I thought my bad movie taste was a secret superpower until my friend called me out

For years, I thought I was the king of picking 'so bad it's good' movies. I'd find these forgotten VHS tapes at thrift stores, convinced I had a special eye for hidden gems. The tipping point was last Friday. I made my friends watch 'Cyber-Samurai 3000', a 1998 straight-to-video mess I found for 50 cents. Halfway through a scene where a guy in cardboard armor fights a puppet dragon, my buddy Mark just looked at me and said, 'Abby, this isn't fun-bad. This is just sad-bad. You're picking movies that are boring.' It hit me hard. I realized I was just picking the weirdest thing possible, not the most entertainingly bad. I was chasing obscurity over actual fun. Now I'm rebuilding my collection from scratch. What's a movie that's truly fun-bad, not just a chore to sit through?

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3 Comments

bethcarr2mo ago

Cardboard armor? That's the real crime here.

river1902mo ago

So what's the good armor cost then? Bet it's more than my rent.

lily3942mo ago

Look, the real crime isn't the cardboard armor, it's a boring movie. Bethcarr gets it. You need a movie that's trying to be good but fails in a funny way, not one that never tried at all. Try 'The Room' or 'Troll 2'. They have real heart, just really bad execution. That's the fun kind of bad, where everyone is trying so hard and it just falls apart.