It took a year and he wrote a book about them: that special type of film that is so bad it’s good. Movies like Plan 9 from Outer Space, Showgirls, Mac and Me, Transformers 2, “and any movie by Uwe Boll … ”
And apparently one in which Humphrey Bogart appears as a vampire! Uugh!
“So bad it’s good”? So what the hell does that mean then?
A: “I think boredom is probably the bottom line. That’s actually perversely what I was looking for, a movie that was so terrible that you’d rather watch a blank wall for two hours. I did find a few like that. It’s probably very difficult to make a movie that has no redeeming value whatsoever. A bad movie that’s really good is a movie that’s terrible but its terribleness is consistently over-the-top, wild, weird and funny.”
Ah, now that makes some sense. Check out the interview with said film critic here about his year-long wallow in schlock—including some clips from what he calls the best of the worst.
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Darryn King must've slept all the way through 'The English Patient' and 'Titanic.' How else to explain their absence from ... the List.
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