Films often labeled bad, but I don't agree
Even just for the cast of Alien 4. I don't think this film is bad, but it often gets the label. If anything, I'd call it the best of the Alien films not by Cameron or Scott, some would say Romulus, but that one wasn't my sort of film.
This one was made with barely a script (strike) and is quite over the top. But if you like 1980s action, particularly those like Commando, then this one might be for you. The action scenes are fast and definitive... a bit of a different pace than the films today that just keep trying to replicate Helm's Deep with their 40 minute action sequences, and don't really capture the same spirit.
Big fan of Verhoeven... this is the only scene I think I can show, but it passes the Beckdel test. Verhoeven's films all have a streak of the hyperbole, satire, and dark comedy, and apart from guys like the Coens, Gilliam, De Palma, and I can't think of anyone else offhand who does it as well... Oliver Stone?
And virtually the entire genre of raunchy comedy that doesn't include some sort of a moral lesson... The endings of The Girl Next Door and No Hard Feelings made me wanna puke... somehow this changes a 40% on Rotten Tomatoes into an 85. I don't hate those films with the moral endings, I just don't particularly like the endings.
The Asylum Mockbusters
But now we get into the films that are actually bad. So what's an Asylum Mockbuster? They're B-comedy films that roughly resemble a genre or film in the blockbuster genre. They're made by the production studio The Asylum which has pumped out hundreds of these sorts of films over the last 20 years. They began a little earlier than this; in the 1990s they focused on teen horror and teen films... then gradually morphed into zombie, vampire, and Grimm Tale parodies by the mid-2000s. The one continuous thread is that they're B-film comedies, often in the teen, slasher, or monster sub-genre. Then they discovered the shitty shark films, and released their first one in 2009, Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus.
It got rotten reviews, but attracted one of their largest audiences ever... so they continued, and made about 50 more shark-type films over the next few years. Hitting the peak of their popularity between about 2011 and 2013.
In 2012, they released Two-Headed Shark Attack, a shark mutated by pollution to have double the heads and two-hundred times the appetite. This is IMO, the crown jewel, their shitty masterpiece.
But their most popular one was still to come, pushing the ridiculousness further, the following year (2013) they released Sharknado, which was their most commercially successful film, but IMO, that's when they "jumped the shark" (for lack of a better phrase)... maybe that was the point! But by about 2015 or 2016 these films began disappearing from streaming services. In 2016, all their films made went up on Netflix or some other service, but in 2017, almost none of them went up. I think people just got sick of them.
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