Name Your Favorite Terrible Movies [Archive]

Gail Simone

08-01-2010, 01:01 AM

I just watched 2012 again on Netflix streaming, a movie I didn't like that much the first time I saw it.

Strangely, I kinda liked it better the second time, where I could just enjoy the destruction and dumb popcorn-ness of it all, whereas the first time, I kept getting surprised by the awful stupidity of the script and characters.

So what movies suck, but you still kind of enjoy them?

WhiteRose

08-01-2010, 01:05 AM

Ethan Van Sciver

08-01-2010, 01:07 AM

Cam63

08-01-2010, 01:07 AM

Nick died in the arse ?

Maybe he wanted it that way.

Matthew Brown

08-01-2010, 01:14 AM

... Ok, this is probably something that will make me a target, but here it goes.

League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

I know, I know, it butchered the comic, and was god awful for a million reasons besides... But it's just so damn entertaining for some reason I can't even explain. Something about the cast, the plot, the action, the special effects, the inelegantly placed literary references and the total lack of regard for the source material just makes it the perfect storm of ridiculousness.

leafinsectman

08-01-2010, 01:18 AM

Off the top of my head, the Dolph Lundgren Punisher.

I wanted to say Commando as well but then I realised that in no way is it a terrible movie :D

Cam63

08-01-2010, 01:23 AM

I wanted to say Commando as well but then I realised that in no way is it a terrible movie :D

The wardrobe, military advisory and soundtrack says otherwise.

c. page

08-01-2010, 01:29 AM

even though they are not good movies in the slightest, i still have a soft spot for con air, armageddon, and gone in 60 seconds. guilty pleasures of the highest sort.

Cam63

08-01-2010, 01:32 AM

They were what they were.

Matthew Brown

08-01-2010, 01:35 AM

even though they are not good movies in the slightest, i still have a soft spot for con air, armageddon, and gone in 60 seconds. guilty pleasures of the highest sort.

Hah, Armageddon. I bought into that movie wholesale as a kid watching it in theaters. The ending blew my mind, it was like "How the fuck do they kill Bruce Willis?" But less those exact words, and more blubbering.

BnL

08-01-2010, 01:37 AM

Elvira: Mistress of the Dark

Drop Dead Fred

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (which I only found out was a bad movie a few years ago, via internet ;))

BnL

08-01-2010, 01:40 AM

even though they are not good movies in the slightest, i still have a soft spot for con air, armageddon, and gone in 60 seconds. guilty pleasures of the highest sort.

LOL, I first saw Con Air when I was like 13, and thought it was awesome. Then the other night, I watched it on cable for the first time in over a decade and realized what a bad movie it really is. But it's still fun though.

Hate_Prime

08-01-2010, 02:11 AM

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Gail Simone

08-01-2010, 02:52 AM

I like Nick Cage. WILD AT HEART is enough to forgive him for countless sins.

My favorite terrible movies are all on MST3K, except for the entire catalog of Arch Hall Jr. Particularly Wild Guitar, which is the finest film I've ever seen 100 times.

Okay, now here's the thing. I only knew him from MST3k where he's always unbearable and awful and horrible.

But a couple years back I saw him in one of the most terrifying and disturbing performances I'd ever seen in a black and white film. He plays a murdering punk kid with an obnoxious girlfriend who holds some innocent people hostage just long enough to fix his car, then he plans to kill them.

Then, one scene that is just devastating and he plays it amazingly, is he makes this professor guy get on his knees and Arch stands in front of him with a root beer bottle, and he says that when he finishes the root beer, he's going to shoot the man.

So we watch the entire scene with the professor waiting, while he delightedly drinks from the root beer, then he SHOOTS the professor blam in the head, dead as a doornail.

I swear, that film gave me nightmares. Does this ring a bell? Is it the same guy? Because he was AMAZING in that film.

Tobias M

08-01-2010, 03:25 AM

The Big Hit. Sisko shouts in Japanes and Marky Wahlberg getting romantic with a turkey.

It's so wrong, I love it.

ShaunN

08-01-2010, 03:26 AM

pseudicide

08-01-2010, 03:33 AM

Grease 2. No, really. I love it.

~Dee

AlienKeyes

08-01-2010, 03:44 AM

Okay, now here's the thing. I only knew him from MST3k where he's always unbearable and awful and horrible.

But a couple years back I saw him in one of the most terrifying and disturbing performances I'd ever seen in a black and white film. He plays a murdering punk kid with an obnoxious girlfriend who holds some innocent people hostage just long enough to fix his car, then he plans to kill them.

Then, one scene that is just devastating and he plays it amazingly, is he makes this professor guy get on his knees and Arch stands in front of him with a root beer bottle, and he says that when he finishes the root beer, he's going to shoot the man.

So we watch the entire scene with the professor waiting, while he delightedly drinks from the root beer, then he SHOOTS the professor blam in the head, dead as a doornail.

I swear, that film gave me nightmares. Does this ring a bell? Is it the same guy? Because he was AMAZING in that film.

"The Sadist" is the title of the movie you're talking about Gail. It's a totally rad flick.

Stressfactor

08-01-2010, 03:54 AM

Godzilla movies. It probably goes without saying that all Godzilla fans have to have an appreciation for really bad monster movies. But, still, Godzilla himself manages to transcends his own films!

BTW, there may be a new, American version of Godzilla coming out in 2012! Maybe it will finally make up for that abomination starring Matthew Broderick from 1998. That was a terrible movie, too, but there was nothing enjoyable about it.Do not speak of the Broderick GINO film. Ugh. Terrible.

Godzilla movies tend to make *slightly* more sense when viewed in the original Japanese.... but not much. And the two BEST crappy things out of ANY Godzilla movie were "Jett Jaguar" and "King Ceasar".

Aside from that, my favorite 'so bad and yet entertaining' movie probably is "The Phantom" with Billy Zane.

Stressfactor

08-01-2010, 03:55 AM

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I couldn't even SIT through this movie although that was largely because I was born and raised in the Midwest and we know from tornados. What they had in this movie were NOT tornados.

Cassandra

08-01-2010, 04:33 AM

Any of the Jurassic Park movies after the first one!

WhiteRose

08-01-2010, 04:59 AM

OOH OOH I JUST REMEMBERED ANOTHER ONE.

Street Fighter.

My gods, that shit was amazing. And by 'amazing' I mean 'an amazingly hot mess'.

suedenim

08-01-2010, 05:16 AM

Armstrong (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0139029/), a 1998 Frank Zagarino vehicle made by one of the founders of Cannon Films.

This thing is hilariously awful on a whole bunch of different levels. The general incompetence of the hero is one thing that stands out in my memory - other people surprise him in his own apartment at least three times, I believe (once by his girlfriend, twice by bad guys), and the girlfriend (*not* an "Action Girl" type character) seems better at escape and evasion than he is.

Filmed in Bulgaria subbing for Russia, which is actually one of the movie's better points (both nations use the Cyrillic alphabet, and Bulgaria's one of those countries you don't see much of in movies.)

pseudicide

08-01-2010, 05:18 AM

OOH OOH I JUST REMEMBERED ANOTHER ONE.

Street Fighter.

My gods, that shit was amazing. And by 'amazing' I mean 'an amazingly hot mess'.

Oh gods. That reminds me of Mortal Kombat! I'm so sad that was Raul Julia's last movie, but I love it.

FemGeek

08-01-2010, 05:19 AM

Hawk the Slayer! C'mon, you all know it's awesomecrapular.

The Machine Girl; so stoopid it's amazing.

Assault of Darkness; I got immense enjoyment out of watching this. So friggin awful and so many pointless mistakes. It centres around a bog, which actually isnt a bog! Well done movie!

Infra-Man

08-01-2010, 05:21 AM

Gymkata
Death Wish 3
American Ninja
The Apple
Troll 2
Billy Jack
Over the Top
Rocky IV

WhiteRose

08-01-2010, 05:22 AM

Oh gods. That reminds me of Mortal Kombat! I'm so sad that was Raul Julia's last movie, but I love it.

IKR? Deeply depressing. After every viewing of Street Fighter I watch The Addams Family Values to stop the weeping.

pseudicide

08-01-2010, 05:22 AM

The Cube

*sigh*

Thequeerjock

08-01-2010, 05:25 AM

OOH OOH I JUST REMEMBERED ANOTHER ONE.

Street Fighter.

My gods, that shit was amazing. And by 'amazing' I mean 'an amazingly hot mess'.

Ya know, I'd read jokes about it for years in video game magazines, and nothing quite prepared me for it when I saw it.

I mean, what sort of genius has the guts to take a fighting game...called STREET FIGHTER nonetheless...and remove pretty much all of the martial arts except for the last five minutes?!

danlomb

08-01-2010, 05:37 AM

Grease 2. No, really. I love it.

~Dee

I'll be damned if I can watch it and not end up singing the bowling song for the rest of the week :mad:

pseudicide

08-01-2010, 05:41 AM

I'll be damned if I can watch it and not end up singing the bowling song for the rest of the week :mad:

Hahaha, us too. Back home (Canuckistania, southern ontario to be precise) we used to go bowling sometimes, and we'd always end up breaking out into it.

Damn. It's in my head now.

~Dee

Stressfactor

08-01-2010, 05:53 AM

Ya know, I'd read jokes about it for years in video game magazines, and nothing quite prepared me for it when I saw it.

I mean, what sort of genius has the guts to take a fighting game...called STREET FIGHTER nonetheless...and remove pretty much all of the martial arts except for the last five minutes?!

Super Mario Bros... with Bob Hoskins (slumming) and John Leguizamo

Double Dragon... with Scott Wolf because he was popular on "Party of Five".

I think Hollywood had some kind of collective stroke when it came to video game movies.

Thequeerjock

08-01-2010, 05:56 AM

Super Mario Bros... with Bob Hoskins (slumming) and John Leguizamo

Double Dragon... with Scott Wolf because he was popular on "Party of Five".

I think Hollywood had some kind of collective stroke when it came to video game movies.

Silent Hill was fair. And I've found if you turn off your brain and watch it real late, Mortal Kombat isn't all that bad either.

Still, you'd think by now we'd have at least ONE really good video game movie.

WhiteRose

08-01-2010, 05:58 AM

Silent Hill was fair. And I've found if you turn off your brain and watch it real late, Mortak Kombat isn't all that bad either.

Still, you'd think by now we'd have at least ONE really good video game movie.

I kinda like the Resident Evil franchise of movies?

I think that has more to do with Milla Jovovich in knee-high boots than actual storytelling, though.

FemGeek

08-01-2010, 06:05 AM

Oh, how could I have forgotten to mention Chopper Chicks in Zombie Town! My most favourite terrible movie, and one of my most favourite regular movies. It's so terrible and so glorious. I think I'll watch it again later.

t.c.johnson

08-01-2010, 06:56 AM

Tranformers. It is just an excuse to have giant robots fight but on the plus side it has giant robots fighting.

Ghost Rider. I can't help it, o like that movie.

UltimateFactor

08-01-2010, 07:14 AM

Twins With Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito.

Shisho

08-01-2010, 07:16 AM

One of the reasons I fell in love with my husband was that he was one of maybe two or three people I had ever met who had not only seen North Shore, but could quote it. Yes, it's an awful 80's formula flick, but I love it.

Also, the second Vampire$ movie with Jon Bon Jovi is pure eye candy joy, with a totally random shirtless scene. Love!

ReverendDodd

08-01-2010, 07:17 AM

Death Race 2000. It's schlock but it's awesome.

The Hunter

08-01-2010, 07:41 AM

Resident Evil Apocalypse: Jill and Alice where sexy and it had action...

X3 X-Men United: Storm was sexy and Wolverine kicked ass in this film.

Daredevil: I can't explain this one I just like the film

Batman Forever: Val Kilmer's my favorite live Bat

RebootedCorpse

08-01-2010, 08:58 AM

David Cronenberg's The Brood!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSfZunKpRVM

The Crushtacean

08-01-2010, 09:08 AM

David Cronenberg's The Brood!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSfZunKpRVM

Hey, that movie was good! Well, tolerable, with good parts.

c. page

08-01-2010, 10:38 AM

The Unholy Dragon

08-01-2010, 10:49 AM

Anything directed by Uwe Boll.

House of the Dead is the best insanely bad one while Postal is the best of 'em, being actually quite good in the same way that Drawn Together is.

sk716

08-01-2010, 10:50 AM

Clash of the Titans, the original. Not the new one which tries to be very serious and not campy at all and totally misses the point of the movie that inspired it going so far as to piss on the legend that inspired the original. Io is a freaking COW!!!

Teal_Lantern

08-01-2010, 11:12 AM

Woah, Temple of Doom and Twins are bad now? :(

My own would be the new Clash of the Titans, pretty weak film, but man, there was an action movie that knew it was an action movie. Never tried to some lame romance subplot or anything, just an excuse to watch people fighting.

EDIT: Strange, I just noticed the post above mine

Oh gods. That reminds me of Mortal Kombat! I'm so sad that was Raul Julia's last movie, but I love it.

If it's any consolation, I heard that he had a lot of fun doing that film.

Mark Waid

08-01-2010, 11:40 AM

Girl Happy with Elvis Presley. The "best" of the Elvis movies. I could watch this ten times a year. HEY, DOES THIS COUNT AS MY %^#&# FIRST POST SO I CAN NOW START A THREAD? Rules make my head hurt.

ZimMan2

08-01-2010, 12:11 PM

Godzilla vs. Megalon Jet Jaguar is the shit.

Ghost Rider No idea why, I just have a fondness for it.

Destroy All Planets is also quite fun.

Death Kappa, a film that has not yet been released in the US, has some dull spots, but when it hits, it hits hard.

And the aforementioed The Room is a masterwork of unintentional comedy. "They betray me, they didn't keep their promise, they trick me and I don't care anymore."

stealthwise

08-01-2010, 01:13 PM

Dude Where's My Car?

Stupid, repetitive jokes, bad acting, ridiculous plot that shifts direction halfway through and makes no sense, and a bit of a cop-out ending. I watch it at least once a year and laugh.

I also saw the Waterboy for the first time in 10 years and experienced the coolest case of cognitive dissonance ever: the entire time the back of my now-better-educated mind was picking apart the entire absurdity of the whole movie (especially the part where they tell Bobby he's not going to play tomorrow, or tonight, and then he plays several days later, when the hell was that game?), and the entire time having the rest of my nostalgia-soaked mind scream back "WHO CARES? DUUURRRR, it's the Waterboy! I gotta wooden spooooon!" and "Ben Franklin is the Devil!" Serious LOL moments throughout.

Also, almost forgot Dreamcatcher, which is filmed in my current town and is just plain bad, once the first 15 or 20 minutes is over it gets into MT3K territory, and makes for great drunken foolishness.

SecretSixer_416

08-01-2010, 01:22 PM

"The Room" is an excellent drinking game movie.

As is "Wicker Man". Or any Nicolas Cage movie. Oh Nicolas Cage, the only movie I enjoy you in is "Kickass". Because you weren't in it very long and you died in the end.

I did like the "Wicker Man" but just can't get past that ending. I feel like Shutter Island was the same let down.

stealthwise

08-01-2010, 01:23 PM

i did like the "wicker man" but just can't get past that ending. I feel like shutter island was the same let down.

"my god! The bees! They're in my eyes!"

SecretSixer_416

08-01-2010, 01:26 PM

"my god! The bees! They're in my eyes!"

"Prepare the drone!"

Capt. Obtuse

08-01-2010, 01:48 PM

Off the top of my head, I gotta go with Daredevil, Con Air, and Howard the Duck. The first two are considered bad movies, but I don't see it. I understand why the third has that reputation, but I really enjoyed it. I own all three on DVD.

Scotty

08-01-2010, 02:07 PM

Phantasm II is my favorite Terrible Movie. It's so damn fun.

Tyburn

08-01-2010, 02:15 PM

Tremors

The Negotiator

Breakin 2: Electric Boogaloo

Fletch Lives

Bedlam66

08-01-2010, 02:38 PM

Gleaming the Cube

Adam Witt

08-01-2010, 02:45 PM

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Tyburn

08-01-2010, 03:00 PM

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YES!
Who's the master, Leroy?
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Adam Witt

08-01-2010, 03:03 PM

YES!
Who's the master, Leroy?
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The baddest mofo low-down around this town. :thumb:

Shurato2099

08-01-2010, 03:24 PM

Well, a lot of my favorite 'bad' movies have been listed here already:
Mortal Kombat
Street Fighter
The Phantom
The Shadow
Anything with Godzilla in it
Ghost Rider
The Last Dragon
The Lost Empire
Lots of old kung-fu movies
Battle Beyond the Stars (aka The Magnificent Seven in Spaaaaaaace! )

... the list goes on and on.

BnL

08-01-2010, 03:40 PM

Woah, Temple of Doom and Twins are bad now? :(

I never thought Temple of Doom was bad, but I got the impression from online interactions over the years that it is widely believed to be bad in the Indiana Jones fandom.

Stressfactor

08-01-2010, 03:57 PM

I never thought Temple of Doom was bad, but I got the impression from online interactions over the years that it is widely believed to be bad in the Indiana Jones fandom.It's not that bad really.... and when you put it up against "Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" it looks positively brilliant.

And "Daredevil: The Director's Cut" is better than the original not least because it at least closes some plot holes left by poor editing.

jason hissong

08-01-2010, 03:57 PM

Masters of the Universe.

It was my first film in theater experience when I was 7 or so.

It's terrible.

Except for Frank Langella as Skeletor. I'll never get tired of that.

Stressfactor

08-01-2010, 04:01 PM

I forgot to add that I actually rather enjoy the Ang Lee "Hulk" movie. The 'Hulk Dogs' are dumb, true, but the rest of the film really isn't as bad as most people paint it. The trick is the way to look at it. Most people want to look at it as a comic book movie or at least an action-adventure movie. If you do that you'll be disappointed. If you look at it as a chick flick about relationships it does a pretty good job.

pseudicide

08-01-2010, 04:17 PM

Thequeerjock

08-01-2010, 04:23 PM

I love Con Air!

You ever seen Dogma?

Teal_Lantern

08-01-2010, 04:25 PM

Zeu

08-01-2010, 04:59 PM

Mortal Combat

Infra-Man

08-01-2010, 05:11 PM

Phantasm II is my favorite Terrible Movie. It's so damn fun.

It's my favorite of the series, oddly enough. Reggie with a four-barrel shotgun? Hells yes.

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Hey, my man, what it look like? Last Dragon is great! Totally not terrible.

Dream

08-01-2010, 05:21 PM

Spider-man 3. Not sure why.

Treacle

08-01-2010, 05:24 PM

Van Helsing

stealthwise

08-01-2010, 05:34 PM

I actually really like the Ang Lee version. I loved the more reserved, almost a little psychological take on the Hulk that the movie had. Not great, but still pretty good.

Funny, I never considered it as a chick flick.

There's "psychology" and then there's dragging daddy issues films that have no sense of pacing whatsoever. The editing is what kills Lee's film for me, as there are useless cinematographic tricks that do nothing (the multiple shots of helicopters, the few "panels" that jump out yet are more jarring than impacting), and the pacing is a result of that. This movie needed to have at least 40 minutes chopped off of it.

ZimMan2

08-01-2010, 05:48 PM

Mortal Kombat

Fixed. Words cannot describe the failure of putting a "C" in that title.

Teal_Lantern

08-01-2010, 05:55 PM

Funny, I never considered it as a chick flick.

There's "psychology" and then there's dragging daddy issues films that have no sense of pacing whatsoever. The editing is what kills Lee's film for me, as there are useless cinematographic tricks that do nothing (the multiple shots of helicopters, the few "panels" that jump out yet are more jarring than impacting), and the pacing is a result of that. This movie needed to have at least 40 minutes chopped off of it.

It wasn't that well done, but still took a psychological take on the Hulk. And I still enjoy the atmosphere that the movie made.

Also, here's another movie that I liked but kinda sucked.

Superman Returns, by all rights I should have hated the film. They made a depressing and dark redux on the Donner films. Instead of making something original and fresh, they relied on the old movies. The film felt very un-Superman, and had some lame Lois Lane acting. But every time I see it, I enjoy the movie a lot, no idea why.

stealthwise

08-01-2010, 05:55 PM

It wasn't that well done, but still took a psychological take on the Hulk. And I still enjoy the atmosphere that the movie made.

Also, here's another movie that I liked but kinda sucked.

Superman Returns, by all rights I should have hated the film. They made a depressing and dark redux on the Donner films. Instead of making something original and fresh, they relied on the old movies. The film felt very un-Superman, and had some lame Lois Lane acting. But every time I see it, I enjoy the movie a lot, no idea why.

I actually like that one, more because it had potential to be something better, even though it falls apart in the final two acts.

ScandalSavage

08-01-2010, 06:02 PM

paul brian deberry

08-01-2010, 09:09 PM

It's gotta be Ice Pirates.

http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi1601110041/

coveredinbees

08-01-2010, 09:10 PM

Fear

c. page

08-01-2010, 10:32 PM

The Devil's Advocate. No matter when it is on TBS (and for awhile it seemed it was on once a week) I will watch it. It's just crazy bad. And Al Pacino doesn't just chew the scenery he makes a four course meal out of it.

yeah, i enjoy the hell out of that movie far more than i should.

i mean, come on, you get keanu reeves attempting a southern accent...

Tobias M

08-01-2010, 11:14 PM

It's gotta be Ice Pirates.

http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi1601110041/

I've always wanted to see this. My love of terrible movies is strong.

killthegrizz

08-01-2010, 11:25 PM

The Devil's Advocate. No matter when it is on TBS (and for awhile it seemed it was on once a week) I will watch it. It's just crazy bad. And Al Pacino doesn't just chew the scenery he makes a four course meal out of it.

Devil's Advocate is sheer genius. That movie was the tipping point for me in liking Keanu Reeves. I suppose you could call it "bad", but I swear it'd be cake write an academic essay on its merits :)

dmh3000

08-02-2010, 12:18 AM

I found the Street Fighter movie to be amusing. Mars Attacks as well. I think there are a couple of awful kids movies I liked, but I can't remember them at the moment.

Tyr

08-02-2010, 01:32 AM

Underworld, people keep telling me its bad but for some reason I still like it. Also the Big Hit, one of Walhberg's earlier films.

I found the Street Fighter movie to be amusing. Mars Attacks as well. I think there are a couple of awful kids movies I liked, but I can't remember them at the moment.

Well now that I think about it there are couple of good reasons to like that movie.

Craig C

08-02-2010, 02:38 AM

Both Guyver movies for me yeah they're bad but what can I say I like 'em

Cam63

08-02-2010, 03:21 AM

Girl Happy with Elvis Presley. The "best" of the Elvis movies. I could watch this ten times a year. HEY, DOES THIS COUNT AS MY %^#&# FIRST POST SO I CAN NOW START A THREAD? Rules make my head hurt.

Hey, you're Mark Waid.

You could probably get away with eating orphans.

Cam63

08-02-2010, 03:27 AM

I never thought Temple of Doom was bad, but I got the impression from online interactions over the years that it is widely believed to be bad in the Indiana Jones fandom.

The future Mrs. Spielberg was pretty irritating.

Tobias M

08-02-2010, 03:29 AM

Hey, you're Mark Waid.

You could probably get away with eating orphans.

WHILE watching Elvis movies....that's really evil.

Cam63

08-02-2010, 03:49 AM

I love Con Air!

" Now wh-y couldn't yew put thuh bunnay back in thuh box ? "

XXXenophile

08-02-2010, 05:54 AM

Also, here's another movie that I liked but kinda sucked.

Superman Returns, by all rights I should have hated the film. They made a depressing and dark redux on the Donner films. Instead of making something original and fresh, they relied on the old movies. The film felt very un-Superman, and had some lame Lois Lane acting. But every time I see it, I enjoy the movie a lot, no idea why.

Probably for the same reason I do. At some point you just have to ignore the Donner retreading and just see it as a not so bad movie.

I saw it in the theater with a friend and we both were obviously not thrilled with it.

Then comes the scene where Superman goes out to stop all the various crimes and you get to the point where the robber shoots at him, you do the closeup of the bullet bouncing off his eye.

At which point a little boy in the dead quiet audience just simply goes "Wow." Chuckles then abound from all the grownups in the theater and I just had to turn off my brain from complaining and realize "This still works on its intended audience."

Then I found myself enjoying the movie more. Not enough to not go "C'mon a real estate scam AGAIN?" but definitely more.

XXXenophile

08-02-2010, 05:54 AM

It's gotta be Ice Pirates.

http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi1601110041/

Its all about the Passion Storm.

XXXenophile

08-02-2010, 05:56 AM

Masters of the Universe.

It was my first film in theater experience when I was 7 or so.

It's terrible.

Except for Frank Langella as Skeletor. I'll never get tired of that.

Watch it again only think of Skeletor as Darkseid, He-Man as Orion, and fill in the New Gods wherever you want.

Will blow your mind since some of that originally started that way.

XXXenophile

08-02-2010, 05:58 AM

Killer Klowns from Outer Space is definitely a classic in this category,

Infra-Man

08-02-2010, 06:01 AM

As trashy as they are, I do have a soft spot for the H. G. Lewis movies Two Thousand Maniacs and The Gore Gore Girls.

dmh3000

08-02-2010, 06:05 AM

Underworld, people keep telling me its bad but for some reason I still like it. Also the Big Hit, one of Walhberg's earlier films.

Well now that I think about it there are couple of good reasons to like that movie.

I quite liked it when Street Fighter was used in Kickassia. It just fit in so well.

Also, I liked Underworld too. I haven't actually heard people say it was bad, but I thought it was all right.

Gaelforce

08-02-2010, 06:26 AM

A lot of mine have already been mentioned (Tho' Dogma is NOT a bad movie - it's pure genius) but I'll add:

Zorro, the Gay Blade

Galaxina

Major Comma

08-02-2010, 06:47 AM

Just saw one of them.
The Avengers.
I think Sean Connery filmed League of Extraordinary Gentleman right after .
Maybe the quality of the roles he was being offered at that time led to his retirement.

Alexander Hamilton

08-02-2010, 08:42 AM

Don't know if its my favorite... but I just watched the Doom Generation.. and it was fantastic piece of exploitation.

XXXenophile

08-03-2010, 02:49 AM

A lot of mine have already been mentioned (Tho' Dogma is NOT a bad movie - it's pure genius) but I'll add:

Zorro, the Gay Blade

I just watched that movie for the first time ever a few weeks ago at a friends house. They couldn't believe I'd never seen it.

I just kept watching it mouth agape going "They did this to Zorro?"

Gaelforce

08-03-2010, 04:20 AM

I just watched that movie for the first time ever a few weeks ago at a friends house. They couldn't believe I'd never seen it.

I just kept watching it mouth agape going "They did this to Zorro?"

"Here I aaaaaam!!"

:)

Thequeerjock

08-03-2010, 04:27 AM

A lot of mine have already been mentioned (Tho' Dogma is NOT a bad movie - it's pure genius) but I'll add:

Zorro, the Gay Blade

Galaxina

Oh, I wasn't listing Dogma as a bad movie! I love it! I was referring to the scene where they find Chris Rock laid out in the middle of the highway and compare it to the guy getting thrown out of the plain in Con Air. Then he wakes up and screams out how badly Con Air sucked.

Jamal Igle

08-03-2010, 05:48 AM

McIntyre

08-03-2010, 07:36 AM

Dude Where's My Car?

Stupid, repetitive jokes, bad acting, ridiculous plot that shifts direction halfway through and makes no sense, and a bit of a cop-out ending. I watch it at least once a year and laugh.

Oh my god, I second this. The movie is so terrible but I can't help but laugh at it all the way through.

Even worse, all someone has to do to get me to break out in laughter is mention the tattoo scene ("DUDE!" "SWEET!").

Oh man, that's terrible.

Bedlam66

08-04-2010, 06:53 AM

It's gotta be Ice Pirates.

http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi1601110041/
I'll see your Ice Pirates and raise you Time Bandits.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avNSz8MxlGo

Infra-Man

08-04-2010, 07:00 AM

I'll see your Ice Pirates and raise you Time Bandits.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avNSz8MxlGo

Blasphemy if you're lumping Time Bandits into the terrible movies category! Time Bandits is one of Gilliam's best! It's intelligent enough for children and exciting enough for adults!

Capt. Obtuse

08-04-2010, 12:38 PM

I'll see your Ice Pirates and raise you Time Bandits.
Yeah, that's just crazy talk. Time Bandits is hardly a "bad" movie. 6.9 on IMDB and 94% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes. Nominated for half-a-dozen Saturn Awards and a Hugo. It's one of Gilliam's best. It's no Brazil, but it's certainly not The Brothers Grimm either.

MacQuarrie

08-04-2010, 01:49 PM

Galaxina
Love Galaxina! I saw it four times in one weekend when it was in the theatres. A friend dragged me to see it, swearing it was so bad it was good. I then dragged three people to see it. It's epic in its awfulness/greatness.

Others in the same category:

Battle Beyond the Stars ("John-Boy Meets the Magnificent Seven in Space")

Phantom of the Paradise

Robot Monster (in 3-D)

Infra-Man

08-04-2010, 02:03 PM

Yeah, that's just crazy talk. Time Bandits is hardly a "bad" movie. 6.9 on IMDB and 94% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes. Nominated for half-a-dozen Saturn Awards and a Hugo. It's one of Gilliam's best. It's no Brazil, but it's certainly not The Brothers Grimm either.

Nothing will be as indefensibly awful as Tideland. Brothers Grimm is like The Fisher King compared to Tideland. God, what an awful misstep.

Evan Waters

08-04-2010, 03:54 PM

Nothing will be as indefensibly awful as Tideland. Brothers Grimm is like The Fisher King compared to Tideland. God, what an awful misstep.

I liked Tideland a lot. It's not the most pleasant film, but it's really strong in capturing the girl's point of view, and how children tend to accept whatever their situation is as normal.

malOnine

08-04-2010, 04:09 PM

I was surprised to find I quite enjoyed "Faster Pussycat, Kill Kill!". On a trashy level, of course. But I enjoyed it as just a film as well.

Infra-Man

08-04-2010, 04:21 PM

I liked Tideland a lot. It's not the most pleasant film, but it's really strong in capturing the girl's point of view, and how children tend to accept whatever their situation is as normal.

I understand what the movie was trying to do, but the tone and point of view was off; like it never struck that balance between it's exploration of morbid fairy tale elements and the way children reorder their perception of reality when something traumatic happens. I didn’t buy the little girl as a viable or believable character because even if she is a little girl, I assumed there was probably some base level of self-awareness about what she’s facing. She is less a girl using her imagination as a coping mechanism to confront and perhaps master a dark and frightening world and more of an empty vehicle that drives the audience from one lurid thing to the next. It was like Pan's Labyrinth or The Reflecting Skin done wrong, combined with the sensationalism of Gummo. And to top that all off, you can't even watch the movie in its proper aspect ratio.

I will add that even though I hated Tideland, it was at least a more ambitious movie than Brothers Grimm.

dmh3000

08-04-2010, 06:21 PM

Oh my god, I second this. The movie is so terrible but I can't help but laugh at it all the way through.

Even worse, all someone has to do to get me to break out in laughter is mention the tattoo scene ("DUDE!" "SWEET!").

Oh man, that's terrible.

Third. I actually laughed a little when I remembered the tattoo scene. It's a bad comedy done the right way.

Evan Waters

08-04-2010, 06:49 PM

On a similar note, POOTIE TANG is hilarious and I have no idea why.

Infra-Man

08-04-2010, 07:32 PM

On a similar note, POOTIE TANG is hilarious and I have no idea why.

You know, Evan, we may have disagreed about a few movies on CBR and in this thread, but it's a good thing that we can at least share a mutual love of Pootie Tang.

Tyburn

08-09-2010, 09:55 PM

Rapid Fire with Brandon Lee! R.I.P.

So I Married an Axe Murderer

Suffering Sappho

08-09-2010, 10:13 PM

The Wedding Planner

Miss Congeniality

Scooby Doo (live action)

RoaP

08-09-2010, 10:39 PM

Van Helsing, Eric Bana's Hulk, and Deep Blue Sea.

DarkKnightJared

08-09-2010, 11:24 PM

Here's one that hasn't been said--Stephen King's Thinner. It's just so over the top it's hysterical--especially the ending.

c. page

08-09-2010, 11:43 PM

On a similar note, POOTIE TANG is hilarious and I have no idea why.

i will absolutely agree with this. i still can't quite figure out why i enjoy that movie so much.

HamsterRage

08-10-2010, 12:05 AM

D. O. A.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MI2ygbLIUrI

pseudicide

08-10-2010, 02:07 AM

I like pretty much any movie with Vin Diesel in it. I watched Babylon AD recently. Man. So much not good.

Karen El

08-10-2010, 03:03 AM

Gamara. Particularly the dubs of the 1960's movies. It's like Godzilla films hit with the stupid stick repeatedly.

There's this one bit in Gamera vs Gyaos where the scientists have got together and the cunning plan they come up with to defeat Gyaos is to lure the monster to the top of a revolving building so that it will get too dizzy to fly off. They then try to locate a suitable building until a small child points out that they are actually in one at the time.

dmh3000

08-10-2010, 03:39 AM

D. O. A.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MI2ygbLIUrI

Yes, that was pretty good as far as bad martial arts movies go. A lot more half-dressed women in that trailer than I remember there being in the movie.

I've Got the Monkeys

08-10-2010, 05:27 AM

First off, one cannot mention the awesomeness of 2012 without mentioning it's predecessor, The Day After Tomorrow just as fun, but slightly more localized.

As for my list:

The Room, as has already been mentioned.
A new contender - After the Season
Mom and Dad Save the World - Jeffrey Jones and Jon Lovitz in the same film!

i have a soft spot for the film With Six You Get Eggroll. Once, when it was really late and I was not quite in a completely sober frame of mind, my sister and I were looking through the TV listings, and this was when the listings had reviews if the space was big enough, and it said,

"With Six You Get Eggroll; With Two, Baloney."

This was the funniest possible thing that could have been read at this point, and we cracked up for about 5 minutes straight. So, of course, we had to watch it, and it was glouriously horrid.

Masters of the Universe.

It was my first film in theater experience when I was 7 or so.

It's terrible.

Except for Frank Langella as Skeletor. I'll never get tired of that.

Don't forget, Monica from Friends, Lieutenant Tom Paris and Principal Strickland are also in this film.

omega8932

08-10-2010, 06:10 AM

So, I actually tend to like a LOT of terrible movies. Specifically bad action movies. I don't neccesarily want to pay the requisite $20-$30 I end up spending and I don't always want to annoy my wife with them. Nevertheless, I love getting to watch them. Example include (but are not limited to): Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter, Chronicles of Riddick, The Rundown, Van Helsing, Ghost Rider. Anything that makes me laugh and has a semi-coherent story basically, cheesey or otherwise. Other movies that don't quite fall into that category are Fast and the Furious, Fast and the Furious 3: Tokyo Drift (which I stand by the fact is actually a pretty good movie), Iron Eagle, any Godzilla movie ever. So yeah, depends what you consider bad movies I guess. I've never gone in for full on MST3K bad, but I like movies a lot of other people don't neccesarily care for. Drives my wife nuts I'm sure, but she's suprisingly tolerant and understanding.

Duxdoom

08-10-2010, 07:34 AM

I loved the first Guyver movie. Only because It had me in stiches. NOTHING about that movie made any semblance of sense. It just was a great time.

Monster Squad is probably my favorite bad 80s movie. It just is so campy and crappy and brilliant. It was 7.50 for a special edition so I don't regret it at all.