The Art of the Bad Movie
First off, the blog is on a pseudo hiatis. Mainly all this will be used for is random rants I feel like throwing up.
Here's a quickie:
Work is rather boring. While every so often a customer will come in and ask for exactly the movie they're looking for, rent it, and get out, most other customers will instead come in and look around for a film to jump out at them
Sometimes they spend more time looking for a movie THAN IT WOULD TAKE THEM TO WATCH THE FRIGGIN THING THEMSELVES!!!
Anyway...
However, most of the time in Videoscope during the weekdays there is no one in the store, save for myself. And there is a quirky but usually working TV and VCR behind the counter.
And I have every single movie known to man behind me.
Guess what I'm going to do?
Anyway, I usually use this time watching a new release that no one in their right mind will care about. Think campy teen movie that had no chance of amazing box office success.
Think Eurotrip.
Its a bad movie. But its a very good bad movie. The kind of movie no self-respecting film critic will put on their favorite movies list, but will still like in some ways.
Its aimed at a single age group, with jokes aimed directly at those people and no one else.
The Teen Movie is a classic example of a bad movie. It has no real goodness that can be attributed to everyone, but you can bet large sums of money that a certain audience will eat it up.
Usually a few elements are required for this to work:
1: Don't take youself seriously. A bad movie that takes itself seriously as a real movie, and a good one at that, will often turn into a bad bad movie.
2: Throw logic out of the window. This may only be the case for Teen Movies, but feel free to bring back characters met far earlier in the movie to pull the main characters out of the fire, with no explanation as to how they got there.
3: Be short. Any bad movie over 100 minutes will be too long and won't be very good. Yes, that's a bit restrictive, but you shouldn't need much time for a plot.
4: Laugh a minute. This is a strategy Austin Powers has used to great success. Keep throwing jokes and such at the viewers, and they're bound to laugh at one of them. No time for high comedy tho, you're audience will likely not need it.
Well, that's all I can think of right now. If I think of anything else, I'll post it.
Here's a quickie:
Work is rather boring. While every so often a customer will come in and ask for exactly the movie they're looking for, rent it, and get out, most other customers will instead come in and look around for a film to jump out at them
Sometimes they spend more time looking for a movie THAN IT WOULD TAKE THEM TO WATCH THE FRIGGIN THING THEMSELVES!!!
Anyway...
However, most of the time in Videoscope during the weekdays there is no one in the store, save for myself. And there is a quirky but usually working TV and VCR behind the counter.
And I have every single movie known to man behind me.
Guess what I'm going to do?
Anyway, I usually use this time watching a new release that no one in their right mind will care about. Think campy teen movie that had no chance of amazing box office success.
Think Eurotrip.
Its a bad movie. But its a very good bad movie. The kind of movie no self-respecting film critic will put on their favorite movies list, but will still like in some ways.
Its aimed at a single age group, with jokes aimed directly at those people and no one else.
The Teen Movie is a classic example of a bad movie. It has no real goodness that can be attributed to everyone, but you can bet large sums of money that a certain audience will eat it up.
Usually a few elements are required for this to work:
1: Don't take youself seriously. A bad movie that takes itself seriously as a real movie, and a good one at that, will often turn into a bad bad movie.
2: Throw logic out of the window. This may only be the case for Teen Movies, but feel free to bring back characters met far earlier in the movie to pull the main characters out of the fire, with no explanation as to how they got there.
3: Be short. Any bad movie over 100 minutes will be too long and won't be very good. Yes, that's a bit restrictive, but you shouldn't need much time for a plot.
4: Laugh a minute. This is a strategy Austin Powers has used to great success. Keep throwing jokes and such at the viewers, and they're bound to laugh at one of them. No time for high comedy tho, you're audience will likely not need it.
Well, that's all I can think of right now. If I think of anything else, I'll post it.
posted by Wraithy at 7/02/2004 12:38:00 AM
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