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I don't mean it was so bad it's good. Yeah, some movies achieve that, but this wasn't one of them. No, I mean it was BAD, and that made it good. It's an almost masochistic thing, this love of watching shitty movies.
Among other sources, I blame it on the USA Network, back when it had NO pretenses of doing ANYTHING worthwhile. At some point, they decided to upgrade slightly, and now they simply suck, but before that, it was USA Up All Night and Saturday Night Creeps or whatever it was called. This will mean nothing to anyone else who's not from my hometown, but there was an independent station (which is now Fox) which seemed to search high and low for the worst, most inept gutbucket horror movies it could find. Occasionally they got high-concept and showed something like Poltergheist, but by and large it was bottom-feeding grade-Z schlock. There was also a video store a block from my house that specialized in the same sort of thing. (The owner of that place had a really bad stroke a few years ago and sold off the collection to help pay his bills, while I was away at school, or I'd have a few of those movies.) And, of course, when you're an anti-social fat kid, like I was (I've gotten into weight-lifting since then, but I'm still anti-social ;)), you spend a lot of the summer watching movies.
Eh, sorry to bore you with my backstory. The point of this is, I sometimes enjoy seeing bad movies. Bad is sometimes good, not always...I really, really liked The Red Violin, for instance, among other such art-house stuff...but I can often look at it lovingly.
Btw, I'm not really plugging Catwoman. Most people will think it sucks, unless they're me or like me (heh), and it'll do crappy business. There were only perhaps 10 people watching it, on a Saturday night. The Bourne Supremacy sold out, as a comparison. The Village will suck up every bit of Catwoman's take next week.
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