Movies You Should Die Before You See is a great, catchy title for a weblog. I guiltily admit I just spent about a half hour browsing the terribleness it catalogs. It is an entertaining weblog, but I think it tends to review movies that go beyond “funny bad” to “bad bad”. As a long time watcher of MST3K, I’ve found it very difficult to endure “bad bad” films, even with witty commentary to accompany them. Case in point: The Castle of Fu Manchu.
This weblog reminded me how much I enjoyed it when Roger Ebert reviewed truly terrible films. I guess it takes a Pulitzer-prize winner to truly give bad films their due. Conveniently, Roger Ebert’s Most Hated Movie List is online for free to fulfill my need to read eloquent bad movie reviews. And there are no less than three book compilations of his bad movie reviews. Your Movie Sucks still wins the “best title” competition.
What does this have to do with movie marathons? Not much really – I am just perpetually amused by the dark, seamy underbelly of modern cinema.