How many movies did we watch and forget in 10 minutes? The brain has an incredible capacity to eliminate what we don’t like or what doesn’t work, there’s a limit to what we can keep within these four walls for one thing.
It happened to us when there was a new online platform where you had to take a four-hour course to learn to master it, in Mathematics at school, the long days of Catechesis, and of course at work.
This mechanism also works in movies.. When we see a very bad one, it’s normal to forget about it. Remember this or that for the rest of our lives, cursing the moment we decided to see it and regretting the 7 (or more euros) movie ticket cost us at that time.
Today we’re going to focus on movies that are so weak that a few years later we don’t remember what the movie was about, we just remember that that actor or actress we loved so much came out and nothing else. It’s what’s known as the “Oh yes, Bruce Willis was in that movie, but I had no idea what was going on” effect.
Without further delay, let’s move on to the hand-picked list of the worst movies, in which we remember only the protagonist, nothing more. Something we can never thank our brains for enough. There is no one who loves and protects us more than him.
7 movies that you definitely remember the protagonist of but don’t remember the story they told
- Eli’s book
- Extraordinary Gentlemen’s Union
- Battleground: World
- Reminiscence
- RIPD Deadly Police Department
- Sahara
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Eli’s book
In an apocalyptic future, 30 years after the “flare” that wiped out nearly all civilized society, few humans survive in an incredibly harsh and arid environment.
Rape, cannibalism and brutality prevail in some ruined cities, where the possessor of water and the strongest impose their own laws.. Wandering the highway, a lone warrior sets off west with a single mission: to protect a mysterious book he carries in his backpack.
Does the summary sound great? The truth is, it’s one of the worst adventure movies ever made, with a Denzel Washington that didn’t do a bad job, but was buried under a horrific script and an even worse execution.
The movie is available on Netflix in case you find it difficult to watch a movie that carries all its weight in detail at the end of the movie. It’s your decision to see, don’t blame us for that two hour footage.
- Title: Eli’s book
- Release date: 2010
- Duration: 1:57 hours
- platform: Netflix
Extraordinary Gentlemen’s Union
In the middle of the Victorian Age, the British government is in a panic because it does not know how to stop an evil plan whose aim is to achieve world domination.
The only solution to destroying the Machiavellian project is to hire the greatest adventurers: Allan Quatermain, Dr. Henry Jekyll, Captain Nemo and Dorian Gray. And despite being based on a series of fantasy comics by Alan Moore, the movie was a complete disaster.
If you ask any kid old enough to make a glass of milk on their own in the 2000s, they’ll tell you they remember Sean Connery, nothing more. This film went down in history as the last audio-visual production starring the favorite British gentleman of the 20th century.
It sucks as an action-adventure movie packed with loads of special effects. Worse as an adaptation of the comic. The only thing saved is being able to see Sean Connery play his last role. It’s worth retiring like that.
- Title: League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
- Release date: 2003
- Duration: 1:50 hours
- platform:Disney+
Battleground: World
In the year 3000 there are no more cities or nations, the Earth is a desolate wasteland and the human race is on the verge of extinction. For millennia, an evil alien race, the Psychlo, destroyed Earth’s defenses and enslaved humanity.
Young Jonni Goodboy Tyler seems to be humanity’s only hope… hope for true humanity though we forget this movie once and for allenjoyed a great cast that has no equal.
This movie is a perfect example of movies where we remember who was coming out but remember what they were about. In Battlefield: Earth, the two heroes were John Travolta and Forest Whitaker, almost nothing. Unfortunately it was a complete waste.
With 2.5 on Filmaffinity and 2.5 on IMDb, the movie is so bad that no streaming service wanted to take over its rights. Since it came out in the 2000s, it’s impossible to see it right now unless you have a VHS or DVD at home.
- Title: Battleground: World
- Release date: 2000
- Duration: 1:55 hours
- platform: No
Reminiscence
Warner Bros.
Private detective Nick Bannister investigates the dark and seductive world of the past. helps its customers recover lost memories. It lives on the coast of Miami, which is largely submerged.
One day, her life changes when a new client, Mae, shows up.. Although Mae comes to her office only to find a lost object, it will become a dangerous obsession. While trying to find the reason for Mae’s disappearance, Bannister uncovers a violent conspiracy.
Another movie full of top actors that we remember only having Hugh Jackman on the cover., with all its good bearing (including the bun). Despite being a pretty candid movie, its passage from the box office was a disaster with a really bad script.
If you’ve seen it and don’t remember it, that’s normal. What you’ll remember is that we don’t know what filter the agents of Hugh Jackman, Rebecca Ferguson, Thandiwe Newton, Cliff Curtis, Daniel Wu… made.
- Title: remember
- Release date: 2021
- Duration: 1:55 hours
- platform: HBO Max
RIPD Deadly Police Department
Despite being a newly murdered cop, Nick is recruited to work with Roy, an agent who died hundreds of years ago. Both are part of the “Peaceful Rest Department”, which is responsible for persecuting demons living in the world of the living and sending them to hell.
Nick has a hard time coping with his dead status and refuses to be separated from his wife. It sends repeated signals to detect its presence. At least thanks to his post-mortem employment, the young agent will be able to work on his own murder case.
Yes, the faces on the cover are Ryan Reynolds and Jeff Bridges, the two giants of acting and the big screen. So we’re talking about it now, when it was one of the worst movies ever made in the last decade.
And worst of all, Kevin Bacon and Mary-Louise Parker are also dating. The only thing those who saw it at that time remember is that the main character died and then shot, not much else.
- Title: RIPD Deadly Police Department
- Release date: 2013
- Duration: 1:35 hours
- platform: Google Play
Sahara
Working for a government agency that guards the seabed, great explorer and adventurer Dirk Pitt embarks on the great adventure of his life, traveling through the most dangerous regions of West Africa in search of a treasure called the “Death Ship”.
When he and his assistant realize that the ship may be involved in some mysterious deaths, they will have to use all their wits and skills to help Doctor Eva Rojas, who is involved in the case. Investigating the spread of a deadly virus.
It makes sense that you don’t remember what the movie was about, it was scary (and definitely not because it was scary) with a scary script. He was talked about in Spain for one reason: Penelope Cruz.
A budding star in Hollywood at the time, the Spanish actress starred in the film alongside Matthew McConaughey and Steve Zahn.. Sahara had a lot of interest and expectation for these three. And these three failed to prevent the fatal accident that was the screening of that movie.
- Title: Sahara
- Release date: 2005
- Duration: 2:04 hours
- platform: AppleTV+
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John Carter is a senior captain of the Confederate army who was once mysteriously transferred to the red planet and must join the conflict of his inhabitants after discovering that the survival of his inhabitants is in his hands.
Together with John Carter, Tras Tarkas and the charming Princess Dejah Thoris, he will live an adventure full of dangers. This movie almost destroyed Disney and was the company’s biggest debacle in decades.
Starring Taylor Kitsch, one of the most promising actors of that era, The movie didn’t convince anyone, not even the smallest of the house. All sequels have been canceled and attempted to be buried.
If you have two hours left of your life, Disney+ has recently uploaded it to its streaming platform, so you can find it and watch it in good picture quality… of course the movie is still just as bad.
- Title: Name
- Release date: 2012
- Duration: 2:14 hours
- platform:Disney+
Our list of movies with memorable lead roles and forgettable scenarios so far.
Do you remember more? Is there a particular movie that comes to your mind that arouses this curiosity?
Source: Computer Hoy
