This… is… Rotten!
The first two that came to mind were Independence Day and Point Break, but this thread is practically a Devlin/Emmerich appreciation thread and Point Break has already gotten much love.
But we’re on Page 4 and The Warriors has only been mentioned tangentially so far.
“I’m gonna shove that bat up your ass an turn you into a popsicle.” How can you not love that?!
Kinda in the same vein, (fight porn vs. battle porn), the original Red Dawn, gets me the same way.
Two more to mention:
Colors
The Fish that Saved Pittsburgh (basketball fan here)
Which reminds me of Split Second. I can’t not love a movie with this exchange in it (Hauer plays Stone):
Big Trouble in Little China? Really? I don’t think movies that set out to be over the top campy should count.
There are a few already mentioned multiple times, but here’s one that hasn’t been mentioned before:
It’s like Baz Lurhmann, Quentin Tarantino, and Akira Kurosawa all went out drinking together and decided to make a movie. Problem was, they never stopped drinking.
Wow. If you can love The Core, then, well, maybe there is someone who can love me. You have made me believe in Love again Idnyellen.
For me, it’s Ladyhawke. Not exactly terrible, but really really stupid and yet, I like it.
I always took the original Star Wars to be deliberately campy.
My vote is Independence Day. A truly bad movie even though they tried to pay homage to a variety of Sci Fi movies.
I’m not sure if Billy Madison should count because it is an unforgivably cheesy and stupid comedy, but it’s one of my favorites and I can quote almost the whole damn movie. I never get tired of it.
When someone says they liked or even SAW “Plan 9” they almost always mean “I saw the movie Ed Wood”. No one has seen more than 20 minutes of Plan 9 - the kitsch appeal ends at minute 18 and the last 2 we watch out of spite. Like finishing Ayn Rand just so she won’t win the battle.
These aren’t that bad as far as “guilty pleasures” go.
I OWN the Godzilla remake with Matthew Broderick for fk sake. I don’t think you can sink any lower than that without hitting 1970’s Eastern European porn.
ANYTHING with ‘Chucky’ in the title!
And for that matter, any and all of the Freddy K and Jason genre.
Damn, I own & watch The Beast of Yucca Flats but still draw the line at the Godzilla remake ![]()
Yeah I think with that admission I have officially disqualified myself as a Cannes judge. Maybe even for the North Korean Indies Slash Propaganda Film Festival.
“Colors” is generally considered a “bad” movie? I think I recall it getting favorable reviews when it came out…but maybe people were just still getting used to the idea that Sean Penn could act.
Perhaps it feels cliched now, but you can’t blame it for later near-copies (like the recent one starring Jake Gylenhaal).
I can forgive it for TWO reasons - Godzilla - great CGI AND Jean Reno, a great actor lost in a bad movie.
Yeah, you have a point. It has 82% Thumbs Up on Rotten Tomatoes. I kept thinking it was more derided than that. So I have good taste then. ![]()
I think that that scene was one of the most remarkable scenes in all of movie history.
I am proud of all of you. 
Joe Versus the Volcano is one of my all time favorites. I couldn’t get my wife to enjoy Big Trouble in Little China, or Escape from new York, but she loves Overboard. I don’t get it.
Let me make something PERFECTLY clear: NONE of those movies are bad, though some may think so. They accomplish what the director set out to achieve, and so are, at minimum, good movies. They are a part of my holiday tradition.
In no way is Boogie Nights a bad movie!
Terminator 2 was very camp and silly
Jurassic Park was also new technology over any semblance of reason
Speed … ridiculous
I wouldn’t say any are bad, just that tastes have changed a lot since they came out and nobody is asking they be re-released. Watching them now is more a trip down memory lane than for their plots.