A Study of "So Bad It's Good" Movies 

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I honestly can't stand movies like Sharknado that are intentionally bad. "So bad it's good" only really works for me when it feels like filmmakers are genuinely thinking they're making a movie and miss the mark in every way, like "The Room" or Ed Wood's filmography.

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Well my problem with Sharknado and movies like Fast and Furious is that they are too self aware that they are in a way parodying themselves. They think that they can get away with everything just because they are winking to the camera and therefore comes off insincere.

People need to stop with sharknado. A so bad it's good movie is, by definition, not self conscious. Sharknado is just bad on purpose. And that has absolutely no charm.

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Any of the Monty Python films are a great example of camp being used very well, especially the Holy Grail

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I think Princess Bride is so good despite how corny some of it is because from the opening scene we know its a fairytail story. All the flair and the jokes and rhyming(anybody want a peanut?) Works because it fits the style we expect, making it epic instead of laughable. One of the best movies ever.

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You seem to misunderstand. So bad it’s good films are not usually considered guilty pleasures. Real guilty pleasures are hands down bad films which you still enjoy for some reason.

I think in some cases you're blurring camp and... absurd? The problem I have is that while the characters in these camp/bad movies take their situation totally seriously it's always painfully obvious that the film makers don't, which destroys everything for me. "Garth Marenghi's Darkplace", and I guess Wes Anderson's stuff seems to be different, because they embrace camp while still being very thoughtfully crafted. I'm not sure if there's such a close connection between camp and bad either. No one has every said "you have to see this Wes Anderson film, it's so bad it's good". Especially in Princess Bride the camp is part of it, down to the core, right? I haven't seen it since I was a kid but I distinctly remember it as a comedy that didn't take itself too seriously but was still well made. These things are fun, but they're not lazy, or cheap or lacking in talent like Sharknado is. There's a difference between embracing a cliche/trope and taking a shit on one.

In France, we actually have a term for this kind of movie : "nanar". The "Fossoyeur de films" made a video about it, and we have a whole site dedicated to it, Nanarland

I looked like a dick when I tried explaining so bad that it's good to a friend of mine

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The Lego batman movie was a pretty good balance of sincerity and camp, I think

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You have made me realize the vast majority of my favorite movies are full of camp. I already knew that was the case with videogames like Tropico or Fallout, but I had never noticed how prevalent it was in my favorite movies.

Jared and Jerusha Hess are definitely geniuses in the way they use the “so bad its good” in smart, comedic ways.

I almost cried laughing while watching that Django Unchained scene. The panicked yelling was weirdly funny to me

I guess it's why I love classic doctor who so much, particularly the second to fourth doctors. The camp balance was perfect. The good episodes are entertaining and so are the bad episodes

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Definitely your best essay in a while! Insightful stuff, mate.

My favourite campy movie is Mortal Kombat. Good Lord I howled through it. It's a masterpiece of "so bad it's brilliant". I can't believe it wasn't intentional.

Maybe I'm misssing something here but I dont agree with you at all. I wouldn't consider anything from Wes Anerson as so bad its good, and sharknado is too self aware to be one either, its simply pure trash. I think the connection you made between camp movies and so bad its good movies is a bit loose.

This video covers the aspect of taking something seriously but then so much so that your transmission from serious to unserious moments (whether in your life, or translated somehow on screen) remains serious, so that unseriousness is taken seriously, and vise versa. Nicely done.

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My new favourite in the 'so bad it's good' category is: *"SUBURBAN SASQUATCH"* , saw it from Redlettermedia 😂

Man, absolutely loved this, never would've thought of camp as a defining quality of SBIG movies, or the aspects of camp in other movies making them better. Great freaking video man!

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One of my favorite movies, Dr Strangelove, is a comedy, and although the jokes are pretty funny, the funniest part of it all is how seriously everything is treated

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Could you also explore filmmaking techniques and what dignifies when an unconventional shot is genius, and when it's bad? Great video as always!

Fantastic video, can't wait for your new video to come out in a few months

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"Haha, what a story Mark." In all seriousness this was pretty interesting.

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Thank you for putting more content in you vids......missed that so much.

Please put the movies' names in the captions

Most bad movies: Boring, but competent So Bad, they're Good: Neither

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fantastic video so much love for this stuff

Wes Anderson is brilliant

*Run run run run runrunrun!* *Run away from the Sharknado!* *SHARKNADO!* *SHARKNADO!* Yes, I memorized the song. I have problems.

Thanks Jack, great vid as usual!

I always forget about your campy exit music. Love this channel.

The anime and manga series 'Jojo's Bizarre Adventures' is also a great example of camp used really well. The characters take everything seriously but there are always crazy and bizarre things happening to them, making for some really hilarious and fun moments, which can also be really dramatic and tense at the same time.

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One of your better videos. Good work, thanks

Where's the 3:44 clip from? It's beautiful.

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Another great video!

Thanks that you made the background music a bit quieter (or using a different track?) :) great clip again, didn't know so many of my favourites are camp

Well I over slept. I never got in to so bad its good movies.

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thanks for this video. i never knew such thing and now i learned something new. THANKS BUDDY

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There is a french word to describe a piece of art so bad that becomes good: "Nanar". That video talks more about it and can be complemented with yours: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-pFlW49Fv9eY.html&ab_channel=Quetzal *note: is in Spanish.

One of your best pieces.

what a great video, not many would dig so deep in so bad it's good movies!

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i heard princess bride

What's that Wes Anderson movie with the 2 boys?

Great video! I think Terry Gilliam would have also been a great example of camp that works

I love the grand budapest hotel. Not only is it camp but the colours and shots are so beautiful.

I would like to point out that this video does not discuss camp in its original context, that of LGBT subculture. Films like Rocky Horror or The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert do camp in ways that move beyond just being about tropes and self-awareness. They camp things like gender, which are not contained just within the film, but are far more real ideas. I think this misses out on the opportunity to historicize camp, and show the effect that minority communities can have on mass culture.

"Movies that still take themselves seriously" He says while playing the rocky horror picture show. The entire film is a joke!

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I feel like some famous horror movies of the 80s capture this perfectly, in both predator and the terminator whether its the over the top music or cheesy one liners they both don't feel out of place and the movies wouldn't be the same without them.

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GENUINELY Loled at the guy shooting bullets from his gun to shoot the other gun across the room

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Uh... so what you're saying is the best movies have camp. What does that have to do with bad movies?

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Yes! You brought back Summertime for the outro.

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How are the Sharknado movies "so bad it's good" when everyone making the films are in on the joke. They know they are making a bad movie and that people will watch simply based in the title. Sharknado was made by The Asylum, which has made films like Snakes on a Train, the DaVinci treasure, 2 Transmorphers movies, AVH: Alien vs Hunter, Atlantic Rim, American Warships, Titanic 2, etc the list goes on. So many mockbusters. Why does Sharknado get so much attention when they also made Mega shark Vs Giant Octopus and Mega shark vs Crocosaurus and 2 headed Shark attack. I wish ppl would stop giving it credit as so bad it's good, when it was intentionally bad. A film which could be argued for "it's so bad it's good" is Birdemic 2. Most actors and crew were in on the joke, but James Nguyen still thinks he is making a movie to rival Hitchcock's The Birds. "They look good from a distance." Lol Other than that, I agree, good video.

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Feels like time to rewatch The Princess Bride!

never change your outro please, it has something magic for me :D

7:03 "It's so good that it's bad." Toy Story 2 0/10 IGN.

Napoleon Dynamite, anyone?

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I recently thought about this in the context of pirates of the caribbean! It masters the fine line between the vomedic and the reality for epicness imo

How come you didn't mention any of the Edgar Wright movies, who also uses "campy" techniques to make scenes more enjoyable.

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Another point to consider when thinking about why people like these kind of movies is that it makes you analyze the good and the bad We have great films as examples, that we use as a reference because of the story and technique they present, but that’s also true with bad films We take the pros and cons, and we develop our sense of art by analyzing them.

You just cannot analyze these, you just have to appreciate.