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The Good, The Bad, The Weird: Must-See-To-Believe-It Movies
Forget about movies like The Godfather, Blade Runner and other well-known classics because we’ve selected different kind of movies. Movies so unbelievable that they are just hilarious. The Good, The Bad, The Must-See-To-Believe–It Movies is a collection of 50 essays. Each one of them is a mixture of love, analysis, and history with selections range widely across genres, periods, and nationalities, and from not so high achievements in film art to some wildly successful popular flicks. From camp classics like Flash Gordon and Showgirls, Filipino cult movies with Weng Weng (the shortest action star ever), and even trash Ex-Yugoslavia sci-fi Visitors directed by a once Oscar winner, this book gives a different view of cinema and explores some lesser known movies and facts about them. The Good, The Bad, The Must-See-To-Believe–It Movies is a must read treasure for film lovers, a kind of different guide for viewers, and a book to return to again and again.
93 pages, Kindle Edition
First published February 12, 2015
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February 24, 2017
I'm not sure if it was just the Kindle edition or what, but the book was almost unreadable. Grammatical correctness and correct spelling of people's names were both inconsistent and largely missing. The authors come across to me as largely immature, being sure to point out just how much nudity this actress or that displays in a given film more than just about anything else. The attention and interest given to any of the 50 essays was equally inconsistent as the grammar and spelling; some (albeit few) went into a decent amount of detail, while many seemed like introductions were written then the essay was promptly forgotten about and thrown into the book as-is. Basically the book did not live up to the title, or what I hoped to find inside its digital cover, in any meaningful way. To sum up:
The good: it was inexpensive, it was short, and the cover art is alright.
The bad: the grammar and name spellings, the obsessions with nudity above anything else, inconsistency in essay structure or content, the largely uninspired choice of movies...
The weird: though written by two authors, the essays always went with "I" instead of "we," which wouldn't be so bad if they actually wrote the essays separately and combined them all into one book (this theory could also explain the inconsistent writing style), but if this is the case, the book makes no mention of it whatsoever. Also, a collection written by two authors shouldn't be 75% cringe worthy mistakes (I get the feeling there was no proof editor or even second glances given to at least the Kindle edition).
Overall, if you're actually a fan of cheesy movies and are looking for suggestions of new movies or original ideas about those you're already familiar with, you should look elsewhere. Heartily not recommended.
The good: it was inexpensive, it was short, and the cover art is alright.
The bad: the grammar and name spellings, the obsessions with nudity above anything else, inconsistency in essay structure or content, the largely uninspired choice of movies...
The weird: though written by two authors, the essays always went with "I" instead of "we," which wouldn't be so bad if they actually wrote the essays separately and combined them all into one book (this theory could also explain the inconsistent writing style), but if this is the case, the book makes no mention of it whatsoever. Also, a collection written by two authors shouldn't be 75% cringe worthy mistakes (I get the feeling there was no proof editor or even second glances given to at least the Kindle edition).
Overall, if you're actually a fan of cheesy movies and are looking for suggestions of new movies or original ideas about those you're already familiar with, you should look elsewhere. Heartily not recommended.
November 10, 2021
Complete Waste of Time
Badly written, as if English is the authors’ third language, it has nothing new or surprising and contents itself with mocking grade z films we already knew were terrible (except for that true camp classic, “Flash Gordon”!)
Badly written, as if English is the authors’ third language, it has nothing new or surprising and contents itself with mocking grade z films we already knew were terrible (except for that true camp classic, “Flash Gordon”!)
January 8, 2019
Well...not the best
How sad is it when you read a book about bad movies and realize that you have seen a third of them.
How sad is it when you read a book about bad movies and realize that you have seen a third of them.
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