The original post: /r/movies by /u/JayDunzo on 2024-12-30 19:43:34.
It's an amazing, accidental work of art. A mindblowingly stupid, entertaining total blunder of a movie. The choices in the dialogue and plot are epically dumb in the best possible way, and it's all dead serious. There's not a single attempt at comedy or comic relief. All purely unintentional. It's up there with stuff like Anaconda or Ewe Boll
movies, but somehow even better. The whole movie, you're just like: Wait.. noooo, they're not seriously. Yep! Wow. How could they have decided to go with that line?! We were blown away with entertainment from start to finish, but it IS a bad movie at the end of the day. The only downside is it leaves you wishing you could watch it for the first time again. Not much re-watching value.
It made us think a lot about what constitutes a so-bad-it's-good movie. I think the only rule is: You can't try to make one on purpose, like these corporate, faux-meta wink-wink, fake it's-so-bad-it's-good movies of today. The 80's and 90's are peppered with great ones, but I think the early 2000's were the apex. It's so embarrassing and hilarious what audiences thought was cool back then