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<blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 8584149" data-attributes="member: 19675"><p>To be clear, they’re bad for different reasons. <em>The Room</em> is like <em>Manos</em> in that they’re bad because the filmmakers didn’t know how to do better. Wiseau was just worse at it. <em>The Creeping Terror</em> would normally fall into the same category as <em>Manos- </em>for example, the landing of the alien spacecraft was created by taking cells of a US a rocket launch, flipping the film L/R, and splicing it in to run in reverse. Except you could easily read the “UƧA“ on the side of the rocket, in big bold, reversed letters, and the rocket exhaust was clearly going backwards into its engines. But it’s OK, everything looked more normal when the alien spacecraft took off at the end of the movie…using the same footage, still flipped to read “UƧA“, but in the correct chronological order.</p><p></p><p>And if <em>TCT</em> had been released when completed, <em>Manos</em> would probably even be considered worse.</p><p></p><p>But the studio recognized <em>TCT </em>as the drek it was, and originally shelved it. And so it stayed unreleased for YEARS, until some studio executive decided they might as well make SOME money from the film they’d already paid for. When they checked its condition out, however, they realized they had lost some of the soundtrack. No problem, right? Just re-record the missing parts, right? Except they had lost the original script. Nobody knew what was being said.</p><p></p><p>At this point, most rational minds would give up and bin the film completely. That didn’t happen.</p><p></p><p>Instead, they recorded voiceover narratives to fill the gap. Remember, this is without benefit of knowing the actual plot. They just made things up. And the voiceovers they came up with were (fittingly) just as ludicrously bad as the filmed images. Some of it sounded like it had been badly cribbed from 50’s-era health & morality school films.</p><p></p><p>The end result is a monumental trainwreck.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dannyalcatraz, post: 8584149, member: 19675"] To be clear, they’re bad for different reasons. [I]The Room[/I] is like [I]Manos[/I] in that they’re bad because the filmmakers didn’t know how to do better. Wiseau was just worse at it. [I]The Creeping Terror[/I] would normally fall into the same category as [I]Manos- [/I]for example, the landing of the alien spacecraft was created by taking cells of a US a rocket launch, flipping the film L/R, and splicing it in to run in reverse. Except you could easily read the “UƧA“ on the side of the rocket, in big bold, reversed letters, and the rocket exhaust was clearly going backwards into its engines. But it’s OK, everything looked more normal when the alien spacecraft took off at the end of the movie…using the same footage, still flipped to read “UƧA“, but in the correct chronological order. And if [I]TCT[/I] had been released when completed, [I]Manos[/I] would probably even be considered worse. But the studio recognized [I]TCT [/I]as the drek it was, and originally shelved it. And so it stayed unreleased for YEARS, until some studio executive decided they might as well make SOME money from the film they’d already paid for. When they checked its condition out, however, they realized they had lost some of the soundtrack. No problem, right? Just re-record the missing parts, right? Except they had lost the original script. Nobody knew what was being said. At this point, most rational minds would give up and bin the film completely. That didn’t happen. Instead, they recorded voiceover narratives to fill the gap. Remember, this is without benefit of knowing the actual plot. They just made things up. And the voiceovers they came up with were (fittingly) just as ludicrously bad as the filmed images. Some of it sounded like it had been badly cribbed from 50’s-era health & morality school films. The end result is a monumental trainwreck. [/QUOTE]
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