Tag: Dud
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Disney’s Reboot of an Awful Fantasy Dud Is ‘Seeing Some Real Progress’- Armessa Movie News
[ad_1] Movies that are intended to be the opening chapter in a multi-film series don’t necessarily have to be good in order to generate sequels, but Eragon proved to be so thoroughly terrible in every respect that it was decided to simply abandon the property instead of even trying to assemble a follow-up. A 16…
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A Dud Thriller Delayed 5 Years and Sued 4 Times Embraced on Streaming- Armessa Movie News
[ad_1] There are plenty of things that can go wrong while making a movie, and it would appear that virtually every single one of them happened to mystery thriller London Fields, which has to be regarded as one of the most insanely troubled productions from start to finish in Hollywood history. Director Matthew Cullen called…
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The Director of a Disney Dud Admits Its Release Was Doomed to Fail- Armessa Movie News
[ad_1] As if releasing an all-ages supernatural blockbuster at the height of summer wasn’t enough of a strange call – one that was publicly called out by many as one of the reasons behind its disastrous box office performance – Haunted Mansion was also knee-capped by landing in the immediate aftermath of the Barbenheimer phenomenon.…
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The Director of a Stephen King Dud Makes Do With His Endorsement- Armessa Movie News
[ad_1] There’s been no shortage of disappointing Stephen King adaptations over the decades, but Pet Sematary: Bloodlines still conspired to score some of the worst reviews the legendary author’s live-action back catalogue has ever seen. On Rotten Tomatoes, the 20 percent approval rating held by director Lindsey Anderson Beer’s prequel adapted from a passage in…
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Disney Giving a 15 Year-Old Dud the Full-Blown Snyder Cut Treatment- Armessa Movie News
[ad_1] The two projects couldn’t be any more different on paper, but that doesn’t mean you can’t draw similarities between Zack Snyder’s Justice League and Baz Luhrmann’s Faraway Downs. Both came bearing the weight of hype and expectation, only to fall well short among both critics and audiences to underwhelm at the box office, be…
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A Panned Stephen King Dud Endorsed by the Master Hits #1 on Streaming- Armessa Movie News
[ad_1] Giving the thumbs up or seal of approval to an adaptation of your work is no guarantee of quality, even if the person in question happens to be Stephen King. Let’s not forget the iconic author detests Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, but beyond that, he’s definitely among the minority to have enjoyed Pet Sematary:…
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A Genre’s Biggest Dud in 20 Years Finally Finds an Audience on Streaming- Armessa Movie News
[ad_1] In the buildup to its release, the overriding belief among virtually everybody was that Disney’s Haunted Mansion reboot was preordained to tank at the box office, which is about the only front on which it managed to live up to expectations. Deciding to reboot a 20 year-old theme park adaptation that wasn’t even that…
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The Prequel to a Dismal Comic Book Dud Sidles Onto Streaming’s Top 10- Armessa Movie News
[ad_1] On paper, it makes absolutely no sense to give the okay to a prequel origin story to not just one of the worst comic book adaptations there’s ever been, but one of the biggest box office bombs in history. And yet, for reasons entirely unknown and largely unexplainable, R.I.P.D. 2: Rise of the Damned…
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Dead Reckoning’ Is Beating a $400M Joyless Disney Dud and the Mouse’s Reject Owning the Box Office- Armessa Movie News
[ad_1] Earlier, reports appeared saying Tom Cruise is miffed about Barbie and Oppenheimer taking all the screens away from his Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One. Well, in case he was really that angry, he truly shouldn’t have been as his return as the exceptional spy Ethan Hunt is already winning the box office in…
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The Reboot of a Career-Killing Comic Book Dud Should Still Look To Its Past- Armessa Movie News
[ad_1] via 20th Century Fox As one of the most infamously tortured comic book adaptations in history, which ended up ending a legendary career and bombing at the box office, it was inevitable that The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen would be rebooted eventually. Even though Alan Moore famously detests seeing his work being translated into…
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‘The Flash’ Compared to a Dwayne Johnson Dud That Isn’t ‘Black Adam’- Armessa Movie News
[ad_1] via Warner Bros. In terms of excuses that nobody’s going to buy into for even a second, The Flash director Andy Muschietti claiming that the sketchy CGI was done on purpose has got to rank up there was one of the most incredulous. While he may be telling the truth, there isn’t a single…