The Love-Hate Relationship I Have With Bad Content
An ode to the contents at the bottom of the barrel
I have bad taste in movies. I'm not going to try to pass it off as eccentric™ or quirky™. I enjoy excavating the shameful horrors of Rotten Tomatoes. I am the 2 Bad 2 Curious they warned you about. Every single person involved in creating a terrible movie – the screenwriters, the director, the actors, the cinematographers, the editors, the post-production crew and the marketing team – has to slap lipstick on this horrendous, shapeless, (beautiful?), thing and ship it. Imagine the cringe of every single person touching the work, trying to understand why nobody else in the pipeline before them tried to do something and wondering which form of nepotism (or any other ism) allowed such a thing to happen. They're stuck trying to see what can they do best; so that the person(s) downstream aren
Piyali Mukherjee
Mar 06 2021
4 min read