Random rental of cheap movies from the video shop, number one: Bad Taste. The box compared it to Dark Star and Evil Dead; I was hoping for more the latter and less the former. At the beginning I was quite disappointed; the first half of the movie is very much Dark Star. Tedium, horrible everything, and horrible some other things too. The second half, thankfully, was more like Evil Dead, with humour, frivolous gore and unnecessary explosions. The crapness felt deliberate for the second half, and not for the first half, effectively. I suspect this is the case, since it was apparently made over the course of four years.
We were amused, at the end, to discover that it was directed by, and starred, Peter Jackson, the fat beardy bloke in charge of making Lord of the Rings have too many boring shots of scenery to the accompaniment of oh-so-epic music. Looking back over it at that point, we realised that Bad Taste also conformed to the school of forgetting to entertain for a while because there's a piece of music that's not over yet. Maybe worth watching if it's on TV, but not otherwise.
[07:25]
|