Bad Taste
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Movie Reviews of Bad Taste
Movie Review: goooooooy! gory! goofy!greatness!!!
Summary: 4 Stars
you just can't grasp the concept that peter jackson the director of the hufffed and pufffed LORD OF THE RINGS movies made this great little gory cheeeeeesy laugh fest!along with the great DEAD ALIVE these two are simply some of the best comedy goof ball gore's arond.this movie is just excellent!!!if you dont like this movie its because you dont enjoy or understand the genre that simple, so get out of my back yard!!!for the real fans of the genre this dvd is a complete no brainer the dvd has some good extras and it comes out looking great hurry up and get it, your gonna fall down on the floor laughing,its just to freakin gooooofy!!!!!!!Movie Review: Great movie, bad DVD edition
Summary: 4 Stars
I love this movie!!! The DVD from Anchor bay, is matted, however, adding black bars on the top and bottom(you know, that's what dumb people think widescreen is...in the case of AB's bad Taste, they're right). I prefer watching it as it was shot and released... I wish AB and Lion's Gate would leave the cult DVDs to Synapse and Blue Underground, who know how to treat 'em instead of putting out the shoddiest, cheapest product just to make a buck. F**k you, Anchor Bay!Movie Review: Bad Taste
Summary: 4 Stars
I was pleased with the movie and delivery method. However, the disc holder was broken and the disc was loose when I received it. Otherwise, I was very pleased.Movie Review: "So you work for this agency called AIDS..."
Summary: 3 Stars
Peter Jackson is best known for the The Lord of the Rings trilogy and King Kong, but a long time ago he made his own cult film: Bad Taste. Watching it is a bit of cinema history, in the same way that watching The Evil Dead series is a prelude to Sam Raimi's later work. This whole movie reminds me of a role-playing game session from my high school days, where game masters and players made things up as they went along.
The first thing you notice is that Bad Taste is well, bad. The film and audio quality is terrible. The accents are a bit difficult to understand for Americans. One of the characters, Derek, appears to be mentally ill. And yet there's a certain rough charm to the whole thing.
The plot, such as it is, involves a crack team of government agents who work for the Astro-Investigation and Defense Service (AIDS) sent to investigate the disappearance of the citizens of Kaihoro, New Zealand. Your reaction to the in-joke name of the agency will dictate whether you find Bad Taste to be hilarious or stupid. An agency with an acronym like AIDS is something my high school buddies might dream up on a whim.
The AIDS strike force consists of Ozzy (Terry Potter), Barry (Peter O'Herne), Frank (Mike Minett), and the aforementioned Derek. They stumble onto an alien race of merchants who know all about "how to serve man," and not the butler kind of service. The film begins with the capture of one of the aliens, Robert (Peter Jackson), who is held captive by hanging him over the edge of a cliff by his ankle. While Barry explores the ghost town, Derek decides to torture the leader for information by stabbing him in the foot. This ultimately leads to the other aliens coming to the rescue, Robert escaping, and Derek falling off a cliff to his supposed death.
"Wait, Derek died?" asks Derek's player.
"Yeah," says the GM. "You had a good fight there with the alien sledgehammers but you slipped off the cliff."
"But," whines the player, "I was just getting started! You can't kill Derek off like that!"
"Okay, fine. Derek lands on seagull eggs and only some of his brain falls out, but he's still alive. Now he's crazy as a loon."
"Great! I stuff his brains back into his skull and keep going..."
In comes Giles player. "Hey guys. Is it too late to play?"
"Nah," says the GM. "You're a collector whose come to Kaihoro to collect. And the aliens abduct you and toss you in a stew!"
"Oh, great..."
Bad Taste pretty much devolves from there, leading to Derek attacking people with a chainsaw, Ozzy and Frank firing rocket-launchers at the aliens, and the aliens themselves turning out to be shoulder- and butt-padded monstrosities who can barely run much less pose a threat to anybody. It all ends with a house flying into space.
Bad Taste veers from thrilling action to long, boring pans of characters walking from Point A to Point B. There are random gags (most of them involving slipping on some form of excrement), over-the-top violence ranging from organs being stuffed into places to drinking someone else's vomit, and plenty of jokes about aliens and action movies. The action scenes are actually very well done, and there's plenty of people running as machine gun fire peppers their feet.
Bad Taste makes no bones about what it is - a cult film. Jackson's humor is evident here, but he would go on to do much more horrifying and humorous films. While Bad Taste is no Evil Dead, it's still enjoyable as a piece of film history over a couple of beers with your buddies.
Movie Review: Peter Jackson's debut is a cult classic
Summary: 3 Stars
Just because I call this film a cult classic doesn't mean that it is a good film, by any means. It is amazing, though, the quality of the film considering how long it took Jackson to make it, just shooting it in the areas around his home, mostly on weekends. When it was about 3/4 done, the New Zealand Film Commission heard about it, and decided to finance it the rest of the way for this maverick, unheard of filmmaker. The result is a cheaply made, but sickly entertaining film about an alien invasion of a small town in New Zealand.
Not much is ever explained about the aliens, except for the fact that they are here to turn our race into meat for their fast food company on their planet. A group of men known only as "the boys" are sent into the town to stop the aliens from getting away, or killing more innocent civilians. The aliens have disguised themselves as humans (they aren't really capable of too much, though, they sort of run around like zombies, which makes for some great, entertaining kills). Peter Jackson even has a fairly important role, although it doesn't require much acting skill, as one of the aliens in disguise as a human. It is actually surprising how action-packed the film is. Granted, it isn't the highest quality action, but the gore in the film is totally over-the-top and ridiculous, which is all I could expect from the man who brought us Dead Alive.
This film isn't one to really remember, though. It is more of just a cult classic, I think, because of the insane fame that Peter Jackson has attained recently. There are a bunch of fans out there who loved Jackson before LOTR, regretfully I wasn't one of them (The Frighteners was the only film of his I'd seen before Fellowship). For those fans, this film will always be regarded as a classic. It is a film that really shows you what a great talent Jackson is, because this movie is a lot better than films that have a 50 million budget these days.
This is a definite addition to the library of any fan of low-budget, crappy-acting, gore-filled horror films of the 80s. It is only a plus that the director happens to be one of the most talented men in Hollywood these days.