Things That Are Bad But Are Also Awesome (Bad Movie/Game/Whatever Thread)

mike and melissa i think he was ahead of his time. but im not like super obsessed with it like . some people. (think: a lesser form of the type of people who are obsessed with CWC , not sure if that's entirely the case with that group of MnM enjoyers but i dont wanna associate with them they weird me out) i think mike was more self aware than people give him credit for and i hope he's doing alright out there, wherever he is.

i enjoy 'cringe' and 'ugly' art in general . they call me foolish but if thats the case why am i balling?

I'll start.

Cat in The Hat (2003) is a well crafted piece of cinema.

Saints Row (2022 video game) had a kinda interesting LARP themed questline that was way more fun than anything else in that game.

@calvin i'm of the school that there is no bad art, only things that lack artistic merit

I will never give in and pretend to not like the Kevin Smith classic Yoga Hosers. For those who don't know, this movie is a spin-off of his previous movie, Tusk(which you may know as the one where a guy gets turned into a walrus). The common consensus that I've seen on Tusk is that it's pretty entertaining and funny when it's fully bought into it's ridiculous body horror premise, but the other half of the movie with the characters trying to find their missing friend is stupid and terrible. I don't disagree with this, but I think that along with being stupid and terrible, it is very entertaining in a baffling sort of way. Upon seeing this response to Tusk, it seems that Kevin Smith decided to make a movie that was only the parts of Tusk people didn't like. This is how you get Yoga Hosers. It is an extremely stupid movie which comes off to me as a prank on you for being so stupid as to watch it. I have seen it several times and I enjoy it thoroughly each time. It is also kind of funny in retrospect because this unbelievably ill-advised movie has two people who would go on to star in pretty well respected movies; Lily Rose-Depp and Austin Butler. The only things I dislike about it are that the joking way it handles it's nazi antagonists is pretty questionable and that it features Johnny Depp. 7/10.

I also have to second Mike and Melissa. Genuinely fascinating piece of artwork. Also yeah I would avoid the Mike and Melissa discord and other communities, they are very much focused on Mike as a lolcow.

my trash is the bachelor and bachelorette family of products. the men on the bachelor are nightmarish, belligerent, violent. they are evil men. the women on the bachelorette are normal, at best their negative traits are exascerbated by more or less being thrown into a cargo cult where the cargo is a human man. utterly despicable. and i think about it as a whole franchise maybe once every 3 days.

sword art online abridged (SAOA) is like the homestuck of anime abridged youtube series because it has:

- a lot of jokes early on that were insensitive even at the time of release but have only gotten worse with age

- a lot of people telling you you should skip the first little bit of it despite it containing some very important setup

- an unreasonably compelling story with interesting romance dynamics

- a lot of actually genuinely funny jokes that will pervade the language center of your brain for the rest of your life

9/10, objectively superior to the source material it's reconstructing

I love eating garbage. The Rodfellows Movie is an utterly nonsensical rambling of a "movie" that has no real plot or any merit to speak of. It is two hours of go-animate quality furry characters walking around and speaking in stilted sentences to form scenes that could be placed in any order and probably make just about as much sense as they did originally. I have watched it in full probably 5 or so times by now and I have thoroughly enjoyed it each time. A notable portion of the cast of characters are clearly made or used as a fetishistic outlet for the creators, which only adds the uncomfortably absurd experience of watching this film. Objectively, 0/10. In my heart, 10/10. Can I actually recommend someone watch it? I really don't know.

Re: Mike and Melissa. Love it, and I agree that Mike is definitely more self aware than he's given credit. I also care about Melissa a lot, like a lot. She is like the platonic ideal of the sexy furry crush of the 90s given form, and this enraptures me. Wish there was a space for just people with genuine interest in the pilot and not for those looking for another lolcow to milk (even though mike has thankfully long since fled the internet).
I have also watched Hazbin Hotel in its entirety at least 4 times (I lost count), and I cannot say I found any better each time than I did on first viewing. Which is to say, I did not find it any good at all. However, I get some twisted enjoyment from putting myself (and my friends) through it each time. I have no interest in Viv's other work at all, even though it should be ripe for an equal amount of self flagellation. I think I just find the concepts so uniquely, terribly executed in Hazbin that it I have a fascination with it all.

repo! the genetic opera is badly written, half the cast cant sing, the attempted political commentary is heavy handed and slapdash, the pacing is stupid and makes no sense, and its also one of the greatest movies ever made. all of the costume design is excellent and the songs somehow manage to be awesome despite also being bad half the time. and the climax of the movie is a deranged bloodbath. great movie to watch with friends to simultaneously dunk on it and riot when something cool happens

Boo Bunny Plague is an okay action game. Short, very straightforward combat with a few interesting bosses and a few annoying bosses. It's also a rock opera about gods and robots that uses several indie bands to make a surprisingly solid soundtrack.

Except they gave the main character of the rock opera a horrible grating voice. The jokes are hit or miss (usually miss). There's enough bugs that there's an achievement for falling through the floor. It took me 45 minutes to beat the final boss on hard mode. No not like 45 minutes of attempts. In hard mode, the final boss takes 45 consecutive minutes of hitting him with the attack button in order to win.

It's also easily the best game that the studio made.