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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 20:00]
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#+KEYWORDS: movie
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#+DESCRIPTION: I watched what may be the worse movie of all time and I still enjoyed greatly the show.
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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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#+html_head_extra: <style>img,svg {filter: brightness(0.8) sepia(100%) hue-rotate(80deg) saturate(10); } body { font-family: "Comic Sans MS", sans-serif; } </style>
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#+begin_notes
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I watched what may be the worse movie of all time and I still enjoyed
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greatly the show.
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#+end_notes
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I wanted to watch an horror teen movie I saw when I was a kid; Troll.
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During my searches, I discovered there is another movie named "Troll 2".
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I thought that it is certainly the sequel.
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I took a look to the imdb note, and it was very bad (2.9 / 10).
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But, hey, I decided to watch it.
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Here is an overview of my watching 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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The synopsis of Troll 2 is a family living in a city that exchange its
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house to go to the village of Nilbog "to live like farmers"...
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The son of the family see his dead grandfather.
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The grandpa warn his grandson against Goblins.
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Those creatures make you eat green things that transform you and then they
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eat you.
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Of course, nobody listen to the boy that does not want to go to Nilbog,
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which is infested by goblins that can take Human appearance.
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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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#+ATTR_ORG: :width 560
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#+ATTR_HTML: A goblin
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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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[[./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 movies trying to follow a scenario.
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Apparently most actors were amateurs, it was their first and last movie.
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#+ATTR_ORG: :width 560
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#+ATTR_HTML: A bad acting demonstration
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#+CAPTION: One particularly terrible acting scene
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#+NAME: fig:bad-acting
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[[file: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 Goblins would exist.
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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 win against the monsters with, what I believe was a failed attempt at
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humor.
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It misses the point so bad, that the irony still make it funny.
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#+ATTR_ORG: :width 560
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#+ATTR_HTML: Eliott prevents his family to eat the food by urinating on the table
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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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[[./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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*There is not Troll in Troll 2*.
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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 I couldn't enter in the movie.
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I analyzed the movie, and saw all its failures and noticed everything wrong
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about it.
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In the end, the experience was still quite enjoyable.
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For example, there are some attempts at humor, but almost all of them fail
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terribly.
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I didn't laugh about the joke, but I did nonetheless by thinking about how
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bad that joke was.
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Once going to [[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105643/][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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Since then, I learned a few 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.
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George Hardy was a dentist with no acting experience who showed up for fun,
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hoping to be cast as an extra, only to be given one of the film’s largest
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speaking roles.
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Don Packard, who played the store owner, was actually a resident at a
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nearby mental hospital, and was cast for—and filmed—his role while on a day
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trip; after recovering and being released from the hospital, he recalled
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that he had no idea what was happening around him, and that his disturbed
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“performance” in the film was not acting”.
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#+end_quote
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Also that movie is so bad, there is a documentary about that movie named:
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[[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1144539]["Best Worst Movie"]].
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