Hollywood major mistakes thread - In which we discuss the many foibles of visual media production companies past and present

[Dysnomia]

Funnily enough, an animated adaptation WAS in the works by Steven Spielberg's animation studio, Amblimation
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I wants a Cats animated movie so bad when I was a kid. This looks awesome. Too bad we got that nightmare fuel instead.

Whose idea was it for Michael Bay to make a TMNT movie, live action no less?

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This looks horrifying.

I've encounter a few fangirls of these abominations online. I don't get it.

 

[holyhandgrenade]

Hollywood somehow convincing everyone that Tarantino and Nolan aren't just retards masturbating to their own self indulgent fetishes and Judd Apatow for forcing Paul Rudd on us. oHyeah, and Stephen Spielberg fuck that old Jew.

 

[Dysnomia]

.....please tell me you're sneeding and not being serious

Gotta be. At least I hope so.

I remember that in The Shawshank Redemption there's a scene with a pack of Marlboro cigarettes that have Marlboro Miles on them. I guess they thought it wouldn't be seen in the shot.

Do cigarette companies still run those points promotions? I remember walking around in a Salem shirt my mom got from collecting points when I was ten.

 

[verissimus]

Disney live action remakes. Enough said.

 

[Get the rope Macaulay!]

James Cagney

not to shit on him, but thats sort of funny based on looks. he really was a yankee doodle dandy.

this piece of shit right here. Look at it!

the director was always about weird gimmicks, he almost rendered a fuck load of a-list movie stars completely mute with his Les Mis antics, like the reason musicals don't record the way they did on that film was because it damages vocal cords on par with smoking 4 packs a day, if you notice thats also why they mainly used "i dreamed a dream" in the ads, it was the only song that remotely worked in the format, and was the big song of the musical, but still it was the vocal version of the CATS level of retardation.

The only way this could have worked is if they did an animated version perhaps in the same sort of style as Aristocats.

no it couldn't, CATS is a heavily dance based musical. for fucks sake there are non-speaking roles that get listed in the playbill because of how important they are if you follow it as a ballet. which it mostly is, a ballet with songs, you wouldn't be able to make it fluid enough except in live action. just the way film works, it would be impossible to do this musical unless you went all ang lee autistic.

the best thing about the stage vs the theater is that you can see all the characters on stage at all times, which leads to even people acting when not actively speaking. one of the best parts of the nut cracker is the opening for me because you can see all the dancers and their "plots" developing as the party proceeds, which you don't get in a film. everything is so close up in film, if a person isn't speaking then who gives a fuck as far as the medium is concerned. This is why ninjas are so much more impressive on stage vs films, because of how you have to focus on them you can't have a random extra just kill someone or else people would complain, meanwhile you can focus on the murderer in a stage play and even if they're not actively speaking their movements tell the story.

which is why silent film was able to produce so many amazing gags, theater already forces its actors to understand their bodies and being seen at all times in a way that film doesn't do which is why its super hard for film actors to go to the stage vs the exact opposite.

I fucking hate Hollywood so much.

sort of on point to what i stated above, the movie industry can't handle following 22 people's actions at the same time, the coordination involved is too much for them, honestly look at any fight scenes, even hong kong has a bit of trouble when its 22 people. no way in hell are they going to reshoot and waste film just because these stunt men don't do the plays properly.

plus football is sort of the exact opposite of theater or nerd shit so anyone who could spot these fuck ups would never have made it high enough to force changes on a movie set.

WB was forsaking its golden goose longer than believed.

honestly none of the 1960s cartoons hold up, WB basically gave up on making them once TV got big and HB figured out how to do it cheaper and better.

I've encounter a few fangirls of these abominations online. I don't get it.

if it came out when you were in the age demo you're old enough to buy booze today.

 

[Scarlett Johansson]

There is the infamous Twilight Zone movie disaster. People talk about the work hours of the child actors a lot which I always felt is a complete red herring on the accident because even if it had been during business hours and the kids had been hired on the correct contracts and shit the actual issue was the retarded play between pyrotechnics and forcing a chopper pilot to fly too close and low.

Idk how Landis was able to continue having a career afterwards. (Then transferring it to his demon child)

 

[Neodanthril]

Idk how Landis was able to continue having a career afterwards

 

[Scarlett Johansson]

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The 1993 Mario movie. After a more faithful script set to be directed by Harold Ramis (which is attached) was scrapped, they got a bunch of people who, and I quote "started to think about Max Headroom." Bob Hoskins and John Leguizamo showed up hammered to the set, and apparently the husband-wife team who directed it were so awful their own agent told them to get off of the set.

Fiona Shaw finally opened up about it when she was promoting Andor a few years ago to IGN. Because the husband/wife directors were so awful to work with and days on set were so horrid, she took matters into her own hands and gathered the actors together to do some Shakespeare to both help their performances and to distract from the batshit chaos on set. John Leguizamo has said that its one of the ways he got through it.

The directors even suggested to Fiona that she sleep with a live snake. She refused for obvious reasons. Also since they were in North Carolina, she went out for a swim one day and when she finished one of the locals told her they got sharks in the water.

Samantha Mathis seems to have enjoyed it because she still signs autographs for it, mentioning at one convention that it was the most popular item at her table that day. I have no idea about Dennis Hopper though I imagine he had a sort of Alec Guinness attitude towards it. It would be interesting to hear what the actors who played Toad, Mario's girlfriend, and Big Bertha thought about it. (Also there needs to be more bobsled style slides in the world.)

The fact that she says she has plenty of stories about working on the film makes me feel they need to release one of those oral history type books about it. Fiona, John, and Samantha seem to be relatively good hearted about the recognition for it despite the insanity..

 

[Snorky]

Disney cropping older episodes of The Simpsons to make them "widescreen compatible", resulting in jokes like these flying under the radar:

Though more intentional than accidental, streaming services essentially destroyed the concept of owning what you pay for, and all these "exclusives" will in time become legally unwatchable because many of them won't have full physical media releases.

 

[Get the rope Macaulay!]

me feel they need to release one of those oral history type books about it.

there's no way there isn't a huge article or 10 on it already.

 

[Nikes_JustDoIt]

Robert Zemeckis thinking mo cap will be the next big thing

 

[The Nothingness]

Whoever at Paramount thought this was good look for Sonic. At least that mistake was corrected while Disney reused it for their Chip & Dale movie.

 

[#lurker]

Robert Zemeckis thinking mo cap will be the next big thing

Motion capture is in everything these days. His mocap films were terrible, but he wasn't wrong.

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

Moving from real props and sets to greenscreen and CGI ruined films. Jurassic Park 1 used a mixture of animatronics, puppets and CGI, the reactions from actors is more natural and ever-lasting.

The alien chest ripper? A prop, no-one on set knew what to expect and it's an iconic scene.
Many such cases.

 

[Quijibo69]

Idk how Landis was able to continue having a career afterwards. (Then transferring it to his demon child)

Fun fact: He has a daughter that grew up and did nothing of note. They did have a drinking problem.

 

[Vampirella]

And I suppose you expect us to believe this is some sort of "ghost helicopter" shadow at the beginning, following the car

This is clearly a clue that proves the Moon landing is fake.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

This is clearly a clue that proves the Moon landing is fake.

everybody knows that Kubrick faked the moon landing for the feds, but because he's Kubrick he made them shoot the fake landing on the real moon

 

[Calandrino]

 

[Jace on ice]

Trying to make greasy 5'5 manlet Pedro Pascal an action star or a romantic lead. He's terrible in both these roles.

He's especially bad as Joel since anyone who's played the first Last Of Us game knows that Joel is an ex raider, a hulking 6'4 beast of a man who won't hesitate to beat you to death with his bare hands.

Pascal looks like he manages a Chipotle.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole 2]

I would love to know more about this

They did it because it was cheaper. Imagine someone shooting up a bar. Using fake ammunition and then rigging and synching the destruction of bar, the bottles and glassware when someone opened fire with a tommygun was just a hassle. Just install a heavy metal plate behind the bar as protection then have the extra playing the bartender duck behind it before firing with at it with live ammunition. Stuff like that.

And shit like this: