So, when do we have our watch-along party? It’s free on the Internet Archive!
Dumplings
Premise: A woman is obsessed with her own aging, so she seeks out a dumpling restaurant where she had heard the dumplings there help you with aging, maybe even reversing aging.
It works.
Problem is…the dumplings are made out of the remains of aborted fetuses. The owner(played by Bai Ling) offers an abortion service and a dumplings service. One business, uh, feeds the other.
Certainly a premise I am surprised was greenlit.
Meh, I saw Sweeney Todd a few weeks ago.
Meh. The film was originally a short film in an Asian horror anthology called “Three Extremes,” so the extremity of the plot is literally the theme.
I mean, if you want to bring extreme horror into this there are way worse examples, but they really don’t fit the thread.
Yeah, I agree. Lots of extreme horror films make no real sense.
Sounds like a modest proposal to me.
Same for me. I can watch and enjoy it but not a must-see. And the coffee pouring bit is still hilarious - the simplicity of the gag is delighful.
Dumplings? According to South Park it was the jumbo shrimp.
Awhile back I saw a Youtuber describe Tom Green as “Logan Paul for millennials”, and as an Elder Millennial, I’d have to say it’s a pretty apt description.
It wasn’t a movie, but the fact that Dinosaurs the TV series got made is bizarre. “Let’s make a parody of classic '50s sitcom plots, where all the actors are wearing movie-grade animatronic dinosaur costumes, but also fill it with a bunch of left-wing social justice messaging, and end the series with runaway capitalism causing a mass extinction where everyone dies! The kids’ll love it.”
Lost a lot of weight, too.
Here’s a subcategory to ponder: movies made to exploit a trend that was over before they were released. Disco is an obvious example, with films like Xanadu and Can’t Stop the Music missing out on their narrow window of opportunity.
“As I’m sure you remember in the late 1980s the US experienced a short-lived infatuation with Australian culture for some bizarre reason”
— The Simpsons, “Bart vs. Australia”.
Ah, the CB radio craze! 10-4 good buddy!‘’
Somehow, Solarbabies has to fit in here, too.
AIUI, they tried to get Xanadu out in time but got plagued by seemingly endless rewrites. To the point of filming before the script was finished.
Convoy with Kris Kristofferson and Ali McGraw — a masterpiece!
Ah yes, the short lived late 70s trucker craze, loosely linked to the custom van fad. See “The Van” from 1977. Tagline:" Fun-Truckin’".
This was all because of that song by Mannheim Steamroller? 
This is an interesting one. First, it made a fuckton of money, because for once it was a trend-exploitation movie that was timely rather than late. Second, it was a Sam Peckinpah movie, which doesn’t fit in anywhere for him. But I’m sure he made out.
“…and that’s all right with me.”
“Shitshow-wise”, Convoy the film had as must to do with Convoy the song as Starship Troopers the film had to do with the novel. A couple of names were the same. Forget the plot, they couldn’t even get the trucks right.
But, to this day, you can still buy Rubber Duck hood ornaments.