What have been some really, really bad decisions in the world of entertainment?

IvaBigWun

Ghostbusters 3 to have an all female lead cast with the very annoying Melissa McCarthy?

http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/film/10346944/New-Ghostbusters-movie-may-go-all-female

This cannot happen!


What have been some really, really bad decisions in the world of entertainment (film, TV etc)?

Tail Docker

" get lucky" sounds so cool! -Linda Martin, c.a 2013..

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Transformers.

krudler

Let's wait 19 years to make the next Indiana Jones movie! people will love seeing an old age Indy run around with that twatwaffle from Transformers.

preytec

The matrix. Why didn't the machines just use cows?

nullzero

"This third album is probably our best yet, now where's that pile of coke?" - Noel Gallagher 1997.

Sunnyisland

Garth brooks concerts being cancelled















Lol lol good luck

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preytec wrote: »

The matrix. Why didn't the machines just use cows?

That would be really milking it.

IvaBigWun

beta maximum wrote: »

Transformers.

The sequels definitely. But I thought the original was great craic

Custardpi

IvaBigWun wrote: »

Ghostbusters 3 to have an all female lead cast with the very annoying Melissa McCarthy?

http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/film/10346944/New-Ghostbusters-movie-may-go-all-female

This cannot happen!


What have been some really, really bad decisions in the world of entertainment (film, TV etc)?

Why not? You can be pretty much guaranteed that whoever is in the reboot it won't be a patch on the original film. An all female cast would at least be a bit different, could be interesting.

IvaBigWun

krudler wrote: »

Let's wait 19 years to make the next Indiana Jones movie! people will love seeing an old age Indy run around with that twatwaffle from Transformers.

And.

And! Let him survive a nuclear explosion by hiding in a fridge. It'll be grand.

everlast75

IvaBigWun wrote: »

Ghostbusters 3 to have an all female lead cast with the very annoying Melissa McCarthy?

http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/film/10346944/New-Ghostbusters-movie-may-go-all-female

This cannot happen!


What have been some really, really bad decisions in the world of entertainment (film, TV etc)?

What are the women gonna do, vacuum up all the ghosts? Amirite men, eh eh?

IvaBigWun

Custardpi wrote: »

Why not? You can be pretty much guaranteed that whoever is in the reboot it won't be a patch on the original film. An all female cast would at least be a bit different, could be interesting.

Because Bill Murray.

End of debate

Banjo String

Ricky Gervais.

Somewhere, someone along the line decided he was 'funny', unfortunately for all and sundry this tag seems to have stuck.

Seriously. Maybe I'm a prude but I definitely don't get his humour.

IvaBigWun

IvaBigWun wrote: »

Ghostbusters 3 to have an all female lead cast with the very annoying Melissa McCarthy?

This cannot happen!

It didn't bother anyone when the original had all male leads. Don't see the problem with female leads for a change.

Links234

preytec wrote: »

The matrix. Why didn't the machines just use cows?

I think I heard that originally the script had it that they were using the humans for processing power, and not batteries. A load of really cool things from the script never made it in to the finished product

IvySlayer

IvaBigWun wrote: »

And.

And! Let him survive a nuclear explosion by hiding in a fridge. It'll be grand.

Let's have 3 scenes with gophers, and have Shia LaBeouf swing through the jungle with monkeys!

LizzieJones

Letting Jimmy Savile have a tv show.

wendell borton

IvaBigWun wrote: »

The sequels definitely. But I thought the original was great craic

I had transformers and watched the cartoon as a kid, but can't watch the movies its just a vomit inducing blur of CGI.

IvaBigWun

Banjo String wrote: »

Ricky Gervais.

Somewhere, someone along the line decided he was 'funny', unfortunately for all and sundry this tag seems to have stuck.

Seriously. Maybe I'm a prude but I definitely don't get his humour.

He is arguably the most divisive comedian/comedy writer of all time. Definitely the most divisive English one

Arthur Beesley

IvySlayer wrote: »

Let's have 3 scenes with gophers, and have Shia LaBeouf swing through the jungle with monkeys!

Would have been better with meerkats.

Custardpi

Letting Eamon Dunphy have his own chat show would have to be up there. Anyone remember it? Made Pat Kenny look like David Letterman by comparison.

IvaBigWun

Candie wrote: »

It didn't bother anyone when the original had all male leads. Don't see the problem with female leads for a change.

I dont think it would be a problem if those 3 female leads were of a standard that matched the original actors in the first two films.

Melissa McCarthy isnt of that standard. Melissa McCarthy isnt even in the same continent of that standard.

lc180

The guy who gave Justin Bieber a record contract should be tried at the Hauge for war crimes

takamichinoku

The WWE Network
Most anything involving Vince Russo
Naming your wrestling company TNA

Atari producing more copies of Pac Man than there were people owning 2600s
The 3DO
Apple Pippin
Nintendo Virtual Boy

A whole load of things involving Nicolas Cage
John Carney following up his breakout hit Once with a film about Simon Delaney pretending to be an alien
Hiring Marlon Brando for just about anything in the latter half of his career
Cutting the **** out of Once Upon a Time in America

Frank Sinatra doing a sci-fi concept album in the late 70s about how Uranus is love, among other things



...I dunno, I'll think of better ones later.

Adamantium

An old one:

Fox cancelling Firefly and Joss Whedon not going back to it (with all the grunt he has now as of 2014), instead he is focusing on Marvel shiitee.

What happened to Firefly afterwards with Netflix and DVD/BluRay is akin to what happened to the original Star Trek in the 70's and 80's after it was cancelled, there's a head of steam built for it come back on name alone. aka The Next Generation

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Any decision made by RTE.

Pherekydes

Simon Cowell was invented.

Wibbs

Decca turning down the Beatles because "guitar bands weren't the future". Actually they got the bum's rush all over the place only getting picked up by Parlophone, an EMI niche label known for classical and comedy stuff.

Giving Buddy Holly the controls of the plane...

Howard the duck. Heaven's gate. Waterworld.

IvaBigWun

takamichinoku wrote: »

Atari producing more copies of Pac Man than there were people owning 2600s

And let us never forget (or remember?) ET, The Game http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.T._the_Extra-Terrestrial_%28video_game%29

E.T. is frequently cited as a contributing factor to Atari's massive financial losses during 1983 and 1984. It was generally believed that as a result of overproduction and returns, millions of unsold cartridges were buried in an Alamogordo, New Mexico landfill.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DTjLG3usQo

boobar

Tom Cruise playing Jack Reacher

BikeQueery

Adamantium wrote: »

An old one:

Fox cancelling Firefly and Joss Whedon not going back to it (with all the grunt he has now as of 2014), instead he is focusing on Marvel shiitee.

What happened to Firefly afterwards with Netflix and DVD/BluRay is akin to what happened to the original Star Trek in the 70's and 80's after it was cancelled, there's a head of steam built for it come back on name alone. aka The Next Generation

They wrapped it with a film called serenity. It's good, give it a watch some time.

FloatingVoter

Elvis thinking he could hack it working in a chipper.

better call saul

Dermot Morgan dying

For Forks Sake

better call saul wrote: »

Dermot Morgan dying

That was a decision?

better call saul

For Forks Sake wrote: »

That was a decision?

Yes, everyone knows cardinal Brady whacked him the cunce

The Backwards Man

Stephen King placing a self imposed ban on himself from directing movies.

RDM_83 again

Links234 wrote: »

I think I heard that originally the script had it that they were using the humans for processing power, and not batteries. A load of really cool things from the script never made it in to the finished product

I always wondered why they didn't go with that angle actually, its an idea I have read before in (pre-matrix) written SF and it makes a hell of a lot more sense than the 'electricity' idea and it would have allowed them to make a lot of the ideas so much more logical and cohesive if they followed that line.

tastyt

Somebody somewhere in Hollywood deciding 60 year old Liam neeson is the new kid on the block as an action man!!

IvaBigWun

tastyt wrote: »

Somebody somewhere in Hollywood deciding 60 year old Liam neeson is the new kid on the block as an action man!!

"Taken" was the best action film of the past few years. The rest, no so much :cool:

Meangadh

The cancellation of "My so-called Life".

diomed

Caddyshack 2

IvaBigWun

Wibbs wrote: »

Decca turning down the Beatles because "guitar bands weren't the future"

At the complete other end of the spectrum, Simon Cowell also turned down the Spice Girls.

takamichinoku

IvaBigWun wrote: »

And let us never forget (or remember?) ET, The Game http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.T._the_Extra-Terrestrial_%28video_game%29

Who could forget such a peach of a game!:D

Atari were left with about twice as many unsold copies of Pac-Man as they were of ET though, I believe. The actual production history of ET makes its title of "worst game ever" pretty unfair on yer man too, with Pac-Man they managed to make an especially bad Pac-Man that was worse than many of the dozens/hundreds of clones already on the machine.
He was given 5 weeks to make a game that should've taken a few months. Spielberg handpicked him so he felt a bit obligated to try and make a good game out of it instead of churning out a pac man clone, totally blew up in his face but is it really any worse than... every single atari game, I guess?

kowloon

So many crimes, but the ones that get to me are when someone has a good idea and butchers it, thereby guaranteeing the idea, or even a fully fledged script gets used again in something good.

Adamantium

BikeQueery wrote: »

They wrapped it with a film called serenity. It's good, give it a watch some time.

I know it was, but it ain't a series

Adamantium

Not killing off Sylar permanently after season 1 of Heroes, half the trouble and wonder of the show was how they were going to take him down, and when they did it was "Yesss!"

Without resolution in stories, it renders everything inert.

Best 1st season to show I've ever watched

Danonino.

Then the writers strike halfway through the next season completely ruined it, it came back a shadow of its former self. The first season was truely brilliant. Sigh.


A very bad decision in entertainment well at least for the labels and studios was releasing their content on CDs and DVDs, a digital format that never degrades as you can copy and back up 1:1 while creating multiples and transferring them easily. The record industry crying that home taping was killing music then release CDs?




Then the internet happened. Yay, sharing is fun.

Adamantium

Edward James Olmos being for the first pick for Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation and turns it down, but it ain't so bad as he made Adama iconic in BSG.

nails1

The introduction of Elvis Presley to fast food.

fleet_admiral

Nintendo deleting the section behind kakariko village in oot in order to get the game out for xmas. Bastards