# Bad Movie Club **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 5, 2008, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movie-club/475778 "2008-12-05T00:11:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movie-club/475778/21 "2008-12-05T02:51:40Z")
I don’t watch enough movies to make watching all of them feasible. But I will volunteer to watch Xanadu. I have seen it before, but I remember nothing–perhaps that’s a protective memory loss. Or maybe it will be my New Favorite Film Ever! ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movie-club/475778/22 "2008-12-05T02:52:51Z")
> [@lissener](#): > > 😃 It can just wing him! ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2008, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movie-club/475778/23 "2008-12-06T02:31:18Z")
I’m going in. If I never return, “Xanadu” was the death of me. Farewell! Farewell! ---
**Author:** ![Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/half_man_half_wit/32/21766_2.png) [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2008, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movie-club/475778/24 "2008-12-06T02:49:21Z")
Heh, **lissener** , seems like it’s not only your jokes that tend to go misunderstood… Of those listed in the OP, I have only (as far as I remember) seen _Howard the Duck_, and I can’t remember anything about it safe for one scene where the, uh, female lead I presume, went through Howard’s wallet and found a condom in it. Now, when I saw it, I was rather young – young enough, in fact, to both watch it with my parents and to not have a really clear idea about the purpose of condoms. So well, I asked. Thus, the film _Howard the Duck_ ended up prompting The Talk for me. Which means that I unfortunately can’t take part in the Bad Movie challenge, cause everything listed in conjunction with that film just makes me want to curl up in the foetal position in a corner of my room and rock back and forth for a while. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2008, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movie-club/475778/25 "2008-12-06T04:11:59Z")
Good god. Now I know why this is a bad movie club. Someone hit me with it. ---
**Author:** ![BMax](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bmax/32/4267_2.png) [@BMax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMax)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2008, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movie-club/475778/26 "2008-12-06T04:24:17Z")
I own Glen or Glenda, part of an Ed Wood box set. I’ve seen it a couple times, but I’ll watch it tonight and try to stay awake through it. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2008, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movie-club/475778/27 "2008-12-06T04:24:44Z")
Ha. Is that the Xanadu stick you’re referring to? ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2008, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movie-club/475778/28 "2008-12-06T04:25:39Z")
Not only have I seen all 10 of those films, I own 2 on DVD: Glen or Glenda and Trog. I used to have Howard the Duck on VHS, but the tape went bad, and I don’t want to by crappy converted copy from someone on ebay, so I wait. HtD is an awesome movie if you turn the sound down and play Absolutely Freak Out: Zap Your Mind! by Acid Mothers Temple instead while under the, um, influence. Of stuff. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2008, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movie-club/475778/29 "2008-12-06T04:30:16Z")
> [@lissener](#): > > Ha. Is that the Xanadu stick you’re referring to? Xanadu is really… not good. Not good at all. Sonny Malone should’ve been taken out and shot and replaced by a lamp post (it obviously already happened to Olivia Newton-John). It’s sad that the most fun I had was trying to identify Wilfrid Hyde-White’s voice and wondering why one of the muses had a penis growing out of her head. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2008, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movie-club/475778/30 "2008-12-06T04:37:30Z")
Oh man, I just remembered that \*Xanadu \*has been made into a Broadway musical. Just when you thought \*Suessical \*defined a new rock bottom. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2008, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movie-club/475778/31 "2008-12-06T04:38:52Z")
Ha. I like what this paper says about the movie: [QUOTE=The Chicago Reader] This big-budget bubble-gum musical is appalling but compulsively watchable; it’s the perfect crystallization of a 13-year-old girl’s taste, circa 1980, complete with roller discos, dreamy boys, fashion shows, and fantasy father figures. Director Robert Greenwald has a lot of ideas, all of them bad: his style could be described as rapid misfire. The cinematography, by Victor Kemper, is the worst imaginable in a film of this cost, while the score, by Jeff Lynne and the Electric Light Orchestra, is damnably catchy–it sticks in your head like a maggot. [/QUOTE] ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2008, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movie-club/475778/32 "2008-12-06T04:41:19Z")
> [@lissener](#): > > Oh man, I just remembered that \*Xanadu \*has been made into a Broadway musical. Just when you thought \*Suessical \*defined a new rock bottom. Neither of those even begins to compare to the horror that was [Cop Rock](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Euk1N0zVyww). Thankfully, it was TV and it got canceled. Quickly. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2008, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movie-club/475778/33 "2008-12-06T04:45:29Z")
Like a maggot. Oh god. I do have to say that the plot could have worked if not for the acting, the storytelling, and the dancing. Whose idea was it to put Sonny and Kira on roller skates to let them wobble endlessly through a popup maze of palm trees? WHOSE? The music was by far the best part of the thing, though I’ll confess to a love of ELO that no amount of roller skating can dim! Oh, and I guess Gene Kelly didn’t really embarrass himself. His role was pretty flat and lifeless, but at least he didn’t have a penis head. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2008, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movie-club/475778/34 "2008-12-06T05:08:43Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > . . . but at least he didn’t have a penis head. Oh, so you’re not watching the extended cut? ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2008, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movie-club/475778/35 "2008-12-06T06:08:35Z")
I may be getting ahead of things. [This](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072869/) just came in, so of course I have to watch it. Any movie with William Shatner, Ida Lupino, Tom Frikkin Skerritt, and Ernest Borgnine as a goat-horned [demon](http://www.zbrushcentral.com/zbc/attachment.php?attachmentid=39161), well you’ll understand if I feel I have no free will in the matter: there seems to be voice in my head bellowing, “We COMPEL you to watch! We COMPEL you to watch!” ---
**Author:** ![Jolly\_Roger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/91b2a8/32.png) [@Jolly\_Roger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jolly_Roger)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2008, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movie-club/475778/36 "2008-12-06T11:47:07Z")
A friend of mine reminded me of the most awful movie we saw together as kids…_**[Tougher than Leather.](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096291/)**_ amazingly the first few comments on the imdb page say it was pretty good. Trust me, it wasn’t…and I like Run DMC. ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2008, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movie-club/475778/37 "2008-12-06T13:53:29Z")
> [@lissener](#): > > I may be getting ahead of things. [This](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072869/) just came in, so of course I have to watch it. Any movie with William Shatner, Ida Lupino, Tom Frikkin Skerritt, and Ernest Borgnine as a goat-horned [demon](http://www.zbrushcentral.com/zbc/attachment.php?attachmentid=39161), well you’ll understand if I feel I have no free will in the matter: there seems to be voice in my head bellowing, “We COMPEL you to watch! We COMPEL you to watch!” Not to mention both John Travolta AND Anton LaVey. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2008, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movie-club/475778/38 "2008-12-06T14:38:32Z")
I reject any criteria which calls Leonard Part 6 a bad movie. I was in hysterics. Now if I only I can find Parts 1 thru 5. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2008, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movie-club/475778/39 "2008-12-06T16:36:31Z")
Wing Commander IV Plan 9 from Outer Space (of course) Zardoz ([seriously bad bad bad](http://ruthlessreviews.com/pics/zardoz1.gif)) Spice World ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2008, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movie-club/475778/40 "2008-12-06T16:51:05Z")
> [@lissener](#): > > Oh, so you’re not watching the extended cut? That’s a little more info about Gene Kelly than I wanted, buddy. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movie-club/475778.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movie-club/475778.md?page=3)