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Re: Bad Movie Reader Review Submissions
Posted By: Sam, on host 12.25.1.128
Date: Monday, November 1, 1999, at 11:47:06
In Reply To: Re: Bad Movie Reader Review Submissions posted by Kaz! on Monday, November 1, 1999, at 11:25:58:

> Well, I have never seen that movie myself, but I guess that it all depends on what type of movie you like to watch. Personally, I like action and comedy movies, but not romantic or horror ones.

I'm not talking about personal taste, here -- and the submission guidelines for the site make that distinction, too. I'm talking about people who don't enjoy a movie for some reason or other and take the prerogative of calling it "a bad movie," especially in light of the far more likely candidates IABBBBM already celebrates. You may not have liked "Sleepless In Seattle," I take it, but you would seem to acknowledge that is a matter of personal taste and not have such an exclusionary view of those tastes as to presume to decry it as a colossal failure of the moviemaking enterprise. I can make that distinction -- which is why, for example, "Taxi Driver" isn't on IABBBBM -- and it boggles my mind that others can't, or, worse, won't.

> Either way, I think that we can all agree that 'To Kill a Mockingbird - the movie' is pretty bad.

I hope you're talking about the 1997 version and not the brilliant 1962 classic. The latter is currently ranked as the 27th highest rated movie in the IMDb and was nominated for Best Picture -- so I'm not so sure we can, in fact, all agree. :-) I haven't seen the 1997 version, though, so you may be quite right about that.

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