Enjoyment of trash films linked to high intelligence, study finds- What Crappy films do you love?

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"To such viewers, trash films appear as an interesting and welcome deviation from the mainstream fare", says Sarkhosh. "We are dealing here with an audience with above-average education, which one could describe as 'cultural omnivores'. Such viewers are interested in a broad spectrum of art and media across the traditional boundaries of high and popular culture." He went on to explain that their engagement in film culture is demonstrated by their discussion of these films in blogs and forums."

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-e...study-finds-a7171436.html?cmpid=facebook-post

What Crappy films do you love?

I have to be a bit "easyrider" here and say Highlander :D
 
Starship Troopers
Armageddon
Dante Peak
Shaun of the Dead
All Police Academy films
Plenty more

I love a trashy film if I'm in the right mood.
 
Great as it is Highlander was never fully trash, it was a fairly high budget mainstream blockbuster movie, as was John Woo's attempt to move to holywood, Face Off!

In their day Romero's zombies and Carpenters "video nasties" the thing were seen as trashy, people see them differently now!

I guess death race 2000 has that trash feel, but its mostly rubbish!
A bunch of american 50s sci fi movies seemed trashy B status growing up but were clearly great. The original fly and the thing from another planet for example.
There was a string of later B+ movies that I enjoy more than I should, tremors, eight legged freaks, lake placid, anaconda, deep rising all lack depth, I could watch them on my death bed.
I like verhoeven and love some parts of starship troopers but the naked pro fascist militaristic propaganda of the book is totally lost in the beverly hill 90210 cack imho!

obviously nearly all horror is viewed (wrongly) by critics as trash!
 
Shaun of the Dead is not trashy at all.

Anyway.

I love the first Fast and the Furious film and will defend it to the hilt.
 
StriderX said:
Is there a difference between B-films and films that are just a bit crap/quirky?

Because i really hate B-films.
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From memory "B films" come from the days of double bill features, where one was typically a much higher budget/better one, and one was the "B film"(low budget).

You can get "B films" that are classics, and feature films that are rubbish.
 
One of my old time favourites is on Syfy now, The Final Countdown (1980)

Modern US aircraft carrier gets flung back in time to 1941 just before the attack on Pearl Harbour

Stars Kirk Douglas and Charlie Sheen

But I love lots of old (and new) proper B-movies
 
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