DEEP PHILOSOPHICAL QUESTION

Sure, I say I’m backing off, then my wife goes to bed early and there’s nothing good on TV.

Anyway, I got to thinking about bad movies. And I realized that there’s two different kinds of them. (There’s probably more than two kinds, but if you disagree, start your own blog.) There’s the kind that just flat out sucks from beginning to end–the performances are bad, the plot wouldn’t captivate a 3-year-old, it’s filmed poorly, or it’s got the words Police Academy or Kickboxer in the title. And you walk away from such films with a deeply bitter taste in your mouth, because you know you’ll never get that two hours of your life back. That’s how I felt when I saw this, this (which even my wife thought stunk out loud), this (KEANU REEVES??!!?), and (just to prove I’m not only biased against ckick flicks) this, which may be the worst movie I’ve ever seen. (Although I sure hated this, too, which also featured Keanu Reeves.)

I say “may be” because there’s a second category of bad: a movie which you know is a total stinkpot, but it’s so transcendently bad you begin to be entertained by its badness. Here I’m specifically thinking of Big Man On Campus, a 1989 retelling of The Hunchback of Notre Dame set at UCLA. How bad is it?
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