# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2014, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-that-you-genuinely-enjoy/679106/41 "2014-01-18T05:08:38Z")
I actually liked [The Stupids](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/stupids/) (21%) when I saw it on premium cable years ago, though it’s entirely likely I was super high or was in the middle of fever delirium at the time. ---
**Author:** ![Sunshine\_and\_Smiles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Sunshine\_and\_Smiles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunshine_and_Smiles)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2014, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-that-you-genuinely-enjoy/679106/42 "2014-01-18T05:57:43Z")
I’ll third **Joe Dirt**. In fact, in some of my more caffeinated moments I’ve been known to get weepy about how he stays positive throughout everything. I was going to say **Wimbledon** because I never hear it talked about and if it’s on everyone laughs - but the sports action is great and the idea of a career player on his last outing suddenly finding that spark is really inspiring to me - but RT gives it a 60% ---
**Author:** ![ricksummon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ricksummon/32/3333_2.png) [@ricksummon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ricksummon)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2014, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-that-you-genuinely-enjoy/679106/43 "2014-01-18T05:59:31Z")
> [@woodstockbirdybird](#): > > i actually liked [the stupids](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/stupids/) (21%) when i saw it on premium cable years ago, though it’s entirely likely i was super high or was in the middle of fever delirium at the time. **release the drive bee!!** :d ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2014, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-that-you-genuinely-enjoy/679106/44 "2014-01-18T06:07:43Z")
[Bloodsport](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/bloodsport/) staring Jean-Claude Van Damme - 33% I first saw it when I was about 10 and taking karate lessons, which probably explains why I liked it so much. It’s still a fun movie, especially with the bad voice dubbing. Besides, Ogre from Revenge of the Nerds is in it. ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2014, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-that-you-genuinely-enjoy/679106/45 "2014-01-18T06:30:37Z")
Saving Silverman!! “Where’s the toilet? I gotta take a shit!” from R Lee Ermey always makes me laugh. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2014, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-that-you-genuinely-enjoy/679106/46 "2014-01-18T06:45:46Z")
_Van Helsing_ (22% positive on Rotten Tomatoes). It was so over the top, I loved it. I especially like their Frankenstein. ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2014, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-that-you-genuinely-enjoy/679106/47 "2014-01-18T06:45:54Z")
Disaster epics are a guilty pleasure Armageddon The Core Day After Tomorrow Deep impact Seen 'em all ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2014, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-that-you-genuinely-enjoy/679106/48 "2014-01-18T07:02:44Z")
I’ve only seen it once, but I really enjoyed _Freddy Got Fingered_ (11%). I think it helped that I had no idea what the movie was about or who Tom Green was going in. It was just a movie I saw for rent at the video store that looked interesting. Yes, it was way over the top, but I just loved the absurd, anarchic quality of the movie. ---
**Author:** ![crypto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@crypto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crypto)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2014, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-that-you-genuinely-enjoy/679106/49 "2014-01-18T07:28:57Z")
**Eddie and the Cruisers** - 38% **The Beach** -18 % **Vanilla Sky** - 40% **Payback** - 54% - a bit over, but close enough. I like it so much I bought the video, and watch it regularly. ---
**Author:** ![Truman\_Burbank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@Truman\_Burbank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Truman_Burbank)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2014, 9:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-that-you-genuinely-enjoy/679106/50 "2014-01-18T09:06:01Z")
**Roadhouse** , with Patrick Swayze, will generally stop me in my tracks if I run across it channel surfing. 40% on RT. God the female lead was awful…as was, of course, the rest of the film…🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Lydia\_Phalfav](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a6a055/32.png) [@Lydia\_Phalfav](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lydia_Phalfav)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2014, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-that-you-genuinely-enjoy/679106/51 "2014-01-18T11:35:59Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > _Van Helsing_ (22% positive on Rotten Tomatoes). > > It was so over the top, I loved it. I especially like their Frankenstein. I like this one. The hubby & I quote from it here & there: "SUCCESSSS!! & “…It’s what I do…” along with many of Carl’s lines. Crappy movies like Van Helsing & League of Extraordinary Gentlemen give our old gaming group (D&D among others) great character ideas. The Matrix & Highlander (series too) were a good source of fun ideas for various World of Darkness games as well. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2014, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-that-you-genuinely-enjoy/679106/52 "2014-01-18T16:25:51Z")
_ **Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure** _. Hilariously moronic! 😃 _ **Beavis and Butt-Head Do America.** _ Ditto. ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2014, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-that-you-genuinely-enjoy/679106/53 "2014-01-18T16:55:30Z")
I love the john Candy movie Delirious, which is only at 44% ---
**Author:** ![Smid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/838e76/32.png) [@Smid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smid)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2014, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-that-you-genuinely-enjoy/679106/54 "2014-01-18T17:14:49Z")
> [@Bellhorn](#): > > Great pick, as are many of Bruce Willis’ films, (outside of Pulp Fiction and the Die Hard dreck). Bonfire of the Vanities (16%), Last Man Standing(37%)The Last Boyscout(44%) > > Willis is my favorite bad-movie actor. He seems to be at home in a bColor of Moneyad movie, and shifts into his smirk-mode, as if he’s letting the viewer in on the joke. Last Boy Scout is rated at 44%? Seriously? Have any of those people watched it, or just think its the same as his numerous shit movies? (Yes, Last Man Standing, but Striking Distance, Die Hard past 2, North, Color of Night, The whole NNN Yards, etc etc). To me, Last Boy Scout is the spiritual successor to Die Hard. Some of the few classics he’s done apart from Pulp Fiction, Twelve Monkeys and Sin City… ---
**Author:** ![Smid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/838e76/32.png) [@Smid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smid)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2014, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-that-you-genuinely-enjoy/679106/55 "2014-01-18T17:15:52Z")
And Bill and Teds Excellent adventure is a bad movie? Not to me… ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2014, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-that-you-genuinely-enjoy/679106/56 "2014-01-18T17:33:43Z")
Vertical Limit and Cliffhanger Throw an implausible story, bad actors and acute high-altitude pulmonary edema on a bigass mountain and I’ll happily watch, excepting The Eiger Sanction. I do have some standards. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2014, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-that-you-genuinely-enjoy/679106/57 "2014-01-18T17:37:35Z")
> [@Smid](#): > > And Bill and Teds Excellent adventure is a bad movie? Not to me… It’s so deliciously stupid, I love it! Keanu Reeves was born to play Ted. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Roundabout](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/dec6dc/32.png) [@Roundabout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roundabout)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2014, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-that-you-genuinely-enjoy/679106/58 "2014-01-18T17:46:53Z")
After Earth - Jaden’s accent was atrocious and Will didn’t have much to do, but I enjoyed it for a Saturday matinee film. Mortal Kombat - Still the best video game adaptation. Snake Eyes - Another effective mystery/suspense film from De Palma. Nicolas Cage steals every scene he’s in. Escape Plan - Stallone and Arnold’s best movie in years. Pure 80’s/90’s action cheese. Ernest Scared Stupid/ Ernest Goes to Jail - What can I say? I love Jim Varney ---
**Author:** ![MyFootsZZZ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/myfootszzz/32/12580_2.png) [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2014, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-that-you-genuinely-enjoy/679106/59 "2014-01-18T18:04:37Z")
**Midnight Madness** - Disney’s second PG rated film I believe. My brother and I quote it every now and then. Has anyone else ever see this movie? **Super Mario Bros.** - It has nothing to do with my love for Mario; (because the movie has nothing to do with Mario as we know him). It’s still a fun, and campy movie. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2014, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-that-you-genuinely-enjoy/679106/60 "2014-01-18T18:05:20Z")
> [@Captain\_Amazing](#): > > 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. I love that movie! Even if the rest of the movie was awful (which it’s not), the Nazi scene is comedy gold of the highest order. > [@Roundabout](#): > > After Earth - Jaden’s accent was atrocious and Will didn’t have much to do, but I enjoyed it for a Saturday matinee film. I really don’t understand the hate for this movie. I mean yeah, the accent is annoying and the movie is certainly not great by any stretch, but it’s not horrifically awful (as it was described to me before I watched it). I didn’t even realize it was M. Night Shyamalan, and that’s a _good_ thing. I’ll add, and I’m usually the only one on this: _Son in Law_. It’s definitely got a few really cringe-worthy moments (particularly Lane Smith doing Pauly Shore-talk at the very end), but there’s some really funny stuff in there. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-that-you-genuinely-enjoy/679106.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-that-you-genuinely-enjoy/679106.md?page=4)