You know its a bad movie when...

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

...foriegners, talking to their countrymen alone, speak English in their countries thick stereotypical "English accent"....

your turn

[Richardo]

1. "A Film by Oliver Stone" appears over the title

:)

[On the Road]

2. A Comedy...

depends on funny names for a laugh.

[bobbobbins]

5. Dr. Hfuhruhurr

[kick-ass-bob]

3. "starring Woody Allen" appears..

*ducking*

[shrike]

48. Glad to hear someone else agrees with me

Although "Crimes and Misdemeanors" is one of my favorite movies. He hasn't made a good one since, IMO.

[Richardo]

4. The sudden horrific scream turns out to be a cat.

:eyes:

[Wickerman]

6. Starring Madonna!

[meegbear]

7. If the movie stars ...

Meg Ryan
Sandra Bullock
anyone from Friends
Will Smith

Please add your own

[ET Awful]

ANYONE from Friends?

Office Space RULED.

[meegbear]

15. 'fraid so

Friends tainted all of 'em.

[stopbush]

8. The NY Times gives it a rave review.

[NewJeffCT]

25. I remember one getting a rave in the NY Times...

This movie called Blind Date with Bruce Willis & Kim Basinger. I thought the beginning was okay, the rest sucked... the NY Times' glowing review was how the movie got better & better as it went on.

[unblock]

9. when there's a HUGE media blitz trying to convince you

to buy your ticket before their carefully crafted buzz is affected by anyone actually SEEing the movie.

[unblock]

14. notice how they always talk about "1st week sales"

that's mostly a good indicator of how good/expensive the pre-launch promotional campaign was.

now, SECOND week sales, THAT would be a much better indication of how good the movie actually is (from among those movies with expensive campaigns, anyway).

[KurtNYC]

10. SNL second stringers are billed over the title

eg. Jimmy Fallon

[DelawareValleyDem]

13. or, it's based on characters from an SNL skit

Like the Roxy Guys

[Taxloss]

26. Those ones never reach the UK.

Probably for very good reasons.

[kick-ass-bob]

49. But Wayne's World was good!

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

50. ooo true!

at least the first one was...

[kick-ass-bob]

51. I forget there is a second one.

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

52. probally for the best n/t

[MnFats]

11. chase scene: vehicles obliterate fruit stands...

as extras flee in terror....


you know, it's funny when Letterman drops stuff off a tall building....exploding watermelons, etc.
Jackie Chan took the vaporizing fruit stand beyond its usefulness. It's been done, ok? So hereafter there is a ban.

[skypilot]

12. Everyone in it...

...looks like a Gap model.

[Burma Jones]

16. My Sister-In-Law thinks it's good..........

Among her favorites are:

Mr. Holland's Opus
Pretty Woman
Patch Adams

[flvegan]

17. Two words: Steven Seagal

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

22. come on! Exit Wounds w/ DMX ROCKED!

ummm not :evilgrin:

[NewJeffCT]

23. Four words - Jean Claude Van Damme

At least that first under siege movie with Seagal was okay.

[EstimatedProphet]

18. When the soundtrack uses Britney Spears

Austin Powers: Goldmember excluded because they blew her up at the beginning of the film.

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

19. or put Beonce (sp?) in a starring role! n/t

[Fenris]

20. ...it revolves around Jesus getting the shit beat out of him.

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

24. i thought snuff would be right up your alley?

:wtf:

j/k

[BigMcLargehuge]

21. it appears here

http://www.horrorview.com/hall%20of%20shame.htm

[Worst Username Ever]

27. It has J-lo

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

29. Yea, thats a definitive answer n/t

[Taxloss]

33. Embarrassing admission:

Despite considering myself a film buff, I did not hate "The Cell".

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

34. I liked how it was highly styleized...

i always explain it as a twisted remake of "Dreamscape" with Dennis Quaid

[Taxloss]

36. Yes, the design and surrealism really was worth praise.

For me the way the film is designed - and some particular shots, such as the straight-up view of the helicopter descending in silence, with the film slowed - make it impossible to just abandon as "bad". There is too much stuff in it that is good. In my opinion it is highly underrated. (J-Lo's acting not included.)

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

38. I totally understand where you are coming from

it was visually great, but the acting and dialog (except Vincent D'Onofrio, who was really good) sucked, lol...

[Taxloss]

41. Yeah. Classic "watch with the sound off".

Except the soundtrack is pretty good. It's just most of the acting is terrible. Imagine it recast, and you have a smash hit - Jodie Foster as the therapist ...?

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

45. LMAO!

yea, if it would have been cast a little better, with some real actors!

[Worst Username Ever]

42. Not embarrasing. I did, in fact, enjoy that movie.

[Taxloss]

46. So did I. But people who haven't seen it think it's shit.

[Taxloss]

28. "An Alan Smithee production"

Not sure I've got the name right, but it's the name used when someone doesn't want their name on a movie.

[Richardo]

30. You got it - usually a sub for the director, though.

Is now too well known to be used anymore, I understand.

[Taxloss]

32. So it would "A film by Alan Smithee" not "... production".

I find that films are terrible if the press quotes on the posters ("Incredible!" "Film of the Year!" "A roller-coaster!") are unattributed or come from Kerrang and some newspaper I've never heard of.

[Richardo]

40. Righto. In fact there *was* a movie called "An Alan Smithee Film"

Starring Eric Idle as a director NAMED Alan Smithee. Apparently a disaster - one of the *real* directors wanted (and got) an 'Alan Smithee' credit! :crazy:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118577/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnxteD0yMHxzZz0xfGxtPTIwMHx0dD1vbnxwbj0wfHE9YSBmaWxtIGJ5IGFsYW4gc21pdGhlZXxodG1sPTF8bm09b24_;fc=1;ft=20;fm=1

[flvegan]

31. Starring, Pauly Shore

[ImpeachBush]

35. Jim Carey is in it ... or the word "Shag" is more common than the word "a"

[ImpeachBush]

37. The star is Jim Carey n/t

ugh

[Aiptasia]

39. When the preview trailer starts with "In a world...."

Thanks to Jeanine Garofalo for pointing that out to us.

[Taxloss]

44. With the exception of the trailer for "The Comedian"

which is comedy genius.

[bobbobbins]

43. the title rhymes with really

[Longgrain]

47. It's based on a forty year old T.V. show

ala "Leave it to Beaver", "Car 54"...

or worse, a Saturday Morning cartoon...ala "Fat Albert"

[mr blur]

53. It's a remake

of a film which doesn't need remaking ("Psycho" anyone? "Manchurian Candidate"? "The Thing"?).

And especially when it's a remake in English of a classy "foreign" film because some jerks in Hollywood have decided that no American under the age of 20 is capable of watching a great film in French, or Italian, or... (think of the awful remake of "La Femme Nikita")

[Runcible Spoon]

54. there is a "surprise twist ending by M. Night Shymalalalaladingdong...

that will leave you on the edge of your seat guessing til the end"..or in my case, on the edge of my seat wondering how much more torture I could take! Awright, "6th Sense was ok but his films are all downhill from there. I also hate writers/directors/ etc who insist on cheesy cameos, like M Night and Stephen King.

[drumwolf]

55. when it's a flick about high school teens

and the actors playing the teens are in their late 20's.

A variant of that would be when you have a parent-child combination and the actors playing the parent and child respectively are close enough in age to be siblings.