My husband loves awful movies. The worse the better, if that makes sense. He borrows them from a guy at work who also loves bad movies. I suspect they love to complain about them. It’s like a competition to see who can find the worst one. Recently it was Hellboy. Any movie based on a computer game is also a great contender. After my husband has watched a terrible movie he inevitably finds me to roll his eyes and groan. Yet he watched the entire thing. Every. Single. Time.
I have wondered if I’m a movie snob because I refuse to waste time on these high action, high concept, low-aiming films. I watch a film to be moved emotionally. I prefer indie movies, which don’t follow the predictable script.
In short, we watch movies for different reasons. While I’m most likely to have spent my day illustrating or looking after a preschooler, my husband spends his days programming. Intellectually, these are of completely different intensity. So I conclude that terrible movies exist for a reason: to allow an audience to completely zone out.
How Did This Get Made? a podcast with Paul Scheer, Jason Mantzoukas and June Diane Raphael. If you’re a connoisseur of awful movies, this is for you. I have listened to a few of them but I haven’t seen any of the films they talk about. I’m pretty sure the worst I’ve seen is Poltergeist 3. That was bad.
What we learn from awesomely bad movies. Nico Lang at Thought Catalog muses over a history of enjoying terrible movies and concludes in a philosophical way that we should all keep watching them.
What Kind Of Book Reader Are You? from The Atlantic is about reading, not watching films, but one type of reader is “The Hate Reader. Oh, you. You pretend to be curmudgeonly, you do, but you really just devour the reading you do in a different way.” Anyhow, I guess that means you can be a Hate Watcher.
“Stars Diss Hollywood”: Or why are there so many “shit movies”? from Go Into The Story
Visual Proof That Movies Are Getting Worse, from GOOD
