I cannot believe The Trial of Billy Jack rates as high as 50% on RT, but it is so irretrievably dreadful that I am forced to overrule the OP and declare it a Bad Movie. You have to see this for yourself; no words would suffice.
Another movie that must be included on a technicality is Infra-Man , which is Unrated on the Rotten Tomatoes website but contains the most brilliant line ever in the history of movies featuring the attack of disconnected body parts* -
And I have to respectfully disagree with pulykamell - Freddy Got Fingered is not a “bad” movie. It’s a disgusting movie, certainly, but it has a unified comic vision, and it skillfully creates that vision.
Regards,
Shodan
*Again, don’t ask, it cannot be explained. You have to see the movie.
Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure. Another deliciously moronic movie! Siskel and Ebert failed utterly to see the humor in it; that’s when I stopped valuing their opinions.
I love Xanadu.
One of my favorite movies is a cheesy '70s horror film called The Manitou. I was surprised it actually got as high as 43% on RT. (Actually, I was surprised it was there at all!)
Sylvester Stallone’s Cobra. 13% on RT, but I can watch it any time it’s on. I’ve even watched it in its entirety on a Spanish-language network, and I don’t know a word of Spanish. It didn’t matter because I can quote the entire screenplay from memory.
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[li]Armageddon - Completely unbelievable, but I can watch it over and over again. From firing a shotgun on a working oil rig to everybody seeming to forget that a Texas-sized asteroid would still break up into millions of fragments large enough to end life on Earth, it is a undeniable craptacular masterpiece.[/li][li]Down Twisted (1987) - Cary Lowell at her hottest. Charles Rocket acts crazy as hell ( before you found out he realy was that crazy) and a ridiculous story that gets funnier each time I watch it.[/li][li]The Black Hole (1979) - If you can forget that the titular Black Hole is actually a swirling blue mass and that Maximillian Schell is overacting his butt off, this one is a hoot.Kudos to Robert Forster for keeping a straight face throughout this one. and Yvette Mimieux proved that her looks were the only reason that she got work in Hollywood.[/li][li]The Caveman’s Valentine - Since I was apparently one of teh 10-20k who paid to see this one (It GROSSED around $820K during its brief run) I have to say that I was surprised that no one else liked it. It had many slow parts; but it was “serviceable” entertainment.[/li][li]Decision At Sundown (1959) - Probably the worst of Ranown Westerns starring Randolph Scott. But I can’t help enjoying it for the fact that at least everybody in tried to make it funny. Most did not succeed.[/li][li]You Only Live Twice - A terrible Sean Connery Bond film which makes little if any sense. Just imagining him made up as being Japanese is so ludicrous that it almost ruins the film. The rocket gun equipped ninjas are also hard to swallow. But somehow… it works.[/li][li]**Zardoz **- “Wizard of Oz.” ZAR_DOZ. Sean Connery in a loin cloth. Flying stone heads. This one has something for everybody. I can watch and laugh all day at this one.[/li][li]**Exorcist III **- Pat Ewing as an angel. Giant pair of autopsy shears almost cutting off somebody’s head. George C. Scott at his overacting best. This film is a classic.[/li][li]Food of the Gods (1975) - Marjoe Gortner ranting and raving. Animals eating everything in sight.Environmental message that makes you want to destroy wildlife. This one has it all.[/li][li]**Die Hard **(1988) - If ou can overlook the obvious fact that A) An electromagnet can only work if it has electricity B) The terrorist plan was incredibly stupid C) That McClane could have walked down the emergency stairs to the basement and escaped or let SWAT teams in and ended things sooner. D) That Argyle was apparently deaf sitting in that limousine this is the prototype for 1990’s action classics.[/li][li]The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen - Had they left out Tom Sawyer, it would have been better; other than that, while Alan Moore might hate, I LOVE IT.[/li][li]The Wrecking Crew (1969) - The only watchable Matt Helm film that Dean Martin ever made.Awful, but watchable.[/li][li]The Razor’s Edge - Bill Murray takes himself waaayyyy too seriously in this one. But it…works. At least for me.[/li][li]Once Upon A Time In Mexico - Johnny Depp overacgts his butt off and Antonio Banderas has all of teh emotional warmth of a broken toaster. But I have seen this so many times I can quote the lines.[/li][/ol]
Honestly, I just rewatched it last month and none of those things bothered me or, to be honest, occurred to me. I don’t even know what the electromagnetic thing is you’re talking about offhand, so I guess my suspension of disbelief was complete (ETA: Oh, must be the safe thing you’re talking about. Not something I even considered.) At any rate, it doesn’t qualify by the OP’s Rotten Tomato standards, as it’s a very high 92% fresh rating (and 94% from audiences).
Things to do in Denver When You’re Dead (33%) is a guilty pleasure of mine. A former gangster trying to go straight, crippled crime boss, psychotic career criminal, and a 24 year old Gabrielle Anwar - what’s not to love?
If you are laughing at these films and they are not meant to be comedies, as you indicate is the case with several of them, I don’t see how they meet the OP’s test of being enjoyed on their own terms.
I’ve a few nominees:
The Further Adventures of Tennessee Buck. Rated 29% on Rotten Tomatoes, it’s a perfectly fine jungle adventure B movie, a spiritual successor to all those Tarzan movies way back when. The plot rolls right along, David Keith does a fine job as a boozing, washed-up big game hunter with a hot native girlfriend, and the scenery in Sri Lanka where it was filmed is gorgeous, and very authentically jungle-licious. Plus the female lead is Kathy Shower, She of the Enormous Nipples That Stick Right Out There, and they DO get screen time, most especially in the scene where the female natives take Kathy into a hut, strip her, and give her a group oil massage that’s, well … very nicely done – lots of torchlight gleaming on smooth, writhing skin. But even without the sexy, it would still be a perfectly fine jungle adventure movie.
Erotic Boundaries – unrated on Rotten Tomatoes, unsurprisingly so, since it’s a Skinamax erotic thriller. It’s the story of a husband and wife where the husband gets involved with his job and stops paying attention to his beautiful young wife. Soon enough he’s cheating on her with his assistant who adores him. Meanwhile, the wife, played by Kathy Shower, has a chance meetiing with an old college flame, played by Lisa Comshaw. Seems the two of them had a lesbian dominance/submission thing going on back in college. This is the part that makes the movie worth enjoying uninronically – the way Comshaw works to get Shower back into that erotic submission from their college relationship, and the way the neglected Shower reluctant succumbs. If the movie’s plot had progressed naturally from this relationship, and if the husband’s office fling were a bit less dull and by the numbers, it would have been an unabashedly topnotch movie. As it is, it’s a serviceably erotic thriller … much more erotic than thrilling, but because Shower and Comshaw portray two women who have a relationship rather than two women who perform a variety of sex acts, it’s good on its own terms, until the bad-faith ending.
Casa de mi Padre was an interesting bit of surreal film making and I think Will Ferrell is funny, despite how people make it seem like a crime to believe so.
I find most sci-fi movies fun.
Blacula is much under rated, for William Marshall’s interpretation of a black Dracula if for nothing else.
I saw RIPD without knowing anything about it, and thought it was funny, stoopid (in the best sense of the word) and short (in a world … where even fart joke comedies have to go for two hours plus). And I laughed more at it than I did at the movies it ripped off.
Agreed. Also, Kate Beckinsale was hawt, even with the silly accent.
I was amused to learn that, several years later, the actor who played Frankenstein’s Monster (Shuler Hensley) played essentially the same role in the Broadway version of “Young Frankenstein”.
Out of all of the D&D characters I’ve played in the past 30+ years, one of my favorites is still the paladin I based on the movie’s version of Van Helsing.
