What makes a movie bad? You cannot assess a movies value on critical or financial success. Batman vs Superman(2016) only scored 27% on Rotten Tomatoes but made $850 million worldwide. Ridley Scots Bladerunner(1982) was a commercial flop and barely recovered its $28 million budget. This movie is now in the US Library of Congress for preservation. The Golden Raspberries is the counter to the Oscars, created in 1981 to celebrate the worst movies in the film industry. Anyone can join and there is even a buy one get one free membership. Movies like Twilight, Fifty Shades of Grey and the Emoji Movie have all won raspberries. Sandra Bullock won a golden raspberry for All About Steve the night before she won an Oscar for The Blind Side. She accepted both awards in person.
A Good bad movie, like an unscary horror movie can switch genres into comedy making the film more enjoyable to watch. Ultimately its completely subjective.
Tommy Wiseau's The Room(2003) cost $6mill USD and grossed $1900 in the 2 weeks it played in the two theatres it debuted in. Cumulative gross worldwide as of 2007 is $7,840,034 total. He inspired a book called The Disaster Artist starring James Defranco. This movie won golden globes for best actor and best motion picture-musical or comedy. It also won an oscar for best adapted screenplay.
Roger Corman was known as the "Pope of Pop Cinema". He has 395 films to his name including Sharktopus, Dinoshark and Piranhaconda. He gave a number of Hollywood stars their first break inc James Cameron Avatar, Martin Scorsese Taxi Driver and Francis Ford Coppola The Godfather. Scorsese had been working at editing when he was asked to direct the sequel to Bloody Mama. Corman gave Scorsese complete freedom on the movie Boxcar Bertha but he had to work with only $60,000. Carman was considered the best post grad training you could have in America. He is considered as incredibly generous and gentle with newcomers. He won an honorary award in 2009.
Ed Wood Jr. was born in 1924 and died in 1978. He was affectionately knows as the world's worst director. His trademark wad sci-fi and horror with cheap props and visual effects. Orson Welles is one of his heroes and despite trying to emulate Welles triple threat(writer, producer, director) he was terrible at all three.
Russ Meyer. Born 1922 and died 2004. Meyer served as a combat cameraman in WWII for the US army. After the war he spread out into photography doing glamour shots and playboy spreads. He is known for Vixen!, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls.
Lloyd Kauffman was born in 1945. He began his career in shock films. In 1975 he funded an independant shock film studio. This studio published Patricks movie Offensive Behaviour.
In 2005 Patrick Goldstein wrote a piece in the LA Times about Hollywoods failure to produce ocscar worthy films. He claims that Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo was oscar worthy. On feb 2005 Rob Schneider bout a full page ad in the Daily Variety stating"Maybe, Mr Goldstein, you didnt win a Pulitzer prize because thy havent invented a category yet for Best Third-rate, Unfunny pompous reporter.
After reviewing Deuce Bigalow, Robert Ebert speaking as someone who has won a Pulitzer prize, stated that in his "official" capacity, "your movie sucks"
How Did This Get Made is a podcast that features a bad movie each
What are some movies that you consider bad? Why?
What are some movies that you consider to be so bad they're GOOD?
What are your thoughts on the sexism and politically-incorrect material prevalent schlock/exploitation films? How do you think schlock/exploitation films have evolved over the decades?
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