# Bad Movies You Love **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 16, 2002, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-you-love/132442 "2002-10-16T02:20:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Asylum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/53a042/32.png) [@Asylum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asylum)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2002, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-you-love/132442/1 "2002-10-16T02:20:51Z")
You know you’re guilty of it. There is at least one movie in your collection that you hide when people come over (no, not porn), or if it comes on TV you have to watch it the whole way through. I’ve got several movies that I love even though I know they’re bad. I’m just gonna pick one out of the many and talk about it. _Hudson Hawk_ Everytime I watch this movie, a supposed comedy, I rarely laugh. The movie has only so-so acting, a plot that’s near incomprehensible and a number of poor jokes, and yet I love it and have it on DVD. The only parts that get a serious laugh out of me is when Andie McDowell talks to the crucifix and it lights up and talks back to her, and when I see the kid beating the hell out of the stuffed animal in the Vatican. Other than that the only reason I can think of for liking the movie is because it’s so whimsical; the people in the movie just seem to be having a good time, and that’s enough. So, what’s your guilty pleasure? Loved _Battlefield Earth_? Can’t get over the song and dance routines in _Ishtar_ ? Do you feel that _Plan Nine from Outer Space_ is underrated? Just let loose! ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2002, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-you-love/132442/2 "2002-10-16T02:25:07Z")
_Lost in Space_ Roger Ebert complained about the cheesiness of the monsters. Well, duh, it IS _Lost in Space_ after all. Just because they spent $65,000,000 on the movie doesn’t mean the monsters should be any better than the TV show. Heck, they could have been attacked by herds of six-foot carrot guys! ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2002, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-you-love/132442/3 "2002-10-16T02:38:28Z")
I do like **Plan 9 From Outer Space** ; it’s a Halloween tradition in our house. Cheesy, cheap, messy – but Wood put his heart into it, and really cared about it. It’s a case of reach exceeding grasp, and the movie is fun. I also love **Ishtar** , but it’s not a bad movie. Some parts of it are hilarious (especially the songs). And the gun auction scene is as close to classic humor as you can get. Too many people reviewed the price tag and never saw the movie. I also found **The Last Action Hero** to be a hoot, but I’m a sucker for metafiction. ---
**Author:** ![xcheopis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/bc8723/32.png) [@xcheopis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xcheopis)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2002, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-you-love/132442/4 "2002-10-16T02:41:35Z")
**Prince of Darkness** by John Carpenter. My motto for cheesy horror movies is usually: It’s not worth watching if it dosn’t have Donald Pleasence! ---
**Author:** ![El\_Elvis\_Rojo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@El\_Elvis\_Rojo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Elvis_Rojo)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2002, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-you-love/132442/5 "2002-10-16T03:06:45Z")
**John Carpenter’s Vampires** as well as **Big Trouble in Little China**. His movies may suck, but at least they’re enjoyable. **Dirty Work** is my personal all time favorite junk movie. ---
**Author:** ![zen101](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c68b51/32.png) [@zen101](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zen101)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2002, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-you-love/132442/6 "2002-10-16T04:25:54Z")
**Shakes The Clown** and **Meet The Feebles** ---
**Author:** ![ITR\_champion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c67d28/32.png) [@ITR\_champion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ITR_champion)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2002, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-you-love/132442/7 "2002-10-16T05:43:45Z")
The Dan Akroyd / Tom Hanks version of **Dragnet**. I’ve watched this movie at least five times. It’s just so amazingly silly that I can’t see how anybody could possibly fail to enjoy it. ---
**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2002, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-you-love/132442/8 "2002-10-16T06:07:01Z")
**Redneck Zombies** …It’s got gore, bad acting, cheesy dialogue and even toddler zombies! What’s not to like? ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2002, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-you-love/132442/9 "2002-10-16T06:34:42Z")
\*\*Love Potion #9 \*\* , with Sandra Bullock. I bought the video and showed it to all my friends, and none of them liked it. But I’ve watched it at least 10 times. **Rumble in the Bronx**. Like many Jackie Chan movies, it’s completely stupid and cheesy. But I can’t get enough of those fight scenes! **Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom**. Everyone I know thinks this is by far the worst of the three Indy movies. And while it is a FAR cry from Raiders, I actually like it–a lot better than The Last Crusade. Plus any of the old, 50’s sci-fi movies about irradiated grasshoppers, spiders, etc. that grow to tremendous size and terrorize mankind. A recent release in that vein was **Eight Legged Freaks** (which I thought was entertaining). And my favorite of all time is **Night of the Lepus** , a 70’s flick in this genre about giant, horse-sized, carnivorous rabbits. It is a classic. ---
**Author:** ![grendel72](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/91b2a8/32.png) [@grendel72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grendel72)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2002, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-you-love/132442/10 "2002-10-16T06:41:42Z")
Geez, most of my favorite movies would be classified as “bad movies”- I love Hershell Gordon Lewis’ gore movies, Doris Wishman sexploitation flicks, almost every sort of exploitation movie. My favorite wrongly maligned movie is **Cabin Boy** , the Chris Elliott movie. Most of the reviews claimed it was stupid, but like Green Acres it was so stupid it was surreal. It was a kind of tribute to the old Ray Harryhausen movies, with even odder things than were ever in those movies- a talking, tobacco spittin’ cupcake; a shark-man; a six armed sex godess… it was brilliant. ---
**Author:** ![SolGrundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@SolGrundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SolGrundy)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2002, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-you-love/132442/11 "2002-10-16T07:04:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by El Elvis Rojo \* > **John Carpenter’s Vampires as well as Big Trouble in Little China. His movies may suck, but at least they’re enjoyable.** I’m with you _all the way_ on _Big Trouble in Little China_ (“Mistah Burton, you were not put on this earth to ‘get it’.”) but have to disagree with _Vampires_. I **hated** that movie. I mean, usually I don’t get all that bent out of shape about such things in fiction, but the misogyny in that was just nauseating. Half the movie is the chubby Baldwin brother beating up Laura Palmer in a dirty hotel room; what’s to like? ---
**Author:** ![King\_Friday](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/43a26b/32.png) [@King\_Friday](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/King_Friday)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2002, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-you-love/132442/12 "2002-10-16T08:23:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by grendel72 \* > \*\*My favorite wrongly maligned movie is **Cabin Boy** , the Chris Elliott movie. \*\* I absolutely loved Get a Life and was so looking forward to Cabin Boy…and I’m here to tell ya, I couldn’t sit through 10 minutes of that crap fest ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2002, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-you-love/132442/13 "2002-10-16T10:56:25Z")
The Warriors. nuff said. ---
**Author:** ![Legomancer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/779978/32.png) [@Legomancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Legomancer)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2002, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-you-love/132442/14 "2002-10-16T13:31:10Z")
Dungeons and Dragons I actually own this on DVD (it was a gift, but only because I hadn’t yet bought it for myself.) A truly awful, amateurish movie that somehow Jeremy Irons wandered into. The incompetence is staggering. ---
**Author:** ![gobear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@gobear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gobear)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2002, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-you-love/132442/15 "2002-10-16T14:07:36Z")
**Showgirls** , a an exercise in bad taste that is excruciatingly, wonderfully awful. Yet another product form the misogynist minds of Paul Verhoeven and Joe Ezsterhas, **Showgirls** chronicles the rise of Nomi Malone, played by the wooden Elizabeth Berkeley, from stripper to the headliner of a Las Vegas topless revue. It’s a shamelessly cheesy version of the backstage drama that is showbiz, with delightfully bad dialogue: “I’m erect, why aren’t you erect?” “I just got a problem with pussy.” "It must be weird, not having anybody cum on you. " ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2002, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-you-love/132442/16 "2002-10-16T14:08:12Z")
Dr. Detroit also Starhops Frankenhooker ---
**Author:** ![Skippman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Skippman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skippman)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2002, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-you-love/132442/17 "2002-10-16T14:13:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tangent \* > **Night of the Lepus** , a 70’s flick in this genre about giant, horse-sized, carnivorous rabbits. It is a classic. YES! Finally someone else who’s seen this. I’m still looking for a copy of **Them**. I still think **Big Trouble in Little China** would have been better as the sequal to one of my favorite guilty movies **The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension**. I also own a copy of **Hudson Hawk**. How come no one has mentioned the greatest B movie of all time? **The Army of Darkness**! Bruce Campbell rules! Why he and John Carpenter have never worked together I’ll never know. ---
**Author:** ![gobear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@gobear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gobear)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2002, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-you-love/132442/18 "2002-10-16T14:31:27Z")
> [@](#): > > YES! Finally someone else who’s seen this. I’m still looking for a copy of Them **Them** is available on [DVD](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000067FP3/qid=1034778058/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/103-1307540-1516658) for $14.99 at your local video retailer. But this thread is about bad movies, and **Them** is actually a pretty decent monster flick. SF is not an automatic signifier of badness, although Jah knows there’s any number of bad SF movies. As Roger Ebert so wisely said, “It’s not what a film is about, but how it is about it.” Anyone who is interested in cheesy movies should check out [[http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00006IUID/qid%3D1034778197/sr%3D11-1/ref%3Dsr\_11\_1/103-1307540-1516658](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00006IUID/qid%3D1034778197/sr%3D11-1/ref%3Dsr%5F11%5F1/103-1307540-1516658)"]All Monsters Attack, a new DVD compilation of 50 monster movie trailers. ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2002, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-you-love/132442/19 "2002-10-16T14:32:49Z")
what was that one with Roddy Piper called, They Live? ---
**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:** [October 16, 2002, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-you-love/132442/20 "2002-10-16T14:48:51Z")
I love bad films. I have a Bad Film Festival every year, and have been holding them since well before MST3K was on the air. Some of my choices: \*\*Doc Savage, Man of Bronze Plan 9 From Outer Space Robot Monster Altered States The Monster that Challenged the World The Mummy\*\* and **The Mummy Returns** I love John Carpenter flicks, and, while I like **Big Trouble in Little China** , I don’t think it’s really a Bad Film. Ditto for **Them!** , which is usually recognized as one of the best SF films. I strongly recommend compilations that snip out the best scenes of bad films, like **It Came From Hollywod** or **Horrible Horror**. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-you-love/132442.md?page=2)