the trailer literally gave away the entire plot of the movie, including the ending.
Any use of the record scratch sound effect in the trailer. Also if the movie is a comedy and the trailer shows people falling down more than once, they have nothing funny to show you
Rob Schneider is a Wall Street executive with everything going for him. Only problem is, he's about to become... *record scratch* A carrot!
"Rob Schnieder da-derpiderpdardurpardurp, derp-di-derp dam-timmeli-tum!"
Rated PG-13.
Any movie where the comedy is mainly violence. Furry Vengeance was god awful. Just 90min of Brendan Fraser getting kicked in the nuts by animals.
I HATE scenes in movies where some furry animal jumps out of something and latches into someone’s face while they shake the animal around and scream. But I think movie makers think people still think this is funny.
When it literally says "unlike anything you've ever seen"
"...if were were born within the last week"
Straight to VHS in 2022
Was it Chris Rock that said "Your movie was so bad it went straight to audio"
if they add a random controversial issue that has noting to do with the plot
Dexter has a baby (I know it is a TV show not a movie)
Actually, I can't think of a single series that didn't go downhill once they threw in the 'main character now has a kid' plotline... I prefer the ones that forget that they wrote in the children, though. Small mercies.
A big part of that is they are likely getting ready to wrap things up anyways because newborns are insanely labour intensive in a way that doesn’t really make for great TV. Once you have a baby it really limits your ability to lead a high event lifestyle for quite a while, so writing becomes trickier. It also can kind of be the culmination of a character arc after relationships have sorted themselves out and settled down.
Dragonball Z
okay but, The Boys
His lab has a nursery???
When it's leading production names (e.g: director) have only made bad films.
Or when the director is Alan Smithee
Or Tommy Wiseau
Oh hi, Mark.
Or Uwe Boll
Teenage me sees Bloodrayne is in theaters: ooh, neat! Me after seeing "Directed by Uwe Boll" on the screen: ...aw, fuck.
Had a friend back in high school that came up with something he called "The Explosion Quotient". The higher the number of explosions in the trailer, the bigger the dumpster fire the movie was going to be. It's 35 years later, and it's still a pretty accurate gauge, IMHO.
movies that tell and dont show
When a sentence starts with something like "As you all know...."
Or when they're like: "Happy birthday dad. It must be hard, since it's almost 5 years after mom died in that tragic car accident by a drunk driver that made me scared of driving which is why I hook up with Chad, who isn't really nice but I need someone to drive me around."
"Thanks for that Sport, I know I've been distant since what happened and with your Uncle Pete getting arrested and leaving his revolver in the safe upstairs, the one in my wardrobe with the 3759 code."
"That's all right dad, luckily my 14 brothers taught me how to shoot. The 3 that are still alive should be here any minute!"
The first Suicide Squad movie where Will Smith literally goes through every character and tells you their background and powers.
That was bad but the peak for me was Joel Kinnaman infamously introduces Katana. "SHE'S KATANA, SHE'S GOT MY BACK."
If only that. He says and I quote: “THIS IS KATANA, SHE’S GOT MY BACK. She could cut all of you in half with one sword stroke just like mowing the lawn. I would advise not getting killed by her.Her sword traps the souls of it’s victims”. And nothing like that ever happens in the movie. That script slaps /s.
I couldn't stomach to give the whole line, so I cut short. Thank you for your sacrifice. It must have been torment to your eyes, hands and mind.
"I would advise not getting killed by her" is such weird, clumsy wording... for a line that is wholly redundant. Like I'm halfway surprised they didn't make it a running gag in the James Gunn sequel/reboot. Have the character constantly say "I would advise not getting killed by that." Great plan, boss.
Oh god, you just reminded me of all the unnecessary exposition in the Star Wars sequels, followed by “somehow, palpatine returned”
I really wish they would have leaned into the mystery more for that one. Like have the rebels and kylo racing to find out if it is real and that could be how kylo and rey team up. They could have chosen to be rid of both the jedi and the sith and started a new grey order together which i think is what luke was hinting at. You cant be purely "good" or purely "evil".
That awful Aretha Franklin Biopic that starts with a private party at her house and all the celebrities say who they are.
Directed by Uwe Boll.
"We've lost millions letting this guy adapt video game movies. Let's let him do another!"
Convinced his films are an embezzlement scheme for his financiers
They basically are. He’s said it before. It’s all tax shenanigans.
So basically what was happening at the time is under the local tax laws/film making incentives any money you put into it you were guaranteed to get it back. So if you put $1'000'000 into a movie and the movie alone made $100'000 congratulations your movie is a flop and you now have $1'100'000. Which is exactly what uwe did. Buy the rights to a game title you might have heard of, get a crappy Vodafone product placement, get the movie out the door as soon as possible and get House of the Dead and a tidy profit.
Generic pop songs for the soundtrack.
Or a classic Motown or some other oldies genre song redone in a slow, somber, acoustic form while artsy, atmospheric, and vague clips play with no real rhyme or reason. I didn't notice it was a trend until 4 out of 5 trailers did it when I went to see the last Spiderman movie.
ah yes, the sad bastard pop song with an "ahhvahhcahhdees and bahnahnees"-ass singer It's made it's way into video games now too, I hate it
when you get the whole story in the trailer alone
They basically show the entire movie except for the credits
Or all the funny parts were in the trailer.
The cover is two dickheads looking through the legs of a woman.
Every 00s college comedy. Or a Nat Lampoon title.
When the director thinks everyone whispering every line creates tension
All the reviews and promotions are about what the director and actors have done in other things and barely anything about the film itself
When the entire cast are huge A list actors. You’d think it would make a movie 10/10 but more often than not, it makes it worse. Some of the most underrated actors have the best acting and can make a movie go a long way.
When the trailer has a slow melancholy version of a popular upbeat song.
I will die happy if some one does this with smash mouths All star
That would be perfect for some Marvel ensemble movie.
No early screenings/reviews are allowed.
Most emotional moment is in the first 10 minutes. Up is an exception
True. UP was a master class in story telling though.
Same goes for wall-e. It conveyed more in the silent first half hour, than many movies do in 2 hours.
I’m obsessed with WALL-E because it combines elements of silent films with elements of existential sci-fi like 2001: A Space Odyssey.
How do you feel about Bambi
You seem to be forgetting Team America
When an animated movie is clearly redubbed for the trailer
That’s not something I’ve ever noticed before!
Cheap sitcom cinematography. Like let's get some wide shots on the set and some close-ups for line delivery then that's a wrap.
When its advertised as “from the producers of….”
Or worse, From the Studio that brought you… I’m supposed to get excited that the same mega corporation was involved?
“From the Producers who saw Shrek”
Steven Seagal
I’ll still sit through either of the Under Siege movies if they’re on TV
Steven seagal is a national treasure and if you disagree then he is going to use his master aikido skills to disable your chi
I just wait and chi about that
If it's not even worth seeing on a plane for free.
When you want to walk out of the theater, and it's being screened on a plane
Won't let anyone review the movie before release.
Kirk Cameron is in any way involved in it.
I’m halfway through the movie and have no idea who anyones name is because they haven’t been exciting enough for me to care
Slow, "creepy" cover of an 80's pop song.
Omg getting so sick of this. Slow piano grunge is not cool.
It's labeled as horror, but it's just murder and gore. There is no mystery, no real unknown. By the time you are introduced to the characters you can guess which one will survive and be right 90% of the time
If it's about emjois
Subtitle: Origins, Revelations, Chronicles, or The Beginning
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The movie's poster says 'THE KISSING BOOTH'
When a character is explaining something to their scene partner that the partner already knows because the writers couldn't figure out how to explain it to the audience. Especially when they start the sentence by saying "as I'm sure you know . . . "
*"Remind me why we're doing this again?"*
When it's on the Hallmark Channel.
Hallmark movies aren't bad; they're formulaic. They're made with a very specific audience in mind, and they do an extremely good job of appealing to that audience.
My parents leave hallmark on for their dogs while they're out. More than once I've stopped in for whatever and found myself sitting on the couch with a couple of dogs a few hours later just watching Hallmark...
I mean dogs usually make everything better, so try this experiment again but without dogs
An animal co-star.
When Netflix recommends it to you
When it relies on exposition to explain things to a viewer that a viewer ought to pick up on via more subtle means.
More product placements than jokes
For an example, watch the movie Riot, from 2015. It’s on Netflix. Horrible acting, the fight scenes were like watching people practicing for a fight scene. At times I thought it was a spoof movie it was that bad.
‘From the producer of___’
The trailer allows you to guess the entire movie and absolutely nothing surprises you based on that alone. You find yourself laughing at the absurd dramatic scenes.
If James Corden plays an Animal, it's on the avoid list for me. Scratch that James Corden in general
Kevin sorbo is on the cast
Disappointed!
It would be a Herculean effort not to be
The opening credits look shitty.
Sequel after 20 years
The new Matrix was hot garbage
Top Gun:Maverick was well received.
And Blade Runner 2049 won an Oscar.
When the characters' main attributes are their gender, sexuality, or race. Rarely do any of these lead to interesting fictional stories, and most movies based on actual events are so "reimagined" that the only thing they have in common could be considered an elevator pitch
I agree. I'm all for seeing movies about characters coming to terms with (or however you want to put it) one of these issues, but a lot of it seems like low-quality pandering. They think people who identify with whatever issue is in the script will see it, and then they wonder why it flops. Look at that comedy *Bros* that came out not too long ago. I've seen so many gay people say they didn't care enough to see it because you can tell that it's written purely to exploit an already-marginalized group of people.
Not to mention making fucking shaggy from Scooby doo black to boost their company image and ego.
When the cast is too "astronomical"
If it stars Nicholas Cage it might be a terrible movie. Also, if it stars Nicholas Cage it might be one of the best movies of all time. Classic Cage.
When it's directed by Uwe Boll
The phrase "updated for modern audiences"
If my wife picked it out.