In 2008, a writer named Nolahn (a.k.a. "Scot Nolan," as he's known in virtually ever other facet of his life) launched The Bargain Bin Review into the great abyss of The Internets. His mission was to take on the movies no one else would touch: impossibly bad feature films, Direct-to-DVD disasters and box office atrocities. It was glorious.
Sadly, not all that is glorious can’t stay gold forever. After a number of years, Nolahn put away his movie reviewin’ tools and allowed The Bargain Bin Review to go the way of Gawker and Bebo and Vine while he tried his hand at other things.
But is anything ever really gone forever anymore? We’ve already seen the return of Saved By the Bell and Will & Grace and Gossip Girl and Pretty Little Liars and Quantum Leap and Law and Order and Beavis and Butt-Head and (The Fresh Prince of) Bel-Air and The Kardashians and Mystery Science Theater 3000 – and that was just in 2022, a year that is still in progress as of this writing.
So why not The Bargain Bin Review?
The ’Bin’s Rating System
Rating systems are arbitrary and largely pointless, but people love ‘em so here we are. Rather than rating movies – or whatever we feel like reviewing in this space – based on such things as “quality” and “artistic value,” we’re going to rate based on enjoyment. After all, there’s no question that Schindler’s List is a better film than Face/Off, but which would you rather watch?
Also, we scale on 0 to 5 asterisks. Why asterisks? Why expect a place called The Bargain Bin Review to have fancy little doo-dads for its rating scale?
***** Absolute Bliss
**** A Grand Ol’ Time
*** Liked It More Than Not
** Disliked It More Than Not
* Misery
-- Actively Infuriating
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