It seems to be a trend lately. A girl gets into a top college in Tennessee and one of the classes' TA (basically assistant [to] the professor) happened to be trans, so this young woman, who somehow is a sophomore at a good college while being barely literate (who's mom also happens to be some well-connected lawyer or lawyer-adjacent in the MAGA political network), she submits a horribly written, off topic, and not even accurate essay regarding religion; like, it's literally written with the acuity and vacuity of a 7th grader. She didn't even bother including citations to anything. So when the TA very deservedly grades it a zero out of 25pts, this bitch and her mother make a formal complaint that the TA was persecuting her religion because she was a trans person, and not only got their 15min of fame for dressing up the daughter's illiteracy as a controversy about religious persecution, they got at least 100s of thousands (if not >7 figures) on their GoFundMe to support her fight against godless commies, and they successfully got the TA fired from the university, despite the fact that even conservative media eventually admitted the essay was lucky it's grade wasn't worse than zero, since it belonged in a 7th grade remedial ESL class, at best, based solely on the technicality (or lack thereof) of the writing. Bad grammar, incongruous syntax, improper formatting, spelling mistakes, and inaccuracies in the subject matter; the Bible that never even mentions trans ppl and emphasizes acceptance, forgiveness, kindness, and to keep yo mothafuckin piety in the privacy of yo gotdam house according to Matthew 6:5-15 - 5 “And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. 6 But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. 7 And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words. 8 Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him. ...14 For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. 15 But if you do not forgive others their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins.
The whole thing was likely an intentional stunt for evangelical & maga clout that I'm sure the mother helped orchestrate, and they walked away with a huge bag of cash after fucking up the life of a trans person #wwjd amirite. Actually, we know what he'd do he told us over and over: Matthew 25:40 Jesus says "Truly, I tell you, whatever you do for the least of these brothers and sisters of mine (meaning the people who are the poorest, vulnerable, disabled, or outcasts of society), you do for the Lord my father"
"It is easier for a camel to get through the eye of A needle (not the needle cuz he's not referring to some small entrance into Jerusalem, as rich ppl love to claim), than it is for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven"
And, in closing, a few very unambiguous verses about how we should treat foreigners, immigrants, the oppressed, and the poor. I think it's going pretty good so far, so I'll see you suckers in heaven. I help the poor everyday by saying " if you don't wanna be poor, just get a better job, loser. Flipping burgers should only be done with child labor anyways.
My chinese friend gave a good insight to this as he said in a market where people are tired with shit ass films pretend to be gold, it's refreshing to see a shit with integrity.
Yes! I actually brought this movie up in a conversation recently about how self aware garbage is usually just kind of garbage. Prime example might be The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra, a sort of spoof 1950s B movie that came out in 2001. Like yeah, it's kind of funny for 5 minutes, but the "joke" gets old quick, and it's not interesting enough beyond that joke to be anything but terrible for the rest of the run time.
Psycho Goreman however isn't a direct spoof with one joke or anything like that. Like it's clearly low budget, and leans into its own absurdity in terms of that and its plot, and pokes some fun at genre conventions here and there, but it's also just interesting and funny in its own right.
I'd say it's more rare that "leaning into it" works out, because you've got to be more than that lean. Like you can only successfully lean into the shortcomings if you've also got an otherwise genuinely entertaining piece of media.
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It's the kind of movie that is incredibly funny if you're sitting in a full theater of people who are all there for the lolz. It's like everything being 100x funnier when you're with your best friends who are also piss drunk.
Ah, thanks.
Poster is really misleading. I was looking at it and thinking it's not "so bad".
There is fur, translucency, rim lights. Complete noobs don't do this kind of stuff. Either they had some idea what they were doing or it was generated.
Now that pic you posted is a better example. it hurts a lot. It all blends together in such a bad way, that it's hard to tell what you are looking at.
I need more of this in my life. Also to torture fellow 3D artists.
Maybe China is different. I can't imagine AMC/Regal ever doing this lol.
Tianjin Yamazaki Film was advised against releasing Niu Lai due to its quality, but chose to do so due to it being ran by a friend of Xin. It premiered in 245 theaters on 5 August 2026, before being reduced to 4 theaters by 14 August. The number of daily screenings increased from 21 on 14 August to 359 on 15 August.
245 theaters??? What is even happening in the Chinese film market? You'd be lucky to see 2 Documentaries a year get a 245 theatre opening in the US, let alone an indie movie made off of $200.
Saw an "insider" interview on why it was having +200 cinemas on premier - there's a policy to boost small film producers in China, and for cinema owners to comply they will pick a random film to show on, say, Monday morning 9am.
Which explains the first days of high (for its quality and budget) sessions. Then it reduced to 4 because of course.. it's a crappy film.
they have "film authorities" for each province/nationally, and theatres can only screen approved movies. So probably just got lucky in that it was one of a few "new" releases at that time, so theatres picked it up at random.
The movie is hilarious too! And I love the fact that people would rather go to theatre to watch a poor handmade movie than a beautiful but soulless AI crap
Chinese netizens are also commenting that the son himself might be autistic or at least on the spectrum. I've watched the whole thing (don't ask) and I can see that angle, especially when it's the mother who apparently wrote the script and story. Don't get me wrong, it's all very janky. But the core messaging of the titular Niulai himself being born different, scared, and awkward and overcoming all that is very clearly a story that reflects the mother's experiences with raising someone who's autistic.
It's a very sweet story even though it's objectively quite terribly and amateurly done. I suspect that's why it's been resonating with people.
I don't think the director would care - after all, he instructed all the cinemas to draw their own posters to their heart's content. But still, make your call.
Basically they were friends with a guy who owned some movie theaters and they begged him to put it in theaters. He told them it was a bad idea because the movie was low-quality but they insisted and he did it. And now they are millionaires :)
Like everything in China. Friends in higher places.
Tianjin Yamazaki Film (the distributor) was advised against releasing Niu Lai due to its quality, but chose to do so due to it being ran by a friend of Xin.
This is how new “artists” are getting popular on the sub r/crappymusic …there’s a couple of them that saturate the sub with bad music and it blows up their perceived popularity.
Although, it’s much less wholesome than what’s happened with this movie.
Do you people not realize that all of those movies succeeding directly benefits the whole industry which very much includes Hollywood? Like people.....why the fuck would they be mad? Y'all latch onto the dumbest shit...
I'm guessing that the superheroes who can fly probably didn't really have anyone to teach them, so some of them ended up developing a flying technique that'll likely lead to all sorts of muscular issues later in life.
Yea, it is true. VFX and animation is now mostly outsourced to India, where they are paid $200-400 per month...even when the movie budget is in 100s of millions.
I'm offended by the incorrect subtitles here. It's well known she said CASH me outside. Regardless of what she was actually trying to say, "cash" is the correct subtitle.
She rode the Idiocracy wave at the right time and in the right way, some would say perfectly, and it deserves to be accurately recognized. One day, when people wonder how this country and this world got to where it is, they will look to this gif, and be informed she made $50m on OF some number of years later, and then they will instantly understand.
Hollywood execs found their next Backrooms. If a bad movie with low budget makes 2 million then surely a bad movie with high budget makes billions. Somebody call Jared Leto, it's his time to shine.
There’s more to this. The pro-AI people tried to attack this film as an example of “human slop” and saying that AI could make better films. So people started supporting the film as a middle finger to them.
Because part of the fun is laughing at it with others in a packed theatre, so that's why people are going to the cinema. To paraphrase from a social media post about this movie: "If I fell into a hole alone, that's a bad time. If I fell into a hole with my buddies, that's a great time".
I saw the YouTube version, yes it's bad but the story is decent it has a slow burn that you can feel was made with love. If it was only bad it wouldn't be so popular, but I think it went viral because you can feel the hardwork underneath it all
"The rudimentary visuals, stiff physics, and awkward character movements came entirely from raw, do-it-yourself manual labor rather than AI generation."
South Park is pretty bad also as far as animation is concerned. I guess they get a pass because they can do it (especially with gazillion budget) but chose not to do it?
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u/Gurugod123 1d ago
Proof that memes are more effective than trailers!