# 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:** 7
**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 24, 2013, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-know-are-bad-but-still-watch-enjoy/656139/121 "2013-04-24T21:20:47Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > If you’re talking about [this one](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casino_Royale_%28Climax!%29), I have no quarrel with your list. > > If, however, you refer to the 1967 masterpiece with David Niven, then it evidently needs to be said again: _This is a_\* good\*\* film, and inarguably the only James Bond film worth watching.\* Gawd, what a horrific mess of a movie that was. Parts were fun though. ---
**Author:** ![standingwave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@standingwave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/standingwave)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2013, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-know-are-bad-but-still-watch-enjoy/656139/122 "2013-04-24T21:48:13Z")
[Road House](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098206/), which was nominated for five Golden Raspberries: Worst Picture, Worst Actor, Worst Supporting Actor (Ben Gazzara), Worst Director and Worst Screenplay. But I watch it every time it comes around on the cable. _“Pain don’t hurt!”_ ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2013, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-know-are-bad-but-still-watch-enjoy/656139/123 "2013-04-24T21:52:18Z")
One more vote for _Hudson Hawk._ This is my answer every single time this topic comes up. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2013, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-know-are-bad-but-still-watch-enjoy/656139/124 "2013-04-24T22:02:11Z")
Wow, lots o0f good ones in this thread. Here’s mine: **Hackers Chronicles of Riddick Sphere Spinners** ---
**Author:** ![Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/face_intentionally_left_blank/32/288_2.png) [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Face_Intentionally_Left_Blank)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2013, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-know-are-bad-but-still-watch-enjoy/656139/125 "2013-04-24T22:15:42Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Oh, man. So many movies, and so many that people have already mentioned. Add my love to the list for _Big Trouble in Little China_, _Buckroo Banzai_, _Roadhouse_, _Ice Planet_ and I’ll raise you _[World Gone Wild](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096465/)_ and _[Night of the Comet](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087799/?ref_=sr_1)_. Ooh, two Catherine Mary Stuart moves! Never saw _World Gone Wild_, now I’ll have to be on the lookout for it. _Night of the Comet_ is one of my yearly Christmas-season movies. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2013, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-know-are-bad-but-still-watch-enjoy/656139/126 "2013-04-24T22:29:52Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Oh, man. So many movies, and so many that people have already mentioned. Add my love to the list for _Big Trouble in Little China_, _Buckroo Banzai_, _Roadhouse_, _Ice Planet_ and I’ll raise you _[World Gone Wild](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096465/)_ and _[Night of the Comet](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087799/?ref_=sr_1)_. **Night of the Comet** has Mary Woronov. Mary Woronov can do no wrong. Quentin Tarantino is our self-anointed interpreter of all things 1970’s junk culture, but chooses to acknowledge only the junk that took itself dead seriously. Mary Woronov’s career shows how intelligent people in the 1970’s recognized what a laughably fucked up era it was. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2013, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-know-are-bad-but-still-watch-enjoy/656139/127 "2013-04-24T22:49:02Z")
Anybody who can star in something as twisted as _Eating Raoul_ can’t be all bad! ---
**Author:** ![Renifer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71c47a/32.png) [@Renifer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Renifer)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2013, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-know-are-bad-but-still-watch-enjoy/656139/128 "2013-04-24T23:25:49Z")
Ditto _2012_ and _The Day After Tomorrow_. The scenes were phenomenal. I also like Titanic because of the scenes, not the Jack/Rose romance. _The Village_. The main complaint against it seemed to be that it copied a children’s series (_Among the Hidden_ by Margaret Peterson Haddix) but it was a good psychological puzzle. _The Faculty_. Invasion of the Body Snatchers meets The Breakfast Club. _Hackers_. It had style. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2013, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-know-are-bad-but-still-watch-enjoy/656139/129 "2013-04-25T00:14:47Z")
**Natural Born Killers** ---
**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 25, 2013, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-know-are-bad-but-still-watch-enjoy/656139/130 "2013-04-25T02:03:10Z")
> [@Shakes](#): > > **Natural Born Killers** NBK Directors cut is an excellent film.Rodney Dangerfield was wonderfully evil playing against type. ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2013, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-know-are-bad-but-still-watch-enjoy/656139/131 "2013-04-25T02:53:33Z")
2010 and The Dark Crystal > **[The Dark Crystal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Crystal)** > > The Dark Crystal is a 1982 dark fantasy film directed by Jim Henson and Frank Oz. It stars the voices of Stephen Garlick, Lisa Maxwell, Billie Whitelaw, Percy Edwards, and Barry Dennen. The film was produced by ITC Entertainment and The Jim Henson Company and distributed by Universal Pictures. The plot revolves around Jen and Kira, two Gelflings on a quest to restore balance to the world of Thra and overthrow the evil, ruling Skeksis by restoring a powerful broken Crystal. > It was marketed as a... Craptacular Muppets! ---
**Author:** ![oft\_wears\_hats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7993a0/32.png) [@oft\_wears\_hats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/oft_wears_hats)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2013, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-know-are-bad-but-still-watch-enjoy/656139/132 "2013-04-25T03:55:37Z")
I’m amazed that no one has mentioned **Highlander** yet. A lot of the acting was stiff and it’s cheesy as hell, but I can’t help but love it. It’s definitely not “so bad it’s good,” more “good despite its badness.” ---
**Author:** ![GameHat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ed655f/32.png) [@GameHat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GameHat)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2013, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-know-are-bad-but-still-watch-enjoy/656139/133 "2013-04-26T02:39:57Z")
> [@standingwave](#): > > [Road House](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098206/), which was nominated for five Golden Raspberries: Worst Picture, Worst Actor, Worst Supporting Actor (Ben Gazzara), Worst Director and Worst Screenplay. But I watch it every time it comes around on the cable. > > _“Pain don’t hurt!”_ Others have mentioned it, yours was just the lowest on my CTRL-F 😃 Roadhouse is pretty terrible, but [Andy’s reenactment](http://vimeo.com/41175242) on _Parks and Recreation_ is one of the greatest things ever. “Takes the esophagus out of the neck area…you can’t eat. You’ll starve to death. And that…is _Roadhouse_.” 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2013, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-know-are-bad-but-still-watch-enjoy/656139/134 "2013-04-26T12:53:07Z")
> [@oft\_wears\_hats](#): > > I’m amazed that no one has mentioned **Highlander** yet. A lot of the acting was stiff and it’s cheesy as hell, but I can’t help but love it. It’s definitely not “so bad it’s good,” more “good despite its badness.” Wait a minute! Let’s get something straight here: Highlander was a good damn movie. Any sequel that followed after that was phenomenally bad. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2013, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-know-are-bad-but-still-watch-enjoy/656139/135 "2013-04-26T13:32:23Z")
OK, I’ll say it: _Reign of Fire_. Dragons vs. tanks. Pre-Batman Christian Bale. Matthew McConaughey with a bald pate, leaving teeth marks all over the scenery. A then-unknown Gerard Butler. So much deadpan silliness, and the whole deal concerning the dragons’ life cycle and eating habits makes no sense whatever, but they nevertheless are utterly terrifying whenever they appear. ---
**Author:** ![oft\_wears\_hats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7993a0/32.png) [@oft\_wears\_hats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/oft_wears_hats)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2013, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-know-are-bad-but-still-watch-enjoy/656139/136 "2013-04-26T15:53:48Z")
> [@Shakes](#): > > Wait a minute! Let’s get something straight here: Highlander was a good damn movie. Any sequel that followed after that was phenomenally bad. It was a good movie, but it really was pretty corny at parts. Maybe it doesn’t deserve to be part of this thread, but having watched it again recently, there’s some seriously goofy stuff in it. ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2013, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-know-are-bad-but-still-watch-enjoy/656139/137 "2013-04-26T20:07:12Z")
I’d add: -“Chariots of Fire”-I watch this as a cure for insomnia -“Tarzan” (Richard Harris screaming) -“The Green Berets”-the Vietnam War was SO much fun! ---
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2013, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-know-are-bad-but-still-watch-enjoy/656139/138 "2013-04-26T23:52:25Z")
> [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](#): > > Ooh, two Catherine Mary Stuart moves! Never saw _World Gone Wild_, now I’ll have to be on the lookout for it. _Night of the Comet_ is one of my yearly Christmas-season movies. - Night of the Comet \*is on Netflix - ask me how I know that 🙂 I just bought \* My Chauffeur\* a few months ago and I am still planning to buy DVDs of both _Spacecamp_ and _Solarbabies_ so I can watch with my daughter. Alas, I have never seen nor found any copies of \* Voyage of the Rock Aliens\* but I would watch it if I could, and I just bought \* Blue DeVille\* for my sister for Christmas. A more common one, and I **really should know better** considering what I do for a living _G.I. Jane_. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2013, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-know-are-bad-but-still-watch-enjoy/656139/139 "2013-04-27T00:29:49Z")
Mom and Dad Save the World. I don’t know why I like it. Coneheads. Same thing. Maybe because these two run on cable all the time. ---
**Author:** ![Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/face_intentionally_left_blank/32/288_2.png) [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Face_Intentionally_Left_Blank)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2013, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-know-are-bad-but-still-watch-enjoy/656139/140 "2013-04-27T01:19:44Z")
> [@Poysyn](#): > > - Night of the Comet \*is on Netflix - ask me how I know that 🙂 > > I just bought \* My Chauffeur\* a few months ago and I am still planning to buy DVDs of both _Spacecamp_ and _Solarbabies_ so I can watch with my daughter. > > Alas, I have never seen nor found any copies of \* Voyage of the Rock Aliens\* but I would watch it if I could, and I just bought \* Blue DeVille\* for my sister for Christmas. A more common one, and I **really should know better** considering what I do for a living _G.I. Jane_. I had _Better Off Dead, Get Crazy,_ and _Night of the Comet_ on the same VHS tape I recorded in the mid-80’s. Good thing I used good tapes. 🙂 It was my Christmas tape I watched every holiday season, and I kept it until 2005-6 when I finally gave up VCRs and had digital copies. Had to buy two copies of \*Get Crazy \*on Ebay on VHS before I had a good copy to rip. It’s still not available on DVD, but [you can stream it](http://www.canistream.it/search/movie/4f6dec42f5f8076944000001/get-crazy). I haven’t seen My Chauffeur in decades, but I have a bad feeling I won’t enjoy it as much as I did in my late teens. I think my testosterone clouded my opinion of that movie. 😃 Solarbabies - never saw the whole thing. Started to watch it when it first came to HBO, but it didn’t grab me. Can’t for the life of me remember much about it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-know-are-bad-but-still-watch-enjoy/656139.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-know-are-bad-but-still-watch-enjoy/656139.md?page=8)