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I love schlock as much as everyone else here but I genuinely enjoy whenever they talk about arthouse cinema like Bergman/Zulawski/Lynch/Haneke/Waters/etc. I know those videos don't amass the same views as BOTW but it's nice hearing people who aren't full of themselves talk about interesting movies. The Possession video was awesome and I would love more like that even if it was in a more casual podcast style.

I just recently watched some Neil Breen films on a second monitor as my first foray into B-movies, and while I didn't really like the movies themselves it was fun revisiting the BotW episode featuring Pass Thru and being more able to relate to the insanity they are describing. I'm sure most of the movies on BotW are actually just boring to sit through, even when only partially paying attention; so I am hoping some of you could recommend a few that would be interesting or funny. Especially if they are available on streaming.

House Shark and Amityville had a baby

I re-watched the "Best of the Worst: New Releases" episode and they briefly discuss different aspects of film making through out. I just find it really interesting when they talk about what not to do, why things are done a certain way, how a scene can be improved and even re-editing a scene as an example. I'm just a regular movie enjoyer but all these tidbits make me appreciate the process more. Let me know of some other episodes i might have forgotten about to check out.

#HORSE!

I was randomly clicking through IMDb, and this movie's poster gave immediate Breen-vibes, so I had to check it out. Having only watched the trailer, I think the movie checks a lot of the boxes for what typically constitutes a hallmark BotW contender:

Auteur Writer/Director/Producer/Lead Actor/... 🗹

Additional superfluous IMDb writing credits for "Story", "Characters", and "Original Idea" 🗹

Low/no budget 🗹

Nephew learning Adobe After Effects CS2 circa 2006-level effects 🗹

Audio quality that's so bad, some say you can still hear the dialogue reverberating off the walls to this very day 🗹

Newscaster characters who look as though they were hired via Fiverr 🗹

Actors looking off-camera, either to read their lines being held up out of frame, or just getting distracted by passersby 🗹

Out-of-place musical performance by assumed friend of filmmaker's band 🗹

Features a dead-ringer for Leonardo DiCaprio's dad playing Zeus, King of Olympus, sitting in a conference room, while rocking a $12 faux-fur sweater jacket, Spirit Halloween-quality crew neck shirt (complete with an ironed-on golden Greek meander pattern) worn over a black turtleneck, and LensCrafters BOGO specs 🗹

Generative AI footage of a Trojan War battlefield, showing a spear being swung as a sword, a sword that magically shapeshifts into a shield, and another shield that magically vanishes into thin air when the "hero" of the shot turns to run away from combat 🗹

Seemingly made in total earnest and devoid of self-awareness 🗹

Filmmaker exhibiting possible delusional, egomaniacal narcissism, creating a universe in which he:

• Plays a literal embodiment of divine perfection 🗹
• Has all the female characters desperately pine over him or revere him 🗹
• Feigns humility by having his character turn down sexual advances from mythological Goddesses 🗹
• Inserts themselves into sex scenes anyway 🗹
• Knows Kung Fu 🗹

I'm considering a Nolan's Odyssey and Tounas' Achilles Returns double-feature in a couple of months to see what kind of psychic damage that whiplash would deal.

What do you think about it?

>!(While I'm obviously having a bit of fun at their expense, I'm far from against the filmmaker making their art and putting it out there. As long as they're treating their collaborators respectfully, kudos to them for chasing their dream, eh?)!<