Posted on 12/26/2014 9:25:57 AM PST by EveningStar
These ten films are not remotely the worst films of 2014, but their respective artistic failures were the most disappointing.
This is arguably the most subjective list of my year-end wrap up, with the caveat that of course all of my "best/worst" lists are as subjective as any critical analysis. None of the films on this list belong anywhere near a "worst-of" rundown, but in some ways they were more explicitly dissatisfying than the actual films I chose as the "worst" or "least favorite" films of 2014. Some were genuinely bad, some were mostly good save for a few key artistic stumbles, and all arguably represented either the tragic letdown of a much-anticipated project or a failure in execution of what looked like a surefire winner on paper. The first nine are in alphabetical order, followed by the so-called "biggest disappointment of 2014." And here we go...
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well he is certainly right about the music / effects level vs conservations. Actually I have that complaint with many movies and not just this one. At home I constantly have to adjust volume levels and it is quite annoying and unnecessary if the producers would let real audio engineers handle the levels.
How much of it is cover?
Well, uhmmmm.... none.
Awful doesn’t describe how bad this retartet thing was.
It was Rachel Jenteel stupid.
I don’t think I went to a movie theater once in 2014. But I do want to see the Hobbitt.
Just tell yourself that Black Holes are magic, and anything is possible if you can get into one. There are no limits on time and space and no paradoxes to overcome. Harness it and you are god.
Ouch!
They didn’t get a lot of data from the original probe, and it’s proximity to a black hole warped time so they couldn’t get close enough to survey the planet before landing, as time was warped as they got closer to the planet and the plan was to quickly go in and out so their mission wouldn’t be prohibitively long on Earth time.
Every hour they were close would be seven years on Earth.
Rachel Jenteel stupid? Man, that’s bad. I just wondered if PC was panning because, well, of PC. Nothing media does will surprise me..
Everything you ask was addressed. I’d just see the movie. It’s not that bad, it’s just not that good.
I would say on a success/budget x starpower basis, Interstellar was the most disappointing film of the year. It LOOKED great. It SOUNDED great. The story - muddled, maudlin, overblown and just too lengthy.
My favorite character was the robot, which was of a very imaginative design.
I would prefer all the episodes of Quark edited together over interstellar.
A wormhole near Jupiter? Wouldn’t it have to be opened by something that’s engineered for the task? As for the probes, how long did it take for them to send back the information? Or was it sent back through the wormhole? Was it open for long?
So many questions, and I don’t care to see it.
Just saw Hobbit last night.
Too much fight scenes but photography and acting was superb.
Every movie with light speed travel gets the dilation of time wrong. And there is no way to go 'back' in time.
But a big problem is that the wormhole that allowed the current Humans to 'get out' was built by Humans who got out.
It’s called “Battle of 5 Armies,” of course it’ll have a lot of fight scenes.
The List:
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes;
The Expendables 3;
Get On Up;
Godzilla;
The Interview;
A Million Ways to Die in the West;
The Penguins Of Madagascar;
Sabotage;
Tusk;
Interstellar.
from what I have read they discover a wormhole at the edge of the solar system and send the ship through. I would suppose they had sent probes through first to see what was on the other side.
If you put 100 stoned 14 year old morons in a studio and throw money at them you get stuff like this!!
Great movie! Laughed myself silly. Loved how the movie made Kim out to be a closet homo too. Every sacred cow of North Korea got poked. Good fun.
I cannot imagine watching the Hobbit rather than the interview.
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