# List 5 GOOD Movies and 5 BAD Movies **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 21, 2008, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-5-good-movies-and-5-bad-movies/446252 "2008-04-21T17:30:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-5-good-movies-and-5-bad-movies/446252/1 "2008-04-21T17:30:17Z")
The currently active thread [Define “bad movie”.](http://208.100.26.199/sdmb/showthread.php?t=464782) that **CanvasShoes** started, has generated some great response. To add some meat to the bones of that thread, list 5 each of “really good” and “really bad” movies, based on your own criteria for those ends of the spectrum. If possible, add **new** names to the list already generated by earlier replies. GOOD Movies: Cool Hand Luke The Godfather Blade Runner Schindler’s List No Country For Old Men BAD Movies: Posse Instant Justice Harlem Nights The Island of Dr. Moreau Rhinestone ---
**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-5-good-movies-and-5-bad-movies/446252/2 "2008-04-21T17:59:43Z")
Good movies: Unforgiven Saving Private Ryan Groundhog Day Aliens Lord of the Rings Bad Movies: Hear No Evil Mixed Nuts Nothing But Trouble Full Fathom Five The Seeker ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-5-good-movies-and-5-bad-movies/446252/3 "2008-04-21T18:08:27Z")
Good: Superman I Superman II Superman III Superman Returns Beavis & Butt-head Do America Bad: Superman IV Look Who’s Talking Too Wag the Dog Beverly Hillbillies Bedazzled (newer version) ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-5-good-movies-and-5-bad-movies/446252/4 "2008-04-21T18:09:05Z")
good Citizen Kane Elephant Man Last Emoeror Deerhunter Apocalyse Now Bad Judge Dredd Twins Bride of Chucky G.I. Jane Mommie Dearest ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-5-good-movies-and-5-bad-movies/446252/5 "2008-04-21T18:11:55Z")
**Good** Goonies, Planes Trains and Automobiles, Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile, Saving Private Ryan, **Bad** Batman and Robin, Batman Forever, That’s all I can think of, since I tend to neither watch, nor remember the name of bad films, ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-5-good-movies-and-5-bad-movies/446252/6 "2008-04-21T18:13:25Z")
**Zeldar** Somehow, clicking your link logs me out of the SDMB. edit: because it’s a link to an ip address instead of a resolved name :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-5-good-movies-and-5-bad-movies/446252/7 "2008-04-21T18:16:34Z")
[QUOTE=Lobsang] **Zeldar** Somehow, clicking your link logs me out of the SDMB. edit: because it’s a link to an ip address instead of a resolved name :dubious: [/QUOTE] It worked for me: [http://208.100.26.199/sdmb/showthread.php?t=464782](http://208.100.26.199/sdmb/showthread.php?t=464782) ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-5-good-movies-and-5-bad-movies/446252/8 "2008-04-21T18:17:42Z")
[QUOTE=Zeldar] It worked for me: [http://208.100.26.199/sdmb/showthread.php?t=464782](http://208.100.26.199/sdmb/showthread.php?t=464782) [/QUOTE] Probably because you’re browsing from it already. whereas I’m browsing from [Straight Dope Message Board - Your direct line to thousands of the smartest, hippest people on the planet, plus a few total dipsticks.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb). Anyway it doesn’t matter. I don’t want to derail your thread. ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-5-good-movies-and-5-bad-movies/446252/9 "2008-04-21T18:17:57Z")
Good Amadeus Sling Blade Shakespeare in Love Unforgiven The Postman(yeah yeah yeah…so what. I like it) Bad White Chicks Little Man I am Legend Rambo Rope ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-5-good-movies-and-5-bad-movies/446252/10 "2008-04-21T18:22:46Z")
I thought of the final 3… Alien versus Predator Epic Movie Superbad (I don’t know what all the fuss was about. It’s unmemorable) ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-5-good-movies-and-5-bad-movies/446252/11 "2008-04-21T18:22:53Z")
Good Movies: No Country for Old Men One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest High Fidelity Sense and Sensibility Fargo Bad Movies: Dreamcatcher Cold Creek Manor Elektra The Road to Wellville Bulletproof Monk ---
**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:** [April 21, 2008, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-5-good-movies-and-5-bad-movies/446252/12 "2008-04-21T18:29:25Z")
**Good** A Man for All Seasons The Seven Samurai Spartacus Forbidden Planet 1776 **Bad** The Giant Claw Tales from the Past (aka Gallery of Horrors, aka Dr. Terror’s Gallery of Horrors – not to be confused with Dr. Terror’s House of Horrors) The Eliminators Jake Speed Young Doctors in Love **Bad, but with Redeeming Value** Plan Nine from Outer Space Robot Monster Starship Troopers Angry Red Planet ---
**Author:** ![ToeJam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dfb087/32.png) [@ToeJam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ToeJam)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-5-good-movies-and-5-bad-movies/446252/13 "2008-04-21T18:45:01Z")
**Good Movies:** 1. Pulp Fiction/ Clerks (tie) 2. Battle Royale (but the Book/Manga was WAAAY better) 3. Hot Fuzz/Sean of the Dead (tie) 4. Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure 5. Stranger than Fiction 6. Butch Cassady And the Sundance Kid \*\* Bad Movies\*\* (this is much harder for me, as i rarely think films are “Bad”) 1. BloodRayne 2. The Village 3. Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan :smack: 4. Son of the Mask 5. Kazaam! ---
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-5-good-movies-and-5-bad-movies/446252/14 "2008-04-21T18:49:01Z")
Good It’s a Wonderful Life The Best Years of Our Lives Stripes Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn Ghostbusters Bad Star Trek V, The Final Frontier Taps Curse of the Pink Panther Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band Son of the Mask ---
**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:** [April 21, 2008, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-5-good-movies-and-5-bad-movies/446252/15 "2008-04-21T18:53:52Z")
**Good** Duck Soup Citizen Kane City Lights The General (Buster Keaton) Crash (Oscar winner) **Bad** [Alien](http://www.sff.net/people/rothman/alien.htm) Battlefield Earth Mitchell Killers from Space The Wild World of Batwoman. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-5-good-movies-and-5-bad-movies/446252/16 "2008-04-21T18:55:09Z")
Good Movies _Round Midnight The Conversation Silver Streak 9 to 5 The Breakfast Club_ Bad Movies _For Love of the Game 27 Dresses Gladiator Hidalgo Batman and Robin_ ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-5-good-movies-and-5-bad-movies/446252/17 "2008-04-21T18:58:57Z")
Good: Terminator 2 Star Wars Back to the Future Boondock Saints The Blues Brothers Bad: Dirty Dancing White Chicks Alien 3 Night at the Museum Chasing Amy ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-5-good-movies-and-5-bad-movies/446252/18 "2008-04-21T19:05:11Z")
_Trying_ not to duplicate… **Good** Big Night A Fish Called Wanda The Magnificent Seven Blazing Saddles Road to Perdition **Bad** Starcrash Krull Mousehunt Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers: The Movie The Prophecy 3: The Ascent ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-5-good-movies-and-5-bad-movies/446252/19 "2008-04-21T19:18:22Z")
The Breakfast Club Stranger Than Fiction (Emma was awesome) 1776 Fargo Schindler’s List ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_in\_second\_hand\_clothing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9d8465/32.png) [@wolf\_in\_second\_hand\_clothing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_in_second_hand_clothing)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-5-good-movies-and-5-bad-movies/446252/20 "2008-04-21T19:32:26Z")
Good: The Incredibles Enter the Dragon Brick Serenity Cannibal! the Musical Bad: Mortal Kombat: Annihilation The Stupids The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe Varsity Blues Saved by the Bell: Hawaiian Style [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-5-good-movies-and-5-bad-movies/446252.md?page=2)