And Summer School with Mark Harmon. I sin yet again: Major League.
And The Shadow, starring Alec Baldwin.
I’ll weigh in with another vote for Better Off Dead (fronch fries, fronch dressing) and admit a guilty pleasure fondness for anything with John Cusack. Another bad movie I haven’t seen mentioned, but which I secretly enjoy is Spaceballs. My daughter watched it daily when she was a kid and I can recite the lines as well as she can.
I think I just trumped my own thread with this one:
Clue.
And nobody like Oscar, with Sylvester Stallone, either, but Tim Curry’s part in that movie makes me roll.
I Loved Drop Dead Fred.
Does that count as a bad movie?
I have dreadful taste in movies. No modesty; honest fact.
Favorite “baddies”:
- Beetlejuice: cracks me up every time.
- Escape from NY: the whole over-the-top atmosphere, but especially that great car w/ the candleabra on the fenders.
- The Fog: has it all; ghosts, lepers, shipwrecks, Adrienne Barbeau…
- The Thing: James Arness as a vegetable (who knew?), plucky WWII dialogue, mad scientists, the works.
- The immortal Plan 9 From Outer Space: the classic, the ultimate.
- Paint Your Wagon: or Seven Brides For Seven Brothers On Crack. Clint sings! Lee Marvin sings! The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band look uncomfortable!
Enough revealing myself as a low-brow dolt,
Veb
Hmmm, I think I’ve just been insulted. TVeblen I like all those movies except Paint Your Wagon (which I’ve never seen), and I’m no dolt. Oh wait, that wasn’t me.
Carry on.
Nobody’s mentioned The Warriors, one of the best high-testosterone “rumble” flicks ever made.
As far as MST3K, it’s hard to top Outlaw, except maybe with Ator, the Fighting Blade ("…miles and Miles O’Keefe…")
I’ll watch anything with Tim Curry in it, and his filmography has almost a hundred entries. All bad.
(HIJACK)
Eeew! That woman just creeps the hell out of me! Same thing with Kirstie Alley. There’s something about them that just make my skin crawl.
Oh, and the same thing goes for that actress who has really really light blue eyes. Can’t remember her name though, she should be in her 50’s now… This is going to torture me all day.
(/HIJACK)
I’ll watch anything with Tim Curry in it, and his filmography has almost a hundred entries. All bad.
(HIJACK)
Eeew! That woman just creeps the hell out of me! Same thing with Kirstie Alley. There’s something about them that just make my skin crawl.
Oh, and the same thing goes for that actress who has really really light blue eyes. Can’t remember her name though, she should be in her 50’s now… This is going to torture me all day.
(/HIJACK)
I liked the Warriors.
I may be the only person who will admit this, but I actually loved the short subjects they would sometimes show before the movies more than the movies themselves–some great stuff about sex education, cheating (in school–many of these were school films), General Hospital, drivers education (You haven’t lived until you’ve seen “Last Clear Chance”). Great stuff!
Then there was the strangely androgenous “Mr. B. Natural”
DRY wrote:
Yes! The shorts were great! Remember the one for the phone company that was talking about the future of telephones? It was set at a World’s Fair or somesuch. That’s my favorite thing on any MST3K! Well, my favorite thing besides the time when Crow and Tom Servo dressed up as the little Japanese twin girls and summoned Mothra. That kills me…
These, as far as I am concerned, do not count as bad movies:
Raising Arizona
Beetlejuice
The Evil Dead Trilogy
Tremors
Better Off Dead
Ghostbusters
I’m glad I could set the record straight on that.
An actual bad movie that someone might enjoy the hell out of might be, strictly by way of example, oh, say, something like Ski School. But not Ski School 2, 'cause let’s face it, that one just sucked.
*The Prey
*Pumpkinhead
*Basket Case
*Basket Case 2
*Chopping Mall
*Mother’s Day
*Carnosaur
*Frankenhooker (Wow!! Two votes for this classic!)
*Satan’s School for Girls
*I Spit on Your Grave
SoapBoxMessiah writes:
> Oh, and the same thing goes for that actress who has
> really really light blue eyes. Can’t remember her name
> though, she should be in her 50’s now… This is going to
> torture me all day.
You probably mean Meg Foster.
Several people have mentioned Joe Versus the Volcano. That’s not a bad film. That’s a good film that got some inexplicable bad reviews when it came out. It’s now acquired a small cult reputation.
I liked The Shadow. 
Does Mortal Kombat count?
I haven’t unpacked my tape collection yet, so I can’t really fill this out. I’ve seen about 50% of what appears on your average B-movie review website, tho.The Thing (50’s), Ator, Both Conan movies, Charles Bronson as the vigilante, whatever that movie was. shudder
I’ve seen these, I won’t do that again. The Shadow, Rocks however
One more for Hudson Hawk! My God, I thought I was the only one. Now I know I’m not a freak!
MST3K: Nothing was better than The Sidehackers
Guys racin’ motorcycles (with some sort of platform w/ another guy on it) and the girls who love them.
Raising Arizona, being a Coen Brothers movie…was critically acclaimed, IIRC…whatever, I love it, memorized it, yada yada
Whenever I think of bad movies that I can’t get enough of, one invariably comes to mind: “Valley Girl”. I was a pre-teen when it came out, and I guess it appeals to my masochistic tendencies by reminding me of all the cool middle school girls that wouldn’t talk to me. Bitches.
I haven’t seen the phone company one–damn, now I’m going to be haunted by trying to catch that one (I really do love these shorts even more than the movies). You don’t happen to remember which movie this one was with, do you? Again, which movie?
I’m also surprised I haven’t seen the “Mothra Girl” skit, as I thought I’ve seen all the Godzilla movies that were on MST3K. (I’m definitely a Godzilla fan)
But speaking of MST3K skits, my favorite ones were:
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When the SOL Crew is hawking some Gamera action figure set, complete with all sorts of army figures and Barbie dolls.
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The tribute to the Star Trek “Mirror, Mirror” episode, with the parallel universe.
But the very best one was:
- The Orville Redenbacher skit! (I believe this one was one of the Godzilla or Gamera movies) Apparently, they were really worried about being sued over this. It’s absolutely, positively hilarious!
Super Mario Brothers. Dennis Hopper is wonderful, Fiona Shaw fills the dress nicely and role as villaness, Bob Hoskins and John Legumaninzo (whatshisname) have fun too. I liked it.