'Bad' Movies, TV Shows, Books Etc. You Like

[lovecraft68]

The rare cases where the movie is better is usually the result of the book being a bit bloated and needing to be trimmed down.

Is there a Director's Cut that has all 3 hours available?

I don't believe there is one out there.

I think the best example of the movie being much better is Jaws. The book was a lot more boring. Hooper was an asshole who was screwing Brody's wife-but he does die in the book-and the shark dies anti-climactically by biting into a piece of meet with a wire in it under water.

 

[MillieDynamite]

Oxygen tanks don't blow up if shot; they just leak air very, very quickly. Even scuba tanks (which aren't pure oxygen) don't blow up, but they look cool.

I don't believe there is one out there.

I think the best example of the movie being much better is Jaws. The book was a lot more boring. Hooper was an asshole who was screwing Brody's wife-but he does die in the book-and the shark dies anti-climactically by biting into a piece of meet with a wire in it under water.

 

[SimonDoom]

I don't believe there is one out there.

I think the best example of the movie being much better is Jaws. The book was a lot more boring. Hooper was an asshole who was screwing Brody's wife-but he does die in the book-and the shark dies anti-climactically by biting into a piece of meet with a wire in it under water.

I'd rank Jaws number 2 on that list. I totally agree with you about the movie being much better, but an even better example is The Godfather. The book is an enjoyable potboiler, with some trashy elements. The movie is one of the best movies ever, a masterpiece.

Jaws is an incredibly good suspense movie, though. It holds up well even today. The opening scene, the Indianapolis monologue, it's so masterful. Much better than the book. The whole Hooper screwing the wife thing in the book was gratuitous, and Spielberg obviously understood that.

 

[MillieDynamite]

But sex sells!

I'd rank Jaws number 2 on that list. I totally agree with you about the movie being much better, but an even better example is The Godfather. The book is an enjoyable potboiler, with some trashy elements. The movie is one of the best movies ever, a masterpiece.

Jaws is an incredibly good suspense movie, though. It holds up well even today. The opening scene, the Indianapolis monologue, it's so masterful. Much better than the book. The whole Hooper screwing the wife thing in the book was gratuitous, and Spielberg obviously understood that.

 

[SimonDoom]

Oxygen tanks don't blow up if shot; they just leak air very, very quickly. Even scuba tanks (which aren't pure oxygen) don't blow up, but they look cool.

An episode of Mythbusters devoted itself to exposing this myth and others about sharks. Very entertaining. You're absolutely right; the "oxygen tank as bomb" thing was completely fake. It was cinematically effective, though!

 

[RetroFan]

Apart from 'Happy Gilmore', every Sandler film is irritating dross, but snuggled up with someone you like very much, you might forget the wooden acting. Maybe you'll be sucking face & the memory will be "The night we watched that Sandler movie" not the shitty film itself.

I can find at least one positive thing in every Adam Sandler movie I've seen, or can simply say that it wasn't my thing, with the exception of Jack and Jill. It really is that bad. And everyone else I know who has had the misfortune to see it hated it too. Thirteen years after its release, it still finds its way into the Top 10 lists of bad movies online.

However on the Rotten Tomatoes website, Jack and Jill amazingly doesn't have a 0 percent rating, proving out there somewhere and at some time a professional critic actually liked it. And even more amazing, I saw an online article last year about how we should reassess our opinions on some 'bad' movies made years later and one of these was Jack and Jill, which praised Adam Sandler for creating a movie so bad and fooling the audience in the process. Yet I get the impression that the movie wasn't made to be deliberately bad and to antagonize people or even 'So Bad It's Good', unlike Tom Green's 'Freddy Got Fingered' which would qualify on both counts as it had some entertainment value.

 

[gunhilltrain]

An episode of Mythbusters devoted itself to exposing this myth and others about sharks. Very entertaining. You're absolutely right; the "oxygen tank as bomb" thing was completely fake. It was cinematically effective, though!

Didn't those Mythbuster guys have day jobs as movie prop makers? They had a lot of technical knowledge plus skills with tools. They obtained a real bus when they did their Speed analysis.

 

[gunhilltrain]

I'd rank Jaws number 2 on that list. I totally agree with you about the movie being much better, but an even better example is The Godfather. The book is an enjoyable potboiler, with some trashy elements. The movie is one of the best movies ever, a masterpiece.

Coppola provided the movie making skills and Puzo provided the story telling skills. When Coppola is let loose on his own, he loses direction. (Literally?) Megalopolis looks like the final one. Anyone seen that?

 

[MillieDynamite]

Now shoot an aerosol can, and depending on what's in it, you might get a massive, big bada boom.

An episode of Mythbusters devoted itself to exposing this myth and others about sharks. Very entertaining. You're absolutely right; the "oxygen tank as bomb" thing was completely fake. It was cinematically effective, though!

 

[NoTalentHack]

Apart from 'Happy Gilmore', every Sandler film is irritating dross, but snuggled up with someone you like very much, you might forget the wooden acting. Maybe you'll be sucking face & the memory will be "The night we watched that Sandler movie" not the shitty film itself.

Yeah, but you're talking about the experience, not the film. Ed Wood movies are hilarious in large crowds or with something like an MST3K crew riffing on them. But they are, in every way that matters, bad movies: poorly plotted, scripted, acted, etc. I'm all about not yucking someone else's yum, but this isn't a question of the notion of whether the term "guilty pleasure" should exist. It's acknowledging that, yes, there are things that are well made and things that aren't, and, while we can dither on which is which, pretending that the Godfather and Plan 9 From Outer Space are both "good" is silly.

 

[jaF0]

Didn't those Mythbuster guys have day jobs as movie prop makers? They had a lot of technical knowledge plus skills with tools. They obtained a real bus when they did their Speed analysis.

Those fools lost me early on when they did a test fully the wrong way and came to a bad, inaccurate conclusion.

 

[lucy_sometimes]

Yeah, but you're talking about the experience, not the film. Ed Wood movies are hilarious in large crowds or with something like an MST3K crew riffing on them. But they are, in every way that matters, bad movies: poorly plotted, scripted, acted, etc. I'm all about not yucking someone else's yum, but this isn't a question of the notion of whether the term "guilty pleasure" should exist. It's acknowledging that, yes, there are things that are well made and things that aren't, and, while we can dither on which is which, pretending that the Godfather and Plan 9 From Outer Space are both "good" is silly.

I agree with your opinion from a technical viewpoint. There's a reason why some films are loved by most and others ridiculed.

I merely said that other factors can affect our enjoyment of anything. If we think that we might get laid, we will snuggle up & watch 'Sex and the City', but must remain silent & not snigger at the stupidity. I have watched a couple of episodes and would say that the contempt that the main actresses felt for each other is palpable.