Hmmm...probably Miami Vice. Holy shit, what a horrible fucking mess of a movie that is. Slow, convoluted, poorly paced, boring, and way over-long...everything a summer movie shouldn't be. I've seen a lot of real dumb summer movies in theaters, but I'm at least able to enjoy something like Transformers 2 for its stupid bombastic action (while trying to ignore Michael Bay's corny humor). Miami Vice was definitely one of the most completely shitty movies I've had the misfortune of seeing in theaters. The only reason I didn't leave was because I was with friends. They all hated it, too.
It's a tie, both movies I should have asked my money back for.
Wolverine Origins and Transformers 2.
Origins was the first real disappointment for the X-Men franchise for me, I expected a lot more than a terrible action film. I actually enjoyed the first Transformers film even if it was one of those typical dumb action films. Michael Bay was the best when it came to those kind of films but the sequel just piled terrible mistake (racist robots) after terrible mistake (Transformer with testicles).
I don't usually expect too much from summer blockbuster films but at least try!
same year as phantom menace.... I'm impressed, the film made Selma Hayek unsexy.
I think Super Mario Bros takes it, same year as Last Action Hero and Jurassic Park. Lots of people love to crap on Last Action Hero since it was a Box Office Bomb in the release of Jurassic Park but it was never as bad Super Mario Bros. And also Super Mario Bros was released 3 years after Super Mario World so it was well out of everyone's expectations for a video game movie.
It was 1997, I was at the height of my Star Wars fandom. I played the shit out of TIE Fighter, Dark Forces, Jedi Knight. Ate up the Thrawn trilogy. A good friend of mine managed to win midnight release tickets for us to a local showing of Episode 1 just hours before the movie. We were in a rush to get to the theatre, and by the time we parked, the movie was minutes from starting.
So, we ran. Like the wind. I took a dive in the parking lot and bloodied my hands and knees, but was so pumped and excited that I felt nothing. Through the opening fight scene and the racist Asian aliens, I felt nothing but excitement. This was a new Star Wars movie! Then, a half hour in, I was bored. Soon after that, the scrapes on my body were -really- starting to sting.
It's a tie, both movies I should have asked my money back for.
Wolverine Origins and Transformers 2.
Origins was the first real disappointment for the X-Men franchise for me, I expected a lot more than a terrible action film. I actually enjoyed the first Transformers film even if it was one of those typical dumb action films. Michael Bay was the best when it came to those kind of films but the sequel just piled terrible mistake (racist robots) after terrible mistake (Transformer with testicles).
I don't usually expect too much from summer blockbuster films but at least try!
Oh man one of those is my answer. Not sure which was worse. Probably Wolverine cause I kinda expected Transformers to suck. I still don't know how they managed to make Wolverine as bad as it was. Uggh.
@thesoutherndandy: You know how they made X-Men Origins: Wolverine suck?
They made Sabertooth his brother, and many other character assassinations. While comic books are cheesy at times, most of the characters that survive the years do so on the back of their internal motivations and history. XO: Wolverine removes most of these entirely.
Most of the Fox superhero movies are like that. Juggernaut only even got his powers through eventual events due to wanting to One-Up his halfbrother (Xavier). In X-3, they don't even know each other. He's also not a mutant, and yet the anti-mutant mutant somehow stops his powers.
That being said, it's not just that they changed the characters that makes them bad. The new origins/explanations/backstories are usually much worse than the source material, which makes you wonder why they did it at all in the first place.
However, most of the above is my opinion, so take it as you will.
@thesoutherndandy: Both times I was with friends. With Wolverine I went with one friend and I kept thinking how terrible everything was but I stayed because I didn't want to leave my friend. Eventually the torture ended and we both walked out. About ten feet from the theater we both asked one another if we liked it and realize we both had been staying so the other would enjoy the movie. If only we had left. If only...
@finaldasa: If only you'd left the moment Agent Zero did that dumbass shooty jump over the gate. Think of what you would have been spared...
@eujin: Oddly enough I didn't mind what they did with Sabertooth. Maybe it's because I like that actor, I dunno. But I agree. At this point I've gotten to the point where I don't expect Hollywood to stick to the source material, as long as they do a good job with what they present, and that movie didn't. Maverick/Agent Zero was one of my favorite characters in the comic and turning him into a lame bad guy pissed me off and that was just for starters. So much of that movie sucked. Also the jazz hands bathroom scene. So bad.
I was 16 at the time and would put the terrible dialogues and acting on account of some terrible dub and translation (saw it in french) and besides there was some cool light saber fights.
A couple years later i mostly switched to watching movies in English and was also simply older and smarter and came to the sad realization that George Lucas had in fact attempted murder on the franchise.
Woa, woa, and woa. The Lego Movie isn't a summer movie and is pretty damn awesome.
Man of Steel was highly disappointing but that is different than "the worst summer movie". What is equally depressing is that Pacific Rim came out in the same summer and was a much better "super hero movie" and won't get a sequel.
Woa, woa, and woa. The Lego Movie isn't a summer movie and is pretty damn awesome.
Man of Steel was highly disappointing but that is different than "the worst summer movie". What is equally depressing is that Pacific Rim came out in the same summer and was a much better "super hero movie" and won't get a sequel.
Woah^6...
Pacific rim made $220,000,000 net profit, and Del Toro has been working on the script for the sequel for months.
Transformers 2 probably. Midnight showing, all I wanted to do was see robots smash each other up for 2 hours and what I get is Shia LeNotBuff going to robot heaven for some reason or another.
Unless May counts as a summer movie, then it would be Spider-Man 3. Midnight showing of that as well...
X-Men Origins: Wolverine. They didn't bother to finish half the special effects. They took away Deadpool's mouth. They cast Will.i.am for some reason. It's poorly-made and it's not even dumb enough to be entertaining.
I remember a long ass time ago I went to go see some Transformers movie with someone I liked and it was so boring that I don't even remember if that was the movie we saw or not.
Woa, woa, and woa. The Lego Movie isn't a summer movie and is pretty damn awesome.
Man of Steel was highly disappointing but that is different than "the worst summer movie". What is equally depressing is that Pacific Rim came out in the same summer and was a much better "super hero movie" and won't get a sequel.
I've a hard time recalling which summer movies I've seen in the cinema, but the first Michael Bay Transformers movie is probably up on my list. Goddamn. My friend I was there with described my facial expression as slowly going from raised eyebrow to apathy to pure disgust.
I rarely go to the theater (it's much more fun watching movies at home), but last year me and a couple of friends went to see The Heat. I found the humor to be lame, the plot predictable and overall terrible. I still can't believe (according to wikipedia) that it's 2013's second-highest-grossing comedy movie. What is wrong with people?
People say Pacific Rim is getting a sequel but beyond "I wish this movie is being made" planning stages what has been done? Are the producer lined up and ready to fund? Is the script reviewed and ready to go? Have the actors been lined up reoccurring or new? So far it is "not really...but keep watching!"
On the other hand, DC and Warner Brothers are just throwing money at the one "team" that seemed to do anything good with DC characters (is it irony both times they wholesale abandoned core cannon to get the movie to a shipped state?) even with a dubious track record. I don't doubt that Warner Brothers will at least produce a "testable" movie because there is too much money at stake but that doesn't mean much.
@extomar: Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and the Dark knight trilogy all had anywhere between 3 and 5 year intervals between movies. It hasn't been a year yet. Why in the hell would you expect to have heard anything significant?
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