Barbi? I stopped reading right there.
Waiting for a remake of Tarzan using a black actor to play the part and a trannie to play Jane.
B) Jaws 24 of whatever the sequels got up to.
C) Indiana Jones surviving an atomic blast hurtling him in a fridge.
D) Disney Star Wars bringing back Luke Skywalker without an epic light saber battle.
E) Roots teaching Americans the fiction that African slaves were captured by whites -- when the opposite is true (1 to 1.5 million white slaves were captured by Africans and brought back to Africa as slaves completely trumps 300K to 450K African slaves captured by fellow Africans and sold to English speaking whites to take to the U.S.).
Disney has been putting on an absolute seminar on bad decisions in movies for about the past three years...to go with every other bad decision they have made I guess.
Jar jar Binks, definately. I would also add the teddy bears in Return of the Jedi.
” thought John Wayne would make a fine Genghis Khan”
“Yer’ beautiful in yer’ wrath”. It was so bad.
A lot of this is Monday morning quarterbacking from today’s perspective (for instance, the horrible Elvis movies made a l lot of money) but the one I agree with 100% is ‘American Beauty’ winning Best Picture in 1999. It was horrible. I remember being dumbfounded by the decision. That was before I was fully attuned to how Hollywood hands out Oscars but still, it was a horrible, poser movie.
“There are significant exceptions like Oppenheimer and Barbie”
These two movies may have made a lot of money but that doesn’t mean they are worth watching.
First of all, there WERE some ethnic Chinese actors and actresses in THE GOOD EARTH; however, Paul Muni, in the male lead, has played many different ethnic character roles, which have ALWAYS been not just successfully portrayed, but often times more believable than had an actor who was Mexican, French, or Chinese had the role!
The silent movies and the Pre-Code movies were far less "sugar coated" than the often bland 1950s ones.
Yes, the HAYS CODE and the Catholic Church's weekly news letter about which movies were forbidden to see, by age group and also by everyone, began to kick in the late '30, grew more so in the '40s, and by the 1950s-early '60s, made a hash out of many scripts. Still and all, many of the early, somewhat more risque film scenes and plots, of earlier days, were in movies that children did NOT see ( because their parents ruled on what they DID see ); not to mention the fact that quite a few of them would NOT have held any interest, AT ALL, for children or tweens/teens!
Back then,many movies were made for specific audiences...such as what was called "THE WEEPERS", made for women to go see in the afternoons!
Reagan was correct...there WERE stinking COMMIES who belonged to THE ACTORS GUILD! And COMMIES tried to infiltrate and take over Hollywood ( mostly writers, quite a few directors, and behind the scenes workers ) from the mid 1930s, but were mostly stopped by the studio heads.
Re remakes....with extremely few exceptions ( A STAR IS BORN, THE MALTESE FALCON, GASLIGHT ) the original film is ALWAYS the only good/worth watching one!
2 bombs that didn’t even earn enough to pay the custodian sweeping the floor:
Gigi, Ben Affleck and
The Honeymooners, with Cedric the Entertainer as Ralph Kramden.
¶”Disney Turns Away From Animated Movies after the Deaths of Walt and Roy Disney”
Give the format a rest for a generation, rather than pound it into the ground? Seems like an inspired decision. Better take a break and comeback fresh.
¶”Michael Cimino Kills the Seventies Auteur Period With ‘Heaven’s Gate’”
It was very long, but it wasn’t terrible. The “Seventies Auteur Period” had to end some time.
¶”‘American Beauty’ Wins Best Picture in 1999 Over About 400 Better Movies.”
True. It was junk.
¶”‘Howard The Duck’ Nearly Kills the Marvel Cinematic Universe Before it Even Begins”
It was a horrible movie, but who thinks of it as a Marvel movie? And would it have been a bad thing if it had spared us dozens of Marvel movies?
¶”‘Cats’ Experiments With Digital Fur”
Crummy movie, but to be fair, not all the actors could grow real fur.
¶”‘Once Upon a Time In America’ Cut Beyond Recognition For Its American Release”
That was a serious mistake.
¶”Racist Movie ‘The Conqueror’ Gives Its Cast Cancer, Probably Definitely Kills John Wayne”
A bad movie, but racist? Grow up.
25% of the list has nothing to do with the movie.
Leftist can’t stop being leftist. It’s full of platitudes, can’t help dissing Trump, obsessed with racism and sexsism, and us just plain stupid.
He hated American Beauty? At the time it was a liberal wet dream movie.
So bi-polar.
They couldn’t resist a dig at Presidents Trump and Reagan.
Re #9:
Hollywood WAS, and IS full of communists. Reagan was 100% right.
CC
What? No THE WIZ and no SONG OF NORWAY?
Well, since it's Rolling Stoned, F them in general!
I really don’t care about Rolling Stone’s opinion on *anything* since it is guaranteed that there will be some leftist BS commentary thrown in.
I was expecting Highlander 2 to be in the top 10. Glad to see Battlefield Earf mentioned.
Bump for later
But without bad movies there would be no MST3K. So there is that side of it.