# 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:** 2
**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, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-you-love/132442/21 "2002-10-16T14:52:56Z")
I asked in the other thread, but I’ll also ask here. Does anyone have a copy of the George Pepard movie “Damnation Alley”? It’s horribly B rated, but a rare find. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2002, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-you-love/132442/22 "2002-10-16T14:53:29Z")
**Queen of Outer Space** (1958), starring Zsa Zsa Gabor as the only girl on Venus with a Hungarian accent. “Ai hayd her—Ay HAY dot Qvinn!” **The Best of Everything** (1959), the best awful “working-girls-in-New-York” soap ever. **Cobra Woman** (1944), with Maria Montez: “I am jure seester. Can you look at me an’ dot eet?” And of copruse, the dreaded, the heinous, the delerious **Kiss Her Goodbye** (1959—a good era for bad movies!). ---
**Author:** ![elf6c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c57346/32.png) [@elf6c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elf6c)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2002, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-you-love/132442/23 "2002-10-16T15:51:36Z")
Dude where’s my car? Charlies Angels Both Mummy movies. Cabin Boy. Tommy Boy. They Live. Evil Dead 2. Army of Darkness. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2002, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-you-love/132442/24 "2002-10-16T15:53:31Z")
I’m gonna go with **Red Dawn** and **Walking Tall**. Love 'em. Can’t help it. ---
**Author:** ![lost4life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@lost4life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lost4life)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2002, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-you-love/132442/25 "2002-10-16T15:59:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by elf6c \* > \*\* > Evil Dead 2. Army of Darkness. > > 🙂 \*\* Evil Dead 2 was Dead By Dawn and it rocked! Evil Dead 3 was Army of Darkness. I think the whole trilogy was supposed to be tongue-in-cheek bad. My choices are Duel and The Dirty Dozen ---
**Author:** ![knarf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@knarf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knarf)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2002, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-you-love/132442/26 "2002-10-16T16:09:57Z")
There have been a lot of films mentioned that I wouldn’t call “bad”. Maybe I have more guilty pleasures than I realized. But, here’s the one I have to mention **Freejack**. You just can’t go wrong with Emilio Estevez & Mick Jagger 🙂 ---
**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, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-you-love/132442/27 "2002-10-16T16:14:22Z")
Elf - I hope that was a missed return on your keyboard. I assume you mean Army of Darkness and Evil Dead 2. They’re two diffrent movies. I don’t consider Red Dawn to be a bad movie at all. Scared the hell out of me the first time I saw it. ---
**Author:** ![Judith\_Prietht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b19c9b/32.png) [@Judith\_Prietht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Judith_Prietht)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2002, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-you-love/132442/28 "2002-10-16T16:16:25Z")
There’s a difference between just plain bad movies and bad movies with cult status, right? I’d put things like Evil Dead, They Live, and Plan 9 From Outer Space in the bad cult status category, as well as Showgirls and Buckaroo Banzai. I think Sandra Bullock may kind of have a corner on the questionable movie market, thanks to gems like **Miss Congeniality** (which I’ve seen more times than I can count), **Practical Magic** (I really like the way the colors look in it), **Speed 2: Cruise Control** , **Two If By Sea** , and **While You Were Sleeping** (redeemed by the presence of Bill Pullman and the fact that it takes place in Chicago). One way to really see some bad movies is to channel into one of your fears or fascinations. I’ll watch anything with sharks in it, which means I’ve seen **[Shark Attack](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0161970)** with Casper Van Dien (also a magnet for the bad; see **Beastmaster 3: The Eye of Braxas** , **James Dean: Live Fast Die Young** , **Tarzan and the Lost City** , and **Python** , if you have any doubts. Or just take it from me, because I’ve seen them all), **Deep Blue Sea** , and **Jaws: The Revenge**. This is not to mention a gazillion Shark Weeks, documentaries on the Indianapolis, or media coverage of “Summer of the Shark.” I see I got a little distracted with the Casper Van Dien thing. He gives great bad. I cannot say it enough. Now if he ever stars in a movie opposite Sandra Bullock . . . ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2002, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-you-love/132442/29 "2002-10-16T16:22:02Z")
How about **Valley Girl?** I think it’s a great 80’s schlock flick. Nick cage does a good job, plus there’s footage of the one and only **Plimsouls** in it, which is my main reason for liking it… ---
**Author:** ![slortar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2002, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-you-love/132442/30 "2002-10-16T16:58:59Z")
I have two different copies of **The Beast of Yucca Flats** (the normal edition and the mst3k edition). I’ve watched it at least 5 times. I not only **like** it, I can also follow the “plot.” There’s something wrong with me… FYI, all of my friends love **Hudson Hawk** and **Big Trouble in Little China.** We actually gather for semi-annual viewings. Beautiful movies… Another one that comes to mind is Roger Corman’s **Battle Beyond the Stars.** It’s awful. I love it. Soundtrack by the man who did the Titanic’s soundtrack, special effects by James Cameron. Stars George Peppard as a space cowboy. John Boy plays the lead role. Beautiful, beautiful example of 70’s scifi cheese (even if it was filmed in the early 80’s). ---
**Author:** ![SisterCoyote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@SisterCoyote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SisterCoyote)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2002, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-you-love/132442/31 "2002-10-16T17:20:17Z")
**Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band**. Yes. I own this movie. I asked for it for christmas, and my sister (bless her heart) managed to find it for me. All the **Tremors** movies - 1, 2 and 3. Oh, baby. Bad worm monsters and goo… 🙂 and Michael Gross. “Is your head up your ass for the warmth?” BTW, I have never seen **They Live** , but it did indeed have Rowdy Roddy Piper in it: Quoth the Piper: “I’m here to chew bubble gum and kick ass, and I’m all out of gum.” ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2002, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-you-love/132442/32 "2002-10-16T17:26:46Z")
**Skippman** wrote: > [@](#): > > I don’t consider Red Dawn to be a bad movie at all. Oh come on. Total cheese-fest. The Reds invade, and the first thing they attack is a _high school in Colorado_? Hee hee hee hee. Still, as I said, I love it. ---
**Author:** ![Avalonian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ee7513/32.png) [@Avalonian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Avalonian)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2002, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-you-love/132442/33 "2002-10-16T17:44:53Z")
_They Live_ is an absolute classic… a bad film, but a classic nonetheless. And since when is _Altered States_ a bad movie? I always thought it was actually pretty good. Any movie with Blair Brown in the nude has to have some merit, come on… 😉 Peter Jackson’s _Dead-Alive_ (or _Brain Dead_) has to be my top pick. A total riot, so bad (intentionally, I think) that it’s funny. Favorite quote: “ **I kick ass for the LORD!** ” ---
**Author:** ![Stephi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecd19e/32.png) [@Stephi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephi)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2002, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-you-love/132442/34 "2002-10-16T18:08:18Z")
Speaking of Roddy Piper, anyone ever seen “Hell Comes to Frogtown”? I love that movie. It is so bad! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![burundi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3ec8ea/32.png) [@burundi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burundi)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2002, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-you-love/132442/35 "2002-10-16T18:38:37Z")
**zen101** , **Meet the Feebles** is a great movie! Sick and wrong, but great! My favorite bad movie has got to be **Tank Girl**. It’s utterly cheesy, but I love it. Tank Girl is so cool! And Jet Girl is really terribly cute. It’s a great movie to watch when you’ve had a lousy day. ---
**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, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-you-love/132442/36 "2002-10-16T19:03:05Z")
My friend is having shirts made up that say “All I need to know in life I’ve learned from Burt Gumner.”. I would definatly give cult status to Tremors since they are making a TV series and another movie out of it. Micheal Gross has found his nitch. Just look at these quotes!: “A lifetime of preperation so I could wind up a refuge. Why kind of supreme being could condone such irony.” “I’m completely out of ammo. That’s never happend to me before.” “It’s cannon fuse.” “What do you use that for?” “My cannon.” And who could forget: “Memo: 4 pound of C4 \ may be a little excesive.” B Movie greatness. ---
**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, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-you-love/132442/37 "2002-10-16T20:32:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by brondicon \* > \*\*I see I got a little distracted with the Casper Van Dien thing. He gives great bad. I cannot say it enough. \*\* I can’t believe no one’s mentioned this one yet, but I love **Starship Troopers**! It always gets trashed on these boards and I _know_ that it isn’t true to the book, but it’s still great, cheesy, tongue-in-cheek fun! ---
**Author:** ![Greywolf73](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d9b06d/32.png) [@Greywolf73](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greywolf73)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2002, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-you-love/132442/38 "2002-10-16T22:14:39Z")
Tremors. Most defintely Tremors. That movie is a classic in our house. 🙂 I also love Bedazzled (with Bredan Fraser). I cannot flip past it on HBO without watching it. It’s not the worst movie ever made but defintely not on many people’s favorites lists. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2002, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-you-love/132442/39 "2002-10-16T22:52:17Z")
I agree with most of your choices; I loves me some bad movies. Although, I have to question the sanity of anyone who watches **The Beast of Yucca Flats** on purpose. Yikes. My addition: **Cutthroat Island**. Lord, I love it. Great fun, big explosions, a superb villain, and the ship-to-ship battle at the end is about the coolest thing I’ve ever seen on film. Starz has been showing **Dungeons & Dragons** lately. While watching it the other day, I came to the realization that there is not one good thing about the movie. Not acting, story, music, costumes, effects, stunts, sets, nothing. But I still watched it. ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2002, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-you-love/132442/40 "2002-10-16T22:56:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tangent \* > \*\* > > **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. > \*\* :eek:😕 Whaaaaaaa? The _worst_ of the three? Dost mine eyes deceiveth me? Everyone I know likes that one the best. Of course, most people I know were about five when that movie came out, but still! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-you-love/132442.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-you-love/132442.md?page=3)