Trash Cinema: Most expensive example?
 

What is the most expensive and mainstream example of trash cinema?

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budget for Grindehouse was 53 million bucks. i assume thats what you mean by "trash cinema" one of the twilight movies too

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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.

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Yeah...picks like Grindhouse.

Not just expensive but mainstream.

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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.

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Mandingo held the record for a while.

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How about any Charles Bronson movie made in the 1980s?

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Is Howard the Duck considered trash?

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They were produced by Cannon, so they weren't very expensive.

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His salary was probably the biggest part of the budgets.

I'm assuming his mustache had a separate salary as well.

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I can add that Troma's War cost $3M. Not too expensive. But real trash cinema.

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Tommy Wiseau's The Room cost $6M

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Might help if OP gave us a definition of "Trash Cinema" to work with.

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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.

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I know Russ Meyer, Sexplotation, Troma, John Waters all count as Trash Cinema.

Does Battlefield Earth? Or is that just a bad movie?

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Just a bad movie.

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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.)

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Has to be Showgirls.

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Just really, really bad.

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Howard the Duck was meant to be a huge blockbuster, but ended up a huge bomb. I've always liked it though.

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It took 15 replies to say Showgirls? That's the first thing I thought of!

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Post #5 mentioned it first. Give Hanshotfirst113 some props, will ya?

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Does intention matter? Does matter budget?

Showgirls cost a lot.