Wired.com blogged today about the 10 worst films for geeks. The list is based off of titles that had great actors and a lot of anticipation but ended up disappointing at the screen.

Take a look at the list here

to Sky Captain and Willy Wonka.

And I know I'll always be in the minority on liking League...

I'm fairly certain that The Phantom Menace deserves top billing there.

Hitchhikers Guide?

Absolutely.

Shouldn't Hackers be on here?

I've never heard of that movie.

How about Daredevil, Hulk, Star Wars ep. 1 and 2 (at least) , Punisher, Star Trek: Generations, Catwoman, Starship Troopers, Wild Wild West, MiB 2.

For that matter Street Fighter, Masters of the Universe (awesome not withstanding), Super Mario Bros...

The list goes on.

No mention of Battlefield Earth?

Truly this is proof it has been completely wiped from the minds of many.

Guess that's a good thing.

Also throws in vote for all thre Star Wars prequals.

Hackers was just dumb fun. Nothing big or notworthy nut not entirely bad niether.

JMO.

I call BS on Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. I love the Gene Wilder flick, but Burton's is a tremendously better adaptation of Dahl's book, which was the whole point of making it. They weren't remaking "Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory", they were finally making "Charlie And The Chocolate Factory".

QFT

Ahem... but I think you slipped one in there by accident that didn't belong there.

For the most part I concur, but I didn't like the whole par...par...parents angle of C&TCF; I would have preferred if it kept the book/WW&TCF ending.

No, LXG was actually a decent film. Probably only because I never read the book it was based off of. Sky Captain is another one that kinda threw me. It was full of retro 40s goodness to me, didn't think it stunk THAT bad. I think Choco Factory got on there because of those detestable Oompa Loompas. Kill them with fire.

Although I admit I always liked Gene Wilder's take on it.

Sky Captain just slowed down a lot in the middle. But it doesn't get to me.


And I think pretty much everyone is in agreement on C&TCF.

now I've read LXG, and I'm pretty sure that that movie didn't have much to do with the story asside from some of the characters being in it.

I should probably come clean about being a Matrix sequels apologist.

I don't have a huge problem with them...

I sort of liked Matrix 2, but part 3 was pure and utter garbage.

Never read Moores League, but I did enjoy the movie. Had I read it prior, things may have been different, but I still have yet to read it, and therefore still enjoy the movie.

I'm sorry, you are wrong. That movie is the epitome of unnecessary, and when you compare the derivations it makes from the book to the differences Willy Wonka has with the source material, you essentially have a wash.

That movie wasted its gift, just like Dean Martin. And the daddy issues? Puh-leeze.

*loved the Daddy sub-plot*

That was awful, especially how it interrupted the natural ending. It was like it was done as a favor to Christopher Lee.

And Depp's take on the character was...how shall I say...really bad.

"I'm sorry, I was having a flashback." <- Genius.

You're just grumpy.

Heh, that was my favorite part.

Well, maybe. But I had hoped for much better from that movie.

Is it possible to have too much Deep Roy?



Yes, yes it is.

No, he pretty much nailed it with that one.

How is AVP not on that list?! The butchering of 2 great franchises in the space of 90 minutes.

I liked C&TCF, The Matrix trilogy and a few more films on there... not been arsed to watch Mummy 3 though since the first 2 were awful imo.

remember guys...the article was about movies that had ALL the right pieces that should have been a geek masterpiece. Phantom Menace should have been on the list...but Daredevil? mid card director plus ok actor...no real "geekness" to it. League had some great source matrial, good cast but was still...meh. Now if Iron Man had bombed, that would be on the list...but there we had all the proper pieces and yes they fell into place
AVP? yeah should have been good, but with the director of Mortal Kombat at the helm?
Street Fighter with Van Dame? Can see where that train wreck is going a mile away...The list had some good points...now I would have also put the first Hulk in there (great director, awesome cast...but the script? huh?). Stuff I would have lined up to see and then leaving the movies screaming dude I want my 9 bucks back...

And I definitely agree that by that criterion, The Phantom Menace should have been #1 on the list. And definitely Matrix: Reloaded. *Not* Attack of the Clones / Matrix: Revolutions, because by that point the bar had been dropped back down. EVERYONE was hoping/expecting that TPM and Reloaded would kick unholy ass.

I would probably also put Ang Lee's Hulk somewhere on the list, as well as Spider-Man 3.

Oh and if you want to go old-school, I would also put Star Trek: The Motion Picture and Return of the Jedi on the list.

Ooh...ST:TMP for sure needs to be on that list.

FiXD. Because the first Starship Troopers was awesome.

I liked SST 3

I don't know if I would say awesome so much as ... completely stupid. I wonder if there is a person alive who couldn't figure out the themes the director was subtly introducing bludgeoning the viewer with.

By the way, Dune (Sting version) deserves at least fourth spot on that list. If only for it's slavish devotion to the book even when the book was long-winded and actionless.

Was there a huge fan-expectation surrounding Starship Troopers? I liked it okay, mostly because of the boobies and Nazi Doogie Howser.

the hitchhikers film was disgraceful when compared to every other medium. I think the main problem with it was Mos Deff's portrayal of Ford Prefect (lacked the energy and gravitas the role needed) and Martin Freeman's approach to Arthur Dent, he tried to portray Arthur differently to how Simon Jones did it, and seeing how the role of Dent was specifically written for him it was wasted potential.

I thought the lass who played Trillian was good, she was good looking IMO and could act, a rare combination. Still would have been better if Steven Moore had voiced Marvin though, to me the voice he did is Marvin.

(SST3 is intentionally funny btw)

This fuqin thread has nerd fight written aaaaaaaaaaaallllllllllllllllllllll over it

I think an honorable mention should go to Mad Max: Thunderdome. What happens when you give a good Austrailian property to a bunch of loser Americans like WB

To go from Road Warrior to Thunderdome makes me

Although I agree in principal with the The Road Warrior -> Thunderdome let down, I can see why they went that route instead of just making "Road Warrior 2," which probably would have been so derivative it would have also sucked.

I didn't think the second movie was all that great... aside from the cheese factor

You are dead to me for five minutes.

YOU TAKE THAT BACK!!!

that was pretty out-of-nowhere

You do know that The Road Warrior is in itself a sequel right?

Mad Max > Road Warrior > Mad Max: Thunderdome

And FWIW, the original Mad Max was cheesier than Road Warrior

I loved Mad Max.

Except for the dub.

Low-budget cheese vs. camp cheese... you take your pick

*shaves head except for long top-knot-style pony-tail and tapes a doll's head to my back on a stick. rides motorcycle*

Yes, but Mad Max sucks - and let's not kid ourselves, Thunderdome was only made because Road Warrior was a success. (I think one could also argue that in the vein of keeping in the spirt of the earlier film, Thunderdome feels much more like a Road Warrior sequel than Road Warrior feels like a Mad Max sequel.)