# What are your favorite movies that are so bad they're good? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 4, 2010, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-movies-that-are-so-bad-theyre-good/527617 "2010-02-04T01:36:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2010, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-movies-that-are-so-bad-theyre-good/527617/61 "2010-02-04T23:38:30Z")
> [@Sitnam](#): > > _Joe vs. The Volcano_, it’s sappy, corny and has a ridiculous plot. Most of the cast consider it the worst movie they ever made but despite all that Hanks, Ryan and Bridges rock it anyway. Who on this planet couldn’t identify with Joe Banks about his job? I like JvV as well. It ain’t rocket surgery, but it’s a decent little flick in its own way. "I know he can get the job, but can he do the job?? ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2010, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-movies-that-are-so-bad-theyre-good/527617/62 "2010-02-05T01:04:02Z")
> [@Jim\_s\_Son](#): > > What’s the body count in “Commando” when Ah-nold assaults the bad guy’s complex? I counted 56 the last time I watched it. Did I miss a few dozen? > > “The Core” is more enjoyable than it should be. I don’t know, it’s pretty hard to keep count especially when you consider how many people might have died in the buildings Arnie blew up. ---
**Author:** ![Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazle_Weatherfield)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2010, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-movies-that-are-so-bad-theyre-good/527617/63 "2010-02-05T01:58:05Z")
Absolutely Dr. Detroit and The Lepus! ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2010, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-movies-that-are-so-bad-theyre-good/527617/64 "2010-02-05T02:41:26Z")
Some good ones mentioned already. But ladies and gentlemen I give you: _**[Theodore Rex](http://www.filmsquish.com/guts/files/images/826758~Theodore-Rex-Posters.JPG)**_ It’s a buddy movie. Two cops. One of them is Whoopie Goldberg, and the other one is a dinosaur. In red tennis shoes. _**[Switchblade Sisters](http://blog.tilos.hu/filter/switchblade_sisters.jpg)**_ Shakespeare’s Othello recast for girl gangsters. The best acting through clenched teeth you’re likely to see in this lifetime. And the piece of resistance, the first film by Lee Daniels, whose second film, _ **Precious: Based on the Novelization of “Big Momma’s House” Starring Eddie Murphy and Eddie Murphy and Eddie Murphy** _, I offer up: _**[Shadowboxer](http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/shadowboxer/Film?oid=1048531)**_ In which Helen Mirren is fucking her stepson, Cuba Gooding, after raising him from a child because she killed his father. The grown Cuba is partnered with Mirren as a team of assassins who get their instructions from a bow-tied man in a wheelchair. Mirren is dying of cancer, so on her “very last job,” she finds she cannot shoot the pregnant girlfriend of druglord Stephen Dorff (who’s just killed a man by sodomozing him with a poolcue), because her water breaks when Mirren, dressed in black by Vivienne Westwood, points a gun at her. Instead, she and Cuba take the young woman and her newborn son into their care, and after having them checked over by an underworld doctor (Joseph Gorden Levitt, whose crack ho girlfriend, played by Mo’Nique, is named Precious), rent a house in the suburbs where this quaintly ragtag family–baby boy, druglord’s stripper ex, hit mom and hit dad–who commutes to the city with all the other gray suited commuting dads, his guns in his briefcase (although he sometimes works in drag)–must somehow form a family. The years pass, the lawn gets mowed, the dishes get washed, the baby grows into a little boy, Cuba shoots Mirren in the head while he’s fucking her because she wants to die happy, and Dorff discovers the little suburban country kitchen love nest. Gun battles ensue, and Dorff is finally offed by his own ten year old son the end. And _that_, muthafuckas, is how you win a bad movie thread. BOO-yah! ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2010, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-movies-that-are-so-bad-theyre-good/527617/65 "2010-02-05T03:30:56Z")
> [@lissener](#): > > Some good ones mentioned already. But ladies and gentlemen I give you: > _**[Shadowboxer](http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/shadowboxer/Film?oid=1048531)**_ > In which Helen Mirren is fucking her stepson, Cuba Gooding, after raising him from a child because she killed his father. The grown Cuba is partnered with Mirren as a team of assassins who get their instructions from a bow-tied man in a wheelchair. Mirren is dying of cancer, so on her “very last job,” she finds she cannot shoot the pregnant girlfriend of druglord Stephen Dorff (who’s just killed a man by sodomozing him with a poolcue), because her water breaks when Mirren, dressed in black by Vivienne Westwood, points a gun at her. Instead, she and Cuba take the young woman and her newborn son into their care, and after having them checked over by an underworld doctor (Joseph Gorden Levitt, whose crack ho girlfriend, played by Mo’Nique, is named Precious), rent a house in the suburbs where this quaintly ragtag family–baby boy, druglord’s stripper ex, hit mom and hit dad–who commutes to the city with all the other gray suited commuting dads, his guns in his briefcase (although he sometimes works in drag)–must somehow form a family. The years pass, the lawn gets mowed, the dishes get washed, the baby grows into a little boy, Cuba shoots Mirren in the head while he’s fucking her because she wants to die happy, and Dorff discovers the little suburban country kitchen love nest. Gun battles ensue, and Dorff is finally offed by his own ten year old son the end. > > And _that_, muthafuckas, is how you win a bad movie thread. BOO-yah! :eek::eek::eek: You win! You win! [Slantmagazine.com](http://Slantmagazine.com) said it makes the audience feel like they’re “trapped in a rancid toilet bowl” :p. ---
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2010, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-movies-that-are-so-bad-theyre-good/527617/66 "2010-02-05T04:00:59Z")
What ? No love for _Barb Wire_ ? ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2010, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-movies-that-are-so-bad-theyre-good/527617/67 "2010-02-05T04:06:24Z")
The Vincent Price version of “The Fly”. The “special effects” are so horrid they’re laughable, but the film works so hard to elicit pathos from the viewer that one tends to keep watching just for the emotional “tug”, as it were. My opinion. Q ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2010, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-movies-that-are-so-bad-theyre-good/527617/68 "2010-02-05T04:07:56Z")
_ **Barb Wire** _ is an immensely entertaining crapfest that belongs on any such list. ---
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2010, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-movies-that-are-so-bad-theyre-good/527617/69 "2010-02-05T04:16:37Z")
Thank you **lissener** ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2010, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-movies-that-are-so-bad-theyre-good/527617/70 "2010-02-05T05:42:11Z")
> [@salinqmind](#): > > :eek::eek::eek: > > You win! You win! > > [Slantmagazine.com](http://Slantmagazine.com) said it makes the audience feel like they’re “trapped in a rancid toilet bowl” :p. [Proof](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrsbEEt2BIM) I’m not makin this shit up. ---
**Author:** ![arachnologus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dc4da7/32.png) [@arachnologus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/arachnologus)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2010, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-movies-that-are-so-bad-theyre-good/527617/71 "2010-02-05T05:43:33Z")
[Teenagers from Outer Space](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053337/) (1959) is hilarious! Funnier than Plan Nine! [Sex Kittens Go to College](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054298/) (1960) is in some ways even funnier! ---
**Author:** ![Sleel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/73ab20/32.png) [@Sleel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sleel)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2010, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-movies-that-are-so-bad-theyre-good/527617/72 "2010-02-05T07:08:36Z")
A few years back we did a thread that coined the phrase [doog movies](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=335151). Lots of the same ones showing up here. My personal favorite doog movie actor is Van Damme. Cyborg is one of his worst and best movies. The first cut was so horrible that Van Damme reportedly recut it himself and vastly improved it. Yet it remains fairly appalling. And totally entertaining. Now, of course, he’s done JCVD which was one of the better movies I’ve seen in the last few years, so he may have grown beyond doog into a halfway good actor. ---
**Author:** ![RhapsodyInBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RhapsodyInBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RhapsodyInBlue)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2010, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-movies-that-are-so-bad-theyre-good/527617/73 "2010-02-05T08:03:53Z")
Maybe it was a scary monster movie in Japanese but, dubbed into English, _King Kong vs Godzilla_ is hysterically funny. In just the first five minutes we’re treated to a TV news program in which a very deadpan news anchor is describing a trip to Pharoh Island to bring back some berries noted for their non-addictive narcotic effect. He goes on to describe how much the \*extremely \*friendly, happy islanders enjoy these berries. Why, they even feed them to an ape on the island who apparently thrives on them; he is rumored to be quite large. Cut to a very stoned looking King Kong staggering around. Concerto in F had never seen it, so I got the DVD for him. We were watching it and he was laughing so hard he literally could not breathe. Instead of finishing the movie, we made a trip to the emergency room. He had been in a car accident the week before. What he thought was a bruise from the shoulder harness turned out to be a hairline fracture of the sternum. The doctor gave him a prescription for some pain killer (not in berry form) and advised him not to watch the rest of the movie for six to eight weeks. ---
**Author:** ![BigBertha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d78d45/32.png) [@BigBertha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigBertha)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2010, 8:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-movies-that-are-so-bad-theyre-good/527617/74 "2010-02-05T08:28:06Z")
> [@RhapsodyInBlue](#): > > The doctor gave him a prescription for some pain killer (not in berry form) . love it ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2010, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-movies-that-are-so-bad-theyre-good/527617/75 "2010-02-05T12:35:26Z")
> [@](#): > > The Vincent Price version of “The Fly”. > > The “special effects” are so horrid they’re laughable, but the film works so hard to elicit pathos from the viewer that one tends to keep watching just for the emotional “tug”, as it were. I have to disagree – **The Fly** was a pretty good flick, and there wasn’t anything wrong or laughable about its special effects that I can recall. I suspect you’re thinking of the sequel, **Return of the Fly** , which had a lower budget and was black and white. Price was in that one, too – and its special effects _were_ laughable. Worst double-exposure (without even use of blue-screen) that you’ve ever seen. Another suggestion for laughably bad flick — George Pal’s **Doc Savage**. This is wonderfully awful. Pal _can’t_ have been serious, but even if he was aiming for “camp” it doesn’t explain the appalling awfulness of this film. There used to be a website with the “MST3King” of this film, but it’s sadly gone now. No matter – you can make up your own comments. ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2010, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-movies-that-are-so-bad-theyre-good/527617/76 "2010-02-05T20:14:56Z")
> [@lissener](#): > > Some good ones mentioned already. But ladies and gentlemen I give you: > > _**[Theodore Rex](http://www.filmsquish.com/guts/files/images/826758~Theodore-Rex-Posters.JPG)**_ > It’s a buddy movie. Two cops. One of them is Whoopie Goldberg, and the other one is a dinosaur. In red tennis shoes. I remember seeing the cover for that movie years ago in the video store and thinking, “What sort of unholy videotape must the producers have had of Whoopi Goldberg to get her to star in this?” ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2010, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-movies-that-are-so-bad-theyre-good/527617/77 "2010-02-06T03:51:52Z")
After all this, _Exorcist II: The Heretic_ seems positively tame, even with dialog like this: > [@](#): > > The Cardinal: Perhaps you should take a retreat. > Father Lamont [Richard Burton]: A retreat? Why not an advance? > > Sandra Phalor [very young Dana Plato]: What’s the matter with you? > Regan MacNeil: I was possessed by a demon. > Sandra Phalor: [wide-eyed expression] > Regan MacNeil: [Brightly] Oh, it’s okay. He’s gone! Serendipitously, the movie becomes self-referential with this line from Father Lamont: “It was horrible, utterly horrible… and fascinating!” I watch it every time I spot it on TV. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2010, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-movies-that-are-so-bad-theyre-good/527617/78 "2010-02-06T05:01:18Z")
[DC Cab](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085387/), featuring a strangely-overlooked-by-the-Academy performance by Mr. T, a very young Adam Baldwin, an early appearance by Bill Maher, and one of my favorite movie lines (from Gary Busey): "I just want to get one thing straight. I don’t work on January 8… …'cause that’s Elvis’s birthday!" ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2010, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-movies-that-are-so-bad-theyre-good/527617/79 "2010-02-06T05:50:52Z")
Anything by Rankin-Bass. Stop motion, animated, or non-holiday. Even the soundtracks. Make that _especially_ the [soundtracks](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogTDa-vG2MQ). And I would’ve added the first two _Return of the Living Dead_ movies, but on reflection, I can’t…they’re simply _not bad movies_. ---
**Author:** ![Harvey\_The\_Heavy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Harvey\_The\_Heavy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harvey_The_Heavy)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2010, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-movies-that-are-so-bad-theyre-good/527617/80 "2010-02-06T05:53:36Z")
I second _Switchblade Sisters_, aka [The Jezebels](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073778/), and I’ll add [The Wild Angels](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061189/) and [Hot Rods To Hell](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061784/). I miss the drive-in. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-movies-that-are-so-bad-theyre-good/527617.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-movies-that-are-so-bad-theyre-good/527617.md?page=5)