# 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:** 6
**Author:** ![GrunthosTheFlatulent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grunthostheflatulent/32/21319_2.png) [@GrunthosTheFlatulent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrunthosTheFlatulent)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2024, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-movies-are-so-bad-they-are-fun/995978/101 "2024-01-13T04:07:31Z")
Why do you think Harry and Lloyd were mentally handicapped? ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2024, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-movies-are-so-bad-they-are-fun/995978/102 "2024-01-13T04:13:11Z")
The Suntan Team scene? ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2024, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-movies-are-so-bad-they-are-fun/995978/103 "2024-01-13T04:25:23Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > I was skeptical but I watched _Peewees Big Adventure_. > I thought for sure this would be the worst movie ever. > Turns out I laughed like a kid. > Rubin’s has good voice manipulation and can act. > He uses his body in hilarious ways. Classic humor. > > I was surprised I enjoyed it so much. Same here. A friend whose tastes I seldom agree with, had to practically beg me to watch PWBA with him. I’m SO glad I grudgingly gave in, for the reasons you mentioned. ---
**Author:** ![pirviii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pirviii/32/3233_2.png) [@pirviii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pirviii)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2024, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-movies-are-so-bad-they-are-fun/995978/104 "2024-01-13T07:10:39Z")
> [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](#): > > Another movie mentioned in the “Forgotten Movies” thread that fits this one is Joes Apartment. What’s not to love about singing cockroaches? I’ve got that one on VHS! I have it in DVD, my kids liked it when they were young. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2024, 8:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-movies-are-so-bad-they-are-fun/995978/105 "2024-01-13T08:22:46Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Hey, they were capable of holding down jobs and allowed to drive motor vehicles. Ergo, they were of average intelligence. You havent met many workers in the fast food or any minimum wage industry, have you? 🤪 Well, what is the title of the film? How do they act? If not clinically handicapped, they were below average. These are not guys who are average and do dumb things- they are dumb dudes. They supposedly have IQs of 70. [Where was Dumb and Dumber filmed?](https://giggster.com/guide/movie-location/where-was-dumb-and-dumber-filmed#:~:text=About%20Dumb%20and%20Dumber&text=It%20stars%20Jim%20Carrey%20and,a%20briefcase%20full%20of%20money). IQ of 75 is the cut-off- [https://www.psychiatry.org/patients-families/intellectual-disability/what-is-intellectual-disability#:~:text=Diagnosing%20Intellectual%20Disability,-Intellectual%20disability%20is&text=While%20a%20specific%20full-scale,significant%20limitation%20in%20intellectual%20functioning](https://www.psychiatry.org/patients-families/intellectual-disability/what-is-intellectual-disability#:~:text=Diagnosing%20Intellectual%20Disability,-Intellectual%20disability%20is&text=While%20a%20specific%20full%2Dscale,significant%20limitation%20in%20intellectual%20functioning). _While a specific full-scale IQ test score is no longer required for diagnosis, standardized testing is used as part of diagnosing the condition. A full-scale IQ score of around 70 to 75 indicates a significant limitation in intellectual functioning.2_ Of course, simply IQ is no longer the end all and be all, true. They are functioning- sorta. But they could easily get on SSI. ---
**Author:** ![f.coli](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eada6e/32.png) [@f.coli](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/f.coli)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2024, 9:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-movies-are-so-bad-they-are-fun/995978/106 "2024-01-13T09:00:24Z")
If you think laughing evilly is good acting, it’s hard to surpass _ **Battlefield Earth.** _ ---
**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 13, 2024, 9:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-movies-are-so-bad-they-are-fun/995978/107 "2024-01-13T09:11:58Z")
I’ve known lots of people of average intelligence who were dumb as a stick. Many held managerial positions, so occupation doesn’t seem to matter. Elected officials are the worst. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2024, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-movies-are-so-bad-they-are-fun/995978/108 "2024-01-13T18:02:30Z")
Nobody’s given romantic comedies any love, so I’ll cop to adoring _A Christmas Prince,_ a schmaltzy Netflix movie that manages to shoehorn in every Hallmark movie trope in existence. They play it 100% straight while dishing out cliche after cliche. It’s hilarious. They had to know what they were doing. They had to know. It would and probably does make a good drinking game. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2024, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-movies-are-so-bad-they-are-fun/995978/109 "2024-01-13T19:27:40Z")
_Spaced Invaders_. An alien ship from Mars, a B-team, pick up a broadcast from Earth of a radio station rebroadcasting Orson Welles’ _War of the Worlds_ of 1938. They decide to land on earth so as to not miss out on the invasion they think is happening. They land on Halloween, so everyone thinks they’re trick-or-treating. Then things get weird. Horrible movie. I laughed all the way through it. One alien ends up doing a Jack Nicholson impression. Just found out that the earthling daughter was played by Lex of _Jurassic Park_ fame. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2024, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-movies-are-so-bad-they-are-fun/995978/110 "2024-01-13T19:46:13Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > I’ve known lots of people of average intelligence who were dumb as a stick. Many held managerial positions, so occupation doesn’t seem to matter. Elected officials are the worst. There’s a difference between “smart” and “wise.” ---
**Author:** ![GrunthosTheFlatulent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grunthostheflatulent/32/21319_2.png) [@GrunthosTheFlatulent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrunthosTheFlatulent)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2024, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-movies-are-so-bad-they-are-fun/995978/111 "2024-01-13T20:18:37Z")
You know there are a lot of minimum wage workers with a high level of education, right? ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2024, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-movies-are-so-bad-they-are-fun/995978/112 "2024-01-13T20:45:05Z")
> [@Jaycat.again](#): > > I also love the Mr. Moto films. Me, too, but they’re a lot harder to find than the Chan ones. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2024, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-movies-are-so-bad-they-are-fun/995978/113 "2024-01-13T23:46:50Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Hey, they were capable of holding down jobs and allowed to drive motor vehicles. Ergo, they were of average intelligence. You don’t need to be of average intelligence to work and drive. “Average” isn’t the minimum level needed to function in society. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Me](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d2c977/32.png) [@Mr.Me](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Me)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2024, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-movies-are-so-bad-they-are-fun/995978/114 "2024-01-14T16:15:04Z")
[Postal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_(film)), directed, co-produced and co-written by Uwe Boll. Based on the awful (but still somehow fun) Postal video games. Cost $15 mil to make and earned $146k at the box office. It earned Boll a Golden Raspberry for Worst Director. It’s available to watch for free online, which is a fair price. “Infantile, irreverent and boorish to the max, _Postal_ explodes with bad attitude and lousy filmmaking.” - 0.5 of 5 stars - New York Times ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2024, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-movies-are-so-bad-they-are-fun/995978/115 "2024-01-14T16:16:44Z")
> [@peccavi](#): > > As far as bad movies that are _soo_ bad they are good, I’ll nominate **[The Pirate Movie](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirate_Movie)**, which took two 70’s teen stars (Kristy McNicol and Christoper Atkins) and remade Gilbert & Sullivan’s _The Pirates of Penzance_, with all new music. It’s as awful as it sounds. But the cast is so engaging and seem to be having so much fun (a lot of 4th wall breaking), that I ended up loving it. I adore this movie, too. When it cane out on DVD a few years ago I bought it. **Return of the Killer Tomatoes** as well. ---
**Author:** ![alfonzos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4bbf92/32.png) [@alfonzos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alfonzos)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2024, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-movies-are-so-bad-they-are-fun/995978/116 "2024-01-14T20:51:40Z")
My vote is for _The Green Slime_, the inspiration for the board game :The Awful Green Things From Outer Space by TSR and Steve Jackson Games, What looks like green soap bubbles invade a tear in a astronaut’s spacesuit. Eventually they grow in into six-foot tall paper mache monsters which infiltrate the space ship. Unintentional hilarity insues. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2024, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-movies-are-so-bad-they-are-fun/995978/117 "2024-01-14T23:05:26Z")
I remember that on TV when I was a kid. It was scary then, now I probably would laugh. ---
**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:** [January 14, 2024, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-movies-are-so-bad-they-are-fun/995978/118 "2024-01-14T23:08:58Z")
**Hyperspace**. This one is borderline on the “fun” part. Basically Imperial Stormtroopers (or a facsimile thereof) along with their evil dark overlord (not based on Darth Vader, no, never, _never_) mistakenly land on Earth. They’re searching for stolen plans and they think Chris Eliot and Paula Poundstone have hidden them in her ShopVac. “Clever of you to hide them in your droid, princess!” The funny runs out about a third of the way through. ---
**Author:** ![Disinfectus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/disinfectus/32/11085_2.png) [@Disinfectus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Disinfectus)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2024, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-movies-are-so-bad-they-are-fun/995978/119 "2024-01-15T00:11:08Z")
Seems **Corvette Summer** has a place on this list. ---
**Author:** ![BrickBat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac91a4/32.png) [@BrickBat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrickBat)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2024, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-movies-are-so-bad-they-are-fun/995978/120 "2024-01-15T01:02:11Z")
The Cheech & Chong movies maybe? At least the first 3. Other than their talked about stoner humor, there were some pretty good ( and clever ) sight and sound gags as well. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-movies-are-so-bad-they-are-fun/995978.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-movies-are-so-bad-they-are-fun/995978.md?page=7)