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This is not a thread for epic movies or terrible movies. This is for those awful movies that are soooo bad that they're actually awesome!

Two of my top guilty pleasure movies...

Super Mario Bros

and
Street Fighter


I thought Street Fighter was cast perfectly, everyone looked like their characters, but golly what an awfully good movie... My favorite part has always been when Zangief realizes they're the bad guys. /chortle

I think Balrog could have been more buff (like in the game) but everyone else looks great!

Edit: Mine is double dragon. It was cheeeeeeesy, but good and I love TNMT live action stuff.

Let's not forget Mars Attacks!

Con Air.

Mortal Kombat. I know it's bad, but I love it.

Seems like many video game movies fall into this category. Though many of them are also just plain awful.

Kung Pow. It's really terrible, but I never get tired of watching it.

Continuing the tradition

Wing Commander

Frankie Williamson said:

Continuing the tradition

Wing Commander

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Haha... awesome.

I also have to add to my list... Judge Dredd. Yes... it was awful... but entertainingly so

"I never broke the law! I am the law!"

The Warriors. A street gang dressed like mimes, one on roller skates with feathered hair and overalls and let's not forget the Orphans cause they have a heavy rep. And to add insult to injury when you finally get to the mystery that surrounds the movie, why did the leader of the Rogues shoot Cyrus, he responds "no reason, I just like doing stuff like that." Despite its flaws I love that movie.
Ravenpoe-Mortal Kombat is another guilty pleasure. I remember when the trailer came out with the theme song in it. MORTAL KOMBAT!

And to go into the category of movies I hate I have to watch just to feel the hatred grow is Dana Carvey's Master of Disguise. Worst movie ever but I watch it in a false air of superiority for not being associated with the movie whatsoever.

Van Helsing.

Most recent one I have seen that falls into this....Drive Angry, Shot in 3d

Pearl Harbor

I would probably write a wall of text that would weigh down the forum and cause it to crash if I fully listed all of them so I'll try and condense it:

Anything Uwe Boll. With the exception of Tunnel Rats and Seed. Those were just bad in the bad way.
Tomb Raider 1 and 2.
Dungeons and Dragons, Even though the Wayan brother ALMOST ruined it for me.
Anything Nic Cage, with alot of love for Vampire's Kiss, Bad Lieutenant and Bangkok Dangerous. This is not to include Wicker Man remake.
Escape from New York/L.A The birth of Plisken!
The entire Tremors series and the short lived TV show. Fantastic.
Starship Troopers. Only the first one. Even I have my limits.
Pirhana 3D. Such a nice little horror movie, purposely made to show how idiotic the jump to 3D was going to be.

Bad movies even I hate?

Street Fighter. Loved Van Damme and Raul Julia. Hated the entire rest of it.
Dragonball: Evolution. Just no.
Highlander 2. Not even the recut.
Catwoman Halle Berry's tits wouldn't have even saved this movie.

heatherling said:

Let's not forget Mars Attacks!

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I don't understand. Mars Attacks is clearly in the "So good it's spectacular" category.

I take issue with a few movies in this thread being called "bad".

Batman. (the Adam West one) It's just...hilarious. As bad and campy as it gets.

If we're going by strict "so bad they're good" rules, then (after backing up Steve's vote for the Warriors), my vote goes to Star Trek V. When I first saw it, I hated it, but now I think it's one of the most hilariously awful things I've ever watched.

Granted, I may have been influenced by outside sources.

Hudson Hawk

Also, I'm not sure about this one, but I have a sneaking suspicion that if I watched PCU again that I'd realize it's a bad movie, and love it anyway.

Chad Sexington said:

I don't understand. Mars Attacks is clearly in the "So good it's spectacular" category.

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And even if it wasn't good, the fact that it's all intentional disqualifies it from this thread.

ThatNickGuy said:

Kung Pow. It's really terrible, but I never get tired of watching it.

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See above.

Jiarn said:

Street Fighter. Loved Van Damme and Raul Julia. Hated the entire rest of it.

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How could you not like Zangief (the actor looked perfect too) or DJ?And Boson Dollars where win (might as well have cut out Ryu and Ken out of the film entirely though).

Now Legend of Chun Li, that was unwatchable.

Robocop
Starship Troopers
The Quick and the Dead

The Warriors is simply awesome.

The Matrices Reloaded and Revolutions.

Look, you chucklefucks, Starship Troopers is actually a really good movie.

You mean the movie where it's basically "Crap, all our guys got killed! What do we do? Send more guys! Well, they're dead! Now what? Send more!"

I likes Starship Troopers but there's one part that REALLY bugs me.



When someone gets mutilated and tells you "You know what to do!"... YOU DO NOT SHOOT THEM IN THE FUCKING CHEST.

I'm honestly unsure if this movie belongs in this thread or not. It's fun and awesome -- just not in the way the original producers intended.

The Lovely Boehner said:

Look, you chucklefucks, Starship Troopers is actually a really good movie.

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Nope, it's a B-Movie kiddo. Sorry.

Citizen Kane.

Serenity

Going by the DVD commentary, Paul Verhoeven was a little pissed that somehow people (in general) missed that the Starship Troopers film was supposed to be a grotesque satire on fascism in general, and mid-20th century propaganda films, and took it at face value.

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans is a BRILLIANT movie. No need to feel guilty pleasuring yourself to it.

evilmike said:

I'm honestly unsure if this movie belongs in this thread or not. It's fun and awesome -- just not in the way the original producers intended.

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Most certainly belongs in this thread. The movie starred a football player and so they had to have a sequence where he tackles a bunch of guys while holding a football shaped object.

Plus it had Brian Blessed in it, classic.
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Math242 said:

Serenity

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Blasphemy!

Warriors, Serenity, Bad Lieutenant? WTF people!

Philosopher B. said:

Warriors, Serenity, Bad Lieutenant? WTF people!

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Haven't seen Bad Lieutenant, but it sounds like someone needs to see Plan 9 already...

This, this and always this.
My absolute favorite guilty pleasure, have yet to find someone who stands it for more than 15 minutes.



AFK now, watching The Pirate Movie!

Just Me said:

This, this and always this.
My absolute favorite guilty pleasure, have yet to find someone who stands it for more than 15 minutes.



AFK now, watching The Pirate Movie!

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Damn, I didn't know that the "Epic/Dance/Scary/etc. Movie" folks got beaten there by 30 years.

You need to watch...
Kentucky Fried Movie
Airplane!
and Amazon Women on the Moon

the Movie Movie people are late to the dance.

I had forgotten about Kentucky Fried Movie, that's true.

I wouldn't consider Airplane quite in the same mold. It seemed much more like general slapstick than specifically genre-mocking. I suppose Blazing Saddles would be a better example (of what we're talking about, not the so-bad-it's-good thing)

OK, my guilty pleasure is the Postman (Costner, not il Postino). Yes, everyone hates that movie and I am honestly baffled as to why. They ending is cheesy but I still find it satisfying enough. It is a mixture of post-apocalyptic wasteland and reluctant hero. It just hits all the right notes for me, as imperfect as it is.

Airplane was a genre mocker.

Airport, Airport '75, Airport '77, Concorde... Airport '79 and then Meteor, Earthquake, Poseidon Adventure... The Towering Inferno, Black Sunday... there were a rash of disaster films

All these films were like an episode of the Love Boat, if all the stars (has beens) were killed/saved from a sinking ship.

Serenity does not fall under "bad" at all. It is just a damn good movie.

What does belong here is BioDome!! ...though that one may just be awful.

Everyone that I knew that saw Serenity with out seeing Firefly, hated it. I can't put my finger on what was wrong with the film, outside of having no idea who these people were.

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Everyone that I knew that saw Serenity with out seeing Firefly, hated it. I can't put my finger on what was wrong with the film, outside of having no idea who these people were.

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...and I know several people that watched Serenity, loved it, and rushed out to buy and watch Firefly.

Gryfter said:

...and I know several people that watched Serenity, loved it, and rushed out to buy and watch Firefly.

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That was pretty much my experience with the 6 people I found out had seen Serenity but hadn't been introduced to Firefly yet.

As a stand alone movie, I think Serenity would actually be a fairly uncomfortable movie to watch.

I saw it in theaters and owned it on DVD, watching it multiple times, five years before seeing Firefly.

Philosopher B. said:

Warriors, Serenity, Bad Lieutenant? WTF people!

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One of these things is not like the other
One of these things just doesn't belong

Yeah, Serenity.

Gusto said:

I likes Starship Troopers but there's one part that REALLY bugs me.



When someone gets mutilated and tells you "You know what to do!"... YOU DO NOT SHOOT THEM IN THE FUCKING CHEST.

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I thought that part was okay, considering he'd just said five minutes before that it's what he'd want.

Also, I thought Starship Troopers was a pretty good movie, and I'd like to note that this is actually the first time Charlie and I have both liked the same film. I'm gonna write this date down.

What he meant is, you shoot them in the head, not the chest.

Yes please.

Oh, in that case, yeah I guess.

Oh man, I loved The Pirate Movie. Best of all, it reminds me of another film...Ice Pirates.


Some others that belong firmly in the So Bad It's Good category:
Battle Beyond the Stars

John-boy Walton goes all Kurosawa on some evil aliens. No, really!

Night of the Creeps

Thrill me.

And who could forget...(Barry Gordy's) The Last Dragon?

I...can't...HEAR you!

--Patrick

Oh, I think I need to add Back to the Beach and Midnight Madness to my list.

AAAAAAAAAAAND



The soundtrack record got constant play by me as a kid.

Showdown in Little Tokyo. If only because it includes the line from Brandon Lee to Dolph Lundgren: "You know. You have the biggest dick I've ever seen on a man"

The Last Dragon. Loved that movie. Also "I'm gonna get you sucka." It's dated now but back then it was a classic.

Oooooh forgot one when I was mentioning my Kurt Russel movies. Big Trouble in Little China!

Jiarn said:

Oooooh forgot one when I was mentioning my Kurt Russel movies. Big Trouble in Little China!

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...is a bad movie?

I quantify "bad movie" by purposeful hammy acting, low budgets and cheap sets. So yeah, it qualifies.

I guess that's a point where the line blurs for me. If something is purposely shlocky, I question if it's actually a bad movie, because it is succeeding in its intent of being fun and not up to certain standards (which is why I didn't mention Army of Darkness for example). So for me, Van Helsing is trying to be a good movie and fails, yet I enjoy it in its badness, whereas Army of Darkness is trying to be a B-movie and succeeds.

Then you have your Birdemic's which try (as far as I can tell) to be B-movies and fail to be entertaining.

But that's a hard way to qualify anything. I guess when I watched Big Trouble in Little China I was laughing with it and enjoying it so much I didn't see it as a bad movie. There, maybe that's a good qualifier, laughing with as opposed to laughing at.

OhcrapImturningintoCharlieandnowIlikeKeshakatyperryladygagaohnoooooooooo....

escushion said:

IlikeKeshakatyperryladygagaohnoooooooooo....

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The new Britney Spears is really good.

I have Battle Beyond the Stars on DVD. It's a fairly decent adaptation of the Magnificent Seven.... IN SPACE! Hell, Robert Vaughn basically plays the same damn character.

One thing to notice about Big Trouble in Little China is that despite it being in the neighborhood of 25 years old, it really doesn't look all that dated. I still solidly enjoy it. The same goes for Escape from New York. On the other hand, Escape from LA does look horribly dated and isn't any fun at all.

So bad it's good in kind of a crazy-awesome type way: Six String Samurai.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tfMNGf53Kk

I liked Guyver 2. Yeah, it's a ridiculous movie focused on rubber-suited monsters committing graphic violence against each other.

Frankie Williamson said:

What does that mean? Huh? "China is here." I don't even know what the hell that means.

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It's like "Winter is here", but now it's the Chinese coming over the Wall.

Null said:

I have Battle Beyond the Stars on DVD. It's a fairly decent adaptation of the Magnificent Seven.... IN SPACE! Hell, Robert Vaughn basically plays the same damn character.

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I still need to pick up the DVD, I've only ever seen the edited for TV versions. I love it for multiple reasons.
-It's a remake of another movie (The Magnificent Seven) starring one of the guys from TMS in the exact same role, which is itself a remake of another movie (The Seven Samurai).
-It stars several well-known actors (George Peppard, Robert Vaughn, Sybil Danning, and possibly even Kathy Griffin)
-Everyone takes their role completely seriously, ignoring the campy dialogue and low budget. Even the effects team. They all just accept what's coming to them...exactly like the characters in the film.
-Nell steals the scene several times.
If you overlook the poor production values (dial your perception down to "community theatre" level), it's actually a seriously well-done and moving film, the same way the original "Battlestar Galactica" or "Six Million Dollar Man" (or "Wonder Woman," for that matter) were good TV shows.

I considered adding Showdown in Little Tokyo to the list, but I've never seen more than a few minutes of it and only just picked up a VHS a month ago, so I have no first-hand experience (yet).

--Patrick

Oh for crying out loud:

IF IT'S INTENTIONAL IT DOESN'T COUNT!!! (as a guilty pleasure).
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PatrThom said:

Oh man, I loved The Pirate Movie. Best of all, it reminds me of another film...Ice Pirates.


Some others that belong firmly in the So Bad It's Good category:
Battle Beyond the Stars

John-boy Walton goes all Kurosawa on some evil aliens. No, really!

--Patrick

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Oh man, i remember those two... Ice Pirates i saw parts of as a kid and looked it up years ago... i was not disappointed.

Ice Pirates is very watchable.

Showdown in Little Tokyo is so-so. Some of Brandon Lee's dialogue is hilariously bad, but I haven't watched my tape of it in years.

Another person involved in Battle Beyond the Stars: James Cameron. He worked in effects for Roger Corman on this and Pirahna 2. And the music is actually quite good, being that it was composed by James Horner http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000035/.

Also: the hero (Richard Thomas - John Boy from The Waltons) flies a spaceship with tits. I am not kidding.


John Saxon delightfully hams it up as the villian, as well. You know, I think I'm gonna go watch it tonight...

A slug with tits.

What else would you expect from a Roger Corman production.

Bloodsport. That's how awesome it is.

I have a feeling this will make my list in the future: Hobo with a Shotgun

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssHEAOrAdCU&feature=player_embedded

And totally unrelated

TALES FROM THE HOOD!

The last kiss with Zack Braf

@Li3n said:

IF IT'S INTENTIONAL IT DOESN'T COUNT!!! (as a guilty pleasure).

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I don't know. Yes, something like Time Bandits is intentionally goofy, and so it probably doesn't count as a 'bad movie.' I'll give you that. But something like, say, Inspector Gadget?


There's a movie that was deliberately trying to play it tongue-in-cheek, deliberately trying to be goofy, but the execution was just so utterly, horribly wrong that yes, it would be eligible for inclusion in this thread.

However, I do not think it belongs, because it is so bad at being bad that it wasn't bad enough to be good, if you know what I mean?

--Patrick

PatrThom said:

There's a movie that was deliberately trying to play it tongue-in-cheek, deliberately trying to be goofy, but the execution was just so utterly, horribly wrong that yes, it would be eligible for inclusion in this thread.

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Point was that those that managed to be goofy in the way they intended don't belong... failures do.

One movie I hated but Mike thought was awesome was Death To Smoochy.
Since I thought it was awful and Mike thought it was awesome, it belongs here.

Dang, Death to Smoochy was awesome if you realize that the character Robin Williams was supposed to be playing was Paul Ruebens/Pee Wee Herman.

I did like the scene with the dirty cookies, though. Haha it's a rocket~

I frickin' love Death to Smoochy. My sister told me it was terrible, but her taste and mine are... incongruent.

Chad Sexington said:

I frickin' love Death to Smoochy. My sister told me it was terrible, but her taste and mine are... incongruent.

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I think what you mean is:

{her taste} ∩ {your taste} = ∅

--Patrick

I'd have to go with Krull, The Gate, and Monster Squad as my guilty pleasures. I'd list the first live action TMNT movie, but I think that was actually a pretty good movie. The others two live action movies? Not so much.

Oh I forgot my love of the "Barbarian" genre. I'm going to add Kull, the Conqueror because Kevin Sorbo is freakin awesome.

KCWM said:

I'd list the first live action TMNT movie, but I think that was actually a pretty good movie. The others two live action movies? Not so much.

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Secret of the Ooze? Awfully fantastic.

+1 for the Ice Pirates!

And how could I forget this 'masterpiece' of hilarious entertainment:



(Well, how could I remember it...)

evilmike said:

I'm honestly unsure if this movie belongs in this thread or not. It's fun and awesome -- just not in the way the original producers intended.

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I have only one thing to say:

DIIIIEEEE!!!

KCWM said:

I'd have to go with Krull, The Gate, and Monster Squad as my guilty pleasures. I'd list the first live action TMNT movie, but I think that was actually a pretty good movie. The others two live action movies? Not so much.

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Hell yeah, Monster Squad.

NR, that's DIIIVVEEE, since they were swooping down from above... though admittedly, with BRIAN! BLESSED! in the role, it's hard to tell.

Dog Soldiers. Low-budget, sure, but werewolves vs British soldiers? Awesome. The brawl at the with Witherspoon vs the werewolf was crazy awesome.

Problem Child. It's on right now. I've watched that movie a dozen times and enjoy it more each time. I know it's bad. But that kid cracks me up.

Neil Marshall films are legit fine! Well, except for Centurion ('twas rather average, despite the Fassbender), but yeah.

Especially Dog Soldiers. There was nothing "bad" about that movie.

Attack of the Killer Tomatoes

Philosopher B. said:

Neil Marshall films are legit fine! Well, except for Centurion ('twas rather average, despite the Fassbender), but yeah.

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The Descent scared the hell out of me.

Null said:

The Descent scared the hell out of me.

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That was a great horror movie.

Killer Clowns From Outer Space! Ive found it's the random movie that just about everyone has watched.

sixpackshaker said:

Attack of the Killer Tomatoes

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The second one (with John Astin and ... George Clooney!) was fantastic.

--Patrick

Jiarn said:

Oh I forgot my love of the "Barbarian" genre. I'm going to add Kull, the Conqueror because Kevin Sorbo is freakin awesome.

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Respect, dude. Respect.
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Null said:

NR, that's DIIIVVEEE, since they were swooping down from above... though admittedly, with BRIAN! BLESSED! in the role, it's hard to tell.

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Well, they both kinda work. And yes, with the BIGGEST HAM IN ALL OF CREATION it is a bit hard to tell what HE IS ARTICULATING!
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Null said:

The Descent scared the hell out of me.

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To be honest, I was sorely disappointed by it. Mainly because I thought it to be a film version of Jeff Long's novel by the same name.

North_Ranger said:

Respect, dude. Respect.

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Back at you. Brian Blessed Hawk-God among men!

I actually think it'd be a suitable avatar for you.

Ah, was just reminded of this old gem: Gymkata

North_Ranger said:

Well, they both kinda work. And yes, with the BIGGEST HAM IN ALL OF CREATION it is a bit hard to tell what HE IS ARTICULATING!

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(Watch through at least 1:20)

I got a feeling that Your Highness is going to be my newest guilty pleasure.

drifter said:

Ah, was just reminded of this old gem: Gymkata

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Ah Gymkata. . .a finer movie never made.