Title: Worst of 2017 Post by: claws on December 22, 2017, 01:38:34 AM Ten 2017 releases that didn't wow critics. Some of these sound like guilty pleasure material, and might be worth a rental for a bad movie night.
BO = (domestic) box office RT = Rotten Tomatoes ms = metascore 1 (https://i.imgur.com/NukJBYhm.jpg) The Emoji Movie (2017) BO: $86m - RT: 9% - ms: 12 - IMDb: 2.9 "80-plus minutes of excruciating mental torture." 2 (https://i.imgur.com/mHbqJmOm.jpg) Tyler Perry's Boo 2! A Madea Halloween (2017) BO: $47m - RT: 6% - ms: 17 - IMDb: 3.1 "In the end, the scariest thing about Boo 2! is the idea that A Madea Easter might be next." 3 (https://i.imgur.com/RtMTTjCm.jpg) Transformers: The Last Knight (2017) BO: $130m - RT: 16% - ms: 28 - IMDb: 5.2 "Michael Bay doesn't make movies anymore; he makes migraine auras." 4 (https://i.imgur.com/MrojKuTm.jpg) Fifty Shades Darker (2017) BO: $114m - RT: 10% - ms: 33 - IMDb: 4.6 "This is not so much Fifty Shades Darker as Fifty Shades Duller, and on so many fronts too." 5 (https://i.imgur.com/bqo06Hxm.jpg) Rings (2017) BO: $27m - RT: 7% - ms: 25 - IMDb: 4.5 "Seven days after seeing Rings, you won't remember a thing about it." 6 (https://i.imgur.com/K6FouvAm.jpg) Geostorm (2017) BO: $33m - RT: 13% - ms: 21 - IMDb: 5.5 "Really could have used a Sharknado or two to liven things up." 7 (https://i.imgur.com/fdYohELm.jpg) Flatliners (2017) BO: $16m - RT: 5% - ms: 27 - IMDb: 5.0 "This would be boring if it wasn't so unintentionally funny." 8 (https://i.imgur.com/0Ld17pfm.jpg) The Mummy (2017) BO: $80m - RT: 16% - ms: 34 - IMDb: 5.5 "It feels less like a movie than a series of compromises worked out by a corporate committee." 9 (https://i.imgur.com/sNyaSSfm.jpg) The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature (2017) BO: $28m - RT: 9% - ms: 36 - IMDb: 5.1 "No one seems to know why The Nut Job 2 exists, including the people who made it." 10 (https://i.imgur.com/cous9nAm.jpg) The Dark Tower (2017) BO: $50m - RT: 16% - ms: 34 - IMDb: 5.7 "Inconsistent, incoherent and often cheesy." Title: Re: Worst of 2017 Post by: zombie no.one on December 22, 2017, 05:36:12 AM I'm almost proud to say I didn't see a single new film released in 2017.
some of those look possibly worth a watch though, especially Flatliners if it's as unintentionally funny as they reckon. I heard The Mummy was bad. The Emoji Movie, that exists?....icons fail me. Title: Re: Worst of 2017 Post by: indianasmith on December 22, 2017, 07:23:11 AM I actually thought RINGS was quite good. Not as good as the original, but scores better than the horrible RING 2.
Title: Re: Worst of 2017 Post by: WingedSerpent on December 23, 2017, 04:42:29 PM Rings made me realize there's a problem with trailers that give away endings-they also ruin foreshadowing as a storytelling device. I totally guested what the ending of Rings was, even though it wasn't in the trailer. Rather the first scene in the movie foreshadows it (which is in the trailer) and I thought it was the final scene in the movie.
The Mummy was just dull. I'm still not sure what the real draw of the Fifty Shades of Gray story is. Its just about a young woman who meets a rich guy whose into BDS&M and that's it. At least Twlight had some supernatural elements to it that might make it something. And that's maybe the only thing positive I have to say about that franchise. Title: Re: Worst of 2017 Post by: bob on December 23, 2017, 07:16:12 PM I didn't see any of these....I was on the fence about maybe Rings because I decided to wait until it was out on DVD to think it over
Title: Re: Worst of 2017 Post by: Chainsawmidget on December 26, 2017, 07:27:45 AM I'm stilldebating about The Mummy, but I have no desire to see any of the rest of these.
Title: Re: Worst of 2017 Post by: Trevor on December 26, 2017, 01:02:06 PM I'm almost too embarrassed to admit that The Dark Tower was made in South Africa.
Title: Re: Worst of 2017 Post by: stine.greta on December 26, 2017, 09:39:58 PM Jigsaw
Monster Truck Underworld: Blood Wars The Dark Tower The Mummy Rings Title: Re: Worst of 2017 Post by: Rev. Powell on December 27, 2017, 08:44:53 AM The only REALLY bad movie I saw in 2017 was THE HOUSE (with Will Ferrel and Amy Poehler).
Title: Re: Worst of 2017 Post by: claws on December 27, 2017, 11:27:49 PM from around the net
rollingstone.com: 10 Worst Movies of 2017 (https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/lists/10-worst-movies-of-2017-w513255) 1. Transformers: The Last Knight 2. The Dark Tower 3. Fifty Shades Darker 4. Song to Song 5. The Mummy 6. The Mountain Between Us 7. Valerian and the City of A Thousand Planets 8. Daddy's Home 2 9. Suburbicon 10. The Emoji Movie usmagazine.com: Worst Movies of 2017 Include ‘Emoji Movie’ and ‘Suburbicon’ (https://www.usmagazine.com/entertainment/pictures/worst-movies-of-2017/) 1. The Emoji Movie 2. Kingsman: The Golden Circle 3. Suburbicon 4. Split 5. The Glass Castle forbes.com: 'Beauty And The Beast,' 'The Mummy' And The Worst Movies Of 2017 (https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2017/12/26/beauty-and-the-beast-the-mummy-and-the-worst-movies-of-2017/#1512037e221d) In no particular order: All Eyez On Me American Assassin Beauty and the Beast CHiPs The Mummy Jigsaw King Arthur: Legend of the Sword Pitch Perfect 3 The Snowman Victoria and Abdul Bright (Netflix) time.com: The Top 10 Worst Movies of 2017 (http://time.com/5049752/top-10-worst-movies-2017/) 1. The Emoji Movie 2. The Book of Henry 3. A Cure For Wellness 4. Daddy’s Home 2 5. The Snowman 6. The Mummy 7. Justice League 8. The House 9. King Arthur: Legend of the Sword 10. Ghost in the Shell mlive.com: The worst movies of 2017 (http://www.mlive.com/movies/index.ssf/2017/12/the_worst_movies_of_2017.html) 1. The Book of Henry 2. The Emoji Movie 3. Fifty Shades Darker 4. Transformers: The Last Knight 5. The Snowman 6. Geostorm 7. Baywatch 8. A Dog's Purpose 9. xXx: Return of Xander Cage 10. Power Rangers observer.com: 10 Worst Movies of 2017 (http://observer.com/2017/12/rex-reeds-10-best-movies-and-10-worst-movies-of-2017/) 1. mother! 2. The Disaster Artist 3. Get Out 4. The Layover 5. A Cure for Wellness 6. It 7. Downsizing 8. Suburbicon 9. Colossal 10. Fallen chicago.suntimes.com: Bad moms, Bellas and ‘Baywatch’: Richard Roeper’s worst movies of 2017 (https://chicago.suntimes.com/entertainment/bad-moms-bellas-and-baywatch-richard-roepers-worst-movies-of-2017/) 1. The Mummy 2. A Bad Moms Christmas/Daddy’s Home 2 3. Everything, Everything 4. Baywatch 5. The Mountain Between Us 6. The Circle 7. Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets 8. Kingsman: The Golden Circle 9. Ghost in the Shell 10. Pitch Perfect 3 Title: Re: Worst of 2017 Post by: Rev. Powell on December 28, 2017, 08:46:51 AM observer.com: 10 Worst Movies of 2017 ([url]http://observer.com/2017/12/rex-reeds-10-best-movies-and-10-worst-movies-of-2017/[/url]) 1. mother! 2. The Disaster Artist 3. Get Out 4. The Layover 5. A Cure for Wellness 6. It 7. Downsizing 8. Suburbicon 9. Colossal 10. Fallen Rex Reed is such an obnoxious troll. I thought he had retired. At least two of those will appear on most critics best 10 list, and GET OUT will win a ton of awards, rightfully so. Title: Re: Worst of 2017 Post by: Ted C on December 28, 2017, 03:37:59 PM There's a movie that's conspicuously absent from this list. I can't quite put my finger on it, but it's definitely absent. (With good reason, if you ask me.)
Title: Re: Worst of 2017 Post by: indianasmith on December 28, 2017, 07:44:11 PM There were two movies I saw recently that I just REALLY didn't like:
A GHOST STORY IT COMES AT NIGHT Not that they were badly done, just slow, draggy, and devoid of any kind of resolution. Title: Re: Worst of 2017 Post by: frank on January 08, 2018, 10:56:42 AM observer.com: 10 Worst Movies of 2017 ([url]http://observer.com/2017/12/rex-reeds-10-best-movies-and-10-worst-movies-of-2017/[/url]) 1. mother! 2. The Disaster Artist 3. Get Out 4. The Layover 5. A Cure for Wellness 6. It 7. Downsizing 8. Suburbicon 9. Colossal 10. Fallen Rex Reed is such an obnoxious troll. I thought he had retired. At least two of those will appear on most critics best 10 list, and GET OUT will win a ton of awards, rightfully so. I stumbled here, too. Odd choices... Title: Re: Worst of 2017 Post by: BoyScoutKevin on January 08, 2018, 04:24:25 PM B.O. Box office
The cost is an estimate. Even more of a guess is how much a film needs to make ere it turns a profit, as others have said 2 and a half times it costs to make it, so that is what we are going with. What is not a guess is that the spending does not stop, when a film is finished and in the can. For example: it is believed that Warner Brothers spent a $100 million to promote Justice League after it was made. Thus . . . The Emoji Movie Cost $50,000,000 B.O. $86,000,000 Failed to make a profit. Tyler Perry's Boo 2 Cost $25,000,000 B.O. $47,000,000 Failed to make a profit. Transformers: the Last Knight Cost $217,000,000 B.O. $130,000,000 Failed to earn back the cost it took to make it. And this was one of the few franchises Paramount had going for it. Fifty Shades Darker Cost $55,000,000 B.O. $114,000,000 Failed to make a profit Rings Cost $25,000,000 B.O. $27,000,000 Failed to make a profit. Geostorm Cost $120,000,000 B.O. $33,000,000 Failed to earn back the cost it took to make it. Flatliners Cost $20,000,000 B.O. $16,000,000 Failed to earn back the cost it took to make it. The Mummy Cost $125,000,000 B.O. $80,000,000 Failed to earn back the cost it took to make it. The Nut Job 2 Cost $40,000,000 B.O. $28,000,000 Failed it earn back the cost it took to make it. The Dark Tower Cost $60,000,000 B.O. $50,000,000 Failed to earn back the cost it took to make it. Total cost $737,000,000 Total box office $611,000,000 Average cost $73.7 million Average box office $61.1 million What we do not know is how much the critical drubbing these films took affected the domestic box office. Though, there are some folks, including some critics, that a criticism of a film, has little effect on what a film earns at the box office. Of course, domestic box office is not the only source of money can earn. --There is the international box office, as over half of American films now earn more overseas than it does at home. --There is the TV rights. --There is the DVDs. --And there is the ancillary merchandise. For example: Frozen may have earned a billion $ at the box office, but it earned over $2 billion in merchandise sales. Title: Re: Worst of 2017 Post by: jimpickens on January 08, 2018, 08:17:58 PM Leatherface
Title: Re: Worst of 2017 Post by: Svengoolie 3 on January 09, 2018, 03:26:22 AM No movie ever makes a. Profit in Hollywood because Hollywood is allowed to. Use a purely false system of accounting that 'shows' no movie ever makes. A profit. Ghostbusters has never made a profit according to Hollywood. People who agree to work for a piece of the profit never see a penny of it. Hollywood alone is allowed to use the accounting system it uses.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting Title: Re: Worst of 2017 Post by: Svengoolie 3 on January 09, 2018, 03:43:14 AM I saw few new movies in '17. Rogue One and bladerunner 2049 we're the only ones I deigned go to a theater for. I was the audience for the rush hour br2049 show.
I bought shin Godzilla on DVD and rented the animated Batman vs. 2 face movie. These 4 were good enough. The worst movie I saw ads for was that fast and furious movie with guys in cars, trucks and SUVs fighting a Russian nuclear submarine on ice and kicking torpedoes skidding across the ice while leaning out of their vehicles. . :buggedout: Frankly the 4 new movies I saw were, based on the commercials alone, more intelligent and believable than that fast and furious movie... It's interesting to note that the last transformers movie was a bomb. Somewhere you just know shia lebouf is just laughing his @$$ off and calling the producers going 'Nyah! Nyah!! ' Title: Re: Worst of 2017 Post by: jimpickens on February 10, 2018, 04:46:00 AM Shin Godzilla sucked
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