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<blockquote data-quote="Willie Oleson" data-source="post: 439979" data-attributes="member: 8">The original meaning of camp was intentionally flamboyant and exaggerated.I don&#039;t know when it changed to unintentional, or why, and then after a while they started to stage/fake that unintentional camp which is absolutely the worst.Awesomely bad films exist and the appeal is not just in the ineptitude (like most bad films) but also in the complete lack of awareness of how bad it is.Untalented people with enough money to fund a film, combined with the delusional approach to what makes a film a good film (or just watchable) often results in hilarious overacting and all kinds of shoddy techniques.Obviously, these are not the kind of conditions you&#039;d expect to see in a Joan Crawford or any typical Hollywood film, and when it happens it&#039;s mostly just disappointing.Angela Channing has the leverage, Eva Phillips has not. It&#039;s not her mill, she&#039;s just an in-law with a bad attitude. It&#039;s the equivalent of Sue Ellen terrorising the Ewings based on a &quot;just because&quot; premise.Not once did I get the impression that she actually had any kind of power, she doesn&#039;t even blackmail any of the characters.There&#039;s a blink and you&#039;ll miss it suicide but perhaps it was better to ignore it because the reason for that suicide is seriously questionable.Lovely cousin Jennifer with the squeaky voice is top level hateable. I wanted Joan to stamp her to death.It&#039;s just failure on top of failure and it goes on and on.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Willie Oleson, post: 439979, member: 8"] The original meaning of camp was intentionally flamboyant and exaggerated. I don't know when it changed to [B]un[/B]intentional, or why, and then after a while they started to stage/fake that unintentional camp which is absolutely the worst. Awesomely bad films exist and the appeal is not just in the ineptitude (like most bad films) but also in the complete lack of awareness of how bad it is. Untalented people with enough money to fund a film, combined with the delusional approach to what makes a film a good film (or just [I]watchable[/I]) often results in hilarious overacting and all kinds of shoddy techniques. Obviously, these are not the kind of conditions you'd expect to see in a Joan Crawford or any typical Hollywood film, and when it happens it's mostly just disappointing. Angela Channing has the leverage, Eva Phillips has not. It's not her mill, she's just an in-law with a bad attitude. It's the equivalent of Sue Ellen terrorising the Ewings based on a "just because" premise. Not once did I get the impression that she actually had any kind of power, she doesn't even blackmail any of the characters. There's a blink and you'll miss it suicide but perhaps it was better to ignore it because the reason for that suicide is seriously questionable. Lovely cousin Jennifer with the squeaky voice is top level hateable. I wanted Joan to [I]stamp [/I] her to death. It's just failure on top of failure and it goes on and on. [/QUOTE]

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