Entertainment For Lively Minds
Great Things Scuppered By Someone Just Not Up To The Job
Posted by Tony Donaghey on 25 August 2009 - 8:26am.
A bit of a disaster this weekend as a result of someone not being able to deliver what they promised got me thinking "What things have been ruined by the wrong person being involved?" Great books turned into bad films, great films ruined by the wrong choice of actor or not enough cash to do it justice. Or great albums spoilt by inclusion of a crappy song that just doesn't fit eg I think Bob Dylan's Desire is a great album except for Joey - the way he whines Joeeeeyyyy.
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Made worse
by the knowldege that the real Joey whathisface was a psychotic, wife beating murderous thug. A shite song about a shite.
The spinning top
A very good cd - thanks Word, nice addition to my subscription - but I can't help but think if Graham Coxon hadn't insisted on singing on it, and got someone fuly replete with bucket in which to hold a tune instead, it might have been a classic.
There again, I used to think the same about Damon buggering up the Blur songs.
Kenneth Brannagh's
Much Ado About Nothing is a pretty good film as these things go - but Kenewie Reeves as Don John totally torpedos it! The boy is way, way, way out of his depth. Brannagh's fault for allowing him anywhere near the set.
Even worse
Surely the major culprit in that film was Michael Keaton as Dogberry - what on earth was that about?
Oh Christ...
I'd forgotten that!
Whatever you may say about The Godfather Part III...
...at least it wasn't made by Sylvester Stallone, with John Travolta as Michael Corleone. As was mooted in the mid 1980s.
Rufus Wainwright's Voice
I like the songs and would own all the albums, but for the total fog horn that is Rufus.
...and so whiny too.
Everything I read about Björk suggested that she was exactly the sort of thing I love. Then I heard her...
Lucas
As a bitter Liverpool fan (is there any other sort?) I nominate Lucas Leiva.
Seconded
and thirded. He's as brazilian as Alan Brazil!
The Hold Steady
I like the songs and the idea of them but the singer comes close to ruining it for me
The discovery
of the New World.
Nice idea
but who should have discovered it?
Kevin
Ayers, obviously.
Yeah but,
he did discover the rock. (no, not the film star/wrestler - the other one)
No he didn't.
It was that bird from of Star Trek originally.
Always the bridesmaid,
Yeah I Know
but it tend to go for open minded squelchiness.
Yellow Submarine
Ruins Revolver for me...
Mind Gardens..
..rather spoils Younger Than Yesterday althrough you have to admire the chutzpah of the Croz for insisting it got on the record.
Being There...brilliant film but why did they include the outtakes over the final credits?
George Lucas
Should have hired a decent screenwriter for the Star Wars prequels.
And found a decent actor to play Anakin.
And sorted out Ewan McGregor's accent.
And never have involved Jar Jar Binks.
In fact he should have never made them!
Sorry, that's more than one thing isn't it?
Am I allowed to say
the scary white-faced ginger one in Girls Aloud?
Still though
...
She's the one who makes them
slightly unconventional and therefore more intriguing.
Nicola
at least have the decency to learn/use someone's name before slagging them off because of their pigmentation.
Yeah,
but if he'd written Nicola out of Girls Aloud, I bet we'd have all gone 'Oh, he means the scary white-faced ginger one'
Apart from you obv.
lol
probs.
That's why I asked if I was allowed to say it.
It was a joke. I couldn't give a f*ck about them either way. I'm sure she is lovely. I was referring more to her recent 'look' than her natural pigmentation.
White face
There's no denying she looks a little unhealthy.
Stick thin
Stick thin, white face, red hair - she looks like a Swan Vesta
And whenever I see Girls Aloud, I have the overwhelming urge to scream "EAT SOMETHING" at them
BeingThe Quiet One...
..and the least plastic I've always hoped she had something more about her but she is becoming a little "odd"
The Threetles reunion
produced by Jeff Lynne.
The Smiths' debut, produced by John Porter.
The last series of Coupling, when an absent Jeff was replaced by a lookalike with about 1/1000000000th of the original's charisma.
Catherine sodding Tate in Doctor Who.
Ms Tate - good call Cadabra
She is unbelievably annoying and atmosphere-ruining, it constantly reminds you that for her this is just a good career move, nothing to do with whether it improves the programme or not.
(Oh, and for anyone who is unconvinced about the David Tennant Dr Who, check out the episode "Blink", rightly praised by Charlie Brooker as one of the best things on British TV that year. Takes you right back to your hiding-behind-the-sofa original Dr Who experience).
Spurs' midfield
for Ossie's testimonial match against Inter-Milan '86
Ardiles, Hoddle, Diego Maradona - and...Graham Roberts
R.E.M. post Bill Berry
have been scuppered by the fact that however good the drummer is, he isn't as good a songwriter / arranger as Mr. B.
Was Noel Redding
as good as the other two?
He was a methodical bass player
which provides a structure which might otherwise be lacking. (So yes in other words, sum of the parts etc)
Noel the frustrated composer...
...and also (primarily a) guitarist, I don't think he did a bad job, though Jimi played a fair bit of the bass on record, IIRC (Certainly on "All along the watchtower"). Still if you are watching the JHE to listen to the bass, then...
This rather glorious aircraft...
the stated design goal of which would have resulted in the finest fighter of WW2, was rather stymied by Mr Hitler's insistence that it be reconfigured as a light bomber to avenge the Allied raids on Germany.
Am I in the right forum?
Well...
That's one thing you can't blame Hitler for. Herr Messerschmitt always thought it should be a fighter-bomber and designed it as such - a German version of the de Haviland Mosquito. It was very fast, but with two massive engines stuck out on the wings, it would never be any good in a dogfight.
Mind you, I think we should find our own aeroplane/world war 2 anorak section of the website to argue this out. I wonder what Bob Dylan thinks about the Me 262...
Dylan probably thought
Come you masters of war
You that build all the guns
You that build the death planes
You that build the big bombs
You that hide behind walls
You that hide behind desks
I just want you to know
I can see through your masks
Cap
Doffed...
What about Richard Thompson?
Sir
you are a blaggard. Steel or musket ?
RT
1942 Messerschmidt Black Lightning?
My ME262 she's a runner now?
Surely Blue Öyster Cult are your band for this aircraft:
Having read some more...
...I defer to your wisdom :-), though it undoubtedly excelled as a bomber-interceptor, if a little vulnerable to intruders waiting for it to land.
Still, nice to have a picture of an aircraft here.
Are There Any Trains...
..or Tractors that we wish to "diss" whilst we're at it?
The teenage John Connor in Terminator 2
Almost single-handedly ruins the whole film. All those millions spent on special effects, and I generally can't be bothered watching it because of "that infuriating little adolescent".
Fitter Happier
Rubbish.
Sherlock Holmes
I saw the trailer for the new film, and thought "this could be a bit of fun". Then I discovered it is a Guy Richie film...
Of course it might be good. Not likely though, is it?
Cue Patrick...
Whats 'is chops
from the Flaming Lips. I like the songs, but that awful, reedy, little whine of his never fails to ruin them for me.
Wayne Michael Coyne
At least have the decency to learn/use somebody's name before slagging them off...
(I'm joking - please see comment above referring to my post about the gorgeous Nicola from Girls Aloud.)
Yeah
but if ..
oh forget it
hahaha
.
The Crunge
somewhat scuppers Les Zep's House of the Holy album for me!
where is that
confounded bridge?
love it me
Surely you mean
D'yer Mak'er - the most clumsy, clodhopping attempt at reggae that ever assaulted the eardrums. JPJ and Bonzo had many virtues, but Sly 'n' Robbie they ain't!