How about Broken Lizard’s Club Dread? The references and similiarity between Bill Paxton and Jimmy Buffett just cracked me up! “Son of a Son of a Bitch” and “Pinacoladaburg”…too funny.
I’m also embarrassed about watching “Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle” more than once!
Yeah - that’s a good point. Hadn’t thought of that. People would think they were watching some bizarre version of The Osbournes.
“*What the *bleep-bleep *do you mean the bleep-bleep-bleep train doesn’t *[unitelligble] bleep-bleep engineer!?!”
Mine is Some Kind of Wonderful. It’s just atrocious, but I cannot help flicking onto it on a Saturday afternoon inbetween college football/basketball games and watching the whole damned thing.
I forgot one -
Solarbabies
I liked Armageddon along with it’s siblings Con-Air and The Rock.
And while I also have the guilty pleasure of Bring it On it has to go hand in hand with Drop Dead Gorgeous.
I’ll chime in with Hudson Hawk and Flash Gordon. Then I’ll add the SciFi stinker, Starcrash.
Yeah, I remember watching that. When the credits ran, the ending so surprised us that my friends and I thought for a moment that they’d mixed up the reels and left out part of the film. And after watching that and seeing her in Amityville 2 (not a movie that qualifies for the thread for me), we actively rooted for the guy with the shotgun. We’d gotten over it by the time we saw Better Off Dead (which probably does qualify).
My contribution is a totally forgotten movie called Hero at Large. John Ritter, Anne Archer, and (Can you believe it?) Burt Convy! It totally fits in with my current need to watch and own every comic-book movie I can.
Ritter is one of a troop of actors hired by Convy to portray a superhero known as Captain Avenger at movie theaters around NYC, schmoozing with the kids who come to the film. On his way home one night, still wearing his costume, he foils a holdup at his neighborhood grocery store. He likes the response in the papers the next day, and starts seeking out criminals in his spare time.
Nothing is obscure on the SDMB, and I love that movie 
I think I actually have the Willis/Aiello rendition of “Swinging on a Star” somewhere in my music collection.
Beowulf with Christopher Lambert. Great fun, and such a disaster that only Lambert could take it seriously. The fact that he didn’t bust up laughing during this is proof of his acting ability, or something.
“I must fight the evil to keep from becoming evil”
I love it.
Dead Alive - You’ve got a vicar going into combat against zombies, shouting “I kick arse for the Lord!” and a scene where a houseful of zombies get chewed up by our hero with a lawn mower. That’s class.
Beerfest - Don’t ask me why. I thought it would be basically a two hour version of The Man Show but it was much, much more fun. Fewer jugs, more steins.
Amen to Starship Troopers, Hudson Hawk, and Fifth Element. Although I never thought Fifth Element was a guilty pleasure. I always just thought it was good.
OC and Stiggs, Directed by Robert Altman…
Imagine a turd, studded with jewels instead of corn, and you basically have this movie in a nutshell.
Based on a series of stories that appeared in National Lampoon, as that magazine went down the tubes, the movie was over written, over produced, and wound up being edited into near incomprehensability.
Still, I love it…
It is quirky, and strange, and “not” your typical summer teen movie (which is what it was “edited” into.
It has a great selection of “B” stars and cameos, typical of Altman, the quirky audio of Altman, and the interwoven of Altman, but it should have been Alan Smithee’d…
Another movie from 1979 is “Americathon” in which a future (year 2000) USA, now out of oil, holds a Telethon to pay its debt to the Middle east.
If you can find either, watch em… strange, beautiful crap
regards
FML
Well, if I recall correctly, the USA owes the Native Americans, who bailed out the US when it was in debt to the Middle East. And now the Natives have called their note home, so the US needs money to pay it. Great fun movie though–John Ritter as President Chet Roosevelt, good performances from Chief Dan George and Fred Willard, and typical performances from many, many ventriloquists. (You have to see the movie to understand this last part.)
This was one of my favorites years ago–thanks for reminding me about it!
I had a bad movie moment today. I was walking with my coworker and “The Hustle” was playing over the PA. I have to say, I love disco. And I did attempt to get every one to do The Hustle for the rest of the day–even though I have no idea how to do The Hustle. But I did make up a dance.
So she tells me, “I just love Donna Summer. That song ‘Hot Stuff’. It’s so good”
And I sing it and go have you seen that movie?
It’s a dumb crappy movie with Dom DeLuise and Jerry Reed and some woman—Suzanne Pleshette? I know it played five hundred times one summer on cable and I laughed myself stupid
I’d watch it right now if I could. It is a crap movie. And I remember laughing so hard at it.
I agree that guilty pleasure is a better term than “crap movies” and I’ll add Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead to the list. But I won’t feel guilt for watching Fifth Element, Manhunter or Galaxy Quest; these are good movies.
My guiltiest pleasure has to be “Bring it On” though I don’t think it’s a bad movie.
I still love The Craft. Talk about a crap movie!
My Father the Hero. It stars Gerard Depardieu and Katherine Heigl (now in Grey’s Anatomy) as his daughter. While on vacation in the Bahamas, she pretends that he is her boyfriend instead of her father to get the attention of some guy she meets on the island. Ridiculous and kind of icky? Absolutely, but it makes me laugh every single time.
Someone mentioned Crank earlier, and I could not agree more. It was completely unbelievable and there was not a whole lot to the plot, but damn if that was not the shortest 85 minutes I’ve ever seen. Really, the action never stops, just escalates until the credits roll.
Oh, and Saltire, Hero at Large is not entirely forgotten, both my mom and I love it!
Darnit I like this one too, also Fear
Actually, it seems to me that the films mentioned in this thread are of three different types:
Of these categories, the third one isn’t what I would call “crap movies I liked”, unless the film happens to be bad for some other reason. Being a slapstick comedy or monster horror movie (or whatever) doesn’t make a movie bad, it just makes it less likely to earn high critical approval (although I think that Animal House, among others, is actually quite highly considered). Movies in the second category might be called that, but I don’t think this is what the OP had in mind. When you’re laughing at a truly bad movie, the fact that what you’re seeing wasn’t intended to be funny is important. So it means that the movie is simply bad art: it’s having the opposite effect of what the director wanted. The first category is more what I would call “crap movies I liked”. Movies in this category can’t really be called “good”, but at the same time there is something that they did that was right, since you liked them, and not only because they inadvertently made you laugh.
I’m not enough of a cinephile to have examples of this kind of movie myself, sorry. On the other hand, I will echo some people’s comments that The Fifth Element is in my mind a good movie. It’s not one of my favourites, but I would watch it again. I know that it’s generally considered bad (didn’t learn it here), but I don’t really see why. And I see that several other people like it too.
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Dukes of Hazzard - from the atlanta escape onwards is the pure definition of ‘guilty pleaure’… before the escape, I lose IQ points watching it. Gotta love the Highlander affect on the Bow.