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From: oscar@utcsrgv.UUCP (Oscar M. Nierstrasz)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: BAD films
Message-ID: <2369@utcsrgv.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 29-Sep-83 13:51:44 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 29 13:51:44 1983
Date-Received: Thu, 29-Sep-83 14:26:38 EDT
Organization: CSRG, University of Toronto
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Here is a pet peeve: "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes" is a bad film
that is supposed to parody the bad film genre.  It is so feeble,
so unfunny, however, that it succeeds is being a truly bad film.
I would much rather see a bad film that is *so* bad that it's funny
("Planet Nine", etc.) than a movie like "Attack" that is *merely*
bad, and decidedly unfunny.
(Gee, I wonder if there's some mysterious threshold beyond which
bad films, like bad people, are redeemed for the innocence of
their badness ... )
				Oscar Nierstrasz @ utzoo!utcsrgv!oscar