Oct 14 2008
bad vs. trashy movies (I wrote this for a criticism class)
To me a movie is bad when I walk away from it thinking “Why did I just spend hours of my life watching this?” It is important to note the difference between trash and bad. Trash can be good but bad is always bad. Although I’m sure even the worst movie has at least one person that likes it.
A bad movie leaves you one or several of the following emotions: confused, sad, hopeful it will get better, and/or angry. A really bad movie will leave you with a roller costar of those emotions. First you’re confused, completely lost and have no clue what’s going on. Then you’re sad that you have been wasting your time watching this. At some point you become hopeful, you think, “This has got to get better, it can’t get worse.” Lastly you are angry; on some occasions you might be furious to the point where you literally try to break the DVD, pissed off that you wasted minutes and hours watching this piece of shit.
