# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2013, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-know-are-bad-but-still-watch-enjoy/656139/81 "2013-04-23T00:45:12Z")
The Groove Tube and especially Kentucky Fried Movie. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2013, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-know-are-bad-but-still-watch-enjoy/656139/82 "2013-04-23T00:51:57Z")
> [@Yorikke](#): > > **The Day After Tomorrow**. Trash, but I love it, and will almost always watch it when it’s on. Yeah, me too. **Nature Unleashed: Avalanche** and **Vertical Limit** as well. > [@kushiel](#): > > The entire genre of teen hip hop dance off movies. Y’know, the **Step Up** franchise, **Save the Last Dance** , etc. There are some pretty insane athletics going on, and I always want to go ahead and exercise after watching. 😃 Okay, I’ll admit it, I can still get suckered into a melodramatic teen romance too. I own the first two **Step Up** movies because I love them to death. Especially the final dance sequences in each. And, along the lines of **Unauthorized Cinnamon** ’s pick, I’ll add **Holiday in Handcuffs**. Girl gets dumped on Christmas Eve, right before her boyfriend is to meet her family. She solves this problem by kidnapping a handsome stranger and making him go to her family’s Christmas celebration, insisting he’s a “kidder” when he complains about being someone else. Stockholme syndrome sets in of course. Awww. ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2013, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-know-are-bad-but-still-watch-enjoy/656139/83 "2013-04-23T02:01:34Z")
> [@AuntiePam](#): > > **Dante’s Peak** I forgot about **Dante’s Peak**! I really, really enjoyed that movie. One of the local theaters had a discount double-feature of that and whichever **Mummy** movie was out around that time. I believe I paid at least three separate times for that double feature. > [@phreesh](#): > > Big Trouble in Little China is a ludicrous movie, but I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE it. **Big Trouble in Little China** is an action-comedy classic. Period. > [@xizor](#): > > _Boogie Nights_. I can’t stop analyzing the back story of each character. **Boogie Nights** was, IMO, the best movie in its Oscar class. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2013, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-know-are-bad-but-still-watch-enjoy/656139/84 "2013-04-23T02:08:46Z")
Hey, _Buckaroo Banzai_ is awesome! I love _Big Trouble in Little China_, will stop and watch _Demolition Man_ any chance I get, and still geek out over _The Last Starfighter_ and _Battle Beyond the Stars_. ---
**Author:** ![Hottius\_Maximus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3ab097/32.png) [@Hottius\_Maximus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hottius_Maximus)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2013, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-know-are-bad-but-still-watch-enjoy/656139/85 "2013-04-23T02:13:41Z")
Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein Any Bela Lugosi Poverty Row and Monogram or Ed Wood films I’m sure I’ll think of some more. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2013, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-know-are-bad-but-still-watch-enjoy/656139/86 "2013-04-23T02:22:15Z")
_Dune_. I’m pretty familiar with the source material and I’m aware of all the movie’s flaws. I don’t care. My love for this movie is vast. Vast. ---
**Author:** ![JXJohns](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jxjohns/32/469_2.png) [@JXJohns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JXJohns)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2013, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-know-are-bad-but-still-watch-enjoy/656139/87 "2013-04-23T02:45:08Z")
> [@MaxTheVool](#): > > Eurotrip. > > Dumb and predictable teen comedy, but it’s just so… much… fun. Scotty doesn’t know is a great song. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2013, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-know-are-bad-but-still-watch-enjoy/656139/88 "2013-04-23T02:52:18Z")
> [@JXJohns](#): > > Scotty doesn’t know is a great song. Yeah! I’ve never seen the movie, but I heard the song about five years ago and fell in love with it. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2013, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-know-are-bad-but-still-watch-enjoy/656139/89 "2013-04-23T03:05:21Z")
> [@Yorikke](#): > > **Boogie Nights** was, IMO, the best movie in its Oscar class. It ended 15 minutes too late. The final scene should have been that long, long close-in on Dirk’s face, fade to credits. ---
**Author:** ![GameHat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ed655f/32.png) [@GameHat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GameHat)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2013, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-know-are-bad-but-still-watch-enjoy/656139/90 "2013-04-23T03:50:26Z")
> [@Heart\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > **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. Not hating on you guys, glad you like it. But maybe six years ago a friend of mine was just raving about how great this film was, and how I’d love it. He’d bought the DVD and forced me to borrow it. I had it on, just in the background. I was playing WoW at the time (still addicted back then.) Even despite multitasking and hardcore WoW gaming with _Grandma’s Boy_ in the background, I still turned it off after 30 minutes or so. It offended my aesthetic sensibilities that badly. God, I hated that movie. 😃 But if you enjoy it, hey! Glad someone likes it! 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2013, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-know-are-bad-but-still-watch-enjoy/656139/91 "2013-04-23T04:06:52Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > _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**. Actually **The Fifth Element** was perfectly, _perfectly_ evocative of Jean Giraud/Moebius’ work from Heavy Metal magazine. Particularly [The Incal](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Incal). Giraud worked on the film and later sued Luc Besson for ripping him off. He lost, but really visually it is dead on. So it is very much in the theme of _something_, that something being Heavy Metal’s cock-eyed take on over the top, colorful, bizarre action sf. Love the film, by the why. As with many others I can’t not watch it or **Big Trouble in Little China** when they pop up on the screen. ---
**Author:** ![Pops\_Negro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/779978/32.png) [@Pops\_Negro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pops_Negro)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2013, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-know-are-bad-but-still-watch-enjoy/656139/92 "2013-04-23T04:14:42Z")
I’ll watch Godfrey Cambridge in _Watermelon Man_ any time it’s on. (But it never is!) ---
**Author:** ![MacSpon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/34f0e0/32.png) [@MacSpon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacSpon)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2013, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-know-are-bad-but-still-watch-enjoy/656139/93 "2013-04-23T04:24:04Z")
_ **Biggles** _. “If you can fly a Sopwith Camel, you can fly anything!” ---
**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 23, 2013, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-know-are-bad-but-still-watch-enjoy/656139/94 "2013-04-23T12:31:26Z")
> [@TBG](#): > > Con Air /bad redneck accent “Put the bunny down…” ---
**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 23, 2013, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-know-are-bad-but-still-watch-enjoy/656139/95 "2013-04-23T14:12:42Z")
> [@GameHat](#): > > Not hating on you guys, glad you like it. But maybe six years ago a friend of mine was just raving about how great this film was, and how I’d love it. He’d bought the DVD and forced me to borrow it.\God, I hated that movie. 😃 > > But if you enjoy it, hey! Glad someone likes it! 🆒 No, I know. It’s thoroughly and indefensibly bad. It’s not “Everyone says this is bad, but I think it’s actually kind of good!” It’s “Everyone says this is bad, because they have functioning brains.” Even though I enjoy it, I would never in a million _years_ recommend that someone else watch it. That was extremely uncool on your friend’s part. Even when I showed it to my husband, I was like, “Hey, look! This is that bizarre piece of crap I couldn’t stop watching the other day!” But yeah, someone should like it, right? I mean, it’s got Linda Cardellini, for pete’s sake. I’d hate for her to have gone to all that trouble for nothing. But as for terrible movies I _would_ recommend… > [@kushiel](#): > > The entire genre of teen hip hop dance off movies. Y’know, the **Step Up** franchise, **Save the Last Dance** , etc. There are some pretty insane athletics going on, and I always want to go ahead and exercise after watching. > [@wombattver](#): > > Anything about dance (preferably ballet) and/or gymnastics! Ugh, “Center Stage,” “Stick It,” etc. If you like these, and especially if you also like movies in the cheerleading flavor of this genre, like **Bring it On** , then allow me to suggest: [**Drumline**](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/drumline/). It actually has a pretty good rating on RT, but trust me, it’s bad: trite, predictable, and formulaic. But it’s a lot of fun, and if you’ve ever been in a marching band, you will adore it. ---
**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2013, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-know-are-bad-but-still-watch-enjoy/656139/96 "2013-04-23T14:40:15Z")
> [@Tamerlane](#): > > Actually **The Fifth Element** was perfectly…over the top, colorful, bizarre action sf. Yep. I call that a _good_ movie, without qualification or irony. I submit that if you think you’re enjoying it despite its badness, you’re not quite getting it. I also call _The 13th Warrior_ a good movie, though not perfect. Some aspects of production and post-production hurt it; there’s a lot of unreleased footage, and it could stand being recut for an extended edition. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2013, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-know-are-bad-but-still-watch-enjoy/656139/97 "2013-04-23T14:50:51Z")
I still occasionally watch parts of “Where Eagles Dare”, even though the plot is confused and ludicrously improbable\*, because I like some of the actors (in particular the hot babes). \*_“Broadsword to Danny Boy! Broadsword to Danny Boy! Is this the stupidest mission ever, or what?”_ ---
**Author:** ![FordPrefect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e99b99/32.png) [@FordPrefect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordPrefect)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2013, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-know-are-bad-but-still-watch-enjoy/656139/98 "2013-04-23T15:52:50Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > _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. It’s only bad because of the ginormous plot holes! The editing, the dialogue, the actors (with exception to the President, wrestlers aren’t articulate enough for the job of President of the Federation), the characters, the timing, lighting, everything was so much fun and what fun sci-fi should be 🙂 Heck, the direction was so good that Luke Perry didn’t even suck. Aziz! Light! ---
**Author:** ![Indyellen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/indyellen/32/4176_2.png) [@Indyellen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indyellen)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2013, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-know-are-bad-but-still-watch-enjoy/656139/99 "2013-04-23T16:45:16Z")
I’ll take your **Dante’s Peak** and raise you a **Volcano**. Easily two to three times better, IMO. Downtown LA? La Brea Tar Pits? Tommy Lee Jones? Anne Heche? Classic. Also, I’ll confess to the fact that my husband and I both get sucked in irresistibly to **The Core**. No matter how bad the science, the cast is phenomenal and it’s thoroughly entertaining. ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2013, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-know-are-bad-but-still-watch-enjoy/656139/100 "2013-04-23T16:52:58Z")
> [@JXJohns](#): > > Scotty doesn’t know is a great song. And… it’s now stuck in my head again. I _knew_ I shouldn’t have brought up Eurotrip. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-know-are-bad-but-still-watch-enjoy/656139.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-know-are-bad-but-still-watch-enjoy/656139.md?page=6)