Bad movies that just aren't that bad

[MyFootsZZZ]

Originally Posted by Silver Tyger

The Super Mario Bros Movie. Yes it makes no sense in the context of the games (but making a serious movie of the games would suck). It's fun. It makes sense. It's funny.

I came in here to list this movie. The least you associate it with Mario, the better it is. "Trust the fungus."

[Steophan]

The recent Nicolas Cage film Season Of The Witch got terrible reviews - at one point it had 0% on RT, and currently has 10% - I absolutely love.

Anyone who can give a bad review to a film with Nic Cage and Ron Perlman swordfighting zombie monks in a burning medieval library has something missing, in my opinion.

[amarinth]

Originally Posted by Sampiro

The Wiz was on TV yesterday; I haven't seen it since I watched it on a tiny b-w set back when it first came on TV.

I also caught that on TV yesterday and thought both that it wasn't the movie that I'd remembered (I last saw it as a child) and a whole lot worse than I had remembered, my memory had been kind.

It's not unwatchable, but it's very much less than good.

[Dave Hartwick]

Originally Posted by Steophan

The recent Nicolas Cage film Season Of The Witch got terrible reviews - at one point it had 0% on RT, and currently has 10% - I absolutely love.

Anyone who can give a bad review to a film with Nic Cage and Ron Perlman swordfighting zombie monks in a burning medieval library has something missing, in my opinion.

Ebert gave it two stars and another funny review.

[cmkeller]

Adam Sandler's Little Nicky was panned by most, but I found it had a lot of funny bits, and some very clever ideas. I thought, for example, that Nicky, when arriving on Earth, acted a lot like you'd expect someone who's never been on Earth ("I was hit by some lights attached to a lot of metal." "That's a train, son.")

[GuanoLad]

Originally Posted by Steophan

Anyone who can give a bad review to a film with Nic Cage and Ron Perlman swordfighting zombie monks in a burning medieval library has something missing, in my opinion.

Urgh. It's one of those movies that make the wrong choices at almost every crossroads (plot, photography, performance, visual effects, etc). See a slightly improved version of almost the same plot in Solomon Kane marred only by the unfortunate casting of awful actor James Purefoy.

[Small Hen]

I just finished watching the 1996 made for TV Doctor Who movie. Okay, it was bad, but it was still better than some of the Doctor Who episodes I've seen.

[grude]

Danger Diabolik-

Loved it, incredibly stylish movie with great visuals but not to be taken seriously of course. It has a great timeless comic book look, the exploits of Diabolik are over the top and that is the fun. It meanders a bit towards the middle to the end, I don't think this deserves the reputation as one of the worst films ever.


Solomon Kane-

Competent swords and sorcery style fluff, which is just what the source material is. Good costumes and I enjoyed the commitment to the source material(god and the devil oh my).

[Quimby]

I thought of another one: Osmosis Jones. The live action parts have some gross gross out humor but the animated parts are imaginative and fun.

[FordTaurusSHO94]

Has anyone mentioned Star Trek: Insurrection or Nemesis? While they may rank low on lists that rank ST movies from best to worst, they're still not bad. Besides, any list has to have a first and last, even if they're all great. If anything, the two movies were opportunities that were wasted, but I still don't think they're bad. I like them much better than III or V.

[Autolycus]

Originally Posted by Mahaloth

Here is one that I like to the point of being blown away by the dislike of it:

Van Helsing

Seconded. I think it's good campy action-fun. The hate for it is intense though. I made the error of using it to support an argument in a paper back in college (we had just finished reading Shelley), and I believe my professor called it 'tripe.'

[Bryan Ekers]

Originally Posted by robert_columbia

I actually thought that Battlefield Earth was a pretty good fun and light space opera. It's not that realistic and there are some elements that are just cheesy, but its fun with cool weapons and vehicles.

If John Travolta had played his character with calm intellectual menace and not with that flouncing foppish Liberace-ish formula he decided on.... well, it still wouldn't be a good movie, but it would be far more watchable.

[Hampshire]

Speedracer got panned (38% Rotten Tomatoes) and was written off as a summer blockbuster bomb.
The story however is pretty good and multi layered, the visuals great, and a has a lot of interesting characters.

[Mahaloth]

Ang Lee's Hulk movie. Loved it.

Heck, even Ed Norton's Hulk movie isn't bad, either, but both were poorly received compared to many superhero movies.

[Justin_Bailey]

Originally Posted by Mahaloth

Ang Lee's Hulk movie. Loved it.

Heck, even Ed Norton's Hulk movie isn't bad, either, but both were poorly received compared to many superhero movies.

Ed Norton's Hulk is fucking awesome. Ang Lee's Hulk has earned its reputation as just a bad, bad movie.

[Smid]

(About the movie Constantine)

Originally Posted by Morbo

There's one I forgot to mention. I never read the comic or anything, but I thought that was a great movie. Peter Stormare's scene as the devil was just amazing.

This one irks me. In some sense they did the original comic a little justice, with some of the good plot points of the comic, and it wasn't the _worst_ Keanu Reeves one by a long shot.

The trouble is it's wrong.

Very wrong.

John Constantine, from the comic Hellblazer (and further back Swamp Thing, and Books of Magic), is a very sarcastic drunken scouser (from Liverpool, think the Beatles accents), who fronts and tricks a whole selection of demons and supernatural beings. He's supposed to be a magician, but isn't seen to practice magic and lives from his wits. He also rarely gives a crap about anyone and isn't in general a nice guy.

Due to the comic being called Hellblazer, they changed it to Constantine to avoid confusion with the HellBLAZER series. This is fair enough.

Then the cast Keanu Reeves playing the most emo souless magician angsting about poor little him and exorcising demons to save people. The type of character Constantine would laugh at.

So ironically they named it Constantine, and then removed all traces of the actual character Constantine.

The movie in itself would have redeemed itself massively for me, if it had been called 'Big Davey the exorcist'. Then it might have worked....

[etv78]

Originally Posted by Hampshire

Speedracer got panned (38% Rotten Tomatoes) and was written off as a summer blockbuster bomb.
The story however is pretty good and multi layered, the visuals great, and a has a lot of interesting characters.

And my aunt sang the theme song (family joke)

[Stink Fish Pot]

Another vote for Waterworld, which was ripped to shreds when it first went over budget and then hit the screens. Not a terrible movie at all. Just a bit too long, a bit too boring in spots, and terrible plot holes that tended to annoy me. But I can still put it on if I'm channel surfing and it's on.

I think at the time, Hollywood had a bug up their collective asses with Costner. No idea why, so if someone can shed some light on this, great. Dances with Wolves always gets slammed when compared to Goodfellas, but rarely on its own. And that's because Dances won every major category at the oscars at the expense of Goodfellas. The scenery was amazing, and a movie that must be seen on a big screen to be appreciated.

[slight hijack]
JMHO, but Goodfellas is the most overrated movie of the past 25 years. The final act is very boring and I don't enjoy it at all. (Helicopters chasing Henry, and the arrest of Henry Hill and the witness protection program.)
[/end slight hijack]

[GuanoLad]

Originally Posted by Smid

Due to the comic being called Hellblazer, they changed it to Constantine to avoid confusion with the HellBLAZER series. This is fair enough.

I think you mean HellRAISER.

[BigT]

While I agree with some of the others on here (like Super Mario Bros.), I came to mention Lost in Space. I genuinely liked it and it floored me when I found out people though it was a bad movie. I thought it no worse than any other popcorn Sci-fi fare.

[handsomeharry]

I think that The Adventures of Ford Fairlane was pretty funny. I think that most of the problem was that he left in some limp stuff which should have been edited out.

[phxjcc]

Leap Year

Go ahead, flame away.

AA and MG did their best with a creaky script.