Lloyd Kaufman of Troma is going to be in Salt Lake City next week for Tromadance (one of the Sundance hanger-on mini-festivals), and thanks to connections at the comic shop where he’s doing a news conference, I’ll be able to swing a short interview with him (five minutes, maybe).
So. What should I ask the man behind the Toxic Avenger movies?
#1 by Chris S. on January 15, 2009 - 7:11 pm
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Have you no shame, sir?
#2 by Nathan Shumate on January 15, 2009 - 8:22 pm
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No, no, put quotations around it so I won’t think it’s directed at me.
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#3 by ScottSmith on January 15, 2009 - 11:01 pm
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Ask him when he’s gonna make a new Class of Nuke ’em High.
#4 by Bryan on January 16, 2009 - 2:56 am
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“Have you ever been instituitionlized?”
#5 by Chris S. on January 16, 2009 - 7:26 am
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Pitch him an idea for a movie about (off the top of my head) a sentient dog turd that lives on breast milk, or maybe just the title “Fat Guy Loves Dinosaur.” If he shows the slightest interest in the project, punch him in the throat and run like hell.
#6 by Nathan Shumate on January 16, 2009 - 8:02 am
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Actually, I’d kind of like to see “Fat Guy Loves Dinosaur.”
#7 by Blake Matthews on January 16, 2009 - 8:32 am
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It’s a sequel to “Tammy and the T-Rex”.
#8 by Cabal on January 16, 2009 - 1:21 pm
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Or “Theodore Rex”.
#9 by Chris S. on January 16, 2009 - 1:30 pm
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I was picturing it as being like “Splash,” only with an anthropomorphic female dinosaur instead of a mermaid. And since this would be a Troma production, that would mean a 40-ish stripper in a snakeskin-patterned bikini and a cheap rubber t-rex mask.
#10 by PCachu on January 16, 2009 - 3:24 pm
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So, it’s The Curse of the Princess Monster, then.
Except, you know, not based on a ten-year-old’s rewrite of “Sense and Sensibility”.
#11 by HP on January 17, 2009 - 12:28 am
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Gah, there’s a lot of questions I’d like to ask Lloyd Kaufman, and while they all start out innocent enough, somehow they end up as insults and attempts to shame him. I’m so fed up with “self-aware” low-budget films. Toxic Avenger was fun, in an Attack of the Killer Tomatoes kind of way, but What Price Glory, Mr. Kaufman? What Price Glory?
Here’s a suggestion — spend the entire five minutes talking about his cameo in The Final Countdown. “Mr. Kaufman, what’s Kirk Douglas really like?” “Did you get to party with Martin Sheen?” “Do you think a modern aircraft carrier could really travel back in time? How is that possible? Please show your work.” “Mr. Kaufman, in The Final Countdown, when Richard Owens is shown climbing out of his fighter after landing he appears to be in short sleeves. This would be contrary to Naval policy which requires that all pilots wear a flight suit with long sleeves to protect the arms in case a fire occurs during a carrier landing. Does it bother you to be forever associated with such a sloppy approach to filmmaking?”
#12 by Derek O'Brien on January 18, 2009 - 4:09 am
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“Are there any films in your career that you’ve regretted making, and why?”
#13 by Bryan on January 18, 2009 - 12:59 pm
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After reading more of the comments, I have determined that we as a group are scary and need to be institutionalized.
#14 by Nathan Shumate on January 18, 2009 - 1:14 pm
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I was thinking more “evil.” But I would still totally see Fat Guy Loves Dinosaur.
#15 by Chris S. on January 18, 2009 - 3:09 pm
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Give me a budget of five hundred dollars and a week to write, cast, shoot, and edit the film, and I think I could have a fairly standard Troma-esque film ready for your viewing “enjoyment.”
#16 by Gentle Benj on January 19, 2009 - 3:45 am
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Gah, there’s a lot of questions I’d like to ask Lloyd Kaufman, and while they all start out innocent enough, somehow they end up as insults and attempts to shame him.
THIS.
The only question I could think of was “what did it smell like on the set of Nikos?