Tubi Is Reviving a Lost Joy: Watching Bad Movies
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>> the movies invite participation: Their cheapness suggests anyone could be a filmmaker, just as anyone could find a following ridiculing them online. In the Tubi universe, everything is ecstatically off.
IMHO, this is a key part of maker culture that's been lost -- acceptance, encouragement, and kindness to the less-than-perfect.
Nobody starts off amazing at anything, and yet the first wave of content platforms bombarded everyone with a never-ending carousel of perfection.
As a result, people who probably could have been great looked at their "peers", despaired, and never tried.
Kudos to anything that breaks down barriers to creating...
'Show HN' comments are always fascinating, and I do like that being negative (without some positivity) usually results in gentle and respectful HN pushback.
No need to pump everyone up all the time, but it's refreshing to see people supporting each other.
And support should be more contingent on effort than excellence. :)
I recently saw the ultimate condemnation in a movie review:
> this movie is bad, but not so bad that it's good.
The ultimate sin is not being bad but being boring.
https://youtu.be/YSDDyzCagMY?si=Q_J_NScKeu-Egy8g
YouTube description:
Empire is a 1965 American black-and-white silent art film by Andy Warhol. When projected according to Warhol's specifications, it consists of eight hours and five minutes of slow motion footage of an unchanging view of New York City's Empire State Building. The film does not have conventional narrative or characters, and largely reduces the experience of cinema to the passing of time. Warhol stated that the purpose of the film was "to see time go by."