Films are "polarizing" for many reasons, and this article attempts to categorize some of them - Low-Budget Cult Classics, Inescapable Franchise Films, Horror Mo

Films are "polarizing" for many reasons, and this article attempts to categorize some of them - Low-Budget Cult Classics, Inescapable Franchise Films, Horror Movies That Went Mainstream... But there is one film in that list that defies categorization along those lines, and it happens to be the only film in it I have watched and enjoyed multiple times. A film quietly ignored by all the discussion. That film is Babe: Pig in the City. I am not eloquent enough to unpack what makes this film special. Fortunately, someone else is, and you can read their take here: https://junkee.com/babe-pig-in-the-city/299986 https://junkee.com/babe-pig-in-the-city/299986 . Some excerpts: "a fetish object made to satisfy a sexual proclivity that does not yet exist", "some hideous goo scraped off the surface of the human id", "What You Think About Babe: Pig In The City Tells Me What You Think About Art", and "essentially purposeless in its horrifying nature". It strikes me that the common feature that connects Babe: Pig In the City and the other categories the article mentions is a mismatch between the expected and received amount of "art house-iness". An arty film thrust into the mainstream through organic hype? Polarizing. A bland high budget corporate thing popular through the sheer weight of overmarketing? Polarizing. A haunting and wildly tonally inconsistent study of the crushing weight of society upon the underprivileged marketed as the sequel to a beloved and uncomplicated children's film with talking farm animals? Polarizing...