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Xeybozn posted...

Honestly, I think awful kids movies are an interesting challenge to analyze as a viewer. Yes, they are garbage. But what kind of garbage are they? How do the filmmakers choose which particular way to be stupid? Why do kids want to watch this shit, and why do parents keep paying for it? It's actually sort of interesting to look at these movies seriously.

Yeah, though that discussion would probably be more fruitful focusing on the studios themselves and why they recycle out the same kind of thing again and again and pump huge marketing campaigns behind them. To look at them seriously, and to get much out of it, you would have to look at them as a product designed to be consumed, like a can of soup, rather than as a piece of creative fiction because that's really what they are.

I mean, I'm not unwilling to watch bad movies altogether. I do so all the time. I just wasn't interested to spend last month watching like a dozen of them back-to-back-to-back when there are hundreds of other things I'd rather be watching.