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i know it's been said, but it bears repeating: you can enjoy something while simultaneously recognizing it's bad. i don't mean bad as in morally bad, i mean low quality or corny. you can watch a shitty movie, knowing it's a shitty movie, and still enjoy it. you can listen to catchy music even though you know it's cliche and unoriginal. you don't have to be embarrassed about it. i recently watched that netflix movie "Carry-On" and it was fucking terrible, but... i had fun watching it. genuinely enjoyed it, even though it was essentially just poorly written pro-TSA / surveillance state propaganda. you don't have to exclusively enjoy things that you or people you look up to deem as high quality or tasteful. in fact, you can watch something and enjoy it because it's bad! i've watched several movies that were so bad, i just focused on how bad it was and thought about the bizarre choices the filmmaker made, and ended up having a great time. there are multiple ways to enjoy things!
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I loveeee watching terribly made movies/shows it’s like cmonnnn this is crazyyyy so entertaining lmao my friends don’t get it…:/ but great rec ⭐️
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@ARIASCALLING right? i think a lot of people mistake it for watching something "ironically" and its like no this isn't some performative irony shtick it's just fun to watch movies written by delusional people lmao
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