Bad movies that you actually think are great

So did my son when he was 5 or 6…he made me play it over and over, two or three times in a setting. There’s this one point in the movie where one of the scientists, talking about the guy who’d been taken over and killed himself (Professor Otani) says something like “Possibly Otani was…” whatever. But the dubbing was so bad, he paused after possibly, making it sound as if he were answering a question “Possibly, Otani.” The upshot of this long, boring story is that, to this day, whenever any of us answer a question with “possibly” we always say “Possibly, Otani.” :smiley:

Waterworld. It’s so much fun!

The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer - a complete cash-in movie on the star power of Myrna Loy, Cary Grant, and Shirley Temple. The last time I’d looked it was the only Cary Grant movie that hadn’t been released on DVD. Cheese of the highest grade, and totally worth it for the scenes of Cary Grant dressed both in shining armor (in a high school, no less) or looking like a Wally Cleaver clone.

Not a bad movie, but one that gets me a bit of odd looks when people see the title: I Was A Male War Bride. I’ve seen a lot of love for the movie on the net, but mostly for the Cary Grant cross-dressing scenes, it seems. I like it for the romance and the whole bureaucracy gone mad theme going through the whole movie.

More recently, I’ll add votes for:

Last Action Hero
Joe vs. the Volcano
Hudson Hawk

Though, I’ll admit all three are at least partially great for the cheese factors. At least two of them fail the straight face plot test.

I’ll also add the Patrick Dempsey coming of age movie Can’t Buy Me Love. I think it was grand fun. (Who me? Do I have a fondness for “The geek gets the beauty” plotlines? Why would you ask that?)

Yeah, I used to like this one too (past tense b/c I haven’t seen it in almost a decade). I think the press the budget created pretty much killed this movie. It’s too bad because it’s a lot of fun.

The Experts. Arye Gross and John Travolta get kidnapped and whisked to Russia to teach spies how to be like modern Americans, and they don’t know they’re not in the midwest.
Bad Medicine. Steve Guttenberg, Julie Hagerty, and a host of B actors go to medical school “someplace in South America.” With a very moving speech by Alan Arkin as the school headmaster.
The Last Action Hero. What’s not to like? Okay, the sappy bits with the kid.

Ok, I know I’m gonna get flamed for this, but I really like Showgirls. I mean really what is not to like. A lot of topless chicks, gratuitous sex scenes, and the prude from “Saved by the Bell” engaging in those sex scenes. Add in female on female sexual harassment, and you should have an Academy Award winner.

SSG Schwartz

Look, I think Showgirls is a massively under-rated film. It’s the GlenGarryGlenRoss of quasi-porn.

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You probably haven’t been looking in the right place. I see quite a bit of it with the usual mix of people saying “It’s not to my taste” down to “I didn’t like it so I fail to see how any person possibly could” with an extra dash of “How dare they actually adapt the book for a movie rather than preserving each aspect of it exactly!”

A lot of people I know IRL say that about *all * Kubrick films. For me, the highest praise possible for EWS is that it’s a film featuring Nicole Kidman which doesn’t make me want to leave the room in disgust (even though her performance is typically, shall we say, Kidman-esque).

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Nearly all the movies mentioned so far in this thread have a significant cult fan base. Many of them did fairly well with critics too.

Mars Attacks! How could I forget! ACK ACK ACK… Brilliant in its awfulness! There’s this one local lady here who looks just like the White House Killer Alien lady-on-roller-skates… Thingie…

I swear, she lives here. Really! Or, at least, her twin does. She sometimes frequents the local coffee shop. It’s the hairdo that gives her away. Every time she glides by, I feel the urge to chuckle and quietly say “ack ack ack” to myself. I’ve only been caught saying the “ack” once, by another patron, who choked on his latte and gave me the most amused look ever. :wink:

My name is Caractacus and I am a Xanadu fan. Thanks to Czarcasm, I know I’m not alone. The timelessness of Greek mythology overlaid onto the ephermerality of roller disco, what’s not to like? It couldn’t have been too bad; it was nominated in 6 categories but won only one Razzie award.

Facing the Giants. My son saw it and suggested it. Sure, it’s a ripoff of Friday Night Lights, sometimes down to the individual shots. It’s corny, and the Christian message could hit some like being whacked over the head with a bible, but it’s also an honest, inspirational movie.

At the time, I thought that The Island of Dr. Moreau was fantastic, and went back to see it in the theater. Twice. (The 1996 version with Val Kilmer and Marlon Brando.)

I am truly a minority of one, I suspect.

The comedy masterpiece, with Dan Ackroyd, John Candy, Chevy Chase, Demi Moore, AND Valri Bromfield, Taylor Negron & Digital Underground,~~~

VALKENVANIA!!!

Released as “Nothing But Trouble”.

I loved The Postman, thought it had great costumes, amazing scenery, and a really interesting plot. There was some Costner cheesiness, but it was outweighed by the unique premise and good story.

Freddy Got Fingered is one of my favorite comedies, and so is Me, Myself and Irene (which has an amazing soundtrack of Steely Dan covers and the beautiful setting of upstate New York in the summertime.)

I bought a VHS of Desert Kickboxer for 2 dollars at a Village Pantry one night, and it turned out to be hilariously bad - truly one of those movies that’s so bad that it will leave you howling with laughter - and yet strangely appealing and memorable. Set in the desert of Mexico, it’s about a Native American policeman and retired kickboxer who has to save a sexy woman from a drug lord who she stole 2 million dollars from. The villains include a biker gang whose leader is an evil preacher, a fat bearded cocaine dealer who carries a cane with a concealed sword inside and speaks the classic line “Don’t come any closer, or I’ll have to eradicate her!” (referring to the heroine, held at gunpoint,) and his sidekick, a Dolph Lundgren-esque karate wizard who wears imacculately tailored suits and has news-anchor hair. There’s one scene that features the hero standing, shirtless and oiled, on a mountaintop doing “martial arts moves” that are really just bodybuilding poses, for about 4 minutes straight, with music straight out of an 80s gay porn movie - utterly in earnest, with no irony - while a red-tailed hawk circles above him, screeching.

If you ever find this movie in a bargain bin somewhere, I highly recommend getting some people together, getting drunk, and watching it. It’s fucking great.

I’ve never heard anyone say anything good about Les Miserables, the one with Liam Neeson and Geoffrey Rush, but I saw it twice in the Theater. However, I am still not familiar with the novel or any other film or stage adaptation, so maybe that’s why I liked it.

Loverboy with Patrick Dempsey, I just love this movie.
Drop Dead Gorgeous I quote this like I do Blazing Saddles.

I liked this one too, and while it didn’t kill at the box office I thought it got at least some critic love. I could be misremembering though, its been a long time.

I quite enjoyed National Treasure.