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Made by a single mom and her son with a 200 USD budget and still makes over 5 million USD in the box office?
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this post was submitted on 21 Aug 2026
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I have a feeling this is just gonna cause a bunch of shitty movies getting made.
good
flood the entire movie industry with garbage because those billionaires already make nothing but garbage as it is
I'd rather give money to someone's mom for trash, then those fucking worthless fucks they call ceos and shareholders
Same reason why the Killer Bean movie is surprisingly watchable. You think you're just going to just watch a bad movie, but the amateur skill and heart on display trumps Hollywood 4x
this is different from now how ?
The bad films of now aren't actively trying to be purposefully bad. The new wave will be purposefully terrible movies, with each decision being calculated rather than being organically terrible.
Kinda like a little kid drawing something compared to a fully grown adult professional artist trying to emulate the drawing.
Thanks, that was my point exactly
You say that like this is the first movie that gained a following because it was so bad it overflowed to being good. But that's a hard line to walk deliberately without drifting into satire territory (which is just making fun of something else by mimicking it) or self-parody (making fun of yourself), which are different because the makers are in on the joke. "So bad it's good" only works when they aren't in on the joke because part of the humour is that someone genuinely thought it was good. It *can" be faked, but it's difficult since most makers want to be in on the joke rather than the butt of it and won't be able to help giving little winks to the audience that ruin it. Or they don't know how to be entertainingly bad and just make something that isn't interesting.
I am not saying it is the first of it's kind, but it is one of the most successful ones. And I am saying that people will try to force a replica of this success with absolute trash.
Where have you been the past ten years with reboots and sequels? The only difference here is budget.
Shitty movies get made all the time. A better question is how this got such a wide distribution
As opposed to the current crop of excellent movies...?
Hot take incoming;
I'm totally ok with that.