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Bad Taste (1987)
A movie for real men!
*Minor spoilers*
All you really need is a job, spare time, creative imagination, good friends and a positive attitude that will last you 4 years. And also, it does help if you have a twisted fetish for blood, brains and E.T's disguised as humans. Then maybe the final result will end up in something described by many viewers as; "The worst sack of movie in a lifetime" or the more clingy version; "Bad Taste makes American Beauty look like old garbage" even though I'm exaggerating 7% on that last statement. The opinions however are many and divers. Whatever your opinion may be, one must give a huge amount of glorified respect to Peter Jackson for pulling of all the more intense scenes (the head-open scene, the alien masks etc.) having in mind his unspeakable budget, and further more respect to him for not giving up on this long-lasting project.
I for one love this movie. I've seen it way too many times. I have as well introduced this movie to a medium range of people. Unfortunately the general saying amongst them were that it was not their biscuit with lemonade. The reason for the dislike may be because of all the gore they probably see as unnecessary, all their paranoid hate against aliens or the fact that somebody thinks the cast manipulated Peter Jackson to puke in a bowl. But on a serious note, people who only have laid their eyes on the LOTR-movies would probably not expect this type of movie from him, hence all the negative critique. However it is a special genre that many people tend to hate because of it's sick humor. Claiming that this is the worst movie in history would only serve as an ignorant statement and very little depth in independent movie-making. At least, that is my opinion.
In other terms; do you enjoy cruelty against a flock of seagulls, Beatles, fake Uzi sounds, pimped up vehicles, the idea that all the extraterrestrial psychopaths wears the same clothing, a spaceship disguised as an old homestead, edible puke or Peter Jackson spoon-feeding himself with brain - this is the movie for you! If not, I would steer away and watch something more mainstream.
Evil Ed (1995)
There's something about Edward
The glorious Edward gets to move up in the world when his supervisor tells him that he can drop those filthy Swedish drama movies and head up stairs to the splatter and gore department. Excited along with his big anticipations for the new type of movies he soon will be going to edit, he asks all sorts of questions, about the wage, his workspace and lunch brake. Well, not really. Edward is maybe quite the opposite. Calm, stuttering guy, on top of that, he got glasses. With the exception when he's insane. I guess that created a much creepier atmosphere.
Evil Ed is with all reason a Swedish movie, but somehow a magical force came across the good actors and turned their lovely Swedish accents into stereotypical American voices. I guess that's some of the expertise an actor needs these days. The acting is very
.wooden, as in they are inflexible, not bendable (well hey, what did you actually expect?). On top of that the movie has a jamming techno theme song, sounds like its E-Type. In any case, this only makes the movie experience worse. Since I'm fairly harsh against this movie so far, there will usually be a breaking point where I tone the level of happiness up. But there's really not much to say. The blueprints look good, but somehow 'Hanz' spelt coffee over it and partially destroyed it. That's how I look at this movie. If the movie ended where Edward is taken to a mental institute and they refurnished the parts from where he goes insane and kills people, the result would have been much better, but that's just my radical view. I would also like to see more footage from the lose limbs movies.
There are also illogical things to discover in this piece of movie. Let's to say that the actors really are American, living in America, why would they then work on a Swedish movie, like Edward did? And also, that delivery man, why is it that he never uses the doorbell which is located directly beside him? Instead he goes away with tapping softly at the door. Good old Edward really got some good ears to hear all that while he is editing.
Anyway, this movie had its moments, it's just a shame there were not that many. But that doesn't mean I would not recommend it. It's a rather cheap movie, go ahead and buy. It's almost like I see a pattern for the price and the movie. On the other side; if you like watching dubbed movies getting crappier by the second this might be IT. My verdict would then be a rock solid 4.