I wouldn't say that a movie needs to be bad enough to be good -- I think good-bad is a different type from bad-bad, rather than a different degree.Dale wrote:Well, not exactly. I'm a sort of a D movie fan. I don't like merely bad movies. I do like TREMENDOUSLY egregiously bad movies.Kevin L. Rietmann wrote:Are you a B Movie buff, Dale?
Similar to mamakash above, my criterion for a good-bad movie is whether it would make a good Mystery Science Theater episode. Manos is a classic, but I think my all-time favorite is one of Bert I Gordon's early movies (I want to say the Amazing Colossal Man, but I don't think so). There was absolutely NO dialogue on-camera. Everybody who was talking was shot from the back. At one point Tomservo says something to the effect, Bert I Gordon didn't master syncing the audio track to the lips till his next movie. Every time there was dialogue after (there really wasn't much, not much action either) that I just about lost it laughing my ass off. THAT's a great crappy movie.
I was really bummed when Joel left MST3k. It was never the same after that.