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

Philo Beddoe

Peter Jackson attempting to make high-framerate a thing. I saw the first Hobbit movie like this and I couldn't get over how much the Shire now looked like Emmerdale on UTV.

In fairness, it was hardly the worst decision as they made it available in the regular framerate and it made a boatload of money anyway...

keano_afc

Gladiators. The ITV show in the 90's was brilliant. Sky tried to bring it back last year and it was terrible.

IvaBigWun

IvaBigWun wrote: »

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.

She was great in Bridesmaids.

I agree though, bad in everything else.

Custardpi

Candie wrote: »

She was great in Bridesmaids.

I agree though, bad in everything else.

I think she's one of those actresses who given a really good script & tight direction can turn out a pretty decent performance. Some people can shine even within lesser quality work but she isn't one of them.

whatlliwear

Sarannewrap wrote: »

Whoever gave kim kardashian and her stupid family a tv show. I'm sick of the sight of each and every one of them

Exactly what I was going to type.

krudler

Grayson wrote: »

last action hero

It was designed to be a pisstake but the studio took it seriously and put Arnie in it.

Plus the final nail in the coffin. it was due to be released the same week as a Spielberg film. Spielberg hadn't had a huge hit in a while and it was a strange film he was making so the studio weren't worried about it. "Who wants to watch a load of Dinosaurs" was the quote I believe.

Last Action Hero was way ahead of it's time, some of the jokes in it are genius. Arnie is totally in on the joke sending up his own screen persona and Charles Dance is just amazing as the villain.
"I've shot somebody and I did it on purpose!" It's a brilliant pastiche on the 80's/90's action movie genre but in a good way, and Shane Black's script did postmodern movie references long before Scream made it a thing. but alas since it came out at the same time as a little film about dinosaurs it was doomed to fail at the box office. I'll forever sing it's praises though.



but it's no Demolition Man :pac:

SimonTemplar

Jar Jar Binks

fleet_admiral

Grayson wrote: »

last action hero

It was designed to be a pisstake but the studio took it seriously and put Arnie in it.

Plus the final nail in the coffin. it was due to be released the same week as a Spielberg film. Spielberg hadn't had a huge hit in a while and it was a strange film he was making so the studio weren't worried about it. "Who wants to watch a load of Dinosaurs" was the quote I believe.

Blasphemy

bnt

Sandra Bullock and Sequels: her career survived Speed 2 and Miss Congeniality 2 on the way to an Oscar for The Blind Side, and she just turned 50, so by this point she can do whatever the heck she likes. Next up: The Heat 2, again with Melissa McCarthy of Ghostbusters 3 fame-to-be. :eek:

thelad95

Taken 2. The first movie was fantastic from start to finish. The second played out like a short story written by a fifteen year old in his Junior Cert English exam.

What's even worse is they are making a Taken 3.

preytec

takamichinoku wrote: »

Offers a level of immersion that's very hard to replicate

It's not like the industry is ignoring the internet regardless.

oculus rift

And the head of Sony.

It will and they did

deise08

Paddy Cow wrote: »

I thought it was Take That he turned down and told them to get rid of the fat one aka Gary Barlow.

Wasn't that westlife and he meant Shane?

Adamantium

Rejecting this theme as a Bond song and instead going with Jack White and Alicia Keys (which sounded like a TV movie)

They even mixed in quote from Casino Royale at 2:28, that gives a context as to why Bond is a loose canon in this film

and how was destroyed for the first and last time by the only woman he ever loved

and is out for revenge in this one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zg2dXY9TOKA

Adamantium

Turned out to the best console at the end but this was a great summary (out of context summary) of the launch.

Kaz Hirai, this man now runs Sony and the Playstation is the one division doing well in a company in junk status.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaBUeINW_3s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IH2w2l1JTs4

IvaBigWun

thelad95 wrote: »

Taken 2. The first movie was fantastic from start to finish. The second played out like a short story written by a fifteen year old in his Junior Cert English exam.

I had to switch it off. Ive rarely, rarely had to do that with a film. Its one of the worst movies of the last 20 years.

Custardpi

I think the script for Taken 2 was written by the accountants after they'd finished calculating the profits from the first one.

is mise spartacus

Movie 43; the worst thing I've ever seen

IvaBigWun

Custardpi wrote: »

I think the script for Taken 2 was written by the accountants after they'd finished calculating the profits from the first one.

The change of cert from 17/18 to PG 13 absolutely killed it. Terrible decision

IvaBigWun

Adamantium wrote: »

Rejecting this theme as a Bond song and instead going with Jack White and Alicia Keys (which sounded like a TV movie)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zg2dXY9TOKA

Who sang that rejected one?

Adamantium

IvaBigWun wrote: »

Who sang that rejected one?

"Forever - I Am All Yours" with the artist Eva Almér

ardle1

Snoop Dog....
What is wrong with that guy, and who created him??

Dinosaur Controller

The writers of 'Lost' deciding that making it up as you go along was a good course of delivering a story and tying up all those loose ends.

Custardpi

ardle1 wrote: »

Snoop Dog....
What is wrong with that guy, and who created him??

What do you mean? Bit of a strange one at times (Snoop Lion how are ye?) but back in the 90s he was one of the best things about hip hop. Listen to Doggystyle, still holds up as an essential album of the genre imo. Even today he's still capable of almost effortless greatness. He contributed a throw away, bubblegum rap verse to Katy Perry's "California Gurls" a few years back that was almost certainly dashed off in about 5 minutes but was still better than just about anything Drake or Lil' Wayne have put out in their careers.

jigglypuffstuff

Any form of reality TV!!!

sammy37

The lovely Leslie Ash deciding to have liposuction -oh what a disaster that turned out to be. It nearly made me cry for her.

Fakman87

Dinosaur Controller wrote: »

The writers of 'Lost' deciding that making it up as you go along was a good course of delivering a story and tying up all those loose ends.

I'm still sore over that to this day.

They hooked you in with so many interesting mysteries in the first 2 seasons but the world eventually became so nonsensical that the answers to those mysteries gave no satisfaction.

IvaBigWun

sammy37 wrote: »

The lovely Leslie Ash deciding to have liposuction

*Googles Leslie Ash*









:eek:

IvaBigWun

Dinosaur Controller wrote: »

The writers of 'Lost' deciding that making it up as you go along was a good course of delivering a story and tying up all those loose ends.

A great show let down by a terrible last season. Too many questions asked and not enough time or the know how to answer them all.

I believe the writer of the Games Of Thrones calls it "pulling a Lost" when you make a balls of a good concept in TV now :pac:

Iranoutofideas

Axl Rose deciding to continue GNR sans Slash, Duff & Izzy and releasing Chinese Democracy.

A cluster****

gugleguy

The complete Atari Falcon computer project by Atari from Start to finish. The same goes for the Atari Lynx portable gaming device.

Nib

Cancelling Glenroe.

Pricks.

Aidric

The decision to remake 'Oldboy' for an American audience. Don't tamper with a masterpiece.

gugleguy

LizzieJones wrote: »

Letting Jimmy Savile have a tv show.

Letting Rolph Harris host a classic cartoon tv show in which he drew the cartoon characters between the cartoons, on children's tv in the same era of Jimmy Saville.

djflawless

Child abuse wouldnt really have been in the 'good idea' pile I'd imagine...

IvaBigWun

gugleguy wrote: »

Letting Rolph Harris host a classic cartoon tv show in which he drew the cartoon characters between the cartoons, on children's tv in the same era of Jimmy Saville.

How were the makers of Saville and Harris' shows to know what they were?

columf

John Travolta - battlefield earth

Mr. CooL ICE

takamichinoku wrote: »

A whole load of things involving Nicolas Cage

md23040

Who ever produced Riverdance and provided the platform for Michael Flatley needs shot.

Annoyingly he's made hundreds of millions from Orish mythology twee that's been milked to death over more than 20 years and still going strong. The world would be done a favour if his legs disappeared.

IvaBigWun

Nicolas Cage wrote: »

Ok. We'll let you away with The Rock, Con Air and Face Off.

HerrScheisse

Not finishing Deadwood, the shower of fvcks!

One of HBO's greatest failures. They always went against public opinion and created artwork, except in the case of Deadwood, they pussied out :mad:

Remakes of 80's films. They will never capture the non-politically correct ham acted bloodthirstiness of a genuine 80's movie with its subplot of an unquenchable thirst for revenge. Robocop - a creature of thoughts and memories out for revenge. Predator - a musclebound killer out for revenge against an alien that croaked his friends.

Hunger Games - a pussy version of the Running Man, where an ex-con is out for revenge against the TV network.

The Adversary

Coldplay allowing Brian Eno to produce them. Say what you want about coldplay, but they were a proper rock band before the bastard turned them into a commercially viable pop band for teenagers.

LeinsterDub

Season 2 onwards of prison break, eh lads there is a clue in the title as to why I'm watching this.

SeanW

IvaBigWun wrote: »

How were the makers of Saville and Harris' shows to know what they were?

They didn't and couldn't but it was still (albeit with the benefit of hindsight) a mistake.

_Redzer_

The raping and pillaging the once fantastic The Simpsons by dragging its memory through the mud before letting it die on its feet, all the while continuously flogging it with a stick for easy cash.

Had they put it to rest after its golden years its memory would have been preserved and it would be revered as one of the greatest sitcoms, ever. Now the number of terrible episodes outnumber the great.

Sir Gallagher

Theodore Rex... Whoopie Goldberg fights crime with a fcking dinosaur. The most expensive straight to video movie of all time at 33m Dollars.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dY7gsUL9Xkk

The King of Moo

Adding a prologue to Dark City with a VoiceOver explaining what's supposed to be the big twist late in the film.

Sam Raimi apparently being pressured into adding Venom to Spider-man 3, over stuffing the film and doing nothing interesting with the character. Which also led to the dull, charmless newer films.

The treatment of three characters from Aliens at the beginning of Alien 3.

Making sequels to The Matrix when the film worked perfectly on its own.

Changing the ending of The Vanishing for the remake.

Stopping at Bates' Motel.

Egginacup

Kevin Costner being given an audition.

Adamantium

Not making a Wonder Woman movie in the 90's with Lucy Lawless. She is Wonder Woman

Not making an Uncharted movie with Nathan Fillion as Drake and Bruce Campbell as Sully
Tricia Helfer as Elena

So.... non events basically

Turtyturd

HBO not making 100 Bullets.

Badly Drunk Boy

gugleguy wrote: »

The complete Atari Falcon computer project by Atari from Start to finish. The same goes for the Atari Lynx portable gaming device.

The farce that is Atari Jaguar is worse.