February 8, 2025 • 16 mins
Counting down the movies that dropped in 2024 that you should avoid like the plague.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This production is brought to you by the Recess Bell.
Hey everybody, my name is Justin Greenberg, and this is
the film reel right here on the Recess Bell Network,
and we are finally getting to it the worst of
the Worst. Twenty twenty four was a very interesting year
at the box office, and while there were a lot
(00:22):
of fantastic movies, like we went over on a previous episode,
there was also a lot of stinkers. And that's what
we're gonna get to right now. Before I get to
my top five worst movies of the year, I do
have some honorable mentions, or maybe in this case, dishonorable mentions.
Argyle was a film that was actually insulting. I was
(00:46):
actually insulted while watching the movie. And what sucked is
it had a really good cast, in fact, that has
one of my favorite actors of all time, Sam Rockwell
in it. I think the thing that pissed me off
the most about this movie was that they used a
Beatles song. And I love the Beatles are my favorite band,
but they took the worst possible Beatles song ever. In fact,
(01:08):
it wasn't even an officially released Beatles song. John Lennon
made a demo. He obviously got killed by a gun.
That's important. And the remaining Beatles that are alive now,
Paul and Ringo, they decided we're gonna take that demo.
We're gonna add some George Harrison guitar that we have
from a previous session thirty years ago, and we're gonna
make a song. We don't know if John would have
(01:28):
wanted the song to be released. Maybe it was a
demo for a reason, but we're gonna release it. I
did not like the song. I thought it was actually
not a good song at all. And they keep on
bringing up this song during the movie. In fact, there
was two characters their song. It was their song. I'm
like your song is an unreleased Beatles track. They say, oh,
(01:50):
this is the song that we would listen to when
we were in love. When does this movie take place?
Were you listening to the demo track? Because how is
this your song? The song was just really Now, if
they picked like hey, Jude, or let it Be or
something that you know has been released, maybe it would
have made sense. But that pissed me off. But I
(02:10):
brought up guns, and you know John Lennon dying from
a gun. This movie glorifies guns, and I'm all for that.
I love movies with violence and guns. But John Lennon
was killed by a gun, and they make guns so
cool in this movie. They have you know, slow motion shots,
and they make vibrant colors appear when the guns fire,
and I'm just thinking, why are we doing this? It
(02:33):
was a very bold strategy to have that Beatles song there.
That's one of the many reasons as to why I
hated the movie, Argyle. Biopics are something I'm really not
a fan of, particularly musical bio picks. Usually they're nothing great,
and it's hard to, you know, get an entire person's
(02:54):
career in a two hour movie. That's why it's always better,
I think when they focus on a singular moment. I
really liked the Bob Dylan biopick from later on in
the year, But at the beginning of the year we
had Bob Marley One Love, which to me was something
that I could have seen be released on VH one
back in the day. It felt very much this is
(03:15):
a made for television movie. Some other weird musical choices
being made in this movie, and that actually that pisses
me off because my dream job if somebody say, what
would be your dream job justin it would be to
pick music that is played in movies. I think that's
such an important part of the movie, and I have
lists of songs that I would want to be played
(03:36):
during a movie. So just to hear poorly picked musical
choices in a musical bio pick was very infuriating. Driveaway
Dolls was a very disappointing movie, and especially because I
like the cast and I like the director. Is done
by one of the Cohen brothers, Margaret Qualey. I believe
that's how you pronounce her name. She was in my
(03:57):
favorite movie of the year, The Substance, so she was
great in that, and I actually hated her in this movie.
Not the worst, but the expectations were set really high,
so it was very disappointing. Let's get to though the
cream of the crop. The top five worst movies of
the year twenty twenty four. Coming in at number five
(04:20):
is The Crow.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
I'm Gonna cool now. I was seen with one on one.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
I love the movie The Crow from nineteen ninety four,
visually one of the most impressive movies of the entire
nineteen nineties, and Brandon Lee's performance is so charismatic, and
those are two things that are severely missing in this
remake from twenty twenty four. Bill Skarsgard is a very
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good actor. I thought he was fantastic as Pennywise. I
thought he was unbelievable in Nosferatu. So it's not him,
but he so much charisma in this role. Maybe it's
just the script sometimes that happens. Look at those Star
Wars episode you know, prequels, the episode one and episode
two and episode three. You have good actors in there.
You have Samuel L. Jackson, you have Ewan McGregor, you
(05:15):
have Liam Neeson who won an Oscar. Natalie Portman's given
great performances in Black Swan. But if you just have
the wrong script, you could take somebody that's really talented
and really make them seem like bad actors. And that
was the case in this movie. It was an ugly
movie to look at. It made number five on this
list because there was one action sequence that was fantastic.
(05:39):
If it didn't have that shootout scene with the opera
going on, it would have definitely been in the top three,
especially because it's based on an existing property that I
have a ton of respect for. So I would say
skip the remake, go ahead and watch the original from
nineteen ninety four. At number four on my list is
(06:00):
something I'm not going to talk too much about because
I actually had an entire podcast about this movie at
the beginning of twenty twenty four, and that is Anyone
But You, which is a movie that did technically come
out in twenty twenty three, but I watched it in
twenty twenty four, so I'm putting it on this list. Hey,
hit in the wedding of my sister. Yes, I am so.
Where's your fiance?
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Where is this him? Hey? I'm Ben.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
I was sort a hall pass on your break.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Wow, you are a child.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
It's pretty long, plight. Do you want anything from the
front of the boat? I'm all good on Creatine and
Smeltic insecurity. Nothing small about me. It's just a bad comedy.
It lacks pushing the envelope. It lacks any form of relatability.
These actors are way too good looking, they're way too rich.
They're living a lifestyle which an average Joe Schmo would
(06:47):
not be able to relate to. But I definitely recommend
going back into the archives and checking out the Anyone
But You podcast. Because I kind of went off on
how bad it was in the sad state that is
comedies in theaters. Coming in at number three is a
three way tie, and it is three terrible horror films
that I just completely kind of forgot existed, and they
(07:09):
are Watchers, which was directed by the daughter of m
Night Shyamalan, Nepo Baby Imaginary, which was laughably bad, and Terror,
which I don't remember. I legitimately don't remember and had
to actually look up the plot synopsis for this movie
because it was so forgettable. Borry horror movies can be great.
(07:33):
We looked at my top five best of the year
and I had Late Night with the Devil and the
Substance as one and two. So I love horror movies,
but they can also be so bad, and they are
very cheap to make, and a lot of the times
you get inexperienced actors, people that are just starting off,
or maybe people that are way past their prime. That
(07:54):
is what you get with a lot of horror movies, unfortunately,
and there's companies like Blumhouse that just put out movie
after movie after movie, and they do this because they
only have to make so little amount of money. You
make a movie that cost them million dollars two million dollars,
which a lot of these movies do. It only has
to make five or six million dollars to that of profit.
So that's why they keep on cranking these out. So
(08:17):
best bet is to just skip all three of those
and try and watch something that stimulates your brain, something
like The Substance, something like Late Night with the Devil.
Those would be two horror movies from twenty twenty four
that I do recommend, but definitely stick away from watchers.
Tarot and Imaginary. Coming in at number two. Worst movie
(08:39):
of twenty twenty four would be Madam Webb, I'm Gonna
help you out today.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Okay, trying to save people who are running out of
it until one moment changed everything.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
All the memes that you've seen about this movie, they're true.
They're all true. It's a horrible script, it's an ugly
looking movie. There's terrible action sequences, and it's really mind boggling.
Like I understand why they made those crappy horror movies.
I can understand that because they're cheap. Like I said,
Madam Web wasn't cheap. Madim Web is mind boggling. That
(09:15):
producers saw the final script and said, yep, let's go
with that, and then you have awful acting. Now. I
don't know if this is a case of just the
bad script, because I think the lead actress is just
a terrible another NEPO baby, Dakota Johnson. She's just she's
very robotic and very inorganic, and she doesn't seem human
(09:36):
at all the way she delivers her line. So she
is laughably bad. There are so many moments. There are
moments in this movie that you can actually have fun with.
I think my favorite aspect of this Madam Web movie
is they keep on hinting of the Spider Man universe,
because this is set in that Sony Spider Man universe.
It's very complicated, the financial reasons and the legal reasons
(09:59):
as to who owns what, and you know what, what
is Sony doing with these non Spider Man Spider Man movies?
It's does anybody want these movies? Why they keep on
making them? I know some people like the Venom movies,
which I don't understand. I think those are absolute trash also,
but who is asking for movies like Morbius? Who's asking
(10:19):
for movies like Craven The Hunter? And Madame Webb is
the worst of all of those. And they keep on
hinting at Uncle Ben throughout this movie. Uncle Ben, the
famous Uncle Ben, Uncle Ben to Peter, and they keep
on hinting at it, and then they reveal it at
the end as if it's some surprise, because they keep
on saying, Oh, you're gonna be an Uncle Ben, You're
(10:41):
gonna Ben Ben, you might be an uncle at the
end of this movie, and then he becomes an uncle
and then you're supposed to be like, oh, uncle Ben
is Uncle Ben. I didn't know that. In this Spider
Man Universe movie, Wow, shocking, terrible, terrible film and coming
in number one is a tie Megalopolis and Borderlands. Hollywood
(11:06):
has always had an issue with adapting video games into movies. Now,
I've never played the Borderlands game before, but I don't
think that matters. I think if you're making a movie,
it just needs to be a movie. Yeah, you can
have some fan service ad, a little you know, character
here and there, a moment that is from the game
that can make people happy that are watching the movie.
(11:26):
But at the end of the day, you have to
make a movie that makes sense to people that haven't
played the game. I don't think that matters though, because
fans of this series did not like the movie at all,
and I in fact hated it. I'm gonna make it
right with your body parts, would I tell you? Minimal
(11:46):
said no explosions. I don't know where this film's budget went,
because it costs upwards of one hundred and twenty million
dollars to make this film only making thirty three million dollars.
And I've talked about it if few times on this
podcast that just because the production budget is one hundred
and twenty million dollars, that does not mean that's what
(12:06):
the movie costs. This movie probably costs upwards of two
hundred million dollars to make based on advertising, so it
lost the company Lionsgate almost one hundred and seventy five
million dollars. It tried to copy the formula of so
many successful movies. I think mainly the Guardians of the
Galaxy movie. You know, this ragtag group of individuals that
(12:27):
are set on a quest. They're not really morally good,
but at the end of the day, they do have
morals and they are gonna, you know, do what's right,
and it it just falls flat. I mean Suicide Squad
tried to do the same thing. You copy something and
people see right through it. And audiences didn't want to
go to the theaters to watch this, and I don't
blame them because it was terrible. It was ugly, it
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was lazy, the plot made no sense, the acting was horrendous.
I'm sick of Jack Black voicing things. Just an unnecessary
movie and a property. I mean, who's talking about Borderlands?
I don't know anybody that plays this series. Maybe I'm
in the minority when it comes to that one. But
it ain't Super Mario Brothers, it ain't Sonic the hedge Hog,
it ain't even Mortal Kombat. Who is asking for a
(13:11):
Borderlands movie? No one. That's why it's the number one
worst of the year, tied with Megalopolis. Now, Megalopolis is
one of those movies I actually wouldn't mind watching again
because it was so mind bogglingly stupid. From visionary writer
and director Francis Ford Coppola, comes an event nothing can
prepare you for.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Imagine today's society as a branch of civilization about to
reach a dead end. Is this way we're living the
only one that's available to us?
Speaker 1 (13:50):
You get a great cast. Adam Driver, Shilah Buff, John Voyd,
Dustin Hoffman. I mean, these are some of the best
actors of all time. On top of that, you have
Francis Ford Cope, who's made some of the greatest movies
of all time. You want to talk about an ugly
looking movie. I don't know where this film's budget went.
I have no idea, because it looks like something a
(14:10):
YouTuber could create. The green screen effects looks like something
that the angry video game nerd could create in a
YouTube video. Some of the acting choices were bizarre, to
say the least. I don't know if they just said,
Shilah Buff, do what you want to do, We're not
really going to direct you. But I'm fascinated with this movie.
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I can't help it. I'm so fascinated with a director
who made The Godfather is making something like this. Does
he need to go into an old folks home? Is
he all there? Mentally? I have no idea. You want
to talk about a movie that was an absolute bomb.
This one cost upwards of one hundred and thirty six
million dollars to just do the production budget, and it
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made a little over fourteen million dollars and Francis Ford
Coppola he was putting his own money into this. You know,
he's made a lot of money over the years with
his wine, and he decided, I'm going to make this movie.
I want to make this movie for years, and I
don't really know why. Why would he choose to do this.
Apparently this is a movie he's had the idea for
(15:15):
for decades, and maybe there's some symbolism there. Maybe there's
something deep down. Years from now, some scholar will find
the deeper meaning in this movie. I highly doubt it,
but I don't know. Maybe I'm just holding out hope
because the guy directed Apocalypse now. But maybe, you know,
forty fifty years from now, people will look back at
(15:35):
this movie and be like, oh, actually it was a
genius film. I highly doubt it, but it is one
of those movies that I would actually want to watch
a documentary or a biopick of Francis Ford Coppola making
this movie. I think it's so fascinating that a guy's
willing to risk it all and put his money on
the line and make an absolute laughing stock of a movie.
So shout out to Francis Ford Coppola. So out of
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these movies, I would recommend really only watching Madam Webb
and Megalopolis just for the sheer stupidity. The rest are
just lazy and boring and ugly and uninspired. But I
think there is something fun that you could have. Have
a few drinks and watch Megalopolis, you know, maybe smoke
some pot and watch Madam web I think there is
some fun to be had with bad movies. But these
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were just some of the worst films of twenty twenty four.
So hopefully twenty twenty five is a better year. Hopefully
we have less stinkers, less duds. But I doubt it.
This has been film real. My name is Justin.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
So long everyone,
This production is brought to you by the Recess Bell.
Hey everybody, my name is Justin Greenberg, and this is
the film reel right here on the Recess Bell Network,
and we are finally getting to it the worst of
the Worst. Twenty twenty four was a very interesting year
at the box office, and while there were a lot
(00:22):
of fantastic movies, like we went over on a previous episode,
there was also a lot of stinkers. And that's what
we're gonna get to right now. Before I get to
my top five worst movies of the year, I do
have some honorable mentions, or maybe in this case, dishonorable mentions.
Argyle was a film that was actually insulting. I was
(00:46):
actually insulted while watching the movie. And what sucked is
it had a really good cast, in fact, that has
one of my favorite actors of all time, Sam Rockwell
in it. I think the thing that pissed me off
the most about this movie was that they used a
Beatles song. And I love the Beatles are my favorite band,
but they took the worst possible Beatles song ever. In fact,
(01:08):
it wasn't even an officially released Beatles song. John Lennon
made a demo. He obviously got killed by a gun.
That's important. And the remaining Beatles that are alive now,
Paul and Ringo, they decided we're gonna take that demo.
We're gonna add some George Harrison guitar that we have
from a previous session thirty years ago, and we're gonna
make a song. We don't know if John would have
(01:28):
wanted the song to be released. Maybe it was a
demo for a reason, but we're gonna release it. I
did not like the song. I thought it was actually
not a good song at all. And they keep on
bringing up this song during the movie. In fact, there
was two characters their song. It was their song. I'm
like your song is an unreleased Beatles track. They say, oh,
(01:50):
this is the song that we would listen to when
we were in love. When does this movie take place?
Were you listening to the demo track? Because how is
this your song? The song was just really Now, if
they picked like hey, Jude, or let it Be or
something that you know has been released, maybe it would
have made sense. But that pissed me off. But I
(02:10):
brought up guns, and you know John Lennon dying from
a gun. This movie glorifies guns, and I'm all for that.
I love movies with violence and guns. But John Lennon
was killed by a gun, and they make guns so
cool in this movie. They have you know, slow motion shots,
and they make vibrant colors appear when the guns fire,
and I'm just thinking, why are we doing this? It
(02:33):
was a very bold strategy to have that Beatles song there.
That's one of the many reasons as to why I
hated the movie, Argyle. Biopics are something I'm really not
a fan of, particularly musical bio picks. Usually they're nothing great,
and it's hard to, you know, get an entire person's
(02:54):
career in a two hour movie. That's why it's always better,
I think when they focus on a singular moment. I
really liked the Bob Dylan biopick from later on in
the year, But at the beginning of the year we
had Bob Marley One Love, which to me was something
that I could have seen be released on VH one
back in the day. It felt very much this is
(03:15):
a made for television movie. Some other weird musical choices
being made in this movie, and that actually that pisses
me off because my dream job if somebody say, what
would be your dream job justin it would be to
pick music that is played in movies. I think that's
such an important part of the movie, and I have
lists of songs that I would want to be played
(03:36):
during a movie. So just to hear poorly picked musical
choices in a musical bio pick was very infuriating. Driveaway
Dolls was a very disappointing movie, and especially because I
like the cast and I like the director. Is done
by one of the Cohen brothers, Margaret Qualey. I believe
that's how you pronounce her name. She was in my
(03:57):
favorite movie of the year, The Substance, so she was
great in that, and I actually hated her in this movie.
Not the worst, but the expectations were set really high,
so it was very disappointing. Let's get to though the
cream of the crop. The top five worst movies of
the year twenty twenty four. Coming in at number five
(04:20):
is The Crow.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
I'm Gonna cool now. I was seen with one on one.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
I love the movie The Crow from nineteen ninety four,
visually one of the most impressive movies of the entire
nineteen nineties, and Brandon Lee's performance is so charismatic, and
those are two things that are severely missing in this
remake from twenty twenty four. Bill Skarsgard is a very
(04:53):
good actor. I thought he was fantastic as Pennywise. I
thought he was unbelievable in Nosferatu. So it's not him,
but he so much charisma in this role. Maybe it's
just the script sometimes that happens. Look at those Star
Wars episode you know, prequels, the episode one and episode
two and episode three. You have good actors in there.
You have Samuel L. Jackson, you have Ewan McGregor, you
(05:15):
have Liam Neeson who won an Oscar. Natalie Portman's given
great performances in Black Swan. But if you just have
the wrong script, you could take somebody that's really talented
and really make them seem like bad actors. And that
was the case in this movie. It was an ugly
movie to look at. It made number five on this
list because there was one action sequence that was fantastic.
(05:39):
If it didn't have that shootout scene with the opera
going on, it would have definitely been in the top three,
especially because it's based on an existing property that I
have a ton of respect for. So I would say
skip the remake, go ahead and watch the original from
nineteen ninety four. At number four on my list is
(06:00):
something I'm not going to talk too much about because
I actually had an entire podcast about this movie at
the beginning of twenty twenty four, and that is Anyone
But You, which is a movie that did technically come
out in twenty twenty three, but I watched it in
twenty twenty four, so I'm putting it on this list. Hey,
hit in the wedding of my sister. Yes, I am so.
Where's your fiance?
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Where is this him? Hey? I'm Ben.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
I was sort a hall pass on your break.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Wow, you are a child.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
It's pretty long, plight. Do you want anything from the
front of the boat? I'm all good on Creatine and
Smeltic insecurity. Nothing small about me. It's just a bad comedy.
It lacks pushing the envelope. It lacks any form of relatability.
These actors are way too good looking, they're way too rich.
They're living a lifestyle which an average Joe Schmo would
(06:47):
not be able to relate to. But I definitely recommend
going back into the archives and checking out the Anyone
But You podcast. Because I kind of went off on
how bad it was in the sad state that is
comedies in theaters. Coming in at number three is a
three way tie, and it is three terrible horror films
that I just completely kind of forgot existed, and they
(07:09):
are Watchers, which was directed by the daughter of m
Night Shyamalan, Nepo Baby Imaginary, which was laughably bad, and Terror,
which I don't remember. I legitimately don't remember and had
to actually look up the plot synopsis for this movie
because it was so forgettable. Borry horror movies can be great.
(07:33):
We looked at my top five best of the year
and I had Late Night with the Devil and the
Substance as one and two. So I love horror movies,
but they can also be so bad, and they are
very cheap to make, and a lot of the times
you get inexperienced actors, people that are just starting off,
or maybe people that are way past their prime. That
(07:54):
is what you get with a lot of horror movies, unfortunately,
and there's companies like Blumhouse that just put out movie
after movie after movie, and they do this because they
only have to make so little amount of money. You
make a movie that cost them million dollars two million dollars,
which a lot of these movies do. It only has
to make five or six million dollars to that of profit.
So that's why they keep on cranking these out. So
(08:17):
best bet is to just skip all three of those
and try and watch something that stimulates your brain, something
like The Substance, something like Late Night with the Devil.
Those would be two horror movies from twenty twenty four
that I do recommend, but definitely stick away from watchers.
Tarot and Imaginary. Coming in at number two. Worst movie
(08:39):
of twenty twenty four would be Madam Webb, I'm Gonna
help you out today.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Okay, trying to save people who are running out of
it until one moment changed everything.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
All the memes that you've seen about this movie, they're true.
They're all true. It's a horrible script, it's an ugly
looking movie. There's terrible action sequences, and it's really mind boggling.
Like I understand why they made those crappy horror movies.
I can understand that because they're cheap. Like I said,
Madam Web wasn't cheap. Madim Web is mind boggling. That
(09:15):
producers saw the final script and said, yep, let's go
with that, and then you have awful acting. Now. I
don't know if this is a case of just the
bad script, because I think the lead actress is just
a terrible another NEPO baby, Dakota Johnson. She's just she's
very robotic and very inorganic, and she doesn't seem human
(09:36):
at all the way she delivers her line. So she
is laughably bad. There are so many moments. There are
moments in this movie that you can actually have fun with.
I think my favorite aspect of this Madam Web movie
is they keep on hinting of the Spider Man universe,
because this is set in that Sony Spider Man universe.
It's very complicated, the financial reasons and the legal reasons
(09:59):
as to who owns what, and you know what, what
is Sony doing with these non Spider Man Spider Man movies?
It's does anybody want these movies? Why they keep on
making them? I know some people like the Venom movies,
which I don't understand. I think those are absolute trash also,
but who is asking for movies like Morbius? Who's asking
(10:19):
for movies like Craven The Hunter? And Madame Webb is
the worst of all of those. And they keep on
hinting at Uncle Ben throughout this movie. Uncle Ben, the
famous Uncle Ben, Uncle Ben to Peter, and they keep
on hinting at it, and then they reveal it at
the end as if it's some surprise, because they keep
on saying, Oh, you're gonna be an Uncle Ben, You're
(10:41):
gonna Ben Ben, you might be an uncle at the
end of this movie, and then he becomes an uncle
and then you're supposed to be like, oh, uncle Ben
is Uncle Ben. I didn't know that. In this Spider
Man Universe movie, Wow, shocking, terrible, terrible film and coming
in number one is a tie Megalopolis and Borderlands. Hollywood
(11:06):
has always had an issue with adapting video games into movies. Now,
I've never played the Borderlands game before, but I don't
think that matters. I think if you're making a movie,
it just needs to be a movie. Yeah, you can
have some fan service ad, a little you know, character
here and there, a moment that is from the game
that can make people happy that are watching the movie.
(11:26):
But at the end of the day, you have to
make a movie that makes sense to people that haven't
played the game. I don't think that matters though, because
fans of this series did not like the movie at all,
and I in fact hated it. I'm gonna make it
right with your body parts, would I tell you? Minimal
(11:46):
said no explosions. I don't know where this film's budget went,
because it costs upwards of one hundred and twenty million
dollars to make this film only making thirty three million dollars.
And I've talked about it if few times on this
podcast that just because the production budget is one hundred
and twenty million dollars, that does not mean that's what
(12:06):
the movie costs. This movie probably costs upwards of two
hundred million dollars to make based on advertising, so it
lost the company Lionsgate almost one hundred and seventy five
million dollars. It tried to copy the formula of so
many successful movies. I think mainly the Guardians of the
Galaxy movie. You know, this ragtag group of individuals that
(12:27):
are set on a quest. They're not really morally good,
but at the end of the day, they do have
morals and they are gonna, you know, do what's right,
and it it just falls flat. I mean Suicide Squad
tried to do the same thing. You copy something and
people see right through it. And audiences didn't want to
go to the theaters to watch this, and I don't
blame them because it was terrible. It was ugly, it
(12:48):
was lazy, the plot made no sense, the acting was horrendous.
I'm sick of Jack Black voicing things. Just an unnecessary
movie and a property. I mean, who's talking about Borderlands?
I don't know anybody that plays this series. Maybe I'm
in the minority when it comes to that one. But
it ain't Super Mario Brothers, it ain't Sonic the hedge Hog,
it ain't even Mortal Kombat. Who is asking for a
(13:11):
Borderlands movie? No one. That's why it's the number one
worst of the year, tied with Megalopolis. Now, Megalopolis is
one of those movies I actually wouldn't mind watching again
because it was so mind bogglingly stupid. From visionary writer
and director Francis Ford Coppola, comes an event nothing can
prepare you for.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Imagine today's society as a branch of civilization about to
reach a dead end. Is this way we're living the
only one that's available to us?
Speaker 1 (13:50):
You get a great cast. Adam Driver, Shilah Buff, John Voyd,
Dustin Hoffman. I mean, these are some of the best
actors of all time. On top of that, you have
Francis Ford Cope, who's made some of the greatest movies
of all time. You want to talk about an ugly
looking movie. I don't know where this film's budget went.
I have no idea, because it looks like something a
(14:10):
YouTuber could create. The green screen effects looks like something
that the angry video game nerd could create in a
YouTube video. Some of the acting choices were bizarre, to
say the least. I don't know if they just said,
Shilah Buff, do what you want to do, We're not
really going to direct you. But I'm fascinated with this movie.
(14:31):
I can't help it. I'm so fascinated with a director
who made The Godfather is making something like this. Does
he need to go into an old folks home? Is
he all there? Mentally? I have no idea. You want
to talk about a movie that was an absolute bomb.
This one cost upwards of one hundred and thirty six
million dollars to just do the production budget, and it
(14:53):
made a little over fourteen million dollars and Francis Ford
Coppola he was putting his own money into this. You know,
he's made a lot of money over the years with
his wine, and he decided, I'm going to make this movie.
I want to make this movie for years, and I
don't really know why. Why would he choose to do this.
Apparently this is a movie he's had the idea for
(15:15):
for decades, and maybe there's some symbolism there. Maybe there's
something deep down. Years from now, some scholar will find
the deeper meaning in this movie. I highly doubt it,
but I don't know. Maybe I'm just holding out hope
because the guy directed Apocalypse now. But maybe, you know,
forty fifty years from now, people will look back at
(15:35):
this movie and be like, oh, actually it was a
genius film. I highly doubt it, but it is one
of those movies that I would actually want to watch
a documentary or a biopick of Francis Ford Coppola making
this movie. I think it's so fascinating that a guy's
willing to risk it all and put his money on
the line and make an absolute laughing stock of a movie.
So shout out to Francis Ford Coppola. So out of
(15:57):
these movies, I would recommend really only watching Madam Webb
and Megalopolis just for the sheer stupidity. The rest are
just lazy and boring and ugly and uninspired. But I
think there is something fun that you could have. Have
a few drinks and watch Megalopolis, you know, maybe smoke
some pot and watch Madam web I think there is
some fun to be had with bad movies. But these
(16:19):
were just some of the worst films of twenty twenty four.
So hopefully twenty twenty five is a better year. Hopefully
we have less stinkers, less duds. But I doubt it.
This has been film real. My name is Justin.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
So long everyone,
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