Post by stluee on Oct 25, 2014 13:28:55 GMT -6
10. Meet The Parents Was Praised For Its Representation Of Male Nurses
Meet the Parents wasn’t a terrible movie, but the two sequels, Meet the Fockers and Little Fockers, wore out a welcome that wasn’t that strong to begin with. It’s arguable that the only thing that saved any of them is the chemistry between Robert De Niro and Ben Stiller, who play Jack Byrnes and Gaylord Focker.
One particular point of contention between the two characters is the fact that Stiller’s character is a male nurse. You wouldn’t expect a comedy to handle a theme like a man trying to assert himself in a historically female industry well, but according to actual nurses Focker is one of the single finest representations of the role in movie history. The fact that Focker defends his choice to be a nurse while also challenging many of the long standing stereotypes held about the role received widespread praise. He even continues to do this in this less warmly received sequels.
Speaking of which, for Meet the Fockers the production crew actually tracked down a family named Focker just so they could justify jokes like having a character named Randy Focker. Because otherwise the integrity of the movie would have been ruined.
9. Movie 43 is an Amazing Work of Budget Control
I havent heard of this until I googled!
With a staggeringly bad 18/100 on Metacritic, it’s safe to say that Movie 43 is one of the most star-studded bombs ever released. If you’ve never seen the movie, and we’d be shocked if you had, the whole selling point is that it featured an amazingly diverse ensemble cast with some of the biggest names in Hollywood.
Emma Stone, Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, Uma Thurman, Chris Pratt and about two dozen other huge names appeared on the billing for a movie that raked in less than 33 million at the box office. With that many stars you’re probably expecting us to say that it hemorrhaged money like Mr. Burns with a stab wound, but the movie actually turned a profit because almost every actor either made an appearance as a favor or was only paid a few thousand dollars in exchange for just a few days of work. The fact that they managed to make an atrocious movie starring more famous people than any film in history with a budget of just six million isn’t just impressive, it defies logic so hard that rubbing it on Aristotle’s grave would make it catch fire.
8. Jack and Jill Won Every Razzie Award Havent heard of this one either!
Critically speaking, Jack and Jill is arguably the single worst movie on this list. According to practically everyone who watched the film, it’s the worst thing to happen to Hollywood since censorship. The basic plot is that Adam Sander plays his own twin sister and they get themselves caught up in a bunch of shenanigans. We’d describe it in more detail, but we can actually feel our lives waste away when we do.
Now it’s one thing to be bad, but it’s another thing to be so bad that you break actual records in terribleness. There’s an Anti-Oscars award ceremony called the Golden Raspberry Awards which celebrate the worst movies of the year. Jack and Jill was so broken on a fundamental level that it won literally every single Razzie. The film was so awful that it was nominated for some categories twice and won against itself. If a film is so terrible that the only thing it can be compared to is itself, that’s impressive in a certain sad way.
7. The Director of Birdemic Had no Training Whatsoever - Ah need I say more?
Birdemic: Shock and Terror was an American indie movie released in 2008. The film is a homage of sorts to The Birds and follows essentially the same storyline — people get attacked by a bunch of “Lethal eagles!” It’s amazing if you watch it with friends and you’re all intoxicated.
Despite being released almost half a century after Hitchcock’s masterpiece, Birdemic somehow managed to have worse special effects (and everything else), a feature that’s made it a cult classic. But what few people seem to realize is that the director, James Nyugen, had absolutely no formal training in filmmaking and a budget of just $10,000. What makes this even better is that Nyugen was able to sell his movie to a company that spent more money marketing it than he spent making it. Despite the quality of the film, we’d safely consider that a win for the little guys.
6. Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2 Was Directed by the Guy Who Did Porky’s
The universal consensus from critics is that they’d rather be tortured than have to watch Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2 again. That’s not hyperbole, one critic actually said that. We’d describe the plot, but we think the title itself tells you everything you never wanted to know. The original was almost just as poorly received, garnering a single positive review from someone who may be an alien trying to pass as human.
What’s odd is that they were both directed by Bob Clark. He’s the guy who gave us Porky’s, the film widely cited as starting the teen sex comedy genre, and A Christmas Story, one of the most beloved holiday films of all time. What’s even weirder is that this movie was the last one Clark had any involvement with before his death. Baby Geniuses 2, in all of its awful glory, is the last thing the guy who inspired countless classic comedies gave us. Which is the most perfect representation of the phrase “nobody’s perfect” we’ve ever seen.
Meet the Parents wasn’t a terrible movie, but the two sequels, Meet the Fockers and Little Fockers, wore out a welcome that wasn’t that strong to begin with. It’s arguable that the only thing that saved any of them is the chemistry between Robert De Niro and Ben Stiller, who play Jack Byrnes and Gaylord Focker.
One particular point of contention between the two characters is the fact that Stiller’s character is a male nurse. You wouldn’t expect a comedy to handle a theme like a man trying to assert himself in a historically female industry well, but according to actual nurses Focker is one of the single finest representations of the role in movie history. The fact that Focker defends his choice to be a nurse while also challenging many of the long standing stereotypes held about the role received widespread praise. He even continues to do this in this less warmly received sequels.
Speaking of which, for Meet the Fockers the production crew actually tracked down a family named Focker just so they could justify jokes like having a character named Randy Focker. Because otherwise the integrity of the movie would have been ruined.
9. Movie 43 is an Amazing Work of Budget Control
I havent heard of this until I googled!
With a staggeringly bad 18/100 on Metacritic, it’s safe to say that Movie 43 is one of the most star-studded bombs ever released. If you’ve never seen the movie, and we’d be shocked if you had, the whole selling point is that it featured an amazingly diverse ensemble cast with some of the biggest names in Hollywood.
Emma Stone, Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, Uma Thurman, Chris Pratt and about two dozen other huge names appeared on the billing for a movie that raked in less than 33 million at the box office. With that many stars you’re probably expecting us to say that it hemorrhaged money like Mr. Burns with a stab wound, but the movie actually turned a profit because almost every actor either made an appearance as a favor or was only paid a few thousand dollars in exchange for just a few days of work. The fact that they managed to make an atrocious movie starring more famous people than any film in history with a budget of just six million isn’t just impressive, it defies logic so hard that rubbing it on Aristotle’s grave would make it catch fire.
8. Jack and Jill Won Every Razzie Award Havent heard of this one either!
Critically speaking, Jack and Jill is arguably the single worst movie on this list. According to practically everyone who watched the film, it’s the worst thing to happen to Hollywood since censorship. The basic plot is that Adam Sander plays his own twin sister and they get themselves caught up in a bunch of shenanigans. We’d describe it in more detail, but we can actually feel our lives waste away when we do.
Now it’s one thing to be bad, but it’s another thing to be so bad that you break actual records in terribleness. There’s an Anti-Oscars award ceremony called the Golden Raspberry Awards which celebrate the worst movies of the year. Jack and Jill was so broken on a fundamental level that it won literally every single Razzie. The film was so awful that it was nominated for some categories twice and won against itself. If a film is so terrible that the only thing it can be compared to is itself, that’s impressive in a certain sad way.
7. The Director of Birdemic Had no Training Whatsoever - Ah need I say more?
Birdemic: Shock and Terror was an American indie movie released in 2008. The film is a homage of sorts to The Birds and follows essentially the same storyline — people get attacked by a bunch of “Lethal eagles!” It’s amazing if you watch it with friends and you’re all intoxicated.
Despite being released almost half a century after Hitchcock’s masterpiece, Birdemic somehow managed to have worse special effects (and everything else), a feature that’s made it a cult classic. But what few people seem to realize is that the director, James Nyugen, had absolutely no formal training in filmmaking and a budget of just $10,000. What makes this even better is that Nyugen was able to sell his movie to a company that spent more money marketing it than he spent making it. Despite the quality of the film, we’d safely consider that a win for the little guys.
6. Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2 Was Directed by the Guy Who Did Porky’s
The universal consensus from critics is that they’d rather be tortured than have to watch Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2 again. That’s not hyperbole, one critic actually said that. We’d describe the plot, but we think the title itself tells you everything you never wanted to know. The original was almost just as poorly received, garnering a single positive review from someone who may be an alien trying to pass as human.
What’s odd is that they were both directed by Bob Clark. He’s the guy who gave us Porky’s, the film widely cited as starting the teen sex comedy genre, and A Christmas Story, one of the most beloved holiday films of all time. What’s even weirder is that this movie was the last one Clark had any involvement with before his death. Baby Geniuses 2, in all of its awful glory, is the last thing the guy who inspired countless classic comedies gave us. Which is the most perfect representation of the phrase “nobody’s perfect” we’ve ever seen.
