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Everything Is Terrible! The Movie

Everything Is Terrible! The Movie

Representation Score

5.3/10

Fair

2009

R

Director

Nick Moore, Nic Maier, Dimitri Simakis

Runtime

52 minutes

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Everything Is Terrible! The Movie is a radical deconstruction of media that prioritizes surrealism over traditional storytelling. Given its non-linear montage of thousands of VHS fragments, it lacks the structured characters needed to assess identity-based representation using standard metrics. While the film does not focus on intentional character development, it challenges institutional media hierarchies and offers a broad spectrum of human imagery through found footage.

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Category Breakdown

Does Everything Is Terrible! The Movie have LGBTQ+ representation?

Fair

The film's use of queer aesthetics and non-traditional editing techniques suggests a disruption of conventional broadcasting standards. However, the lack of clear character arcs makes it hard to verify specific LGBTQ+ representation.

How does Everything Is Terrible! The Movie portray gender?

Fair

The film lacks a central protagonist and avoids traditional gender roles. The fragmented editing style prevents the establishment of a structured gender hierarchy, avoiding typical masculine leadership or feminine submissiveness clichés.

How racially and ethnically diverse is Everything Is Terrible! The Movie?

Fair

Diversity in the film arises from the wide range of historical media fragments used. Since there is no curated cast, the diverse representation is incidental rather than a planned effort towards reflecting multiple aspects of identity.

How does Everything Is Terrible! The Movie represent religion and culture?

Excellent

The film excels at critiquing Western media institutions through the repurposing of low-culture VHS artifacts. It presents an anti-capitalist critique of mainstream broadcasting and polished cultural standards.

Does Everything Is Terrible! The Movie include disability representation?

Minimal

The portrayal of disability is unclear due to the film's focus on sensory overload and surrealism. There is no platform for character-driven disability narratives in this found footage collage.

Present on Screen

  • Challenges traditional Western media institutions by repurposing low-culture artifacts.
  • Uses non-traditional, experimental editing patterns to defy mainstream broadcasting standards.
  • Provides a broad spectrum of human imagery through a vast array of historical media fragments.

Limited or Absent

  • Lacks a curated approach to support storytelling that reflects multiple aspects of identity.
  • Does not provide a platform for character-driven narratives about disability.
  • Lacks structured character development and clear identity-based arcs.

Official Synopsis

The fine folks at EIT have spent years digging thought thrift establishments, video caverns, and haunted houses throughtout the country in order to create the most mind-melting VHS mash-up imaginable. Literally thousands of hours of video gold have been chopped up into millions of pieces and gluded back together into an ever-multiplying bizarre path to allegorical self-enlightenment and surreal resurrection. Obviously!

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