POINTLESS CHARACTERS WHO REALLY BUTCHER THE FILMS THEY'RE IN

bhb001 wrote:Have you thought of taking anger management classes? May help with your blood pressure as well.

jimmyinthewell68 wrote:the annoying limo driver in  the first die hard

Galted wrote:

jimmyinthewell68 wrote:the annoying limo driver in  the first die hard

I think that is probably the perfect example.  McClane himself wouldn't have been a bad choice either.

TRUSSMAN66 wrote:Biggest cliche was the black guy out of Starsky and Hutch......Painful..........

Mike Selig wrote:Legollas yes - particularly as "played" by Orlando Bloom. Seems to exist just to say things which don't make sense and try to make them appear profound.

The Phantom Menace didn't need Jar-Jar Binks to butcher it to be fair, it did a fine job of that by itself. Whilst we're on the subject, kid Anakin is soooo annoying. Mind you teenager Anakin is not much better. As for that Padme...

No mention of the Ewoks yet?

jimmyinthewell68 wrote:keeping with the star wars theme , how about lukes uncle . what a barstool he was . talk about slave labour . at least he got what was coming to him . burnt to a crisp .

This bloke:

Cracked wrote:Edward Furlong was one of many people to play John Connor, the future savior of humanity against Skynet. In T2, Skynet sends a Terminator back in time to kill John Connor at age 10, but the future John Connor sends back his own Terminator to protect his past self, probably forgetting what a huge dick he was when he was a kid.
 
We know what you're thinking at this point and no, we don't hate children. We really don't. But let us summarize Edward Furlong's role in T2 with this one scene. It's supposed to be a powerful exchange where Connor learns that humanity is destined for Armageddon, no matter what:
 
John Connor: "We're not gonna make it, are we? People, I mean."
 
The Terminator: "It is in your nature to destroy yourselves."
 
John Connor: "Yeah. Major drag, huh?"
 

A major drag:

 
Look, kids are tough to work with. It's hard to write authentic little-kid dialogue, it's hard to make their role in the action plausible, it's hard to find a kid who isn't horrible at acting. Filmmakers seem to do it as a way to appeal to young audiences, but as Plinkett points out in his excellent Star Wars prequel reviews, kids don't go to movies to see other kids. They want to fantasize about being an adult Han Solo, not a young, annoying Anakin Skywalker.
 
This is especially true when the little kid is written by some middle-aged screenwriter to be cute and hip and sassy, putting into his mouth all sorts of "hip" lingo the kids are using these days. So, our first impression of John Connor is him hacking an ATM machine and stealing $300, then turning toward us and saying, "Easy money!" as if it's his catchphrase.
 
And he's all about the catchphrases. Later we have the scene where he decides to teach his robot protector to be human, giving him a course in how the kids talk here in 1991:
 
"You say, 'No problemo.' And if someone comes up to you with an attitude, you say, 'Eat me!' And if you want to shine them on it's, 'Hasta la vista, baby!' or 'Later, dickwad.' And if someone gets upset, you say, 'chill out!' "
 

someone chilling out:

 
When confronted by some bad guys (bad because they... tried to rescue John because they thought Arnold was assaulting him) one of them calls him a dipshit, which he is. Then he proves it by saying, "Did you call moi a dipshit?" in the dipshittiest way possible.
 
We understand that lots of us were douchebags when we were little kids, so it's perfectly logical that maybe the future savior of humanity was one, too, at that age. But you don't need to include that part in a movie.