# Bad movies that you genuinely enjoy **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 17, 2014, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-that-you-genuinely-enjoy/679106 "2014-01-17T22:05:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2014, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-that-you-genuinely-enjoy/679106/21 "2014-01-17T23:51:40Z")
I like [Don’t Tell Mom The Babysitter’s Dead](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_Tell_Mom_the_Babysitter%27s_Dead) as well as [Better Off Dead](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better_Off_Dead_%28film%29). ---
**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:** [January 17, 2014, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-that-you-genuinely-enjoy/679106/22 "2014-01-17T23:52:23Z")
**Istar**. First third (until they reach Ishtar) is brilliant comedy. Second third flags. Final third (starting from when the get the camel) is very good, though the ending is rushed. And Paul Williams’s songs are comic gold. The film is getting a critical rediscovery with the realization that it’s not bad at all. ---
**Author:** ![sweeteviljesus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/898d66/32.png) [@sweeteviljesus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sweeteviljesus)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2014, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-that-you-genuinely-enjoy/679106/23 "2014-01-18T00:03:20Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > I like [Don’t Tell Mom The Babysitter’s Dead](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_Tell_Mom_the_Babysitter%27s_Dead) as well as [Better Off Dead](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better_Off_Dead_%28film%29). I thought John Cusack was the only one who hated Better Off Dead. Also, +1 on Freddy Got Fingered. ---
**Author:** ![Anamorphic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/anamorphic/32/3057_2.png) [@Anamorphic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anamorphic)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2014, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-that-you-genuinely-enjoy/679106/24 "2014-01-18T00:04:14Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > **Istar**. First third (until they reach Ishtar) is brilliant comedy. Second third flags. Final third (starting from when the get the camel) is very good, though the ending is rushed. And Paul Williams’s songs are comic gold. The film is getting a critical rediscovery with the realization that it’s not bad at all. I’ll second that. It’s a flawed film, to be sure, but it no where NEAR deserves the derision it gets. ---
**Author:** ![Fiveyearlurker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@Fiveyearlurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiveyearlurker)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2014, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-that-you-genuinely-enjoy/679106/25 "2014-01-18T01:41:25Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > I like [Don’t Tell Mom The Babysitter’s Dead](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_Tell_Mom_the_Babysitter%27s_Dead) as well as [Better Off Dead](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better_Off_Dead_%28film%29). The latter is at 82%, so widely considered a pretty good movie. ---
**Author:** ![chizzuk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@chizzuk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chizzuk)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2014, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-that-you-genuinely-enjoy/679106/26 "2014-01-18T01:50:57Z")
_Day After Tomorrow_. The science is silly, the dialogue is bad, but it’s got great visual effects and I love disaster movies. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2014, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-that-you-genuinely-enjoy/679106/27 "2014-01-18T01:52:26Z")
Hansel and Gretel: Witchhunters is actually really good, even though it was poorly received. I enjoyed it more than most major movies last year. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2014, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-that-you-genuinely-enjoy/679106/28 "2014-01-18T02:01:53Z")
I’m a Neil Young freak, so I was probably destined to like this movie. Human Highway. Unless you’ve seen it, a description is useless. For example, see what the following description does for you: Neil and his best friend, Russ Tamblyn,both developmentally hindered, work at a gas station/diner. Dennis Hopper is the chef in the diner, and Devo work in the nearby nuclear power plant…and glow with radiation. Ahh, I’ve said too much. No more spoilers! [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eq0QqbK_YPY) ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2014, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-that-you-genuinely-enjoy/679106/29 "2014-01-18T02:54:54Z")
_Dutch_ is one of my favorite all-time movies, and yet it gets a mere 14% on RT??? Ironically, the Audience Meter is much higher (66%), go figure. Other movies that I consider big dumb fun actually score surprisingly high – Independence Day gets 60%, for example. ---
**Author:** ![Sefton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Sefton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sefton)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2014, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-that-you-genuinely-enjoy/679106/30 "2014-01-18T03:08:52Z")
_Krull_. I watched it a few years ago, and though parts of it made me cringe, I enjoyed it on the whole. Same goes for the Robin Williams movie, _The Best of Times_. ---
**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:** [January 18, 2014, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-that-you-genuinely-enjoy/679106/31 "2014-01-18T03:29:04Z")
> [@chizzuk](#): > > _Day After Tomorrow_. The science is silly, the dialogue is bad, but it’s got great visual effects and I love disaster movies. I agree. Everything about the movie is stupid, and the geography is even worse than the science,\* but it’s extremely entertaining. \*Manhattan has to be on a turntable; in real life, the tidal wave that inundates the city (and hits it as though Brooklyn, Long Island, and Staten Island don’t exist) has to have come from inland New Jersey, and the storm coming from the north hits the Empire State Building before it gets to the Library, even though the ESB (34th St) is south of the Library (42nd Street). ---
**Author:** ![peptastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/65b543/32.png) [@peptastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peptastic)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2014, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-that-you-genuinely-enjoy/679106/32 "2014-01-18T03:32:18Z")
I just read the book Disaster Artist by Greg Stestero about the making of _The Room_. It adds a whole level to the bizareness of that film. Tommy Wiseau sounds like a complete nutjob. When I was a pre-teen I found the films _Vice Academy_ and _Vice Academy 2_ that aired on USA’s Up All Night! to be hilarious. The cops go undercover and learn how to put make-up on for undercover prostitute stings. I had fun teasing my sister when she started her dispatch job at the local police station because of these films. John Turturro stared in a movie called _Brain Donors_ that should be awful but was quite funny. The imdb plot: “Three manic idiots; a lawyer, cab driver and a handyman team up to run a ballet company to fulfill the will of a millionaire. Stooge-like antics result as the trio try to outwit the rich widow and her scheming big-shot lawyer, who also wants to run the ballet.” He’s an ambulance chaser who literally chases down an amublance in the beginning of the film. "Some day you’ll have my children. In fact, they’re in the car if you want them. " Turturro absolutely is the appeal of this movie. It probably would be as bad as it sounds without him. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2014, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-that-you-genuinely-enjoy/679106/33 "2014-01-18T03:47:19Z")
**Zorro The Gay Blade** : 43% on Rotten Tomatoes; if it’s on, I think _“I can’t turn this off now; the good part’s about to come up”_ no matter where it is. ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2014, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-that-you-genuinely-enjoy/679106/34 "2014-01-18T04:04:02Z")
One more vote for _Hudson Hawk,_ my perennial choice whenever this topic comes up on SDMB. ---
**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:** [January 18, 2014, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-that-you-genuinely-enjoy/679106/35 "2014-01-18T04:24:23Z")
> [@peptastic](#): > > I just read the book Disaster Artist by Greg Stestero about the making of _The Room_. It adds a whole level to the bizareness of that film. Tommy Wiseau sounds like a complete nutjob. > > When I was a pre-teen I found the films _Vice Academy_ and _Vice Academy 2_ that aired on USA’s Up All Night! to be hilarious. The cops go undercover and learn how to put make-up on for undercover prostitute stings. I had fun teasing my sister when she started her dispatch job at the local police station because of these films. > > John Turturro stared in a movie called _Brain Donors_ that should be awful but was quite funny. The imdb plot: “Three manic idiots; a lawyer, cab driver and a handyman team up to run a ballet company to fulfill the will of a millionaire. Stooge-like antics result as the trio try to outwit the rich widow and her scheming big-shot lawyer, who also wants to run the ballet.” > He’s an ambulance chaser who literally chases down an amublance in the beginning of the film. "Some day you’ll have my children. In fact, they’re in the car if you want them. " > Turturro absolutely is the appeal of this movie. It probably would be as bad as it sounds without him. It is a pastiche of The Marx Brothers’ _A Night At The Opera_, and I love it. ---
**Author:** ![marshmallow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@marshmallow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marshmallow)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2014, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-that-you-genuinely-enjoy/679106/36 "2014-01-18T04:30:58Z")
Lowest rated movie I’ve enjoyed in a long time is probably Apollo 18 (24% RT). Wouldn’t say it’s genius or anything, I just like modern space travel movies. It’s weird though, since people say it’s boring, slow paced, and has a ridiculous premise, but you could say the same about Moon and it’s at 89%. Certainly Moon is superior and has more psychological meat to it (and that robot character was well done), but a 65 point gap? ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2014, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-that-you-genuinely-enjoy/679106/37 "2014-01-18T04:34:15Z")
I love _Joe Dirt_ too, bought the DVD even though it’s on TV a lot. Also love _Dutch_ and _The Day After Tomorrow_ (but I can’t watch the part where the guy falls through the dome and I FF the hospital scenes). I’ll add _Harry and the Hendersons_, 44%. It’s one of my husband’s favorite movies. He always cries at the end, the big sap. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2014, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-that-you-genuinely-enjoy/679106/38 "2014-01-18T04:36:44Z")
Death to Smoochy. I know it’s a bad movie. I don’t disagree with Rotten Tomatoes 42% rating. But it’s fun and I like it. I guess I’m just a pushover for Edward Norton. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2014, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-that-you-genuinely-enjoy/679106/39 "2014-01-18T04:45:41Z")
Johnny Mnemonic (14%) is a guilty pleasure. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2014, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-that-you-genuinely-enjoy/679106/40 "2014-01-18T05:04:42Z")
Nobody’s mentioned “Sharknado” yet? Yes, it did get some theatrical screenings! Don’t forget “Surf Nazis Must Die”, “Soapdish”, and “I Was A Zombie For The FBI”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-that-you-genuinely-enjoy/679106.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-that-you-genuinely-enjoy/679106.md?page=3)