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[MrTorso]

Lovely But Deadly

Feature film · 2020

Lovely But Deadly is your standard 80s high school drug movie made by people who have never heard of high school, drugs, or the 80s.

With Mike Nelson, Kevin Murphy, Bill Corbett

See it on RiffTrax

Lovely But Deadly starts off fairly straightforward: a logger suffers an accident in Idaho so he sends his son to live with his wealthy aunt in California, where he succumbs to the temptation of drugs and swims into the ocean in search of a tuna, causing his sister to also move from Idaho and enroll in his high school to get revenge on the drug dealer by shoving his mouth full of homemade drugs at the prom, which does not kill him but somehow causes him to hang himself once he gets to the hospital.

From there it gets kinda weird.

For example, there's Javelin, the teenage coffeehouse troubadour who is also a worldwide shipping magnate. There's also George's boss from Seinfeld acting all horny, a boat chase involving colorful dinghies, and a dude named Gomorrah. All in all, it's your standard 80s high school drug movie made by people who have never heard of high school, drugs, or the 80s. Please join Mike, Kevin, and Bill for Lovely But Deadly!

Written by: Mike Nelson, Conor Lastowka and Sean Thomason

Contributing Writers: Jason Miller and Zachary Shatzer

Lovely But Deadly

Feature film · 2020

Lovely But Deadly is your standard 80s high school drug movie made by people who have never heard of high school, drugs, or the 80s.

With Mike Nelson, Kevin Murphy, Bill Corbett

See it on RiffTrax

[ihavemyreasons]

Wow...this one is going to take me awhile to process. I thought I'd never see a movie with more ackward unrealistic dialog and humans generally behaving more unhumanlike then a James Nguyen movie, but now I have.

[MrTorso]

I am going to watch tonight but it looks like a winner for sure!

[Pak-Man]

Wow...this one is going to take me awhile to process. I thought I'd never see a movie with more ackward unrealistic dialog and humans generally behaving more unhumanlike then a James Nguyen movie, but now I have.

Sold! Cinematic bafflement is exactly what I need tonight.

[PontifexPrimus]

I was very confused that the movie seemed to be mostly going for a cartoony feel, with the main protagonist doing "girly karate" and taking revenge in a over-the-top way; but then out of nowhere there is a brutal, painful, drawn-out murder that I wouldn't have expected to see outside a Saw or Hostel movie (the cardboard box kill).
Seriously, it's like that one scene in Silent Rage, where the "funny" fat cop tells the story about he accidentally torturously killed an innocent puppy, and it is also played for laughs!

The rest of the movie is extremely entertaining, great to point and laugh at, and the riffs are very funny - but I think I'll edit that one scene out and try my best to forget it ever existed in there.

[dbsommer]

Wow...this one is going to take me awhile to process. I thought I'd never see a movie with more ackward unrealistic dialog and humans generally behaving more unhumanlike then a James Nguyen movie, but now I have.

Ryan's Babe. Ostensibly worse than either one. That's not a typo. Think of Birdemic but it was mostly Rob just walking around with no destination whatsoever in mind. Things that make even less sense and have nothing to do with an overall plot keep happening. Then he ends up with the female version of the guy from Replica, only even more unbalanced and stalkerish.

[ihavemyreasons]

Plot with this one was mostly comprehensible-dumb, but not overly confusing. It was the dialog and that someone actually wrote the dialog and direction probably  thinking that it was a realistic potrayal of how people talk and act that I found befuddling. Made for a good riff though.

[stansimpson]

Wow...this one is going to take me awhile to process. I thought I'd never see a movie with more ackward unrealistic dialog and humans generally behaving more unhumanlike then a James Nguyen movie, but now I have.

Ryan's Babe. Ostensibly worse than either one. That's not a typo. Think of Birdemic but it was mostly Rob just walking around with no destination whatsoever in mind. Things that make even less sense and have nothing to do with an overall plot keep happening. Then he ends up with the female version of the guy from Replica, only even more unbalanced and stalkerish.

Seems slightly more coherent than Dangerous Men.

[Pak-Man]

I'd put it up there with Honor and Glory. The motivations are clear, but the dialogue and choice of action is often strange.

[dbsommer]

Ryan's Babe. Ostensibly worse than either one. That's not a typo. Think of Birdemic but it was mostly Rob just walking around with no destination whatsoever in mind. Things that make even less sense and have nothing to do with an overall plot keep happening. Then he ends up with the female version of the guy from Replica, only even more unbalanced and stalkerish.

Seems slightly more coherent than Dangerous Men.

Yes, just barely, maybe. Sad to think that James has a better grasp of linear storytelling than either of those. I mean he rambles all over the place, but there is a kind of coherent Point A to Point B going on with him.

[suedenim]

Just watched this on a double bill with Breaker, Breaker on Amazon Prime, as a sort of impromptu celebration of the spirit of Patrick Swayze Christmas.

Lots of entertaining baffling nonsensical fun to be had here.  There's a weird tonal inconsistency, as some of the action seems more suited to a fairly light comedy about shenanigan-level crime (the cheerleader fights and the business at the buffet), while others are about fighting serious, murderous criminals.

I found Lucinda Dooley to be legitimately appealing in the lead role, but I also thought they'd give her an actual "21 Jump Street" style background, explaining that the 27 year old experienced karate black belt was, in character, impersonating a 17 year old high school student, rather than pretending she's actually only 17.