# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2015, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-bad-movie-that-you-loved/716363/61 "2015-03-31T20:12:13Z")
Jim Henson’s “The Dark Crystal” Craptacular Muppets :rolleyes: Moontrap Walter “Checkov” Koenig battles moon robot/zombies. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2015, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-bad-movie-that-you-loved/716363/62 "2015-03-31T20:20:22Z")
I watch _Independence Day_ every chance I get (which is a lot), and even I know it sucks. ---
**Author:** ![Cartoonacy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/848f3c/32.png) [@Cartoonacy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartoonacy)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2015, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-bad-movie-that-you-loved/716363/63 "2015-03-31T20:48:26Z")
I understand why a lot of people didn’t like _Green Lantern_. And I agree that it could have been better. But I liked it. I had no complaints about the casting or the SFX, although I wasn’t crazy about the CGI costume. I thought the script was flawed, but not irredeemably so. It was a fun film, especially compared to the dismal _Dark Knight_ and _Man of Steel_ Add me to the list of _Plan Nine_ and _Last Action Hero_ fans, too. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2015, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-bad-movie-that-you-loved/716363/64 "2015-03-31T21:32:05Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > I watch _Independence Day_ every chance I get (which is a lot), and even I know it sucks. Oh, that’s a great one. Speaking of aliens, what about _Men In Black_? Does that count as a “bad” movie too? If _Idiocracy_ counts, that one gets my vote. “Welcome to Costco. I love you. Welcome to Costco. I love you.” ---
**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2015, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-bad-movie-that-you-loved/716363/65 "2015-03-31T21:44:31Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > I watch _Independence Day_ every chance I get (which is a lot), and even I know it sucks. Good choice. I’m partial to _Armageddon_ as well. I though John Carter was a perfectly good ‘B’ grade adventure film. The production design was great - those Martian flyers with the adjustable wings and interleaving metal ‘feathers’ were superb. The biggest issue I had with it was Taylor Kitsch in the lead role. He was just dull. ---
**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 31, 2015, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-bad-movie-that-you-loved/716363/66 "2015-03-31T22:45:16Z")
> [@Cartoonacy](#): > > I understand why a lot of people didn’t like _Green Lantern_. And I agree that it could have been better. But I liked it. I wanted to like it, but I have grown tired of reluctant hero types who gripe and moan and then finally seize their destiny at the end of the movie. Green Lantern’s alternate title could have been \*Smarmy Whining Dillhole Who Becomes A Green Lantern At The Very End Of The Movie, But There’s Lots Of Cool CGI In The Meantime. \* ---
**Author:** ![NVME702-redux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a183cd/32.png) [@NVME702-redux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NVME702-redux)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2015, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-bad-movie-that-you-loved/716363/67 "2015-03-31T22:54:56Z")
I’ll get in the wayback machine for this one,_Sgt. Peppers Lonely Heart Club Band_, with the Bee Gees, Peter Frampton and George Burns. As a little Mexican girl in 70’s Vegas, it was my first exposure to The Beatles. Funny part was that I didn’t know it was the Beatles (or the Bee Gees singing, for that matter), I just knew that I loved the lyrics and music. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2015, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-bad-movie-that-you-loved/716363/68 "2015-03-31T23:08:32Z")
> [@NVME702-redux](#): > > I’ll get in the wayback machine for this one,_Sgt. Peppers Lonely Heart Club Band_, with the Bee Gees, Peter Frampton and George Burns. > > As a little Mexican girl in 70’s Vegas, it was my first exposure to The Beatles. Funny part was that I didn’t know it was the Beatles (or the Bee Gees singing, for that matter), I just knew that I loved the lyrics and music. And Alice! For me, it’d be _Little Darlings_. What’s not to like about two girls racing to lose their virginity? Soooooo 70s and Matt Dillon was so smoldering back then. Made me wish I’d gone to summer camp. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2015, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-bad-movie-that-you-loved/716363/69 "2015-03-31T23:25:12Z")
“Attack of the Killer Tomatoes” was a parody of “Jaws”, which had come out a couple years earlier. Anyone remember “Night Flight”, the weekend overnight show on the USA Network in the 1980s and early 1990s? They regularly showed an ultra-low-budget student-made movie called “I Was A Zombie For The FBI”. Its plot? “Aliens steal the formula for a popular soft drink.” And that was about it. The movie was made in grainy B&W, and while the clothing and hair styles were all from the early 1980s when the movie was made, all the cars were from the 1950s. 😛 And since I mentioned ZZ Top in an earlier post, anyone remember the video for their song “TV Dinners”, which featured a gargoyle busting out of a TV dinner with a foil wrapper? That was the alien in this movie. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2015, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-bad-movie-that-you-loved/716363/70 "2015-03-31T23:37:18Z")
Point Break. A pretty good score including Concrete Blonde. Lots of good looking people and I like the camera work and action. Pretty quotable too. ---
**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 31, 2015, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-bad-movie-that-you-loved/716363/71 "2015-03-31T23:38:36Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > Anyone remember “Night Flight”, the weekend overnight show on the USA Network in the 1980s and early 1990s? _Night Flight_ was a rich source of bad movies and general weirdness, back in the day. I miss it. I miss late movies, for that matter. Future generations will not grow nostalgic for old informercials. ---
**Author:** ![dzeiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/46a35a/32.png) [@dzeiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dzeiger)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2015, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-bad-movie-that-you-loved/716363/72 "2015-04-01T02:38:01Z")
_Ice Pirates_ is a great bad movie. _Girl Slaves of Morgana Le Fey_ is, as the name suggests, a lesbian sexplotation horror movie from the 70s, but it’s actually pretty good even beyond the hot lesbians making out aspect. ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2015, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-bad-movie-that-you-loved/716363/73 "2015-04-01T02:43:33Z")
Please view Nick Cage in Drive Angry. Look at it as a parody of non-stop, “death by various weapons, fights, car chases, hot cars/babes, re-animation, devil-worship”. I love both BAD Robin Hood movies. Men in tights with the semi-paralyzed Robin and the Kevin Costner/Morgan Freeman Prince of Thieves one. Alan Rickman steals all the best lines as the Sheriff and you have Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio as Marian. Costner is “wonderfully wooden”. ---
**Author:** ![TheInimitableMaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@TheInimitableMaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheInimitableMaven)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2015, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-bad-movie-that-you-loved/716363/74 "2015-04-01T03:53:39Z")
> [@mbh](#): > > The 1994 Roger Corman version of _The Fantastic Four_. Of course, it sucked. But it could have sucked a lot worse. > The screenwriters did actually read some of the comic books, and they did try to get the comic book onto the screen. > The guy playing Doctor Doom is a horrid actor, but he has the perfect voice for the role. It is exactly the sort of voice you would expect to hear from a villain in an iron mask. I have two copies of this, both VHS, one I bought from an old Fantastic Four fan site, and the other I won in a FF 40th Anniversary contest in 2001. If that is not a testament to how the FF will always be my top comic book poison (with all that’s Asgard/_Journey Into Mystery_ right behind it), I don’t know what is. It’s honestly scary to think that the Corman FF film will most likely go down as the best one ever made with Marvel’s First Family. Unlike all of the actually released FF cinema thus far AND especially to come, the Corman offering did stay somewhat true to the source material. That and the fact that at least I feel the actors, especially those portraying Reed and Co., did their best with what they were given made the movie surprisingly watchable and, dare I say, decent. Over the last couple of years, there have been some rumblings of a documentary about the making of the Corman FF called _Doomed_. I really hope that the project has not been put on permanent hiatus, because I think such an inside look would actually be quite interesting, as well as be a golden opportunity for an official/non-bootleg DVD release of the movie. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2015, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-bad-movie-that-you-loved/716363/75 "2015-04-01T04:27:19Z")
> [@Hypno-Toad](#): > > _Flash Gordon._ Just so campy. Flesh Gordon ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2015, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-bad-movie-that-you-loved/716363/76 "2015-04-01T04:38:08Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > - > > The Day After Tomorrow > \* Yeah, I understand that was really bad, but I was enjoying it too much to care. > [@solost](#): > > “Red Dawn”, the original, Patrick Swayze version. Just a masterpiece of late period Cold War paranoia propaganda. Whenever I find it on tv I have to watch it. > > WOLVERIIIIINES!! YES! This blue bleeding-heart still can’t resist FIGHTING THOSE DAMN EVIL INVADER COMMERNISTS! _ **Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter** _. Silly in the extreme, but also wonderful wish fulfillment for the 7 year old inside me that wants my political heroes to be superheroes. And the book actually makes (as unsubtle, and punch-you-in-the-face as it is) a great metaphor about slavery and vampirism. But this isn’t about the book. The movie was SO AWESOME. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Winkler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/82dd89/32.png) [@The\_Winkler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Winkler)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2015, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-bad-movie-that-you-loved/716363/77 "2015-04-01T06:03:01Z")
Clambake Star Trek V: The Final Frontier The Black Hole ---
**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:** [April 1, 2015, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-bad-movie-that-you-loved/716363/78 "2015-04-01T11:54:45Z")
> [@dzeiger](#): > > _Ice Pirates_ is a great bad movie. > > . Yep. It featured the last appearance of horror legend (and mainstream legend, for that matter) John Carradine. His arthritis was so bad he couldn’t move his hands, but he still stole the scenes he was in. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2015, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-bad-movie-that-you-loved/716363/79 "2015-04-01T12:03:42Z")
My favorite bad movie is _The Ten Commandments_ with Charleton Heston. I consider it bad because the costuming is awful, the overacting atrocious, and the embellishments to the basic story laughable. John Derek (Joshua) is the worst of a bad lot of scenery chewers. I always take a front row seat when it comes around every Easter/Passover. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2015, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-bad-movie-that-you-loved/716363/80 "2015-04-01T12:25:02Z")
> [@Battle\_Pope](#): > > Good choice. I’m partial to _Armageddon_ as well. > > I though John Carter was a perfectly good ‘B’ grade adventure film. The production design was great - those Martian flyers with the adjustable wings and interleaving metal ‘feathers’ were superb. > > The biggest issue I had with it was Taylor Kitsch in the lead role. He was just dull. Yes, that one’s on my “watch it when it’s on” (which is also quite often) list as well. I think Steve Buscemi steals every scene he’s in. And I love the idea that they needed a multi-barrel machine gun to atack an asteroid. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-bad-movie-that-you-loved/716363.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-bad-movie-that-you-loved/716363.md?page=5)