I have seen Madame Web.
It's very nearly bad enough to be good, but not quite. The screenwriters should never have been paid for this mess. The car crash scenes are great, as are the spider costumes, but those comprise like 90 total seconds of the film.
Verdict: wait for the MST3K version
@danialexis I, too, went hope for a movie that was so bad it's good. Nope, just so bad that it's bad. This is pretty amazing given that 'I am Easily Entertainedᵗᵐ'
@chaos440 Same. I LOVED Jupiter Ascending. Now there is a movie that is so bad it's good.
I wonder if Madame Web could have been saved by Eddie Redmayne chewing the scenery.
@danialexis Oh, yes, Jupiter Ascending absolutely falls into that category.
Eddie Redmayne could have worked. They certainly needed someone who could go over the top and breath some life into the absurdity of this movie. I was actual bored at points, and that's not easy for a movie to do. I think it was because the cast seemed so bored with making it.
@chaos440 At one point I looked at my watch and thought "I've been here an hour and nothing has happened."
The right way to pull that off was Oppenheimer, where I looked at my watch at the end and thought "I just watched a film in which I knew every major plot point coming in and nothing happened, and I couldn't look away."
@danialexis Yes, I can't imagine a better example of the exact opposite reaction. I was a little leery going in, but Oppenheimer really earned its runtime. Not one unnecessary minute there. I just got back from 'Drive-Away Dolls', that I enjoyed, which wisely kept its runtime below an hour and a half. Movies need to know how much time they need to tell the story. I'm cautiously optimistic that Dune P2 earns its runtime next weekend.