Films like The Amazing Bulk.

The Amazing Bulk (2012) reads as Warm, breathless, gentle action / comedy, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, epic, cold. Every film below is ranked by distance across the same twelve hand-scored axes — with what it keeps, and where it walks away. Not a genre dump.

FDR: American Badass! (2012) poster
1. FDR: American Badass!2012

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the strange, dreamlike logic — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus (2009) poster
2. Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus2009

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Sharknado (2013) poster
3. Sharknado2013

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the strange, dreamlike logic; trades toward a white-knuckle intensity.

Sharknado 2: The Second One (2014) poster
4. Sharknado 2: The Second One2014

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the strange, dreamlike logic; trades toward a white-knuckle intensity.

Sharknado 5: Global Swarming (2017) poster
5. Sharknado 5: Global Swarming2017

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the chilly detachment; trades toward a strange, dreamlike logic.

Mega Shark vs. Crocosaurus (2010) poster
6. Mega Shark vs. Crocosaurus2010

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the chilly detachment; trades toward a white-knuckle intensity.

Mega Shark vs. Mecha Shark (2014) poster
7. Mega Shark vs. Mecha Shark2014

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the strange, dreamlike logic; trades toward a bone-dry seriousness.

Mega Piranha (2010) poster
8. Mega Piranha2010

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the chilly detachment; trades toward a white-knuckle intensity.

Disaster! (2005) poster
9. Disaster!2005

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the world-sized stakes; trades toward a dense, packed storytelling.

Rapture-Palooza (2013) poster
10. Rapture-Palooza2013

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the world-sized stakes; trades toward a strange, dreamlike logic.

Turks in Space (2006) poster
11. Turks in Space2006

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the world-sized stakes; trades toward a dense, packed storytelling.

Freaks of Nature (2015) poster
12. Freaks of Nature2015

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the cold, bleak undertow; trades toward a chilly detachment.

These are The Amazing Bulk’s neighbours — where are yours?

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