Comment on The Toxic Avenger (2025, dir Macon Blair)
Lemmist@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
What? There is such a movie already. From '80s or something. It was classical trash(genre name). Fun but… Wait, they start to make remakes of trash movies?! Oh well…
neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Troma was part of a second wave of purveyors of B-movie schlock back in the 1970s and 80s. They were harkening back to the older B-movies of the 1950s (Rocketship XM, The Amazing Colossal Man, Plan 9 from Outer Space, the stuff you would see on old episodes of Mystery Science Theater 3000). This was all before the current try-hard dark ages of B-movies (The Room, Sharknado, Neil Breen movies, etc), and this may be another entry in that canon.
I’m holding out hope that they do something interesting with it.
Also, I think it was Roger Ebert who once argued “Why remake good movies? They were fine as they were. Remake bad ones and try to make them better.”