RavenOfCthulhu
Since: May, 2020
08/27/2020 00:00:00
Well, what about FATAL? Then again, FATAL is mostly appaling morally than artistically (although it certainly is awful as a game). I do feel that Byron Hall had a write to publish it, I just think he should have had the morality, taste and common sense not to.
The vilest deeds like poison weeds/ Bloom well in prison air/ It is only what is good in man/ That wastes and withers there.
Xilinoc
Since: Feb, 2015
01/26/2023 00:00:00
FATAL, as pointed out by a review I read of it, actually had one interesting aspect in the form of the system it used to determine ability scores - actually giving examples of what having 4 Strength would mean in terms of capabilities, which is something that would be cool to see used in/carried over to other TTRP Gs. In that way, it contributed something positive to the world. This movie did not. It offers nothing.
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The True Nadir of All Media
There are, at the pinnacle of all entertainment, works that are So Cool, It's Awesome - largely subjective, of course, but most everyone can point to at least one for their personal tastes.
Below that, there are works that rank as an 8.8 - good on the whole, but with some notable flaws. Still very much enjoyable, though.
Next, you've got the So Bad, It's Good of the world - things that are enjoyable because of how low-quality and low-effort they are, maybe with a couple decent performances or ideas thrown in for good measure.
After that, there's what may seem like the bottom of the barrel - movies, TV shows, books, and so on that you just can't stand. Maybe it has one actor/actress doing their best with the material they've got, or an admittedly snazzy visual effect, but other than that it's all unenjoyable dreck.
And then there's this film.
This is, to date, the only thing I've ever watched, read, played, or listened to that elicited nothing but negative emotions in the process; the only time I laughed during my viewing of it was when one of my friends made a reference to the then-recent Spider-Man: Homecoming (one of my favorite films ever). I can't point to a single aspect of this movie as good, decent, or even So Bad, It's Good; nothing, not a thing, feels like it has any soul, or effort, or heart put into it, not the acting, the plot, the visuals (might I point out that the "best"-looking shot in the movie is completely static), not even the jokes. It feels completely machine-made, like everyone involved was in it solely for the paycheck, not caring of the stain on reality they were creating in the process. I would genuinely rank The Room, the collected works of Ed Wood, and Annie (2014) above this, if only because I respect the former two for trying their damnedest to bring their vision to life even if they have no talent and because the latter has a single scene that felt truly real and heartfelt to me amid its otherwise entirely cringe-inducing runtime. In fact, I would daresay without hyperbole that every other piece of media ever produced in any format across all of recorded history has more artistic merit and value than this film. It is that much of an insult to creators, and art, and life itself, and I mean that sincerely.
It was truly a genuine waste of two hours of my life to watch this in theaters, and I can only take solace in the fact that I movie-hopped after seeing Film/The Dark Tower (an actually enjoyable film) instead of paying for a ticket for this. At least I didn't pay to suffer.