Remember when 'so bad it's good' meant a VHS tape and a group of friends?

We used to just grab whatever looked terrible at the video store, like 'Troll 2', and laugh together. Now my friends try to curate 'ironic' streams alone, and it loses all the messy, shared fun. What's the last movie you watched with a group that had everyone howling at the screen?

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the_michael4d ago

Totally, and spencerl32 nailed it about the phones.

spencerl325d ago

Honestly, I used to think streaming made bad movies more fun because you have so many to pick from. But you're totally right, the magic was in the terrible VHS box art and the group commitment to a single awful choice. Last one that had my friends dying was "The Room," but we had to force everyone to put their phones away to even get close to that old feeling. That shared misery, where you're all groaning at the same dumb scene, just doesn't happen when someone's scrolling on their laptop. It turns a party into a bunch of people alone in the same room.