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Got dragged to a midnight showing of Battlefield Earth in Madison and it flipped how I judge bad movies
So back in 2019 my buddy Pete dragged me to a midnight showing of Battlefield Earth at a theater on State Street in Madison, and I went in fully ready to hate it like everyone does. About 40 minutes in, this guy two rows back starts narrating the plot holes out loud, and instead of getting mad the whole room just went with it and started laughing at every weird camera tilt. Here is the thing nobody tells you about movies everybody dumps on: when you watch them with a crowd that is in on the joke, you start noticing the stuff that is genuinely hard to pull off, like the sheer amount of set design and costuming in that movie, which is way more than most cheap sci-fi gets. I went home and looked it up and found out it won like 7 Razzies and swept that year, and yeah it deserves most of them, but I also read that some of the sets were built on practical stages that took months, and you can kind of see the effort in the background shots. Since that night I have a rule for myself that before I call a movie trash I have to watch it once all the way through without my phone, and it has honestly changed my take on at least 4 or 5 films that everyone piles on. So what is the one hated movie you think survives a real rewatch, and what did the crowd you saw it with add to it?
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avery2191mo ago
A buddy of mine swears Showgirls totally works with a laughing crowd.
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