That was four words, all told. 
I like my new job. 
Absolutely. Watching that cable do its work is a masterpiece of unintentional comedy.
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The Specialist. Woods is apoplectically OTT, Stone vamps and Stallone, uh, controls his charges. Yep. Instant camp classic. (I bought the DVD and the soundtrack album.)
A View To A Kill. Roger Moore has the worst Bond hair of all time in this one, and I’m not forgetting Connery’s rug in Diamonds, and a blonde on his arm who can’t act. Great villain duo in Chris Walken and Grace Jones, though… but their plot to jettison coastal California? Please.
The Living Daylights. Dalton’s Bond gets romantic (nicely done), there’s a great Soviet assassin and a good turn by Rhys-Davies, but Jeroen Krabbe and Joe Don Baker were too hammy by half. Plus, there’s the sheer implausibility of the pipeline-escape bit, the escape-by-cello-case bit, and if Art Malik’s a mujahadeen fighter, I’m Florence of Arabia. (I saw this one twice in the theaters. 
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Force 10 From Navarone. I don’t think any professional movie critic has ever given this one a passing grade, but I’ve always found it compulsively watchable, even preferring it to its well-regarded predecessor – probably for the cast which includes Harrison Ford, Barbara Bach, Richard Kiel, Robert Shaw, and Edward Fox.
Where Eagles Dare. Have fun storming the [Nazi] castle! Monty Python fans take note: a soundtrack theme sounds suspiciously like the motif, played six years later in *Holy Grail *, whenever Sir Lancelot goes batshit. WWII special forces exploits played for laughs and unsuspenseful, gleeful carnage, with not a serious stab at realism in sight. Preoccupied Welshman Richard Burton intones safely enough in English (had this cast been forced to wing it auf Deutsch, the comedy would’ve been of another sort entirely), and Clint never runs out of ammo.
Is there any reason Reefer Madnes doesn’t belong in this cornucopia of cinematic doogness?
Or, alternatively, Reefer Madness?
:smack:
The Scrivener’s post reminded me of a big time favorite: Victory, starring Sylvester Stallone as a POW/goalkeeper in a Nazi POW camp. Watching Sly act as if he can play soccer (yes, I’m American) is some of the finest unintentional comedy ever. Hell, Pele’s in it. It’s like a cross between the Great Escape, Rocky, and Soccer Dog, except somehow worse. Truly brilliant.
Lake Placid
Fabulously Stoopid. Bill Pullman and Bridget Fonda might be accused of trying to play it straight, but are constantly upstaged by a series of great one-liners (the best from filthy-mouthed former Golden Girl Betty White). Supporting players Oliver Platt and Brendan Gleeson are great as a reckless crocodile hunter and dopey local lawman, respectively. Very bad CGI and special effects.
It seems appropriate that Starship Troopers is such a doog movie.
I second The Ten Commandments, already posted by kelly5078; so bad it’s good. I’ve seen it so many times I recite the dialog along with Moses and the gang.
The 60s Batman movie with Adam West (“Some days you just can’t get rid of a bomb.”)
Son in Law - yeah it’s Pauly Shore but I don’t know why I watch it every time it comes on. Bud-dy.
I’ve got to contest the inclusion of Big Trouble in Little China and Tremors in a list of doog movies. For both of those, the filmmakers (except Kevin Bacon, apparently) knew exactly how cheesy the movie was, but it wasn’t a total winking parody, either. I think an essential element of doogness has got to be that the filmmakers were oblivious to just how bad the movie was turning out – they thought they were making something genuinely good.
So I nominate Wishmaster and Wishmaster 2. Both really, really bad and devoid of anything interesting at all – except for the guy playing the genie. He’s just awesome. Calling it “chewing the scenery” makes it sound more understated than it really is – he’s just in a whole nother realm. And the way he says “Would you like to make a wish?” just rules.
Hmm. An interesting point. I agree. That’s the idea I had in the OP, which was why Gymkata sprung to mind. But it throws even a movie like “Hudson Hawk” into a gret area. Was this REALLY a serious attempt a filmmaking? I, for one, have no idea.
make that “grey” area. Or “gray” area. I can never get that right.
Yeah, I’ll revoke Hudson Hawk, Big Trouble, and The Frighteners from my list, and add:
The Golden Child
You all really made me day. I thought I was the only one who felt this way about Roadhouse. It is truly awful, and truly doog.
Some random thoughts:
–It’s not surprising that Patrick Swayze never made it as an action star. He’s supposed to be kicking the shit out of the bad guys, but he looks like he’s going to go pirouetteing off into the sunset.
Good backgrounds for aspiring action stars: Martial arts, boxing, professional wrestling.
Bad background for aspiring action stars: Ballet.
–Ben Gazzara is a good bad guy. And Jeff Healy is a bad good guy. I would have much preferred it if he turned out to be a bad guy. That would have been cool.
–Sam Elliott is ridiculously gorgeous in this movie.
But my favorite doog movie is the truly excerable Con Air. Oh my Og, that’s a bad movie. Especially the dialogue. But what a great cast! (Well, except for Nicolas Cage.) Ya gotta hand it to Bruckheimer. He gets the best of the best. And sticks them in horrible movies. I mean, you manage to assemble Steve Buscemi, Ving Rhames, John Malkovich, John Cusack, Colm Meany, Mykelti Williamson, Danny Trejo, M.C. Gainey, and Dave freaking Chappelle, and you give them lines like “I drove through three states wearing her head for a hat?” :smack:
I also love Armageddon.
Oh, and Biggles.
I’ve had a change of heart about Hudson Hawk. I think it’s supposed to be tongue-in-cheek, but somehow fails miserably at what it’s trying to do, being actually worse than intended, therefore putting in such a special league of doog, that it’s awesome lameness may never be equaled again. I mean, the duets between Willis & ol’ what’s his name are supposed to be kind of cute/funny but turn out to be painfully hilarious catastrophes. So, I move that Hudson Hawk remains.
I think you have forgotten how insanely oddball Hudson Hawk is.
“Bonney, ball ball”
“I think Bonney’s got today’s ball balls”
"History! Tradition! Culture! Are not concepts! These are trophies I keep in my den as paperweights! " makes pelvis thrust movements
Hudson Hawk gets a reprise from me. I know it’s bad, but I love it, I love the duets between Bruce and his mate, and I just love the hilarity and badness that ensues.
Also seconded is Starship Troopers. I heart that movie, it just seems like someone took a WH40k Imp Guard vs Tyrannids battle and stuck it up on screen ( I know they didn’t, but it’s still fun to pretend).
My own doog movies, though, would have to be Drop Dead Fred and Ghosts of Mars. They’re both cheesy, and crap, but every time I come across them I have to sit and watch. GoM is even better, because it’s clearly got a massive budget, some pretty good actors and a kickass director, and yet it still manages to bite the green banana.
Kull the Conqueror is pretty doog–dig all the hard rock riffs every time a fight scene starts. And Kevin Sorbo is tasty, while Tia Carrere in a bizarre red wig is, well, bizarre.
I also find Marihuana, a precursor to 1936’s Reefer Madness delightfully doog. If you haven’t seen it, I strongly recommend it–particularly if you’re taking any of the medications that have been prescribed for me during the last month. You’ll laugh your butt off!
Transporter 2 - if only I’d had the work “doog” in my lexicon when I saw it! My friends all agreed it was awful, yet we all enjoyed it thoroughly. The biggest stunt of the movie caused the entire audience to erupt into convulsions of laughter. From reading the IMDB messageboards, it’s the universal reaction to that moment
From the IMDB trivia page:
Now that’s doog.
I forgot to mention Krull. Pure, unfiltered doogness.