Horrible Movies

My wife surprised me today. I was watching "Drunken Master" (the original!) via Netflix.

I love this movie. It is awesome. The story is pretty standard. Son is wild. Son shames father. Father sends son to trainer. Shenanigans ensue. Son is shamed by villain and learns discipline/kung fu mastery. This is not particularly novel.

The movie is also dubbed (since I don't speak Chinese). In the process of watching of movie I was once again enthralled. My wife proceeded to trash the movie. It was while I was listening to her tear into my beloved movie that something dawned on me.

Most people don't like old kung-fu movies. When they laugh it isn't because something is silly, but because they think the movie is stupid. Maybe it is a question of expectations, but the bad acting, the bad dubbing/syncing, the weak plot, and the almost random bouts of kung-fu don't detract from the movie at all for me. I still enjoy the movie.

Maybe this will encourage me to keep my opinions to myself about other movies I watch. I really hated the Transformer movie they made recently. It was horrible. It was one of those rare movies that actually didn't seem so bad at first, but the more I thought about it the more I hated that movie. I guess other people just have wildly different criteria by which they judge movies.

I still think "Drunken Master" is awesome. I'm tempted to go watch Kung-fu Hustle or Legend of the Drunken Master soon.