Bad movies that you actually think are great

Consider your search for a fellow fan fulfilled :slight_smile: Loved it.

I was a massive fan of the 2000AD comics when I was growing up, and I thought the movie captured the spirit of Judge Dread very well. “I AM THE LAW”

Ok, I will admit that there are a lot of crappy movies mentioned in this thread, and some people may have enjoyed them, but Smokey and the Bandit? That movie was a classic. It is still worth watching by anyone who has ever thought of driving a big rig. I will admit the sequels sucked donkey balls, but the original to be labeled a bad movie. I feel a Pit thread upcoming.

I don’t feel as strongly about RoadHouse, but that was generally a good movie. Not a classic, but I don’t feel icky if someone catches me watching it.

SSG Schwartz

Speaking of Stallone, I will watch Demolition Man whenever it is on. Lots of great humor for a sci-fi flick.

I am also the only person on the planet who liked Doctor Detroit.

Not by half, you aren’t. It’s got a substantial cult following.

Well that’s good to hear. I always thought it was underrated.

Underrated? :smiley:

Glad to hear other folks liked *Destroy All Monsters * (I get a lot of static for liking it at home). I still think it’s great.

Also a fan of The Rocketeer. *Plan Nine from Outer Space * is a classic.

I forgot about the sweetness that is Cabin Boy and Dude Where’s My Car?

I wanted to mention Bloodsport.

I just watched Beer League with Artie Lange. What a marvelous piece of crap! I laughed my ass of for some reason.

I thought it had quite a few great one-liners, and the insults were classic. I thought it was well written… :slight_smile:

Same here; I think it’s awesome! We come in peace!

There are people who don’t think it’s a comedy? It’s total camp!

Empire Records. Hands down.

You’ve described my ideal movie channel!
Mars Attacks
The Fifth Element
Doctor Detroit
Judge Dredd.
Hudson Hawk
Xanadu
Big Trouble In Little China
Tremors
Joe vs. the Volcano
Waterworld.
The Golden Child
Armageddon

I’m probably one of the few people to like Jekyll and Hyde…Together Again.
Or Caligula. Malcolm McDowell, Sir John Gielgud, Peter O’Toole, Helen Mirren in hard core porn!

A.I. (complete with the ending that everyone hates. I loved that ending.)

Pootie Tang (I think it’s hilarious)

There’s no way Return To Oz is a bad movie. Though not without flaws, it’s a excellent movie. Just because some critics and viewers couldn’t get past the fact that it’s based on the Baum books and is MUCH more faithful than The Wizard of Oz, doesn’t make it a bad movie. The problem was with them, not the movie. Most Baum fans think it’s a stellar adaptation of his work.

1492: Conquest of Paradise, and Tideland.

Battlefield Earth

OK admittedly it wasn’t a great movie, but c’mon, I really don’t understand all the flak this movie gets!
I liked it.

I didn’t* love* the Spielberg ending but I knew it couldn’t end the Kubrickian way.

Pootie Tang IS hilarious!

Like my before-named Nothing But Trouble, it excites very divided opinions in IMDB & Amazon.

An abyssmally bad movie that is great fun (partly but not entirely due to Sybil Danning & her girls) is THE HOWLING II:YOUR SISTER IS A WEREWOLF. And I really found
HOWLING III (the Australian marsupial werewolves) to be touching.

Oh- and let’s not forget the Sidaris productions which star Playboy Playmates as federal agents!

Does the original *Conan the Barbarian * count as bad? I sure read some nasty reviews of it.

A group of us guys in college went to see it expecting camp trash – Dino Di Laurentiis does Robert E. Howard?

It was a hack’n’slash sword movie, overlaid with tendentious Nietzschean themes and steroid porn, starring the inarticulate future governor of California.

But it also laughed at itself, gently. “Dinner for wolf?” shrugged Subotai, wryly lamenting his fall in the world. It had lyrical moments, a crucifixion/rise from the dead metaphor, terrific (if bombastic) musical score, and of course both Mako, growling and groveling, and James Earl Jones, intoning mellifluously his iron-age philosophy as a priest-king.

We loved it. I still feel a thrill when I watch “two stand against many.”

Sailboat

I just remembered one of my all time favorite bad movies:Beastmaster! Back when cable was new it was one of the staples. Dennis Miller said the HBO stood for, “Hey, Beastmaster’s On!”

Eyes Wide Shut has a 77% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

A lot of people liked it, myself included. Calling it a “bad movie” is a minority opinion. I think it should be disqualified from this thread.

Any multiple-Oscar winner should be disqualified as well. Titanic, etc.

… I’m not at all sure I’d call it great, but I do also like Joe Versus the Volcano and I thought Mars Attacks was hilarious.