The absolute worst movie I saw and liked was a Nickelodeon-type tweener thingy called Good Burger. There were some damned funny lines in it. Also, a portion of it takes place in an insane asylum. What’s not to like?
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20 years ago I thought it was so cool and different. I watched it a couple of months ago and was like WTF?
I’m so shocked at the inclusion of *Goonies *I’m hyperventriculating here. It’s a classic! Sure it’s a dumb kids’ movie, but for what it is, it’s great.
I still like Lost Boys. But I admit my best friend and I were truly frightening in our obsession with it (what can I say, we were 14).
I don’t even remember the basic plot, so I can’t say I thought it was great after seeing it, but I think it deserves mention that I dragged my mom to the theater to see Heartbeeps. Mostly I remember it being completely bizarre and confusing.
Oh, and I just had to see Date With an Angel. Again, my mother proves to be a saint.
Oh, and AND Joe v. the Volcano is great. My husband and I still say, “I have no response to that,” frequently. And the scene where he hugs the dog makes me bawl every time. Maybe you have to have had a job you really hated and felt trapped at to love it though.
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls. All I can say is that I was a teenager.
Joe vs. The Volcano was not a “worst movie”. That movie rocked, man!
I thought all the Police Academy sequels were good and laughworthy flicks upon first viewing, but nowadays I don’t think I could bring myself to watch them again, at least not past #3.
…I can safely say I have never met anyone who thought Joe vs the Volcano was a BAD movie. Everyone either never saw it or loves it. It is really an amazing movie.
I think The Postman gets a lot of undeserved crap. It’s pretty freakin’ good in my opinion… Waterworld… isn’t terrible… it’s just…a little off.
My real contribution to this thread is: I actually like Rocky Horror Picture Show as a MOVIE regardless of the talk-backs and audience interaction stuff.
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I liked that one too (I had a crush on Scott Valentine). I also liked “My Chaffeur” a similarly vapid 80’s comedy.
But the most embarassing movie I liked was The Pirate Movie. I thought Kristy McNichol was really cool and had a crush on Christopher Atkins. A local indie movie theatre played the trailer before “Pirates of the Caribbean” and even the trailer was painfully bad.
She’s doing pretty well for herself with a recurring role on Veronica Mars and currently Big Love on HBO
I think I’m the only person who (fondly) remembers Maid to Order, starring Ally Sheedy. Speaking of, isn’t strange that that movie hasn’t been remade with Lindsay Lohan or Hilary Duff? Huh.
Or rather Mac from Veronica Mars.
50 posts in and nobody’s taken the OP to task for dismissing the South Park movie and Monty Python and the Holy Grail as “guilty pleasures” that we’re all supposed to recognize as “bad movies”? For shame!
One of the worst movies I’ve ever liked – and still like – is Armageddon. I completely understand and often agree with most of the criticisms I’ve heard of the movie, but it tickles me to no end. It’s not good, not at all, but it entertains me. Oh, I like Tommy Boy too. That movie makes me laugh like a crazy person.
I noticed that, but the thread subject was intriguing enough to let it slide. I haven’t seen the South Park movie, but if “Holy Grail” is a guilty pleasure, so are “Casablanca,” “A River Runs Through It,” and “Emma.”
In answer to the OP - As a little kid I loved, loved, loved “How the West Was Won”. Saw it on the superbig Cinerama screen. Well, I rented it to show my daughter a few years ago. Boy was I embarassed. It’s so awful. The parade of Hollywood Star Cameos doesn’t save it from the bad dialogue, choppy editing, and outright racism and inaccurate history. It did have good music though.
When I was 13, I was sure Moonraker was the all-time best James Bond movie. Last time it was on Spike, my reaction was “well, it’s still better than View to a Kill.”
I actually like The 13th Warrior with Antonio Banderas, even though everyone I’ve talked to hates it.
I think Purple Rain was a bad, excellent movie.
That’s all I got.
If it was made for Cinerama it probably wouldn’t be worth watching on TV, even if it was superbly directed, edited, acted, and written. Unless it was in letterbox and you have a huge TV.
My mom brought me up to love and respect bad movies, just for their sheer badness.
Bo Derek in Tarzan? “I wonder if he’s a virgin, like me.” Sheer poetry.
I even managed to rent and watch The Perils of Gwendolyn in the Land of Yik-Yak.
I’ve seen both Just Married, starring Ashton Kutcher and Brittney Murphy, and Jennifer Lopez’s Cell 4 or 5 times a piece.
Oh, and Thirteen Ghosts.
And The Vanished.
And Cabin by the Lake.
Okay, I like shitty movies.