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#+Title: Troll 2
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#+Subtitle: How a terrible movie can be entertaining
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#+Author: Yann Esposito
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#+Email: yann@esposito.host
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#+Date: [2019-08-17 Sat]
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#+KEYWORDS: movie
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#+DESCRIPTION:
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#+LANGUAGE: en
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#+LANG: en
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#+OPTIONS: H:5 auto-id:t
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#+STARTUP: showeverything
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#+begin_notes
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I watched what might be the most failed movie of all time and I still
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enjoyed greatly the show.
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#+end_notes
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I recently wanted to watch again an horror teen movie I watched when I was
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a young boy: Troll.
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But I discovered there were a movie called Troll 2.
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I guessed that it must be the following one.
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Oh god, I saw the imdb note was, really, really bad.
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But who cares, I watched it.
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And here is a resume of my experience:
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* The watching
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:PROPERTIES:
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:CUSTOM_ID: the-watching
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:END:
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Troll 2 synopsis is a family that goes camping to Nilbog.
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The son of the family see his dead grandfather that warn him against
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Goblins that make you eat things that transform you and then they eat you.
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Of course nobody listen to the warn of the boy, the family goes to Nilbog
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which is of course infested by Goblins.
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Troll 2 is bad on most criterion you use to measure the quality of a movie.
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During the first minutes of the movie, you get to see the costume of the
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goblins.
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Those costume looks very bad and cheap.
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So much you can only find them not terrorizing but funny and ridiculous.
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#+CAPTION: One goblin during the introduction scene of Troll 2
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#+NAME: fig:troll-2-intro
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#+ATTR_HTML: A goblin
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[[./troll-2/Troll-2-intro.jpg]]
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Soon after that, you realize the acting of all actors is extremely bad.
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In fact, it is so bad, you might not believe me how bad it is.
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To give you an idea, the only equal bad acting I ever witnessed was while
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looking at amateurs first Youtube movie trying to follow a scenario.
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Apparently all actor were amateurs, it was their first and last movie.
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#+CAPTION: One particularly terrible acting scene
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#+NAME: fig:bad-acting
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#+ATTR_HTML: A bad acting demonstration
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[[file:troll-2/bad-acting.png]]
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The dialog are, really something...
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For example the expression "clusters of hemorrhoid" is used in a non ironic
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dialog.
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The scenario is terrible.
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For example, most of the thing occurring suffer from terrible plot holes or
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terrible mistakes that make everything hard to believe even if you accept
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the premises of a world were Goblin would exists.
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For example, the grandfather ghost can stop time for 30 seconds for no
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reason at all.
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The realization is a series of basic mistakes.
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Actors are not in the same places after all plan cut for example.
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Some filmed scene feel so wrong.
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I forgot to give a word about the music.
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It is like the director choose the worst music to go along each scene.
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The first ending is really, quite surprising.
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They beat the monsters with, what I believe was a failed attempt at humor.
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It misses the point so bad, that the irony still make it funny.
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#+CAPTION: Our hero save the day by urinating on the table. His family is frozen for 30s said grandpa, they were for 70s.
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#+NAME: fig:prevent-eating
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#+ATTR_HTML: Eliott prevents his family to eat the food by urinating on the table
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[[./troll-2/prevent-eating-scene.jpg]]
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Of course, the very last scene is a classical so terrible cliché.
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To let you close the experience in awe.
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But there is a bonus, the cherry on the cake.
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During all the movie, it is *never* question of a Troll at all.
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The monsters are all Goblin, not Troll.
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I think the word "troll" is not pronounced once in the movie.
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Still, it was quite entertaining.
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# LocalWords: Nilbog cliché
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* After the movie
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:PROPERTIES:
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:CUSTOM_ID: after-the-movie
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:END:
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What is really interesting though is that I really enjoyed the watch.
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It was so bad, that in the end, you do not really enter in the movie, but
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really just analyze the movie, and you start to see how much the movie is bad.
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And this is so fun.
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For example, there are some attempts at humor, but almost all of them fail terribly.
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And so, you can laugh at how much it failed.
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Once going to imdb, I discovered I wasn't alone in loving that terrible
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movie.
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Now, I don't know if I should give that movie a 1 or 2 stars or 8 to 9
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stars because it was so entertaining.
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But I learned a few nice anecdotes about that movie.
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It was realized in America by Claudio Fragasso who didn't speak fluent
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English.
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He and his wife were apparently irritated by many of her friends turning
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vegetarian.
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He brought the film crew over with him from Italy.
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None of them spoke English either.
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#+begin_quote
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“The cast had few experienced actors, and was primarily assembled from
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residents of nearby towns who responded to an open casting call. George
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Hardy was a dentist with no acting experience who showed up for fun, hoping
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to be cast as an extra, only to be given one of the film’s largest speaking
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roles. Don Packard, who played the store owner, was actually a resident at
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a nearby mental hospital, and was cast for—and filmed—his role while on a
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day trip; after recovering and being released from the hospital, he
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recalled that he had no idea what was happening around him, and that his
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disturbed “performance” in the film was not acting”
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#+end_quote
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