Movies You Dislike

There's a lot I dislike but the first that comes to mind is "The Human Centipede" which is a bad combination of boring and tasteless. At least I just merely dislike it. Same can't be said about its sequel (which I also watched, don't ask why), which is an absolutely horrific and loathsome piece of turd.

There's also "Amarmaggedon" and "2012" for somewhat the same reasons. The first seems like an excuse for American nationalism pandering with basically the president of US saving the whole world with his bare hands. It's bad enough that movies like this tend to focus on major American cities while ignoring the rest world (or is contrived to a few scenes like shots of London and Paris), and thus fail to convey an actual end-of-humanity-and-the-whole-world feeling. The movie has some really ugly after-effects too, which is surprising considering the cgi technology was already quite advanced in the late 90s.  
"2012" simply has a horrid plot making it everytime way too convenient for the protagonists to escape an ill fate, mostly carried by dumb luck events instead of a coherent story and simply throwing any realism out of the window. It also all escalates of course to the loser dad of the day becoming a real hero in front of his kids and getting back with his ex (despite her boyfriend dying literally minutes ago).
I love the disaster genre which can sometimes be very thrilling and exciting, but these two commercial pieces of crap with their goddamn cheesiness turned me off from the genre entirely.

That's my main gripe with a lot of films to come out of Hollywood. Many of them convey the theme of American patriotism and suggest that America is the greatest country on Earth. It's pretty much like the ending to "National Lampoon's European Vacation", when the Griswalds are on a plane back to America and they see the Statue of Liberty through a plane window. From a non-American perspective, it can come across as a bit arrogant. 

Anyway, I didn't particularly like "2012" either, for much the same reasons you gave. There was too much of an emphasis on the basic premise of the world ending in 2012, rather than effectively developing the storyline and characters in the film.  


Maybe it's the fact that I was only 6 years old when the movie was released, but I personally didn't find Chicken Little to be all that bad. It wasn't one of my favourite childhood movies, however I did find it enjoyable to watch. I suppose if I were to re-watch the movie now, I might have an entirely different opinion. 

Speaking of terrible kids movies, however:



You'd be forgiven for not being aware of "The Nut Job", as the movie was only released back in 2014 and it was not produced by a major Hollywood studio. I only became aware of the movie's existence, when it was broadcast on a free-to-air channel a few months ago. "The Nut Job" has an approval rating of just 10% on Rotten Tomatoes, which I am honestly not surprised about in the slightest.

The main character in the film (the squirrel found in the centre of the movie poster) is a highly unlikable, selfish jerk that treats the other characters in the film poorly and shows no sign of sympathy or guilt. With a bare-bone premise and a lack of a coherent plot, "The Nut Job" relies on poor slapstick jokes and puns to fulfill the movie's 86 minute duration. There's only so many times you can make a joke about nuts. 

I watched "Geo Storm" not very long ago and it is as if "Armaggedon" and "2012" I've mentioned previously had a baby together D:
Too much plot conveniency with a corny ending you see two miles away coming
And it even features a US president basically saving the day too (at least it is somewhat justified and not as blatantly chauvinistic as in "Armaggedon"). It had an interesting plot and ideas, and finally some focus on the outside of the US for a disaster movie, but is ruined by the annoying characters and the predicable plot.
Just irritating!

I don't understand it's appeal either. Surely the overall quality of the later sequels wouldn't be up to the same standard as the original? There's only so many stories you can tell before something starts to become monotonous and tiresome. Also, it's not as if the Fast & Furious franchise is similar to Harry Potter, in that all of the sequels are adaptions of the books. There is no "Fast & Furious" book series, so it really makes you wonder what benefit there is (besides the series' performance at the box office) out of continuing to produce the series. 

I watched "The Blair Witch Project" on Halloween this year and I have to admit it was a mostly boring experience. I appreciate the occasional tense and heavy atmosphere and the refreshing lack of jump scares and climax music, but the fact it tries to be as believable and real as possible hurt it in many ways, the biggest problem being the big focus on the quite irritating main characters agreeing and not enough on the night scenes (which obviously make the movie). I also don't like the ending.

Oh well, I've been told it's a pure product of its time so what can you do

I saw a lot of bad movies but the movie I dislike the most is the fantastic 4 reboot from 2015. It just felt so underwhelming. Another one is the last Airbender. It had so much hype but I ended up sleeping through the movie. It was so disappointing compared to the Nickoldeon cartoon.