This post is inspired by hearing all these terrible things about the movie Amsterdam and when I finally saw it, it was pretty good. It had an all star cast and David O. Russel did try to give every star at least one moment to shine and I thought it worked (though that caused the story to meander).
This post is also inspired by Before the Devil knows you're dead but with 4 of my favorite actors it's hard to believe it's not good, but it has to be since I never really heard much talk about it since it's release in 2007?
Anyway, share a can't lose all star cast movie that lost bigly?
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3. "RE: What's the worst movie with the greatest cast?" In response to Reply # 0
>This post is also inspired by Before the Devil knows you're >dead but with 4 of my favorite actors it's hard to believe >it's not good, but it has to be since I never really heard >much talk about it since it's release in 2007?
it is good. i never saw a bad sidney lumet film.
>Anyway, share a can't lose all star cast movie that lost >bigly?
4. "The Counselor is one of them" In response to Reply # 0
Ridley Scott directing a druglord movie written by Cormac McCarthy only five years after No Country for Old Men, with Michael Fassbender, Brad Pitt, Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem?
5. "To be fair, the book wasn't that great either." In response to Reply # 4 Mon Dec-19-22 09:37 AM by Numba_33
I'm not saying you're wrong in your judgement of the movie because it was quite forgettable, but the original source wasn't all that stellar to begin with.
The Carmen Diaz character in the book was amazingly over the top in so many ways; she might as well have been a Marvel comic book supervillain.
**edit**
If I'm not mistaken, the movie was based on a screenplay, not a book, so I could have been mistaken in my initial response. It's been years since I read the original material, so my memory is somewhat foggy, but I do remember being underwhelmed after finishing it.
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Frank Longo Member since Nov 18th 2003 86672 posts
Mon Dec-19-22 11:40 AM
6. "To be fair, re: The Counselor:" In response to Reply # 4 Mon Dec-19-22 11:42 AM by Frank Longo
At least it's, like, its own thing. There are people I know who really love The Counselor. (I'm on your side, but those people exist.) And I think it's because it has style and is kind of outlandish and isn't a complete hack job. Even though I *really* didn't like it when I saw it, in my mind I hold it above the phoned-in bad movies, because it's pretty clear they made what they wanted to make, and it was just very *not* for me. (I think a decent amount of latter-day Ridley Scott probably falls under this umbrella tbh.)
I have to think whatever the "worst cast/best movie" is has to be some bullshit phoned-in studio hack directed completely forgettable malarkey. (The Righteous Kill example at the top of the post is a pretty good pull, imo.)
11. "Slow burn movie, yes. Bad movie? Not a chance" In response to Reply # 7
I still did this one
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15. "You’re damn right" In response to Reply # 14 Wed Dec-21-22 11:24 AM by pretentious username
I like Guy Pearce a lot, but his character did nothing for me and the fake Mandarin story was awful. The whole “Ironman is retiring” thing was just bogus too.
Plus I think IM2 is just a tad underrated. Certainly on the lower end of the MCU overall, but Rourke does a good job, I like the rivalry with Justin Hammer, Cheadle as Rhodey is an improvement, and they do a good job of showing Ironman as vulnerable.
Casey Affleck Chiwetel Ejiofor Anthony Mackie Marcus Belmont Aaron Paul Woody Harrelson Kate Winslet Gal Gadot Norman Reedus Teresa Palmer Michael Kenneth Williams Clifton Collins Jr.
I rarely turn off movies midway through. But I could not make it through this. Bad action. Really cliched premise and bad acting.
Also Triple Frontier
The cast isn't a monster, but given the actors involved, this movie was bad.
Ben Affleck Oscar Isaac Charlie Hunnam Garrett Hedlund Pedro Pascal
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
Actors: Lily James Amanda Seyfried Meryl Streep Cher Andy Garcia Celia Imrie Alexa Davies Jessica Keenan Wynn Dominic Cooper Julie Walters Christine Baranski Hugh Skinner Pierce Brosnan
17. "The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996 remake)" In response to Reply # 0 Wed Dec-21-22 12:10 PM by Airbreed
Marlon Brando Val Kilmer David Thewlis Ron Pearlman Temuera Morrison
This was the first and only movie I actually walked out on and asked for a refund. Still remains the worst film I've ever seen and only slightly worse than the original which did an injustice to the book itself.
stravinskian Member since Feb 24th 2003 12698 posts
Wed Dec-21-22 02:04 PM
18. "Not exactly this category, but 2010 comes to mind." In response to Reply # 0
Not exactly this category because it seems the general consensus (which I share) is that it's actually a pretty good movie, **IF** you put in the effort to forget that it has any relationship with 2001.
Roy Scheider, Bob Balaban, John Lithgow, Helen Mirren with a laughable russky accent, and that guy who used to play about 25% of the Russian characters in the 80s and 90s (I used to think he was Yakof Smirnoff, but apparently he isn't).
Pretty good Hollywood sci-fi, reverential to Kubrick's vision, even while it avoids just about any chance it could have taken to echo its style or substance. It's every bit as safe, polished, and ultimately mundane as 2001 was revolutionary and experimental.
I've kind of always felt bad for everyone who was attached to it. They put out a pretty solid Hollywood flick. But every time it gets good, it does so by reminding us of this influence that it'll never live up to.
21. "Yeah, it's a solid movie" In response to Reply # 18
The only thing working against it is its association with 2001. 2001 is a movie that does not deserve a sequel, only because it was so legendary any attempt to recreate the qualities of the first can only fail.
23. "I Heart Huckabees was pretty disappointing " In response to Reply # 0
You look at that cast and it seems like a can’t miss, but other than Mark Wahlberg’s and Naomi Watts’s characters, there’s not much I enjoyed in that one.
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