Some great trash from my Netflix 70’s movie watching phase:
Zardoz. Sean Connery walking around in a loin cloth in the future. Giant flying head. Charlotte Rampling in a jumper. Written and directed by John Boorman, wayyy pre-Excalibur. A surprise ending that I probably would’ve figured out had I seen it in the theater. When I was 4. And some of the most trippy, silly, sappy visuals and dialog you will ever see.
The Parallax View. Quite bad Warren Beatty movie, almost pure 70’s clothes / hair / gov’t conspiracy / etc. Great scene when he follows someone on board an airplane, the plane takes off, he lights a cigarette, gives the stewardess a fake name which she writes down in a legal pad, then says “OK sir, that will be $75” and he pays her in cash.
Futureworld. Apparently a sequel to something called Westworld which I didn’t see. Peter Fonda and Blythe Danner (looking EXACTLY like Gwenyth) in some Future planet where there’s some cloning conspiracy. The thug is Yul Brenner playing a robot cowboy.
And then there’s one of my all-time faves, which happens to be my Sig:
Quite a few of mine have been listed here already (Blue Crush, 10 Things I Hate About You, Bring it On, Sugar and Spice).
I’ll add to the list:
Stealing Harvard, with Jason Lee and Tom Green.
First Daughter, with Katie Holmes. I don’t even like Katie Holmes, but I like this movie.
> Actually, it seems to me that the films mentioned in this thread are of three
> different types:
> 1) poor films that have one or two redeeming qualities, but that are
> nevertheless sometimes fun to watch because of these qualities;
> 2) very poor films that don’t have much redeeming qualities, but that are
> inadvertently funny;
> 3) good to excellent movies that just aren’t intended to be highbrow, artsy
> films. This is the Airplane!, Animal House (which I haven’t watched but really
> should), Kung Pow, Orgazmo and Evil Dead category. Yes, most of them are
> comedy, horror, action movies.
This strikes me as a pretty good classification of the movies mentioned in this thread. I would never call a film in the third category a “crap movie.” These are good, and in a few cases great, films. There’s nothing to be ashamed about liking these films. I wouldn’t use the term “crap movie” about the first category either. These films are wildly uneven, but there’s nothing to be ashamed about appreciating the few good aspects of a generally poor film.
I can understand why someone would call films in the second category “crap movies.” In these cases, what people are appreciating is the bad acting, writing, special effects, or whatever in the movies. This way of watching films doesn’t appeal to me at all, but who said that other people have to like what I like?
Gahh, edit time ran out! I somehow discovered a magic key combination that posts the message when I’d barely even started writing the post.
UHF
Supposed to be silly. Has some of the weirdest and funniest stuff in it. One of my faves: Raul’s Wild Kingdom.
“Today, we’re going to teach poodles to fly.”
The Waterboy
One of the only Sandler films I actually like, and for some reason I can watch it over and over. I know, I’m sick.
Better off Dead
Cannot believe it’s got over 7 stars at IMDB. Production values are low, premise is silly, it’s a bizarre little film. Also, very, very funny.
Cyborg
Has to be one of the worst movies ever made. I still actually like it enough to watch it every once in a while, and I bought it (cheap) on DVD.
The Hunted
Silly, over the top, doesn’t even have Japanese-speaking main characters, only supporting cast. Still, has ninjas and Lambert. Guilty pleasure for sure.
Lifeforce. Most notable for hot naked chicks wandering around London who suck your life’s energy out of you to send it into space (space vampires!). Great stuff for the 17 year-old male in all of us.
Oh, damn. Well, there are a lot of duds on my DVD rack, though most of them are my husband’s - he being a fan of Rob Schneider, Will Ferrell, and such… ugh.
My personal guilty favourite contribution to the shelf leaves little room for me to make fun of anyone, however; I own these stinkers and love them:
Empire Records
Orgazmo
Buffalo 66 (it makes me laugh - I thought it was a comedy)
Toys
The Lost Boys
The Goonies
Formula 51
The Wedding Singer
My husband has a super secret boy-crush on Brendan Frasier, so we have an interesting assortment of dud movies by him that I find secretly entertaining. While I flap my hands and roll my eyes when my husband puts Bedazzled in, I can’t help but watch out of the corner of my eye. And snicker. Besides, it’s hard not to look at Elizabeth Hurley when she’s onscreen. And that “sensitive guy” bit was pretty damn funny.
My Chauffeur, which introduced those wacky dudes, Penn and Teller. I think this user review says it pretty well. I was always sorry Deborah Foreman disappeared from acting; she seemed to have so much promise and talent. Love this movie!
O’Brien: Damn it, man, what are you so hot and bothered about? Afraid she’ll open her jacket and flash her titties at you? You couldn’t handle that, could you? Jenkins: I’ve seen enough titties in my time. Moses: I haven’t. Fourth Chauffeur: Been a hundred years since I seen a good titty. Moses: No such thing as a bad titty. Jenkins: Goddamn it. There now. That’s my point. The little bimbo hasn’t been here an hour and all you hormone graveyards can talk about is nipples. Moses: Didn’t mention nipples. Fourth Chauffeur: We was speaking of the titty as a whole.
<SNORT!> ::wipes tear::
“If I see something I haven’t seen before, I’ll throw a rock at it!”
A film allegedly so reviled by it’s star that he quit acting after this, his first and only film appearance, and took a job teaching drama at university.
Pondo Sinatra goes to university to get laid, but is so inept he has to sell his soul to the devil in return for being able to create the Ultimate Aphrodisiac.
There are many fine breasts in this film. And one of my favourite ever Big Fart Jokes. And a Killer Sound Track!!!
I have played this film to many friends over the years. Two have liked it very much!
sample dialogue :
Professor : " “Aphrodisiac” is dervived from the Greek Aphro meaning large penis and disiac meaning want it bad.
Pondo : “I’d sell my soul for a piece of ass!!!”
Studley “Don’t say that”!!!
I LOVE that movie. Haven’t seen it for years, but me and my sister used to get drunk and watch it when we were supposedly too old for that sort of thing. We still drop Better Off Dead lines into our conversation: “Such a shame folks be throwin’ away a perfectly good white boy like that”, and “Dude! snort This is pure SNOW!!! Can you imagine the street value of this mountain?”
Great characters in it too. The seven year-old brother building an atomic bomb in his room, the Japanese street racers with the outrageous fake American sportscasting accents… Brilliant.
How on earth can you call Runaway Train a crap movie.
It is based on an Akira Kurosawa script and has Eric Roberts and Jon Voight in the best roles they ever played.
I’ve thought of a good example for this thread - the 1932 movie Freaks. The acting isn’t very good. Some of the dialogue is silly. It often looks cheaply made. The twist at the end makes no scientific sense.
On the other hand, it’s one of the scariest movies ever made. The final twist, as ridiculous as it is, is also frightening as all get out. This isn’t just a good film - it’s a great one. It scores high in both popular and critical reputation. In some sense, it wouldn’t be as scary if it were better made. It’s my favorite example of why you can’t rate a movie by treating it as if you were giving it a report card with grades for each of its qualities which you then average for an overall grade. You’ve got to look at the overall effect of the film.
We might have enthused about it some more if our mates who watched it then didn’t go on to order porn from our cable account after we’d gone to bed :rolleyes:
