[Repost] China's Bad Movie Manifesto

by atsjz on 2008-03-27 11:06:19

In our adolescence (of course, "we" did not include the rising post-90s generation), a bunch of terrible movies once played an equally important role as Wang Guozhen and The Resonance, alongside biology textbooks. Some influenced the lower three routes, others guided the upper three routes. Wong Jing's movies, which combined the dual roles of terrible movies and biology textbooks, had especially vast and profound influences. It could be said that when they stood up, they represented height; when they lay down, they represented vision. Therefore, our hatred for terrible movies has a bit of the taste of monkeys scorning tails. Wong Jing, who was first embraced and then abandoned by us, once indignantly said: "If you say I make terrible movies, then you're a terrible person!" Furthermore, this special feature divided into two parts is actually a tribute to our adolescence in the way of terrible people selecting terrible movies. In 2005, Halle Berry, who won the Golden Raspberry Award for the movie Catwoman, defined the relationship between terrible movies and terrible people like this: "I want to thank Warner Bros. for producing this piece of crap, and I also want to thank the crew..."