Watching with Blinders On
How do bad movies get made? Didn’t somebody read the script of Batman and Robin and say “Holy Crappy Dialog”. Where were the people telling Travolta that Battlefield Earth sucked and no book by L. Ron Hubbard could convince people otherwise. Somewhere along the way, someone should look at what is being made and just call it crap. How much time and money would that save? Spider-Man made $114,000 million and the reviews are good. Did Sam Raimi have a secret formula that no one else had? Why was The Scorpion King so bad? Why was Jason X even made?
If the theaters expect me to shell out upwards of $9.00 a ticket, then they should make sure they are putting out quality. Along with Spider-Man, Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings were good movies. That translates into a box office hit. Too often big budgets lead to bad films. Why? If I went to buy a new car and it was a lemon, I would get my money back. If I buy a new shirt and the buttons fall off, again I get my money back. If I sit down at Burger King and get a Whopper that tastes like a monkey’s ass… you damn well bet I’m going to scream at the counter until my money comes back. So why do we continue to allow Hollywood to crank out bad movies when you know somebody along the way had to see that it sucked.
Hollywood Ending and Deuces Wild opened this last weekend opposite of Spider-Man and everyone knew they had no chance. But both of them made under $3 million. If you read the reviews of Hollywood Ending on https://movies.go.com/reviews/index.html you will see that it has 5 positive reviews, 8 negative and 7 mixed. This tells me that it’s probably a good movie for Woody Allen fans but not for the general public. Woody is an acquired taste. But Deuces Wild has 11 negative reviews and 0 positive and mixed. The quote says “just plain crap”… how does this hit the box offices? From reading this page the only movies worth going to see that are in the top ten are Spider-Man, Changing Lanes and The Rookie… these are the only ones where the positive reviews out weigh the negatives and mixed.
So I still am left with the big question… if reviewers all hate a movie like Life or Something Like It, then how does it get made? Is it a surprise? “Let’s watch the movie we just made… oh my god that sucks!” How about a little quality control in Hollywood? And if anyone EVER lets Joel Schoemacher near a comic book movie again… there will be a riot.
How do bad movies get made? Didn’t somebody read the script of Batman and Robin and say “Holy Crappy Dialog”. Where were the people telling Travolta that Battlefield Earth sucked and no book by L. Ron Hubbard could convince people otherwise. Somewhere along the way, someone should look at what is being made and just call it crap. How much time and money would that save? Spider-Man made $114,000 million and the reviews are good. Did Sam Raimi have a secret formula that no one else had? Why was The Scorpion King so bad? Why was Jason X even made?
If the theaters expect me to shell out upwards of $9.00 a ticket, then they should make sure they are putting out quality. Along with Spider-Man, Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings were good movies. That translates into a box office hit. Too often big budgets lead to bad films. Why? If I went to buy a new car and it was a lemon, I would get my money back. If I buy a new shirt and the buttons fall off, again I get my money back. If I sit down at Burger King and get a Whopper that tastes like a monkey’s ass… you damn well bet I’m going to scream at the counter until my money comes back. So why do we continue to allow Hollywood to crank out bad movies when you know somebody along the way had to see that it sucked.
Hollywood Ending and Deuces Wild opened this last weekend opposite of Spider-Man and everyone knew they had no chance. But both of them made under $3 million. If you read the reviews of Hollywood Ending on https://movies.go.com/reviews/index.html you will see that it has 5 positive reviews, 8 negative and 7 mixed. This tells me that it’s probably a good movie for Woody Allen fans but not for the general public. Woody is an acquired taste. But Deuces Wild has 11 negative reviews and 0 positive and mixed. The quote says “just plain crap”… how does this hit the box offices? From reading this page the only movies worth going to see that are in the top ten are Spider-Man, Changing Lanes and The Rookie… these are the only ones where the positive reviews out weigh the negatives and mixed.
So I still am left with the big question… if reviewers all hate a movie like Life or Something Like It, then how does it get made? Is it a surprise? “Let’s watch the movie we just made… oh my god that sucks!” How about a little quality control in Hollywood? And if anyone EVER lets Joel Schoemacher near a comic book movie again… there will be a riot.
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