Movies You've Seen Recently That Are Really Awful

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Visitor Q is a special kind of awful. Holy crap did I hate this movie. Some films I just strongly dislike because they didn't click with me. This movie is just a steamy pile of shit. I can't believe how much I hated it. What an awful piece of never mind I'm done thinking about this film. I'm ready to move onto the next thing.
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I hate insomnia. Oh yeah. Last year I had four cases of it, and each time it lasted three months.



We all struggle with something. Just, please tell me you're not a fan of the movie "Cats." I don't know if I could handle that.

I think it's underrated, but indeed a complete mess. The CGI is bad, it makes them all look like they have extremely tiny skulls, and many of the choices were utterly bizarre.


BUT many of the songs, dance numbers, and performances still worked well for me. It's definitely not a very good movie, but i can't give a low grade to a movie with such a good version of Memories in it.


"C"



Madam Web was awful. I could go on for an hour about everything wrong in this film. And it would've all been forgivable if it had fun superhero action in it, but most of the heroes don't have any powers yet.


Bad bad bad.



Evil Dead 2 is kind of weird. It's kind of a remake, but also more of a move into horror-slapstick. Army of Darkness is just full on silliness. This is an intermediary form.
Yes, you're right. Evil Dead has actually been remake 4 times. The first, the original, is Sam Raimi's Within the Woods (1978), which he used to raise money to make the Evil Dead (1981) movie. More or less the same Within the Woods story was retold in Evil Dead (1981) and again in Evil Dead 2 (1987). Fede made a remake of Evil Dead in (2013), which was good. In a way, in terms of the main plot events, Evil Dead Rise (2023) was also a remake of Evil Dead. The only truly new movie was Army of Darkness and it was really, really bad.

I remember Evil Dead 2 (1987) being popular for its black comedy, but now that I rewatched it, it wasn't funny, or scary, or exciting. It was a series of poorly acted and executed scenes.



Yes, you're right. Evil Dead has actually been remake 4 times. The first, the original, is Sam Raimi's Within the Woods (1978), which he used to raise money to make the Evil Dead (1981) movie. More or less the same Within the Woods story was retold in Evil Dead (1981) and again in Evil Dead 2 (1987). Fede made a remake of Evil Dead in (2013), which was good. In a way, in terms of the main plot events, Evil Dead Rise (2023) was also a remake of Evil Dead. The only truly new movie was Army of Darkness and it was really, really bad.

I remember Evil Dead 2 (1987) being popular for its black comedy, but now that I rewatched it, it wasn't funny, or scary, or exciting. It was a series of poorly acted and executed scenes.
Who would've guessed that low-budget horror from the 80s wouldn't age well?

I guess Evil Dead 2 is the middle child of the trilogy. I think it tries to do too much. It tries to retell part 1, but then advance the plot more, and then it tries to set-up a sequel. It's trying to be scary, but also funny. it feels forced and rushed. Bruce Campbell never really had "chops" (although he's good as plucky comic relief or a lead in a light comedy), so it's a tall order to have him carry a film as the lead

I don't recall Within the Woods. Was that full-length feature or a sort reel/proof of concept?



I think it's underrated, but indeed a complete mess. The CGI is bad, it makes them all look like they have extremely tiny skulls, and many of the choices were utterly bizarre.
AFAIK, there was no use of CGI to change the size of people's heads.



Who would've guessed that low-budget horror from the 80s wouldn't age well?

I guess Evil Dead 2 is the middle child of the trilogy. I think it tries to do too much. It tries to retell part 1, but then advance the plot more, and then it tries to set-up a sequel. It's trying to be scary, but also funny. it feels forced and rushed. Bruce Campbell never really had "chops" (although he's good as plucky comic relief or a lead in a light comedy), so it's a tall order to have him carry a film as the lead

I don't recall Within the Woods. Was that full-length feature or a sort reel/proof of concept?
Yes, the 1980s were a relatively fruitful time for B-class horror films, gore/slasher films gained popularity, even though the quality was poor in most of the these movies, for example the Friday the 13th film series. Hoober's Chainsaw Massacre (1974) and Carpenter's Halloween (1978) from the 1970s are the mainstays of the genre's rise in 80s.

I agree, I also think that Sam Raimi tried too hard to with the second part by adding elements that he obviously would have liked to present in the 1981 version, and especially the presentation of the effects was important to Raimi. The story of Evil Dead 2 is building a bridge to the sequel, so in reality the film was a prequel to the Army of Darkness film.

Within the woods was a 32-minute amateur film, budget $1600, with which Sam Raimi raised financing ($375,000) for the 1981 Evil Dead film, so it really served as a kind of POC that was presented to potential financiers. Understandably, the short film does not contain the breadth of the Evil Dead film's story, but it does have plenty of elements that are repeated in the Evil Dead films.
Qualitatively, Within the Woods is poor, it is 100% amateurish and therefore painful to watch. But for the fan of the Evil Dead films, Within the Woods offers an interesting presentation of where it all began. At the same time, the film proves the model for how to achieve a career as a film director and filmmaker in Hollywood, although I think that without Stephen King, Sam Raimi would not have achieved the same result.



This seems like a topic that's not been explored directly. What movies have you sat through recently, especially as a ticket-buying customer in a theater, that you thought were really awful?

The idea hit me after seeing Priscilla, the biopic about Priscilla Presley, that I thought was nearly unwatchable.

So what movie has done this for you?

My Mofo comments about Priscilla (posted elsewhere) follow.

I'll never get those two hours back - Priscilla, a biopic of Priscilla "Presley", The King's ex. We see the usual cast of characters that show up in Elvis movies, only it's centered around his child bride, Priscilla Beaulieu (married at age 14 to Elvis) and how she acquires that hair style I think of as "Helmet Hair". So Elvis hits it big, is surrounded by creepy sycophants and screaming teen girls, but as we know, his personal issues take him down. In the movie, he seems to be on the decline, but the movie never quite gets to that morbidly unhealthy, overweight, jump suit guy that finished his run in the mortal coil, even though the time period was when he was morbidly obese, dressed in bejeweled jump suits. Odd things seems to happen to the time sequence.

Lots of songs are bad covers. His big stage appearances are populated by casts-of-dozens. The starring cast are disappointing. "Elvis" (Jacob Elordi) mumbles so badly that I lost most of his dialog. Cailee Spaeny (Priscilla, the title role) is flat, like a second reading of the script. Everybody else in the cast seems like out of work TV ad actors. The whole movie is a bust. When it was over, my biggest concern was that I'd parked a couple blocks away and was hoping that the rain had stopped.

This is really disappointing because I have liked most of the A24 movies I have seen.

Minus two popcorns. That's a minus rating.
I really liked Jacob Elordi as Elvis in Priscilla, but thought Cailee Spaeny was one-note as Priscilla...a link to my review:


https://www.movieforums.com/reviews/...priscilla.html



Christmas is over, but I'm still going to voice my displeasure with Spirited. Overlong, too pleased with itself, the kind of ticks from Will Ferrell and Ryan Reynolds that explain why so many people dislike them, etc. It also reminded me of Senor Spielbergo's movie from The Critic crossover episode of The Simpsons in that one of its main takeaways is that it cost a lot of money. It's likely the least essential adaptation of A Christmas Carol I've seen.



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I really liked Jacob Elordi as Elvis in Priscilla, but thought Cailee Spaeny was one-note as Priscilla...a link to my review:


https://www.movieforums.com/reviews/...priscilla.html
I have a hard time with any Elvis stuff, especially fawning about The King, etc. I understand his place in history, but nothing about him or his music, especially the later stuff, appeals to me, so I think my starting point for an Elvis movie is fairly negative.

That said, I'm open to a warts-and-all biopic that tells me something I didn't know, but this one didn't do that. Elordi was at least as good as a few Elvis Imitators I have seen, but that's not much of a recommendation.

To me, it just seemed like a bad choice for a "movie of the night".