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Re: WARNING!! avoid the movie bowfinger like the plague!
Posted By: Jommeke, on host 212.190.11.113
Date: Wednesday, August 18, 1999, at 04:55:05
In Reply To: Re: WARNING!! avoid the movie bowfinger like the plague! posted by Sam on Wednesday, August 18, 1999, at 04:25:58:

> > If you like steve and eddie (which I do) don't ruin your opinion of them by seeing this film. You have viewed every good scene in the movie if you have caught the film trailer. It is a shame :(
> > If the whole movie was as good as the three minute closing sequence it could have been a classic comedy. As it stands now it BLOW'S !
> > Save your money. If I had'nt gone to lake placid this would have been the worst movie I've seen in 2 or 3 years
>
> You don't indulge in the titles of "It's a Bad, Bad, Bad, Bad Movie" much.
>
> I love it when people say things like this. On IABBBBM, we get as many submissions for movies like "The Lost World," "The Blair Witch Project," "The Mummy," "Star Wars: The Phantom Menace," and "Mimic" as we do for genuinely bad movies. People seem unable to distinguish between movies that, for whatever bizarre reason, weren't precisely to their taste (like "The Blair Witch Project"), and movies that are genuinely horrible. Or, more commonly, movies that failed to live up to their heightened expectations (like "The Lost World"), and movies that are genuinely horrible. Or, worse, movies they spot some superficial formula in and blame for following it on *purpose* (like "The Mummy" and "Anaconda" and "Mimic"). But can any of these really be considered on the same level as "Plan 9 From Outer Space," "Deathstalker," "Sinbad of the Seven Seas," "Wizards of the Lost Kingdom," "Manos: Hands of Fate," or "Eyes of the Serpent"?
>
> I got on a bit of a tangent there. A dissenting opinion about "Bowfinger":

Isnt it all subjective? Well, i never saw one of those movies from IABBBBM you mentionned. But i can imagine that some people (of a particular age, intelligence, cultural background, or none in particular...) like that movie.
And maybe those movies become so so bad that they become good! What do they call that? Cultfilms or B-films or whatsoever...
(By the way is there anyone who can give me a definition for a B-film? Someone asked me that the other day, and i know what it is but i cant describe it in a good way)

For instance, i once went to Prague (thats in the East of Europe), we went with a coach, but on that coach there were also inhabitants of Prague (Tsjech...) And they watched all the time Tsjechian movies. I can assure you, its extremely hard watching Tsjechian movies for 10 hours! And in our eyes those Tsjechian movies (in which they of course talked Tsjechian) were so stupid and bad, but those Tsjechians seemed to enjoy their movies. I can imagine how some movies of IABBBBM look like, and i think those Tsjechian movies could easily be included...well-our opinion it was anyway.


Jommeke

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