# Movies you know are bad, but still watch/enjoy **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 19, 2013, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-know-are-bad-but-still-watch-enjoy/656139 "2013-04-19T15:29:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![galen\_ubal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/galen_ubal/32/4440_2.png) [@galen\_ubal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/galen_ubal)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2013, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-know-are-bad-but-still-watch-enjoy/656139/41 "2013-04-20T00:30:19Z")
**Tron:Legacy** **I,Robot** **Independence Day** All (apparently) considered bad movies, all I like quite a bit. ---
**Author:** ![breezman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4491bb/32.png) [@breezman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/breezman)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2013, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-know-are-bad-but-still-watch-enjoy/656139/42 "2013-04-20T02:33:41Z")
**Dutch** starring Ed O’neill. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2013, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-know-are-bad-but-still-watch-enjoy/656139/43 "2013-04-20T02:39:17Z")
**Beyond the Valley of the Dolls** **Star Wars** (runs to hide from the angry mob of geeks now currently out to get me.) ---
**Author:** ![Beastly\_Rotter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/45deac/32.png) [@Beastly\_Rotter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beastly_Rotter)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2013, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-know-are-bad-but-still-watch-enjoy/656139/44 "2013-04-20T03:13:03Z")
> [@phreesh](#): > > Big Trouble in Little China is a ludicrous movie, but I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE it. _BTiLC_ is a wonderful movie, and the last great thing John Carpenter did. ---
**Author:** ![tattman40](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/db5fbb/32.png) [@tattman40](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tattman40)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2013, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-know-are-bad-but-still-watch-enjoy/656139/45 "2013-04-20T03:14:57Z")
Roadhouse ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2013, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-know-are-bad-but-still-watch-enjoy/656139/46 "2013-04-20T03:21:32Z")
_The Fifth Element_. It’s clear that none of the writers had any clue about, well, pretty much anything they were writing about, and I’m not sure anyone involved with the movie really knew what science fiction is. But it was just so much **fun**. I think that Mila Jovavich had a lot to do with that. ---
**Author:** ![Hermione](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/cdc98d/32.png) [@Hermione](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hermione)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2013, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-know-are-bad-but-still-watch-enjoy/656139/47 "2013-04-20T03:28:59Z")
**Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.** Just for the sheer cheese of it. As we MST3K fans know, there can be a LOT of fun in knowingly watching bad movies. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2013, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-know-are-bad-but-still-watch-enjoy/656139/48 "2013-04-20T04:42:35Z")
_Twister_, just to see Helen Hunt in that tight white halter that she wears throughout the movie. And for the immortal line “I’ve gotta go… we have cows!” ---
**Author:** ![GameHat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ed655f/32.png) [@GameHat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GameHat)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2013, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-know-are-bad-but-still-watch-enjoy/656139/49 "2013-04-20T04:58:06Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Basically the same comments apply to _ **Dumb and Dumber** _, though the underlying theme was “buddies on the road” instead of “history/time travel” (and there was no George Carlin ☹ ). _Dumb and Dumber_ is a truly stupid move, trash even - but it happened to be releaesed when I was 13, and at the time I thought it was comedy gold. So I can still enjoy parts of it, and still think parts of it are genius (e.g., the tuxedo-cane duel followed by the whack to the back of the knees). Plus there’s the shot of Lauren Holly’s magnificent…_ahem_…posterior. Adolescent GameHat killed a few kittens to that brief scene. I still love this movie. It’s dumb, it’s not a good movie, but there a few good lines - “What’s the _soup du jour_? ‘That’s the soup of the day.’ ‘That sounds good, I’ll have that.’” “Kick his ass, Sea-Bass!” “I’ll tell ya where we’ll go. Someplace warm. A place where the beer flows like wine. Where beautiful women instinctively flock like the salmon of Capistrano. I’m talkin’ bout a little place called… (silently) As-pen.” So dumb, but this movie was the movie of my awkward adolescent years. It’s stupid but I still love it. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2013, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-know-are-bad-but-still-watch-enjoy/656139/50 "2013-04-20T05:12:55Z")
Johnny Mnemonic. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2013, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-know-are-bad-but-still-watch-enjoy/656139/51 "2013-04-20T05:24:06Z")
_Independence Day_. \*The Langoliers \*(TV-movie of a Stephen King novella) _Xanadu_ _The Manitou_, a really cheesy 1970s horror movie that I absolutely love. ---
**Author:** ![wombattver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b77776/32.png) [@wombattver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wombattver)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2013, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-know-are-bad-but-still-watch-enjoy/656139/52 "2013-04-20T05:39:23Z")
Anything about dance (preferably ballet) and/or gymnastics! Ugh, “Center Stage,” “Stick It,” etc. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2013, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-know-are-bad-but-still-watch-enjoy/656139/53 "2013-04-20T05:46:45Z")
The message in _ **Flashdance** _ (“never give up; follow your dream”) is a bit sophomoric, but the movie is entertaining as hell! 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2013, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-know-are-bad-but-still-watch-enjoy/656139/54 "2013-04-20T12:26:06Z")
> [@breezman](#): > > **Dutch** starring Ed O’neill. There was an episode of Married With Children where they were all in a video store to find movies to rent, and Al Bundy looked askance, doing a double take, seeing a big display of “Dutch” videos - on sale, extra extra cheap! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![stoplight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea666f/32.png) [@stoplight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stoplight)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2013, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-know-are-bad-but-still-watch-enjoy/656139/55 "2013-04-20T13:44:43Z")
predator Harold and Kumar go to Whitecastle Man on Fire ---
**Author:** ![chargerrich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chargerrich/32/5399_2.png) [@chargerrich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chargerrich)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2013, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-know-are-bad-but-still-watch-enjoy/656139/56 "2013-04-22T18:19:47Z")
Have to add 13th Warrior, really enjoy that one! ---
**Author:** ![Heart\_of\_Dorkness](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/4bbf92/32.png) [@Heart\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heart_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2013, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-know-are-bad-but-still-watch-enjoy/656139/57 "2013-04-22T18:50:16Z")
**Grandma’s Boy**. It’s awful. Really, truly, deeply awful. I’m talking [18%-on-Rotten-Tomatoes-awful](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/grandmas_boy/). And yet, there’s something about it that both my husband and I love, in a completely unironic fashion. And apparently, we’re not alone: the audience rating on RT is 85%. The first time I stumbled across it on TV, I watched for a minute, wondering “What the hell _is_ this, anyway?” Ended up watching the whole thing. Next time I saw it, I made my husband watch it. He was also mystified, yet captivated. Now, we watch it whenever it comes on, which seems to be all the time. And I still don’t know what the hell it is. ---
**Author:** ![Cumberdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8c91f0/32.png) [@Cumberdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cumberdale)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2013, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-know-are-bad-but-still-watch-enjoy/656139/58 "2013-04-22T18:58:00Z")
_Starcrash_ ---
**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:** [April 22, 2013, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-know-are-bad-but-still-watch-enjoy/656139/59 "2013-04-22T19:08:17Z")
Lazerblast. ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2013, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-know-are-bad-but-still-watch-enjoy/656139/60 "2013-04-22T19:24:42Z")
Eurotrip. Dumb and predictable teen comedy, but it’s just so… much… fun. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-know-are-bad-but-still-watch-enjoy/656139.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-know-are-bad-but-still-watch-enjoy/656139.md?page=4)