History Quotes / SoBadItWasBetter

->"Starting off we have "Grizzly Sla-" wait...''"Crescent Grizzly''''? Oh no- Oh God they did! They changed the names back to normal! It's not supposed to be "Tidal Whale", its "DUFF MCWHALEN!" C'mon that's one of the [[AwesomeMcCoolname most badass names]] for a maverick yet. I'm sorry I can't play this on Legacy Collection, I'm going back to the [=PS1=]".

->"The 2019 ''Black Christmas'' remake is a very charitable film which gave the ''[[Film/BlackChristmas2006 2006 Black Christmas]]'' the greatest gift of all. By being so bad, it made that one look quite all right in retrospect."
-->--'''WebVideo/TheCinemaSnob''' & '''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic''' on ''Film/BlackChristmas2019''

-->--'''WebVideo/SomeCallMeJohnny''', experiencing this phenomena with ''VideoGame/MegaManX5'', which undid the (admittedly [[SoBadItsGood silly yet cool]]) [[DubNameChange name changes]] of the Maverick Bosses for the ''Mega Man X Legacy Collection'' re-release.

-->--WebVideo/SuperEyepatchWolf, ''Series/{{Riverdale}}: [[[[https://youtu.be/DZ-FRSXypUE The Show That Went Completely Insane]]''

-->--WebVideo/SuperEyepatchWolf, ''[[https://youtu.be/DZ-FRSXypUE Riverdale: The Show That Went Completely Insane]]''

->"I know I made the comparison earlier, but [''Theatre/SpiderManTurnOffTheDark''] [[{{Retool}} 2.0]] really does remind me of ''Film/{{Justice League|2017}}''. In a lot of respects, it's a course correction and probably what the project should have looked like from the beginning, but the revision is so sloppily trying to stitch together conventional material to its unconventional origin in a way that makes the generic aspects of the revision stick out even more. It then becomes a question of what you'd prefer; a flawed, ambitious, messy, auteur-driven piece, or a technically-polished piece of art made by commission that is at best functional."

->''Starting off we have Grizzly Sla- wait...''Crescent Grizzly''? Oh no- Oh God they did! They changed the names back to normal! It's not supposed to be "Tidal Whale", its "DUFF MCWHALEN!" C'mon that's one of the [[AwesomeMcCoolname most badass names]] for a maverick yet. I'm sorry I can't play this on Legacy Collection, I'm going back to the [=PS1=].

->"The 2019 Black Christmas remake is a very charitable film which gave the [[Film/BlackChristmas2006 2006 Black Christmas]] the greatest gift of all. By being so bad, it made that one look quite all right in retrospect."
-->The Cinema Snob & Nostalgia Critic on ''Film/BlackChristmas2019''

->"If we were to chart my taste in media, it would follow [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/qualityvsentertainment-1.png this curve right here]]. At the highest end of both quality and enjoyment, we would have something legitimately great like ''Anime/CowboyBebop'', but on the opposite end, we'd have something like the infamously terrible film ''Film/TheRoom''. However, despite the ocean of difference in the two's quality, both rate as highly enjoyable; ''Bebop'' because it's, well, it's a fucking masterpiece, and ''The Room'' because through its sheer awfulness, it becomes this bizarre and fascinating portrait of [[Creator/TommyWiseau the person who created it]]. It might not be traditionally great art, but goddamn is it entertaining. But then there's this section in the middle right here, and this is the dreaded "[[SoOkayItsAverage Mediocre Valley]]", and it's here where I would place season one of ''Series/{{Riverdale}}''; a series that simultaneously has nothing to say while never being brave enough to be terrible."\\
"There's a chaotic beauty to bad media, and rather than something succeed in mediocrity, I'd prefer to see it fail spectacularly."
-->--WebVideo/SuperEyepatchWolf, ''[[https://youtu.be/DZ-FRSXypUE Riverdale: The Show That Went Completely Insane]]''

->There's a chaotic beauty to bad media, and rather than something succeed in mediocrity, I'd prefer to see it fail spectacularly.
-->--WebVideo/SuperEyepatchWolf

-->--Website/YouTube comment

->It feels weird to say this about a movie based on as putrid a book as ''Literature/{{Hannibal}}'', but the makers of this film really should have had more trust in the source material. Once it became obvious that “Why don’t you go fuck yourself?” was Creator/JonathanDemme and Creator/JodieFoster’s final answer, De Laurentiis ought to have chucked all the rewrites intended to placate them, and embraced ''Hannibal''’s destiny to be a florid farrago. It is one anyway, after all, only now it seems kind of sheepish about it. If eliminating the vile slashfic conclusion, Margot Verger, and the Barney subplot couldn’t make the movie good, then those things might as well still be in here. Tell the truth, now. Wouldn’t you have kind of liked to see Creator/FrankieFaison and — I don’t know, how about Wrestling/{{Chyna}}? — together in a series of sexually charged power-lifting contests and the most uncomfortable shower scene since ''Film/RockNRollNightmare''? Wouldn’t you rather have watched Paul Krendler’s comeuppance descend all the way to the level of ''Film/EatingRaoul'' by way of ''Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre2'' instead of sinking most of the way there before reversing itself in embarrassment? Wouldn’t you have preferred a version of this film that honestly didn’t know it was supposed to feel bad about inciting you to root for Hannibal Lecter? Doesn’t a fabulous disaster sound like more fun than an ill-considered goof?

->It feels weird to say this about a movie based on as putrid a book as ''Literature/{{Hannibal}}'', but the makers of this film really should have had more trust in the source material. Once it became obvious that “Why don’t you go fuck yourself?” was Creator/JonathanDemme and Creator/JodieFoster’s final answer, De Laurentiis ought to have chucked all the rewrites intended to placate them, and embraced ''Hannibal''’s destiny to be a florid farrago. It is one anyway, after all, only now it seems kind of sheepish about it. If eliminating the vile slashfic conclusion, Margot Verger, and the Barney subplot couldn’t make the movie good, then those things might as well still be in here. Tell the truth, now. Wouldn’t you have kind of liked to see Frankie Faison and — I don’t know, how about Wrestling/{{Chyna}}? — together in a series of sexually charged power-lifting contests and the most uncomfortable shower scene since ''Film/RockNRollNightmare''? Wouldn’t you rather have watched Paul Krendler’s comeuppance descend all the way to the level of ''Film/EatingRaoul'' by way of ''Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre2'' instead of sinking most of the way there before reversing itself in embarrassment? Wouldn’t you have preferred a version of this film that honestly didn’t know it was supposed to feel bad about inciting you to root for Hannibal Lecter? Doesn’t a fabulous disaster sound like more fun than an ill-considered goof?

-->--Scott "El Santo" Ashlin, [[http://1000misspenthours.com/reviews/reviewsn-z/hannibal2001.htm 1000 Misspent Hours and Counting]]

->It feels weird to say this about a movie based on as putrid a book as ''Literature/{{Hannibal}}, but the makers of this film really should have had more trust in the source material. Once it became obvious that “Why don’t you go fuck yourself?” was Creator/JonathanDemme and Creator/JodieFoster’s final answer, De Laurentiis ought to have chucked all the rewrites intended to placate them, and embraced ''Hannibal''’s destiny to be a florid farrago. It is one anyway, after all, only now it seems kind of sheepish about it. If eliminating the vile slashfic conclusion, Margot Verger, and the Barney subplot couldn’t make the movie good, then those things might as well still be in here. Tell the truth, now. Wouldn’t you have kind of liked to see Frankie Faison and — I don’t know, how about Wrestling/{{Chyna}}? — together in a series of sexually charged power-lifting contests and the most uncomfortable shower scene since ''Film/RockNRollNightmare''? Wouldn’t you rather have watched Paul Krendler’s comeuppance descend all the way to the level of ''Film/EatingRaoul'' by way of ''Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre2'' instead of sinking most of the way there before reversing itself in embarrassment? Wouldn’t you have preferred a version of this film that honestly didn’t know it was supposed to feel bad about inciting you to root for Hannibal Lecter? Doesn’t a fabulous disaster sound like more fun than an ill-considered goof?

-->--'''[[http://www.tfarchive.com/fandom/features/thirtieth-anniversary/?s=countdown-03-turning-japanese TFArchive article]]''' on ''Anime/TransformersHeadmasters''