Enjoyment of trash films linked to high intelligence, study finds

“To such viewers, trash films appear as an interesting and welcome deviation from the mainstream fare”, says Sarkhosh.

For the first time, academics have delved into this phenomenon, with the journal Poetics this week publishing a study entitled ‘Enjoying trash films: Underlying features, viewing stances, and experiential response dimensions’.

Now we just need a study on ‘okay films’, so I can work out why the hell I’ve seen the Bourne films 300 times.