Chacun a son gout. I love Night of the Comet but as an underappreciated B movie.
My vote goes to: Phantom of the Paradise.
i don’t usually watch “movies so bad, they become cult movies”, but i must say i love, simply LOVE TO DEATH, caveman and phantom of paradise.
i also think dude, where’s my car? is so bad that it is good. but maybe it is only me.
When we were dating, my wife and I saw Dude Where’s My Car and were the only ones in the theater because of a snowstorm. We thought it was hilarious. Stupid (of course), but hilarious.
Xanadu is a guilty pleasure of mine (I was a big fan of both ELO and Olivia Newton John at the time). The musical is coming to my town in the spring, and I just might go.
*Warhol’s Dracula *or Blood for Dracula
This isn’t pathetic sad but sad sad - Harold and Maude.
I’ve never seen it but I heard it’s the greatest love story of our time.
The musical is great, go see it. It’s very funny and very tongue-in-cheek and very aware the source material is campy and silly. I don’t think it did well on Broadway because people just assumed it was going to be a copy of the movie when that wasn’t the case at all. A shame, IMHO, it’s one of the stronger original musicals I’ve seen in the past few years.
Check out:
Streets of Fire
Eddie and the Cruisers
original… Little Shop of Horrors
Used Cars
I absolutely LOVE this movie! I love the party scene, love the Carrie Nations (have been searching the web for ages to find copies of “Sweet Talking Candyman” or “Come With the Flower People”), love the hyped-up soap opera-on-acid take, I even love the bombastic narration at the end of the film.
Frankly, I’m suprized this movie didn’t experience a revival of sorts in the last few years because of the irony associated with the Phil Spector character. (For those who don’t know, one character who is very obviously based on Phil Spector goes on a mad rampage, shooting & killing a nubile guest at his ranch-house, kind of like RL.)
As for new suggestions, has anybody mentioned Candy yet?
I don’t get why the first two count as “so bad”. They were pretty good, nicely written and directed. The third just relied on lines like “Good? Bad? I’m the guy with the gun” to hold it together.
And then there is" Repo-man".
Lol. Sreets of Fire. I saw that on HBO with my gandmither in the 80s. My gandmother was not one to watch silly movies, but she laughed out loud at the sledgehammer fight.
then again, she watched a Gamera movie with me one night and went on and on about how a giant fire breathing turtle dodn’t make sense.
interesting title…:dubious:
I’ll second this. And let’s not forget that Jessica Harper, who played Phoenix, showed up a few years later in Shock Treatment, which has also appeared in this thread.
Wouldn’t be doin’ mah job if I didn’t mention The Nail Gun Massacre, which states right on the box, “cheaper than a chainsaw”.
Surprised no one mentioned Big Trouble In Little China, one of my, and my thirteen year old son’s favorites
Roadhouse has to qualify. It is entertaining and bad. With lines like “Pain don’t hurt.” And “Just lucky I guess.” Plus Mr. Swayze being dead.
Another vote for Red Dawn. Hardly anything about this movie makes sense but I still like it. Cubans and Russians invade the high plains of the United States! Yep, that’s a believable WW3 scenario.
Roadhouse? Big Trouble in Little China? Sorry, I wasn’t aware that “mindless entertainment” was a synonym for “bad”, and certainly not the same level as “bad” as some of the other movies in this thread. We’d have to include everything from Steven Segal’s catalog!
I can’t believe the thread has gotten this far and no one has mentioned The Wicker Man remake with Nicolas Cage. I almost suffocated with laughter watching it, and it wasn’t intended as a comedy.