Troma's War (1988)

Troma's War (1988). Troma's War: Directed by Michael Herz, Lloyd Kaufman. With Carolyn Beauchamp, Sean Bowen, Rick Washburn, Patrick Weathers. A group of assorted Americans survive a plane crash in a Caribbean island, and discover it is infested with crawling snakes and other venomous beasts. Even worse, terrorists are preparing a full out war on America with a biological weapon.

“Author: plazma_dragon wrote u0026#39;The makers of this film tried to combine a comedy movie with an action movieu0026#39;.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eno, thatu0026#39;s not what they did. what the wonderful folks at troma did in this film is to take all the conventions of all Hollywood action films set in the contemporary era, and push them to their logical extremes.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003ethe action film is inherently illogical – thatu0026#39;s exactly why we watch them. in the action film you identify with the hero and blow away a criminal as soon as you can, and move on to the next criminal to blow away.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003ein real life, if you shoot someone you think is committing a crime, you may miss and get shot; you may only wound him, in which case you have to listen to his squeals of pain, and later, in most states, he has the right to come back and sue you for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon – no joke. and if you do kill him, then you have to justify it to the police, and sometimes to a judge, and you have to listen to his mom weep in agony, and then she sues you for u0026#39;wrongful deathu0026#39; and you have to wonder – was causing so much pain to others and oneu0026#39;s self really worth it – a question that may haunt you the rest of your life. finally, thereu0026#39;s the possibility that he may shoot you – setting aside your possible demise, thereu0026#39;s the problem of getting crippled for the rest of your life. you can sue the criminal, but if heu0026#39;s just the corner thug, youu0026#39;ll never see a penny.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003ethis doesnu0026#39;t mean that you donu0026#39;t shoot the criminal – you may need to – if heu0026#39;s threatening a loved one, and i got a good shot, i certainly would. but what all this does mean is that youu0026#39;re stuck with all kinds of consequences that never happen to Stallone or snipes or Jackie Chan.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003etroma takes this basic principle – shoot the guy and move on, hero – to the extremes. any of the airliner survivors who show compassion are deemed wimpy and abandoned. the Rambo-wannabe wades into a whole regiment of enemy soldiers and doesnu0026#39;t get shot. the pacifist priest is sadistically tortured and shot in the goriest fashion, condemned to die by a neo-Nazi for being Jewish – even though heu0026#39;s clearly not – simply because the Nazi thinks everyone he kills must be Jewish, since heu0026#39;s a Nazi and Nazis kill Jews.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eas for the nudity – it is rumored that steven seagal actually used to have it in his contract that there would be at least one female nude scene in any movie he made. nude scenes are pro-forma to the genre – but since this is tromau0026#39;s war, of course they need to be done as ineptly as possible.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eone can say that u0026#39;this is not my kind of comedyu0026#39;, and leave it alone. however, donu0026#39;t for a minute think these people donu0026#39;t know what theyu0026#39;re doing.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003epersonally i think this movie is a jaw-dropping, over-the-top satire of the best kind. i hold back one star because thereu0026#39;s no doubt the editing could have been a little tighter.”