Movies you know are bad, but still watch/enjoy

Pootie Tang. Is it bad or is it so great that only a few of us get it? Sa da tay!

My wife and I watched this movie so many times it’s like a comfortable chair now. We are a family of me, two boys and a dog (also male), none of us what you would call neat, plus the wife. I think she sees herself in the Goldie role sometimes.

So great, most definitely. And if you say otherwise, I will sine your pitty on the runny kine. Seriously.

No apology necessary - yours is the objectively correct reaction!

I also like Con Air, Volcano, Dante’s Peak, and I **own **The Fifth Element.

I saw and enjoyed Volcano, probably more than once. But none of the details or images really stayed with me, unlike with Dante’s Peak.

I rather like Streets Of Fire. It’s basically a long music video. The acting is over-stylized and the visual aspect is very dated, but I like it for some odd reason.

I not only own the DVD, but I also have the soundtrack CD. The Blasters, Ry Cooder, The Fixx and a band put together by Jim Steinman, the guy who wrote for Meatloaf.

We went to see the Tornado Alley documentary at the Fort Worth Museum’s IMAX last weekend.

[del]Hudson[/del] Bill Paxton narrates.

This is a bad movie, and I hate it. It came out with all those other low-budget sci-fi/action movies in the 80’s like Treasure of the Four Crowns, Megaforce (props to Czarcasm for mentioning a movie featuring rocket-launching motorcycles that can fly!), and Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn.

What makes Krull so egregious is that every time HBO or Cinemax would let cable subscribers know they were getting a free week of premium programming to tantalize them, Krull would be on four times a day for the entire week.

How is that suppose to win new subscribers?!?

Sometimes, when we’re in the car and one of the kids (usually Alex) asks me where we’re going, I’ll shout, “Planet 10!”

Now, see, I love this movie. Could watch it every time it comes on. It reminds me very much of a live-action Lupin III and the Castle of Cagliostro. I bet they had a lot of fun making it.

Times like these, I always remember what Jack Burton used to say. This is another movie that I could watch every time it comes on. Alex and I watched it just last week, as a matter of fact!

I love Commando, too!

A recent episode of Regular Show featured a character (deliberately) very much like David Patrick Kelly’s character Luther (“Warriors, come out to play-ay!”) from The Warriors; he also played Sully in Commando. If you need a whiny, sleazy shrimp of a man, it would have been hard to beat him until Steve Buscemi would be old enough for the role.

Michael Beck said that The Warriors launched his career, and Xanadu ended it; poor guy was in Megaforce, too! As a big ELO fan, though, I can’t find too many faults with it.


In threads like these, I always mention Robot Jox. I still have and watch it on VHS. I may get over my affliction after Pacfic Rim comes out on DVD/Blu-Ray.

I don’t know what criteria we are using to determine ‘bad movies’ because some of the ones listed here are some of my favorite movies (Twister, Star Wars), but one I haven’t seen mentioned, and one I can’t help but watch anytime it’s on, is a Vince Vaughn movie called dodgeball.

If you’re talking about this one, 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.*

Apparently you agree with me that it’s worth watching (hence your post), which mitigates any distress I may be feeling towards you upon having read your contribution.

I just remembered The Arrival with Charlie Sheen. Fun Sci-Fi!

It’s INTENTIONALLY ludicrous, so you can love it without shame. I do.

Stand tall when you say that, my friend. HTD is nowhere near as bad as most think, you just have to roll with the crazy. The diner scene alone makes it worth watching, but it also has scantily-dressed-and-young Lea Thompson.

Yes, but the topic is films that are enjoyed even though they are bad. The Arrival was a good film.

Pffft ! I own all of them :smiley:

I’m all in with Independence Day, Roadhouse - watch whenever I see them cruise by on a rainy day. I also love Robin Hood with Kevin Costner - delightfully bad with humor.

Current favorite (I actually got the DVD) is Drive Angry with Nick Cage. Look at it as kind of a violence parody. Much as Airplane, Galaxy Quest, and Naked Gun took on their “serious” predecessors.

Vice Versa with Fred Savage and Judge Reinhold!

It was decent, but we’ve also had people mention Boogie Nights and Big Trouble in Little China, and surely other truly great films.

I have been debating on whether or not I should admit this in public.

My foolish side has obviously conquered any sense of embarassment I may feel so just I’ll come out with it - I love Iron Eagle.

There. I’ll be here for another couple of hours should you feel like pointing at me and laughing.

She’s worried about your UNIT Dad.

Pointing… hahaha, uh, wait, I like that one too.

Con Air. I watch it every time it comes on, and I still don’t know why. I don’t even like Nicolas Cage, but I adore this movie.

Commando.

Van Helsing, which is mess with its CGI, and I still wonder what Kate Beckinsale was doing in it other than being female (seriously, what was her role supposed to be? Because she did very little). I still love it, even with the hammy Dracula (that’s what I love about this version!).

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 and Night of the Comet.