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I don't think Tremors was terrible. In fact, I would say it is actually a very good movie. The others in the series were definitely terrible, but I love and enjoy the entire franchise. One of my favorite creature series.
Those movies were a HUGE part of my highschool experience. There was this kid at my school who was obsessed with Troma and showed me many of their movies. At one point our local indy theater use to show them. I dressed up as Toxie twice for Halloween and once as Sarah/Claire.
Myself as well. We had about 8 kids from the neighborhood gather to watch part one and two. There was a scene in part two where Toxie beat a top hat wearing man over the head until he was just
a hat with feet sticking out running around. We were roaring with laughter.
Toxic Avenger became an Off Broadway play several years ago. I didn't see it unfortunately.
I'm not sure how Elf is a terrible film that one loves anyway.
It's a comedy. No, it does not feature any dramatic acting in the classic sense (if it did, then it might indeed be terrible). The North Pole sets are intentionally primitively stylized partly as an homage to the old Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer stop-motion special and partly because in that manner they accentuate the humor. Most of the actors in the film are comedic acting by design because that's what the film requires. The film's straight 'men' who stick to a form of dramatic acting that is tweaked to be in support of the overall comedy - James Caan, Mary Steenburgen, others - deliver in about as tone-perfect a manner as one can imagine. The pretension to drama at the heart of the film, a thing which lurks within almost all comedies, properly serves its purpose but does not overwhelm the comedic elements. I fail to see where it even goes all that wrong, much less is particularly bad.
If Elf completely missed its comedic target, it might be terrible. But it nails it.
Just because a film is not Shakespeareanesque, with high drama and riven with metaphors and commentary, does not make it terrible.
My offering? The original Red Dawn. For a film that makes a pitch to realism, it is strategically idiotic, logistically idiotic, and tactically idiotic.
I'm not sure how Elf is a terrible film that one loves anyway.
It's a comedy. No, it does not feature any dramatic acting in the classic sense (if it did, then it might indeed be terrible). The North Pole sets are intentionally primitively stylized partly as an homage to the old Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer stop-motion special and partly because in that manner they accentuate the humor. Most of the actors in the film are comedic acting by design because that's what the film requires. The film's straight 'men' who stick to a form of dramatic acting that is tweaked to be in support of the overall comedy - James Caan, Mary Steenburgen, others - deliver in about as tone-perfect a manner as one can imagine. The pretension to drama at the heart of the film, a thing which lurks within almost all comedies, properly serves its purpose but does not overwhelm the comedic elements. I fail to see where it even goes all that wrong, much less is particularly bad.
If Elf completely missed its comedic target, it might be terrible. But it nails it.
Just because a film is not Shakespeareanesque, with high drama and riven with metaphors and commentary, does not make it terrible.
My offering? The original Red Dawn. For a film that makes a pitch to realism, it is strategically idiotic, logistically idiotic, and tactically idiotic.
Erm...I think you have a point and well stated at that. It really is good at being what it IS.
Sometimes my film snobbery gets in the way of my judgement.
Yesssssss. It's so bad that it is good in the same vein as Plan 9 From Outer Space.
Plan 9's props made me laugh out loud. Killer Klowns from Outer Space has that great flying saucer that is a circus big top. I'm laughing out loud right now thinking of both of them but Killer Klowns actually scared me.
Yesssssss. It's so bad that it is good in the same vein as Plan 9 From Outer Space.
Plan 9's props made me laugh out loud. Killer Klowns from Outer Space has that great flying saucer that is a circus big top. I'm laughing out loud right now thinking of both of them but Killer Klowns actually scared me.
Ditto "The Creeping Terror"
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It really is good at being what it IS.
