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Post by Mitchell on Jan 15, 2013 2:52:06 GMT -5
Forget Night of the Lepus, move over Troll 2, hit the road Santa Claus and the Ice Cream Bunny, because the Shadoe Stevens vehicle "Traxx" is worse: www.youtube.com/watch?v=stnt_xf1YHE (1 minor NSFW scene) Why? It can't decide if it wants to be a wacky buddy comedy, a legit action movie, or a thriller. It's has all the worst stereotypes of an 80s action movie: superfly black sidekick, awful Pointer-Sistersish production music, unfunny telegraphed gags, Shadow trying to channel Chuck Norris, right down to the GMC truck with a light bar a-la Invasion USA, crap pyrotechnics and casual gunplay, and finally a sex scene capped off by a spurting fountain at the moment of truth--and this is meant to be serious, not the Naked Gun. So why worse than the others? Because it's technically mediocre. The story can be followed, but it's horribly, unintentionally silly. Robert Davi plays the main antagonist, and he was a Bond villain!
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Post by Crowfan on Jan 15, 2013 17:34:43 GMT -5
So that's what happened to Shadoe Stevens
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Post by Skyroniter on Jan 15, 2013 22:31:22 GMT -5
"Roller Gator" is mighty hard to beat in terms of sheer WTF awfulness.
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Post by Mitchell on Jan 16, 2013 8:24:57 GMT -5
I know this is going to sound a bit contraian, so give me a moment, but I think movies that are just complete incompetence somehow don't count, like they're basically youtube videos before there was youtube, like some sleezeball was trying to get into a girl's pants by saying he was shooting a movie. To me, it's just trash, a hobbyist's diversion at best, not a movie, which is why dreck like Sidehackers or Manos isn't on my list.
Something like Traxx, where it was bankrolled by Dino DiLaurentiis, and was taken seriously (?) by actors that have appeared in other, viable movies, and is literally insultingly stupid, that is what rises to me to a level of awfulness that Manos never could. It was a real production with real actors designed to strike a particular chord in the action genre, and it failed horribly.
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Post by TheNewMads on Jan 16, 2013 9:06:34 GMT -5
I know this is going to sound a bit contraian, so give me a moment, but I think movies that are just complete incompetence somehow don't count, like they're basically youtube videos before there was youtube, like some sleezeball was trying to get into a girl's pants by saying he was shooting a movie. To me, it's just trash, a hobbyist's diversion at best, not a movie, which is why dreck like Sidehackers or Manos isn't on my list. I actually think Manos is a work of secret genius, but the above is why I never got into Troma movies. They're trying to make bad movies, which takes all the fun out of it. The charm of movies like Troll 2 and Ed Wood movies is that the guys were trying to make a brilliant movie.
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Post by Skyroniter on Jan 16, 2013 16:21:36 GMT -5
I don't think "Roller Gator" is intentionally bad like many Troma flicks. I think its more that the director was mentally ill.
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Post by TheNewMads on Jan 16, 2013 18:34:12 GMT -5
I don't think "Roller Gator" is intentionally bad like many Troma flicks. I think its more that the director was mentally ill. Ah, see, I might be totally down with that! I saw a bit of it on youtube and it does look like it's at least trying to be charming and work with what it has, rather than just being cynical like Troma. It still looks mighty painful, though. If you like the cinema of the mentally ill, you'd probably appreciate Larry Crane. I picked up "The Love Captive" and "All Women Are Bad," two old grindhouse movies of his, a few years ago and i'm convinced he was actually paranoid schizophrenic. The movies just pore obsessively over themes of eavesdropping, hearing voices, everyone being out to get you, wandering, rambling trains of thought, and extended hallucinogenic fugues. there's also a lot of poorly sublimated mommy issues and phallus fixation. highly recommended.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 26, 2013 11:28:18 GMT -5
This one gets my vote. Wrong on so many levels.
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Post by Crowfan on Jan 27, 2013 11:18:21 GMT -5
This had a pretty good premise, but the acting was REALLY bad....
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2013 14:00:10 GMT -5
This had a pretty good premise, but the acting was REALLY bad.... Wow, that looks like some kind of student film project, much like the first half of "They Saved Hitler's Brain"
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Post by Crowfan on Jan 27, 2013 16:55:40 GMT -5
If you're interested, I believe the entire film is on Youtube.
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Post by Broadsword on Feb 14, 2013 22:27:00 GMT -5
To me the worst is still
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Post by TheNewMads on Feb 15, 2013 10:24:10 GMT -5
"Bloodsucking Freaks" was indeed not a very good film.
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Post by Crowfan on Feb 15, 2013 19:51:47 GMT -5
Agreed.
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Post by crowschmo on Feb 21, 2013 17:50:52 GMT -5
"The Fifth Element" was pretty damn bad. And that was kind of a major thing.
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