Movies that are crap, but you like anyway

Two words “Starship Troopers”.

Oh! Bring It On. Yeah, guilty. Only the first one though. I do have *some *standards. :smiley:

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.

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)

Summer Rental is one of my guilty pleasures. I’ve seen it a dozen times and never grow tired of it.

Yes. When Red Dragon came out, I was ‘meh’. :wink:

Billy Jack movies. I just watched The Born Losers a couple of weeks ago for the first time and it took me right back to the Billy Jack movies that we used to watch on late night tv.

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 :confused: ), which was shot at UCLA’s Royce Hall.

eXistenz - there is something about that movie that just sucked me in.

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.”

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).

I love you.

No, really.

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.

Take off the last two words of that sentence and it’s my sentiments exactly.

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?!

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.

Has no one mentioned Adventures in Babysitting, 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.

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 :slight_smile:

Seconded…I love Starship Troopers, even though almost everyone I know considers it ridiculously bad…

Brendon

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.

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…

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 crappy 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!” :stuck_out_tongue: