and, sad to say, but I kind of enjoyed Up Periscope
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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.
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I didn’t ever think Mars Attacks was a bad movie.
Ack-ACK-ack-ack! !ZAP!
:do not run, we are your friends!:
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Same here; I think it’s awesome! We come in peace!
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My vote: The Fifth Element. Once you realize it’s a comedy, it’s gold. Maybe I just dig Willis’ style in more lighthearted roles?
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There are people who don’t think it’s a comedy? It’s total camp!
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!
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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.
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A.I. (complete with the ending that everyone hates. I loved that ending.)
Pootie Tang (I think it’s hilarious)
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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.”
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!”