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Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999)
Another ridiculous, contrived piece of unfunny trash...
Another ridiculous, contrived piece of unfunny trash. Maybe some people find paedophilia, violent abuse and exploitation of people with mental disabilities funny, but I don't.
The trailer for the film portrayed it as being quite funny -- it wasn't until I got into the cinema that I realized that the trailer has contained the only funny lines in the whole picture. To me, this was not "satire" nor "black comedy", it was just insulting and pathetic. It is thus far the only film I have wanted to walk out in the middle of, because I cared so little about the characters or what happened to them.
The violence and deaths are disturbing in the way that they are treated as a joke... and not a funny one at that. The suffering that people endure in the film is very real, and yet the consequences of their actions are trivial. It is inconsistent. If you want to make suffering a joke, make it funny. If you want it to be serious, deal with it seriously. A big thumbs down.
Pet Sematary II (1992)
My opinion, with a minor spoiler about the very ending.
I have to say that Pet Sematary II was the biggest load of rubbish I have ever insulted my eyes with watching. I should have been forewarned with the bizarre spelling of "cemetery" -- why they didn't spell it correctly in the first place... I'll never know.
What the hell was up with the ending credits with all that sad music and pictures of the people who died? It's not a -documentary-, it's a pathetic excuse for a thriller/horror film. The acting was dodgy, the script was bemusing and the plot was utterly ridiculous.
The psycho zombie dog was mildly amusing, but I'm not sure it was supposed to be. What was the film trying to do? Was it a spoof of a horror film? It failed at an attempt to fit into any genre of film other than "trash". I found the entire movie to be contrived, boring and stupid, and I wouldn't watch it again even someone paid me!