{"id":3641,"date":"2018-01-25T11:00:04","date_gmt":"2018-01-25T16:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/?p=3641"},"modified":"2018-02-26T21:19:22","modified_gmt":"2018-02-27T02:19:22","slug":"jimmy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/2018\/01\/25\/jimmy\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy: Moviepass, and the Art of Moviegoing Bad Films"},"content":{"rendered":"
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For me, The Oscar\u2019s season is my \u201cmost wonderful time of the year.\u201d I love going to the box office to see all of the year\u2019s most critically acclaimed movies. But there\u2019s also a pleasure of going to the movies to see something you know you\u2019re not going to like.<\/div>\n
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I swear I\u2019m not sponsored, but Movie Pass was the best investment I\u2019ve made in a while. For only $9.99 a month, you get to see one movie a day for a month. Most large chain theaters participate (Regal, AMC, and the Brattle Theater in Cambridge do too). For me \u2013 a snobby, snobby film boy \u2013 I would have never paid money to see Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle in theaters. But since I felt like I wasn\u2019t paying for it, it was one of my favorite movie going experiences of the season! It\u2019s cool when spending too much isn\u2019t a factor in what you want to see.<\/div>\n
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That said, I had a good time watching some pretty bad movies. Here are some of my top clunkers. By the way, it\u2019s only fun if you go with a friend. Save your alone movie theater experiences for something like The Florida Project (which was excellent!):<\/div>\n
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Justice League<\/b><\/div>\n
Personally, I haven\u2019t been following superhero movies for a while because they\u2019re not my taste. But this is, like, CRAZY misguided. Henry Cavill\u2019s CGI mustache looked pretty bad. Batman is kind of a psychopathic murderer. The color palette of this movie looks like when your friends were at an Applebee\u2019s and mixed all of the condiments together in a cup. And who were Ezra Miller\u2019s jokes supposed to be directed towards? Crazy<\/div>\n
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Loving Vincent<\/b><\/div>\n
The concept seems cool, right? A biographical piece about Vincent Van Goh in which every different frame is an impressionist painting. But the gimmick wears down quickly when the canvass thin, Nancy Drew Mystery Computer game plot goes in circles. Also, the motion of the paintings looks really weird!<\/div>\n
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The Greatest Showman<\/b><\/div>\n
Some really cringe-ey dance sequences (one in particular set in a bar) and non-musical theater music with ultra-generic lyrics. If you had a hunch that Hollywood romanticized Hugh Jackman\u2019s character, check out this Entertainment Weekly Article. (tl;dr: P.T. Barnum was not a good dude).<\/div>\n
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The Room<\/b><\/div>\n
Okay, while technically bad, The Room is really exceptional work of film. Most live screenings have a similar atmosphere to a Rocky Horror Picture Show screening, where audience members yell at the screen, dress up, and dance around. I used my Movie Pass to go see it and it was a blast. People were throwing spoons!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For me, The Oscar\u2019s season is my \u201cmost wonderful time of the year.\u201d I love going to the box office to see all of the year\u2019s most critically acclaimed movies. But there\u2019s also a pleasure of going to the movies to see something you know you\u2019re not going to like. I swear I\u2019m not sponsored, … Continue reading Jimmy: Moviepass, and the Art of Moviegoing Bad Films<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2018,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[44424],"tags":[7721,44495,45],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3641"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2018"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3641"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3677,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3641\/revisions\/3677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}