Titan A.E. is a prime example of a movie that could've been great, had Bluth not tried so damned hard to make it kid friendly.

What exactly do you mean kid friendly? I wouldn't quite put this on a par with a Disney film. The theator where I saw it in was filled mostly with teenagers and twentysomethings with a smattering of thirysomethings in there for good measure.

NOt where I saw it. There were tons of kids.


This is just me, but I expected the characters to cuss just a little. It was a big action moive, but none of the charaters uttered one curse. NOt cuss a lot, but just an occasional D***. not one.

Speaking of trying to make a movie "kid friendly" Star Wars Episode I would have been a lot better without Jar Jar Binks. Except for that one scene in the beginning, Jar Jar was useless to the plot.

"Star Trek Insurrection" had a lot of potential to be a very good movie, however the creators focused way too much on humor rather than plot & adventure.

"Tron" had great potential...but was way too slow in some areas.

"The Black Hole" had some potential, just rewrite the bad sci-fi, add more action, and ya got a pretty decent movie

"Cleopatra" (1963)...if they could only find the missing bits, it might work a little bit better...Liz makes too many sudden wardrobe changes...other than that, this movie is pretty steamy.(and very well done)

IIRC there is an extended version but I still prefer "Carry on Cleo" that was filmed using the costumes and buildings from "Cleopatra". ;-)

"Supergirl" had a lot of potential, but it suffered from poor writing. (Don't they all?)

This is ridiculous. All movies have potential before you've seen them.

Concepts have potential. Movies are the finished product. Potential usually refers to something in a latent stage, rather than in an ultimate, finished form. (Pick, pick, pick! )

I think 'potential' in this context refers to the contrast between what we're seeing on screen vs. what could have been...there are a lot of ways a lot of different scenes, scripts, etc could have been improved.
Not that they're ever going to be, no, but it's still fun to speculate. No less an esteemed critic than Roger Ebert does it regularly in his reviews (recently he suggested a remake of the dreadful An American Werewolf in Paris, in which the characters were self-aware a la Scream - "I even have a great title for them: Howler.")

Me, I'm trying to imagine Star Wars I without Jar Jar Binks - which would enable me to get through the whole movie without gagging...

Kerriem, look around online for "The Phantom Edit" which is an edited version of TPM without JarJar!

"The Giant Claw" (famous in bad moviedom) actually starts off decently but, any suspense or tension that's built up is destroyed by the appearance of the title creature. This the one of the most poorly constructed props you'll ever see. It looks like something put together by un-enthusiastic grade schoolers. It just ruins the movie (or makes it, if you like laughably bad effects).

Thanks Merat, I'll take a look.

For closeups of the ridiculous critter from The Giant Claw (aka the Giant Mutant Space Buzzard), check out the review at jabootu.com. Really, treat yourself. It's everything Butch suggested and more!

The review also includes a quote/disclaimer from the movie's star to the effect that the giant-buzzard FX were added after the actors were filmed reacting to it with shock and horror...leading to major embarrasment when they actually saw the finished film and realized just what they were supposed to be terrified of...

In his review of 3,000 Miles to Graceland (which he didn't like) Roger Ebert says the he gives it credit for having a good trailer; which in his opintion means that the raw materials for a good movie were their with the cast, basic setting and ideas for the filim but that script was not it.

"Strange Brew"...it could have been funny. However, it was missing a key element...COMEDY!
That's what makes a funny movie FUNNY!

What the hell are you talking about Lang? Strnage Brew WAS funny! I love that movie.

I think that Strange Brew was funny..Oddly enough I felt that what it DIDN'T need was a plot...

Star Trek Nemesis DEFINATELY had potential.

You know, I still haven't seen ST: Nemesis; I will, but I keep hearing how it's "the BEST Star Trek film EVER!!!" from people and in print... the last time I heard that was for ST:First Contact, which I ended up being disappointed in. (Loved the Borg stuff, really thought they butchered the Cochrane stuff on many levels.)

ARRRGH! My pet spelling peeve!

DEFINITELY, not DEFINATELY!!!

I can't stand when people write "suppose to" instead of "supposed to" or "use to" instead of "used to."

Catwoman. Halle Barry was hot, but the movie was not!

Just got "Catwoman" today on DVD. I stick by my previous post. Even though Catwoman vs. Ms. Hadair (sp?) was very good.

"Fat Albert" - I haven't seen it, but I would have liked the concept better if it had been a live-action version of the "Fat Albert" cartoon, set in the 1970s, versus the concept used, which was to have Fat Albert and the gang escape from their cartoon into the present-day "real world".

"Mortal Kombat" - I saw it when it was originally released. The movie would have been better if it had been faithful to its R-rated video game roots, instead of aiming for a PG-13 rating.

"Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace" - The movie was good, but could have been great if George Lucas had targeted it for a more mature audience. Jar Jar Binks (and the rest of the Gungans), too many battle droid villains, and too many juvenile moments held the movie back.

"Batman", "Batman Returns", "Batman Forever", and "Batman & Robin" (The Burton/Schumacher Batman movies) - All average-to-below average movies because the characters were too cartoonish, their world was too unrelatable to our reality, and almost all of the movies tried to throw everything in but the kitchen sink.

"Star Trek Generations" - The crew of the Enterprise A and the crew of the Enterprise D in the same movie! Kirk and Picard together! Imagine the possibilities! Unfortunately, what was imagined by the writers was pretty weak. Kirk and Picard meet, and the writers have the two meeting in some dream-like fake reality, in which Kirk isn't quite all there mentally. Then, Picard manages to bring Kirk to the 24th century, and all we get is Kirk and Picard running around on a rocky mountain top, trading punches with some guy named Soran (Malcolm McDowell).

I think the quality of Mortal Kombat and Phantom Menace was determined more by the fact that they had lousy scripts than because of the demographic they targeted.

I'm very surprised, however, to see that I'm not the only one who didn't care for Tim Burton's Batman movies. Most people name the latter two or three as being not-as-good, but I can't remember encountering someone who, like me, didn't care for the first one that much either.

I'm very surprised, however, to see that I'm not the only one who didn't care for Tim Burton's Batman movies. Most people name the latter two or three as being not-as-good, but I can't remember encountering someone who, like me, didn't care for the first one that much either.

As soon as I saw they had The Joker dancing to a Prince song I knew it would be hopelessly dated.

Marie Antoinette:

Some of the music score was too modern and they didn't show the execution of Louis XVI & Marie Antoinette. Other than that, it was fine.

The Omega Man with Chuck.The music was the best ever to me
.When is the re-re-remake gonna be done?

as for star wars episode 1,

a, hard to live up to the standards of so many years of fan created hype and books

b, hard to mash 30+ years into 3 movies where there're so many facets that fans want addressed.

c, jar jar being clumsy and easily manipulated is justfied in episode 2

d, the movies were patterned on the style from the 30's

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oh, and here's another movie that had potential, WATER WORLD

The problem with "Strange Brew" was, too many "bathroom jokes". It ruined the whole movie.

The movie would've been funnier if Bob & Doug were looking for a topic for their show "The Great White North" and the topic was real good but nobody saw the show.

Love Bug, Jaws the Revenge , 2010,Last Man on Earth with Vincent Price.Star Trek One.
Is paris Burning (just got the dvd).

Laserblast.Red Dawn.Giant Spider Invasion.

Lost in Space the movie. Oh the pain the pain.

I am Legend is due Dec. something.(no Arnold ).

Superman 3.

Pretty maids all in a Row , Gene R's clunker.

Where Eagles Dare. Clint in a german uni.Spy and spy who art thou spy.

(I liked the Tram sequence though).


There was an ol sci fi movie I think it was Journey to the far side of the sun? in the 60s.

Screaming Skull.

not a movie, but Starlost with Keir Duella.