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Damn Manos: The Hands of Fate and Jack Frost (Morozko) are some terribly weird and weirdly terrible movies. Made for good MST3K episodes though. Without the riffing I think these films would have been unwatchable, yet I laughed more at The Room by its self than at these films being riffed. What do you guy think makes a bad movie good?
Almost all the reviews of Jack Frost on imdb seem to be from Eastern Europeans arguing that's it's actually a really good movie, and that Americans can't understand it because they don't know the mythology. Someone said these Slavic folktales are "on par with Kalevala, Ramayana, Beowulf, Iliad." I can't really agree with that since those are epics, the stories in this movie seem more like Snow White, Cinderella etc. simple fairy tales. One reviewer even tried to defend the movie being featured on MST3K by saying that they even riffed on Hamlet... Not a very good point since the version of Hamlet they watched is widely regarded as one of the worst Shakespeare films.
Almost all the reviews of Jack Frost on imdb seem to be from Eastern Europeans arguing that's it's actually a really good movie, and that Americans can't understand it because they don't know the mythology. Someone said these Slavic folktales are "on par with Kalevala, Ramayana, Beowulf, Iliad." I can't really agree with that since those are epics, the stories in this movie seem more like Snow White, Cinderella etc. simple fairy tales. One reviewer even tried to defend the movie being featured on MST3K by saying that they even riffed on Hamlet... Not a very good point since the version of Hamlet they watched is widely regarded as one of the worst Shakespeare films.