Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!ihnp4!ucbvax!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-akov68!boyajian From: boyajian@akov68.DEC (JERRY BOYAJIAN) Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: Meta-discussion on Totally Bad Movies Message-ID: <1193@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Fri, 1-Nov-85 05:18:32 EST Article-I.D.: decwrl.1193 Posted: Fri Nov 1 05:18:32 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 3-Nov-85 06:11:49 EST Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Lines: 32 I haven't really been contributing to the Totally Bad Movies discussion. I was commenting on some of the movies here and there, but I refrained from nominating anything myself. Then I found myself just passing by any message with "Totally Bad Movies"in the subject header. The reason I have been doing this is because it's just too subjective a topic (only the funny movie discussion is worse in this respect --- nothing is more subjective than one's sense of humor). But there's one aspect that deserves mention. Occasionally, someone will post a message nominating some film as a "Totally Bad Movie", with a remark that it was sooooo bad that they walked out (or turned the tv off) after X minutes (where X=<20). I can believe that someone might think that a movie that I found enjoyable was awful (even grossly awful), but try as I might, I cannot believe that anyone could only see 10-15 minutes of a movie and then claim that it's *totally* bad. How on Earth can you claim that a film has no redeeming features if you --- for all practical purposes --- haven't even seen it? For example, if you gave up on Q after 15 minutes, you have missed what one can arguably call the best performance by Michael Moriarty in his career to date. Granted, the movie was awful, but Moriarty's perform- ance redeemed it. I can accept it if one were to say "This movie isn't good enough to make it worth my while to invest the time in watching it", but to call it *totally bad*??? --- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Acton-Nagog, MA) UUCP: {decvax|ihnp4|allegra|ucbvax|...} !decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-akov68!boyajian ARPA: boyajian%akov68.DEC@DECWRL.ARPA