Road House breezed past the “Awful” section on the Wheel of Quality and ran right back around to “Awesome.” I resisted watching it for years because it looked like it couldn’t be any good, but it is in fact deliriously entertaining. Give yourself over to the story of The Greatest Bouncer in the World, for such things are ranked. Eventually you will realize that the plot is 100% western (evil cattle baron/landowner/bully runs town, townsfolk hire out-of-town badass to set things straight), only it’s set in 1989 so it has more kung fu and sports cars.
Yikes! It’s my only flaw, I swear.
Two films I loved and watched loads of times as a kid are
Pee Wee’s Big Adventure
and Hairspray.
I’m scared to watch them again lest my illusions of their amazingness be shattered.
I saw Peewee’s Big Adventure as an older person. I didn’t love it, but I didn’t hate it. I wouldn’t lump it in as one of the worst movies I’d ever seen.
Thought of another–those Home Alone movies. (I’m pretending that the third and fourth ones didn’t exist.) I still love them, though. My friend and I are sort of into them…I know, I know, the second one is a carbon copy of the first and they’re nothing more than a vehicle for young McCauley Culkin, but they bring back memories. And they’re so bad they’re good and all that.
How do you figure? (Talking about Lethal Weapon here…)
Oh, my poor unfortunate friend…he remembered Spaced Invaders as one of his favorite movies from when he was a kid, so, when he got a copy on DVD, he brought it over for all of us to watch together.
Man, that was bad. I could tell he was getting more uncomfortable as it went on, too, but he didn’t seem to know how to say, “Okay, I was wrong, turn this crap off.” And we were too polite to just say, “Damn, this sucks!” and turn it off. So, we sat through every horrifyingly bad minute.
Afterward, he apologized. I think he still feels stupid for raving about it beforehand and making us all watch it.
But Conan the Barbarian totally redeems itself with the camel-punching scene. He even punches the same camel again in the sequel. 
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes. Hilarious cheesy fun.
I watched The Fog again a couple weeks ago and was disappointed at how bad it was. The plot made no sense, and it didn’t look like Hal Holbrook was faking being drunk. Adrienne Barbeau could see all over town from the lighthouse? “The fog’s coming up 4th Street! It’s turning east! Now it’s at 8th & Main! Run! And somebody go get my kid out of the babysitter’s house!” Yeah, he’ll be safe outside.
I still love Tommy Boy and Black Sheep after multiple viewings. I’ve only seen Joe Dirt once, so maybe I’ll hate it the second time, but I don’t think so.
I still love the first three Lethal Weapon films, if there is a satirical bent then it’s well hidden, IMO.
Even though Mel Gibson quickly went from one of my most to least favourite actors, he still hasn’t ruined those films for me (or Mad Max).
The Wiz is my favorite movie of all time. I watch it every time it comes on TV, even though I have it on VHS. I have both soundtracks–the Broadway and the film version. I even used to run a website devoted to it.
Sometimes I think I’m the only one in the universe who likes it, but I’m not ashamed.
Hee, I’ve watched it with the riff trax several times. It’s just about my favorite thing ever. “I dance my way places!”
The Marine for reasons stated in the thread. I thought it was hilarious.
When I first saw Natural Born Killers, I thought that it was a deep, fantastic movie.
A couple years ago, I dug out my video cassette of it and, good God, did it suck. Robert Downey Jr. as Wayne Gale is still kind of fun to watch in an over-the-top way but that’s about it.
I haven’t read the whole thread, so I don’t know if this has come up already - I actually liked Oscar, with Sylvester Stallone. Liked it enough to have watched it whenever I came across it on TV.
The first title that leaps to mind is 1941 by Spielberg and Zemeckis.
After that it’s a fast drop to Young Lady Chatterley and the sequel which costarred Adam (Batman) West. Ah, adolescence.
Liquid Sky. When I saw it I thought it was gritty cutting-edge '80s-New-Wave artsy coolness. Recommended it to my brother, who took a date to see it and took a long time to forgive me, and on reflection his assessment is closer to the mark.
I just watched it a few days ago. The evil kung fu villain was awesomely bad…gold chains, mullet, mascarad chest hair, tight muffin-top jeans…they don’t make tough guys like that anymore.
My favorite head-shaking moments were the lead girl (forget her name) with her unshakeable battered-spouse syndrome over her arch-villain ex boyfriend.
“He extorts everyone’s money”
“You don’t know him like I do”
“He just beat you up”
“He’s good inside”
“He’s killing off everyone”
“But he’s really good inside sniff”
“He just killed my best friend. And firebombed the bar. And the tool store. And my car.”
“He’s misunderstood. Hold me.”
“He’s shooting at me. And you. Seriously girl…”
“I’m still not sure yet, can you take your shirt off again?”
He might be thinking of Loaded Weapon.