> I gave "Sinbad of the Seven Seas," the most talked about bad movie on RinkWorks, the Filmmaker's Exam. I don't know the answer to question #22, but giving the movie the benefit of the doubt, it passed the exam.

Silly webmaster. "Sinbad" passed the Filmmaker's Exam because it's such a great, sublime, indescribably wonderful movie. Sure, we employ terms like "bad" and "awful" in reference to it, but that's only because the vocabulary we command (and perhaps the English language itself) is not perfect enough to convey the entire glory that is "Sinbad". It should be obvious that subconsciously, those ill-sounding terms we use are actually paeans to the movie's greatness. For example, as per RUN-DMC's careful argument in the track "Jam-Master Jay": IT'S NOT 'BAD'-MEANING-'BAD' BUT 'BAD'-MEANING-'GOOD'!!! Similarly, "awful" is simply a means of saying, "full of awe", which aptly describes the state in which "Sinbad"'s viewers are left as the final credits scroll up the screen.

Lastly, the very introduction to the Filmmaker's Exam itself shows plainly why a cultural monument such as "Sinbad" would easily pass:

"Answering yes to any one question results in failure of the test and means that the current project should die immediately."

Plainly, the Exam does not purport to label the goodness or badness of any given movie, but only to answer the question whether that movie should have been made. Should "Sinbad" have "died immediately?" Heavens forfend against our being robbed of so great a treasure! "Sinbad" passes the Filmmaker's Exam because it is inconceivable that anyone could wish it never to have been made. The only scary thought, for me, is that other similar films, ideally ones that star Lou Ferrigno, may have already been canned, never to bestow their radiation upon our uncontrollably laughing faces.

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