/lit/ - Literature

>>17020943
Finnegans Wake

>>17020943
>"so bad it's good."
Visual medium lends itself to it, but I don't think the same effect can happen with /lit/.

Mason & Dixon

>>17020943
The bible

My Immortal

William McGonagall's poetry

>"so bad it's good."
sneering is bad for the soul. I unironically believe this.

>>17020948
kek

The Eye of Argon

>>17021094
Kek

Eternal Undying Love

books are too much work for bad ones to be good

>>17021094
>>17021225
These

>>17021373
I’ve been coming around to this mentality as well

>>17020943
What's that meme book people always post here? The Learned Disguise or something? Seems like it's exactly that.

>>17020943
The Learned Disguise

>>17020943
Outlander.

>>17021034
This. If the screenplay of The Room would have been rewritten as a novel instead of being filmed, nobody would care. It would just be regular bad.

>>17020943
Scott and Byron

>>17022404
To add on this, I think the reason for it might be that in a book everything is determined by what the author writes, whereas while making a movie a lot of things happen unintentionally, by chance. The awkwardness of the scenes in The Room aren't solely a direct result of the writing but also due to his inaptitude as a director. For instance, an important factor is the way how uncoordinatedly they all stand around during the scenes, which no one intended to be that way and which couldn't happen by chance in a book.

>>17020943
What's the appeal to this? I saw The Room before its Disaster Artist fame and didn't understand why anyone would want to watch it again. I watched the Disaster Artist and I just thought they were making fun of this retard. Seems like a lot of work just for that.

>>17020943
'So bad it's good' works in poetry, not so much in prose.

Reading is an action. Further, when you read something, you hear it in your own voice. You aren't just witnessing someone else doing or saying something, you're the person doing or saying it (at least immediately as you read it). This is why books are so much better (when good) than film. It's also why they can never be "so bad that they're good." If you read something awful, you just feel ashamed and saddened. You aren't merely perceiving it; you're thinking this shit, and that's not fun. That's shameful and saddening. Therefore, a book can never be so bad that it's good because a book will always be thought, not perception.

>>17022404
>>17022431
Watching a film can also be a much more social event, compared to reading a book, which is more solitary by nature.

>>17020943
>In the world of film, it's well established that some movies are "so bad it's good."

>>17022592
>What's the appeal to this?
Past-time for midwits.

Sex Motorcycle by Horny Man Travis

>>17021849
Kek, very little can beat Waldun's illustrious proses.

>>17020943
no joke it is IJ.

>>17021034
This.
A lot of people ask if there are vidya equivalents to The Room, too, and there will never be a good answer. Literature and vidya require too much active engagement, to the point where if something is poorly made it just becomes frustrating instead of entertaining.

>>17021837
>>17021849
But even that is only funny in small bits, I can't imagine actually reading the entire book and still finding that shit funny after 20 pages

>>17020943
/lit/

>>17021094
Although the Internet Historian video series is far better than actually reading it

>>17022433
Awesome cover.

>>17020943
I remember reading some parts of the first Twilight book with friends and thinking it was pretty hilarious, but people actually like those books for what they're intended to do, so maybe it doesn't count.

>>17024348
>A lot of people ask if there are vidya equivalents to The Room
Big Rigs Over the Road Racing.

>>17020943
>In the world of film, it's well established that some movies are "so bad it's good."
No, people only pretend that this is the case. Reading about the making of The Room and watching short clips of it is fun. Actually watching the whole 100 minutes, however, is not.

>>17025343
I watched it and it was fun except for the sex scenes

>>17021373
>>17021820
absolutely agree with you both, but i can't stop; it is a refuge and a shield from the folly of the world

>>17021429
this