trashterpieceとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

trashterpiece (plural trashterpieces)

1. (slang) A film, book, or other work that is widely regarded as poor, but still admired by some.
   • 1998, Kevin J. Lindenmuth, How to Make Movies: Low-Budget/No-Budget Indie Experts Tell All, McFarland, →ISBN, page 168:

     The average consumer would much rather buy a slick Hollywood production over the latest shot-on-video “trashterpiece” by someone like yours truly. As the independent moviemaker dealt with these blows, the proliferation of bit torrent downloading added further insult to injury. Suddenly everything you had ever released was posted on the 'net and available as an absolutely FREE download to anyone who really wanted it!

   • 2001 November 26, Ted Farlow, “"What's the Frequency Kenneth" saga continues...”, in rec.music.rem (Usenet):

     Our theory: Tager saw Ed Wood's 1958 trashterpiece, "Plan 9 From Outer Space," which, yes, contains the line: "Kenneth, what is the frequency?"

   • 2004 December 24, Lili2, “Feud continues with Jackie and Joan Collins”, in alt.showbiz.gossip (Usenet):

     The two didn't like each other even before Joan started horning in on Jackie's turf by writing her own steamy trashterpieces. Joan told friends the other night that her latest book, "Misfortune's Daughters," out in February, is about a rivalry between showbiz sisters.

   • 2006, Douglas Brode, Elvis Cinema and Popular Culture, McFarland, →ISBN, page 161:

     […] fears, frustrations and fantasies crystallized into what Warhol might have tagged a mid–'60s “trashterpiece.”

   • 2012, Tom Weaver, A Sci-Fi Swarm and Horror Horde: Interviews with 62 Filmmakers, McFarland, →ISBN, page 347:

     […] stock footage, boring cliches, more stock footage, a fourth-rate pop score, kiddie show–level Martian surface sets, and skinny, crooked stalks representing one-eyed monsters who operate out of an appearing-disappearing sphere (one reviewer likened it to “a rolled-up ball of aluminum foil”!). Instead of debuting on TV as originally intended, this interstellar trashterpiece instead received theatrical release from Allied Artists several months following the February 1968 suicide of Adams.

   • 2019, Brian Raftery, Best. Movie. Year. Ever. How 1999 Blew Up the Big Screen, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 57:

     Reeves had recently completed the trashterpiece Devil's Advocate for Warner Bros., starring as a lawyer who goes up against Satan.