I'd say the majority of film and television productions are just as cheesy, but far less creative about it. Many of those cheesy productions receive mainstream and critical success.
I'll admit that critically successful novels tend to have less fromage, but visual stories like film, television, and even video games seem to almost require a little quick and dirty campiness to get the story across in their more limited time frames.
Although you throw Bioshock in with other video games as being kind of tacky, most of the reviews I've seen have praised the emotional depth of the title. Isn't emotional depth the biggest distinction between your typical critically successful video game and your typical critically successful film?
"The worst part about these reviews is they are [subjective]--and their scores often depend on how drunk you got the media at a Street Fighter event." — Mona Hamilton, Capcom Senior VP of Marketing
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