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kleinbl00  ·  4258 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Don't Watch "Alien Origin" Even Ironically

I have friends with movies released on Troma. Even they won't touch Asylum.

SURF NAZIS MUST DIE has one, maybe two jokes in it. It's entertaining to have watched but awkward to actually watch, kind of like Spinal Tap but way,way, way worse.

BARBARELLA you can't just watch. You have to know a few things about it. BARBARELLA does not really give you the proper impact without understanding the sexual tension that was Jane Fonda and Roger Vadim's disintegrating marriage, the background of Truffaut against which it played, the fact that it's got Marcel Marceau in a speaking role...

I mean, it's a hell of a film. Just the killer dolls and the dude in the chest dickie who saves her alone.

As you watch, remember: they've tried to shoehorn both Drew Barrymore and Rose McGowan in that role recently. And can you imagine the three-cornered clusterfuck Mr. Spy Kids would have made of it?





user-inactivated  ·  4258 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Don't knock Troma. Cannibal! the Musical was a great movie.

kleinbl00  ·  4258 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'm not knocking Troma. I've worked with Lloyd and get his email spams. Just sayin' - Troma buys films for less than $10,000 and my friends will go there before they go to Asylum.