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In Part 1 of In Defense of Bad Movies, I
outlined the disconnect between film critics and the general public. If you
want to read it, you can certainly do that. Now that I have made this
particular bed, I’m going to lie in it by taking a pipe wrench to the skull of
a film most beloved and personal to the Geek Nation. Let’s all watch some
people’s heads explode. Fun!
Since I mentioned Flash Gordon (1980) in Part 1 as an example of a bad movie, I thought it would be worthwhile to explain why I think this is so. Before you start typing your hate mail, there's some objective criteria below that you ought to look at. I put pictures in the post, so you wouldn't have to just take my word for it. If you make it all the way to the end and still feel triggered, just follow this link over to my Facebook page and let fly with your invective. I'm bracing myself for impact. Okay, enough of that; let's go tip some sacred cows!