Spluh!
They just have parts that make me chuckle.
The original The Haunting from the 1960s and a little-known Elliot Gould vehicle called Little Murders from the early 1970s. When I discovered them in high school I was captivated. made my wife site through both of them within the last few years, and they are leaden, dull.
Another one. All the guys I worked with at Bose were obsessed with Rustler’s Rhapsody, and I found it hysterical when I borrowed one of their copies. Talk about peer pressure.
I know lots of people in real life who don’t like The 13th Warrior. But this thread is starting to make me think that they’re the freaks and not me.
Back to the thread – sorta. It’s not a movie, but when “The 10th Kingdom” first aired, I loved it. It was funny and about fairy tales and had a talking dog and a werewolf and ohmygod I loved it. So, I re-watched it last year, about ten years after the first time, and I still loved it. I remembered almost nothing about it, so it was like watching it for the first time. Then I re-re-watched it, and while there are lots of parts that are still funny (“It’s natural to want to touch it.”), the acting is uneven. I found myself wondering when the actors were going to start taking bites out of the scenery, since they were sure as hell chewing on it.
Red Dawn I love the scene with Harry Dean Stanton talkin’ to his boys…“Avenge me!”
I love introducing people to movies I figure that they wouldn’t find for themselves. A while ago I came across Peter Sellers in The Party and rented it to show my son. I touted it as one of the funniest movies I have ever seen. We watched maybe half an hour of it and it barely raised a laugh from either of us. I was mortified, shit “Birdy numnums” was funny once?
I also enjoyed The Postman. I’m still a little astounded by how universally it’s considered a bad movie.
Just a sidetrack, but you should seriously make an effort to see M if you have a thing for Peter Lorre. IIRC it is the first german talkie, and a phenomenal thriller. I typically watch it on the prelinger archives [use the search engine and look for fritz lang, m]
It is subtitled white on black and white, so you need to watch it in a larger than postagestamp screen.
And I love the movie The Raven. Anything with Boris Karloff and Peter Lorre is just plain fantastic [did you like The Comedy of Terrors?]
Billy Jack also had a couple sequels. Those were pretty bad, but the first one was great!
Great song, too – One Tin Soldier by** Coven**. I think I still have the worn-out 45 in a box somewhere.
I just read this thread today. There was an article in today’s newspaper about the movie Billy Jack and how it was a cultural phenomenon at the time. They interviewed Tom Laughlin, he’s 76 years old now. Apparently he’s made/is making a new movie about today’s political environment. I don’t think Billy will be doing much kicking in this one.
Yeah, I liked Billy Jack when I first saw it. I was a hippie at heart in a family of squares. But I also know it was a bad movie.
Had to jump in when I saw this. “Little Murders” is a CLASSIC. You should not feel any remorse whatsoever about it not holding up. Alan Arkin at his finest. The best Donald Sutherland “cameo” ! “‘Lesbians of Venus’ ???..I’m paying $5,000 in tuition for this ?? !!!”
It is dark. It may be dated. And it literally plays as a series of Jules Ffeiffer strips. But it is brilliant !
And certainly doesn’t belong in the same category as “Billy Jack” or “Armegeddon” ! If anything, perhaps belongs in the same category as “Napolean Dynamite”: many people just didn’t get it.
There’s still a soft spot in my heart for the film, but I am no longer so infatuated with it that I can overlook the extreme clumsiness of the execution, or the abysmality of Marcia Rodd’s performance.
And yes, Donald Sutherland’s scene is a classic, both for his monologue, and the lady who says to Elliot Gould, “I don’t approve of your views, but I respect your right to have them.”
Both of those were rated so poorly by critics, I never actually saw them. Even though I wanted to at the time.
maybe I’ll NetFlix them.
He’s been “making” that one for at least 10 years now.
Lots and lots of Lifetime movies.
Joe Dirt. My husband teases me about it and I should never have mentioned it to him.
That’s not a bad movie! It’s one of my favorite comedies ever! The sequel(?), Black Sheep was on Comedy Central yesterday and I told my husband how odd it is that Tommy Boy is my favorite comedy, while Black Sheep is the worst movie I’ve ever seen. He likes it.
Road House is one of the worst movies ever inflicted on an unsuspecting audience. Every time I watch it, I’m astounded anew at how horrible it is. The villain is the guy who runs the local JC Penny. There’s not a cop within a hundred miles of the Double Deuce. Bouncers apparently have international reputations. Patrick Swayze spends 85% of the movie topless. “Pain don’t hurt.”
But you know, I’ll watch this damned movie every time I see it on tv. I haven’t bought the DVD yet, but it’s just a matter of time. I don’t know what it is about it that I must watch. I know it’s awful.
Black Sheep isn’t a sequel… it’s basically a remake. A shitty one starring the same leads which makes it even more confusing…
Weird Al teases you about that, too.
Well he’s pretty old, and I’ll bet The Man is trying to stop him, too.
Yes, but without it, we’d never have the MST3K song “A Patrick Swayze Christmas”.
“I’ll have to smash your kneecaps if you bastards touch my car…”
I have to admit that I really enjoyed * Independence Day * the first time I saw it, but on the second time, I started checking my shoes to make sure I hadn’t tracked dog shit into the theater, because it stunk so bad.
As for bad movies that I knew were bad, yet enjoy thoroughly, I ashamedly admit that ** Bio-Dome ** cracks me up every time it’s on.
" Iron Man, Iron Man. Does whatever an iron can."
Comic genius, I tell you.