'The worst film I've ever seen' is an old chestnut that pops up again and again on message boards (including this one). but then again, it's kind of a pointless exercise because there aren't any agreed definitions for mediocrity.
Creeping Terror and Girl on a Motorcycle are both rotten films, but for completely different reasons. So, I'd like to have the discussion again, but set against some common categories for rotten-ness.
All-round indefensibility would be one criteria, encompassing everything from dullness, rotten acting, technical ineptitude and inept plotting. This discounts any film described as 'so bad it's good'.
But what would be the others? Insufferable pretentiousness perhaps? Cloying sentimentality?. Help me out here folks.
Creeping Terror and Girl on a Motorcycle are both rotten films, but for completely different reasons. So, I'd like to have the discussion again, but set against some common categories for rotten-ness.
All-round indefensibility would be one criteria, encompassing everything from dullness, rotten acting, technical ineptitude and inept plotting. This discounts any film described as 'so bad it's good'.
But what would be the others? Insufferable pretentiousness perhaps? Cloying sentimentality?. Help me out here folks.
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