Armageddon
The Postman
are two I really like that don’t seem to get much love.
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.
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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.
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).
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.
The Golden Child
and another vote for Joe vs. the Volcano
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.
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.
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.
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.
I agree with this one - I too was in just the right, er, mood.
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.
Anger Management. Then again, Jack Nicholson could have made Battlefield Earth excellent.
Hudson Hawk
Xanadu
Sahara
Rat Race
That’s a courageous admission, and thanks for getting the title song stuck in my head. 
Destroy All Monsters.
Total Kaiju Cheese.
But I love it.
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.
I love this movie too.