# Movie so bad you had to keep watching **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [November 18, 2020, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-so-bad-you-had-to-keep-watching/925848 "2020-11-18T02:11:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![gdave](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gdave/32/3683_2.png) [@gdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gdave)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2020, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-so-bad-you-had-to-keep-watching/925848/41 "2020-11-19T14:46:59Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > Murderball playing robot girl with big eyes. Bounty hunters are also involved. Please help me name it. _Alita: Battle Angel_. Based on a manga of the same name. ---
**Author:** ![wjChia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d6d6ee/32.png) [@wjChia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wjChia)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2020, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-so-bad-you-had-to-keep-watching/925848/42 "2020-11-19T14:47:10Z")
this has to be the movie you’re talking about: > **[Enthiran](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enthiran)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > > > > Enthiran (transl. Robot) is a 2010 Indian Tamil-language science fiction action film written and directed by S. Shankar. It is the first instalment in the Enthiran franchise. The film stars Rajinikanth and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan with Danny Denzongpa, Santhanam and Karunas in supporting roles. The soundtrack album and background score were composed by A. R. Rahman while the dialogues, cinematography, editing and art direction were handled by Ma... ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2020, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-so-bad-you-had-to-keep-watching/925848/43 "2020-11-19T14:56:55Z")
> [@Max\_Torque](#): > > I used to put Jupiter Rising on for background noise when I was living alone in a little apartment. I have a light crush on Mila Kunis so I can watch it from time-to-time but her roller-blading body guard kills me every time. ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2020, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-so-bad-you-had-to-keep-watching/925848/44 "2020-11-19T15:04:54Z")
To the OP for me it has to be “The Toxic Avenger”. Some reviewer described it as quite possibly the worst, most violent, offensive movie he had ever seen. He’d watch it again in a minute. (Doubtless I am remembering the quote wrong but it was something like that.) It was made by Troma Films which specialized in bad movies. Purposely bad. And they nailed it with “The Toxic Avenger”. **WARNING:** The movie goes out of its way for truly over-the-top violence and is about as offensive as it can be at every turn. It goes so far that it turns the corner into parody to me but still…many may find it deeply disturbing. It is hard to overstate this. Really not kidding. [The Toxic Avenger - Taco Bar Fight - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOxeYiPtdOQ) Possibly even more bent is the movie “Street Trash”. Toxic Avenger turned up to 11. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Ryg9KYXXq0U/hqdefault.jpg "Street Trash (1987) - Official Trailer") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ryg9KYXXq0U) ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2020, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-so-bad-you-had-to-keep-watching/925848/45 "2020-11-19T15:13:48Z")
Yes and yes! Thank you gdave and welcome wjChia! ---
**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:** [November 19, 2020, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-so-bad-you-had-to-keep-watching/925848/46 "2020-11-19T15:55:46Z")
> [@Akaj](#): > > _The Happening_ . Terrible concept, badly written, abysmally acted. At first I kept watching because I thought, “Surely the guy who made _The Sixth Sense_ has some tricks up his sleeve that will redeem this.” But after a while I kept watching because I was curious how much worse it could get. I was not disappointed. I’ll happily agree with this. I showed it once at one of my Bad Film Festivals. The first time I saw it, I guessed what the “twist” was going to be very early, and said out loud “Oh, god, he’s not going to do _that_, is he?” He did. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2020, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-so-bad-you-had-to-keep-watching/925848/47 "2020-11-19T16:53:15Z")
_The Wizard of Gore_. Utterly terrible, but it transfixes you to keep watching just to see how much worse it gets. By the end of the flick, you are shouting at the screen and jumping around. _“No! NO! That’s WRONG!!!”_ ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2020, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-so-bad-you-had-to-keep-watching/925848/48 "2020-11-19T23:41:20Z")
Cats (2019) ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2020, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-so-bad-you-had-to-keep-watching/925848/49 "2020-11-19T23:42:36Z")
> [@Yookeroo](#): > > Cats (2019) I agree that was bad. I didn’t ever feel compelled to keep watching it. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2020, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-so-bad-you-had-to-keep-watching/925848/50 "2020-11-20T00:03:00Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > **Dune** > > I actually really like this movie, but admittedly it makes zero sense. It’s one of those movies I would watch as a kid and have absolutely no clue what was happening, but I loved it because everything in it was just so strange. It still doesn’t make any sense as an adult, but I still love it for the same reason. Just watching it I would agree, but I have friends who loved the book and the entire mythos and they explained so much it greatly improved the experience. But yeah, going in fresh the entire movie is a ‘WTF?’ shitshow. ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2020, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-so-bad-you-had-to-keep-watching/925848/51 "2020-11-20T01:28:35Z")
I am really looking forward to Dune 2020. (Except it is no longer 2020 and been pushed back a year to 2021 because of the pandemic.) ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2020, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-so-bad-you-had-to-keep-watching/925848/52 "2020-11-20T01:48:41Z")
I wonder if I’m the type of fan I complain about being especially harsh and picky on fiction that I love because, even though I did sit through the original Dune, it was not with much enjoyment. It did not reach the so-bad-it’s-good territory. I felt the same way about the last Godzilla with Brian Cranston. That shit was just. . . shitty. Wince inducing, even. However, I _loved_ Pacific Rim’s cheezy over the top giant robot vs kaiju fights and had fun with Battleship. Nah, it’s not me. I’ve rewatched the Mathew Broderick Godzilla loads of times and that surely isn’t high art. Dune and that other Godzilla movie are plain awful. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2020, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-so-bad-you-had-to-keep-watching/925848/53 "2020-11-20T01:55:07Z")
I read a review of Pacific Rim that summed it up perfectly: Can’t decide if it’s a good bad movie or a bad good movie. ---
**Author:** ![Precambrianmollusc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/precambrianmollusc/32/63_2.png) [@Precambrianmollusc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Precambrianmollusc)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2020, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-so-bad-you-had-to-keep-watching/925848/54 "2020-11-20T02:15:26Z")
Oh yes Godzilla (2014) is another movie that gets yelled out as a joke to watch on movie night. Daughter left the boy and me to see if it would improve, which it did not. The dog always joined us on the sofa and for this snored and farted the whole way through, he was quite the erudite movie critic. San Andreas however was an OTT movie with Dwayne Johnson hamming it up , it was fun and bad but we were always going to watch it through and it was everything it said on the tin. ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/779978/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats2)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2020, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-so-bad-you-had-to-keep-watching/925848/55 "2020-11-20T20:46:09Z")
_Space Mutiny_ is South African? One of the riffs on that MST3K episode is made over a bodies flying battle sequence: “One thing this movie does well is tossing Canadians around.” ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2020, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-so-bad-you-had-to-keep-watching/925848/56 "2020-11-23T04:30:47Z")
I am currently watching _Future Schlock_(1984) on B-Movie TV. It is about the the aftermath of the great culture wars. Who won? The supposed Australian national anthem sung by schoolchildren at the beginning of the movie should give you a hint: Australia’s sons let us rejoice For we are middle class We’ve golden soil and sun tan oil Our home is girt by grass Our land is drowned in swimming pools The barbie’s over there The Carlton Light and cask of white Are in the Frigidaire A pie and sauce, a winning horse. T.V. and easy chair Australia’s homes are brick veneer We own a Betamax We’ve Commodores and sliding doors We cheat a bit on tax A microwave and Magimix A dishwasher as well We’re good at golf, three cheers for Rolf We’re in the R.S.L. At Christmas time we choose our gifts From Myers and K-Tel Of course we all like Chinese food And own a caravan Electrolux and flying ducks A non-stick frying pan K-Mart’s our fashion saving place The shopping mall’s our shrine Our homes are clean, we drink Ben Ean While watching channel 9 I’m sure the neighbours would approve. Their taste’s the same as mine. Lovin’ this crap, I am. ---
**Author:** ![dorvann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df705f/32.png) [@dorvann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorvann)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2020, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-so-bad-you-had-to-keep-watching/925848/57 "2020-11-23T17:45:17Z")
I posted this is in another thread but I’ll post it here because it is relevant to your post: TV Tropes has an entry called “Voodoo Shark” based on _Jaws: The Revenge_ . It’s when writer tries to explain a plot hole away, except the explanation _itself_ is a Plot Hole. The one from _Jaws: The Revenge_ is that writers explain the shark wants revenge on the Brody family due to a Voodoo curse but they don’t explain why the Voodoo curse was made in the first place. [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/VoodooShark](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/VoodooShark) ---
**Author:** ![gdave](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gdave/32/3683_2.png) [@gdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gdave)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2020, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-so-bad-you-had-to-keep-watching/925848/58 "2020-11-23T17:49:17Z")
While that’s a clever line, and I’ve read more than one review that reflected that sentiment, I think it’s badly wrong-headed. _Pacific Rim_ is a good movie. Period. It knows exactly what it wants to do, and it does it well. It’s just that what it wants to do is be big and goofy and fun and have kaiju fight giant robots, which some people seem to think make it a bad movie by definition. ---
**Author:** ![gdave](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gdave/32/3683_2.png) [@gdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gdave)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2020, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-so-bad-you-had-to-keep-watching/925848/59 "2020-11-23T17:57:56Z")
_Space Mutiny_ was filmed in South Africa. I just went through the first six cast members listed on IMDB - four America and two South African. Maybe further down a lot of minor characters were played by Canadian actors, but that seems unlikely. I don’t know why MST3K riffed on “tossing Canadians around”, other than that maybe _Space Mutiny_ resembles a lot of low-budget Canadian-filmed sci-fi? ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2020, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-so-bad-you-had-to-keep-watching/925848/60 "2020-11-23T18:51:04Z")
> [@gdave](#): > > _Pacific Rim_ is a good movie. I didn’t care about this film until someone told me it featured giant sea iguanas fighting giant robots and I was like _I need to see this movie now._ I was not disappointed. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-so-bad-you-had-to-keep-watching/925848.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-so-bad-you-had-to-keep-watching/925848.md?page=4)