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the-hype-dragon · 1 year ago

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I watched a very bad movie called Sharks of the Corn, and it got me really thinking about like, how do you know if something is just plain bad vs done in a particular style? because while I was watching it I was like, well this sort of reminds me of a Lynch or a Shyamalan movie, awkward "realistic" dialogue and lingering shots of mundane actions and all, but you know, you get the sense that it's deliberate on Lynch's or Shyamalan's parts because a movie they've directed will be consistently like that; and Sharks of the Corn switches from mundane dialogue presented realistically to action movie quips to zany buddy comedy skits with no regard for consistency, which I think it really needed to be able to consider it an intentional horror-comedy instead of a very clumsy parody of Jaws and John Carpenter movies

#yeah a bad movie made me very philosophical today lmao #yeah it's tongue in cheek and trashy and was just a goof #but also it wasn't that good as a comedy lmao #some parts made me laugh but some parts were trying too hard and were just not funny lmao #and a lot of stuff could have been cut out or reworked and it would have made it a much better movie #like sharknado is a good example of a silly premise done pretty well imo #sharks of the corn was a silly premise that came close to being passably handled but was just plain bad lmao #the bigfoot joke is probably the best example of this #they run it into the ground leading up to the pay off #like hot fuzz is one of my favorite movies because it sets up all of its jokes early and they get good pay-off later #the running joke of “oh I bet you believe in bigfoot too you idiot” was run into the ground very early in sotc #then bigfoot shows up out of nowhere in the climax to bonk a bad guy over the head with a big rock #it made me laugh really hard because I wasn't expecting it but also it would have been a lot funnier #if they had only mentioned bigfoot a couple times beforehand imo #instead of reminding you constantly that bigfoot totally don't real and only idiots believe in bigfoot #or if the movie was a lot shorter it would have been funnier lmao #idk I just thought about this a lot today #like if I dislike something I like to dissect why specifically I don't like it lmao

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