There's so bad it's good, and then there's just plain bad

[drakyndra]

You know, I'm currently trying terribly, terribly hard not to be one of those people who hate adaptations just because they are different. Really, I am.

But, well, then I saw the trailer for the US version of 'Life on Mars".

And well, you know how all those people on the Forum Formerly Known as The OG would go on about the show making them cringe... I finally know what they mean.

Because watching that trailer just fills me with a mild horror of the just plain wrong-ness of it all. It is pure, distilled DO NOT WANT.

And to continue on the theme of really bad things, this wank has currently causing me some deep philosophical pondering: Should I continue to remain blissfully ignorant of Twilight and it's sparkly vampires, or should I make like I did with Eragon and read the first book so I can mock with authority?

...Admittedly, Twilight seems to be less of the soul-hurty form of bad, and more along the lines of hilariously awful.

Ah, questions.

Comments

[malaleen.livejournal.com]

I'm not even a huge fan of Life on Mars, but even I was horrified over how much of a badly done rip off the trailer seemed. It reminded me of the horrible American Coupling series done a few years ago.

As for Twilight, I have no idea about what the wank is about, but I can just about imagine, as the fandom seems very silly. But the books are pure crack, and I always compare it to silly and cracky fan fic. You know it's not good literature, but you can't stop reading anyway.

[frabjously.livejournal.com]

It reminded me of the horrible American Coupling series done a few years ago.

How...horrible?

[malaleen.livejournal.com]

It was awful. The script was exactly the same as the original pilot, but without the fun actors of the original

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

See, you know get my point about the different types of bad. Twilight = entertainingly bad, this trailer is just plain bad bad.