I'd like to take a moment to talk about bad movies.
The Bad - The "red movies" as I call them. If you have no idea what I'm talking about then the easiest example would be Scary Movie. Typically all of these spoofs have similar cover art which is big red text on a white background with characters from the movie cut and pasted in.
I loved Scary Movie and I'll defend it as a brilliant spoof anytime but at a certain point the X Movie just got ridiculous and ceased to be a parody and more a collection of bad pop culture references with some vague allusion to the movie they're supposed to be parodying.
I pretty much gave up after the atrocious Date Movie or maybe even before that but that's the one I really remember as being the worst offender.
There's really no need to go and rip these movies apart because they are just that bad.
The "Good" - Asylum Studios and SyFy (eugh) originals. Oh dear God I love these guys and their like. Almost everything about their movies is objectively terrible yet I can't stop watching. By definition they should be terrible but they have some sort of X factor charm that reminds you of being a child and thinking "Wow I wonder who would win in a fight between a scorpion and a shark?" If this hasn't been done by the way and someone from SyFy comes across this I demand royalties.
Actually there is a third category where we find Uwe Boll, Tommy Wiseau and their ilk but I honestly think they defy categorisation and bring their own kind of sadistic entertainment and have to actually be viewed as some sort of extreme art project in bad film making.
Coincidentally I'm not sure what's going to be more amazingly tasteless, the upcoming pro life horror film or Uwe Boll's film about the Holocaust.
There's just some sort of great joy in bad movies. Unlike a bad computer game or a bad book they don't ask for any commitment for you other than suspension of disbelief and an hour and a half of your free time.
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