Epic Fail

Good stuff. These are issues I think about kind of a lot, since I myself am an avid consumer of camp and bad art. I think this story is a good exploration of an interesting topic. Like... is it mean-spirited to watch and heckle bad movies? Who does it hurt? I personally think there's a line between thinking Rebecca Black's song Friday is hilarious and leaving Rebecca Black hateful YouTube comments. (For the record: I did the former but not the latter). I guess the problem with the internet is that it's become a very thin line between content and creator. On the other hand, people ARE putting this stuff out here for people to consume, and they don't really get to control how people respond to it. It's not like we hacked into Tommy Wiseau's computer and found The Room. He bought a billboard for it.

Like... I don't want to hurt Tommy Wiseau's feelings, I guess. But I enjoy the SHIT out of The Room. I enjoy it more than most things that are “good,” like, whoever gets to define good.

I find it pretty reassuring that there are hundreds of years of precedence for love-hating bad art.

Umm anyway, I'd recommend checking this out if you like camp/bad art. (It also references Susan Sontag's Notes on Camp, which like...... it pretty much has to. Though O'Connell is arguing that we've moved beyond camp and into something else entirely, which perhaps we have.)