r/The10thDentist

I have a real bone to pick with this 'so bad it's good' way of thinking about art things like movies etc.

To me it sounds like a weak cowardly way of justifying enjoying an experience that the council of letterboxd people and Roger ebert people have decided is not supposed to be enjoyed fully, just stand on that shit for gods sake. No, War of the Worlds 2025 and Return of The Living Dead, and The Room are not 'so bad it's good'. They are either 'good' or 'bad' or 'meh'.

In my opinion, they are firmly and squarely bad, but I respect someone so much more who argues honestly that they are 'good' than someone who says some bullshit like 'so bad it's good' please, have a real goddamn opinon.

How can a thing be so bad, and provide so much negative value or provide very little pisitive value, that it turns around into a firmly positive value? I might need someone to anologise this for me or use metaphor to explain because no matter which way I think on it I cannot wrap my brain around it.

When we engage in art critique, we are making value judgements, always. What value is art supposed to provide? I have my own ideas on this, but I suppose maybe they are not 'correct' and maybe there is no way to be 'correct' in that matter. But I implore all you 'so bad it's good' people to think hard on this and come up with your own framework for answering this question.

If it provided positive value for you, or for whatever you care about, then just call it good for Christ's sake, and die on that hill. Stop hedging. It makes for much more interesting discussion of art, and also, I truly believe that degrading the art like for the sake of hedging, no matter how ironic you're being, actually degrades your soul also. Okay that's my take.

I've always felt vaguely strongly about this in some way or another but I've never tried to actually organise my thoughts on the matter until right now thanks for bearing w me

edit: You guys hate this take and yet I'm being down voted, very interesting...

Being in the nosebleeds you get to just easily walk in and up to your seat, you can stand up without bothering as many people, and it's just generally more chill. Not to mention cheap. I've never had problems with the sound quality either & I go to a lot of rock/metal shows. And it's way better than being wedged between sweaty people in the moshpit

when i get a normal amount of sleep, my brain has so much energy, which is great for most but horrible for me. all that energy goes to negative thoughts, obsessive ruminations, intrusive thoughts, etc. my brain seems to want to use the energy it has on making me feel horrible.

but when im under slept, it's like i had a couple beers or took a mini xanax. i'm groggy, have next to no physical energy , and can barely function and it's awesome. i don't overthink things anymore, im able to just do shit i don't want to do without thinking. all the things that haunt me normally don't hurt so bad anymore.

I remember when I have to know specific thing that I want to watch video of, I used to find it so easily 10 years ago, it was just direct to the point that I can watch and be on my way.

Nowdays I search, they stretch videos so much and almost 90% of the content like just slops.

If I want to know someone's experience of doing something or know about price/rent of some place by watching a video, it's just too long and they mention the real answer in between the video.

That's so annoying. If I tried watching some videos of review of a product or a movie, they still try to extend the video so much so they can make more money.

Now with Ask feature in youtube, I can just tell it to give me the exact thing I'm looking for in that video. I can also tell it to give me timestamp where the youtube talks about the exact thing I want.

Also for something, it summarise the whole video so well that It can make consuming a 20 mins video into 1-2 minutes of reading the summary and still not miss anything important.

Now at this time, either make the videos more useful/straight to the point or your effort in that video will be wasted cause everyone would be using Ai to get the exact thing they are in the video for.

Like I'm trying to watch a video about cost of living in some city and they start talking about their family and friends and what they did yesterdy and all, lol I just need figures!!!

I have watched hundreds of them, and never once looked away. I can’t get past the nature of what is being offered… here’s a stranger who does not know my name is taking time to tell me specifically how not to die, she has practiced this for me, in a room somewhere.

I know planes are safe but the thought of being suspended in a flying tube fitted with turbines still makes me thing that all safety procedure might be just futile at some point, so perhaps it’s the futileness of the safety demonstration what touches me… maybe part of my brain has always received it that way and I stopped correcting that part a long time ago because I don't think it's wrong, I watch her hands pointing at the exit, her face, I watch the small place below her jaw where her pulse is.

I try to communicate with my attention alone that I am here and that I am listening,, that I am probably the only person in this cabin who is truly present with her in this moment… and I think on some level she can feel that.

The oxygen mask is where I feel it most “Place your own mask before assisting others” she is looking somewhere above our heads when she says it, and I am looking directly at her, and for a moment I feel closer to her than I do to most people I have known for years. She is telling me how to survive, and that folks is, honest, quite a lot and I always say thank you when I board and I mean a real one, held a half second too long.

Most of them look a bit startled which I understand. But One attendant many years ago held my gaze back just for a moment, I have thought about her on every flight since, when the cabin dims and the engines settle in their roar and we are all suspended together in the dark trusting each other completely and close than we would ever choose to be on ground.

I really have never told anyone this but I am aware that changes nothing.

The room is a horrible piece of media, hell, it shouldn't even be classified as media. It failed on it direct purpose of being a drama, it failed on every aspect being a film, and it is a vanity project of a egotistical hack

Anyone who watches this disaster even "ironically" is feading attention to Tommy's ego, a trainwreck isn't funny when you considered how expensive those trains are and how many people die in the explosion

That is... all.
No big opinion I'm certain 9/10 people would disagree with me.
In my opinion
Even the Accordion is a better instrument than the Piano
Guitars, Drums, Violins and Flutes are much better than this
It's just pretty annoying.
Like what do you mean I need to learn things from "C, D, E, F, G, A, B" and also worry about it being mostly for people with right hands and which chord to play and which note to do
Also it's too long.
If I'm not sitting in the exact middle spot, I can't reach all the notes.

Before I say anything, fujimoto is allowed to write whatever ending he wants. If he wanted to completely rage quit or he thought this ending would be funny, I am in no position to tell the man how to live his life. I can’t force GRRM to write winds of winter either, but that doesn’t stop us from talking about winds.

Now, I believe that part 2 had a lot of great ideas thrown at us. I liked these ideas. Asa was a great character. Lil d is underrated. The fire devil turning a joke into a moral problem for Denji was both unexpected and a good plot line for him. The ending deciding to reset time rather than have us live with consequences of any of this is what pisses most people off.

Defenders will argue that pochita is correct and he was enabling an addict. Therefore his removal was the best solution. maybe they’re right. I believe the narrative would have benefited from Denji learning this first hand. He was on an arch of trying to find love while in a broken mental state. And he was pursuing it with the literal personification of war as a bipolar girl sharing a body with an anti social autistic girl.

Whatever pochita was saving Denji from, would’ve changed Denji. Maybe Yoru tricks him by having sex, only to stab Denji until pochita coughs up lil d to stop the bug apocalypse. Maybe Denji leaves the situation realizing that every single one of these girls, Makima, lil d, Yoru, Asa, Fumiko; all of them were just using him. And while Makima never saw Denji, Yoru did and it didn’t make it better.

And that hits different than “every girl I’ve met has tried to kill me“ from part 1. It means the fire devil is right and there are things beyond his self centered wants; but those goals are also what causes people to hurt him. It means that he is still just as vulnerable as he was in part 1, knew he was, and fell for it anyways. It means he either has to abandon this part of his dream and thus break the contract with pochita, pursue his life with greater and crueler skepticism of people, surrender to some other cause, fall into greater nihilism, become even more self serving, or strive to personally be better than Yoru.

Pochita says that some part of Denji was always unhappy even when he had his dream. That Denj’s brain would never be satisfied and the solution is to put him back in hell. I don’t think this is growth for Denji. Denji was never gonna be satisfied because it’s the human condition. Kobeni said as much in part 1. Having him see the consequences of his actions is the way forward. And if that means a full manga spread of a sex scene with the worst couple yet, so be it.