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The “So Bad, It’s Good" Movies Are The Best

There’s gold in these wacky films.

Gerald Washington
3 min readMar 4, 2022
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So Bad It’s Good refers to a work that is so remarkably bad that you find yourself surprised, mystified, or hypnotized by the staggering depth of its inadequacy. It is not merely a failure; it’s a compelling failure.

— TV Tropes

“And the Golden Globe for best So Bad, It’s Good movie goes to………

Whatever movie you choose!!!”

Give yourself a round of fifty claps.

There should be a Golden Globe category for movies that are ‘’So Bad, They’re Good’’. Those films are just as impactful as the great/ good ones, only in their own unique way.

There’s this strange chaos in a so bad, it’s good movie that you can’t get in any other film. The great movies are wonderful to watch. They entertain, uplift, or inspire us. The bad movies make you wish you never saw one scene of them.

Then there are the overly critically acclaimed movies that are too dry & dark (for me at least) to sit through & watch, and end up putting you into a great depression. Those movies are just random scenes of people doing random…

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Gerald Washington
Gerald Washington

Written by Gerald Washington

Just a curious writer/blogger trying to navigate a complex world. Sharing my words helps a lot with that.

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