Special Event: Rifftrax: The Amazing Bulk

April 25, 2024 11:55 AM

MST Club presents... a riff of a frankly astonishing movie. You may think you know awful CGI. Well, the computer art in this movie makes Birdemic look like a masterpiece. Buildings made out of a few rectangles! Storefronts with names written out in Comic Sans--which is also what the credits are written in! And the titular Bulk combines all the worst aspects of both Playstation and N64 in-engine cutscenes. Sites say it's meant as a spoof, but, oof. It seems a lot like that's just them trying to justify their terrible decisions. Riff from April 2024, movie from 2012.
posted by JHarris (4 comments total)

We hold MST Club Thursday nights, starting at 7 PM US Eastern time, at https://cytu.be/r/Metafilter_MST3KClub. The "main event" happens at 9 PM Eastern.

Some riffs are 90-comedy edgy, especially those from a decade back or longer, and may contain isolated instances of various phobias. We apologize for that, and explain it as being a product of the time, but if that means you don't think you can join us that's okay. We've been trying to focus on recent riffs lately, partly for that reason. It doesn't seem like it'll be an issue with this week's episode.
posted by JHarris at 12:10 PM on April 25

You had me at Comic Sans.
posted by ChurchHatesTucker at 4:51 PM on April 25 [1 favorite]

So in a strange twist of fate I watched this last week with some friends and it is just too painful for me to watch it again this soon.
posted by miss-lapin at 6:12 PM on April 25 [1 favorite]

That's okay miss-lapin, the movie is a real challenge to get through.

It's exactly like they heard it was possible now to film in front of green screens and use digital sets, so they did that, but they only had the least skilled people possible do the backgrounds, we're talking literal sub-N64 modelling here.
posted by JHarris at 8:34 PM on April 26 [1 favorite]