So Bad It's Good

Looks as if The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift will be as awesomely bad as it looks, though not, unfortunately, as awesomely bad as the original Vin Diesel, erm, vehicle. I have to confess an unrepentant love for these types of lowbrow guy soaps. Sure, they’re the epitome of awful, but they’ve often got a refreshing honesty to them. They arrive with the sole ambition of delivering the absurdly macho, action-heavy goods sans any artistic pretension, and for the most part, they succeed. Occasionally, as with some of the early John Carpenter films or recent Guillermo Del Toro movies, they actually transcend their humble origins and become, if not exactly art, at least damn fine popular moviemaking. Who’s up for back to back viewings of The Thing and Hellboy?