Bloodless Coup

Worse than War of the Worlds or Alexander?

You scared me off those, so I can't say that as I didn't see them. But I think that at least with Alexander - well that was at least bad in an excessive way, right? There was too much of something, or it was the wrong something - whereas here the problem is often the lack of ... well anything that would make you care about the charatcers or the movie. A big part of the problem with this film is that in between the cliches (which make you want to have a stroke, I mean Wolverine's talk before the big battle ... owww owww owww, STOP, PLEASE!) and the lifeless line readings, a lot of the scenes are constructed in a way in which we are supposed to CARE and be TROUBLED and ALIGNED WITH THE GOOD GUYS (and there's barely a joke in the whole thing - it's ever so ponderous and self-important). But they never provide any sort of story to make us care. It's like they figure we know the earlier movies and the books or even the cartoon, so they can dispense entirely with, you know, a plot - because it's all really about setting up the set pieces and letting the actors laboriously walk through them.

I'm starting to wonder if Brett Ratner's ever made Keith O's World's Worst Person list.

OK. Here's the key question: do the good guy's speachafying before the "big battle" make you start rooting for the bad guys. If YES, then you're at "war of the worlds" level (you actively want the good guys to be obliterated 'cause they are that irritating); if NO, then you've reached "alexander" level, where everything about the movie is so awful/bad/hideous that you just want it to end as quickly as possible, and anyone saying anything at all prolongs the agony.

Which is it?

It's Alexander level - I just wanted the whole thing to end.