{"id":5269,"date":"2014-07-02T19:20:11","date_gmt":"2014-07-02T23:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smugfilm.com\/?p=5269"},"modified":"2014-07-02T19:20:11","modified_gmt":"2014-07-02T23:20:11","slug":"turkles-a-movie-that-looks-amazing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/turkles-a-movie-that-looks-amazing\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Turkles&#8217;: A Movie That Looks Amazing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/m914CGCurJ0?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I stumbled on this movie while browsing my local library&#8217;s new releases online. The title piqued my interest, so I Googled it and found the trailer above.<\/p>\n<p>I <em>need<\/em> to see this movie.<\/p>\n<p>Greg DeLiso and and I are always on the hunt for the next great unintentional comedies for us to fall in love with and quote incessantly to each other. We&#8217;ve delved far beyond famous ones like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000CFYAMC?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creativeASIN=B000CFYAMC&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;tag=smufil-20\" target=\"_blank\">The Room<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B003ZD9E24?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creativeASIN=B003ZD9E24&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;tag=smufil-20\" target=\"_blank\">Troll 2<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B004EI2NWW?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creativeASIN=B004EI2NWW&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;tag=smufil-20\" target=\"_blank\">Birdemic: Shock and Terror<\/a>\u2014our favorites include lesser-known gems such as My Streets, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000ARXFJG?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creativeASIN=B000ARXFJG&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;tag=smufil-20\" target=\"_blank\">Little Marines 1 &amp; 2<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0142134\/reference\" target=\"_blank\">Breakout: Batteries Not Included<\/a>. Few have ever heard of them, but they offer as much, if not more laughs than better-known so-bad-it&#8217;s-good fare.<\/p>\n<p>It appears nobody has discovered <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00HHEBMMC?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creativeASIN=B00HHEBMMC&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;tag=smufil-20\" target=\"_blank\">Turkles<\/a> yet, as is so often the case with a lot of these movies. It&#8217;s an untapped genre that people assume consists of only a handful, but really there are tons that are hilarious.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a video with more weird clips from Turkles. The person who put it together clearly didn&#8217;t do so because they saw humor\u2014I think it&#8217;s just a highlight reel for one of the actresses\u2014but it plays like a greatest hits of awkward Turkles moments:<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MefrJH4SZfE?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And a\u00a0press conference about the movie, with the writer-director:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qnhthSQk1XE?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s all watch Turkles and make this movie a thing. I&#8217;m sick of these great movies falling by the wayside. Seek it out and watch it with friends and spread the word, just like I plan to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/m914CGCurJ0?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I stumbled on this movie while browsing my local library&#8217;s new releases online. The title piqued my interest, so I Googled it and found the trailer above.<\/p>\n<p>I <em>need<\/em> to see this movie.<\/p>\n<p>Greg DeLiso and and I are always on the hunt for the next great unintentional comedies for us to fall in love with and quote incessantly to each other. We&#8217;ve delved far beyond famous ones like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000CFYAMC?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creativeASIN=B000CFYAMC&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;tag=smufil-20\" target=\"_blank\">The Room<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B003ZD9E24?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creativeASIN=B003ZD9E24&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;tag=smufil-20\" target=\"_blank\">Troll 2<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B004EI2NWW?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creativeASIN=B004EI2NWW&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;tag=smufil-20\" target=\"_blank\">Birdemic: Shock and Terror<\/a>\u2014our favorites include lesser-known gems such as My Streets, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000ARXFJG?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creativeASIN=B000ARXFJG&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;tag=smufil-20\" target=\"_blank\">Little Marines 1 &amp; 2<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0142134\/reference\" target=\"_blank\">Breakout: Batteries Not Included<\/a>. Few have ever heard of them, but they offer as much, if not more laughs than better-known so-bad-it&#8217;s-good fare.<\/p>\n<p>It appears nobody has discovered <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00HHEBMMC?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creativeASIN=B00HHEBMMC&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;tag=smufil-20\" target=\"_blank\">Turkles<\/a> yet, as is so often the case with a lot of these movies. It&#8217;s an untapped genre that people assume consists of only a handful, but really there are tons that are hilarious.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a video with more weird clips from Turkles. The person who put it together clearly didn&#8217;t do so because they saw humor\u2014I think it&#8217;s just a highlight reel for one of the actresses\u2014but it plays like a greatest hits of awkward Turkles moments:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,3606],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allposts","category-chloes-essays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5269"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5274,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5269\/revisions\/5274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}