• GraniteM@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    It’s worthwhile to acknowledge that movies don’t all exist along a Good-Bad axis, but also along an axis of Watchable-Unwatchable.

    The Super Mario Bros. Movie with Bob Hoskins is Bad and Watchable.

    La Dolce Vita is Good, but I would be hard-pressed to call it Watchable.

    Morbius is Terrible, but not even remotely in a fun, Watchable way. It’s just cold dog shit.

    And of course all of these categories are 100% subjective relative to the individual viewer.

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      2 months ago

      Context also matters.

      Samurai cop, awful. Literally 0 redeeming value. If you watched it alone you’d pissed.

      In a group of friends? One of the most intensely watchable movies you’ll ever see.

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      2 months ago

      I’ll take a bad movie that knows it’s bad over a movie that thinks it’s good every day of the week.

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      2 months ago

      Sure but why did I watch a movie called racing in the rain that I thought was about racing potentially in wet weather and I ended up crying for the next 2 hours?