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Re: Question for Sam and Dave.
Posted By: Dave, on host 209.6.138.106
Date: Monday, July 19, 1999, at 17:35:04
In Reply To: Question for Sam and Dave. posted by Randy Kirkpatrick on Monday, July 19, 1999, at 14:12:35:

> Hey, I was wondering about the IABBBM site.
>Can I post a review of a video that isn't a
>movie? Like a pro-wrestling PPV, some of which
>are so bad they've been known to cause phsyical
>damage. Also my friends and I made a series of
>movies that are quite funny and quite awful.
>Would those be acceptable?

Hrm. First I'd have to say no to the movies you made yourself. One of the purposes of the IABBBBM page is to help bad movie lovers find bad movies they might like to watch. If you and your friends are the only people who have copies of a movie, that doesn't help me decide what watch on Saturday night, and might even make me search fruitlessly through my local video store for a movie I'm never going to find. The criteria Sam and I usually use is that the movie has to be listed in the Internet Movie Database. I know I don't check every submission we get (I don't know if Sam does or not) but I know there have been a few "too good to be true" reviews that we've turned down because they weren't listed in IMDb and we were dubious as to whether or not they actually existed--either the submitter was totally making stuff up, or they had seen some film school dreck that was never made widely available.

As for the wrestling PPV's... I guess I'd have to say no to those, too. They're not really "movies". It'd be like trying to do a bad movie review of last years World Series or the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show. Plus, people have such wildly differing opinions of pro wrestling it'd be hard to generate any sort of broad based appeal with a "bad movie" review of a show.

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