Review (PDF) Better Living Through Bad Movies
We've all heard that, "you learn more from failure than you do from success." Which means that all those hours spent watching crappy movies wasn't a waste of your precious and ever-dwindling life span; it was an education! And Better Living Through Bad Movies can show you how to extract the profound, life-affirming lessons from films like Battlefield Earth, Coyote Ugly, and Indecent Proposal.In over 50 hilarious reviews, the authors show how you can use the worst movies ever made to improve your sex life (it involves cardboard cutouts and clog dancing), Apocalypse-proof your home (using the following materials: John Travolta, Kevin Costner, Sylvester Stallone and more Kevin Costner), and win omnipotence and a Happy Meal by solving Satan's Junior Jumble. You will also discover how to forge a love that will last a lifetime (by dating the moribund), use films like Batman and Robin and Star Wars: The Phantom Menace as grief counseling, and conquer the world using common fruit bats and dry cleaning fluid. And most important of all, you'll learn Hollywood's Ultimate Secret: Why Beaches and Armageddon are actually the exact same movie.
Paperback: 226 pages
Publisher: iUniverse, Inc. (June 11, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 059540023X
ISBN-13: 978-0595400232
Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.6 x 9 inches
Shipping Weight: 14.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
Best Sellers Rank: #1,285,009 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #769 in Books > Humor & Entertainment > Humor > Business & Professional
If you're like me (and I know I am, and you've wondered why bad movies are made, wonder no more! Bad Movies are made to teach us life lessons! That's right--they teach us the lessons that Oprah and Dr. Phil missed!Its full of great life lessons and hilarious snark! (Check out the chapter about "RedDawn" for lovely snarkieness on the Bushes!)Be careful where you read it, though. I laughed out loud on the bus so many times, I got dirty looks from the driver!This is just a great, funny book. A definite must read for bad movie lovers and MST3k fans (like me)
My shelves are littered with supposedly funny books about the movies but not one is funnier than Better Living through Bad Movies. From the article that clearly proves that Beaches and Armageddon are exactly the same movie to the chilling description of the winky-centric Bruce Willis vehicle Color of Night, you cannot afford to miss out on reading this hilarious book. I won't even compare the humor here to Joe Queenan or Libby Gelman-Waxner even though I also like their writing. This book is simply above the rest and constantly astonishes with tangents that pay off one after another in funnier and funnier ways. Plus if you are missing MST3K, here is something that will get you away from the closet and out of the fetal position at last.
I rarely read books about the movies, especially bad ones, but this book, I couldn't put down! It's is witty, wise, insightful and will cure the common cold and Brewer's Droop.
The beloved S.Z. is widely known as one of the funniest writers on the internet and her first book (with the equally brilliant S.C.) is the funniest thing I've read in years!!! Buy it now!!!
Put this on the shelf next to the Pauline Kael. Not that Scott writes like Pauline, I just think that would be a good place for it . . .Great read. Scott Clevenger has written a very funny look at some of the worst movies ever. He is a true public servant.
Does life sometimes seem to be just one damned thing after another? Forget chicken soup, psychopharmaceuticals, and the tube- here is your remedy, without question the funniest book of 2006. Written by the lovely (and talented!) Sheri Zollinger and Scott Clevenger (proprietors of the indispensable, read-every-day-to-preserve-sanity weblog "World O'Crap) this book deconstructs, hilariously, some truly atrocious movies. If snark can lift your heart, if good writing about bad cinema can elevate your mood, you have to get this- and give copies to your friends, too.
This book is a perfect companion to those of us who enjoy the existential pain that seriously, truly, bad movies can bring. The antidote, of course, is laughter; just like with most of life's inanities. But this is not just dumb disagreement or contempt. No, far beyond that. It is the highly cerebral rearrangement of the "Bad" into a lovely new dashboard figurine of snarky, utter, disection. Fun to read, fun to give as gifts (and I've done both!).
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I thoroughly enjoyed this book, and recommend it for all movie lovers -- good, bad or ugly!Debbi MackIdentity Crisis (A Sam McRae Mystery Book 1)Least Wanted (A Sam McRae Mystery Book 2)Riptide (A Sam McRae Mystery Book 3)Five Uneasy Pieces
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