Godzilla, the 1998 version. Yes, I like that movie. Only because of the special effects of the monster and the babies. The acting is terrible. I also like Independence Day because of the special effects. There are just times when I am such a sucker for special effects.
Beastmaster…big steaming pile, really, really awful movie, but…Marc Singer in a loincloth…And the animals, are cool, too! I love the ferrets.
Anything with Dolph Lundgren. Especially Pentathalon and The Punisher. Don’t know why. Can’t stop.
Also, am I the only one who didn’t think the special effects in Independence Day were any good? Ditto for Phantom Menace.
Tenebras
Flash Gordon
It’s almost too horrible for words. Crap for script, crap for costumes, crap for (not-so)special effects, and total total crap for acting talent (except for Ming… Max von Sydow rocks my stash loose). It’s a parody of itself, even.
But I love this movie. I saw its theatre release (gawd I musta been like four years old), have it on VHS, and I’m planning on picking up DVD soon. Hell I even have the soundtrack on vinyl. Just hearing “Klytus I’m booored.” fires it all up again.
Thanks Dijon! The cast list isn’t too shabby. Maybe it’s not as bad as I remember it? Well, my film-critique skills weren’t completely honed at the age of 17. 
I’m actually flinching as I read this thread. Excalibur, Flash Gordon, Clash of the Titans,? This is my childhood you’re talking about folks! 
Um…Mortal Kombat. Bad, bad movie. Horrible acting, writing, no plot, annoying characters, impossibly shitty background music…after finishing I have roughly the same feeling in the pit of my stomache that you get after eating 3 bags of candy corn…but I must watch it whenever it’s on. Sweet, sweet pain.
Ohhhh,yeah! Bad movies. Love them.
How about Tank Girl?
Malcolm McDowell(!) and… drool… Lori Petty. Mmmm…
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Saw that one in the theater. Twice.
“I’m sorry. Are you feeling inadequate?”
Ya see, what most people don’t realize is that the Cinematic Crap-O-Meter is round. Most meters are wedge-shaped going from negative extreme to positive extreme. Where movies are involved, once a movie’s crapitude reaches a certain depth, it actually becomes a good movie. Flash Gordon is the perfect example.
I totally agree with everything you said. In addition, I happen to love the soundtrack. Queen, in all their glammy over-the-top style, rock on this one. I own this on both vinyl and CD (the CD adds a cool rap-mix on Flash’s theme by Mista Lawnge).
The Big Hit!
Awful, awful movie; apparently, explosions are the least-lethal things in the world! No one ever dies in them, but they are presumed dead until the “plot” needs them again! Plus: Kelly Bundy and Marky Mark! Anti-Semitism! Asian Jailbait! Trace Buster-Buster-Busters!
And still I watch…
…really a lousy movie, but with a certain charm…Anthony Hopkins as the crazed Dr. Kellogg! Everybody eating ceareal and having their bowel movements analyzed…how on earth did such an oddball movie ever get made?
I’m shocked that one of my favorite movies of all time ended up in this thread!!! I love Excalibur, not because of a “so bad it’s good” quality, but because I think it is an absolutely wonderful and powerful film. I cry every time I watch it. The story is heartbreaking, the casting/acting excellent (Patrick Stewart, Gabriel Byrne and Helen Mirren in early roles) and the music, costumes and scenery perfect!!
Now, as for the OP, I am drawn to Weekend at Bernie’s. I know it’s a horrible movie, with corny jokes and a positively sick premise, but still Bernie, his buddies and their crazy hijinks get me every time.
What do you mean she gets knocked up every other scene? She doesn’t get pregnant once in that movie. Now, if you said she got @#$% every other scene, then I’d have to agree with you. The movie could have been worse. I’m not sure how, but…
Xanadu
Xanaduuuuuuuu
Now we are here
In Xanaduuuuuuuu
Xanadu, your neon lights will shine
For you Xanaduuuuuuuu!
I am presently sitting through The Slugger’s Wife, because I love baseball and I feel I should see all the baseball-related films.
But if I see this twice, I will have to kill myself.
Midnight Madness. A 1980 opus starring the Dr. Pepper/“American Werewolf In London” guy (yes, I know his name is David Naughton :p), Stephen Furst, Michael J. Fox (his first movie), and the First Geek Of Hollywood, the incomparable Eddie Deezen.
When I was a kid my cousin’s family owned a video store and he could take home any movie he wanted. Any movie he wanted. He picked Midnight Madness. And Moving Violations. And One Crazy Summer. The previously mentioned Beastmaster. The Police Academy series (then a mere trilogy). Countless grade-Z horror movies. His terrible taste let us keep them indefinitely, so we watched them over and over and over and over and over…
Apparently Midnight Madness used to be in heavy rotation on HBO, and now there’s a tiny cult for it. It’s actually a pretty good movie, in a surreal kind of way.
How about movies that aren’t necessarily bad, but you’ve inexplicably seen them a million times? For me, it’s Running Scared. I have no idea why, it’s not a masterpiece or anything.
Forbidden Zone - Directed by Richard Elfman… starring Herve Villachez as the king of the 5th dimension. Midgets… topless girls everywhere… blackface… Danny Elfman as Satan… bad voiceovers and a set built for around $50.
Shrunken Heads - another Richard Elfman masterpiece… shrunken zombie heads of 3 kids killed in a gang war come back to get their revenge while flying about… a love scene between a girl and a flying shrunken head… dyke lesbian mafia crime lords… this one has it all!
Avenging Disco Godfather - Blaxploitation classic about disco, kung fu, drug deals and the mafia! See Disco Kung Fu!
I am confused. That you included this in this thread implies that the Big Hit is a bad movie. I am confused by this because because the Big Hit is one of the best movies ever, for all the reasons mentioned in your post, plus the words “Taste the Golden Spray”.
Since my post has been referenced repeatedly in this thread, I should like to add that I do not personally think that Excalibur is a bad film. I was just guessing that it was the movie Ellen (whose memory is obviously faulty :)) was thinking of. I rather liked it, actually, and caught it about three or four times during its theatre run. Here’s a disturbing (if you’re disturbed by such things) fact: Igrayne, the woman who Ellen was referring to as having been raped by the armor-clad fellow (wasn’t exactly raped; she thought he was her husband) was played by Katrine Boorman, the director’s daughter. Imagine casting your little girl in a part like that…(I had a huge crush on her from that scene: just paint me adolescent).
One really bad movie I have never seen, but would like to, is Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death. If the title alone isn’t seductive enough, what about Bill Maher? Anyone seen this monstrosity???
