Seconded.
As others have mentioned, Joe vs the Volcano, Starship Troopers, Stargate, Ishtar, The Island, The Lovely Bones, both Matrix sequels, Twins (and the follow up Junior), Rent, Spice World, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Titanic, Independence Day, Starship Troopers, A Knight’s Tale, Run, Lola, Run, Lucky # Slevin, Time Machine
Although I’m not sure I consider all of them to be ‘bad’.
Truly bad films that I do quite enjoy: Dude Where’s Your Car, and D-War. The latter of which had me and my brother laughing more than either of us has in our entire life.
Although there was a lot to appreciate, including the filming style, and Tilda Swinton is always lovely, casting Keanu Reeves was unforgivable, and the other changes to the original source material were also very distracting if you were familiar with them.
Excluding Run, Lola, Run and Lucky # Slevin, they’re all bad in my book or I avoided them on suspicion of badness.
That said, I own copies of Constantine and Kingpin. I also own Blue Velvet, which Ebert hated, and Enemy at the Gates (54% on RT). In the interest of disclosure I’ll mention that there are copies of The Magic Sword, The Notebook, and Plan 9 from Outer Space on the premises.
One that I found amusing was Not Another Teen Movie. IMO, it’s much better than the 28% it has on RT.
Good call, there. That movie rises above the rest of the genre-satires that have come before and after it. It’s one of those movies I’ll stop and watch anytime I see it on television because it makes me laugh every time. And it has an excellent '80s soundtrack.
I had no idea it had fared so poorly on Rotten Tomatoes.
Most of the reviews that I read for Empire of the Sun described it as ho-hum, pretentious, and self indulgent. However, I think it’s one of the great epic films.
ETA: I just checked, and Rotten Tomatoes gives it an 80, so I guess it wasn’t panned as much as I thought.
I forgot Not another teen movie - love it too 
jackiedoodle - I’ll concede that Keanu wasn’t the best choice for this film (or, you know, anything).
Why is Run, Lola, Run being mentioned in this thread? That is by no definition either a “bad” or “badly reviewed” movie. It got stellar reviews, and has a great viewer rating. 92% and 88% at Rotten Tomatoes.
I second*** Joe Dirt ***by a mile… Hubby and I watch this in complete rapture. “Def Leppard SUCKS!!!”
Not Another Teen Movie is one of my favorites.
I’ll watch Daddy Day Care ANYtime it comes on.
Superbad. I actually don’t know if it was panned so much as it was considered another dumb teen movie with Jonah Hill and Michael Cera. But we know it by heart and can’t listen to “These Eyes” by the Guess Who without calling each other and cracking up.
Constantine is much easier to swallow when you realize it’s about some American Magician named John Constantine (Pronounced TEEN), and not about nobody’s favorite Liverpudlian Con-man John Constantine (rhymes with wine).
When you accept that, the movie is much better… until you realize that a movie about John Constantine (rhymes with wine) will never get made.
For an actual bad movie, I have always enjoyed Logans Run.**
Yes, I’ve read the books as well, and I like them also, but in a totally different, Fahrenheit 451-type way.
The movie is cheesy, dated, and stupidly optimistic, with totally aged special effects and nearly tragic overacting, and I love it to death. I watch it at least once a year, and I even bought the awful thing on bluray. I am unable to defend it on any artistically merited scale, and I really can’t understand why I like it so much, but I really truly do.
In fact, I liked it so much that I hunted down and watched the even more terrible (and justly short-lived) tv series they based off of the film, but even I thought that was schlock. Fun to watch once, but not over and over again.
My husband and everyone else who knows me thinks that I am totally nuts.
(I think I’m just a sucker for that era’s bad special effects - I watched the original **Tron **a month ago for the first time, and while it was painfully dated, I enjoyed it, especially the little “yes/no” bit.)
I don’t know if Disney’s The Black Cauldron is bad enough to deserve mention, but I know it’s been panned often and hard. I still enjoy it.
Didn’t realize that so many people didn’t like **Constantine **- It wasn’t horrible, but I’d much rather snip out all the bits with Tilda Swinton and just watch those bits.
I thought **The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle **was a load of fun. Most folks think it was a load of crap. But moose and squirrel! and Jason Alexander doing a funny little Boris dance, and DeNiro as Fearless Leader, and cute Piper Perabo, etc. I guess it helps that I’m a big fan of the original TV cartoon.
Heartily seconded.
I think it’s funny seeing all the mentions about Ebert’s reviews of movies in this thread. Because he’s partly responsible for my very favorite bad movie:
I own that movie. I think it’s HILARIOUS.
I really enjoy The Apple, a film that got such a terrible reception that the producer tried to commit suicide because of it.
Undercover Blues and Down Periscope are by far my favorite comedy movies. UB has a 35% on Rotten Tomatoes and DP has a whopping 13%.
Given that I’d never heard of the original comic book when I saw the film that was exactly what I was doing, hence why I probably enjoyed it more than the purists who would have seen it as a travesty (I’ve since read the comic, I understand why people didn’t like the film).
Same here. I knew of the comic but had never read it until after seeing the movie. I still like the movie.
The majority of the movies mentioned I like or I have not seen.
Waterworld is my goto movie to mention in threads like these.
I’ve never seen Freddy Got Fingered because I am not a Tom Green fan but after this thread and the Ebert review I’m going to track it down and watch it.
Hudson Hawk has already been mentioned. Another Bruce Willis flick, The Fifth Element. And, not a Bruce movie, The Long Kiss Goodnight.
Critics loved Superbad.
I’m trying to think of an example here, but so far I’m drawing a blank unless we include movies that are just enjoyably terrible.
I have not seen this movie, but WOW; I have never seen such a divergence between critical opinion and popular opinion. 19% from the critics, 93% from the audience! (It also gets a 7.8 viewer rating over at IMDb.)
Is there any other movie with that kind of separation?
(I see Boondock Saints is on IFC tonight. I think I’m gonna have to check it out to try to understand this phenomenon.)