good-bad

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Adjective

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good-bad (comparative more good-bad, superlative most good-bad)

  1. (film, literature) Enjoyably schlocky, poor in quality but nonetheless compelling.
    • 1945, November 2. George Orwell, "Good Bad Books", Tribune, 2 November.
      The existence of good bad literature--the fact that one can be amused or excited or even moved by a book that one's intellect simply refuses to take seriously--is a reminder that art is not the same thing as cerebration.
    • 2014, Sarah Nilsen, Projecting America, 1958, McFarland:
      Touch of Evil is not a good movie, but it is a good bad movie, which is more fun than the mediocre or even the adequate.
    • 2015, July 6, David Fear et al, 25 Best Modern Exploitation Movies. Rolling Stone.
      Is Showgirls good-bad or just bad-bad?
    • 2019 November 29, Donald Clarke, “The Two Popes: one giant leap of faith”, in The Irish Times:
      The Shoes of the Fisherman is a good-bad film that owes no duty to history or to what were then current affairs.