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Originally Posted by neverending
This is not going to be an official list.
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Thanks, Neverending. As I do occasionally, I just read the thread title, and didn't read Horcrux's first post...
It reads Horcrux is just putting his own list together (for himself, not HDC) and is asking for suggestions. I assumed he was getting films together for a HDC participation thread. Sorry about that, Horcrux! Disregard my previous post.
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Originally Posted by Despare
It's probably easier just to post your list of the worst movies you can think of. Taste is so subjective, for instance while Sculpt thinks TCM 2 should be on the list I adore that movie and have two different releases of it. It's especially hard to do with a group of people like we have here in which you'll find some people who really dig stuff like Frankenhooker (me) and Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter (not so much me...).
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Very true, Desp!
Regarding Hooper's TCSM2... I was a fan of TCSM for some years, and then saw TCSM2 at the theatre with some friends. Expectations will affect how one perceives a film. I wasn't expecting a looney dark comedy. (That's how Hooper himself described it, & I agree.).
Now as a looney, gory, mean spirited, dark comedy, I still don't think it was a good film. If I compare it to Motel Hell, I think Motel Hell captured the right frame of mind, so to speak. I don't think TCSM2 was cogent. Mean spirited is difficult to pull off. I don't find mean spirited dark comedy entertaining anyway, but it's a complicated art-form, of many levels, that can work. I think it failed miserably.
Hooper said he didn't want to do it, at the time, he wasn't the main writer of the story, it made the family anti-heros, but I didn't see (in the flim) any cogent intention of what the family was, or what we're supposed to think about it. To put it crassly, I thought the film clumsily stumbled into mean-spirited-porn, was made strictly for money, leeching off the original, plus a cinematic mess. I'm glad you got something good out of it.
Maybe you can tell me what things you thought the film was trying to say? Why you liked it?