The Three Levels of B-Movie-ism

[Metropolisforever]

There are three levels of B-movie-ism.

These levels are:

Bad - A film that is simply bad.

So bad it's funny - A film that makes us laugh with its sheer idiocy.

So bad it's not even funny - A film that has a devastating effect on our will to live.

What do you think?

[Doc Daneeka]

Depends on personal taste.... Though I have sat through many films most consider "painful" (The Maize, Preylien...), I have seen perhaps 1 film that falls into the third category.... That film, was Scarecrow Slayer. 

Then, there is "good", but dismissed by most as "bad", which is even more personal taste.

[Patient7]

I would change it to

Bad:  A movie that sucks but you decide to see how it ends.

So bad it's funny: A movie that makes us laugh due to its stupidity.

Walk Out:  A movie that sucks so bad you need to leave and you don't care how it ends.

[Doc Daneeka]

Walk Out:  A movie that sucks so bad you need to leave and you don't care how it ends.

I know of no such movie , the kind you wouldn't mind walking out of if you had something better to do maybe...

[Patient7]

Walk Out:  A movie that sucks so bad you need to leave and you don't care how it ends.

I know of no such movie , the kind you wouldn't mind walking out of if you had something better to do maybe...

Four words:  Return of the Boogeyman.

[Psycho Circus]

Maybe a 4th: So bad that it makes you extremely angry!     I get that alot, especially with modern cinema.

[The Burgomaster]

Examples:

Bad - ROCKY IV

So bad its funny - PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE

So bad its not even funny - DUNE

[masterdebater]

I dont think there are levels to bad movies. Theres always something to enjoy, kitsch value(so bad it's funny), perfomances from actors or directors who really should know better, I marvel at the complete lack of taste in those that made it or the fact the it got made in the first place.
I've only found one that I couldnt enjoy on one level or another. Only one with no redeming feature and that was Battlefield Earth.

My rule for buying a film is:

If your not embarrased to take it to the counter then it rates as a good movie!
Buying bad movies should feel like buying condoms from the girl next door in your local drugstore while your Grandmother is standing behind you in the queue.
It's a guilty pleasure and as such the act itself brings it's own rewards and the film becomes almost secondary.

I think I must be addicted!
I just love finding that rare title or something you've never heard of and it turns out to be a hidden gem and if it isnt then I've still enjoyed the finding of it.

[Psycho Circus]

I dont think there are levels to bad movies. Theres always something to enjoy, kitsch value(so bad it's funny), perfomances from actors or directors who really should know better, I marvel at the complete lack of taste in those that made it or the fact the it got made in the first place.
I've only found one that I couldnt enjoy on one level or another. Only one with no redeming feature and that was Battlefield Earth.

My rule for buying a film is:

If your not embarrased to take it to the counter then it rates as a good movie!
Buying bad movies should feel like buying condoms from the girl next door in your local drugstore while your Grandmother is standing behind you in the queue.
It's a guilty pleasure and as such the act itself brings it's own rewards and the film becomes almost secondary.

I think I must be addicted!
I just love finding that rare title or something you've never heard of and it turns out to be a hidden gem and if it isnt then I've still enjoyed the finding of it.

Exactly! I'll never forget the look on guy's face at HMV when I bought "Damn You, Zombie Bastards!" 

[masterdebater]

I think you and I have a lot in common.