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Warriors, Serenity, Bad Lieutenant? WTF people!
Guilty Pleasure Movies: So bad, they're good!
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Haven't seen Bad Lieutenant, but it sounds like someone needs to see Plan 9 already...
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.
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)
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.
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.
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.
...and I know several people that watched Serenity, loved it, and rushed out to buy and watch Firefly.
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Jiarn
That was pretty much my experience with the 6 people I found out had seen Serenity but hadn't been introduced to Firefly yet.
I saw it in theaters and owned it on DVD, watching it multiple times, five years before seeing Firefly.
One of these things is not like the other
One of these things just doesn't belong
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Jiarn
Yeah, Serenity.
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.
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Jiarn
What he meant is, you shoot them in the head, not the chest.
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
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
figmentPez
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Oh, I think I need to add Back to the Beach and Midnight Madness to my list.
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"
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Jiarn
Oooooh forgot one when I was mentioning my Kurt Russel movies. Big Trouble in Little China!
...is a bad movie?
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Jiarn
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....
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....
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.
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.
It's like "Winter is here", but now it's the Chinese coming over the Wall.
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
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