History StylisticSuck / Film

* One of the extras on the DVD of ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'' is "WesternAnimation/MrIncredibleAndPals", an in-universe cartoon starring Mr. Incredible, Frozone... and a rabbit-thing named [[SmallAnnoyingCreature Mr. Skipperdoo]]. The animation is [[LimitedAnimation not animated]] (a la ''WesternAnimation/ClutchCargo''), [[RaceLift Frozone is portrayed as a tan-skinned beatnik]], and the plot was clearly written for an audience of morons. There's also a [[AlternateDVDCommentary commentary]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1R44MvXeEQw track]], in which Mr. Incredible and Frozone -- watching the cartoon fifteen years later -- decide that it's a good thing the cartoon never aired. Frozone (who, it's important to note, is voiced by Creator/SamuelLJackson) is outraged that "they made me white!"

* ''Film/SpiderManFarFromHome'' begins with an in-universe tribute to the heroes who fell fighting to [[Film/AvengersInfinityWar prevent]] or [[Film/AvengersEndgame reverse]] Thanos' destruction of half the life in the universe. It was produced by students at Peter Parker's high school, and is chock full of amateurish production values.

* In ''Film/Mandy2018'', the titular character (and the audience) gets "treated" to "The Amulet of the Weeping Maze", a song the BigBad, the delusional and megalomaniacal cult-leader Jeremiah Sand, wrote during his failed folk music career. What we hear of it is stereotypical Sixties-Seventies folk rock with ethereal acoustic guitars and flutes, and half-baked overly earnest New Age mysticism in the awful lyrics, as well as ''a lot'' of ego-stroking on Sand's behalf. Sand believes his work to be absolutely genius, and doesn't take it well when Mandy ultimately reacts with scornful laughter at him and his song.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Soul}} starts off with the typical Disney opening logo accompanied by the "When You Wish Upon a Star" fanfare being done by a middle-school band class.

* One of the extras on the DVD of ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'' is "WesternAnimation/MrIncredibleAndPals", an in-universe cartoon starring Mr. Incredible, Frozone... and a rabbit-thing named [[SmallAnnoyingCreature Mr. Skipperdoo]]. The animation is [[LimitedAnimation not animated]] (a la ''WesternAnimation/ClutchCargo''), [[RaceLift Frozone is portrayed as a tan-skinned beatnik]], and the plot was clearly written for an audience of morons. There's also a [[AlternateDVDCommentary commentary]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1R44MvXeEQw track]], in which Mr. Incredible and Frozone -- watching the cartoon fifteen years later -- decide that it's a good thing the cartoon never aired.

** The film has a RunningGag about an in-universe Christmas album Spider-Man made called ''A Very Spidey Christmas''; while the one song featured in the film, "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRQ_gjeFMRA Spidey Bells]]", has Creator/ChrisPine's Spider-Man starting off strong, he ends up having a breakdown about halfway through when he starts regretting ever recording the album in the first place, becoming audibly on the verge of breaking into tears. The [[{{Defictionalization}} real-life version]] includes two more tracks that fit this trope; in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_BUTJIBGoA Deck The Halls]]", Creator/JakeJohnson's Spider-Man is ''horribly'' off-key and keeps interrupting the music to make awkward jokes that fall flat, and the reading of "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLKF82uYkGY The Night Before Christmas]]" by [[WesternAnimation/SpiderMan1967 60s cartoon Spider-Man]] (Jorma Taccone) has random Spidey-themed verses inserted awkwardly within the original text and Spider-Man deciding halfway through the poem to skip right to the last two lines. The latter track even ends with 60s Spidey talking about how he got drunk at the previous night's Christmas party and then threw up in front of a bunch of kids without realizing that [[IsThisThingStillOn he's still being recorded]].

* The 2009 independent film ''Film/AfterLastSeason'' features [[SpecialEffectsFailure some of the most shockingly boring, awfully rendered CGI visuals you've ever seen in your life]]...but it's okay, because the CGI sequences are supposed to represent a machine that converts thoughts into images, and the thoughts are unclear at first, so it's ''supposed'' to look like crap!

* At one point in ''Film/TheBigLebowski'', we’re shown an excerpt from “Logjammin”, an InUniverse porn film made by Jackie Treehorn and starring Bunny Lebowski and [[PornNames Karl Hungus]], one of the Nihilists. The writing and production values are exactly what you’d expect from a low-budget 90’s porno, from the cheesy synthesizer music to Karl’s [[WhatTheHellIsThatAccent bizarre, unintelligible accent]] to the threadbare ExcusePlot.
* Much of the humor of ''Film/BlackDynamite'' is in presenting the film as a shoddy blaxploitation film filled with 70s-era ValuesDissonance and low production value.

* The theatrical cut of ''Film/DeathProof'' included a fake "missing reel", with the implication that the projectionist had taken it home for [[PoorMansPorn "personal use"]], which was known to happen in the kind of 70s exploitation films that ''Death Proof'' was a pastiche of. The DVD version included fake VHS artifacting, as people who saw that kind of exploitation film outside of theaters likely watched on a rented VHS tape. Notably, the artifacting was more severe during the same lap dance scene that was missing from the theatrical version to create the impression that it had been watched a few more times than the rest of the movie.

* In the movie ''House'' (no connection to the similarly-named show), the main character's wife is an actress on a cheesy soap opera called ''Resort'', filled with melodramatic and nonsensical lines like "My sister was an only child, and you abused that!"

-->'''Director, singing:''' Sodomy! You must think it really odd o' me / that I'm really into sodomy...

Was a righteous man\\
Who's heart was full of love''

* In ''Film/Mandy2018'', the titular character, and the audience gets, "treated" to "The Amulet of the Weeping Maze", a song the BigBad, the delusional and megalomaniacal cult-leader Jeremiah Sand, wrote during his failed music career. what we hear of it is stereotypical Sixties-Seventies folk rock with ethereal acoustic guitars and flutes, and half-baked overly earnest New Age mysticism in the awful lyrics, as well as ''a lot'' of ego-stroking on Sand's behalf. Sand believes his work to be absolutely genius, and doesn't take it well when Mandy ultimately reacts with scornful laughter at him and his song.

* In ''Film/MeetTheFeebles'' the corrupt producer will never - under any circumstances - allow a certain musical number that the camp gay director thinks of as his magnum opus. When it finally does get performed... well, let's just say the subject matter isn't appropriate for a family variety show.

* ''Disney/{{Zootopia}}'': The opening play by school children is as cheesy and [[LargeHam hammy]] as you'd expect from something written by an ambitious 9-year-old.

* In ''Disney/{{Frozen}}'', during "Love is an Open Door" Hans' movements don't match Anna's and his singing is out of sync, [[{{Foreshadowing}} showing how mismatched they are]].

* According the DVD commentary of ''Film/AustinPowersTheSpyWhoShaggedMe'', they actually went out of their way to make their scenes shot in Southern California [[RealityIsUnrealistic look like they were shot from Southern California]] when they were [[TheMountainsOfIllinois supposed to be in England]], so Austin's joke about England looking nothing like Southern California would be funny.
** In the same scene, the characters pass a sign that just says "English Countryside".

* ''Film/DontThinkTwice'': The episode of ''Weekend Live'' (a ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' {{Expy}} that the Commune watches together is... mediocre at best, up to an including the weird 80's throwback band that is the episode's musical guest.
** The two sketches of Jack's that we never see are titled "Scooby-Doo Gets Put Down" and "Kim-Jong Un on the Bachelorette". He asserts (apparently correctly) that these sketches will not make it to the final show.

* ''Film/GorillaInterrupted'': Director Mike Stoklasa was so unenthusiastic about completing the movie that he intentionally filmed all the alien scenes as cheaply and lazily as possible. The aliens are obviously just guys in jeans and sneakers wearing plastic alien masks, the backs of their heads clearly visible. At the end of virtually every scene in the alien spaceship, the aliens will start pointlessly prying at the set's backdrop to reveal that it's just cardboard spray-painted silver. The ridiculousness of it all makes these scenes some of the funniest in the film. Stylistic Suck would go on to be a regular feature in Stoklasa's WebVideo/RedLetterMedia videos.

* ''Stab'', the [[ShowWithinAShow film within the film]] of ''Film/Scream2'' based on the events of [[Film/Scream1996 the first movie]], is deliberately made to look like a cheap slasher flick as part of the franchise's self-aware parody of the horror genre. Moreover, the scenes we're shown indicate that it's ComicallyMissingThePoint. Casey's death goes from a sendup of SlasherMovie cliches in the original ''Scream'' to a walking cliche in ''Stab'', including a [[{{Fanservice}} gratuitous shower scene]] that Maureen, who's watching the film in a theater, comments has nothing to do with the plot. Another scene in ''Scream'' where Sidney tells Billy to stop bringing up the murder of her mother is turned into a scene in ''Stab'' of Sidney {{wangst}}ing over such with little prompting -- and Sidney herself is played by [[Series/BeverlyHills90210 Tori Spelling]], exactly the actress she [[BrickJoke predicted a bad movie based on her life would cast]]. When Randy sees the latter clip, he remarks that he'll wait for video. The fact that the film is obvious about Ghostface's identity is at least justified by it being BasedOnATrueStory (specifically, Gale's TrueCrime book about the events of the first film), meaning that everybody already knows who the killer is.

* ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'': Captain America's brief career as a USO mascot is shown via a montage of his cheesy propaganda musical number, complete with high-kicking ChorusGirls, [[MythologyGag fake punching Hitler over a hundred times]], and a completely over-the-top EarWorm of a song "The Star-Spangled Man". [[SoBadItsGood And it is glorious!]]

** Hans’ take is unexpectedly good and has a lot of emotion in it... but it’s also [[LeFilmArtistique a pretentious art film]] with a cliche AllJustADream twist ending. [[RunningGag He can’t figure out how to fit the Vietcong guy into the main plot either]]. He argues [[TropesAreTools they can still make it work]] (“we all gotta dream sometimes, right?”). [[spoiler:In the end, this is the one Marty decides to go with, though possibly only as a way of honoring Hans.]]

* ''Stab'', the [[ShowWithinAShow film within the film]] of ''Film/Scream2'' based on the events of the first movie, is deliberately made to look like a cheap slasher flick as part of the franchise's self-aware parody of the horror genre. Moreover, the scenes we're shown indicate that it's ComicallyMissingThePoint; Casey's death goes from a sendup of SlasherMovie cliches in the original ''Film/{{Scream|1996}}'' to a walking cliche in ''Stab'', and a scene in ''Scream'' where Sidney tells Billy to stop bringing up the murder of her mother is turned into a scene in ''Stab'' of Sidney {{wangst}}ing over such with little prompting.

* UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode's compulsory insistence on HappyEnding in movies often led to movies having abrupt, unrealistic endings that audiences felt were not convincing. A lot of this was deliberately done by film-makers and screenwriters. Creator/DouglasSirk, director of melodramas like ''Film/{{Imitation Of Life|1959}}'' and ''All That Heaven Allows'' noted in post-career interviews that he deliberately made his endings unconvincing so that audiences would focus on the subtext of his films and he stated that this was a common practice in American films of the time.

* One of the extras on the DVD of ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'' is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JxsZEZPkYE "Mr. Incredible and Pals"]], an in-universe cartoon starring Mr. Incredible, Frozone... and a rabbit-thing named [[SmallAnnoyingCreature Mr. Skipperdoo]]. The animation is [[LimitedAnimation not animated]] (a la ''WesternAnimation/ClutchCargo''), [[RaceLift Frozone is portrayed as a tan-skinned beatnik]], and the plot was clearly written for an audience of morons. There's also a [[AlternateDVDCommentary commentary]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1R44MvXeEQw track]], in which Mr. Incredible and Frozone -- watching the cartoon fifteen years later -- decide that it's a good thing the cartoon never aired.

* ''Film/{{Saved}}'' - at one point, the protagonist and her mother watch a TV movie about ovarian/uterine cancer starring Valerie Bertinelli, and it's even worse than you'd expect. Leads to the hilarious scene with the character praying for cancer (instead of pregnancy).
* ''Stab'', the [[ShowWithinAShow film within the film]] of ''Film/Scream2'' based on the events of the first movie, is deliberately made to look like a cheap slasher flick as part of the franchise's self-aware parody of the horror genre.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Coraline}}'', the scenes in the Other World are done with slightly worse animation, some missing frames here or there, just to make it feel unsettling to the audience even before the [[CrapSaccharineWorld the big reveal]].

* ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'': Captain America's brief career as a USO mascot is shown via a montage of his cheesy propaganda musical number, complete with high-kicking ChorusGirls, [[MythologyGag punching Hitler over a hundred times]], and a completely over-the-top EarWorm of a song "The Star-Spangled Man". [[SoBadItsGood And it is glorious!]]

* The protagonist of ''Film/ThrowMommaFromTheTrain'' is a creative writing instructor, leading to a lot of fun with this. The work he has to grade includes a ClicheStorm war story whose author didn't bother to learn the name of a certain piece of equipment and just calls it "the thing", a three-page murder mystery with only two characters, and the coffee table book ''100 Women I'd Like to Pork''.

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