Watched Troll 2 last night and I'm still mad about the popcorn scene

How did a movie from 1990 with such terrible acting and weird logic become this famous? I mean the whole milkshake turning into popcorn thing makes no sense but I couldn't stop laughing.

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kai_brown2328d agoMost Upvoted

The scene where the guy eats the popcorn and starts turning green has to be one of the worst special effects Ive ever seen, it looks like they just dumped green food coloring on him. But heres the thing, nobody talks about how the whole movie is basically a cautionary tale about trusting strangers in a small town. Like the family gets tricked into eating that weird milkshake by the goblins who are literally just people in cheap masks. Its so bad its good because the directors clearly had zero budget but still went all in on the nonsense.

fiona33028d ago

Yeah @kai_brown23 you hit on something there... the whole "cautionary tale" thing is actually interesting because I feel like that's how a lot of these cult classics work. They try to deliver a message or a moral but the execution is so messed up that the message gets buried under all the bad acting and weird choices. It reminds me of how in real life people will have good intentions but completely miss the mark when trying to help someone, you know? Like when someone gives you advice that sounds great in their head but when they say it out loud it's just nonsense wrapped in confidence. Troll 2 is basically that same energy but stretched into a full movie with popcorn and food coloring. The directors probably thought they were making something profound but ended up with this beautiful disaster that people still laugh about decades later.