#So Bad It's Good

[itscodebaby]

The Video Dead (1987)

#80s #80s aesthetic #1980s #1987 #80s movies #80s horror #horror #vhs horror #analog horror #retro #retro aesthetic #halloween #lofi #crt tv #b movie #b movies #cult classic #cult film #so bad it's good

[unta626]

Fungicide 2002 is the best movie ever. I got emotional while viewing it and cried so hard that my left eye popped out of its wet socket. I also came hard to the main mushroom. He is so cute! The CGI is also great. Not even studios like Weta could create such stunning effects. The ending was shocking and thoughtful, too. Daddy Wascavage is the best filmmaker ever. Gennady Tartanovsky jerks off to an image of him every night. If this movie doesn't get a 4k DVD, I'll commit fungicide. This movie is so fungi.

Overall, 2/10.

#fungi #fungus #horror #lofi aesthetic #lofi #so bad it's good #cult cinema #cult movies #movies #movie review #film #film review #retro #campy #2000s #early 2000s #2000s nostalgia #2000s aesthetic #vhs aesthetic #vhs #weird art

[cy-cyborg]

So I was watching an episode of the mentalist because I remembered an early episode featured an example of a trope I'm planning to talk about, but it's been years and I wanted to jog my memory.

And my God I don't think I've laughed so hard at bad disability rep in a long time, i actually started to cry from laughing so hard. I don't think the writers of this show have ever even so much as looked at or been in the vicinity of a wheelchair user and oh my God it shows 😂

Perp 1: *holds a gun to the back of perp 2 who is pretending to be in a wheelchair to get through a train station unnoticed*

I'm sorry, what? I can not even go to the train station in my wheelchair without a staff member, at least one member of the public and usually at least one child approaching me. Wtf was that plan? You know what, if they'd fake claimed the guy using that logic I might have let it slide because that's a plan only able bodied people would come up with lol

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Jane (main character): I bet they didn't even check your references

Perp 2: nothing says trustworthy like a wheelchair

oh fuck, I missed that memo! Can someone tell that to the recruiters/employers in my area? I think they missed it too (legitimatly, I once heard a recruiter on Tik Tok say they won't hire wheelchair users because they always "end up making something and suing us for discrimination" and im fake-claimed every time i leave the house because im young, which this guys was too, but yeah, nothing says trustworthy and inconspicuous like a wheelchair lol)

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Perp 2: 6 months I was in that chair and no one questioned me! Why did you?

What world is this because it's certainly not the real one. You're telling me he somehow avoided being fake-claimed for 6 months? Even casually? No little old ladies came to yell at him for being a young person in a wheelchair? No one asked if he really actually needs it? I'm a bilateral amputee and even I don't escape fake-claiming, and I have no legs!

Jane: I've been looking at the feet of people in wheelchair users (that's really weird dude lol) for years and your shoes are scuffed, that's what gave you away!

I...do I need to explain this one? Even my non-ambulatory friends have scuffs on their shoes from transferring and bumping into shit (he does that like 5 minutes before this scene too), and ambulatory wheelchair users exist. This was such a ridiculous reason that even the TV tropes entry about how this episode uses the faking trope has a snarky comment calling this reasoning BS. It only does it on one other entry that I saw and it's to refer back to their previous snarky comment about this show lol.

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This was 10 minutes. It wasn't even the whole episode, it was like the second to last scene 😂

Also, I'm just curious where this guy faking needing a wheelchair got a high-end, custom made wheelchair from? You cant just buy them, they are fitted to you by a specilist. Even if he did find one to just buy, the brand he has was worth about $1,000 to $2,000 USD at the time this aired. I hope this scam was going to pay well lol. Every other show from this era put their wheelchair users in cheap hospital chairs, why is the guy who's faking the one time you make an exception to that?

#disability representation #the mentalist #bad disability rep #so bad it's good

[catgirl-kaiju]

made these to promote some biweekly movie nights i'm running for a local nonbinary group :3

(only art of mine here is the art of my fursona, all other assets are photos, graphics, and paintings made by others. text and formatting added by me)

#movie night #scout's life #furry #scifi #retro scifi #so bad it's good #queer #pride #lgbtqia #nonbinary #cinema

[punstars]

#puns #punstars #all american punstars #punny #jones #joke #bad puns #so bad it's good #science puns #science jokes #star trek puns #star trek jokes

[fadinghours]

WINTERBEAST (1992)

#WINTERBEAST #90s #horror #It must be seen to be believed! #b movie #so bad it's good #Christopher Thies #1992 or 1991?? 🤔

[dogstomp]

Dogstomp #2731 - June 28th

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#comic diary #daily comic #comic journal #autobio comics #june 28 2022 #comic 2731 #movie spoilers #so bad it's good

[nero-spicy-sucks06]

A nice thing about teenage girlhood is that you can unashamedly be obsessed with twilight sometimes, ironically or just cus it's entertaining. it's just a different kind of freedom

#twilight #reading #so bad it's good #crappy books #teenage girlhood #girlblogging #girlhood #booklr

[cressida-jayoungr]

One Dress a Day Challenge

June: Weddings

Leverage (s1e7, "The Wedding Job") / Beth Riesgraf as Parker, plus Lindsay Halladay as Maid of Honor

I really have to hand it to the Leverage costume team--they are positive geniuses at coming up with a truly terrible costume when the situation calls for it (here's another fine example of their work). This bridesmaid dress would be bad enough if it had just been overly ruched, shiny, and pink--but whoever decided to sprinkle it with blue roses deserves an Emmy. And just when you think it can't get worse, there are the gloves! Which appear to have some sort of frilly garter holding them on, because you can see in one picture that Parker is starting to pull the glove off, but there's still a band further up her forearm. Add blue open-toed shoes and a silly little tiara for the crowning (pun intended) touch.

The dress zips up the back and then a panel snaps over the fastening to hide it. I've included a shot of the back fastening for reference.

Also, for comparison and to prove that the dress really looks good on no one, here it is on Lindsay Halliday as the Maid of Honor from the same episode:

#leverage #wedding costumes #beth riesgraf #one dress a day challenge #one dress a week challenge #television costumes #tv costumes #2000s style #2000s fashion #the wedding job #leverage s1 #leverage season 1 #bridesmaid costume #bridesmaid dress #lindsay halladay #parker the thief #so bad it's good

[itscodebaby]

The Video Dead (1987)

#80s #80s movies #1980s #1987 #80s aesthetic #80s horror #retro horror #analog horror #horror #halloween #retro #b movie #b movies #cult classic #cult film #so bad it's good

[beargyufairy]

If this world continues to reject me, then I shall reject the world.

(The hold this has one me 🙏🧎‍♀️)

#zeref dragneel #zervis #rejection #fairy tail #ft 100yq #king of the world #bow down #all hail the king #so bad it's good #illustration #art #artists on tumblr #writers on tumblr #you deserve better #give me one chance

[brokehorrorfan]

Bottleneck Gallery will release a Mac and Me poster by Casey Booth today, January 31, at 12pm EST. The 24x36 giclee print is limited to 100 for $50.

#mac and me #80s movies #1980s movies #mst3k #mystery science theater 3000 #art #gift #casey booth #bottleneck gallery #stewart raffill #christine ebersole #b movie #so bad it's good #e.t.

[wonderfulworldofmichaelford]

Is It Really That Bad?

Grease is a delightfully corny musical filled with 50s nostalgia (mostly the good kind) and helped shoot the careers of John Travolta and Olivia Newton John to new heights. There’s a little bit of values dissonance here and there, but considering when it was made and what decade it was about, it could honestly be a lot worse. It’s easily one of the most fun and enjoyable musicals ever made, and it should come as no surprise the Library of Congress deemed this film significant enough to add to the National Film Registry. Is it any surprise a film like this had a sequel?

Well, yeah, kind of. Paramount didn’t think the movie was going to be much more than a modest one-off hit when it came out despite the 50s nostalgia of the time, mainly due to the spectacular failure of Columbia’s musical adaptation of Lost Horizon being such a spectacular bomb. Why risk making musicals when it seems they’re on the way out, right? But then Grease unexpectedly became one of the biggest films of 1978, and the execs got little dollar signs in their eyes. Sequel time, baby!

One problem, though: None of the original cast was available. Or, I should say, none of the original cast you’d give a fuck about was available. Travolta and Newton-John were already off to bigger and better things, which is a shame since they were both interested before it took them forever to get a script. Only Didi Conn (Frenchy) and Eddie “Mandark” Deezen (Eugene) were coming back. And, look, I love Dexter’s Lab but that wasn’t going to be made for like twenty years or something, so Eddie wasn’t Travolta-levels of star power. Still, Paramount was dead set on turning Grease into a massive franchise. We’re talking spin-offs, sequels, a TV series, the works!

But then the screenwriter for the original died, and the original director went off to make The Blue Lagoon. Of course, they found great backups! The screenwriter is a Canadian comedian who wrote Airplane II (the less funny one) and the director was the choreographer of the original stage and film versions of Grease! How reassuring! And then basically all of the actors they actually wanted in this didn’t end up getting in. For the male lead they wanted Timothy Hutton, but when that didn’t work out they tested Andy Gibb… who failed. They then went with an unknown, Maxwell Caulfield, and casting an unknown is always a gamble. For the leading lady, Pat Benatar and Debbie Harry were considered before they ended up going with an unknown by the name of Michelle Pfeiffer. And guess what! Those two ended up hating each other.

Oh yeah and the final draft of the script was only finished midway through production, without Frenchy in it despite her actress being there, so they just tossed the scenes they’d filmed into the movie anyway.

The end result was savaged by critics and did not really make enough to warrant the massive franchise Paramount was hoping for. The careers of most of the actors involved were damaged pretty bad, especially Caulfield, though Pfeiffer managed to et out mostly unscathed. Overall, the film was just a mess that these days is relegated to lists of the worst sequels ever. Hell, unless you read lists like that you might be unaware this film even exists, because it’s relatively obscure.

Still, it does have its fans, including Andrew Garfield of all people. It’s something of a cult classic in some circles, so surely there’s something of value to be found here, right? Is Grease 2 really that bad?

THE GOOD

Michelle Pfeiffer is pretty in this.

...No. Really. That’s it.

THE BAD

This film’s biggest problem is just how overexaggerated everyone’s performances are. Like all of the dance numbers feature every single character mugging the camera and just making the most absurd faces and movements, like this is a live action cartoon. And look, I love goofy, campy silliness, but there’s a fine line between corny and trying way too hard and this is firmly in the latter camp. Every single number is just ruined by this insufferable desire to be silly.

The other biggest problem is the songs. All of them suck. All of them are also about sex, and that doubly sucks. None of the lyrics are very clever, but all of them are fucking stupid. This might just be one of the horniest movies ever made, and I mean that as an insult. I’ve watched pornos less obsessed with sex than this film. This is all the more jarring because the first film was just filled to the brim with fun and memorable songs, but here? They’re all forgettable crap with no clear identity.

Maxwell Caulfield is a terrible leading man, and I say this as someone who has a hard time believing John Travolta is a leading man. At least with Travolta he does exude a sort of movie star quality; Caulfield just feels to me like a cardboard cutout of a person, or an even more wooden Anakin Skywalker than what we got in Attack of the Clones. Caulfield is just an absolute void of charisma, and it’s no wonder Pfeiffer thought he was a stuck up little shit.

IS IT REALLY THAT BAD?

Uh, yeah. It’s fucking bad.

I really wanted to enjoy this. I really did. I love stupid, campy, silly musicals! This should have been perfect for me! And yet it was one of the most tedious, miserable viewing experiences I’ve ever had. I didn’t laugh. I didn’t smile. I was not once charmed or amused by anything I saw onscreen. As a matter of fact, there were times where I just wanted to turn it off because it was just such a slog. The extended cut of Dawn of Justice is a more well-paced and riveting film.

Look, if you like this movie, more power to you. Lord knows there’s plenty of trashy films I absolutely love that many people wouldn’t agree with. But in my opinion, Grease 2 just doesn’t work, and the reason why is because it’s Grease 2. If this film was just its own thing and not trying to coast on the fame of its superior predecessor, maybe I’d be a little more forgiving. But that’s not the world we live in. We live in a world where this film with tenuous connections to the original is allowed to call itself a sequel.

I’m gonna say that score is a little too nice, and this movie deserves something more like a 2. It’s not the worst thing ever and it’s sure to appeal to some folks, but boy is this just plain not a good film in my eyes. It really just feels like it's trying way too hard to be the original, and it's failing miserably at it at every single turn. It is one of the worst movies I've ever watched, but at least it's a bad movie where I can almost see the appeal. It just doesn't appeal to me.

#is it really that bad #review #movie review #Grease #Grease 2 #michelle pfeiffer #maxwell caulfield #musical #movie musical #cult classic #so bad it's good #Youtube

[silvermoon424]

what's the worst manga you've ever read?

I absolutely love reading shitty horror manga (I love reading good horror manga too) so I have a LOT of choices to pick from, lol. The two worst ones I've read are probably:

Bougyaku no Kokekko: The manga's premise is that everyone over 18 years old all spontaneously turn into giant, aggressive chickens one day. And everyone who turns 18 also turns into a chicken later on. The plot is as bad and absurd as it sounds but it also managed to be pretty entertaining.

Virgin Extinction Island: A mysterious phenomenon in Japan results in every male virgin over 18 dropping dead (wow, I did not realize these two manga have vaguely similar premises until now). Teenage virgins are mercilessly oppressed before being rounded up and sent to camps where they'll get laid. The protagonist, a virgin, must uncover the conspiracy to eradicate virgins, all while trying to save his love interest because they mutually want to fuck each other.

I literally do not have the space or time to get into how fucking stupid and bad this manga is. It's also, however, one of the funniest and most entertaining manga I've read in a while. It helps that the manga is pretty tongue-in-cheek and it's obvious the mangaka isn't taking it seriously.

#asks #so bad it's good #manga

[rosered-schneeweisschens-sis]

these movies were so weird but in a way that occasionally produced comedy gold. 💀

#skeletons oohing #my new favorite phrase #spy kids 2 #spy kids #spy kids 2 island of lost dreams #shiitake mushrooms #movies #so bad it's good #kids movies #early 2000s #2000s nostalgia #funny #lol #skeletons #skeleton posting #spooky scary skeletons

[theehorsepusssy]

Im gonna celebrate Melanie Griffith Day by watching Shining Through. A movie so jaw droppingly awful that it's actually entertaining.

#so bad it's good