Superb television was reduced to a mediocre movie.

This man is an idiot, wants attention for his new mediocre movie or is truly mean.

"My Girl," which opened Wednesday, is only a mediocre movie.

"Would you rather hire the new talent or a middle-range director who's done seven or eight mediocre movies?"

This is the same principle that makes mediocre movies that you stumble across on cable seem better than they would have in a theater.

Studios, they say, are no longer willing to promote a mediocre movie heavily in the hope that marketing alone will push it to blockbuster status.

Objectively, it is a mediocre movie at best.

Subjectively, it is one of the best mediocre movies you'll ever see.

It took 10 smart and talented people to come up with a mediocre movie.

But the question remains: why work so hard to make something deliberately bad, when the world is hardly running a shortage of mediocre movies?