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It is therefore especially moving to me to be read with the careful attention that the contributors to this roundtable display, and it is immensely gratifying that they have taken up my exhortation to dive into the fray and let their freak flags fly. My goal was never to convince everyone to love the bad movies that I love. Rather, my hope was that readers would embrace taste anarchism and proudly celebrate the disreputable movies they love in ways that are expressive of their own idiosyncratic sensibilities.

Such aesthetic turmoil is uncomfortable because, with our tastes called into question, we are tasked with adjudicating a conflict without any grounds on which to issue a verdict. But it is also invigorating, a chance for reinvention, a reminder that our tastes are not something we are beholden to, yet at the same time not entirely under our conscious control.

I think the answer to the gender imbalance question lies in both the content and the community. Recently I rewatched Leprechaun 4 several times with folks who are not straight/white/cis/male. In general, we loved it. Its juvenile humor is mostly hilarious, but the situations making light of sexual assault and the racist/sexist/homophobic jokes did not go over as well.

Memes about hate-watching these movies in reverse are ubiquitous (e.g., small-town girl leaves hunky boyfriend to move to NYC to take a high-powered job). And while most of these movies are bad-bad, every once in a while, you find one bonkers enough to be worthy of good-bad love. For example, the classic, The Christmas Train, has been likened to Snowpiercer except for everyone is drunk on Schnapps. And for a genre that adheres to Hays Code-level sexual censorship, the movies are ridiculously horny. Good-badness abounds, if only you know where to look.

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Audiences basically told critics to "lighten up" with their reviews. Overall, none of the reviewers expected extraordinary acting and enjoyed the fun action this movie offered. I remember seeing the trailer and the heavy CGI dependence of the film being an automatic turnoff.

The critic consensus was that: "'Sausage Party' is definitely offensive, but backs up its enthusiastic profanity with an impressively high laugh-to-gag ratio -- and a surprisingly thought-provoking storyline."

Audiences seemed to think it leaned too hard on "crude and vulgar" humor that was dragged out into a feature-length film. I remember the trailer being mildly funny, but felt no urge to actually see the film that I would assume would be a movie dependent on raunchy jokes you wouldn't see in children's animations. Seemed like it would get old fast.

However, audiences thought it was a sweet love story that was worthy of cult status. I saw it a LONG time ago, and recall it having a lot of late-'90s vibes, and I remember it had a cute ending. I didn't finish it and go, "Man, I'd give that movie a 32%."

Audiences brought their bug spray. Some seemed to think it didn't connect with kids, while others just didn't like it as much as A Bug's Life. I weirdly remember watching it a lot as a kid, so I'm assuming I must've liked it somewhat.

The critic consensus: "As thought-provoking as it is visually compelling, The Witch delivers a deeply unsettling exercise in slow-building horror that suggests great things for debuting writer-director Robert Eggers."

The critic consensus was that: "'Venom's' first standalone movie turns out to be like the comics character in all the wrong ways - chaotic, noisy, and in desperate need of a stronger attachment to Spider-Man."

The consensus from critics for Ad Astra was that it: "'...takes a visually thrilling journey through the vast reaches of space while charting an ambitious course for the heart of the bond between parent and child."

It seemed like audiences that love sci-fi really found it to be nonsensical and a lesser movie compared to other heart-pounding space blockbusters. I recall it having a weird trailer where there was a space buggy chase, but very forgettable otherwise. I couldn't tell you what the heck it was about.

The critic consensus was that Uncut Gems: "...reaffirms the Safdies as masters of anxiety-inducing cinema -- and proves Adam Sandler remains a formidable dramatic actor when given the right material."

A lot of audience members described the film as "boring" and "excessive" from start to finish. I remember watching the trailer and thinking it was interesting, but then I saw the 2-hour, 15-minute runtime and said, "maybe another time."

The critic consensus said that the film: "...makes lethally effective use of its bare-bones trappings while proving once again that what's left unseen can be just as horrifying as anything on the screen."

A hard disagree from me. Like audiences, I found this film hilarious and didn't mind the more dramatic tones compared to other Murphy comedies. The style of the film really stands out versus some other comedies that feel like they were made to appease a laugh track.

The critic consensus was that: "'Joker' gives its infamous central character a chillingly plausible origin story that serves as a brilliant showcase for its star -- and a dark evolution for comics-inspired cinema."

The critic consensus was that: "With sweeping visuals grounded by strong performances in service of a timeless tale told on a human scale, Darren Aronofsky's 'Noah' brings the Bible epic into the 21st century."

Audiences wanted to abandon ship and found the movie to be an absurd epic. I remember seeing the trailer and thinking that it seemed like a weird, unnecessary story to tell. Biblical works had worked before, but just the overall feel of this one garnered zero interest from me.

There's no way to soften the blow: I can confidently say that I have watched over a thousand movies in my lifetime, and remember watching this in my teenage years. It stays with me, to this day, as the worst movie I have ever seen and couldn't finish.

The critic consensus was that: "'The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water' won't win over many viewers who aren't fans of the show, but for the converted, it's another colorful burst of manic fun."

I honestly think the negative audience score stems from hardcore SpongeBob fans thinking more movies were excessive. Like, I doubt little kids are logging on to Rotten Tomatoes like, "I'll give them a piece of my mind!"

I gotta say, I'm interested in seeing it just because of the two wildly different scores. I literally am watching the trailer as I am writing this, and it seemed pretty harmless. It felt like a family movie you'd see in the 2000s.

The critic consensus was that: "Though the plot elements are certainly familiar, 'Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull' still delivers the thrills and Harrison Ford's return in the title role is more than welcome."

I rewatched this recently, and it is actually fine. I get that people hold Raiders as THE standard for the series, but this one had the same goofiness and over-the-top scenes as the original. It's the fourth best out of four movies, but I think fans were a little too harsh.

As a teenage boy, I thought it was one of the worst movies ever and had laughable acting. Now that I've grown up, it isn't nearly as bad as I remembered. Plus, I'm guessing I'm not the target audience.

Bran Gray, a 28-year-old father from South Carolina, has been watching and loving Hallmark movies for 10 years. What started out as a way to enjoy Christmas year-round has turned into a full-time gig for him because he and two other men co-host the podcast Deck the Hallmark, where Gray and his co-hosts Daniel Pandolph and Daniel Thompson review Hallmark movies.

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23. In nave, or pure, Camp, the essential element is seriousness, a seriousness that fails. Of course, not all seriousness that fails can be redeemed as Camp. Only that which has the proper mixture of the exaggerated, the fantastic, the passionate, and the nave.

54. The experiences of Camp are based on the great discovery that the sensibility of high culture has no monopoly upon refinement. Camp asserts that good taste is not simply good taste; that there exists, indeed, a good taste of bad taste. (Genet talks about this in Our Lady of the Flowers.) The discovery of the good taste of bad taste can be very liberating. The man who insists on high and serious pleasures is depriving himself of pleasure; he continually restricts what he can enjoy; in the constant exercise of his good taste he will eventually price himself out of the market, so to speak. Here Camp taste supervenes upon good taste as a daring and witty hedonism. It makes the man of good taste cheerful, where before he ran the risk of being chronically frustrated. It is good for the digestion.12

Perhaps the single most intense pleasure of moviegoing is this non-aesthetic one of escaping from the responsibilities of having the proper responses required of us in our official (school) culture. And yet this is probably the best and most common basis for developing an aesthetic sense because responsibility to pay attention and to appreciate is anti-art, it makes us too anxious for pleasure, too bored for response. Far from supervision and official culture, in the darkness at the movies where nothing is asked of us and we are left alone, the liberation from duty and constraint allows us to develop our own aesthetic responses. Unsupervised enjoyment is probably not the only kind there is but it may feel like the only kind. Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.13

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