Another vote for Adventures in Babysitting. Normally that kind of movie’s the last thing I ever want to watch voluntarily, but for some reason I loved that one (and cracked up all the way through it, which I also never do).
Same with Cabin Boy (though I was a huge Get A Life fan).
Does Repo Man count as a crap movie? 'Cause I’d pick that, too.
There’s a classic Aussie Film - “The Man From Hong Kong”, which certainly tops my list of crap movies I can’t live without. So much so that when people say “George Lazenby” my first thought is not of his excellent outing as James Bond, “I know all about your… martial arts!”
•Daredevil. (I never really “got” the hatred this movie received. But I suppose it could be a bad adaptation if not a bad movie. Like if you tried to turn “Return of the King” into a movie, but wound up with “The Court Jester.”)
•Masters of the Universe. With Frank Langella as Skeletor. I own it on DVD, and I’m not ashamed. Yeah.
Rock 'n Roll High School Forever, starring Corey Feldman in his Michael Jackson lookalike phase. The scene where he and his band get an address out of the “for sale” ads in the paper and show up at a woman’s house to worship her refrigerator makes me roll.
Lake Placid. I like comedy-horrors, and Betty White swearing like a sailor just made it that much better.
*Kung Pow: Enter The Fist- One of my all time favourite movies. Honestly, how can anyone not love a film where the Bad Guy changes his name from “Master Pain” to “Betty” halfway through the film for no reason, the dubbing is deliberately out of synch with the actor’s mouths, and the the Evil Council turn out to be French Aliens?
*Orgazmo- I am Sancho. Are you Sancho? No, you are not Sancho. Only I am Sancho.
*Plan Nine From Outer Space- It’s not actually that bad a film. I’ve seen considerably worse, sometimes in theatres. It’s the kind of film you get some of your mates over, crack open a few coldies, and Mystery Science Theatre 3000 the evening away.
*Bulletproof Monk- Chow Yun Fat and Stifler in the same film, which manages to combine Kung Fu, Nazis, and a Mystic Quest into one surprisingly watchable package.
**Batman: The Movie*. No, not the one with Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson in it, the ultra-campy 1960s one with Adam West and Burt Ward in it. Exploding rubber sharks, high camp, and blatant silliness abound. A definite classic, and one that deserves a lot more recognition, IMHO.
Wild Things, but not because of Denise Richards’ fake titties, more for the sullen Neve Campbell. Toxic Avenger, really, really stupid. No really, it’s so stupid it comes full circle and becomes fun. Notting Hill is on about once a month on some channel over here and if I catch it, I always watch to the next commercial break.
Death Before Dishonor
Fred Dryer and Brain Keith torture terrorists and kill jihadidsts. Hoo-Ah!
A Chinese Torture Chamber Story
Erotic humor and over-the top Category III spectacle. Plus *wuxia * sex! (Scroll down on the link for my review.)
The Seventh Curse
It’s like Indiana Jones dropped acid and walked into kung-fu/black-magic horror/gore/human sacrifice/monster/jungle adventure/softcore titillation/shoot-'em up action film. (Scroll down on the link for my review.)
I almost forgot to include one of the first movies that I thought of when reading the thread title - Runaway Train. Two inmates (Jon Voight and Eric Roberts) escape an Alaskan prison and hop on a freight train to anywhere. But the engineer has a heart attack and dies, leaving our two villainous heroes all alone on a runaway train. Or are they alone? Hey, you gotta put a chick in there somewhere, and that chick is Rebecca De Mornay. She was a rail-yard worker who decided to nap in the train while it was idle in the yard. Hilarity ensues.
Amazingly, this movie was nominated for not one, but three Academy Awards. Jon Voight was awesome as a pyscho, and got the nom for best actor. That role was a stretch for him, I know. Eric Roberts earned the nom for best supporting actor, and the third nom was for editing. It must have been a slow year for the Oscars.
This movie needs to be shown on rainy Sunday afternoons, but I can’t recall ever seeing it on television.
Back to the OP, I’ll add any movie done by John Carpenter, Michael Mann, Walter Hill, or starring Kurt Russell and or Kim Cattrall. (I’m looking at you, Big Trouble in Little China)
Way back in the early days of video rental, when no one had heard of Blockbuster, and my local Mom ‘n’ Pop store (actually, two brothers) had yet to build up a really good selection, I had reached the point where I had rented everything that I had heard of that I cared to see.
That’s when I discovered Warrior of the Lost World.
It has everything! The Exterminator’s Robert Ginty! Star Trek" The Motion Picture’s Pyrsis Gamba… Ghamb… Pyhr…Ga… …Ilea!
Donald Pleasance as the villain!
A robot motorcycle that says “Tubular!” and has a video screen Atari lifted from their own piss-poor 2600 version of Star Raiders!
And don’t forget MegaWeapon!
It is beyond stupid. And yet, I must have rented it a dozen times, sometimes forcing friends and loved ones to sit through it.
No, just haven’t been able to check in for a while. Poor dog, though! Some great (by the spirit of the OP) movies listed here.
Summer Rental was mentioned above, and that’s another that is a favourite here.
One that I must remember to look for–I was reminded of it above also–is ** Rock 'n Roll High School**, with PJ Soles and the Ramones.
My wife looked over my shoulder and reminded me of the fun we have with our National Lampoon Vacation movies (all of them). “Look kids! Big Ben! Parliament!”
I’d like to deny that there even is such a category as “crap movies that you liked anyway.” If you liked the movie, then it’s not total crap. Movies have different kinds of virtues, and the fact that a movie is deficient in one of them doesn’t mean that it’s deficient in all of them. For years now I have been compiling this master list of every film that’s recommended to me as being a great film, a great underappreciated film, or a favorite film. It’s a long list, but it’s not an infinitely long one, and it includes most of the films mentioned so far. When I check out the films available at video rental places, 95% of them are true crap, things that nobody much likes in any sense. The films mentioned so far are mostly good movies with flaws.
One thing that I notice about the films mentioned in this thread is that nearly all of them are comedies, horror movies, or action films. It appears to me that a lot of people here think that a comedy, horror, or action film (and other genre films) can’t be a great film. Again, there are a lot of different virtues in films, and being funny, terrifying, or exciting are some of them. The fact that they aren’t dramas with deep moral points doesn’t make them crap movies. In particular, let me mention Airplane and Animal House. One of the things I’ve compiled over the years is a list of the 250 greatest films of all time based on a combination of critical and popular support. Both of those movies are on that list.