Product Description

We’ve all heard that, “you learn more from failure than you do from success.” Which means that all those hours spent watching crappy movies wasn’t a waste of your precious and ever-dwindling life span; it was an education! And Better Living Through Bad Movies can show you how to extract the profound, life-affirming lessons from films like Battlefield Earth, Coyote Ugly, and Indecent Proposal.

In over 50 hilarious reviews, the authors show how you can use the worst movies ever made to improve your sex life (it involves cardboard cutouts and clog dancing), Apocalypse-proof your home (using the following materials: John Travolta, Kevin Costner, Sylvester Stallone and more Kevin Costner), and win omnipotence and a Happy Meal by solving Satan’s Junior Jumble. You will also discover how to forge a love that will last a lifetime (by dating the moribund), use films like Batman and Robin and Star Wars: The Phantom Menace as grief counseling, and conquer the world using common fruit bats and dry cleaning fluid. And most important of all, you’ll learn Hollywood’s Ultimate Secret: Why Beaches and Armageddon are actually the exact same movie.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #253192 in Books
• Published on: 2006-06-11
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 226 pages

About the Author
Scott Clevenger is a former columnist for Razor magazine and a script doctor who is familiar with the sausage-making process of film production in intimate, Upton Sinclair-like detail. He lives in Hollywood and is personally acquainted with the guy who hangs around the Chinese Theater and aggressively panhandles in a Tickle Me Elmo costume.

Sheri Zollinger spent 15 years in the CIA’s Office of Counter-intelligence, and is now officially counter intelligence. She currently writes the political humor weblog World O’ Crap (world-o-crap.com), which has been cited by MSNBC, CNN, The Washington Post and other news organizations that ought to know better.

She lives in an undisclosed location with a classified number of pets.

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Customer Reviews

Hilarious. A must for bad movie lovers and MST3k Fans
If you're like me (and I know I am, and you've wondered why bad movies are made, wonder no more! Bad Movies are made to teach us life lessons! That's right--they teach us the lessons that Oprah and Dr. Phil missed!

Its full of great life lessons and hilarious snark! (Check out the chapter about "RedDawn" for lovely snarkieness on the Bushes!)

Be careful where you read it, though. I laughed out loud on the bus so many times, I got dirty looks from the driver!

This is just a great, funny book. A definite must read for bad movie lovers and MST3k fans (like me)

Couldn't Put This Down!
I rarely read books about the movies, especially bad ones, but this book, I couldn't put down! It's is witty, wise, insightful and will cure the common cold and Brewer's Droop.

Made me laugh out loud so hard that I needed Poise pads!
I'll never forget the day last fall when this wonder of the written word, this pulp-based pulchritudinous prose, this book among books, arrived in the mail. It's been a long time (since Hunter Thompson, Lewis Grizzard, and Erma Bombeck died, anyway) since a book made me laugh out-loud, but this one did the trick.

I've always enjoyed Scott & S.Z.'s movie-reviews-as-geopolitical-discourse pieces at World O'Crap [...], but to have them in more-portable, curl-up-in-bed-and-laugh-yourself-silly, take-it-anywhere-and-annoy-the-people-in-the-waiting-room format was a great boon to my reading life. The title alone was enough to impress my former doctor, a barely-shaving young tot who specialized in "pain management." Hopefully he'll fork over some of his Medicare riches and buy a few copies.

This book is an ideal gift for anyone who's ever liked movies, political commentary, or who has a sense of humor. And even for those stick-in-the-mud in-laws who have less humor than a wet diaper, this book is still a winner --- they may not get ALL of the jokes, but they'll at least give themselves a migraine in the pursuit, so it's the gift that keeps on giving!

When I can, I plan to keep a case of Better Living Through Bad Movies by the front door, to help educate & enlighten wayward Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses, and Amway salespeople. Also very useful for flogging the aforementioned people over the head when they JUST WON'T LISTEN.

If I could generate the interest and tax shelters, I believe that we could start a whole new cult based on Better Living Through Bad Movies --- as long as the critters at S.Z.'s house get to benefit from the fundraisers, and we can set up our own compound out in the undisclosed wilderness (but sure as hell not in WACO!!) --- Better Living Through Bad Movies could become a whole new way of life!

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