Friends, do you feel that sometimes you don't have to read reviews or ask friends to know that a certain film is not worth watching? No? Then the crypt as a practical reference and pocket guide has 17 references to the fact that the film is really big junk:
- The poster does not advertise with the name of a star, director, producer but only with "from the producers of..."
- The film runs in 3D
- A black comedian plays multiple characters and / or some extremely overweight woman
- It's a "challenging film," promoted with mass media reviews, and one that your aunt, who was last seen on Out of Africa, has heard about
- The film is being promoted as a scandalous film that shocks the US audience with its sexual permissiveness
- Adam Sandler plays along
- On the DVD cover, after the names of the unknown actors, there are several films in brackets that are also hardly known and in which the "stars" were at best decorative
- Michael Bay made the film, knows the director, knows some crew member or is in some other way connected to the film
- The film's advertising shows interviews with enthusiastic viewers or pictures of screaming audiences in the cinema
- All the movies where guys from «How I met your mother» appear
- A rapper plays a major or minor role
- It's the film version of a very successful TV series from the 60s or 70s
- The two Jennifers (Aniston or Lopez) play along
- It's a family-friendly comedy with a once good stand-up comedian about mix-ups, children or marriage
- The script credit contains more than three names
- The synopsis contains the sentence "...the inspiring story of..."
- The director's name is Uwe Boll