I've watched close to 2000 movies and I love small budget movies. If a movie is good, a movie is good. That's all there is to it. And sometimes a movie is so "bad" that it is "good," like Plan 9 From Outer Space.
I typically judge small budget movies by a slightly different standard. I also judge action movie by a slightly different standard. I also judge chick flicks by a slightly different standard. I also judge comedies by a slightly different standard.
I'm the same way with artists who aren't quite so well known. I typically expect something different from them than I do mainstream artists, typically for them to be more adventuresome with their music and do more innovative things.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
