this movie....
made me sick....
i watched it without the riffs....
i (being honest) have never felt hate towards any movie like i felt towards this piece of $#!+
stupid ending.... horrible acting.... not my type of media (I generally never cared for horror flicks... too depressing) and many MANY other problems!
oh... dont get me wrong... i laughed at some of the badness... but the rest of the film, i was clutching my gut in agony... and had to throw up halfway through....
i dont think i could handle it... even with the riffs....
Watching this movie without the riffrax is a bit like using a chain saw without a chain guard. You COULD do it, but we dont recommend it.
We told you guys this is almost Manos bad..... >:D
BTW, PSLOwner, I LOVE your icon. SCREW edutainment!
Quote from: gbeenie on February 18, 2007, 10:55:33 AM
BTW, PSLOwner, I LOVE your icon. SCREW edutainment!
Angel the Vampire Puppet. One of their funniest episodes. Thanks UPN for cancelling the show and replacing it with crap! :grr:
Quote from: PSLOwner on February 18, 2007, 11:47:39 AM
Quote from: gbeenie on February 18, 2007, 10:55:33 AM
BTW, PSLOwner, I LOVE your icon. SCREW edutainment!
Angel the Vampire Puppet. One of their funniest episodes. Thanks UPN for cancelling the show and replacing it with crap! :grr:
Actually, it was WB, who replaced it the following season with
Supernatural (and where does a shitty show like that get off having a
vampire episode?).
I wonder which film was more thoroughly incompetent, Troll 2, Hobgoblins, or Werewolf. ???
Quote from: Tony Farms AKA Puma Man on February 19, 2007, 06:35:39 PM
I wonder which film was more thoroughly incompetent, Troll 2, Hobgoblins, or Werewolf. ???
Wow, that is a tough one. I dont think there is a proper answer for that question!
Quote from: Tony Farms AKA Puma Man on February 19, 2007, 06:35:39 PM
I wonder which film was more thoroughly incompetent, Troll 2, Hobgoblins, or Werewolf. ???
Easily Troll 2.
While Hobgoblins was more intentially wretched and morally bankrupt from a script perspective and Werewolf featured the incomparable eastern european leading lady, at least the plots could be followed and the happenings on screen tended to make sense for the most part. Troll 2 just had complete scenes thrown in that had nothing to do with anything. It was like huge chunks of film that might have helped tie things together were just missing. What the hell was going on with the popcorn scene, for example? I don't remember either Hobgoblins or Werewolf being so fundamentally sloppy.
Troll 2 is the worst thing ever invented by people, and yes I know about TNT, and the atomic bomb. Misguided evil always sickens me more than the non-imaginative kinds of evil out there.
Things that propels this into 'Crime Against Aesthetics' territory:
The downer ending.
The weird Call of Cthulhu Ghost Granddad helping out the little proto-Arch Hall Jr. Kid
Arch Hall Jr. Jr.'s line delivery
The weird lactose fixation of the director/writer.
"Nilbog is Goblin Spelled Backwards!" Oh, and this is what I said when I sounded out the name of the town from its sign. Nilbo--wait, that's Goblin backwards.
Yeah, you gotta wonder about a director and/or writer that thought the "Nilbog" thing was exceptionally clever. A third grader could probably figure that out in a couple of minutes. The amount of stupidity that was required for the adults, teenage boys, and girl to not get that is so immense that it boggles the mind. Definitely on par with Hobgoblins in inanity. If the sound was off by half a second and the picture quality looked like it was shot with a camera lens covered with vaseline, I'd say it was Manos bad . . . just not quite.
Truthfully I didn't have much difficulty getting through the film. Given all the hype I was expecting disaster on a Manos level. Instead it's just incompetently written and acted. Overall the plot is easy enough to follow, the premise is similar to something like Species and about as believable. There were only two moments where I really felt it veered into the Manos "stunningly incomprehensibly bad" category; the popcorn scene and the forced attempt at a shocking ending. Otherwise if given a choice to watch this or Firewall sans Rifftrax I'd take Troll 2 every time.
As bad as it was, there are worse. Head over to Netflix and get Feeders and Feeders 2 for a double feature. If you haven't killed yourself by the end of Feeders, you may want to stop there. If you make it through Feeders 2, you have a high pain tolerance. If you can watch those two and Nukie all in a row without denouncing all religion and losing all will to live, you're probably not human.
Quote from: Hobbit on April 07, 2007, 07:14:30 PM
As bad as it was, there are worse. Head over to Netflix and get Feeders and Feeders 2 for a double feature. If you haven't killed yourself by the end of Feeders, you may want to stop there. If you make it through Feeders 2, you have a high pain tolerance. If you can watch those two and Nukie all in a row without denouncing all religion and losing all will to live, you're probably not human.
I picked up Feeders/Feeders2 from Amazon.com, some friends and I watched it, and we are still in therapy to this day. Honestly, those movies cannot be described. :scared: :scared: :gouge: :gouge:
Quote from: Tony Farms AKA Puma Man on February 19, 2007, 06:35:39 PM
I wonder which film was more thoroughly incompetent, Troll 2, Hobgoblins, or Werewolf. ???
Of the three, I would have to go with Troll 2 just based on the overall incompetenece of all the actors. Hobgoblins is 2nd.
Werewolf is not even the worst werewolf movie out there. That movie is an Academy award winner compaired to "Howling - New Moon Rising" (which is movie number 7 in the series, I think). Look this up on imdb.com to see what I mean........I have watched it and I think it is actually worse than all three of the movies listed.
One must admit that Troll 2 was a rather unique experience. Of course, unique can still mean "overwhelmingly painful and idiotic to heights that man had not thought possible", right?
A few things Troll2 has going for it is the film stock and audio equipment they used were quite nice. Too bad they blew their entire budget on those two items. ;D
Quote from: CHF01 on June 01, 2008, 12:02:01 PM
A few things Troll2 has going for it is the film stock and audio equipment they used were quite nice. Too bad they blew their entire budget on those two items. ;D
Their popcorn and bologna budget must have been high too.
I think I'm going to be analyzing the plot and trying to make sense of it for the rest of my life. Vegetarian monsters that are ok with killing and eating people so long as they mutate into... something first? I suppose eternal confusion is slightly better than the three days of blurred vision and uncontrollable nervous laughter that followed my first viewing of Manos. Then again, by the third time I actually sat through Manos, I came to beleive it could be saved. If I watch this multiple times, I may come down with a permanent case of my Manos reaction. :gouge: