# Some movies are so bad, they are fun **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [January 11, 2024, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-movies-are-so-bad-they-are-fun/995978 "2024-01-11T22:06:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2024, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-movies-are-so-bad-they-are-fun/995978/21 "2024-01-12T01:32:06Z")
Miles and Miles. 😀 It’s a British film, so maybe that should be kilometers and kilometers. ---
**Author:** ![MagicEyes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@MagicEyes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MagicEyes)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2024, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-movies-are-so-bad-they-are-fun/995978/22 "2024-01-12T01:39:35Z")
> [@XOldiesJock](#): > > Rivaled only by **Night of the Lepus** (another drive-in fave) in which the monsters were giant bunny rabbits. Is this the only movie with herds of rampaging rabbits? But they’re so cute and fluffy! Malignant is one of my favorite bad movies. It’s bad in almost every possible way, but it’s the only movie I’ve ever seen that I thought was an instant cult classic. I disagree on The Fifth Element. How is it a bad movie? If you’re expecting Oscar material, maybe it doesn’t measure up, but for the kind of movie it is, it’s good. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2024, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-movies-are-so-bad-they-are-fun/995978/23 "2024-01-12T01:39:37Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > I’ll nominate The Fifth Element. In no way is that a good movie, but it’s just so much fun. Mostly, I think, due to Mila Jovavich’s performance, though the whole cast was great. No, it’s not a good movie; it’s a _great_ movie. One of my favorites. My nomination for the thread; _[The Prophecy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prophecy)_, a 1995 thriller about a war in heaven. ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2024, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-movies-are-so-bad-they-are-fun/995978/24 "2024-01-12T01:42:15Z")
I think seriously, The Prophecy is a genuinely good film. Vigo’s portrayal of Satan is one of the best ever captured on film. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2024, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-movies-are-so-bad-they-are-fun/995978/25 "2024-01-12T01:54:32Z")
Sharknado was fun. At least the first one. ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2024, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-movies-are-so-bad-they-are-fun/995978/26 "2024-01-12T01:59:46Z")
I thought the first one was mostly terrible. The guy portraying a Tasmanian was unbelievable in the role- I later learned he was actually from Tasmania. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2024, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-movies-are-so-bad-they-are-fun/995978/27 "2024-01-12T02:04:43Z")
> [@XOldiesJock](#): > > **Legend of Boggy Creek** had an outstanding radio ad campaign that made it sound like it was a really blood-curdling horror movie. It wasn’t horrific. It was just horrible, and at the same time, deeply hilarious. It’s a cult classic but it’s just bad bad bad. I think I saw it at a drive-in. **Boggy Creek II: And the Legend Continues** is just as bad, and just as fun. The MST3K version is one of my all time favorites. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2024, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-movies-are-so-bad-they-are-fun/995978/28 "2024-01-12T02:13:36Z")
I remember in Babylon 5 I read a comment from a so called fan who complained about the accent of President Clark’s successor, who was supposed to be Russian. She was Ukrainian. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2024, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-movies-are-so-bad-they-are-fun/995978/29 "2024-01-12T02:27:20Z")
I was flipping channels one Sunday afternoon when my brother came in and asked what’s on TV. I said “Oh, there’s some stupid horror movie on channel 9.” He said “Put it on,” so I did. We watched for about ten seconds before he said “You turned this off?!? What are you, out of your mind?!?” The movie was _ **Billy the Kid vs Dracula** _, starring John Carradine as the Count and featuring Virginia “Mrs Olsen” Christine as “Eva,” an immigrant of dubious ethnicity. It’s a hoot! ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2024, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-movies-are-so-bad-they-are-fun/995978/30 "2024-01-12T03:09:39Z")
Quentin Tarantino’s and Robert Rodriguez’s Grindhouse double feature (Death proof and Planet Terror) is a brilliant homage to terrible movies. I love them both. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2024, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-movies-are-so-bad-they-are-fun/995978/31 "2024-01-12T03:16:41Z")
> [@Lucas\_Jackson](#): > > So as not to derail that thread, I thought it might be fun to have a thread about really bad movies, but so bad they are fun. My contribution is [Bubba Ho-Tep.](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0281686/) This is a good move. It is precisely what it wants to be: Superficially ridiculous, funny, and possessing some philosophical depth in its meditations on identity, friendship, and being forgotten and left to die somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2024, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-movies-are-so-bad-they-are-fun/995978/32 "2024-01-12T03:22:55Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > > [@Chronos](#): > > > > I’ll nominate The Fifth Element. In no way is that a good movie, but it’s just so much fun. Mostly, I think, due to Mila Jovavich’s performance, though the whole cast was great. > > No, it’s not a good movie; it’s a _great_ movie. One of my favorites. > > My nomination for the thread; _[The Prophecy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prophecy)_, a 1995 thriller about a war in heaven. Korben Dallas Multipass! My nomination is **Jaws 3-D**. It is just _so bad._ I bought it on Blu-Ray. ---
**Author:** ![Dropo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Dropo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dropo)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2024, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-movies-are-so-bad-they-are-fun/995978/33 "2024-01-12T03:36:15Z")
Some bad movies I have enjoyed: _The Fountainhead_ (1949) _Devil Girl from Mars_ (1954) _The Brain form Planet Arous_ (1957) _Untamed Youth_ (1957) _Reptilicus_ (1961) _The Brain that Wouldn’t Die_ (1962) _Journey to the Seventh Planet_ (1962) - Uranus! _Walk on the Wild Side_ (1962) _The Atomic Brain_ a.k.a. _Monstrosity_ (1963) _Kitten with a Whip_ (1964) _The Wild, Wild Planet_ (1966) _The X from Outer Space_ (1967) _Candy_ (1968) _Latitude Zero_ (1969) - Possibly the most entertaining film ever made _Star Crash_ (1978) _The Perils of Gwendoline in the Land of the Yik Yak_ (1984) _Lair of the White Worm_ (1988) _Salome’s Last Dance_ (1988) _Legend of Liquid Sword_ (1993) _Anaconda_ (1997) - John Voight is regurgitated by a giant CG-snake: that’s entertainment! ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2024, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-movies-are-so-bad-they-are-fun/995978/34 "2024-01-12T03:45:22Z")
[The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0307109/) is “bad” on purpose, and it’s a hoot. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2024, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-movies-are-so-bad-they-are-fun/995978/35 "2024-01-12T03:51:45Z")
_ **They Saved Hitler’s Brain** _, aka _ **Madmen of Mandoras** _. Nazi scientists south of the border keep the Fuhrer’s head alive in a glass box. Shot in the late 1950s, an additional ten minutes with a team of secret agents was tacked on in the '60s to cash in on the spy craze. _ **Eaten Alive** _. An inn in the bayou is run by a psychopath who keeps an alligator that devours guests. Carolyn Jones of _ **Addams Family** _ fame has a cameo as the madam of a nearby brothel. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2024, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-movies-are-so-bad-they-are-fun/995978/36 "2024-01-12T04:16:03Z")
Ooo, I just remembered a good one. _Caveman_, with Ringo Starr. I actually liked it and it is obvious it did not take itself seriously. Loved the T Rex that got high. ---
**Author:** ![JohnGalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johngalt/32/184_2.png) [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2024, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-movies-are-so-bad-they-are-fun/995978/37 "2024-01-12T04:16:51Z")
I’ve been waiting to see if anyone mentions _Motel Hell_ (1980). Ever wonder what goes into making sausage? So campy and stupid, but it has a 6.0 rating on IMDB, which isn’t all that bad. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2024, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-movies-are-so-bad-they-are-fun/995978/38 "2024-01-12T04:17:38Z")
Is that the one where people were buried and fed through a funnel? ---
**Author:** ![griffin1977](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@griffin1977](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/griffin1977)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2024, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-movies-are-so-bad-they-are-fun/995978/39 "2024-01-12T04:17:57Z")
Wait, it’s got this far without anyone mentioning Troll 2. Surely the gold standard of “so bad it’s good” horror films. ---
**Author:** ![JohnGalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johngalt/32/184_2.png) [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2024, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-movies-are-so-bad-they-are-fun/995978/40 "2024-01-12T04:20:32Z")
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