There has been a fair amount of debate as to whether this movie was bad on purpose or by accident because it seems to fail at everything you can possibly fail at and still get it into a theater. But it fails almost perfectly. The cardboard MRI machine is on the fence. You can see someone somewhere thinking its a passable prop. Maybe with the right camera angles you can disguise the fact of it's being cardboard. In fact, they seem to try to do this by cutting away whenever the machine has to move, and cut back when it's done.
But then theres the radio clock. You probably remember this. They briefly make an unnecessary reference to a radio clock one of the characters has. Its a bit of conversation that, like much of the other dialog, could easily be cut while having zero impact on the movie, but in this case, he's going out of his way to mention this radio clock, and then we see it. Its a radio taped to a clock. Scotch taped and awkwardly at that. Even if he felt he needed to show a prop, he could have had the character reference either the radio or the clock and then shown one or the other of them with no tape. It would have been one of the movie's few props that actually was what it was supposed to be, but instead the director decided to take two potentially real props and use them to fashion a crude approximation of another prop.
There are numerous instances where the movie would have been better if they had been lazier. The science magazine prop for example. Could they not have found a real magazine of some sort for the character to read or, failing that, simply left the magazine out altogether? It tells us nothing about the character that couldn't be established with a bit of dialog.
Its that one little thing that keeps me from being able to completely dismiss the idea that this was all supposed to be deliberately bad. The the little bug in my head. This movie could just be the perfect Troll, its possible. Help me!!!!
Why this screws with my head.
There has been a fair amount of debate as to whether this movie was bad on purpose or by accident because it seems to fail at everything you can possibly fail at and still get it into a theater. But it fails almost perfectly. The cardboard MRI machine is on the fence. You can see someone somewhere thinking its a passable prop. Maybe with the right camera angles you can disguise the fact of it's being cardboard. In fact, they seem to try to do this by cutting away whenever the machine has to move, and cut back when it's done.
But then theres the radio clock. You probably remember this. They briefly make an unnecessary reference to a radio clock one of the characters has. Its a bit of conversation that, like much of the other dialog, could easily be cut while having zero impact on the movie, but in this case, he's going out of his way to mention this radio clock, and then we see it. Its a radio taped to a clock. Scotch taped and awkwardly at that. Even if he felt he needed to show a prop, he could have had the character reference either the radio or the clock and then shown one or the other of them with no tape. It would have been one of the movie's few props that actually was what it was supposed to be, but instead the director decided to take two potentially real props and use them to fashion a crude approximation of another prop.
There are numerous instances where the movie would have been better if they had been lazier. The science magazine prop for example. Could they not have found a real magazine of some sort for the character to read or, failing that, simply left the magazine out altogether? It tells us nothing about the character that couldn't be established with a bit of dialog.
Its that one little thing that keeps me from being able to completely dismiss the idea that this was all supposed to be deliberately bad. The the little bug in my head. This movie could just be the perfect Troll, its possible. Help me!!!!