The Worst Movie Ever: A Tale of Corruption and Studio Meddling
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- Опубликовано: 1 июл 2024
- The worst movie ever made (according to Rotten Tomatoes) is an Antonio Banderas / Lucy Liu action flick from 2002. Is it that bad? And what was going on behind the scenes?
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⌛TIMECODES⌛
0:00 The Worst Movie Ever (according to Rotten Tomatoes)
3:18 Studio Meddling at its worst!
13:01 The Amazing Action Setpieces
18:29 Spider-Man is in Ecks vs Sever?
20:40 The On-Set Experience
22:03 The Corruption of Franchise Pictures
34:37 The 3 Tie-In Video Games
36:28 What Kaos Did After Ballistic
43:50 1% for Ecks vs Sever!
44:32 End Screen
In this video, I take a look at the the worst rated movie of all time on Rotten Tomatoes, Ballistic: Ecks vs Sever. An action spy flick that came out in 2002, directed by an unknown Thai gentlemen who goes by the name: Kaos. However, don't be so quick to judge Kaos! As behind the scenes, I tell a tale of corruption, fraud and studio meddling. As the production studio: Franchise Pictures, had a habit of churning out low quality productions in the 90s and 2000s, all funded thanks to German tax loophole laws. Laws that were so effective, the studio (almost) got away with overeporting their budgets to make bank.
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you should review animated movies
I should do something about animated flicks sometime. I don't talk about 'em enough :)
@@Suspect_Green I don't think you have EVER talked about ANY animated movie
I did a Toy Story review! :)
@@Suspect_Green I recommend maybe make a list of movies that are bad rotten tomatoes scores but audience likes them like The Boondocks Saints and Law Abiding Citizen. Something like this video you did which I enjoyed! 😊
The two leads and the director deserved so much better.
Lucy Liu doesn't deserve better, awful actress
@@iaincowell9747
Wrong.
I'm one of the... I dunno, 200,000 people who saw it, and the editing is so bad. So bad. There's one slowmo shot of their legs while they're walking. No explosions, it's not after a fight scene, they're just walking, and the camera goes into slo-mo. For like six seconds. It's incomprehensible. A chimpanzee could edit better than that.
You truly must know how to make a movie ABYSMAL if you have Antonio Banderas and Lucy Liu as the protagonists and yet no one finds fun of it. Simply wow
Yeah, the life of 'em got sapped in this picture. Usually they're both such fun to watch. I can't get over how they wrote in an emotionless, assassin character and cast Lucy Liu for it.
Be good, be bad, be crazy, be brooding, be smart, be dumb, but for god’s sake, don’t be boring.
Reminds me of how in Thor the Dark World, they took a really fun and charismatic villain from the comics, hired Christopher Eccleston, a really fun and charismatic actor, to play him...and then somehow ended up with the most bland villain in the MCU.
That is until "Eternals" with the character Kro, the Deviants leader played by Bill Skarsgård. Up until Icarus turns during the climax, Kro was essentially the main antagonist and he was so underwhelming, I had to look up his name just to figure out what it was.
I thought it was enjoyable as a stupid fun action movie. Far above "worst movie" category. There's gotta be a hundred movies worse than that, c'mon.
There is a fanedit of the movie called Ballistic. It's only 55 minutes long that removes all the boring out of the movie and only keeps the action and whatever there's left of the plot. Also, they used the trailer music from Spider-Man (2002) in this movie.
You mean that one song that goes "I wanna take you on a rollercoaster"?
@@0uttaS1TE No, the first trailer.
@@NewSuperAvengerOhhh, ok. I got my trailers mixed up. Sorry
The trailer for that recut by the way:
ruclips.net/video/2GOuqPqtHkc/видео.htmlsi=y42JplDYv8zW-Kv8
@@chrisossu2070 the source for the movie is even in the bio
Ah, the tag team duo of Puss In Boots and Master Viper.
I think this is the closest we can get to a vintage Suspect movie review. 1 movie as the subject, over 40 mins long video, breaking down the production and story in an entertaining way, a movie that's not too obscure that it's hard to care about, but not too popular that it becomes a redundant review. This was the most enjoyable video since you moved to this channel.
Wow, thanks so much! I hope this video does well, if it does, I'll definitely do more like it :)
what was his previous channel called?
@@seanm903His other channel’s still around, and it’s called The Unusual Suspect. The videos there are hilarious reviews of movies like the Sam Rami Spider-Man trilogy, The Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, and more. He moved to this channel after some RUclips issues he talks about in an update video.
Antonio and Lucy together seems like a nice combo.... Sad to see it was executed so poorly.
Yeah, that does sound fun doesn't it? I wouldn't mind seeing them again together in something else portraying less stilted characters.
Hopefully they get another chance to work together
They should have played cats.
This is honestly really sad to see. There is no possible way that this movie is worse than ‘Disaster Movie’ and I can safely say that Kaos did not deserve to be screwed over. As someone who wants to pursue filmmaking, being aware of stories like this is very useful despite how upsetting it may be
we can also flush the last 4 years down the drain...save for a handful of films....
Sonic, Sonic 2, any John Wick that released i think part 3 and 4, top gun 2, Norsemen, godzilla minus 1? and a few others but everything else can be flushed from memory [also I'm going off popular sentiment here and honestly haven't seen anything new since Sonic 1]
modern movies makes Ballistic look like a masterpiece....
I've downloaded 1 movie in the last 6 months and it was from the 80's "Night of the Comet" which I totally enjoyed! I lost interest in what's new and judge this era harshly, recyc for this era! there is no saving it, we need a complete reboot of society!
@@judgedrekk2981mate, you just haven’t found the right films to watch. There’s so many good ones you’re not giving a chance to
More importantly though, this reply was completely irrelevant to what I was saying
@@JAProductions494 i agree with the guy, in last years i saw so many movies that completely disappointed me, Napoleon being the last straw. I'm only coming back in time to explore old movies, recently saw Barry Lyndon, oh boy, comparing it to modern cinematography we are taking only steps back
Note: ensure you have the right to remove your name from the production release in your contract, and make sure you have a screening in there to determine that, and make sure they don’t do it the day before release when it’s “sorry, we already sent the final”.
@@Enkabard I mean it's just factually wrong. There are SO many good, fun, unique films being made in modern times and I honestly don't know where all this talk of 'movies suck now' comes from.
Look at stuff like what Yorgos Lanthimos, Wes Anderson, Denis Villeneuve are doing, all absolutely spectacular takes on cinema with so much unique and beautiful cinematography being achieved. Even the quirky but mainstream stuff people like Edgar Wright and James Gunn have been doing with their films. Not to mention people like Neil McDonagh or Taika Waititi, who make beautifully absurd and heart breaking films.
We're still also getting gorgeous films from classic and modern giants like Nolan, Peele, Tarantino and Scorsese. We're seeing a rise of brilliant action films being made by stuntmen that have a level of action and practical stunt work in them we've never before.
Modern cinema is dripping in unique beauty, new techniques, rising new directors and awe inspiring movies by the bucket load, I find this argument that cinema is dying to be the complaints of people who are making no effort to actually give new films a chance and are content to just complain about stuff that isn't true.
So you have 2 charismatic leads, a passionate and talented director, god-tier action, and masters of stunt work. This should've been John Wick before John Wick.
Maybe if they'd directed it before 1999. I could see this being a decent late-90s actioner.
Ah, yes. Ballistic. A movie so bad that it was outclassed by its Game Boy Advance tie-in game (based on an earlier, better script).
I mean, you say that like the tie-in games (two of them!) weren’t legitimately good in their genre. The first one came out so far ahead of the actual movie that I was looking forward to this thing!
That damn game made me so excited for this movie....and then I saw it was like " what am I missing, did I not understand it?" My child brain couldn't comprehend it
I'd say the two games -- one written based on an early version of the script before the film was even being made and another made after it came out -- are the *main* reason anyone's heard of this film. They're not even especially good but there was nothing else like them on the GBA that early into its lifetime and the novelty made them noteworthy.
Still better than the dull and overrated Citizen Kane though lol
@@haissem8Gr8 b8 m8 I r8 7.8/8, too old a reference for most of the target audience to get. 😂
IMDb user rating is better for finding “worst” movies. Tomatometer is just based of what percentage of critics found it bad. Doesn’t capture how bad most people find it.
Important difference between unanimously disliked, vs most hated.
imdb is still limited to only yankees (and some bharat people manipulating reviews of bharat films up or down) the population of earth doesn't use imdb
Agree. Stinking Spuds ( As I call it) is also easily manipulated by determined groups or cliques of users to reduce the rating.
@@tsartomato So, I'm from some other planet?
@@davidstuckey9289 from yankee planet obviously, david
unless you are bengurion
@@tsartomato Hatten Ihre Eltern noch lebende Kinder?
Samaha is basically the Producer Guy character from Pitch Meetings, except real.
"Being a corrupt sleazebag is super easy, barely an inconvenience!"
Oh really?
I need you to get all the way off my back about that borrowed money.
Since Furiosa was shown... It hurts so much to see a beloved film bomb so horribly.
I was quite surprised it got the green light as the original Fury Road under-performed as well. Still, sucks to see cos they're awesome.
@@Suspect_GreenI think they've all 'underperformed.' They are ridiculously expensive to make, and honestly don’t have as much mass appeal as people think. It’s always been more of a cult series than a mainstream one.
@@intergalactic92 The first Mad Max was very low budget and did so well on release it used to hold the record for most profitable movie ever (compared to its budget). Its box office was almost 500 times its budget.
@@Perfect_RiceThey paid some people in cases of beer didn't they?
Critic and fan scores don't pay the studio's bills. The tickets do
Man, for Lucy Liu to do this film and Kill Bill only 1 year apart is INSANE.
How do you do the worst movie of all time, and one of the best movies of all time within a 12 month span of your career.
Best movies of all time.😂
It’s not even a top 5 QT film.
@jamespohl-md2eq and QT isnt even a top 5 director, so yeah its magnitudes below the category of best
@@IhelpertricksYeah. He definitely isn’t top 5. But, I don’t think you have to be a top 5 or top whatever to make one of the best movies of all time.
I don’t think many would have Michael Curtiz as even a top 100 director, yet Casablanca is definitely one of the best movies of all time.
Vittorio De Sica isn’t top 25, but the bicycle thief is a classic.
Charles Laughton isn’t even a top 200 director yet gave us Night of the Hunter.
It probably helped Liu than nobody watched this 💩, so didn't hold it against her
Kill Bill what? 🤡🤡💩💩
I now want to see a director's cut of the movie
Yeah, even if it doesn't make the movie 'good', I think it'd be fascinating to see.
Me too!
some here are claiming there's a short fan-cut
When i was a kid i watched this movie and genuinely believed this was part of a whole X and Sever universe, like Frdsy Vs Jason
The main villain from Skylanders directed this movie??
Haha, yeah, he really drew attention to himself with that name. Immediately I was reminded of Stranger of Paradise and Dunkey's review.
So this is why Death wanted to kill Puss. He saw his performance in “Ballistic Ecks vs. Sever.”
Alongside Death Wolf going after Puss, Kiddo went after O-Ren Ishi because she saw Lucy Liu’s performance here as well
this while he was jailed (watch carandiru, please)
Franchise Pictures: we were inspired by The Producers.
I wonder how Constantin Films & Crystal Sky Pictures’ business-practice would be like…
nah that's Uwe Boll, not even joking. He puts out horrible movies for the writeoff. He needs to be directing from inside a German prison.
This is why I never trust big studios because they'll do stupid crap like this. Sometimes higher ups need to learn to keep to themselves instead of ruining someone's vision.
Hear hear! Studio meddling rarely ends well.
@@Suspect_GreenThat gives me a idea why don’t you do a video about studio meddling that actually made the film better.
@@dante_0962Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. Phil Lord & Chris Miller were told that the script was funny but was lacking story-wise. The solution was to repurpose the tackle shop owner as Flint’s father, giving the film the emotional core that brought it all home.
Right? They take a person with a business or marketing degree and no actual artistic talent and put them in a position to override those who actually have artistic talent. What could go wrong? The Marvels and Wish maybe?
@dante_0962 that would be a good video to do! So much examples to pull from in the films industry!
Absolutely fantastic video. Loved every minute. Also I was unreasonably proud of myself for recognizing the movie just from the thumbnail and having been one of the people who saw it in theatres.
😁
I have two movies that I put in my absolute bottom of the barrel: 365 Days, and Transformers: The Last Knight
Mine? Sucker Punch and Stage Fright (the shitty mean-spirited musical comedy about theatre kids with horror elements, not the Italian slasher film where theatre actors are bumped off by a man in an owl mask).
If I were to also include Straight to video/Television movies on my worst list, the Descendants movies would be up there. And if I were to watch them, the Artisan/Book of Shadows cut of Blair Witch 2 and Jezebeth would take the crown for worst (actual) horror movies.
I saw that X-Men blooper years ago and wondered what the hell it was. Was Tobey Maguire on set at the same time and decided to come on set as a prank? But this Lear guy now contextualises one of the biggest confusions I've ever had about a random clip on RUclips.
Yeah, same here! I had seen the clip before and when I was researching about Leva, I had that lightbulb moment. Ohhh!! That was Leva!
One film that I think is "So bad, it's good" is the 1987 Universal Picture: *"JAWS: The Revenge"* and in my opinion, it did NOT deserve the 0% rating in Rotten Tomatoes (Note: I
just learned that it's been changed
to a 2% Rotten rating).
Though I will say that it did deserved
its 1988 Golden Raspberry Award for
Worst Visual Effects.
Best part of that movie is Michael Caine's nonchalant: "oh shit" when the shark shows up. It's one of those movies that are just so fun to laugh at. Definitely watch Richard Jeni's standup routine about it if you haven't seen that :)
@@Suspect_Green
You should also look up the film
novelization by Hank Searls
(who also did a novel for *"JAWS*
*2",* albeit based on a early script
by Howard Sackler & Dorothy
Tristan, rather than the final script
by Sackler & Carl Gottlieb).
There's a higher body count
(human & animal) in the book
than in the final film, which
includes an epic fight between
Papa Jaws and a crippled
Sperm Whale (injured with two
harpoon; one on his back and
the other in its eye, just missing
the brain).
Plus, there is a supernatural explaination to why Papa Jaws
is after the Brody Family:
A Haitian voodoo witch doctor
named Papa Jacques who has
a grudge with the Brody Family
and has put a voodoo curse on
Papa Jaws.
Michael Caine's character Hoagie Newcombe is also revealed to be an undercover DEA agent and was going after a drug lord who was responsible for the death of his daughter, before he decides to help Michael Brody & Jake McKay rescue Ellen as she went off on her vengeful hunt after Papa Jaws.
@@Suspect_Green And lest we forget his iconic quote about his time making the movie of "I have never seen it, but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built, and it is terrific!" One of the all-timers.
@@KillFriskey
Another quote Michael Caine said: "I won an Oscar, built a house,
and had a great holiday. Not bad for a flop movie."
Caine had won the Oscar for
Best Supporting Actor in
Woody Allen's *"Hannah and Her Sisters",* but couldn't accept it himself as he was busy shooting *"JAWS: The Revenge".*
@@Suspect_Green
The best part of the film for me
is Michael Small's Oscar-worthy
music score for the film.
You should listen to the
2015 complete soundtrack album,
courtesy of Intrada Records,
which includes more music cues
that're either extended or unused.
He directed Tekken 2: Kazuya's Revenge? 75% of that movie is just Kazuya walking around, doing nothing except hearing Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa spouting nonsense of to scenes from the first Tekken movie without any of the actors. When something finally happens, it's over just as it began, with Kazuya's final fight with two goons. Gary Daniels came back as Bryan Fury but not dressed or acting like Bryan and dissappears before Act 2 was over.
Steven Paul is a scumbag and sits on the rights to live action Tekken movies. You'll never see a good one because of him.
Yeah; it's pretty bad. The only thing decent about it is the fight choreography. I've heard that it was filmed BEFORE they got the Tekken rights, and if they failed to attain them, they'd release the movie as its own thing. Hence why barely anything in the movie seems remotely Tekken-esque.
@@Suspect_Green After Tekken 7, I'm gonna pretend the schoolgirl assassin is Lucky Chloe because of the blonde pigtails. I watched the prequel before the original movie and it's like night and day. Tekken 2010 has LOADS of problems but it's paced really well, there's loads of cool practical effects and set designs, and some of the actors who are good for what they were given.
I'm not sure what Crystal Sky Pictures and SP Media are gonna do with Tekken, especially with the series being more popular than ever with 7 and 8, including newcomers Leroy Smith and Reina.
This is one of those films that just validates Chris Stuckmann’s view of “it’s never the filmmakers fault, it always the studio to blame”.
Hearing Kaos makes me think of the show get smart
Star Wars soundtrack by Fred Durst?
"All For the Wookie?"
When I saw this movie as a little kid I said “Well that sucked, but I liked it better than Equilibrium.” And now I understand why.
I used to reference this movie all the time. "I'm going to go ballistic... Ecks vs Sever.
Suspect Versus Cinematic Excrement: Action Movie Edition....
Funny enough, I actually rewatched your actor breakdown of Star Wars episode one just two days before this.
The critic scores on Rotten Tomatoes are notoriously unreliable. It might be 0% critic score, but it is 20% audience score. That might be low, but it is still better than Catwoman or Batman and Robin. There are some universally reviled things with less than 20% audience score where the critic score is bizarrely 90% or more.
*The fact you find Rotten Tomatoes as a viable source when it comes to a movies quality is adorable.*
The "Ecks" stands for "ECKSTREME".
The Worst Movie Ever In My Opinion Is Balls Out a raunchy Sex Crazed unfunny gross out comedy that centers around Flag Football that's straight out of the Early to Late 2000's but somehow released In 2015 this Is among several films I have regrets watching like Skid Marks, The Haunted World Of El Superbeasto, Postal, and Blood The Last Vampire
As a palate cleanser, try The Jerky Boys. No, wait, I couldn't do that to anyone...
They took what would've otherwise been a perfectly decent action flick and turned it into a boring and incoherent mess. Another great video, Suspect! I would love to see more single-movie reviews like these in the future. Maybe you could do one next year on Fant4stic before the new FF flick comes out. Or Wes Craven's Cursed whose production history is quite a doozy in and of itself.
Fred Durst would have brought that shit! and dropped that shit! and instituted a STAR WARS Mosh Pit!
Randy Newman has some good Star Wars music. They should use it on the 2024 stuff.
What's bizarre is it had a video game that's actually pretty good.
I think it's one of the few times a game tie-in has a higher score than the film.
Oh, I know of another one: The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay, acting as a prequel to the film Pitch Black and tie-in with the eponymous sequel.
The Chronicles of Riddick is often regarded as a case of sequelitis, but Butcher Bay was universally embraced, getting a rerelease-cum-sequel in 2009. It was also my first M-for-Mature game, meaning at the tender age of 13, I could indulge my inner bloodlust and pick up cigarette packs.
The director named himself after the villain organization from Get Smart, How have I never heard of him before?
His name Kaos is actually a shortened version of his real last Thai name
@@cbstevpI’m fairly sure they know, as it was both said and shown in the video
Me and my mom actually rented this movie when I was a kid, and we somehow got all the way through it. The only thing we remembered afterwards was the silly, awkwardly performed death of the main villain. 🤣
I don’t normally watch films that have a 0% on Rotten Tomatoes, but after watching your video, I think I’ll make an Ecks-ception.
I’m sorry… I’m so so sorry.
Groaaaan!
0:13 I still can't get over they actually kept this scene as you can clearly see there's a fly on this guy's face.
I feel like this is one of those movies that when people complain about how the latest Disney project is the worst thing ever made, I think "have you seen other movies before??".
She hulk, Aladdin, little mermaid, the acolyte and many more are much worse than ballistic and some other "worst ever" films. They just have a massive budget. Remove half the Disney budget and those movies would be in the worst movies ever lists, if they aren't already but I doubt it due to access journalism having everyone licking Disney's asshole like a chocolate chip ice cream.
@kato093 yeah, I disagree. The movies you listed have something good in them. And writing off people's opinions because you think they are sucking up to Disney, I would argue, is not great evidence. For Aladdin, that's almost 400 critic reviews and over 50 000 user reviews you are disregarding. Do you have any proof that those aren't legit?
@@mike9512 yes. Everything disney is getting a pass because of access journalism and sponsors. Same for Amazon.
As fir people reviews, sites like metacritic and rotten tomatoes literally changed their review system so they can control the narrative and remove negative reviews. I know for sure that many were fake good reviews from bots because they were single review accounts with the same exact review copy and pasted thousands of time in different languages too (and translated badly with Google translate. The Spanish and Italian ones made little sense and were just 1:1 with the English wording, which doesn't work many times).
But that was years ago.
Thanks to AI, they can EASILY post fake reviews and nobody would know. Most if X/Twitter is game AI posts. Tons of RUclips comments are fake posts as well. In fact, most of Twitter and RUclips comments are bots. Hell, might be the entirety of metacritic and rotten tomatoes could be bots too and maybe your own reviews can be seen only by you (it's what RUclips does when you get soft banned).
And these tv shows and movies don't have anything good except the story behind the existing characters slightly resembling the original and a big budget. Well... WHEN you see the big budget, cuz she hulk looked awful and marvel pays so little that nobody of talent is willing to work on CGI for them so you get amateur trash like secret invasion.. or the Amazon lord of the rings show...no idea where all the money went (its a figure of speech. I know exactly where it all went, with how many diversity officers there were, it's like what happened with the Burn Loot Murder group).
And do you seriously wanna tell me that black panther deserved a fkn Oscar?!? That was one of the few modern marvel movies that had something decent and it was a 5/10. And yet everyone jumped on it like it was the best movie ever made when the actual ending look like previs, some of the worst modern CGI I've ever seen in a big budget movie.
Disney loses 2+ billion $ every year and yet the media is portraying them as if they make the best and most successful films.
Seriously fantastic video ❤ The amount of research you put into it was really insightful and it does make you appreciate the movie more. Hope your review gets approved!
1. I couldn't care less what critics think
2. I actually enjoyed this film when it came out😬
Great video! Knowing how hard it is to even complete a film, shedding light on the passion involved here and the tremendous injustice is really appreciated.
Great video, Suspect. Very interesting to dive into the world of filmmaking and see how corrupt it can be sometimes. I'd love to see more of this style of video from you :)
Here's a movie that with bigger stars, a bigger budget (inflation adjusted), and a much worse script:
Nothing but Trouble
Halfway through, when Samaha's face popped up, it was like getting hit with a jumpscare. Turns out I am within six degrees of that man, and my stepdad is in his direct family.
This was such an interesting story to follow in its entirety! I’m always kind of intrigued by the productions behind closed doors for films, especially when they’re so bad that they’re interesting. Maybe that could serve as a whole video on its own! The best or biggest movies that had the worst atmosphere to work on on-set or something. It would be an interesting juxtaposition. Just a thought though! Always love to see an upload from you, Suspect!
Thanks! I'm thinking of making this a series, giving each troubled production its own video. If this video does well, I think I'd like to give it a go :)
That sounds great! I really liked your video on box office bombs and that had some of this kind of stuff in it, particularly with Cutthroat Island and how the director was a bit up his own arse. It’d be interesting to check out movies, good or bad, that were just not great productions to be a part of. Here’s hoping this video does well!
I knew about Uwe Boll but I wasn't aware that we can basically blame the entire "Horrible post-Matrix movies" genre on that tax loophole.
I had a friend who dragged me to this movie in the theatre for a part of his birthday, and I have never forgiven him for it.
I was NOT ready for the rabbit hole this video sent me down
#1Percent4EcksVsSever
43:06 - Hey, Irate Gamer's been having quite of a good resurgence on here over the last few years. This in itself is quite a dang good feat, Especially when he and AVGN did an episode together before this.
Pretty surprising to know he's been more active outside of that, Mortal Kombat 11 and the recent Robocop game, too.
I’m subscribing just because it’s nice to hear an accent from near my neck of the woods, making wry and witty comments over an entertaining and genuinely informative video which is clearly made by someone who cares about the topic. Thanks for this. Really enjoyed it and learned a lot.
Typical corporate meddling. If the suits know so damned much about movie-making, why don't they do it themselves? Money people should just deal with raising the cash and distributing the entertainment and leave the art stuff to artists. Corporate structures are infamous for their cowardice and will NOT take the chances needed to make a new thing a great thing. It's the reason why modern movies SUCK.
This movie had Puss in Boots vs Viper and they screwed it up. How they screwed it up is beyond me.
Worst movie ever: i am the worst movie ever
Steven Seagal: Hold my bullshido...
28:30 so basically they were pulling the scheme from The Producers
Yeah, haha! That's pretty much what they did :)
Also reminds me of a common saying that I've heard in the movie industry, which is that it's better to make a bad movie because at least a bad movie can be entertaining. What most people say are bad films are actually boring films.
As bad as it is, anything from the last 10-15 years (in terms of mainstream Hollywood tripe) is worse.
Okay, Anti-SJW Grift victim.
which makes ballistic not bad. it makes it mediocre
I really love lists about the worst movies of all time. That said, I have to admit that some examples considered "the worst of the worst" do not deserve that position, like this one. Another example would be "Caligula", which is a shame, since, no matter how explicit and clumsily edited it is, it has too many good things (the cast, the ost, the costumes) to even be considered bad.
Well there is another edit of Caligula coming out on blu-ray and 4K with a runtime of 178 mins
@@albundy774
I already watched it. It's pretty cool and has a far better eduting, but the new ost (despite being pretty decent) is mediocre compared to the one of Bruno Nicolai
Then never look for The Jar, Red Letter did the right thing by destroying one of the copies of it in acid. It defies all logic in what is a bad film. I'm 43 been movie collecting for 25 years and even own some low rated "bad" films like Troll 2 as one example, but nothing has left such an impact on me of what a terrible movie is than The Jar. You could literally do anything else better with your time than watch it. It really is the bottom of the barrel in what can be defined as a film.
Brilliant work suspect. Another banger as always.
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I specifically remember why this movie bombed in India. It was delayed by months. All the marketing hype had died by then. And then it was released to cinemas and the TV channel "Star Movies" on the same day.
English movies weren't very popular back then in 2002 in India. But, movieholics like me thought, why go to cinema for this one, when I can watch it at home straight away.
i'd suggest looking up a movie called 'After Last Season', the actual worst movie ever made. basically a scam for the creators to pocket an easy 5 mill.
Interesting! Thanks for sharing :)
This is so well-researched and presented! Great investigation, I learned so much (and I watch a lot of film youtube), instant subscribe from me, looking forward to seeing more from you!
Yeah, I'll agree more with the 20% Audience score, in that I personally didn't like it, but I could see why others would. Now if this video was on Battlefield Earth, then yeah, I might agree more on it being the worse. Anyways, enjoyed the video, thank you.
I didn’t know there were still people who only knew Lucy Liu from Charlie’s Angels. She’s Watson to me.
Liu has been in a lot of stuff.... she's not an obscure actress.
Always remember her as the nasty gal from ALLEY MCBEEL.
Chow Yun-Fat was also offered
the roles of Gary Christie in
*ALIEN Resurrection"* (1997) &
Memnon in *"THE SCORPION KING"*
(2002).
But his manager & producer Terence Cheng turned them both down. With *"THE SCORPION KING",* he stated
that Yun-Fat never played villains and to do so would betray his fans.
To be fair Antonio Banderas is doing a very good impression of Clive Owen.
With all the annoying, detached, cybical, CinemaSins style reviews, i find it very wholesome how much you go to bat for "the worst movie ever made"
Great video, dude 👍 You’re a delightful host as well
I've noticed that films from that late-90s early-00s era now look nearly classical in aesthetics because it was right before CGI really began to become the entire film. I recently watched the unremarkable Vin Diesel Wall Street film Boiler Room for free on RUclips entirely so I could enjoy cozy shot-on-film images. These sort of middle range genre pictures are now extinct and may as well be arthouse flicks today. Of, and The Pledge is very interesting and worth a watch.
This has to be the biggest surprise of a “f@ck it I’ll watch it” video I’ve had on my feed. Never heard of this channel before and Wasn’t expecting anything of substance ngl but I really like it!
So... "Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever" had a chance of being a decent, if not good, action movie, but the producers (other than Kaos the director) tried to have it compete with "The Matrix" but without the quality REwriting it needed and budget that "The Matrix" had. 🤦♂ According to IMDb, it had an estimated $63M budget, which is vastly greater than the shockingly believable figure of $35M that Kaos mentioned and was stuck with, along with the other braindead limitations that were imposed upon him. Even if I could somehow overlook the evidence of... financial shadiness from Franchise Pictures, I have to wonder if Elie Samaha and his fellow big wigs were truly interested in making profitable productions.
I'm so glad you mentioned how good the stunts are. Some of the most under appreciated members of the film crew are the stunt professionals. The stunt performers in Vancouver are some of the best in the world and get almost no recognition. I was on set the day the stunt with the fall on the car was done (that's the library in downtown Vancouver which also was used in Get Carter). In my opinion, the stunt community in Vancouver are THE best in North America, and deserve WAY more credit and recognition.
More long-form movie content, yessss. Channels like this give me life and help me build my movie knowledge, keep it up!
Really love the content dude been watching you for so long now keep it up also I really loved the format
Thanks so much!!
So I just watched the full video 😊
1. I’m genuinely surprised why this movie had zero, I do wonder if the other reviewers were aware of what you said
2. Do research on the studio / owner before joining them
3. 36:00 epic music with epic dancing (though I wasn’t expecting borat and Spider-Man dancing 😂)
4. 41:05 BBBEEEEEERRR 😂😂😂😂
5. Suspect green, thank YOU for all the time and effort you did into researching this story, awesome video as usual. Until next time ❤️🤗
Appreciate it! Thanks so much! :)
19:15 Hold up! Tom Cruise was gonna be Spidey? Damn the stunts on that film would’ve been as insane as that one fan film that had a guy literally swing around the outside of a building with nothing but the goddamn rope to hold him all because “he needed the shot”
Funny to think in an alternate universe, Tom Cruise Spidey showed up in No Way Home, haha :)
Cannon's *"SPIDER-MAN"*
would have also starred
Bob Hoskins as Doc Ock &
Stan Lee himself wanted
to play J. Jonah Jameson.
The only good Franchise Pictures movie in my opinion is The Boondock Saints, which is one of my all-time favorite movies. It has Norman Reedus, Willem Dafoe and Billy Connolly, and the sequel, Boondock Saints 2 All Saints Day also kicks ass.
I saw part of their "In-Laws" remake on TV and it seemed likable.
@@noneofyourbusiness4616 I haven't seen it yet but I'm going to watch it when I get it on DVD.
Great early birthday present! A new Suspect video!
Happy birthday!
I love Lucy Lui and Banderas. It really seems like the studio didn't grease the wheels of the review system.
Wow, just found your channel. You deserve way more views. Incredible research, editing, and presentation. Subbed!
That movie is so bad, that the gameboy advance adaptation is better ...
Despite its reputation as one of the worst movies ever made, “Simplistic: Bullets vs Humans” (alternative title that one critic gave) didn’t receive any Razzie Award nomination.
It only received one nomination at the defunct Stinkers Bad Movie Awards for Lucy Liu as Worst Actress, losing against Madonna
Yeah, Swept Away is arguably much worse than Ballistic.
It's astounding that most movie catastrphies are caused by the suits from production who's job would rather be to support their directors. Absolutely crazy
This is a real shame, because it looks like it could've easily been the sort of straightforward well shot action movie that I love.
I still remember when he finds out his wife is still alive. Like no one else would know that she was still alive and would let him know.
Thanks for this, really interesting! Usually when I hear RUclipsrs complain about "studio interference" or "executives meddling in the production" of a movie that turns out to be bad, it's just unsubstantiated whining by people with an agenda: "Boo hoo, this multimillion-dollar movie about a comic book superhero wasn't in contention for an Oscar, it must be the studio's fault! It couldn't possibly be that the subject matter is inherently childish and inane -- blame the executives!" It's nice to get a detailed and nuanced look at the actual behind-the-scenes details and a legitimate justification of such claims for once.
But then it begs the question... if Ecks vs Sever isn't the worst movie ever... WHAT IS??? Let's hear it, Suspect Green!
The Cinematography here is beautiful. I’m very sure a proper recut would make this a potential classic of the early 2000… Great video, keep it up!
What do I gotta do to make you an official Tomato reviewer? You could be making history by saving Sex Forever.
Scott Leva was hired by Cannon not Marvel. The sets and props for the cancelled Spider-Man and the cancelled Masters of the Universe 2 movies were later used for Cyborg
The reason they don' have a stunt Oscar is because then you'd have stunt men competing to do more and more dangerous stunts. It makes sense.
My headcanon as to how this got made is that some major Hollywood bigwig has a snotty son that really liked Antonio Banderas, and REALLY liked Lucy Liu, and wanted to make a stupid action movie featuring them both for his fetish for dumb action movies, and Lucy Liu gazing down at you in contempt. Then he went under a fake name to save embarrasment for anyone who isn't outright the starring roles.
'Norbert' exists. No movie can be worse. Period. That movie is the reason there's an entire generation which thinks Eddie Murphy couldn't have possibly been funny at one point in time.
This is the 1st video of yours I've watched and I enjoyed the heck out of it. I'm off to binge the rest of your vids. Bye!
Gigli was that bad. I feel like Ben Affleck and J.Lo are only together now so that, when you search their names, Gigli doesn’t come up.
About the rating system on Rotten Tomatoes, you really can't trust the critic score anymore. Most of the professional critics there are in line with the big studios like Disney or Lucasfilm or even get paid by them and defend whatever they put out, no matter how bad it is. You can see that with like Star Wars' "The Acolyte" or the new season of Doctor Who, which are terrible and openly disrespect their legacy, put still have like a close near 100 critics score.
It also has a pretty weird way of depending when a review is still considered "fresh".
You really should trust the audience only. Or switch to using Letterboxd or iMDb, since those are much more reliable to determine quality.
Now of course, something like Ballistic is of course terrible, but just in general. I don't trust professional film critics anymore.
Trusting only the audience score is liable to review bombing campaigns from overly sensitive manchild incel losers who throw a pissy fit anytime someone does something new with IP they have some parasocial attachment to. 🤷 That's just as faulty a way to judge movies/TV.
That said, the way you talk about "legacy" suggests you're probably part of just this group lol. People like you are the reason all we get are generic remakes and regurgitations nowadays. Nobody's willing to take risks with established IP anymore or god forbid risk the wrath of the sweaty redditors who can't remember what grass feels like.