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Re: WARNING!! avoid the movie bowfinger like the plague!
Posted By: Sam, on host 12.25.1.122
Date: Wednesday, August 18, 1999, at 06:52:45
In Reply To: Re: WARNING!! avoid the movie bowfinger like the plague! posted by Jommeke on Wednesday, August 18, 1999, at 04:55:05:

> > 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.

I will resist commenting on the word "subjective" just because the expression of my particular view on the subject triggered a lot of discussion that I don't want to retread. (See the Site Journal for the original debate -- from last May or so, I think.)

But I will say that "I never saw one of those movies from IABBBBM" is the key phrase. Before Dave got me into watching horrendously bad movies on purpose, I had NO IDEA how bad movies could possibly get. Understand, I'm not talking about movies that aren't to my taste or that I found emotionally unfulfilling. I'm talking about incompetently made movies. Movies where the inarguably discernable flaws are so obvious they punch you in the face. And yes, if a movie has enough of these, they are indeed so-bad-they're-good, and that's the whole point of IABBBBM. So your post covers territory IABBBBM is not only intimately familiar with but grounded upon.

> But i can imagine that some people (of a particular age, intelligence, cultural background, or none in particular...) like that movie.

Which movie? Bowfinger? From all I've heard, I fully expect it to be greatly entertaining, and I can't wait to see it.

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