Originally Posted by
Nagasaki Joe
A more recent dud that I saw was "Bullet Train" starring Brad Pitt, a mind-numbing and hard-to-follow story that was actually filmed at a studio in Hollywood on reconstructed train cars. It's kind of a Tarantino knock-off, so there's a lot of gratuitous violence. Surprisingly, the movie made a profit but was mostly panned by critics.
I don't know what prompted me to see that this summer, maybe the concept of a shinkansen as a film set. It was spectacularly bad, not even funny bad.
Mrs. Pickles refused to see it with me, calling it, pre-emptively, "dreck." She was correct.