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Here's the article.
https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2022/07/where-the-crawdads-sing-delia-mark-owens-zambia-murder/670479/
Erazorhead
I’ve never heard of singing crayfish
But they make a whistling noise when you drop them in a pan of boiling water.
Moonfall was pretty bad, but still pales in comparison to The Postman.
Green Lantern was also unwatchable.
Even Ryan Reynolds slags off the Green Lantern.
Tried to watch the most recent Terminator film on Saturday night. I lasted about 45 mins.
Probably fits on 'most disappointing films' rather than worst, but the new Thor movie is absolute hot garbage. Loved the last one, and this somehow manages to make some of the best jokes and funniest characters from that one into something utterly boring, and even wastes Christian Bale, which takes a special talent to do.
Particularly annoying as it was the first time I'd been back a real cinema since you-know-what, and was hoping for something as good as Ragnarok.
Tried to watch the most recent Terminator film on Saturday night. I lasted about 45 mins.
Was pretty formulaic stuff. Except for the part where they rendered all the films since Terminator II null and void within the first few minutes.
@martinhutch, agree about Thor. But my two teenage daughters loved. They smiled all the way through the film.
But yeah, I found it a bit flat, too overly CGI, I know it’s a marvel film set in space, but it just felt a bit meh. (Best description I can give it)
I’ve never heard of singing crayfish
But they make a whistling noise when you drop them in a pan of boiling water.
Yeah, it occurred to me that maybe the reference is to cooking them, but I have no intention of watching the film just to find out if they cook a tasty crustacean dinner. And The Death-whistle Of The Crawdads slips off the tongue even worse than the actual title.
I have no intention of watching the film just to find out if they cook a tasty crustacean dinner.
Spoiler alert: they don't.
Well, unless it's in the last hour what I missed.
Time to resurrect this thread...
Watched Eternals last night:
Promising cast - Check
Part of the Marvel universe - Check
What an utter bag of boring, confusing, over long, weary FX, badly acted shite!
Avoid.
I was flicking through some channels last week just as the Philadelphia Experiment was starting. Sounded interesting so popped it on. Quite quickly realised it wasn't going to be as good as I was hoping it'd be but wasted a couple of hours watching it. Beyond awful.
What an utter bag of boring, confusing, over long, weary FX, badly acted shite!
I used to choose those sorts of marvel movies (good looking, not hard to follow, lots of exciting explosions) when I was doing extra dull Z2 work on the rollers, Eternals was too dull even for that. I haven't finished it yet.
the Philadelphia Experiment
1984 original or remake??
I think marvel films are all going to look pretty lame now that endgame is done, I didn't like eternals and the antman was poor as well, just too formulaic and thor was dull also, spiderman Shang-Chi were the last ones I enjoyed and I haven't been bothered to watch GOTG3 yet either
Tried John Wick4 and couldn't raise any enthusiasm on that either..
Never noticed this tread before 'Highlander 2 blows goats' made me laugh.
Just had a look through this and nobody has mentioned Speed 2: Cruise Control, I would rather watch Highlander 2
No votes for Beau is Afraid yet then. I wouldn't vote for it myself, kind of loved the whole crazy experience.. but I would vote it the Worst. Ending. Ever. Absolutely ruined it.
GOTG3 was pretty decent actually, I thought.
Spiderman was watchable, but wasn't there any way they could have avoided the spoilerfest in the run-up to release? Imagine not realising who was going to appear in it...
Didn't even bother with Eternals or Black Panther 2. Antman3 lost all of the charm of the first two, and the less said about Doctor Strange the better.
One of the kids picked up Hansel and Gretel - Warriors of Witchcraft for 20p in a charity shop.
Mein Got! That was bad.
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/hansel_and_gretel_warriors_of_witchcraft_2013
The best bit was spotting to continuity errors in the lead girls T shirts. The budget clearly extended to two of them, but they weren't exactly the same. Also, part way through one scene it cuts to a shot where she is wearing it back to front.
And then there was Eric Roberts, who clearly had not been given a script and was told to turn up in his own clothes. His part largely involved walking into a room, grinning, and walking back out without bumping into anything.
Mercifully only 88 minutes long.
Book club - the next chapter (a sequal to book club, which i was fortunate enough not to see).
The wife decided she wanted to go the pictures and selected this based purely on the promotional blurb on cinema website.
Truly, truly excruciating. I’d rather have gouged my eyeballs out than subject them to this disgrace to the art form. Difficult to imagine who thought this should ever have gone into production.
Has there ever been a good film with punctuation in the title? Usually the inclusion of “ / : - “ etc is a warning of what is to follow.
I haven’t been bothered to watch GOTG3 yet either
I'd give it a shot, saw it on a flight a few months back and thought it was pretty decent.
Agree about your general point about wondering what the point of the MCU is now they've clearly peaked with Endgame, I've had limited interest since then.
Tried John Wick4 and couldn’t raise any enthusiasm on that either..
John Wick voice >> Yeah << John Wick voice
In the early days of C4 they had a film about Amy Johnson. It is the worst film I have ever seen it showed aerial footage with a model plane on a stick and a map.
Other films of note.
Summer holiday.
Girl on a motorcycle.
A film of a train journey across Canada film out the window with s forward facing camera.
A film of a train journey across Canada film out the window with s forward facing camera.
Yeah, that sounds like a truly bad film. Most of this thread is just complaints about mediocre studio movies that aren't really terrible, just predictable. My submission for something really shit is Sonny, by Nicolas Cage, starring James Franco. Just truly bad, utter waste of talent. Not mediocre or predictable, just bad. Probably not the worst film ever, but the worst that I can recall watching.
Yeah, it occurred to me that maybe the reference is to cooking them
In the book it's a reference to the edge of wilderness, one of the characters says to another, about wading in the swamp "You need to go out as far as the crawdads sing" I.e. as far out so that you're away from civilisation and where things are still wild. Read the book a while back (it was OK), didn't know half the shit about its author which was genuinely fascinating.
A few nights ago I got reminded how disappointing Alien Covenant was, when it was shown on Film4 (? or another Freeview channel) for at least the second time recently.
1984 original or remake??
The remake although some of the special effects could have probably been more lifelike if it had been done in the 80s.
This thread re-boot has reawakened a memory of 'The Harry Hill Movie', which runs out of jokes about two minutes in. The things we do for our kids, eh?
Yeah, it occurred to me that maybe the reference is to cooking them
In the book it’s a reference to the edge of wilderness, one of the characters says to another, about wading in the swamp “You need to go out as far as the crawdads sing” I.e. as far out so that you’re away from civilisation and where things are still wild. Read the book a while back (it was OK), didn’t know half the shit about its author which was genuinely fascinating.
I think, when I wrote that, I was being bombarded by stuff about this book/film by my eldest daughter. I was probably a little sick of it, and it shows. 😀 I agree that the author's life seems more interesting than her books.
Mother! Directed by Darren Aronofsky.
The kind of film that film critics work themselves into a tiz over. A pointless mess.
A Google search for the film brings up the question "what is the point of the film Mother!"
Quite.
Edit - to be clear, not a contender for a "good film with punctuation in the title" 😉
Are we counting question marks? A few good ones in that selection.
Has there ever been a good film with punctuation in the title? Usually the inclusion of “ / : – “ etc is a warning of what is to follow.
Face/Off
Mission: Impossible
nickc
Full MemberI watched the new Matrix over the weekend. It’s quite meta, but tries to take itself both seriously and not at the same time, and fails to manage either, which is quite and achievement.
I thought it would be impossible to disappoint after Matrix 2 & 3, yet here we are.
Never noticed this tread before ‘Highlander 2 blows goats’ made me laugh.
My work here is done! 😁
Never realised what a bore fest Godfather 3 was until it appeared onPrime the other day. Especially compared to the first 2.
Probably fits in most disappointing category.
Highlander 2 blows goats
My work here is done! 😁
Aw, that sounded like something I'd say.
Anyway I see there's a 4th Expendables movie. That's nice.
Has there ever been a good film with punctuation in the title? Usually the inclusion of “ / : – “ etc is a warning of what is to follow.
Who Killed Roger Rabbit?
Apocalypse Now: Redux (possibly a cheat)
Spaceballs!
Dr Strangelove, or: how I stopped etc
Borat! Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
'Who Framed Roger Rabbit' does not, for some reason, have a question mark. No idea why not.
You could have 'O Brother, Where Art Thou?', 'What's up Doc?' or 'Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?' though.
+1 for The Hobbit and it's spawn. Like butter that has been spread too thinly, (and supplemented with the chutney from the black bags hanging in the park)
Space Chimps 2 - end of discussion
(13 years later and I still hold this against child #2)
Panda
I see your Space Chimps and raise you Space Buddies
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1164647/
No idea why not.
Because the film conclusively tells you Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
Statements do not require a question mark.
That makes incomplete as phrase (or title), which is arguably worse.
ie
'Who Shot Liberty Valance', or 'Who Wasn't There' 🙂