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??
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.
Absolutely Dr. Detroit and The Lepus!
Some good ones mentioned already. But ladies and gentlemen I give you:
Theodore Rex
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
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
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 said it makes the audience feel like they’re “trapped in a rancid toilet bowl” :p.
What ? No love for Barb Wire ?
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
Barb Wire is an immensely entertaining crapfest that belongs on any such list.
Thank you lissener
Proof I’m not makin this shit up.
Teenagers from Outer Space (1959) is hilarious! Funnier than Plan Nine!
Sex Kittens Go to College (1960) is in some ways even funnier!
A few years back we did a thread that coined the phrase doog movies. 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.
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.
love it
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.
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?”
After all this, Exorcist II: The Heretic seems positively tame, even with dialog like this:
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.
DC Cab, 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!"
Anything by Rankin-Bass. Stop motion, animated, or non-holiday. Even the soundtracks. Make that especially the soundtracks.
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.
I second Switchblade Sisters, aka The Jezebels, and I’ll add The Wild Angels and Hot Rods To Hell.
I miss the drive-in.