# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![sqweels](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f19dbf/32.png) [@sqweels](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sqweels)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2007, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-crap-but-you-like-anyway/393521/41 "2007-02-25T02:42:19Z")
I should think the _Smoky and the Bandit_ pretty much rules this category of film. ---
**Author:** ![nashiitashii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7c8e57/32.png) [@nashiitashii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nashiitashii)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2007, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-crap-but-you-like-anyway/393521/42 "2007-02-25T02:49:12Z")
[QUOTE=WhyNot] Oh! _Bring It On_. Yeah, guilty. Only the first one though. I do have \*some \*standards. 😃 [/QUOTE] I also enjoy _Bring It On_, and it’s a shared guilty pleasure between me and one of my best friends. To add to the list: _Revenge of the Nerds_ (the first two movies), _I Eat Your Skin_ (okay, so this may not count, for I enjoy it in an MST3K way), _Earth Girls Are Easy_, _Airplane_, and _The Sweetest Thing_ (there’s nothing like being a carefree college freshman and singing ‘the penis song’ from this movie at the top of your lungs late at night while wandering across campus). ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2007, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-crap-but-you-like-anyway/393521/43 "2007-02-25T03:04:24Z")
[QUOTE=OtakuLoki] Has no one mentioned [Adventures in Babysitting](http://imdb.com/title/tt0092513/), yet? Egads, what’s wrong with you people? [/QUOTE] \ ***Gang Leader** : Don’t fuck with the Lords of Hell. **Chris** : Don’t…fuck…with the babysitter. \* How about [Water](http://imdb.com/title/tt0090297/), one of Michael Caine’s “pay the rent” movies? Wonderfully bad, but with a concert by George Harrison, Eric Clapton and a few others that saves the film. \ ***Baxter Thwaites** : How can we maintain decorum if our spiritual leader is trying to put his hand up Miss Cascara’s skirt? **Delores** : You prefer he put his hand up my skirt? **Baxter Thwaites** : Ar least you’re used to it. You won’t scream. \* ---
**Author:** ![Penchan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/74df32/32.png) [@Penchan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penchan)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2007, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-crap-but-you-like-anyway/393521/44 "2007-02-25T03:27:52Z")
I enjoy **Surf Ninjas** way too much. How could I not? It has both Ernie Reyes Sr. and Jr.! ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2007, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-crap-but-you-like-anyway/393521/45 "2007-02-25T03:29:51Z")
I’ve watched every James Bond film. I think Moonraker would fit in this category. I’m sure other people would probably add some of the other 1970s and 1980s Bond films. I love them all. ---
**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, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-crap-but-you-like-anyway/393521/46 "2007-02-25T03:44:53Z")
Oops, forgot “Gone In Sixty Seconds,” the cheesy Nick Cage/Angelina Jolie remake–aw, just love them purty cars… ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_C](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Captain\_C](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_C)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2007, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-crap-but-you-like-anyway/393521/47 "2007-02-25T03:52:15Z")
Another vote for _Starship Troopers_. I mean, what’s not to love? Glorified violence, co-ed showers, Neil Patrick Harris… it has it all! The sequal was even better! Not only did they reuse the CGI footage of bugs from the first movie, but halfway through filming they ran out of money and decided to switch from bugs to zombies!! (much cheaper on props, I surmise) Still, I think it would have made a better musical. Starship Troopers 2: Electric Bugaloo. You know you’d go see it. ---
**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:** [February 25, 2007, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-crap-but-you-like-anyway/393521/48 "2007-02-25T03:55:10Z")
A personal favorite of mine is [_Brain Smasher-A Love Story_](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106475/) . Filmed in Portland with Andrew Clay and Teri Hatcher. “If my sister says you’re a ninja, you’re a goddamn ninja!” ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2007, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-crap-but-you-like-anyway/393521/49 "2007-02-25T04:00:19Z")
A couple of people have already mentioned **Dude, Where’s My Car**. I really like that movie. And I’d like to offer one that is _officially_ crap — so crappy that it was Alan Smitheed, and that’s [**Morgan Stewart’s Coming Home**](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093567/). I actually like it. With Jon Cryer and Lynn Redgrave, what’s not to like? ---
**Author:** ![Burrido](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Burrido](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Burrido)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2007, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-crap-but-you-like-anyway/393521/50 "2007-02-25T04:05:51Z")
Another vote for Hudson Hawk. I also liked: Galaxy Quest Evolution Fifth Element ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2007, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-crap-but-you-like-anyway/393521/51 "2007-02-25T04:10:19Z")
[QUOTE=Baker] The 1980 film version of Flash Gordon. \* [/QUOTE] Some of the outfits the girls wear- YOWZA!!! 😉 My guilty pleasure (besides many already listed) is _Doc Savage, Man of Bronze_. :eek: I like Starship Troopers as long as I can convince myself that the similarity in titles between this campy movie and the great REH book is just a coincidence. Same goes for _Conan._ ---
**Author:** ![LorieSmurf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a587f6/32.png) [@LorieSmurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LorieSmurf)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2007, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-crap-but-you-like-anyway/393521/52 "2007-02-25T04:14:10Z")
I really dig some that have been mentioned: _Earth Girls are Easy_ _Xanadu_ _Armageddon_ I love _Adventures in Babysitting_ , but I don’t consider it a crap movie. I’m the only one I know that likes _Grease 2_. What’s worse, is that I’d rather watch it than \*Grease. \* ---
**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, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-crap-but-you-like-anyway/393521/53 "2007-02-25T04:15:08Z")
:smack: How could I have forgotten Adventures in Babysitting. I have it on DVD and watch it at least once a month - but my movie rewatch rate is high as crap because we only get 4 channels here. There are some movies I watch once a week… Brendon ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2007, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-crap-but-you-like-anyway/393521/54 "2007-02-25T04:18:57Z")
_Fifth Element_ is one of my favorite crap movies. Nothing says “Step-n-Fetchit” better than Chris Tucker screaming at the top of his lungs, but I will still watch that shit whenever it comes on TV. ---
**Author:** ![plankter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ba0ec/32.png) [@plankter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plankter)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2007, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-crap-but-you-like-anyway/393521/55 "2007-02-25T04:29:15Z")
[QUOTE=Scruloose] [Manhunter](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091474/). Another early William Petersen movie, shot in the classic Michael Mann style. [/QUOTE] …and brilliantly [recapped](http://www.televisionwithoutpity.com/articles/content/a3166/) by **Sobell**. “The movie opens with the insistent buzz of Jan Hammer’s finest, i.e. the ability to hold two fingers on a synthesizer keyboard for five minutes straight…” ---
**Author:** ![August\_West](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/august_west/32/18069_2.png) [@August\_West](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/August_West)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2007, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-crap-but-you-like-anyway/393521/56 "2007-02-25T04:53:15Z")
The best worst movie I know is [Zachariah](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068011/) , known as “the first hippie western”. The plot and acting are not only atrocious, but practically superfluous. But when that movie rocks, it ROCKS! ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_C](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Captain\_C](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_C)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2007, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-crap-but-you-like-anyway/393521/57 "2007-02-25T06:33:19Z")
Wait, \*Fifth Element \* is an option as a crap movie? That is in my top 5 movies of all time. I thought it won some awards and such for being just really awesome action sci-fi… ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2007, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-crap-but-you-like-anyway/393521/58 "2007-02-25T06:43:17Z")
:: reads thread title :: :: sighs :: :: slowly puts on body armor, piece by piece :: :: pauses with helmet inches above head:: Okay, I’m ready now. _Lord of the Rings_. ---
**Author:** ![Lakai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de0a6/32.png) [@Lakai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lakai)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2007, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-crap-but-you-like-anyway/393521/59 "2007-02-25T07:01:55Z")
I’ll watch **G.I. Jane** whenever it will come on television. I also liked **Armageddon** , **The Fifth Element** and **Bring it On**. For a period in my life I watched **Coyote Ugly** about 20 times. I also enjoyed **American Pie** , [Bleacher Bums](http://imdb.com/title/tt0289092/) and [Crank](http://imdb.com/title/tt0479884/). ---
**Author:** ![buns3000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c89c15/32.png) [@buns3000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buns3000)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2007, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-crap-but-you-like-anyway/393521/60 "2007-02-25T07:54:43Z")
Too many to mention, but some that spring to mind… [CB4](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106500/) [Basket Case](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083624/) (and [Basket Case 2](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099108/)) [Liquid Sky](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085852/) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-crap-but-you-like-anyway/393521.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-crap-but-you-like-anyway/393521.md?page=4)