Big-budget movies come with high expectations.
Audiences anticipate impressive visuals, immersive sets, and cutting-edge special effects.
Yet, many big-budget films, despite their hefty price tags, end up looking surprisingly cheap.
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With this in mind, this list considers some of the worst big-budget offenders out there.
The charismatic leads do a lot of heavy lifting, compensating considerably for the subpar script and lame dialogue.
This lack of substance undercuts the emotional impact of the numerous twists, double-crosses, and triple-crosses.
All told,Red Noticegives the impression of a cast and crewcontent with mediocrity.
In short, the movie isn’t awful, but it falls short of its potential.
“Gemini ManstarsWill Smithin a dual role, playing both an aging assassin and his younger clone.
Likewise, the action sequences rely so heavily on CGI that they lack the visceral excitement of real stunts.
There are video game cutscenes with more punch.
The movie’s high frame rate is also more jarring than immersive.
For this reason,Gemini Manshould have been awesome, but reallyit’s just fairly lame.
And that’s without even getting started on the script and the shaky cloning science.
They’re not terrible but they’re not great either.
The alien landscapes look similarly flimsy.
DirectorMartin Campbell(The Legend of Zorro,Casino Royale) hasadmittedthat the project was a mess.
“The film did not work, really,” he has said.
“Superhero movies are not my cup of tea.”
The rest of the movie was not received much more warmly.
The stars also seem to do the bare minimum.
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4’Fantastic Four' (2015)
Directed by Josh Trank
“Its clobberin time!”
It makes the earlierFantastic Fourmovies seem better in hindsight, which is saying something.
Im a normal twin.
Reboot of “The Munsters,” that followed a family of monsters who moves from Transylvania to an American suburb.
This is a freak.”
Where did all that money go?
There’s not enough actual humor here to fill an SNL skit.
Many of the characters loom genuinely unsettling, not to mention unfinished.
It’s one of the more memorable misfires of the last decade.
The finished product is a smoldering dumpster fire in every conceivable way.
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The end result is a sci-fi travesty,2001: A Space Odyssey’s dark matter opposite.
It’s actively unpleasant to watch.
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Family guy, Jack Sadelstein, prepares for the annual event he always dreads–the Thanksgiving visit of his fraternal twin sister, the needy, and passive-aggressive Jill, who then refuses to leave.
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A tribe of cats called the Jellicles must decide yearly which one will ascend to the Heaviside Layer and come back to a new Jellicle life.
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