How could I forget Howard The Duck?!?!?! I own a copy and have watched it a gazillion times.
And as for the vote… I tend to think Ferris just beats out St Elmo’s Fire and The Breakfast Club.
Crap! I forgot Frankenhooker. Fantastic freakin’ movie. Summer School is also good.
Conan the Barbarian doesn’t count as a bad movie. Conan the Destroyer does.
I would love to say that I liked that movie, but I can’t. ST is by far my favorite work of fiction (I read it for the first time while in Army basic training, hiding it in my laundry bag to avoid confiscation). Verhoven’s movie treatment of it makes me feel like crying.
*** End of Heinlein advocacy soapbox mode
No one has mentioned my personal fav yet:
Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid
I know, serious film buffs tend to like it, but it was pretty much a bomb with the general public. My roommate thinks it is stupid, but then he is collecting all of the Pierce Brosnan 007 movies on DVD. Plebeian.
There is one I always used to turn off whenever anyone came in the room and caught me watching it: The Neverending Story. It’s a great movie, but when you’re 19 or 20, living in an Army barracks with 100 or so other men, any movie with a body count of less than 75 is seen as less than manly. Now that I have a six-year-old, I can watch it without fear of embarassment as long as I can get him to stay in the room.
Well, I am guilty too: Short Circuit with Ally Sheedy and Steve Guttenburg. I get all warm and mushy everytime I see that cute little machine!!!
And then there’s “The Stuff”, which was a ‘B’ horror movie about some deadly Yogurt-Monster that grows inside you after eating this ice-cream like food. And “Troll” with Sonny Bono. These movies are GREAT!!! If you can find them (Blockbuster probably won’t have these two), they are VERY amusing.
Let me know if they get added to anyone else’s list of BAD movies to love…
I tend to think of Labyrinth (swoonfully fantastic), Legend, and the Neverending Story as fantasy film staples, not movies one would be embarrassed to be caught watching, but hey, I guess it depends on who you are . . . In the barracks, huh? You’ve got more guts than me!
Oh yeah…Short Circuit. What a movie! I loved that one!
I also adored The Neverending Story.
Also…All Dogs Go To Heaven. I used to watch that movie all the time.
Does anyone remember Teen Witch? It had this girl who was a fork and then found out she was a witch, so she cast a spell to be popular, and she is! Of course, it has all the elements of a cheesy 80’s movie, including a Tiffany-esque pop star.
Nacho4Sara:
I do remember Teen Witch. I remember I really liked it when I was younger. Do you remember The Peanut Butter Solution?
Medicine Man with Sean Connery and Lorraine Bracco. I love that movie. I’ve watched it so many times. Second to James Bond, it’s probably my favorite Sean Connery movie.
I’ve lost all respect for you people.
<<<<mumbles under his breath>>>> I’ve seen the BeeGees’ Sgt. Pepper movie three times. It’s like a bad car crash, you don’t want to watch, but you can’t help it. What’s really sad is that my cousin actually thought the BeeGees wrote all the songs!!!
And here comes vote #8 for Hudson Hawk! 
Hey, I thought Neverending Story was a pretty damn good movie!! Ok, now thinking back, I guess it was a tad cheesy.
Anways… here’s one vote for Beastmaster.
Flash Gordon. I’ve seen it more than any other movie every made.
I also really enjoyed–and would rent again in a heartbeat–The Cutting Edge, this stupid movie about a injured hockey player who comes back as a pairs figure skating, his partner being a raging bitch. Would it ruin the ending if I told you guys they fall in love? I didn’t think so.
Shit, how could I forget to include “Tommy Boy?” When they defer over changing the radio station when the Carpenters song comes on? My husband the Led Zeppelin worshipper is a closet Carpenters fan so that scene is deeply meaningful…
We’re soul mates. I loved both movies.
I also nominate “Mannequin” (talk about a guilty pleasure!), and “Quigley Down Under” (the best Western ever made, except it’s not a Western, it’s an Australian!)
< pokes head back in >
Count me in for Revenge of The Nerds and Hudson Hawk, too.
They Live is a classic. “Just put on the damn glasses!”