Truth or Dare is hilarious after a few drinks, however, it's mostly boring, there are no good scares, the acting is all horrible, the writing is inconsistent and shoddy, the whole production looks like a made-for-TV film, there's no good conflict, and even the deaths are underwhelming. What something like Truth or Dare would have needed is to be over-the-top but the film feels so clean and sanitised that it becomes incredibly dull to watch. Hell, it doesn't even have a proper resolution, instead, we get a total non-cliffhanger of an ending where the young girls send out a cursed RUclips video. It's completely dissatisfying.
The Cloverfield Paradox is the worst one I've seen so far this year. The efforts at establishing a franchise out of Cloverfield (because everything must be franchises these days) has turned it into an unforgiveable mess.
Apparently that one was full of plot holes which is near inexcusable on a professional level. I love 10 Cloverfield Lane; they're making another proper sequel too which I hope is good
I’m very torn on whether it’s fair to count what are technically TV movies on my worst of the year lists, historically the rule has been ‘the worst thing you could have paid money to see in a theatre’ but with movies like Annihilation and Mudbound threatening to take spots on my best ten it seems fair to hold Netflix to the same standard. If they can do movies as good as Annihilation and Okja then there’s no excuse for doing O Matador or The Outsider.
Mr. Kermode, you are a national treasure and your opinion is gold as far as I'm concerned. How you're not the world's most famous film reviewer is beyond me. You are, however, at least in my opinion, the best in the world.
10 Wurst: 1. Show Dogs (Uncut, uncensored, remastered, restored, ultimate director’s edition) 2. The Humanity Bureau 3. Looking Glass 4. Action Point 5. The Hurricane Heist 6. Proud Mary 7. Disne- no, Blumhouse’s Truth or Dare 8. Tyler Perry’s Acrimony 9. Pacific Rim: Uprising 10. The 15:17 to Paris
Top (Bottom?) 10 Worst: 10. Peter Rabbit 9. Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom 8. A Wrinkle In Time 7. I Feel Pretty 6. Downsizing 5. The Rachel Divide 4. Super Troopers 2 3. Wonder Wheel 2. Mamma Mia 2: Here We Go Again 1. Ready Player One
It's a white saviour complex movie. That and the egregiously ham-fisted environmental message. And there's so much I hate about RPO that I'm just not going to get into it. All I'll say is that it's the only movie I struggle to call art
KeyeGamer he means that a key plot point is Matt Damon (white) saving the Vietnamese lady whose name I can't remember (non-white). Personally I don't think you can read too far into the races in this case, sorry.
Whatever you say about Tad the lost explorer, it's a spanish film that turned out to be a hit in Spain and China. It may be not known over seas and despite how awful it is, it turned out to be a huge success in Spain and somehow kids love it. No wonder it got a sequel.
I get his reason why, and I think it'll get knocked off the list before the end of the year, but I still think it's harsh for Pacific Rim: Uprising to be on a 'worst of' list. Winchester was a thoroughly deserved entry though, what a waste of a concept, what a waste of good actors.
According to wikipedia the original "Tad, The Lost Explorer" movie made €45 mil from an €8 mil budget so not sure why Mark is confused about why they made a sequel.
Hopefully `life of the party` is in the top five bad films - that was so bad both me and my wife walked out after 15 mins - the only laugh I heard was from someone on their phone.
The ultimate problem with the Pacific Rim films is that they are ridiculously stupid in terms of concept. No such machines could ever exist because the stress forces would tear them apart the moment they tried to move. If one of them fell over it would shatter into a thousand pieces. Worse still is the obvious problem that no such machine could ever generate the force, with a punch or a sword or a kick or whatever, that could be generated by the most simple bomb or missile. It makes absolutely no sense that some giant beast could be immune to missiles fired from jets, or shells fired by a tank, but somehow get smashed by the flying fist of a giant robot. Does no one who makes these films ever stop to think about the physics? If the science existed to make such giant machines, then far better and more efficient weapons on a tiny scale could be made. There exists no universe where it would ever make sense to build such a giant machine, because smaller devices would always pack far more of a punch.
My January-to-June list (based on general Chicago release dates): 10 - Boundaries 9 - Fifty Shades Freed 8 - The Hurricane Heist 7 - Insidious: The Last Key 6 - Sherlock Gnomes 5 - Traffik 4 - The Strangers: Prey at Night 3 - The 15:17 to Paris 2 - Tyler Perry's Acrimony 1 - Gotti
ThisAlbino We all have actors/actresses we admire. Can't say I've seen him rave that much about him tbh. Not in comparison to how he has the likes of Toby Jones, Eddie Marsan, Will Poulter, George McKay etc., anyway
I like the fact that Kermode enjoyed the first Pacific Rim so much! Also I always found the trailer for Winchester really funny because of that "scare" when he looks through the crack in the door; looks like a ghost is being pushed on a skateboard past him
In the middle of that trailer for the 10th choice... just, that's such a pet bugbear of mine. That rewind sound. All the rewind sounds they use in films to denote impossible machinery rotating, or to signify a ramped-up tension. Just wanna ask one thing. Who thought that ever sounded good? Because everyone's just copying it and it's so rubbish! So utterly pants. One of the surest ways to take me out of the action. How the hell would anything sound like that? It wouldn't, it simply doesn't work.
Sadly cinema is in a lull at the moment, not a lot of good originals, too many super hero films again and the usual sequels. Hopefully things will change again for the better.
I just experienced two Great Bad Movies... Icebreaker (2000), and Miami Connection (very very 1980s). I wouldn't have known about these except I got an Oculus Go recently, and it's rather incredible, proper Big Screen experience with the Big Screen Beta app, genuinely like being in a Massive Screen Cinema. Folk use it to stream all kinds of stuff (so, yes, i recommend ticking the Do Not Show NSFW box)... But it's really quite an experience, highly recommend folk trying. I can see that 15.17 train movie being on it soon, it was ruddy awful.
Who's going to see it (the Midas movie)? Let me answer that for you. Any parent of young kids who has exhausted every single other animation movie multiple times over will eventually drop their standards to include every single animation movie ever made. My kids have watched the biggest load of shyte, including this Midas film, and giggled all the way through.
Pacific Rim Uprising. Well...at least I had a nice nap. On the plus side...Suicide Squad has been dethroned as the most horribly edited big budget special effects driven movie I have seen the past few years. Pacific Rim Uprising..Congratulations. Inside baseball comment. The master shot is your friend. Stay on it longer than two seconds! Second thought... future drinking game...drink when you see shots "inspired" stolen? lifted? from other much better movies...see a shot have a shot..end up unconscious in thirty minutes or less.
I have to agree on Pacific Rim 2. I'm also a big fan of the first film, it's cheesy and predictable, but the world felt lived in and full of personality and detail, the action was spectacular and well crafted and the characters, though stock, had personality. Absolutely none of that was present in the second. It was dull without a single likeable character (even the returning ones).
Watch out, comments below include anti John Boyega, and anti Black Panther stuff. I'm surprised they don't have a go at Raheem Sterling as well, even though he's not an actor.
I liked Winchester, but I realize it is not that good. Because 1: Jump scares 2: Loses steam about halfway through 3: Total change of pace for the last part and unsatisfying resolution.
The rest of the world was probably spared Tyler Perry's Acrimony- a Fatal Attraction wannabe that had no mystery to it, was funny for the wrong reasons. And for some reason, there was obvious green screen- wait- the movie was filmed in less than two weeks.
Ant Man v Wasp looks like a health and safety ad gone wrong and I hated too the use in the 9/11 film by Paul Greengrass when some of the actual air traffic control were used in the film that had witnessed the terrible event themselves it was exploitative so agree heroes can't be actors
I liked the trailer for the first pacific rim, it looked like a live action Evangelion movie, then I saw the movie and the combat was slow and dull and the character development wasn't there. The thing with the second one is that the story is just as irrelevant. Charlie Day seems to be trying to act in some scenes and then chanelling his inner child in others, but I thought the action sequences as dumb as they were had a better flow and were more enjoyable. I'd love to see Hideki Anno try to tackle a live action mecha film, he pretty much already attempted it with Shin Godzilla.
Winchester was meh but it has very solid performance from Jason Clarke. Jurassic World 2 got to be the worst. It feels like an Asylum version of itself.
I know where Mark is coming from, but I still think that putting Pacific Rim on here is a bit too harsh. I absolutely loved the first one, and still liked the second one, because it did some interesting things. But I do agree it had quite a few flaws. It's still leagues better than the Transformers movies.
15:17 to Paris was shockingly bad imo, and even the supporting cast of real, professionally trained actors (well, at least compared to the leads) couldn't save it. The dialogue was particularly cringe-worthy too ("My god is bigger than your statistics"). Such a shame considering how brave these fellas are that their legacy may be slightly tampered by this turd.
And this is why we need critics. I've managed to only see fantastic films due to recommendations and warnings. I've been so spoilt lately that the worst film I've sene is the relatively harmless Clouds of Sils Maria and worst "new" film was Three Billboards (which I reasonably enjoyed).
Pacific Rim is definitely the very worst. Total trash. Jurassic World 2 and Oceans 8 were just barely tolerable. Didn’t see Overboard or the dog talking movie.
Where's part two of this? To be fair it's been a pretty poor year in general. The best films from America have all been leftovers from 2017: I Tonya, Phantom Thread, Coco, The Shape of Water... all 2017 movies, and some of the best of this year so far.
You can call it snobbery if you like, but it always baffles me why reviewers include little kid's cartoons in their reviews. To me they are all rubbish because kids haven't developed a crap detector yet and the makers don't have to try very hard. You could probably lump in things like the non-original Star Wars, Transformers and stuff like that for the same reason.
It's possible to make animated movies "for kids" that are actually very good, Pixar has been doing it for years. The idea "if it's for kids we can do whatever we want because they're dumb and won't notice the difference" is very wrong, kids are not stupid. And kids don't go to the cinema on their own, so at least when somebody id doing a "kid's movie" they should have some respect for the adults who are in the cinema too.
So the first film you put on the list because you had high expectations that it didn't live up to. The second film is because you didn't understand who would want to watch a sequel to the first film. And the third you put on the list because it was a sequel that nobody asked for. What it feels like is these have nothing to do with the actual films. Did you dislike them because the script was incoherent, was it full of plot holes, was it incredibly contrived, was it badly acted, was it badly directed, did it have film making sins, was there a disconnect between what it was saying and what it was showing, terribly framed, hell I'd even take you didn't like them because of their ideological message.... I keep trying to watch Kermode's series of genres in film on the BBC and man is it so basic. Maybe I've been spoiled with stuff like Every Frame a Painting or Channel Criswell over the last couple of years. And again this list just feels the same. It just comes across as lazy.
I actually didn't like it all that much either, but it was fun enough (even if one of the protagonists was a complete arsehole). I actually thought the sequences involving children and childlike fun were the best part.
I'm curious about if "Infinity War" is going to be on the next list. I mean, I don't know if it even qualifies as "movie", it's just scene after scene of people beating each other and destroying things, no character arc, nothing makes sense, just CGI fights.
I enjoyed it too. Laughed a lot and thought it was quite inventive. Not an amazing film but it passed the time and was definitely worth seeing. I thought the quantum world was brilliantly realised it CGI - a difficult task.
It is if you were a fan of the first movie. It takes away all the things that made the original great. Sure if you just thought the original was alright there’s less reasons to hate it but when you were hoping to see more of the things you loved in the first movie this is an insult.
Truth Or Dare was horrendous and The Hurricane Heist was like a straight to video film from the 90s,they are the worst i have seen so far
You need to see more films
Ralph Ineson's performance in Hurricane Heist was the one reason I didn't find it completely forgettable and bland. He does great villains.
Truth or Dare is hilarious after a few drinks, however, it's mostly boring, there are no good scares, the acting is all horrible, the writing is inconsistent and shoddy, the whole production looks like a made-for-TV film, there's no good conflict, and even the deaths are underwhelming. What something like Truth or Dare would have needed is to be over-the-top but the film feels so clean and sanitised that it becomes incredibly dull to watch. Hell, it doesn't even have a proper resolution, instead, we get a total non-cliffhanger of an ending where the young girls send out a cursed RUclips video. It's completely dissatisfying.
The Cloverfield Paradox is the worst one I've seen so far this year. The efforts at establishing a franchise out of Cloverfield (because everything must be franchises these days) has turned it into an unforgiveable mess.
TheHitherto Yeah, that's sitting at the bottom for me as well. Such a waste.
Apparently that one was full of plot holes which is near inexcusable on a professional level. I love 10 Cloverfield Lane; they're making another proper sequel too which I hope is good
I’m very torn on whether it’s fair to count what are technically TV movies on my worst of the year lists, historically the rule has been ‘the worst thing you could have paid money to see in a theatre’ but with movies like Annihilation and Mudbound threatening to take spots on my best ten it seems fair to hold Netflix to the same standard. If they can do movies as good as Annihilation and Okja then there’s no excuse for doing O Matador or The Outsider.
Kermode best when it's bad.
9 has turned Mark into his favourite GCSE student. What even is this? I can’t even.
Hello to Jason Isaacs.
Mr. Kermode, you are a national treasure and your opinion is gold as far as I'm concerned. How you're not the world's most famous film reviewer is beyond me. You are, however, at least in my opinion, the best in the world.
10 Wurst:
1. Show Dogs (Uncut, uncensored, remastered, restored, ultimate director’s edition)
2. The Humanity Bureau
3. Looking Glass
4. Action Point
5. The Hurricane Heist
6. Proud Mary
7. Disne- no, Blumhouse’s Truth or Dare
8. Tyler Perry’s Acrimony
9. Pacific Rim: Uprising
10. The 15:17 to Paris
Pacific rim divergent. The trailer was enough to put me off.
Top (Bottom?) 10 Worst:
10. Peter Rabbit
9. Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
8. A Wrinkle In Time
7. I Feel Pretty
6. Downsizing
5. The Rachel Divide
4. Super Troopers 2
3. Wonder Wheel
2. Mamma Mia 2: Here We Go Again
1. Ready Player One
Alextromagnetic Huh, I really enjoyed Ready Player One. I thought Downsizing was okay, not amazing, but I don't see what there is to hate.
It's a white saviour complex movie. That and the egregiously ham-fisted environmental message. And there's so much I hate about RPO that I'm just not going to get into it. All I'll say is that it's the only movie I struggle to call art
What the hell do you mean by 'White saviour complex movie'?
KeyeGamer he means that a key plot point is Matt Damon (white) saving the Vietnamese lady whose name I can't remember (non-white). Personally I don't think you can read too far into the races in this case, sorry.
I liked Downsizing but I can see your criticisms - might do some more reading bc yeah, I do get the white saviour vibe off some of the scenes
1. Downsizing
2. Downsizing
3. Downsizing
4. Downsizing
5. Downsizing
6. Downsizing
7. Downsizing
8. Downsizing
9. Downsizing
10. The 15:17 to Paris
I see you included Downsizing 9 times- one for every three storylines the movie suddenly pivots to.
It's so odd when they all bugger off to the fjord/island. It's a curious film, for sure.
Whatever you say about Tad the lost explorer, it's a spanish film that turned out to be a hit in Spain and China. It may be not known over seas and despite how awful it is, it turned out to be a huge success in Spain and somehow kids love it. No wonder it got a sequel.
I get his reason why, and I think it'll get knocked off the list before the end of the year, but I still think it's harsh for Pacific Rim: Uprising to be on a 'worst of' list. Winchester was a thoroughly deserved entry though, what a waste of a concept, what a waste of good actors.
According to wikipedia the original "Tad, The Lost Explorer" movie made €45 mil from an €8 mil budget so not sure why Mark is confused about why they made a sequel.
Hopefully `life of the party` is in the top five bad films - that was so bad both me and my wife walked out after 15 mins - the only laugh I heard was from someone on their phone.
Seeing Pacific Rim: Uprising at number 10 hurts because I agree completely with mark on how much of a let down it was.
The actor in the new Overboard I just realized was in a movie I watched this week called Instructions Not Included. Now that was a much better film.
The ultimate problem with the Pacific Rim films is that they are ridiculously stupid in terms of concept. No such machines could ever exist because the stress forces would tear them apart the moment they tried to move. If one of them fell over it would shatter into a thousand pieces. Worse still is the obvious problem that no such machine could ever generate the force, with a punch or a sword or a kick or whatever, that could be generated by the most simple bomb or missile. It makes absolutely no sense that some giant beast could be immune to missiles fired from jets, or shells fired by a tank, but somehow get smashed by the flying fist of a giant robot. Does no one who makes these films ever stop to think about the physics? If the science existed to make such giant machines, then far better and more efficient weapons on a tiny scale could be made. There exists no universe where it would ever make sense to build such a giant machine, because smaller devices would always pack far more of a punch.
The only truly bad film I have seen so far this year was The Hurricane Heist which I luckily didn't have to pay to see as it was put on NowTV.
Mute was really disappointing as well
My January-to-June list (based on general Chicago release dates):
10 - Boundaries
9 - Fifty Shades Freed
8 - The Hurricane Heist
7 - Insidious: The Last Key
6 - Sherlock Gnomes
5 - Traffik
4 - The Strangers: Prey at Night
3 - The 15:17 to Paris
2 - Tyler Perry's Acrimony
1 - Gotti
I'm more excited for your worst of the year list than the best list tbh
I agree with Pacific Rim: Uprising. Very disappointing.
Why does Mark really, really love John Boyega? I can't think of anything he's done that garners that sort of adulation.
Attack the Block, bruv!
ThisAlbino We all have actors/actresses we admire. Can't say I've seen him rave that much about him tbh. Not in comparison to how he has the likes of Toby Jones, Eddie Marsan, Will Poulter, George McKay etc., anyway
Star wars. Where he has so much charisma. There’s just something really engaging about him when he’s on screen with a good part. For me at least
Detroit.
Allow it.
I like the fact that Kermode enjoyed the first Pacific Rim so much!
Also I always found the trailer for Winchester really funny because of that "scare" when he looks through the crack in the door; looks like a ghost is being pushed on a skateboard past him
bottom 5 of the year so far from a Brit living in the U.S
5) Sherlock Gnomes
4) Manhunt (John Woo)
3) Adrift
2) Winchester
1) Truth Or Dare
In the middle of that trailer for the 10th choice... just, that's such a pet bugbear of mine. That rewind sound. All the rewind sounds they use in films to denote impossible machinery rotating, or to signify a ramped-up tension. Just wanna ask one thing. Who thought that ever sounded good? Because everyone's just copying it and it's so rubbish! So utterly pants. One of the surest ways to take me out of the action. How the hell would anything sound like that? It wouldn't, it simply doesn't work.
Pacific Rim 2. When the studio need a sequel because it did well in China but the writer and director is off winning Best Picture at the Oscars....
Killer Kate, Robin Hoodie, & Mute ought to be on the list.
Sadly cinema is in a lull at the moment, not a lot of good originals, too many super hero films again and the usual sequels. Hopefully things will change again for the better.
I just experienced two Great Bad Movies... Icebreaker (2000), and Miami Connection (very very 1980s).
I wouldn't have known about these except I got an Oculus Go recently, and it's rather incredible, proper Big Screen experience with the Big Screen Beta app, genuinely like being in a Massive Screen Cinema. Folk use it to stream all kinds of stuff (so, yes, i recommend ticking the Do Not Show NSFW box)... But it's really quite an experience, highly recommend folk trying.
I can see that 15.17 train movie being on it soon, it was ruddy awful.
I was surprised to hear that Mark liked Pacific Rim so much, then I remembered that Guillermo del Toro directed it!
Big ups to anyone who mentioned "Hurricane Heist." Mother of God, that shouldn't have been made.
Who's going to see it (the Midas movie)? Let me answer that for you. Any parent of young kids who has exhausted every single other animation movie multiple times over will eventually drop their standards to include every single animation movie ever made. My kids have watched the biggest load of shyte, including this Midas film, and giggled all the way through.
Pacific Rim Uprising. Well...at least I had a nice nap. On the plus side...Suicide Squad has been dethroned as the most horribly edited big budget special effects driven movie I have seen the past few years. Pacific Rim Uprising..Congratulations. Inside baseball comment. The master shot is your friend. Stay on it longer than two seconds! Second thought... future drinking game...drink when you see shots "inspired" stolen? lifted? from other much better movies...see a shot have a shot..end up unconscious in thirty minutes or less.
I have to agree on Pacific Rim 2. I'm also a big fan of the first film, it's cheesy and predictable, but the world felt lived in and full of personality and detail, the action was spectacular and well crafted and the characters, though stock, had personality. Absolutely none of that was present in the second. It was dull without a single likeable character (even the returning ones).
Watch out, comments below include anti John Boyega, and anti Black Panther stuff. I'm surprised they don't have a go at Raheem Sterling as well, even though he's not an actor.
'Roger Ebert was the greatest film critic of all time'
Hold my beer
The Lost Episode Ebert?
soddof Autocorrect!
Winchester and Truth or Dare are utter mind bleach.
I liked Winchester, but I realize it is not that good. Because
1: Jump scares
2: Loses steam about halfway through
3: Total change of pace for the last part and unsatisfying resolution.
Was fighting really hard not to fall asleep during Pacific Rim 2 (and failed, eventually). Even last Transformers were more entertaining tbh
Overboard is unseaworthy and unseeworthy geddit!!
Ben Bradford I sea what you did there.
The rest of the world was probably spared Tyler Perry's Acrimony- a Fatal Attraction wannabe that had no mystery to it, was funny for the wrong reasons. And for some reason, there was obvious green screen- wait- the movie was filmed in less than two weeks.
My guess is that Deadpool 2 and Peter Rabbit will be in Dr K’s bottom 5.
The Cloverfield Paradox
Jurassic World 2
Insidious The Last Key
Skyscraper
Downsizing
Mute
Mark Kermode is a professional movie watcher
Ant Man v Wasp looks like a health and safety ad gone wrong and I hated too the use in the 9/11 film by Paul Greengrass when some of the actual air traffic control were used in the film that had witnessed the terrible event themselves it was exploitative so agree heroes can't be actors
Guillermo del Toro worst movie is Pacific rim 2013
Well, all of del Toro movies have been amazing, so you're correct on a technicality.
Mark. you're amazing, but you are going to blow out my speakers. Please please please fix your audio levels before posting your videos!
That Tad film is a foreign animation dubbed for English audiences I believe but never heard of Winchester
Watching Pacific Rim of any kind is just nope nope nope when you are a fan of Evangelion.
I’m now wearing my smug face as I didn’t bother to watch any of these, but I did see Traffik last night and it was terrible
I've literally never heard of Tad and the Whatever of Whatever.
I liked the trailer for the first pacific rim, it looked like a live action Evangelion movie, then I saw the movie and the combat was slow and dull and the character development wasn't there. The thing with the second one is that the story is just as irrelevant. Charlie Day seems to be trying to act in some scenes and then chanelling his inner child in others, but I thought the action sequences as dumb as they were had a better flow and were more enjoyable.
I'd love to see Hideki Anno try to tackle a live action mecha film, he pretty much already attempted it with Shin Godzilla.
Have you forgiven Alan Jones for waking you up?
He should save his energy and just give us his thoughts on why mainstream cinema is dying
Winchester was meh but it has very solid performance from Jason Clarke. Jurassic World 2 got to be the worst. It feels like an Asylum version of itself.
Where's Part 2?
I know where Mark is coming from, but I still think that putting Pacific Rim on here is a bit too harsh. I absolutely loved the first one, and still liked the second one, because it did some interesting things. But I do agree it had quite a few flaws. It's still leagues better than the Transformers movies.
Loads to choose from this year.
I can only assume that Gotti Will be in your five through one worst films of the year, or that it has not yet been released in the UK
I really am surprised that Uprising made the cut, I just found it incredibly average.
15:17 to Paris was shockingly bad imo, and even the supporting cast of real, professionally trained actors (well, at least compared to the leads) couldn't save it. The dialogue was particularly cringe-worthy too ("My god is bigger than your statistics"). Such a shame considering how brave these fellas are that their legacy may be slightly tampered by this turd.
Hah! I hate boyega but loved Uprising.
mark, I love you but you do realise your last name means toilet yea
And this is why we need critics. I've managed to only see fantastic films due to recommendations and warnings. I've been so spoilt lately that the worst film I've sene is the relatively harmless Clouds of Sils Maria and worst "new" film was Three Billboards (which I reasonably enjoyed).
Pacific Rim is definitely the very worst. Total trash. Jurassic World 2 and Oceans 8 were just barely tolerable. Didn’t see Overboard or the dog talking movie.
I thought 15:17 was from last year?
They remade overboard?!! Why?
Loved your comment on overboard 😂😂😂
Pacific Rim doesn't have a sequel
I fell asleep through Winchester, it's a very pretty film though
Where's part two of this? To be fair it's been a pretty poor year in general. The best films from America have all been leftovers from 2017: I Tonya, Phantom Thread, Coco, The Shape of Water... all 2017 movies, and some of the best of this year so far.
"what even is this?"... hehe
I've never heard of #9
Unsane for me, then Death Wish
You can call it snobbery if you like, but it always baffles me why reviewers include little kid's cartoons in their reviews. To me they are all rubbish because kids haven't developed a crap detector yet and the makers don't have to try very hard. You could probably lump in things like the non-original Star Wars, Transformers and stuff like that for the same reason.
Because not all animation is made just for little kids anymore.
It's possible to make animated movies "for kids" that are actually very good, Pixar has been doing it for years. The idea "if it's for kids we can do whatever we want because they're dumb and won't notice the difference" is very wrong, kids are not stupid. And kids don't go to the cinema on their own, so at least when somebody id doing a "kid's movie" they should have some respect for the adults who are in the cinema too.
Tell that to Coraline, The Breadwinner, ParaNorman, Kubo and the Two Strings, every Toy Story film, most Pixar films in general, Frankenweenie...
surely Showdogs has to be in the top 5
Worst film of the year..... Christopher Nolans re-edit of 2001 a space odyssey.
So the first film you put on the list because you had high expectations that it didn't live up to. The second film is because you didn't understand who would want to watch a sequel to the first film. And the third you put on the list because it was a sequel that nobody asked for. What it feels like is these have nothing to do with the actual films. Did you dislike them because the script was incoherent, was it full of plot holes, was it incredibly contrived, was it badly acted, was it badly directed, did it have film making sins, was there a disconnect between what it was saying and what it was showing, terribly framed, hell I'd even take you didn't like them because of their ideological message.... I keep trying to watch Kermode's series of genres in film on the BBC and man is it so basic. Maybe I've been spoiled with stuff like Every Frame a Painting or Channel Criswell over the last couple of years. And again this list just feels the same. It just comes across as lazy.
where are you... why can you even wear a jacket?
Awww I really enjoyed pacific rim
Uprising.
Pacific rim 2 is a great popcorn flick if you leave your mind at the door..dread this time of year but i'm currently 3-1 to the good..
why bother having these in parts?
Shouldn't he be on the cruise? Do the have WiFi on cruise ships
Solid list
I will never not be in awe of people that thought Pacific Rim was even watchable.
It's a very fun movie to watch, the new one on the other hand isn't.
Ant-Man vs the Wasp! 😣
Went to the cinema last night to watch it and walked out as it was just awful!!! 😤
So stupid and childish!!! 😣
Vs? Ant-Man and the Wasp are a team.
I actually didn't like it all that much either, but it was fun enough (even if one of the protagonists was a complete arsehole). I actually thought the sequences involving children and childlike fun were the best part.
agree totally about pacific rim
I'm curious about if "Infinity War" is going to be on the next list. I mean, I don't know if it even qualifies as "movie", it's just scene after scene of people beating each other and destroying things, no character arc, nothing makes sense, just CGI fights.
I thought the '15:17 to Paris' was great
How can anyone love John OogaBoogayega?
Sargon is Irrelevant Did you see him in Detroit? Great movie
What even is this ?!?!
Read.
KeyeGamer reference to the listener mail on the podcast....
Mute.
1:20 seriously?
Surprised Ant-Man and the Wasp wasn't on this list.
You must be trolling. I enjoyed that film a lot. Almost 2 hours long and the time flew. Michael Peña gets special mention.
Na, not trolling. Ant-Man sucks.
I enjoyed it too. Laughed a lot and thought it was quite inventive. Not an amazing film but it passed the time and was definitely worth seeing. I thought the quantum world was brilliantly realised it CGI - a difficult task.
Pacific rim wasn’t that bad
It's not that it wasn't bad, it just fell below some really lofty expectations.
He used the same reasoning for putting The Councillor at #1 on his list a few years back
But yeah, Pacific Rim was naff.
It is if you were a fan of the first movie. It takes away all the things that made the original great. Sure if you just thought the original was alright there’s less reasons to hate it but when you were hoping to see more of the things you loved in the first movie this is an insult.
Am I taking crazy pills or something? What absolute wally thought it would be a good idea to split a top ten list into two videos?
There are bigger problems in the world than that :)
10. Hereditary
9. Red Sparrow
8. Phantom Thread
7. Rampage
6. Mama Mia! 2
otaku 22 hereditary and phantom thread are great films.
Phantom Thread? You've got to be trolling?
Secret Guy maybe he is.
Yashaswi Katailiha no. They're torturous to sit through
otaku 22 maybe stick to anime then