# What is a bad movie that you loved? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 30, 2015, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-bad-movie-that-you-loved/716363 "2015-03-30T20:26:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Anon01245](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b77776/32.png) [@Anon01245](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anon01245)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2015, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-bad-movie-that-you-loved/716363/1 "2015-03-30T20:26:51Z")
What were some terrible films that were terrible but you still enjoyed them anyway? For me: I really liked John Carter. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2015, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-bad-movie-that-you-loved/716363/2 "2015-03-30T20:30:32Z")
Howard the Duck Sorry, I was a Howard fan from the comic books and I still am. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2015, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-bad-movie-that-you-loved/716363/3 "2015-03-30T20:34:05Z")
Most of the Bruce Lee films. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2015, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-bad-movie-that-you-loved/716363/4 "2015-03-30T20:40:23Z")
Joe Dirt. I thought it had a lot of funny parts and an exceedingly sweet story ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2015, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-bad-movie-that-you-loved/716363/5 "2015-03-30T21:58:27Z")
Dead Man. I loved it and recommended it to a bunch of people who all hated it. Meanwhile I rewatch every so often. Define “bad movie” though; maybe my friends don’t recognize fine cinema. ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2015, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-bad-movie-that-you-loved/716363/6 "2015-03-30T22:06:01Z")
Alien: Resurrection Dirty Work Event Horizon Resident Evil Resident Evil: Apocalypse (the rest of the movies truly,truly suck) ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2015, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-bad-movie-that-you-loved/716363/7 "2015-03-30T22:18:21Z")
I don’t like any bad movies, because if I enjoy a movie, that means it’s good. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2015, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-bad-movie-that-you-loved/716363/8 "2015-03-30T22:23:03Z")
The Golden Child ---
**Author:** ![typoink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecb155/32.png) [@typoink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/typoink)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2015, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-bad-movie-that-you-loved/716363/9 "2015-03-30T22:25:28Z")
My vote goes to Escape from LA. I think it’s one of the rare instances where somebody intentionally made a “self-parody, in-on-the-joke” movie and it actually worked. It doesn’t hold up as well as Escape from New York, but they do make a solid companion set to show off the cheesy action movie cliches of the 80s and 90s, respectively. ---
**Author:** ![P-man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/p-man/32/3606_2.png) [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2015, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-bad-movie-that-you-loved/716363/10 "2015-03-30T22:25:54Z")
1941, due mostly to Slim Pickens’ performance. ---
**Author:** ![janeslogin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@janeslogin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janeslogin)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2015, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-bad-movie-that-you-loved/716363/11 "2015-03-30T22:29:05Z")
Ebert said \*Pink Flamingos \*was undeserving of being called a move. I wouldn’t call it good. Perhaps it is bad. But, It is one of the few I ever purchased to watch again and again. ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2015, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-bad-movie-that-you-loved/716363/12 "2015-03-30T23:16:42Z")
_Tank Girl Little Nicky_ ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2015, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-bad-movie-that-you-loved/716363/13 "2015-03-30T23:28:44Z")
> [@typoink](#): > > My vote goes to Escape from LA. I think it’s one of the rare instances where somebody intentionally made a “self-parody, in-on-the-joke” movie and it actually worked. It doesn’t hold up as well as Escape from New York, but they do make a solid companion set to show off the cheesy action movie cliches of the 80s and 90s, respectively. Watching Kurt Russell play basketball alone is worth it. 😃 I haven’t been able to see him as a viable action-hero since. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2015, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-bad-movie-that-you-loved/716363/14 "2015-03-30T23:36:55Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > The Golden Child That one is supposed to be bad? I haven’t seen it in years but I liked it too. I am one of the few people that saw Bill Cosby’s[Leonard Part 6](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Part_6) in the theater in the 80’s. I thought it was very odd at the time but liked it OK. ---
**Author:** ![Master\_Wang-Ka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/master_wang-ka/32/3325_2.png) [@Master\_Wang-Ka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Master_Wang-Ka)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2015, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-bad-movie-that-you-loved/716363/15 "2015-03-30T23:56:37Z")
I have a great fondness for _Plan Nine From Outer Space_, and make a point of watching it at least once a year or so. I like _Robot Monster_, too, although nowhere near as much. _Shame_ is an interesting film, in that it LOOKS incredibly cheap and tacky by today’s standards, but is actually a pretty good movie, and perhaps the best thing William Shatner ever did. And periodically, I have to break out my copy of _Blood Freak_, simply because I must, for the umpteenth time, study this insane thing and wonder what kind of a diseased mind could come up with the idea of a kind of marijuana that turns you into a wereturkey who must drink the blood of other drug abusers to survive. Then again, I often watch really bad old movies simply to look at the costumes and locations. _She Freak_ was filmed in a town that looks exactly like the one I grew up in. Another one is _Beware: The Blob_!, because it’s great for games of “Spot The Actor,” and it’s just so, so seventies. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2015, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-bad-movie-that-you-loved/716363/16 "2015-03-31T00:15:32Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#): > > That one is supposed to be bad? I haven’t seen it in years but I liked it too. I am one of the few people that saw Bill Cosby’s[Leonard Part 6](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Part_6) in the theater in the 80’s. I thought it was very odd at the time but liked it OK. Hold on to your hat: Roger Ebert **liked** GC! A lot! Maltin hated it, but he hates everything, Numsie. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2015, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-bad-movie-that-you-loved/716363/17 "2015-03-31T00:20:53Z")
The only thing bad about _John Carter_ was the budget, and as an audience member who doesn’t own stock in Disney, I don’t see why I need to care about that. It wasn’t a great movie, mind you, but it was pretty good. _The Fifth Element_, on the other hand, was genuinely bad, but that doesn’t stop it from being a lot of fun. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2015, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-bad-movie-that-you-loved/716363/18 "2015-03-31T00:25:07Z")
I watched (at home, on rented disks) John Carter and Oz: The Great and Powerful as a double-feature, and enjoyed them both. Taken together, they provide an interesting contrast: the vast, wide, open, infinite expanses of Barsoom…and the tight, highly foreshortened 1930’s style sets of Oz. Both are just plain fun, and both died like toads at the box-office. Ya never know. ---
**Author:** ![PSXer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/48db29/32.png) [@PSXer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PSXer)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2015, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-bad-movie-that-you-loved/716363/19 "2015-03-31T00:27:55Z")
Escape From LA ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Wayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4bbf92/32.png) [@Charlie\_Wayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Wayne)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2015, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-bad-movie-that-you-loved/716363/20 "2015-03-31T00:33:16Z")
> [@Anon01245](#): > > What were some terrible films that were terrible but you still enjoyed them anyway? > > For me: I really liked John Carter. John Carter … I tried to watch it. I watched a few minutes but I couldn’t stick with it and kept dropping off my attention and evetually … I just couldn’t keep up with it. I don’t know why, but … I just fell off and I couldn’t manage to stay tuned to it. I don’t know why. What a piece of \! I just couldn’t stick with it. No way! I just lost it. Sorry. Fuck. The parts it where it kept changing times and places were somewhat interesting. But … eventually … I had to just keep forcing myself. The long and short of it was that I just could not keep up. Sorry. I don’t know what more to say. What more can one say about something like that? I don’t know. I just don’t know. Oh fuck! What to do? What can I do? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-bad-movie-that-you-loved/716363.md?page=2)