Sucker Punch
The nature of plastic film dictate that event are shown , not told ( we have books for that ! ) . Nevertheless , recital is sometimes necessary in cinema to render context around the fate on the screen , distinguish spot happening off - screen , or bring home the bacon backstory or a historical record book that would otherwise make run - time far too long if it was really take .
The dulcet tone of tale have enveloped many prominent contributions to cinematic history , likeCitizen Kane , andShawshankRedemption . EvenGeorge of the Jungleis pretty meritorious . Then there are these films , the narration in which provides neither context of use , backstory , or model for the plot of ground . lady and gentlemen , set your internal recital phonation to " Morgan Freeman " , and proceed with these 10 recount movie flops , ranked .
THE GREAT GATSBY
While some would argue this 2013 film adaption of the F. Scott Fitzgerald Long Island - free-base novel was a vast improvement over the Robert Redford go one of the ' 70 , The Great Gatsbytook some liberties with the narration that many fans would consider blasphemous .
While rooter praised Leonardo DiCaprio ’s take on Gatsby , the freakish millionaire with whom the wide - eyed Midwesterner Nick Carraway becomes friends , they found Tobey Maguire ’s lapdog operation annoying . Also the option to make Carraway narrating the plastic film from a Sanitorium to a doctor change the scope of the film ’s effect almost as much s the garish art - direction distracted from the commentary of social themes .
INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE
For some fans of Anne Rice ’s vampire novel , the net product ofInterview with the Vampire , theTwilightof the mid-’90s , was a disastrous attempt to beguile the otherworldly chronicles of the Brat Prince Lestat ( Tom Cruise ) and his consortium of immortal beast of the dark .
Whatever you might cogitate of casting Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt as pallid and pouty - lipped vampire , the fact remains that Pitt ’s laconic voice - over as Louis was a real buzzkill . His melancholy succour contend to make every aspect lose its impulse . While we understand that not everyone who ’s turn into a lamia dead and fuck it , we could n’t help but think the film would have been much better with a few blue excerpt from Lestat ’s morbid creative thinker .
BLADE RUNNER
Ridley Scott ’s sci - fi opusBlade Runnerhas 7 versions available to view , some more wide circulated than others . While most fans swear by the manager ’s cut , many have nostalgic memories of the theatrical version that was secrete in 1982 with the " blade runner " himself Deckard ( Harrison Ford ) providing tale over the cinema ’s key events .
Ford himself was n’t a fan of the narration , but executive opine it would facilitate audience connect with the intellectual nature of the celluloid . you could much take heed the disdain in his phonation as he gives exactly no worked up delivery . It also tended to seem at times that completely sucked all the dramatic tension from the scene , like the last moment with replicant Roy Batty ( Rutger Hauer ) .
I, FRANKENSTEIN
An action - adventure spin on Mary Shelley ’s Hellenic horror tale , I , Frankensteinwasthe heroic re - imagining of a movie monsterno one asked for but welcome anyway . Aaron Eckhart play Adam , Dr. Frankenstein ’s monster , live two decade after his creator animated his corpse with electric current .
Wandering the populace alone , Eckhart ’s narration provides some insight into the creature ’s thought mental process , but whatever introverted purpose it might have served quickly gets swallow up by the war he stumbles into between gargoyles and demon .
RIDDICK
The third film in the Chronicles of Riddick trilogy , Riddickfeatures Richard Bruno Riddick ( Vin Diesel ) strand on an inhospitable satellite much like the one he navigated inPitch Black . Armed with his wag and a superfluous narration , he attempts to activate an emergency beacon to get help .
Part of what reach Riddick such an enigmatic antihero is the atmosphere of secret that has always surrounded him . Much of that was decimated inThe chronicle of Riddick , but there was a chance to regain it in this film , torpedo by piteous voice - over study that provided no further insight into what make Riddick check .
CONAN THE BARBARIAN
Not even the mellifluous tone of Morgan Freeman ’s narration could saveConan the Barbarian , a remake of the sword - and - black magic epicConan the Barbarianstarring Arnold Schwarzenegger , andbased on the democratic fantasy comic book . This field day star Jason Momoa , who seemed like a consummate choice after Khal Drogo inGame of Thrones .
Unfortunately , all of the humor and personal magnetism of the Schwarzenegger variation was replaced with gritty pragmatism , and the horse sense of adventure was traded for unrelenting violence . It failed to plug into with audiences , who were still waiting for a third Schwarzenegger Conan motion picture .
THE KILLER INSIDE ME
What happens when an ordinarily greatest member of your local community turns out to be nothing more than a wizard sociopath ? That ’s the assumption forThe Killer Inside Me , which has a follow up question ; why did a film that ’s so disturbingly graphic need narrative ?
Casey Affleck stars as Sheriff Lou Ford , a cunning killer who ’s managed to pull the wool over the optic of everyone who have intercourse him in a minor Texas town . With gratuitous wildness against minority women several time throughout thethriller , it ’s a baffling moving-picture show to watch , and even tougher when you conceive the unpointed narrative that does n’t help consultation finger any closelipped to the distant character .
THE INFORMANT!
Despite a great hurl of talented actors giving their near comedic attempt , The Informant!doesn’t do right by them . As fun as it is to see Matt Damon play an affable every - man obsess with being a undercover agent inside his own place , the voice over break to work within the confines of the neo - noir concept .
Damon wreak Mark Whitacre , employed at an agrarian corporation , where despite having a good chore , he want to investigate it for the FBI . The story is supposed to give you an perceptiveness into Whitacre ’s vapid judgment , as he pontificate in a flow of consciousness about high - end Japanese sushi , poisonous butterfly stroke , and any other matter that drink down into his head .
SUCKER PUNCH
We wanted to likeSucker Punch . The action fantasy film had a competent mould , provocative imagery , and aWizard of Ozsense of whimsy , but perhaps all of its elements failed to blend in just the correct fashion . It begin with a vernal woman name Babydoll ( Emily Browning ) being locked away in an mental institution where her only hiatus from the horrible aesculapian care is the phantasy world she ’s built in her head .
She soon realizes she can do anything she want in her virtual world , and wonders if she can utilize its possibilities to get out the institution . With a group of other women gaol for similar reasons of impaired genial health , she navigates her fresh reality and seek to happen a way out , all the while a narration exists that somehow manages to excuse very little of what ’s going on .
THE LONE RANGER
Produced by Jerry Bruckheimer , directed by Gore Verbinski , with the pairing of Armie Hammer and Johnny Depp , it seemed likeThe Lone Rangerwould be a surefire succeeder . However , the pitiful CGI , unexpectedly under - equation public presentation from the leads , and jumbled plot left viewers hardly cry , " Hi , ho , silver ! " .
The events of the flick are withdraw by an ageing Tonto , now part of a sideshow attractor , who wants the probability to recite the real story of The Lone Ranger to a go boy . Depp ’s narration , like his Tonto , is amazingly not charismatic , and seems like a another variation of Jack Sparrow .
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