# 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:** 8
**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 3, 2015, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-bad-movie-that-you-loved/716363/141 "2015-04-03T14:20:07Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > \*\* … Many bad movies are funny, like Wicker Man(recent) or Battlefield Earth, but they don’t really count. I disagree, assuming they’re unintentionally funny, as I think both of these are. I swear I almost fainted from laughter serveral times during The Wicker Man. ---
**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 3, 2015, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-bad-movie-that-you-loved/716363/142 "2015-04-03T14:24:41Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > Me too. If you think of it as camp, all the absurdity works in it’s favor. > > I also like _The Ref_. Yes, but The Ref is a genuinely good movie. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-bad-movie-that-you-loved/716363/143 "2015-04-03T16:14:03Z")
> [@Enola\_Straight](#): > > Yes…anything with Adrienne Barbeau in it 😉 The two best actresses in _Swamp Thing_ is what I usually say. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-bad-movie-that-you-loved/716363/144 "2015-04-03T17:25:01Z")
> [@Master\_Wang-Ka](#): > > Last time I saw “Independence Day,” I found myself thinking, “You know, if you just edited Dennis Quaid out of this movie, you’d actually have a better movie.” > > Although you’d have to rework the ending. Did you mean Randy Quaid? ---
**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 3, 2015, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-bad-movie-that-you-loved/716363/145 "2015-04-03T17:28:30Z")
I think Dennis would prefer to edit Randy out of … the headlines about crazy celebrities, at the least. ---
**Author:** ![Indyellen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/indyellen/32/4176_2.png) [@Indyellen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indyellen)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-bad-movie-that-you-loved/716363/146 "2015-04-03T17:40:41Z")
All of these posts and no one has listed the immortal classic _Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death_? It has Adrienne Barbeau **and** Shannon Tweed in it. Plus a pre-talk-show Bill Maher in an acting role. What’s not to love? I love several of the movies previously listed, but I have to say my other favorite in the “disaster” genre is _Volcano_. Tommy Lee Jones and Anne Heche save LA (mostly), and there’s lava. Far superior to the other movie released at almost the same time, _Dante’s Peak_, IMHO. ---
**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:** [April 3, 2015, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-bad-movie-that-you-loved/716363/147 "2015-04-03T17:43:01Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > Did you mean Randy Quaid? Yeah, I think that must have been what I meant. Breakfast seems to be wearing off, and the world is returning to its usual color scheme, and the potted plants aren’t talking any more… ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-bad-movie-that-you-loved/716363/148 "2015-04-03T19:02:49Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > I disagree, assuming they’re unintentionally funny, as I think both of these are. I swear I almost fainted from laughter serveral times during The Wicker Man. Exactly! I mean, a guy in a bear suit assaulting a woman and stealing her bicycle sounds like a mildly amusing Benny Hill comedy skit. But playing it absolutely straight in a horror movie is freaking hilarious. ---
**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 3, 2015, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-bad-movie-that-you-loved/716363/149 "2015-04-03T19:14:01Z")
> [@Master\_Wang-Ka](#): > > Yeah, I think that must have been what I meant. Breakfast seems to be wearing off, and the world is returning to its usual color scheme, and the potted plants aren’t talking any more… Here, I’ll send you right back down the rabbit hole. [Randy Quaid is now publishing selfie porn on the internet](http://www.salon.com/2015/03/18/i_watched_the_randy_quaid_porno_so_you_dont_have_to/). The story is about the most recent. Apparently there was an earlier one where he fucked his wife while she wore a Rupert Murdoch mask. ---
**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 3, 2015, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-bad-movie-that-you-loved/716363/150 "2015-04-03T19:16:11Z")
I’m thinking a bio-pic on Randy Quaid starring Nick Cage would actually kill me. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-bad-movie-that-you-loved/716363/151 "2015-04-03T19:25:11Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > [Exit to Eden](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109758/?ref_=nv_sr_2). The main plot of the movie (2 cops follow a woman to an S&M-based island, hijinks ensue), and two of the main characters (the aforementioned 2 cops, played by Dan Aykroyd and Rosie O’Donnell), do not appear in the book at all. The book is about the relationship that develops between Dana Delany (whose breasts are the only redeeming quality of this film) and Paul Mercurio, which is pushed into the background in the film. Well the thing about the book as well as the movie was the idea of a tropical island BDSM resort. Which is a great idea. And I think that’s about the only thing Garry Marshall (Penny Marshall’s husband, who made the film) was interested in from the book. Which is fine, I didn’t really like the book and I found the idea of taking the BDSM resort and playing it for laughs fairly agreeable. There’s a lot of humor potential in kinky sex. Done well, it coulda been a laff riot. But Marshall kinda failed on every front. He couldn’t handle the kinky sex, milding it down until it was almost entirely absent, the humor fell flat at every turn, probably because he didn’t have any sharp observational humor going because he couldn’t handle the kinky sex. Frankly, it felt like “Laverne and Shirley go to a kinky resort” only without Laverne and Shirley, and very little kink. So, yeah … bad movie. But not in my opinion endearingly so. Just kind of a mess. ---
**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 3, 2015, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-bad-movie-that-you-loved/716363/152 "2015-04-03T19:35:56Z")
> [@Evil\_Captor](#): > > Well the thing about the book as well as the movie was the idea of a tropical island BDSM resort. Which is a great idea. And I think that’s about the only thing Garry Marshall (Penny Marshall’s husband, who made the film) was interested in from the book. Which is fine, I didn’t really like the book and I found the idea of taking the BDSM resort and playing it for laughs fairly agreeable. There’s a lot of humor potential in kinky sex. Done well, it coulda been a laff riot. But Marshall kinda failed on every front. He couldn’t handle the kinky sex, milding it down until it was almost entirely absent, the humor fell flat at every turn, probably because he didn’t have any sharp observational humor going because he couldn’t handle the kinky sex. > > Frankly, it felt like “Laverne and Shirley go to a kinky resort” only without Laverne and Shirley, and very little kink. > > So, yeah … bad movie. But not in my opinion endearingly so. Just kind of a mess. I’d heard about this book/movie combination. I’ve neither read the book nor seen the movie, but I suspect the difference between the book asnd movie, measured all ways, is still greater for Heinlein’s **starship Troopers**. I can’t tell without further research, but I’m really not interested. Interesting thing – I heard Rosi O’Donnell talking about this film, and she says that they brought her and Dan Ayckroyd back months later to film more scenes, because they felt what they had wasn’t funny enough\*. Unfortunately, as she tells it, she’d put on some weight between the original scenes and the re-shoot. “So skinny me walks out of one room and fat me walks in another.” Just another measure of how good the film was. \*I suspect it didn’t help at all, though. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-bad-movie-that-you-loved/716363/153 "2015-04-03T22:36:41Z")
a) [_French Kiss_](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/french_kiss/). I find it cute b) [Stephen King’s remake of his own _The Shining_](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118460/?ref_=nv_sr_2) which I like so much better than Stanley Kubrick’s version. c) speaking of whom, [_The Langoliers_](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/stephen_kings_the_langoliers/?search=the%20langoliers), a made-for-TV movie I like rewatching d) [_Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death_](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/cannibal_women_in_the_avocado_jungle_of_death/). It may help if you were once a women’s studies major. ---
**Author:** ![simply\_cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8c91f0/32.png) [@simply\_cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simply_cats)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-bad-movie-that-you-loved/716363/154 "2015-04-03T23:02:44Z")
I’m going to cast another vote for _Sharknado_. Absolutely everything about the film is implausible, cliche, and “B” movie- and I LOVE it! I’m also going to add _City of Angels_ because of the only scene I can remember. Meg Ryan’s character is riding a bike, goes off into the road, and suddenly the screen is filled with the grill of a Mack truck. It couldn’t have been more over the top if they’d simply filled the screen with a big yellow comic book star with the word “POW!” in a cartoony font. ---
**Author:** ![Quercus\_alba](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quercus_alba/32/4061_2.png) [@Quercus\_alba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quercus_alba)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2015, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-bad-movie-that-you-loved/716363/155 "2015-04-04T00:03:37Z")
[Dark Star](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069945/?ref_=nv_sr_5) ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2015, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-bad-movie-that-you-loved/716363/156 "2015-04-04T00:30:05Z")
A really hideous movie, if you know anything about history or know anyone who does Living History (re-enacting), is Revolution with Al Pacino. Its a hard toss-up who sucks most in the movie - him and Donald Sutherland or everyone else. It’s become a running joke at Old Fort Niagara “ya want some eats boy?” ---
**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:** [April 4, 2015, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-bad-movie-that-you-loved/716363/157 "2015-04-04T00:31:43Z")
[Amazon Women on the Moon](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092546/?ref_=nv_sr_1). It’s trying so hard to be “Kentucky Fried Movie.” ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2015, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-bad-movie-that-you-loved/716363/158 "2015-04-04T00:54:55Z")
> [@Master\_Wang-Ka](#): > > Last time I saw “Independence Day,” I found myself thinking, “You know, if you just edited Dennis Quaid out of this movie, you’d actually have a better movie.” Beaten to the correction, but, man, just _imagine_ that movie with Dennis Quaid as the President – possibly with Randy Quaid as not-Roger-Clinton-or-Billy-Carter. ---
**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 5, 2015, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-bad-movie-that-you-loved/716363/159 "2015-04-05T02:35:42Z")
> [@Evil\_Captor](#): > > And I think that’s about the only thing Garry Marshall (Penny Marshall’s husband, who made the film) FTR, he is Pennys brother. ---
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> [@madsircool](#): > > FTR, he is Pennys brother. She married her _brother_?:eek: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-bad-movie-that-you-loved/716363.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-bad-movie-that-you-loved/716363.md?page=9)