# Movies that are crap, but you like anyway **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 24, 2007, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-crap-but-you-like-anyway/393521 "2007-02-24T17:22:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Valearl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Valearl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Valearl)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2007, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-crap-but-you-like-anyway/393521/21 "2007-02-24T21:24:19Z")
Two words “Starship Troopers”. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2007, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-crap-but-you-like-anyway/393521/22 "2007-02-24T21:46:11Z")
Oh! _Bring It On_. Yeah, guilty. Only the first one though. I do have \*some \*standards. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2007, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-crap-but-you-like-anyway/393521/23 "2007-02-24T21:53:57Z")
It’s very much out of character for me, but I adore _Blue Crush_. The surfing is awesome, the relationships between the girls are believable, the bodies are hot all around - except for the yawn-worthy romance, a pretty damned good movie. ---
**Author:** ![Mrs.Cake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/2acd7d/32.png) [@Mrs.Cake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mrs.Cake)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2007, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-crap-but-you-like-anyway/393521/24 "2007-02-24T21:55:10Z")
Mom and Dad Save The World - a holiday favorite in our house. Joe’s Apartment - what’s not to love about singing, dancing, water-balleting cockroaches? The Phantom Menace - but only with the Spanish language dubbing (I don’t speak Spanish) ---
**Author:** ![Jet\_Jaguar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jet_jaguar/32/3562_2.png) [@Jet\_Jaguar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jet_Jaguar)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2007, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-crap-but-you-like-anyway/393521/25 "2007-02-24T22:01:37Z")
**Summer Rental** is one of my guilty pleasures. I’ve seen it a dozen times and never grow tired of it. ---
**Author:** ![stretch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a6a055/32.png) [@stretch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stretch)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2007, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-crap-but-you-like-anyway/393521/26 "2007-02-24T22:06:51Z")
[QUOTE=Scruloose] 4. [Manhunter](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091474/). Another early William Petersen movie, shot in the classic Michael Mann style. It’s the first time we see the twisted Hannibal Lecktor. The moment where Will figures out how the killer chooses his victims, right after the argument with Jack, is one of my favorite movie scenes ever. Why? I have no idea. It just rocks. [/QUOTE] Yes. When [Red Dragon](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0289765/) came out, I was ‘meh’. 😉 Billy Jack movies. I just watched [The Born Losers](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061420/) a couple of weeks ago for the first time and it took me right back to the [Billy](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066832/) [Jack](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072317/) movies that we used to watch on late night tv. ---
**Author:** ![Lucky\_13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucky_13/32/13209_2.png) [@Lucky\_13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucky_13)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2007, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-crap-but-you-like-anyway/393521/27 "2007-02-24T22:33:37Z")
[QUOTE=WhyNot] Oh! _Bring It On_. Yeah, guilty. Only the first one though. I do have \*some \*standards. 😃 [/QUOTE] Seconded. For me, the only redeeming feature of _Bring it On Again_ was that it was shot at my alma mater, Cal State LA, except for the scene at the beginning (registration? I forget what exactly took place in that scene 😕 ), which was shot at UCLA’s Royce Hall. ---
**Author:** ![threnodyangelfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@threnodyangelfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/threnodyangelfire)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2007, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-crap-but-you-like-anyway/393521/28 "2007-02-24T22:47:25Z")
_eXistenz_ - there is something about that movie that just sucked me in. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2007, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-crap-but-you-like-anyway/393521/29 "2007-02-24T22:53:12Z")
The 1980 film version of Flash Gordon. I first saw it 12/6/80. I can date it like that because I’d done something very stupid early that day, and was very depressed(too long a story). So I went to the movies to distract myself and came away feeling much better. What’s not to like in a movie that has lines like: Dale, to Aura: _“Keeping our word is one of the things that makes us better than you!”_ or, Dale, to Flash: _“Flash, I love you, but we only have twelve minutes left to save the Earth!”_ or, Prince Barin, to Hans Zarkov(they’re both chained up): _“Tell me again about this Houdini.”_ ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slip\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f475e1/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slip\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slip_1)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2007, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-crap-but-you-like-anyway/393521/30 "2007-02-24T22:57:53Z")
Flash is one of my favorites too … I’ve shown it at bad movie parties (complete with costumes for the guests). I can’t believe Xanadu and Can’t Stop the Music aren’t here yet. Oh, and The Apple (which no one has ever heard of - it’s fun on the small screen, but a complete and total trainwreck on the big screen). ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2007, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-crap-but-you-like-anyway/393521/31 "2007-02-24T22:59:58Z")
[QUOTE=foxymoron] _Hudson Hawk_. Nearly everyone [who’s seen it, which is hardly anyone] says it’s terrible, but I find it highly entertaining. My husband likes it, too. That’s how I knew he was The One. [/QUOTE] I love you. No, really. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2007, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-crap-but-you-like-anyway/393521/32 "2007-02-25T00:01:17Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > “Flash, I love you, but we only have twelve minutes left to save the Earth!” To be pedantic, it’s 14 hours, not twelve minutes. And I can’t believe you think this counts as a crap movie. This is a _great_ movie. [QUOTE=threnodyangelfire] _eXistenz_ - there is something about that movie that just sucked me in. [/QUOTE] Take off the last two words of that sentence and it’s my sentiments exactly. ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2007, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-crap-but-you-like-anyway/393521/33 "2007-02-25T00:13:29Z")
One of my all-time favorites is one of the most forgettable movies: _King Ralph_. Starring John Goodman as the newly enthroned British monarch. Spotted _what?!_ ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2007, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-crap-but-you-like-anyway/393521/34 "2007-02-25T00:54:56Z")
[QUOTE=AuntiePam] My husband and I love the silly but somehow charming Airplane-Naked Gun-Top Secret-type movies. There’s always some background stuff we didn’t catch the first or fifth time. [/QUOTE] No way on earth are these movies crap. Silliness, cheap laughs, and so-stupid-it’s-funny humor do not make a movie bad. There are a lot of movies like this that I love: not profound or particularly ambitious, but certainly not bad movies. Now, one that I will readily admit is a bad movie, but I still have great affection for, is the Chris Elliott movie **Cabin Boy**. ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2007, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-crap-but-you-like-anyway/393521/35 "2007-02-25T00:56:23Z")
Has no one mentioned [Adventures in Babysitting](http://imdb.com/title/tt0092513/), yet? Egads, what’s wrong with you people? FWIW, I’m another who recognizes the cheese factor in Hudson Hawk, but I enjoyed it all the same. ---
**Author:** ![Adoptamom\_II](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Adoptamom\_II](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Adoptamom_II)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2007, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-crap-but-you-like-anyway/393521/36 "2007-02-25T01:16:57Z")
Just finished watching **Animal House** with our son … never gets old and I always find something new to laugh at. I miss John Belushi. **Bring It On** is one of my daughters favorite movies and I like it, too! Shove over sweetie and pass the popcorn 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![brendon\_small](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brendon_small/32/17101_2.png) [@brendon\_small](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brendon_small)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2007, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-crap-but-you-like-anyway/393521/37 "2007-02-25T01:31:20Z")
[QUOTE=Valearl] Two words “Starship Troopers”. [/QUOTE] Seconded…I love Starship Troopers, even though almost everyone I know considers it ridiculously bad… Brendon ---
**Author:** ![Weirddave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/919ad9/32.png) [@Weirddave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weirddave)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2007, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-crap-but-you-like-anyway/393521/38 "2007-02-25T01:44:33Z")
I’m gonna give a couple that are really within the spirit of the OP. _Creator_ starring Peter O’Toole, Vincent Spano and a young Virginia Madsen who does nude scenes (schwing!), along with _Last American Virgin_, a great flick of the 80s titsploitation variety just because of the ending which is the opposite of what teen movies usually deliver. I just want to kick Karen, the character played by the smoking hot Diane Franklin (Who also has a couple nice nude scenes in the movie, schwing part 2!) right in the ass. Repeatedly. ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2007, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-crap-but-you-like-anyway/393521/39 "2007-02-25T01:53:18Z")
Real high up on this list has to be “Tapeheads,” I can watch this movie any old time, and have… Big thumbs up to “Hudson Hawk,” “Point Break,” “Bring It On,” “Dude, Where’s My Car?” “Animal House,” “Baseketball,” “Orgazmo,” & the William Peterson movies–these all rawk! “10 Things I Hate About You” I’ve probably watched a bajillion times and it makes me smile every single time. “Summer Lovers.” I think I win on this one, SO cheesy, so dated, but it’s all about the sundrenched nudidity of Daryl Hannah and that hawt French chick… I dare anyone to remain in a crap mood after watching this one. “Johnny Mnemonic.” “I want ROOM SERVICE!” 'nuff said… ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2007, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-crap-but-you-like-anyway/393521/40 "2007-02-25T01:57:32Z")
[QUOTE=Weirddave] I’m gonna give a couple that are really within the spirit of the OP. _Creator_ starring Peter O’Toole, Vincent Spano and a young Virginia Madsen who does nude scenes (schwing!), [/QUOTE] I came really close to mentioning that as it’s one of my favorite movies of all time (though about 20 years too early), but decided it wasn’t _crap_py enough, just a bit campy (especially those early 80s synthesizer-sad-scene moments twixt Spano/Madsen and O’Toole character/the long dead wife of O’Toole character). Plus, what other movie has David Ogden “Charles Emerson Winchester” Stiers yelling “HE’S GOT A TEENAGED GIRLFRIEND WHO FLASHES HER TITS!” 😛 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-crap-but-you-like-anyway/393521.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-crap-but-you-like-anyway/393521.md?page=3)