Trash Cinema: Most expensive example?
10-20-13, 09:18 PM
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Re: Trash Cinema: Most expensive example?
budget for Grindehouse was 53 million bucks. i assume thats what you mean by "trash cinema" one of the twilight movies too
10-20-13, 09:26 PM
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Re: Trash Cinema: Most expensive example?
I would not consider Twilight to be trash cinema. It's disposable, but not very trashy. When I think of trash I think John Waters, Harmony Korine, stuff like that.
10-20-13, 09:58 PM
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Re: Trash Cinema: Most expensive example?
Pretty much every big-budget blockbuster since Star Wars and Jaws has a been repainted resurrection of an old genre movies. There are all kind of exploitation movies with increasingly big budgets. Hell, you could say Avatar or Pacific Rim as movies that were basically resurrections of past dressed up with new FX. Although if you're talking about something out-and-out trashy, the biggest choices would be stuff like Caligula and Showgirls.
10-20-13, 10:57 PM
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Re: Trash Cinema: Most expensive example?
Mandingo held the record for a while.
10-21-13, 12:48 AM
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Re: Trash Cinema: Most expensive example?
Is Howard the Duck considered trash?
10-21-13, 04:35 AM
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10-21-13, 11:53 AM
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Re: Trash Cinema: Most expensive example?
Grindhouse is probably going to win for both most expensive and most mainstream, if you count both films in it together.
Machete Kills has a budget of $20 million.
Showgirls had a budget of $45 million. That might beat Grindhouse after adjusting for inflation.
Machete Kills has a budget of $20 million.
Showgirls had a budget of $45 million. That might beat Grindhouse after adjusting for inflation.
10-21-13, 01:32 PM
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Re: Trash Cinema: Most expensive example?
I know Russ Meyer, Sexplotation, Troma, John Waters all count as Trash Cinema.
Does Battlefield Earth? Or is that just a bad movie?
Does Battlefield Earth? Or is that just a bad movie?
10-21-13, 04:50 PM
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Re: Trash Cinema: Most expensive example?
Was gonna say Waterworld, but Showgirls fits my definition of "trash cinema" more closely (a movie that was bad from the beginning, rather than something that might have been good had it been done differently.)
10-21-13, 05:15 PM
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Re: Trash Cinema: Most expensive example?
Howard the Duck was meant to be a huge blockbuster, but ended up a huge bomb. I've always liked it though.
10-21-13, 05:49 PM
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Re: Trash Cinema: Most expensive example?
It took 15 replies to say Showgirls? That's the first thing I thought of!
10-21-13, 06:59 PM
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