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Really ugly films that are just horrible to watch

Started by Clownbaby, July 17, 2018, 12:54:08 PM

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Clownbaby

I really hate live action movies that try to look like the cartoons they are based on. Like the Flintstones movies. Absolutely dire. All the big clunky colourful foam set pieces and the cheap fancy dress costumes.

Then you've got The Cat in The Hat movie. Dr Seuss characters just don't look right in 3D or live action. The people in The Grinch movie look grotesque. Jim Carrey actually pulls off the Grinch costume but Mike Myers as The Cat is one of the most depressingly ugly things I've ever seen. He's really restricted by his suit and looks proper fat, which is stupid because the very nature of The Cat is a sprightly, impish, sort of spidery whirling dirvish who fucks everything up and then fucks off. He wouldn't be chubby and short. Horrible film.

White Chicks is an obvious one, as is fuckin Thunderpants. I kind of like the film Idiocracy and I know it's meant to be ugly and dirty looking but it looks too fake at points

Phil_A

A lot of mid-tier CG kids movies from the early 2000s and onwards are to going to end up aging very badly indeed. Just look at this hideous load of sub-troll doll grotesquery.


Clownbaby

Quote from: Phil_A on July 17, 2018, 02:24:52 PM
A lot of mid-tier CG kids movies from the early 2000s and onwards are to going to end up aging very badly indeed. Just look at this hideous load of sub-troll doll grotesquery.



YES. Hated this.

And this, the most gormless plastic representation of Little Red Riding Hood






Small Man Big Horse

Quote from: Clownbaby on July 17, 2018, 02:30:21 PM
YES. Hated this.

And this, the most gormless plastic representation of Little Red Riding Hood



I agree with you about Red Riding Hood, but it's such a shame the animation is so poor as it's a surprisingly funny little film.

Bronzy

I'd argue Foodfight! tops the list of ugly early to mid 2000s animated kids films by some margin, despite being released in 2012.

Horrible, just horrible.

Clownbaby

Quote from: Bronzy on July 17, 2018, 03:31:58 PM
I'd argue Foodfight! tops the list of ugly early to mid 2000s animated kids films by some margin, despite being released in 2012.

Horrible, just horrible.

Oh my god, I had a shit movie night with my mates a couple months ago and I could not stop laughing at the twirling dancing "email" creature that appears at one point. I don't know why it got to me so much. The character designs are so breathtakingly ugly across the board but I found it weirdly hilarious that this is what they thought the concept of "email" should look like. I think I might have been a bit drunk.

The best thing about Food Fight is they argued that it looked so shit because they had to redo everything from scratch, but the original trailer featuring the "better" character models looks pretty much as breathtakingly repulsive as the film we got.

Bhazor

Flatland is an interesting one. It starts out with a really quite interesting and striking look. Made of flat geometric shapes which plays with the central concept of the film of living in a 2 dimensional world. Certainly for a 2007 independent microbudget CGI film.



And then it goes in to 3D.


The less said about flatland 2 the better.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6LfuKKqXdU

Twit 2


Clownbaby

Quote from: Twit 2 on July 17, 2018, 05:16:44 PM
Tim Burton's Charlie & The Chocolate Factory

I strangely like this film apart from the unnecessary fuckin airbrushed/computer generated effect over every actors face. It doesn't add an oddness like they wanted, it just dates it. This film was definitely the start of Tim Burton's films being u necessarily CGI and artificial looking. Alice In Wonderland is absolutely hideous, Dark Shadows looks really naff and Miss Peregrines Home For Peculiar Children is overly touched up as well

Bhazor

Quote from: Bhazor on July 17, 2018, 04:37:02 PM
Flatland is an interesting one. It starts out with a really quite interesting and striking look. Made of flat geometric shapes which plays with the central concept of the film of living in a 2 dimensional world. Certainly for a 2007 independent microbudget CGI film.

Just found out there were 2 entirely unrelated Flatland films released the same year. Flatland the Film and Flatland the Movie which is the one I mentioned. The other one starring Tony Hale, Kristen Bell and Martin Sheen. It doesn't look much better despite the increased budget.



Bhazor

Mars Needs Mom is interesting failing in that the main character is by far the most alien looking thing in the whole movie.



Also if you search for "Mars Need Mom gif" on duckduckgoose all you get is incest fantasy porn. So thats what I had to go through three pages of for this.


Sebastian Cobb

It's rare for me to turn a film off midway but I did recently on some grim one on Mubi. I've forgotten what it's called now but basically some kid in Foster care gets reunited with his mum and she's a shambles. Dirty flat and bed, drink abnd drugs. He runs away and then the police said they'd tell the child protection people so she does a flit. Takes speed or eckies and gives the god some for a drive. Leaves him in the car while she gets twatted in the bar then cops off with some guy. Kid rings the doorbell. She tells him to sleep in the bath, then he pisses himself and the cowboy she copped off with tries to beat the incontinence out of him with a belt. It was just really pointlessly hateful and had no redeeming features.

garbed_attic

Quote from: Twit 2 on July 17, 2018, 05:16:44 PM
Tim Burton's Charlie & The Chocolate Factory

YES. I don't know how Burton's later films manage to look so simultaneously garish and dreary. It's an aesthetic only previously achieved by air-brush air on the sides of grotty carpark fairgrounds.

Clownbaby

I think Monster House is a good film, but the motion capture was completely unnecessary. The character weren't realistic looking anyway so the ordinary realistic movement of the models made them look a bit strange. I really don't like completely motion capture animated movies. Fuckin Polar Express is dire, especially because it's trying to look as real as possible, which defeats the object. Tom Hanks' CGI character literally just looks like him with a tache. All the characters look like strange, stiff, glossy humans with less expressive faces than they should have

Sebastian Cobb

Quote from: Clownbaby on July 17, 2018, 02:30:21 PM
YES. Hated this.

And this, the most gormless plastic representation of Little Red Riding Hood




Clownbaby

Get out of my head Sebastian Cobb. I was just thinking about the "computer animated creature face." It really bothers me

"That smile isn't quite wisecracky enough, add a touch of sneer"

Another thing I'm fucking hating which seems to be getting flogged to death in Illumination films in particular is the dance parties at the end of every film. Where it's just all the characters throwing shapes. If there's an derby character either their back will go or they'll be really "unexpectedly" good at breakdancing. Look at granny, she's a dervish

fucking ponderous

Every CGI film looks like the same thing, and that thing is shit. Even the big Pixar ones look like shit. They're all so bland looking, it seems like they reuse the same character designs every film. And I do believe all-CGI films can look good and inventive. Rango for instance worked, I feel, because it didn't try to make its characters look cute. They just looked like slightly weird real life lizards and things, and the film still stands out because of it. And I know Pixar can do different aesthetics in their features, as the visuals in their short films show. They just choose not to.


idunnosomename

I tried to watch Beowulf once and it was like sitting with someone else playing a computer game and won't let you have a go, it was so fucking terrible I had to turn it off

holyzombiejesus

There was an animated film called Spacechimps on TV a couple of Christmases ago and that was really horrible. It was made worse by one of the characters having a really dodgy 'comedy' Asian accent. I've actually just found the exact bit that I saw, shuddered at and switched off. Really horrible.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ge8lZxyuVg4

Clownbaby

Quote from: fucking ponderous on July 20, 2018, 12:52:29 AM
Every CGI film looks like the same thing, and that thing is shit. Even the big Pixar ones look like shit. They're all so bland looking, it seems like they reuse the same character designs every film. And I do believe all-CGI films can look good and inventive. Rango for instance worked, I feel, because it didn't try to make its characters look cute. They just looked like slightly weird real life lizards and things, and the film still stands out because of it. And I know Pixar can do different aesthetics in their features, as the visuals in their short films show. They just choose not to.

Agree. Sometimes I see the concept art for the characters and I think "what could have been, and you really dumbed it down."

I'm not a fan of Frozen, bit I was a little sad when I saw the original concept art for the characters, they had so much more personality than the blandly childish models they went for in the end.


Bhazor

The worst example of that was the short for The Incredibles 2, Bao, which was advertised with images like this


But ends up looking exactly like every other Pixar film.



For the best funded animation studio in the world they're shockingly unimaginative.

Clownbaby

^that is repulsive. No effort at all. It's strange? Pixar is gifted with very good concept artists, animators etc. But they don't seem to have any faith in them.

Brundle-Fly


Sebastian Cobb

The thing about complaining about cgi is we only notice it when it's bad these days and it's used flawlessly much more than we think.

https://youtu.be/bL6hp8BKB24

Bhazor

I like how many of his examples of "good CGI" look like garbage now. Like "Did you know Sandra Bullock wasn't really in Space? Or that her suit was CGI?"

Atila Battle Angel live action movie. With photorealistic animoo eyes.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4&v=aj8mN_7Apcw

bgmnts

Obviously Escape from L.A.

No idea whst happenef there but everything is horrid.

idunnosomename

solo: a star wars

luckily no one watched it!!!!!!!!!!!