# Bad Movies We Love **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 8, 2000, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-we-love/21770 "2000-06-08T18:06:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Edwardina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Edwardina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edwardina)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2000, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-we-love/21770/1 "2000-06-08T18:06:20Z")
How about this: Which movies are our guilty pleasures? Movies that we are embarrassed to admit we enjoyed. I guess my big one would be Hudson Hawk. Everyone hated that one, but I thought it was a hoot. So many movies are called bad, when they have in fact achieved their aim. Some were meant to be cheesy. I think you can really only call a movie bad if it’s meant to be scary (really) and only makes you laugh, or if it completely misses the mark in some other fundamental way. A movie is not bad just because you don’t care for it, if it in fact achieved it’s aim. Otherwise, I would call Seven bad, and that was really a very good film, but it was just not my cup of tea. What movies are your guilty pleasures, the ones that aren’t bad, they’re just drawn that way? ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Cynical](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ee59a6/32.png) [@Mr.Cynical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Cynical)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2000, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-we-love/21770/2 "2000-06-08T18:28:38Z")
Up The Creek. I will watch it each and every time it comes on TV. It kills me to this day, and I have NO IDEA WHY. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2000, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-we-love/21770/3 "2000-06-08T18:35:00Z")
There are lots of them. If we restrict ourselves to movies that were not intended to be bad, then my picks are: Plan 9 from Outer sace (the immortal) Robot Monster The Bruce Kimmel masterpieces: The First Nudie Musical The Creature that wasn’t Nice (aka Starship) (This last one is a musical version of Alien. I kid you not. Cindy williams stars in both of Kimmel’s movies, Patrick MacNee in the second, and Ron Howard has a cameo in Nudie Musical) Godzilla movies ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Cynical](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ee59a6/32.png) [@Mr.Cynical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Cynical)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2000, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-we-love/21770/4 "2000-06-08T18:54:27Z")
How awful of me NOT to include Ice Pirates. The robots made the movie for me. Especially the Pimp robot. No doubt, that’s where the inspiration for Pimpbot 5000 came from! ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2000, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-we-love/21770/5 "2000-06-08T19:04:30Z")
Just saw one of my faves the other night on TV: “The Best of Everything” (1959). One of the all-time great soap operas about Innocent Working Girls in The Big City. Hope Lange, Diane Baker and Suzy Parker work in a Park Avenue publishing house and are set upon by mean bosses (Joan Crawford at her Joanniest), slimey men, and wear great clothes (by Jean Louis, of course!). It’s a treat of a film, and you HAVE to eat Pepperidge Farm cookies while youm watch it, in your Baby Doll nightie. ---
**Author:** ![Ozone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e95f7d/32.png) [@Ozone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ozone)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2000, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-we-love/21770/6 "2000-06-08T19:12:08Z")
I’ll have to agree with Mr. Cynical. Up The Creek is one funny show. I laugh 'til I have tears in my eyes every time I watch that one. One of my all-time favs: Rocky Horror Picture Show. Used to go to that movie once a month. Dressed up like Dr. Frankenfurter, threw rice, toast, hot-dogs, cards, toilet paper, etc… LOVED that movie, but have you ever tried to watch it by yourself, without all the audience participation?? BAAAAAD movie!! ---
**Author:** ![Edwardina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Edwardina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edwardina)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2000, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-we-love/21770/7 "2000-06-08T19:19:05Z")
Ozone - I have to agree: Rocky Horror without audience participation? Awful! ---
**Author:** ![shhh\_zzzz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/977dab/32.png) [@shhh\_zzzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shhh_zzzz)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2000, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-we-love/21770/8 "2000-06-08T19:33:09Z")
I don’t know if it was actually considered ‘bad,’ but “Raising Arizona” w/ Nicholas Cage & Holly Hunter is about the only movie I have ever watched 3-4 times - and Loved It every time. ---
**Author:** ![Danielinthewolvesden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Danielinthewolvesden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Danielinthewolvesden)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2000, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-we-love/21770/9 "2000-06-08T19:36:03Z")
“Doc Savage, Man of Bronze” ---
**Author:** ![ThisYearsGirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@ThisYearsGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThisYearsGirl)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2000, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-we-love/21770/10 "2000-06-08T20:08:03Z")
I love “Rock and Roll High School.” It’s so terrible, but I have it on tape and watch it all the time. I also like “Officer and a Gentleman” and “Shock Treatment,” the terrible follow-up to RHPS. ---
**Author:** ![Tally-Ho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e495f1/32.png) [@Tally-Ho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tally-Ho)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2000, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-we-love/21770/11 "2000-06-08T20:18:52Z")
I definitely get some guilty pleasure from watching “Earth Girls Are Easy” with Geena Davis, Jeff Goldblum, and Jim Carrey. Bad movie but I love it anyway. Oh and my dad got me hooked on those cheesy, hormonal, bikini movies. You know the ones where some store, monoment, etc. is in trouble and the kids all decide to raise the money to save it by wandering around in bikinis for the rest of the movie. They were often the fodder of USA’s “UP all night” show. Not your usual Father/Daughter bonding activity. 🙂 Chrisbar ---
**Author:** ![Me\_Joe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecccb3/32.png) [@Me\_Joe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Me_Joe)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2000, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-we-love/21770/12 "2000-06-08T20:27:15Z")
Two of the most truly awful movies of all time that I just have to watch when they come on late-night t.v. are “Logan’s Run” and “Saturn 3.” By pure coincidence(?) both these dogs feature Farrah Fawcett in skimpy mid-70s “futuristic” (i.e. glittery disco) outfits. These movies are the epitome of horrible sci-fi dreck, but I’m hypnotically enthralled by them whenever I see them. ---
**Author:** ![JBENZ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b77776/32.png) [@JBENZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JBENZ)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2000, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-we-love/21770/13 "2000-06-08T20:28:28Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > I guess my big one would be Hudson Hawk. Everyone hated that one, but I thought it was a hoot. > \*\* Nah…there are two people in the world that don’t think “Hudson Hawk” sucks…I’m the other one. If you loved “Robin Hood Men in Tights” there are two of us on that too. But for sheer badmoviesyouloveitiveness you can’t beat “Porky’s”. Kim Catrell with sweat sox and without the wrinkles. “Why do they call her Lassie?” JB OWWWWWWWWWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Cynical](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ee59a6/32.png) [@Mr.Cynical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Cynical)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2000, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-we-love/21770/14 "2000-06-08T20:45:54Z")
JBENZ, I love the whole porky’s series. Incidentally, I once dated a gal who was remarkably similar in volume to that same character. We didn’t date long, it was embarassing! Another one of my Faves: The Frighteners. Well, everyone ELSE thought it was bad. ---
**Author:** ![Pizzle\_Boy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Pizzle\_Boy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pizzle_Boy)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2000, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-we-love/21770/15 "2000-06-08T20:53:12Z")
Evil Dead Trilogy ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2000, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-we-love/21770/16 "2000-06-08T20:53:19Z")
Logan’s Run is a bad movie? 😕 Yuk yuk. However, I do date my love of sci fi to it, because it was the first futuristic movie I’d ever seen. I’d say I was about 7. I’ve seen Beeteljuice so many times that I can see all the plot flaws. Maybe others think it’s a bad movie but I love it. Raising Arizona, too. It’s definately NOT a bad movie. (“Son, you’ve got a panty on your head.”) ---
**Author:** ![ruadh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@ruadh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruadh)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2000, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-we-love/21770/17 "2000-06-08T21:15:22Z")
Wild Things … with Matt Dillon and Neve Campbell. Oh, my God, it was _so bad_. There were about 15 of us in the cinema and we were screaming in hysterics. Afterward it was all my flatmate and I could talk about for days. Definitely the most unintentionally hilarious movie I’ve ever seen. ---
**Author:** ![randomlyblanks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71c47a/32.png) [@randomlyblanks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/randomlyblanks)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2000, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-we-love/21770/18 "2000-06-08T21:30:22Z")
It has become a rite of passage in my high school to watch the blatently horrible “The Goonies” ---
**Author:** ![randomlyblanks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71c47a/32.png) [@randomlyblanks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/randomlyblanks)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2000, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-we-love/21770/19 "2000-06-08T21:31:59Z")
> [@](#): > > Wild Things … with Matt Dillon and Neve Campbell. Isn’t that the movie that Denise Richards makes out with Neve Campbell–both topless? ---
**Author:** ![ruadh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@ruadh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruadh)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2000, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-we-love/21770/20 "2000-06-08T21:34:07Z")
Neve wasn’t topless, but yes, there was a 3 way sex scene with the two girls and Matt. It wasn’t nearly as interesting as the hype made it out to be. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-we-love/21770.md?page=2)