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‘To reach ‘so bad it’s good’ territory, a movie needs to continually escalate its badness’

June 5, 2014 By Kathy Shaidle

Cracked.com:

For example, let’s take Birdemic, widely celebrated as one of the greatest “so bad it’s good” movies of all time. The badness of this movie is like the subject of a long Internet argument: Just when you think you’ve grasped it, it morphs into something else. (…)

Furthermore, good-bad movies teach us to appreciate qualities in movies that were formerly invisible. Sure, they have a whole Oscar category for sound mixing, but if you really want to appreciate what good sound mixing does for a movie, watch this scene in Birdemic fail at it.

 

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