{"id":1487,"date":"2017-06-18T21:35:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-18T21:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commarts.pleather.us\/2017\/06\/18\/the-cult-of-trash-how-do-we-explain-our-taste-for-really-really-bad-movies\/"},"modified":"2017-06-18T21:35:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-18T21:35:00","slug":"the-cult-of-trash-how-do-we-explain-our-taste-for-really-really-bad-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/2017\/06\/18\/the-cult-of-trash-how-do-we-explain-our-taste-for-really-really-bad-movies\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cult of Trash: How Do We Explain Our Taste for Really, Really Bad Movies?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nofilmschool.com\/2017\/06\/cult-trash-how-do-we-explain-our-taste-really-really-bad-movies\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nofilmschool.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/article_medium\/public\/the_room.jpg?itok=p2EpYHrm\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\nYou&#8217;re tearing us apart, Tommy!&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\nThe first time I ever saw the worst film ever made, I was with my brother and two of my cousins. We sat down in my living room in my old basement apartment, pulled up a pirated copy that was streaming on YouTube (because my efforts to buy it off of Amazon were unfruitful), and gazed in amazement while it played on a tiny sub-screen at 1.5x normal speed (typical format for pirated shit).&#013;\n<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\nWhen the credits began to roll, we all just sat there, silent, awkward, and confused\u2014confused by the absurdity of what we just consumed, but also confused by our genuine non-rejection of it, a non-rejection that quickly grew into full-blown love and then obsession. One of my cousins turned to me and asked, &#8220;What the f*** did we just watch?&#8221; I was like, &#8220;<em>The Room<\/em>.&#8221;&#013;\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nofilmschool.com\/2017\/06\/cult-trash-how-do-we-explain-our-taste-really-really-bad-movies\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: NoFilmSchool<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; You&#8217;re tearing us apart, Tommy!&#013; &#013; &#013; &#013; The first time I ever saw the worst film ever made, I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":245,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[44],"class_list":["post-1487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-camera"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paqOTj-nZ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/245"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}