# Bad movies that you actually think are great **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 26, 2007, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-that-you-actually-think-are-great/416999 "2007-08-26T17:59:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2007, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-that-you-actually-think-are-great/416999/21 "2007-08-26T20:07:59Z")
Armageddon The Postman are two I really like that don’t seem to get much love. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2007, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-that-you-actually-think-are-great/416999/22 "2007-08-26T20:28:29Z")
[**Ishtar**](http://www.sff.net/people/rothman/ishtar.htm) [**Neighbors**](http://www.sff.net/people/rothman/GBF/neighbors.htm) [**Picking up the Pieces**](http://www.sff.net/people/rothman/GBF/pieces.htm) [**Return to Oz**](http://www.sff.net/people/rothman/GBF/oz.htm) ---
**Author:** ![mamboman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecb155/32.png) [@mamboman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mamboman)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2007, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-that-you-actually-think-are-great/416999/23 "2007-08-26T20:41:17Z")
Who ever said \*Eyes Wide Shut \* was a bad movie? Anyhoo, my favourite bad movie is _The Man From Hong Kong_. I have been trying to hip people to this film for 10 years with no success. I just think it’s masterpiece. George Lazenby’s finest hour. mm ---
**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2007, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-that-you-actually-think-are-great/416999/24 "2007-08-26T20:51:50Z")
[Very](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/very_bad_things/) [Bad](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0124198/) Things. The [Boondock](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/boondock_saints/) [Saints.](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0144117/) I like 'em. ---
**Author:** ![Gadarene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Gadarene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadarene)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2007, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-that-you-actually-think-are-great/416999/25 "2007-08-26T20:57:35Z")
I really liked the most recent _Around the World in Eighty Days_, though more for Steve Coogan and Cecile de France (who’s HOT) than any of its inhereny, cheesy Jackie Chan-ness. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2007, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-that-you-actually-think-are-great/416999/26 "2007-08-26T21:01:05Z")
I reckon _Titanic_ is unfairly maligned by many. Sure it has flaws, but it’s grandly epic and I find the love story touching (if a little unlikely). ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2007, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-that-you-actually-think-are-great/416999/27 "2007-08-26T21:02:58Z")
I like _Little Nicky_. I find the running gags get a laugh out of me, and the character of Nicky is well-written as someone who has no concept of life on Earth, that had to be hard to do. (“I was hit by two lights with a lot of metal attached” - not bad, how else would someone who knows nothing Earthly describe a train?) I love _Rat Race_, I consider it one of the funniest movies I’ve ever seen. I don’t think it’s a bad movie at all, but a lot of critics were down on it, as I recall. ---
**Author:** ![Southern\_Yankee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/southern_yankee/32/2800_2.png) [@Southern\_Yankee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Southern_Yankee)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2007, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-that-you-actually-think-are-great/416999/28 "2007-08-26T21:10:08Z")
_The Golden Child_ and another vote for _Joe vs. the Volcano_ ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Some\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ad7895/32.png) [@Just\_Some\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Some_Guy)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2007, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-that-you-actually-think-are-great/416999/29 "2007-08-26T21:12:26Z")
[QUOTE=Struan] I reckon _Titanic_ is unfairly maligned by many. Sure it has flaws, but it’s grandly epic and I find the love story touching (if a little unlikely). [/QUOTE] With massive critical praise and a metric ton of Academy Awards I think it doesn’t really qualify for this thread. There’s quite a bit of backlash against it but there always is for popular movies. Mars Attacks and Snakes On a Plane are movies that only work for a certain small audience who knows where the movie is coming from. If you know and enjoy 50’s and 60’s scifi or those 70’s animals go crazy and attack people movies then you’ll enjoy the movies. If you don’t then they’re incomprehensible. Another recent movie like that is Grindhouse. ---
**Author:** ![Wallenstein](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b5a626/32.png) [@Wallenstein](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallenstein)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2007, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-that-you-actually-think-are-great/416999/30 "2007-08-26T21:14:42Z")
When I saw _Dude, Where’s My Car?_ I nearly wet myself laughing. It was one of those late night, spur-of-the-moment group trips to the cinema with uni mates, so it was more the general horse play that set the mood, but damn I chuckled at that film. ---
**Author:** ![MN\_Maenad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e95f7d/32.png) [@MN\_Maenad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MN_Maenad)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2007, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-that-you-actually-think-are-great/416999/31 "2007-08-26T21:29:02Z")
Another vote for _Sahara_ and _Hudson Hawk_. I would like to add _Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo_. I laughed until I peed my pants, but I was amazed at how kindly he acted with the “unlovable” women who hired him. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2007, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-that-you-actually-think-are-great/416999/32 "2007-08-26T21:33:10Z")
[QUOTE=Just Some Guy] With massive critical praise and a metric ton of Academy Awards I think it doesn’t really qualify for this thread. There’s quite a bit of backlash against it but there always is for popular movies. [/QUOTE] Yes, you’re right. The backlash does seem to be an internet-based thing, too. It’s odd though that the LotR films don’t get the same backlash, and they were critically and financially in the same ballpark. I wouldn’t like to speculate why. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2007, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-that-you-actually-think-are-great/416999/33 "2007-08-26T21:34:33Z")
[QUOTE=e-logic] When I saw _Dude, Where’s My Car?_ I nearly wet myself laughing. [/QUOTE] I agree with this one - I too was in _just_ the right, er, mood. ---
**Author:** ![Typo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5fc32e/32.png) [@Typo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2007, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-that-you-actually-think-are-great/416999/34 "2007-08-26T21:39:52Z")
[QUOTE=mamboman] Who ever said \*Eyes Wide Shut \* was a bad movie? [/QUOTE] A few people cited it in the recent “Heavily Hyped Movies that made you go meh” thread, for one thing. Most of the people I know IRL disliked it, as well. I tend to get a “Oh, you LIKED that overblown piece of crap?” reaction when I mention it. ---
**Author:** ![Paladud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Paladud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paladud)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2007, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-that-you-actually-think-are-great/416999/35 "2007-08-26T21:47:34Z")
Anger Management. Then again, Jack Nicholson could have made Battlefield Earth excellent. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2007, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-that-you-actually-think-are-great/416999/36 "2007-08-26T21:58:59Z")
_Hudson Hawk_ _Xanadu_ _Sahara_ _Rat Race_ ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2007, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-that-you-actually-think-are-great/416999/37 "2007-08-26T22:02:28Z")
[QUOTE=Czarcasm] _Xanadu_ [/QUOTE] That’s a courageous admission, and thanks for getting the title song stuck in my head. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2007, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-that-you-actually-think-are-great/416999/38 "2007-08-26T22:06:35Z")
_Destroy All Monsters_. Total Kaiju Cheese. But I love it. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2007, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-that-you-actually-think-are-great/416999/39 "2007-08-26T22:14:10Z")
[QUOTE=Struan] That’s a courageous admission, and thanks for getting the title song stuck in my head. 😃 [/QUOTE] Olivia Newton John, Gene Kelly, Electric Light Orchestra, Roller Disco and big band music! I still don’t understand why it didn’t sweep the Academy Awards that year. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2007, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-that-you-actually-think-are-great/416999/40 "2007-08-26T22:23:07Z")
[QUOTE=VCO3] _The Door in the Floor_. It’s a **terrible** fucking movie, but it’s actually so bad that it flips around into the genius side of things - it becomes a weird, unintentional meta-comedy of Bunuelian proportions. Honestly, if they had intentionally made it the movie that it is, it would be subversive genius on a Bunuel or Godard level. I mean, you have scenes like a naked Jeff Bridges running from his dagger-wielding mistress, bursting through dunes onto the beach while triumphant, syrupy music swells that are played completely straight as though it’s a Serious Moment in a Serious Adult Drama, without a **hint** of self-awareness of irony. You have **several** masturbation scenes straight out of an eighties teen comedy that are played in an equally straight, Serious Movie manner. There’s a line of dialogue where a pompous, serious Jeff Bridges refers to a certain sexual position as “doing it doggishly.” There’s a SERIOUS scene where Jeff Bridges cranks up Khia’s “My Neck, My Back,” and sings along while ANGRILY proclaiming, “I LOVE THIS FUCKING SONG” through near-tears. I’m not making any of this up. [/QUOTE] I love this movie too. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-that-you-actually-think-are-great/416999.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-that-you-actually-think-are-great/416999.md?page=3)