# So bad it's good movies (It's been a while) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 7, 2013, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-bad-its-good-movies-its-been-a-while/652300 "2013-03-07T17:11:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2013, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-bad-its-good-movies-its-been-a-while/652300/41 "2013-03-10T02:45:02Z")
[The Demolitionist](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112843/) starring Nicole Eggert as a murdered cop reanimated as an urban killing machine. How bad? When she’s in her downtime cycles _her soul is in Hell_. ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2013, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-bad-its-good-movies-its-been-a-while/652300/42 "2013-03-10T06:53:39Z")
> [@Don\_Draper](#): > > [Beyond the Valley of the Dolls](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065466/?ref_=sr_1) – Josie & the Pussycats (or live-action simulacrum band) drop acid, go crazy at orgies, get sapphic, and basically get into all kinds of wild early-70s countercultural hijinks. Written by **Roger Ebert!** \*\*Latitude Zero \*\*is all kinds of bad > **[Latitude Zero (film)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latitude_Zero_(film))** > > Latitude Zero (緯度0大作戦, Ido Zero Daisakusen, lit. 'The Great Latitude 0 Operation') is a 1969 tokusatsu science fiction film directed by Ishirō Honda, with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya. An international co-production of Japan and the United States, it stars Joseph Cotten, Cesar Romero, Akira Takarada, Masumi Okada, Richard Jaeckel, Patricia Medina, and Akihiko Hirata. > Three men—Dr. Ken Tashiro, Dr. Jules Masson, and journalist Perry Lawton—are trapped in a bathysphere due to seismic activi... ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2013, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-bad-its-good-movies-its-been-a-while/652300/43 "2013-03-10T07:44:15Z")
> [@Kepler1571](#): > > Freejack. > > I have rarely had as good a time as watching this incredibly terrible movie and just enjoying it for what it was. With Oscar winner Anthony Hopkins! ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2013, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-bad-its-good-movies-its-been-a-while/652300/44 "2013-03-10T07:51:38Z")
Favorite bad movie that was intentionally a bad movie: **Billy Madison** Favorite bad movie that was not intentionally a bad movie: **The Room** ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Tonya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/4491bb/32.png) [@Queen\_Tonya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Tonya)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2013, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-bad-its-good-movies-its-been-a-while/652300/45 "2013-03-10T08:02:34Z")
A more recent but very strong contender in the fabulously gloriously bad category [Iron Sky](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1034314/). A Sarah Palin clone is president when the earth is attacked by moon Nazis. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2013, 8:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-bad-its-good-movies-its-been-a-while/652300/46 "2013-03-10T08:43:48Z")
> [@Queen\_Tonya](#): > > A more recent but very strong contender in the fabulously gloriously bad category [Iron Sky](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1034314/). A Sarah Palin clone is president when the earth is attacked by moon Nazis. My dad was actually telling me about this movie and how great it was, and he is NOT one to like bad movies for the sake of them being so bad. I mean, in his review over the phone to me, he recognized how cheesy and silly the premise was. But he honestly enjoyed the film and was recommending it to me. I promptly just filed it away in the garbage bin of my mind, never to be thought of again… but now upon your mentioning it, I might just have to give it a try! ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2013, 9:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-bad-its-good-movies-its-been-a-while/652300/47 "2013-03-10T09:14:47Z")
> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#): > > _Point Break_ and _Roadhous_e are my go to staples for this category. > [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](#): > > “Red Dawn” (1984) (Haven’t seen the remake.) Isn’t it faster to just say “about anything with Patrick Swayze”? I would watch anything he was in, but his movies tend to be either mopey with a big dose of dumb (Ghost, Dirty Dancing), campy (the three above, To Julie Newmar) or both, yet be very enjoyable. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2013, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-bad-its-good-movies-its-been-a-while/652300/48 "2013-03-10T15:03:10Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > _Tremors_. Has to be the best bad movie out there. I will defend Tremors, too, it’s a wonderful B-movie, has a great cast, and besides that, I love it! They Live! - same thing. Saw that first on Joe Bob Briggs Drive-In Theater, which specialized in so-bad-its-good movies. Hercules In New York with Arnold S. is always mentioned in this kind of discussion, so I’m mentioning it! ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2013, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-bad-its-good-movies-its-been-a-while/652300/49 "2013-03-10T16:07:55Z")
Last night G4 served up a steaming plate of **Casino Royale** (1967 - hold the Broccoli). Added entertainment if you watch it with somebody who’s never seen it before and pretend there is a coherent plot that they’re just too thick to follow. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2013, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-bad-its-good-movies-its-been-a-while/652300/50 "2013-03-10T17:46:34Z")
> [@salinqmind](#): > > . . .Hercules In New York with Arnold S. is always mentioned in this kind of discussion, so I’m mentioning it! [Yeah, he doesn’t get nearly the credit he deserves.](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0822205/?ref_=fn_nm_nm_1)😛 ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2013, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-bad-its-good-movies-its-been-a-while/652300/51 "2013-03-10T17:58:52Z")
> [@Ibn\_Warraq](#): > > Oh, I totally forgot Dead Heat! > > [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead\_Heat\_(1988\_film)](http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Heat_(1988_film)) > > Horrible movie, but a blast to watch. I just watched this yesterday after noticing in on Netflix Streaming, and I have to disagree. I agree with the horrible movie part, but it goes beyond horrible and shoots right past so horrible it’s funny into the … er … double horrible zone! I think this is because it was intended to be a comic horror action flick, and it failed in all three. If it had tried to be a serious film, it would have been much funnier. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2013, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-bad-its-good-movies-its-been-a-while/652300/52 "2013-03-10T22:18:27Z")
[Nazis at the Center of the Earth](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazis_at_the_Center_of_the_Earth). I watched it on Netflix streaming a couple nights ago. The maniac look of the H[itler head in a bell jar](http://i.imgur.com/Z30YX.png) on a robot is great. It hits all the cheesy classics, undead Hitler, undead Nazi stormtroopers, Antarctic Nazi base with Nazi UFO - using the Nazi[woo invention](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Glocke) that has been mentioned in those History Channel Nazi woo science documentaries [very nice touch IMHO] and complete with strange and horrifying Dr Mengele experimentation. All things considered, an entertaining way to pass time picking apart the movie. You can actually do the classic Nazi drinking game - a shot for every classic meme, one for every time someone heil hitlers, stuff like that. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![psiekier](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psiekier/32/116_2.png) [@psiekier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psiekier)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2013, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-bad-its-good-movies-its-been-a-while/652300/53 "2013-03-14T22:28:28Z")
> [@hogarth](#): > > **Congo**. It’s the best movie ever made about shooting evil gorillas with a homemade laser. Sadly, Bruce Campbell dies within the first five minutes before he even gets within miles of a magic book, shotgun, chainsaw, or a steam-powered Oldsmobile with a giant propeller on the front. It’s a shame, really - that might have made _Congo_ more watchable. * * * In [these threads](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=7822561#post7822561), I always bring up [_Robot Jox_](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102800/). Having not yet read _The Forever War_, I didn’t know at the time who [Joe Haldeman](http://www.joehaldeman.com/) was, but while he was busy trying to write the screenplay into a serious movie about a bleak future in which [The Market is always one match away from losing Alaska to The Confederacy](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUxDmKFCD2o), he had to contend with a director who wanted to make a movie that kids would love to see regardless of consequences. At least the outer space scene was in complete silence, like it should have been! Since I loved Battletech so much, I had to see it in the theater and eventually get it on VHS so I could enjoy its awfulness over and over again. ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2013, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-bad-its-good-movies-its-been-a-while/652300/54 "2013-03-14T22:47:10Z")
> [@drewtwo99](#): > > My dad was actually telling me about this movie and how great it was, and he is NOT one to like bad movies for the sake of them being so bad. I mean, in his review over the phone to me, he recognized how cheesy and silly the premise was. But he honestly enjoyed the film and was recommending it to me. I promptly just filed it away in the garbage bin of my mind, never to be thought of again… but now upon your mentioning it, I might just have to give it a try! I watched **Iron Sky** a few weeks ago. It was pretty fun, definitely worth a rental. I’ll also add that I’ve always liked **Tremors**. ---
**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2013, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-bad-its-good-movies-its-been-a-while/652300/55 "2013-03-14T22:52:00Z")
No way **Tremors** should be in here, the last two sequels are a different matter (I actually quite enjoy the 2nd Tremors movie). If you like **Tremors** I really recommend [Grabbers](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grabbers). ---
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2013, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-bad-its-good-movies-its-been-a-while/652300/56 "2013-03-14T23:39:12Z")
> [@hogarth](#): > > **Congo**. It’s the best movie ever made about shooting evil gorillas with a homemade laser. > [@CalMeacham](#): > > God, I read the book. I refused to see the movie. The book just _cried_ out for a Tim Curry character. 😉 > [@CalMeacham](#): > > I strenuously object. **Tremors** is most definitely NOT a Bad Movie. > > Unless your definition of “bad movie” is different from mine. _Tremors_ is a pretty nifty little sf/horror film. _Tremors_ did what few movies manage to accomplish: take a ridiculous situation that is the stuff of Bad Movies and make it believable. Plus, Fred Ward and Kevin Bacon, a duo made in heaven. They should have made five more pictures together. > [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](#): > > “Red Dawn” (1984) (Haven’t seen the remake.) _Red Dawn_ exemplifies Bad 80’s Jingoistic Nonsense. The scenario of how The Evil Empire invades the U.S. of A. is so outlandish it’s almost beyond science fiction. The unlikely confluence of events presented in the title cards in the first five minutes make it so that _Ireland_ could have invaded the U.S. > [@NitroPress](#): > > I guess I have to throw in _Star Crash_. Or _Starcrash_. Beyond bad, but thoroughly entertaining on every pass. Italy’s entry in The Year of Bad Star Wars Rip-Offs. Japan’s entry: _Message From Space,_ starring Vic Morrow. > [@](#): > > Not sure if _Big Trouble in Little China_ qualifies as bad, but it sure has its moments. LIke, the least believable investigative journalist in film history. No, no. Carpenter was intentionally aping the bad Saturday-afternoon-on-Channel-9 chop-socky Sonny Chiba flick. Only thing missing was the bad dubbing. > [@Lumpy](#): > > [The Demolitionist](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112843/) starring Nicole Eggert as a murdered cop reanimated as an urban killing machine. How bad? When she’s in her downtime cycles _her soul is in Hell_. After thirty minutes of watching her trying to **act,** _my_ soul was in Hell. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2013, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-bad-its-good-movies-its-been-a-while/652300/57 "2013-03-15T00:09:22Z")
Quick - name an actor that would be terrible for the voice of a cute talking cat. Was your choice worse than… Eric Roberts? I have not seen **A Talking Cat!?!** , but after reading the AV Club’s absolutely hilarious [synopsis](http://www.avclub.com/articles/a-talking-cat-is-the-room-of-anthropomorphic-anima,93563/), I really want to. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-bad-its-good-movies-its-been-a-while/652300.md?page=2)