# Movies so bad they're good **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 16, 2003, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-so-bad-theyre-good/182108 "2003-06-16T00:52:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-so-bad-theyre-good/182108/41 "2003-06-17T01:46:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Shodan \* > \*\*is - > > The Trial of Billy Jack, starring Tom Laughlin (my mother dated him briefly in high school). It has to be seen to be disbelieved. If I ever see this on video, I am checking it out and never returning it. > > Regards, > Shodan \*\* Oh, I’d forgotten all about those. Did you ever see BILLY JACK GOES TO WASHINGTON? The premise is believable enough: a senator dies so the governor appoints in his place a convicted traitor who took up arms against the local arsenal. (He pardoned him first.) When Billy Jack gets there he finds- GASP!- that D.C. is corrupt and so he kicks butt (literally). Hysterical. I read an interview with Laughlin once in which he claims to have a ridiculous IQ (something like 185). It’s not evidenced in this. ---
**Author:** ![Wolfian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7ea924/32.png) [@Wolfian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolfian)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-so-bad-theyre-good/182108/42 "2003-06-17T03:44:10Z")
Dude, Where’s my Car? Silly stoners. \*Happy 500th post to me. ---
**Author:** ![witchwendy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f0a364/32.png) [@witchwendy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/witchwendy)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-so-bad-theyre-good/182108/43 "2003-06-17T04:51:27Z")
Any horror movie that has been sequalized, with the exception of the Evil Dead Trilogy, which just got better ---
**Author:** ![MarlaDurden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7cd45c/32.png) [@MarlaDurden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MarlaDurden)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-so-bad-theyre-good/182108/44 "2003-06-17T05:06:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Eternal \* > \*\*Arguably, **Kung-Pow**. Somehow while watching it I didn’t get the feeling I was laughing at the jokes because they were funny but because they were ridiculous. We have to assume that wasn’t the intention. \*\* When I saw this thread, this is the movie that immediately popped into my head. I’ve seen it so many times because it’s so fucking stupid that I laugh until I almost pee myself. I made my boyfriend (at the time) watch it with me once, and he enjoyed it as well. Especially the scene where the baby rolls down the hill, and keeps rolling and rolling and rolling. My ex didn’t really have a sense of humor, but at this part he laughed hysterically, and said "Isn’t that a bit _excessive_ ? I highly recommend this movie to anyone. ---
**Author:** ![Mirror\_Image\_egamI\_rorriM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e56c9b/32.png) [@Mirror\_Image\_egamI\_rorriM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mirror_Image_egamI_rorriM)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-so-bad-theyre-good/182108/45 "2003-06-17T05:13:08Z")
Tremors, of course. And it’s Kevin Bacon-alicious! ---
**Author:** ![China\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-so-bad-theyre-good/182108/46 "2003-06-17T05:32:00Z")
The Thing with Kurt Russel is awesome. It stands the test of time ---
**Author:** ![Marlitharn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/779978/32.png) [@Marlitharn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marlitharn)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-so-bad-theyre-good/182108/47 "2003-06-17T07:30:43Z")
I can’t believe no one’s mentioned Escape From L.A. yet. The scene with Kirk Russell and the Mutant Insane Plastic Surgery Addicts From Hell is worth the price of rental. Plus he blows stuff up. ---
**Author:** ![SlickRoenick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e68b1a/32.png) [@SlickRoenick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlickRoenick)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-so-bad-theyre-good/182108/48 "2003-06-17T07:55:34Z")
Baron Munchausen Python and Python II Super Troopers ---
**Author:** ![terd\_ferguson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@terd\_ferguson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terd_ferguson)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-so-bad-theyre-good/182108/49 "2003-06-17T08:23:44Z")
\Troll 2\ Worst…movie…ever. ---
**Author:** ![Fibber\_McGee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a6a055/32.png) [@Fibber\_McGee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fibber_McGee)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-so-bad-theyre-good/182108/50 "2003-06-17T11:08:52Z")
[She](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0090009) One of my favorite bad movies ever. Imagine a cross between The Road Warrior and every half-assed b-grade sword and sorcery film of the mid-80’s, add in Tutu wearing henchmen, garden tool weilding mutants wrapped in neon green bandages, a freaky Robin Williams wannabe who does 1001 bad impersonations while continually replicating himself and a lot of other wacky shit I’m totally zoning on. Great movie. ---
**Author:** ![refusal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ac91a4/32.png) [@refusal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/refusal)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-so-bad-theyre-good/182108/51 "2003-06-17T11:58:39Z")
**I Married a Monster from Outer Space** , **Attack of the 50 Ft Woman** (either the Allison Hayes original or the Darryl Hannah remake), and **The Blob** with Steve McQueen are all excellent sci-fi B movies. (You can even pretend to be studying the feminist subtext of the first 2). **Eight Legged Freaks** and **Lake Placid** are recent monster movies in a similar style, and both a lot of fun. The 1995 remake of **Piranha** is good too, but the 1970s original is meant to be better. I would say Lake Placid is best of the three. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-so-bad-theyre-good/182108/52 "2003-06-17T13:37:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Sampiro \* > \*\*Oh, I’d forgotten all about those. Did you ever see BILLY JACK GOES TO WASHINGTON? The premise is believable enough: a senator dies so the governor appoints in his place a convicted traitor who took up arms against the local arsenal. (He pardoned him first.) When Billy Jack gets there he finds- GASP!- that D.C. is corrupt and so he kicks butt (literally). Hysterical. > > I read an interview with Laughlin once in which he claims to have a ridiculous IQ (something like 185). It’s not evidenced in this. \*\* My life will never be complete until I can see Billy Jack Goes to Washington. Michael Medved listed The Trial of Billy Jack in his “50 Worst Movies of All Time”, and mentioned (IIRC) that BJGTW was his next project. But I never realized that it got completed. The Billy Jack website is down, or I would link to some of Mr. Laughlin’s more “interesting” thoughts. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-so-bad-theyre-good/182108/53 "2003-06-17T14:55:51Z")
Let us not forget the following movies :[Elvira, Mistress of the Dark](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0095088) [Elvira’s Haunted Hills](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0265171) and the atrocious and laughable [Queen of Outer Space](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0052104) ---
**Author:** ![Bruce\_Daddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/85f322/32.png) [@Bruce\_Daddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bruce_Daddy)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-so-bad-theyre-good/182108/54 "2003-06-17T14:57:39Z")
Any of the Dolemite movies. Often the boom mikes are visable. ---
**Author:** ![PoorYorick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecccb3/32.png) [@PoorYorick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PoorYorick)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-so-bad-theyre-good/182108/55 "2003-06-17T19:12:05Z")
I’m surprised no one’s mentioned **Night of the Lepus** , starring the B-move standard Stuart Whitman. I think it was originally made for TV, but the classics scenes are those of the _giant man-eating bunny rabbits!_. They took these extreme close-ups of rabbits with red dye on their little mouths (supposed to be blood), than ran them in slow motion. ---
**Author:** ![Duncan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecc23a/32.png) [@Duncan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duncan)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-so-bad-theyre-good/182108/56 "2003-06-17T19:50:02Z")
**Desperado** - the guitar case/rocket launcher still cracks me up. **On Deadly Ground** - when Steven Seagal writes, directs, and stars you know you’re in for a rare treat. Sticking in an EVIL Michael Caine, in his worst role ever (though this is hardly his fault), is simply a cherry on the cake. ---
**Author:** ![Master\_Wang-Ka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/master_wang-ka/32/3325_2.png) [@Master\_Wang-Ka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Master_Wang-Ka)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-so-bad-theyre-good/182108/57 "2003-06-17T20:02:52Z")
I am astonished that no one has yet mentioned ROBOT MONSTER, a film that actually had real actors in it, as opposed to the director’s cronies. Particular favorites include the scene where our babe is abducted by the Ro-Man (guy in a gorilla suit with diving helmet) and any of Ro-Man’s utterly hilarious ponderings as to whether or not it’s actually a good idea to go ahead and exterminate the human race. So funny you won’t believe it wasn’t intended to be comedy… ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-so-bad-theyre-good/182108/58 "2003-06-17T20:50:20Z")
**Desperado** Oh c’mon, wasn’t _that_ bad. I love this movie. What is not to love? Antonio Banderas all hot, bothered and on a mission to kill just about any bad guy around. Salma Hayek in slow motion parting her lips and stopping traffic and running a book store in a desperately poor section of Where Ever, Mexico. It’s just cheesy. One of Steven Segal’s movies - I have purged the title from my mind - is an undercover cop who has been in a coma for something like 9 years. And _ **poof** _\* he recovers and is in top athletic form. Loads of fun. ---
**Author:** ![MarlaDurden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7cd45c/32.png) [@MarlaDurden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MarlaDurden)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-so-bad-theyre-good/182108/59 "2003-06-17T23:43:57Z")
Zoolander. Enough said. ---
**Author:** ![Largo62](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/45deac/32.png) [@Largo62](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Largo62)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2003, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-so-bad-theyre-good/182108/60 "2003-06-18T06:14:08Z")
**On A Clear Day You Can See Forever** …no, wait, that was so bad it was just, you know, BAD. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-so-bad-theyre-good/182108.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-so-bad-theyre-good/182108.md?page=4)