“Fantastic Four” has gotten some of the worst reviews in memory from critics and fans alike.
Time to pop the Champagne!
Of course, no movie sets out to stink, and a $26 million opening weekend doesn’t seem like something worth celebrating. But there is a silver lining.
All these bad talks about Fantastic Four make me want to see it more. Beside, I love all Shyamalan’s movies.
— Joko Anwar (@jokoanwar) August 10, 2015
at this point I just want to see fantastic four to see just how bad it is — Kristin Fust (Key) (@kristinfust) August 7, 2015
When it comes to sucking, the worst thing you can do is be only moderately bad. Audiences watch, shrug and then forget you 10 seconds after they leave the theater.
No, if you’re gonna be bad, you’d better go all the way. Being just awful isn’t good enough. Remember “Taken 3”? Of course you don’t. “Hot Tub Time Machine 2”? Nope. Those were just forgettable, middling films whose loathing never reached anywhere near DEFCON 1 levels.
You want to be historically, infuriatingly terrible. You want reviewers to break out their cruelest, most hilarious barbs. You want people to tell their friends how angry watching this made them.
Because when something reaches this rare level of terrible, something funny happens. People actually start wanting to see it, a k a hate watching.
True Detective Season 2 is over. Now I can start watching it. Saw/heard lots of bad stuff about it, it’s time to see it for myself.
— Ansilans (@Ansilans) August 10, 2015
worst thing is i’m tempted to rewatch all of true detective S2 to see how bad it might not be. — Sir Moosington (@moosewill) August 3, 2015
It’s hard to know exactly how many people are now buying tickets to “FF” for the train wreck factor. But you have to figure, it can’t be too many fewer than those rare individuals who are buying tickets because they saw the trailer, read the reviews and embrace this particular vision of the superteam.
Something similar is also happening with the recently completed second season of HBO’s “True Detective” — one of the most maligned TV projects of the season. On Twitter and Facebook, viewers tore it apart week after week.
Yep, and guess what? A lot of people out there who never bothered to watch it are now curious.
So-bad-it’s-good is the entire premise of the “Sharknado” movies.
If that franchise can get to three movies, surely our hatred of “Fantastic Four” can propel it to two.
Watching #sharknado. Holy crap it’s awful. For some reason though I can’t look away and really want to watch the sequel.
— Kate Black (@Kate_Ritchens) September 10, 2013
We might even see the so-bad-it’s-good theory in effect this fall, when the New York Jets return without their quarterback, Geno Smith, whose jaw was broken in a locker room brawl — though it’s unlikely they’ll ever be able to top the infamous butt fumble.
