Bad movies with interesting ideas.

Submitted by wisconsinking t3_ygl3uv in movies

It's funny how there's LOTS of bad movies with interesting ideas like Master of Disguise, despite being one of if not the worst kids movies ever I'd praise it for it's plot. I get that it's supposed to be a parody of the spy genre but I feel like if someone took the plot of the movie and made it for adults or at least older kids it'd probably actually be funny. Other bad movies with interesting ideas are Grown Ups, I'd only praise it for it's plot and the story was thought of by Adam Sandler in the 90s but then Chris Farley died and it was shelved for a couple years, I feel like had it came out in the 90s it would've been actually funny, but with some changes made (instead of childhood friends spending time at a cabin they'd probably be at a class reunion and recapture their youth and it'd probably have cameos/supporting roles from Gene Wilder, Leslie Neilsen, Will Farrell, Sigourney Weaver, maybe Eddie Murphy, and even have a random cameo from Richard Simmons).

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To_The_Past t1_iu9509e wrote

Super Mario Bros. That had a lot of interesting choices. A lifelike dinosaur for Yoshi? A grimy cyberpunk world? Dennis Hopper?

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BEE_REAL_ t1_iu91qoz wrote

This is gonna sound weird, but Mr Woodcock always struck me as a concept for a movie that could have been really great

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clem82 t1_iub4gjk wrote

I still love it.

“John’s a very common name…”

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yallscrazy t1_iua85bb wrote

Horror movies in general seem to have a bunch of cool concepts but often lack in execution.

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hudson_lowboy t1_iu953si wrote

Most films have an interesting idea behind them. There’s a reason they got made in the first place.

I think the more interesting question or though would be what movie had the best “can’t miss” idea that actually did miss.

The CBGB movie is one that springs to mind.

The first Suicide Squad movie with Will Smith as well.

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EBK301 t1_iu9j91g wrote

Vivarium had me hooked with the plot and man did they completely whiff.

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stomp224 t1_iua9134 wrote

This will be highly controversial, but Event Horizon.

I loved the setup. I loved the design of the ship. I absolutely hated the wildly inconsistent tone and logic. I couldn’t really work out what the movie wanted to be. Some scenes felt like it wanted to be a psychological horror, others a tribute to Alien, with a smattering of ridiculous 80s action jokes thrown in.

Its one of the few movies I think that is begging for a remake. It has all the elements to be something incredible, but that execution was not it.

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JannTosh12 t1_iu9ayjh wrote

Rise of Skywalker - the main character is related to the previous villain

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom - a cloned human

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WilsonWilsonJr t1_iu9h5wj wrote

Timeline (2003) - told the book is way better but even if you decided to go another route, how you fumble a time travel movie idea like that?

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Many-Outside-7594 t1_iu9nazi wrote

The book is excellent, and thinks through a lot of the various plot holes that would come from this type of story.

The fact that it went through all the trouble, just for the movie to completely ignore it was very frustrating.

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TessTrue t1_iu9q1uc wrote

Jupiter Ascending and Valerian were great concepts because they were these big epic sci-fi stories that weren't related to Trek or Wars. The execution, some of the dialogue, and castings were not it though.

The Covenant also comes to mind. Witch boys, with the lore too, sounds awesome! Acting, directing, and writing was not good though. (I still own the dvd lol.)

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SuddenPainter_77 t1_iuan0p0 wrote

In Time.

Just SO MUCH wasted potential for the concept. I still liked the movie as some sort of guilty pleasure, but it could be so much more.

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Chili-N-Such t1_iucsjev wrote

Literally all video game adaptations.

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wisconsinking OP t1_iud57wb wrote

Watch Tomb Raider 2019, Detective Pikachu, and the Sonic movies.

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Worldly-Pineapple-98 t1_iucxnw3 wrote

Not a bad movie, just a boring one, but Yesterday is such a cool concept for a film wasted on a very generic romcom.

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SavStanfield t1_iua7ltc wrote

Limitless. Wasn’t necessarily a bad movie but there was a lot more that could’ve been done with that concept imo

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wisconsinking OP t1_iubngru wrote

There was a TV series based on the movie, never saw the show but I loved the movie.

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RockerHeadMetal t1_iubts14 wrote

I watched the show when it came out, back then the big deal around the show was that big actor like Bradley Cooper was reprising his movie role as a cameo in a CBS series. it was rare to see actors that big in a network show even as a cameo back then (or even now). I don't remember much of the details but back at the time I thought it was decent, had some good storylines and the whole season storyline was somewhat interesting but overall was an average "case of the week" show. I think the overall story got more interesting toward the end and base on the cliffhanger ending the story had potential to be more interesting if they continue it, but I don't think its cancellation was a big lost.

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clem82 t1_iub4kj1 wrote

I thought it was accepted as amazing?

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TaroFuzzy5588 t1_iu9u5ur wrote

Pig. Would have been a great movie with Vin Deisel trying to get his pig back.

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Worldly-Pineapple-98 t1_iucxtw7 wrote

Just watch John Wick and leave Pig alone.

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TaroFuzzy5588 t1_iudwa5a wrote

At least Pig fans are consistent....they put down others who didn't like the movie and they cannot accept that it was a flop.

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Worldly-Pineapple-98 t1_iue2p76 wrote

My point was more than you are literally saying: "[Film which isn't John Wick] would be better if it was John Wick"

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