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« Reply #30 on: September 16, 2019, 10:25:30 AM »
Quote from: bob on September 16, 2019, 09:09:08 AM
Quote from: Rev. Powell on September 14, 2019, 10:30:21 AM
Quote from: A.J. Bauer on September 12, 2019, 10:40:48 PM

No, the modern Ed Wood is not Uwe Boll. It's Neil Breen.

Or Tommy Wiseau, if Wiseau would make more movies.

you'll get your chance

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« Reply #31 on: September 16, 2019, 10:53:53 AM »
You know, I don't think THE ROOM is that bad of a movie; it's just another romantic / sexual drama, they all suck anyways excepto for a specific type of viewer. Hell, I'm willing to bet that you can find worst lines and scenes in FIFTY SHADES OF GREY and yet that crap makes millions.
I think the weirdness of good ol' Tommy is what turned the movie into such a big deal.
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« Reply #32 on: September 16, 2019, 09:48:05 PM »
Quote from: Gabriel Knight on September 16, 2019, 10:53:53 AM
You know, I don't think THE ROOM is that bad of a movie; it's just another romantic / sexual drama, they all suck anyways excepto for a specific type of viewer. Hell, I'm willing to bet that you can find worst lines and scenes in FIFTY SHADES OF GREY and yet that crap makes millions.
I think the weirdness of good ol' Tommy is what turned the movie into such a big deal.

Comparing bad movies to Fifty Shades is cheating. Falling down the stairs and breaking your leg is a better experience than watching any of the Fifty Shades films.
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« Reply #33 on: September 17, 2019, 06:04:04 AM »
Quote from: A.J. Bauer on September 16, 2019, 09:48:05 PM
Quote from: Gabriel Knight on September 16, 2019, 10:53:53 AM
You know, I don't think THE ROOM is that bad of a movie; it's just another romantic / sexual drama, they all suck anyways excepto for a specific type of viewer. Hell, I'm willing to bet that you can find worst lines and scenes in FIFTY SHADES OF GREY and yet that crap makes millions.
I think the weirdness of good ol' Tommy is what turned the movie into such a big deal.

Comparing bad movies to Fifty Shades is cheating. Falling down the stairs and breaking your leg is a better experience than watching any of the Fifty Shades films.

And yet...

Box Office
Budget:$40,000,000 (estimated)
Opening Weekend USA: $85,171,450, 15 February 2015
Gross USA: $166,167,230
Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $569,651,467

At the end, it's nothing more than marketing. If Tommy made a huge campaing and bribed a couple of s**tty critics, his movie could've made millions and earned prizes, as crappy they are.
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« Reply #34 on: September 17, 2019, 07:28:48 AM »
Another film which Uncle Uwe made in South Africa: 1968 Tunnel Rats.

Definitely NSFW and also very disturbing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWtgdn59F60

That hanging sequence nearly made me throw up.  Buggedout
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« Reply #35 on: September 17, 2019, 12:51:32 PM »
Quote from: A.J. Bauer on September 16, 2019, 09:48:05 PM
Quote from: Gabriel Knight on September 16, 2019, 10:53:53 AM
You know, I don't think THE ROOM is that bad of a movie; it's just another romantic / sexual drama, they all suck anyways excepto for a specific type of viewer. Hell, I'm willing to bet that you can find worst lines and scenes in FIFTY SHADES OF GREY and yet that crap makes millions.
I think the weirdness of good ol' Tommy is what turned the movie into such a big deal.

Comparing bad movies to Fifty Shades is cheating. Falling down the stairs and breaking your leg is a better experience than watching any of the Fifty Shades films.

There's more than one?  Bluesad
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« Reply #36 on: September 17, 2019, 12:53:04 PM »
I.E.-the ROOM
NO amount of ballyhoo and $ could have made that movie less insane.
And yes- I did enjoy it on a "WTF" level.  Thumbup
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« Reply #37 on: September 21, 2019, 08:18:22 PM »
I second(third/4th?) Neil Breen. I will also throw in my hate for the genius behind Who Killed Captain Alex and the rest of Wakailiwood. When you have zero budget but you really have a vision 
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« Reply #38 on: September 22, 2019, 06:25:01 AM »
I can't really see a comparison between the two. Ed seems to have had a passion (bordering on the insane) for his work whereas for Uwe its more about tax write-offs. He has proven he can do good work when he wants to. Poor Ed could only have ever done something good by accident.
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« Reply #39 on: September 22, 2019, 07:17:49 AM »
The fact Who Killed Captain Alex exists is by itself a miracle that proves the director truly cared about his film.

He sold everything he owned for a camera, made on less than a shoe string budget, and managed to make a movie in f**king UGANDA.
Y'know, the war torn hellhole where you can be hanged for being gay and AIDS gets around more than baseball cards?

A film with that level of passions deserves to by on f**king Criterion as far as I'm concerned.
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