When is Something So Bad it's Good? 

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I'm thinking good movies have compelling characters and events. Movies so bad they're good have something else that's compelling. I can think of one so-bad-it's-good movie in my life: Manos, the Hand of Fate. I haven't watched all of it; when watching clips from it, I'm engrossed in judging what they were trying to do in each shot and why the thing they actually did fails at that. Like when a character clumsily rolls down a hill, I'm like "wait, that was supposed to be a tense action shot?". So, extrapolating from a sample size of (less than) one, I think the thing that's compelling about so-bad-they're-good movies is (1) the way it makes you think about the movie making process; and (2) the difference between intention and actual result. As a result, most so-bad-they're-good movies fall into the category "unintentional comedy" and never "unintentional drama" or "unintentional horror" or anything like that: failure can be laughably bad, but never frighteningly bad.

I think when they try to make it bad on purpose. Then to me the spell fall off. Because if its intentionally bad then i am not laughing because then i feel its so lack of effort to me. But if they try their best and fail, then to me its funny

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not as good as cool cat finds a gun

WJZAV the thing is, sometimes bad movies came in many different reasons, lack of resource, focus, or even incredibly huge cliffs between the movie's expectation and its budget, so sometimes u just can't help but just laugh at it (at least for me). Where as boring movies always associated with straight up lazy in almost everything (writting, CGI, actors, etc). The key here is how much u realized how much the movie is *trying* to reach its best potential. Oh and trust me, when u kinda guessed on whether or not the movie is trying or not, it'll change your perceptions of it (i think)

I would argue that being boring is directly what makes a movie bad. Their primary purpose is to entertain, ostensibly.

@@bubba200874426 so that proves/confirms Why Star Wars is bad/overrated :-)

Pretty much Freddie Mercurys opinion on his own music

Yeah,it’s interesting how the worst thing a movie can be(in a lot of people’s books)is boring.I remember watching the movie”Stalker”,directed by Andrew Tarkovsky.Tarkovsky is considered one of Russia’s finest directors yet l found myself falling asleep while watching the film.

Fuck yeah

Vinicius RDLP What!? No!

King Lightbulb no FUCK YA

HELL YEAH!

I hope He gonna be in Tarantino's last movie.

It's a tour de force!

He should totally review Batman Forever...

For me it's Jason X, I mean...have you seen Jason X? Oh my goodness. P.S. I hate Batman and Robin. If I see it's on I run in the other direction (or do take the more sane approach and just change the channel.)

I love Sharknado and 2larva2lantula in a so bad it's good kinda way

Adam D So basically the late 90's

The Lost World is actually good though...

Didn't they make all those animations that Phoenix released as Video Games?

Lion and the King and Dinosauri are some of the best animated movies of all time.

My theory is that studio is a money laundry company

What does it matter that they did it intentienally, sharknado was still funny because it was so terrible, but it will never be as great as troll 2, the room, freddys dead (the scariest movie guy of all time and they put him as an chef on tv and let him fly by the window alf style, that is just funny to me), birdemic etc

Enno: He meant that SHARKNADO was terrible on purpose so we would mock it. It's kind like when a person trips. You laugh at them because you know that they didn't want that to happen. If they trip on purpose as a slapstick routine, you won't react the same way.

@@VicenteTorresAliasVits I think you would still laugh, though. Even then, I guess you're not so much laughing at the actor so much as the character.

***** But that's the thing, most people think Fun Movie = Good Movie. I disagree. A movie can be both Fun _and_ Bad. The way I see it Fun =/= Good. (Edit: For example, I like the _X-Men Origins: Wolverine_ movie and I've watched it almost 20 times. Despite this, I know it's a very Bad movie.)

+Paradox Acres Yeah, while I typically enjoy well-made films, it's more fun looking for something so bad that it's entertaining for the wrong reason. I dunno why, but I just love finding crappy stuff for the lulz.

What about Freddy Got Fingered? That movie was designed to be so bad it’s good. Tom Green even said that from the beginning he had wanted to win a Razzie.

Casey Riojas That didn’t really work because they TRIED. Once everyone knows that they were actively trying to be this stupid, the humor gets sucked out.

"So bad it's good" is a construct by critics. In reality, a bad movie is a boring movie. Nothing else. That's why it seems like a paradox. Critics have invented "so bad it's good" by thinking entertainment needs to be more than entertaining.

+Paradox Acres Whaaat? Nooo

I remember when me and my family went to watch it, I remember it was supposed to be a horror movie, but when the elderly couple with the gas masks shot the kids I bursted out laughing.

Me too, and I also wish him to play with other over the top actors, it will be a good soup.

You know that birdemic wasnt intentenal right, they just didnt have any money to make goid special effects, to much run time and didnt have enough time to make the movie, so they just showed every single thing that guy does in the first half, and didnt have an introduction to the birds so they just went with it. Birdemic 2 and sharknado where however meant to be so bad its good

Good point.

I probably one the few people who don't think that the The Happening is a bad movie at all. Granted, Mark Wahlberg wasn't at his best in here (never thought that watching as classroom scene would be more boring than the actually sitting in a classroom) and it wasn't one of Shyamalan's best works but it's still interesting and entertaining.

To be honest when I saw it in cinema I thought it was quite good, but after this review I see all mistakes that has been made.

+kristof gergely I watch it sometimes just to laugh at how bad it is. But I think its so bad that its sort of good. Theres some part that I cant watch because its so bad.

please look up the meaning of arrogant.

Samrat Singh Rathore What I meant by arrogant I meant that I don't care about others opinion and try to force mine on others.

+kristof gergely Batman and Robin is one of my favorite movies solely based on the fact of how terrible it is.

+kristof gergely i agree its one of my favorite bad movies... we play a drinking game for every one liner or pun in the movie.. it da best :D

To you, it was a movie so bad it was good. To me, it was tuesday!

Raven Knight because the Chanel ia fake.......?Get it? Oh just forget it

It doesn't... We've hit a million!

????? Why??

Santa Claus conquers the martians

bbjygm, but Peter was an asshole

Outstanding as Batman vs Superman

Ben Watson , Imagine a Vampires Kiss and The Room type of movie

Same. I really like the postman.

I do too.

Thank you !!!!I love it. It is in my top 100 !!! I am not alone =)

I liked the postman too

To be fair, I think they were doing that with the first SHARKNADO as well.

@@VicenteTorresAliasVits true, I just said that because on the one hand I'll never watch it so I can't truly gauge it one way or the other, and on the other it's in the air about whether or not that's truly how they felt about it when they were making it, I'm not a mind reader and maybe they just decided to roll with it once viewers started seeing it in that way.

That is an oddly specific and simply avoided situation.