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From: dave@cylixd.UUCP (Dave Kirby)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: Totally bad movies
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Date: Wed, 16-Oct-85 16:15:07 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 16 16:15:07 1985
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In article <3098@hplabsb.UUCP> bl@hplabsb.UUCP writes:
>I offer a word of caution when nominating movies for the totally bad list.
>A boring movie does not make it totally bad.  Poor acting does not make it
>totally bad.  Poor special effects does not make it totally bad.  Bad story
>does not make it totally bad.  No plot does not make it totally bad.  It's
>the combination of all these factors that matters.  Several movies on the
>list are less than five years old; caution, it's very easy to bad mouth
>a movie because you don't like it...

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Very well said, bl@hplabsb.UUCP! For the record, and in case some have
gotten in on this discussion late, let me post the four rules by which
a movie is judged a Totally Bad Movie. Look over the lists and see if
you can find films that violate one or more of these criteria.

(1) Must be a movie made for theatres (no TV movies or home videos).

(2) There must not be ONE SINGLE GOOD THING to be said about it.
	One good clip or scene or aspect (such as direction, acting,
	cinematography, or even editing) disqualifies a film from the
	Totally Bad Movie list.

(3) The film may be mediocre on some points, but it must not be above
	mediocre in ANY aspect or in ANY scene. And it must have at
	least one thing that was done BADLY.

(4) The film must be offensive and a waste of time to anyone who watches
	it. It must not be funny or amusing in any way; even its badness
	must not be funny. It must be a total ripoff and a waste of time.

Note that "Plan 9" and "The Creeping Terror" unintentionally violate
rule #4, in that they are so bad they are good. "Felicity" and "A Certain
Sacrifice," on the other hand, qualify as Totally Bad Movies in that they
are bad without being amusingly so. They are total ripoffs.

Now that you have the rules all in one place, please feel free to hack
away at the list. It is getting out of hand.

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