Let me start by pasting some text I posted on a messageboard earlier today. It was in response to a question of whether the movie "Evil Dead" was BadGood or Sincerely Good Because It Was Meant To Be Good.
Evil Dead is definitely a paradox. I think for something to be "BadGood" as opposed to just "Good," it has to have sincere, earnest intentions that go awry. Evil Dead, I think, was MEANT to be funny and corny and endearing and all of that, so I would also place it in the "Good" category. SoaP USED to be sincere, until they found out that everyone wanted to go see it because they thought it would be BadGood, so the producers went out of their way to make it even BETTER-Bad. They shot more sex, violence, swearing, etc. Because they've put effort into making the film awesomely-BadGood, I've been telling myself not to have high expections. Also, it makes them ineligible for the title of "BadGood." Instead, it will either be Good or Bad, I think.
Right? I mean, if someone's TRYING to be ironically funny, it's not really ironic anymore, is it? If it's honest and intentional, then it's very unironic and should be judged accordingly so. That's crazy that we've gone from sincere humor to ironic humor and now, even ironic humor is unironically manufactured.
So, I was trying to start a discussion of whether intentions should be weighed when deeming a movie as "Good" or "BadGood." But nothing ever got started. I want to know whether "ironically" stupid/funny t-shirts are still ironic if they're MEANT to be stupid!
I then went on to add,
But the real question is: were there hot naked chicks in the movie? Did the snakes have a sex scene?
w00t! Lollzer! CorBot, FTW!!!!!!!1111
Snakes are teh suxxor
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