Vote: Worst Summer Movie!

[Head Mutant]

You can vote for up to three films here -- so spill! What's the worst summer '08 movie out there?

[TheLuckyOne]

I can say with no small amount of misplaced pride that I've only seen two of those (Hulk and Indy), and both of them were at least decent. Based purely on the previews, though, my vote is for The Love Guru.

-D

[TheOogieBoogieMan]

I've only seen four of the listed movies (Indy, Hulk, Speed Racer, and Kung Fu Panda); from that pool, I picked Indy and Hulk, mostly because they were both hyped to be the greatest things since something sliced and neither were able to deliver.

Of those four movies, the one with the best expectation-to-entertainment ratio was Speed Racer. Walked in anticipating crap, walked out awestruck by all the purdy colours...

[StarOpal]

Well, I only saw four of them as well (Indy 4, Hulk, Speed Racer, *cough* Mamma Mia! *cough*), and I wasn't particularly disappointed or hated any of them. So I picked The Clones Wars on a guess.

[Al]

I only saw a few of them as well. The Happening was far and away the worst of the bunch, but I felt confident in picking The Clone Wars as a second. I actually really enjoyed Get Smart, though.

[sirgallahad2]

Indy 4 was a waste of film. Shia LeBouf swinging through a cgi jungle with cgi freakin MONKEYS swinging on a cgi freakin SNAKE... I swear to all that is good and holy that every time something gets George Lucas'd in that movie... God killed a baby seal. The Love Guru... What... did they run out of ideas for Austin Powers 4? I mean seriously Vern Troyer HAS to be sick and tired of the dwarf jokes.

[yellowjacket]

Out of the ones I seen, I picked Love Guru (thought it would at least be decent, but I was wrong), Incredible Hulk (good, but not as amazing as people were saying), and The Mummy 3 (same theory as Love Guru). I was going to pick Indy 4, but I thought it was still very entertaining, just wasn't as hyped as it should've been. So, I cut it some slack.

[Rett Mikhal]

Why isn't Dark Knight up there?

[BlackCatWhiteCat]

A testament to how jaded I've become to Hollywood (and how insane movie prices are): I have only seen ONE of the films on this list (anyone who's read my first reader review knows which one it is).

I couldn't even vote for that one because I didn't find it disappointing at all. It couldn't possibly have been worse than my expectations of it.

[Al]

Wow, I'm really surprised to see Indiana Jones nipping at the heels of the top spot. I know not everyone enjoyed it as much as I did, but the worst movie of the summer? I'm curious, is it a 'not living up to the hype' thing? Is it just the only thing you saw from the list? Or do you honestly think it's that awful?

[sirgallahad2]

For me it wasn't so much about living up to the hype. I'm a cynic so I really don't buy into movie hype. (spoilers) It was the cgi prairie dogs, the atom bomb-proof fridge, perpendicular dirt roads magically appearing in a jungle just in time for a car chase and of course... The cgi swinging snake. With the other Indy films... yes you had to suspend some disbelief. However, they were real stunts with real people with real special effects. It was THIS close to being believable. As soon as the movie gets George Lucas'd, The movie winds up looking like an X-box game and they turn Indiana Jones into a super-human caricature.

So yeah Indy 4 kinda sucked.

[Rett Mikhal]

I'm tired of hearing people complain that CGI is too big a part of movies. Big deal. I'm honestly starting to believe it's less a complaint and more the post-2000 typical cynical attitude towards all things. I KNOW the irony of me pointing out that attitude so don't even bother.

I don't think people complained in the 40s when all the movies started having color. It's a new film making style, so, deal with it. I will agree I hate the constant replacement of muppet characters with CGI ones when the CGI hasn't quite reached muppet levels of believability... cough cough Episode II... cough cough. Don't think I can ever watch that movie again.

Other than that it seems everyone complains about CGI so much, it's like the very notion CGI is IN the movie pisses people off. Can't we find something new to complain about? Like how Shia LeBlouf is in every movie? I have nothing against him, he seems to be pretty on the ball... they just cast him completely randomly. Him being in Indiana seemed.... odd.

[orangejesus]

C'mon, Rett, don't you think it's a bit ironic that you, of all people, would point out such a cynical atti-- oh.

Just kidding.

I actually very much agree with you, sir. I even had a convo the other day with a casual acquaintence who informed me that such CGI was going to entirely replace the human performer on film (or disc, now, I guess. . .) by the end of the next decade.

I don't buy it, but the notion seems to be in vogue at the moment.

[Rett Mikhal]

I'm all for that. Do you EVER hear about voice actors going on benders, getting knocked up at 16, using their baby as an airbag/ashtray, or, on the flipside, doing all this and still showing up to a gala event smiling like they're the definition of awesome? Not to mention it would eliminate aging in characters (like when they 'had' to kill off Data) and pretty much eliminate the need for hollywood cosmetologists.

I have to be fair with the cosmetologists, since my mother and sister are in that profession, all I'm saying is the less professions in Hollywoodland the less professions can be completely and utterly corrupted. Plus, this opens the doors to the 'CGI cosmetologist', who actually went to a school that taught something.

I'm glad to see Love Guru up there. Stupid premise, bad writing. Even the jokes in the trailer were awful and completely unfunny. Yeah, remote control carpet, makes a forklift beeping sound when it backs up. Uh huh. Hilarious. What film school did you graduate from?

[jamieofthedead]

Indiana Jones the Fourth was nothing like the original's, and, as that is what Spielberg set out to achieve, not a good or bad film, just one that would be accepted into the canon, he fails. Furthermore, why must I wait that long for such a incomprehensible ending?