# What movies were pretty much regarded as stinkers, but you secretly enjoy? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 13, 2012, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-were-pretty-much-regarded-as-stinkers-but-you-secretly-enjoy/628075 "2012-07-13T02:04:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2012, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-were-pretty-much-regarded-as-stinkers-but-you-secretly-enjoy/628075/181 "2012-07-21T21:50:44Z")
> [@Bob Ducca](#): > > Any love for _**[Mom and Dad Save the World](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104905/)**_? That movie makes me laugh… thought admittedly it’s been a long long time since I’ve seen it. DAMMIT! I thought “I’m finally gonna get to name one that hasn’t been taken!” Pre-scandal Jeffrey Jones NOT playing clueless, or a d-bag, but kinda heroic. Teri Garr in whole MILFy goodness. Kathy Ireland in fur bikini & Eric Idle as her dad. And Jon Lovitz as the resplendent & flatulant Emperor Todd! This one was hinted at but not really named so I’m taking it- STUART SAVES HIS FAMILY. Actually a touching little comedy. Others named here- NOTHING BUT TROUBLE (I love Digital Underground- esp when the Judge starts jammin’ with them, the grotesque twins, the Judge’s model railroad hot dog server, and the town’s ‘Howdy, Judge!’ If I ever meet Dan Ackroyd, I am going to ask him when Part II comes out, even if he does take a swing at me.) POOTIE TANG (My first exposure to Wanda Sykes, Everyone’s understanding of his slang, and His magic belt.) IT’S PAT -I actually need to see the whole thing- I just caught the last scene with Dave Foley & laughed up to the credits. THE LAST ACTION MOVIE - What everyone else has said. DRACULA 2000- I actually LIKE the religious twist ending- and Dracula getting all victimy “He (Christ) will never forgive me…” to which Mary Van Helsing fires back “Did you ever ask?” Plus, someone on YouTube has done a brilliant video of D2000 clips with the song Jesus Christ Superstar. Another one unnamed here that gets unfairly criticized- Dean Stockwell, Sam Jaffe, Sandra Dee & Ed Begley in the 1970s AIP version of H.P. Lovecraft’s THE DUNWICH HORROR - Oft derided as an overly ambitious, under-budgeted failure to capture HPL’s mythos, it creeped me at age 10 & still works now. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2012, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-were-pretty-much-regarded-as-stinkers-but-you-secretly-enjoy/628075/182 "2012-07-21T22:00:12Z")
FriarTed, I keep coming back to this thread to see if ANYONE else would back me up on Nothing But Trouble. I think you and I may be the ONLY two people in existence who like this movie. I’ve seen it so many times and I just laugh my ass off every time. So, thank you very much for being that ONE other person 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2012, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-were-pretty-much-regarded-as-stinkers-but-you-secretly-enjoy/628075/183 "2012-07-22T04:44:54Z")
I haven’t yet read the 4 pages of posts here, but I’m gonna go out on a limb and say that this one hasn’t yet been mentioned. Human Highway starring Neil Young and Devo. From 1982 or so. God it’s bad, but it’s so good, too. Only available on VHS, but I love it. (Neil Young and Devo jamming Hey Hey My My with Booji Boy In a baby crib playing a synthesizer…) Hooo-eeee! ---
**Author:** ![lawoot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/35a633/32.png) [@lawoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lawoot)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2012, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-were-pretty-much-regarded-as-stinkers-but-you-secretly-enjoy/628075/184 "2012-07-22T07:12:56Z")
[Big Trouble](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0246464/) Tim Allen & Rene Russo in a Dave Berry written, crazy Florida caper flick. [Boris & Natasha](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101500/) the Dave Thomas, Sally Kellerman spy spoof featuring, yes, the live action version of the classic Bullwinkle characters. No crossing over from the animated world in this one, and Rocky and Bullwinkle are never mentioned (although there are a couple of American agents known as “Moose and Squirrel”). And it has a cameo by June Foray, doing her Natasha voice! [Cannibal! The Musical](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115819/) - Trey Parker and Matt Stone, from pre-\*South Park \*fame days. Let’s build a snow man! ---
**Author:** ![Blkshp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blkshp/32/7135_2.png) [@Blkshp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blkshp)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2012, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-were-pretty-much-regarded-as-stinkers-but-you-secretly-enjoy/628075/185 "2012-07-23T21:10:04Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > John Lovitz’s greatest role – love it! I feel that way about Rat Race. ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2012, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-were-pretty-much-regarded-as-stinkers-but-you-secretly-enjoy/628075/186 "2012-07-23T21:16:23Z")
> [@Deegeea](#): > > Grease II - 23% on Rotten Tomatoes - Dumb as rocks, but funny and endearing. I enjoyed it a lot anyway. Watched it over and over on cable at the time, and intermittently ever since. I loved Grease II!! Much better than Grease. Coooool rider, I want a coooool rider. ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2012, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-were-pretty-much-regarded-as-stinkers-but-you-secretly-enjoy/628075/187 "2012-07-23T21:33:07Z")
**Johnny Dangerously** was regarded as a stinker? It’s one of my all-time favorites. I’m not seeing any love for **Little Nicky** in this thread, so I’ll throw it some. It’s not great, but it had a lot of clever bits and running gags, and Nicky himself (Adam Sandler) was well-written as someone who has no experience with Earthy existence. (“I was hit by some lights attached to a whole lot of metal.” “That’s a train, son.”) ---
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2012, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-were-pretty-much-regarded-as-stinkers-but-you-secretly-enjoy/628075/188 "2012-07-24T01:19:09Z")
> [@Blkshp](#): > > I feel that way about Rat Race. Rat race is one of the funniest films ever that few people have even heard of. ---
**Author:** ![Phedre\_no\_Delaunay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/839c29/32.png) [@Phedre\_no\_Delaunay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phedre_no_Delaunay)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2012, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-were-pretty-much-regarded-as-stinkers-but-you-secretly-enjoy/628075/189 "2012-07-24T03:02:38Z")
_The Money Pit_. There is a scene where Shelley Long is attacked by a raccoon and she’s running and screaming and flailing and Tom Hanks is running trying to get to her but the stairs are collapsing as he’s trying to get up. OMG I don’t think I have ever laughed that hard at any other movie ever. ---
**Author:** ![ministryman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@ministryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ministryman)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2012, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-were-pretty-much-regarded-as-stinkers-but-you-secretly-enjoy/628075/190 "2012-07-24T13:30:59Z")
> [@Bob Ducca](#): > > Any love for _**[Mom and Dad Save the World](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104905/)**_? That movie makes me laugh… thought admittedly it’s been a long long time since I’ve seen it. Mad love for it, especially Teri Garr…grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Hogfather65](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/7bcc69/32.png) [@Hogfather65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hogfather65)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2012, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-were-pretty-much-regarded-as-stinkers-but-you-secretly-enjoy/628075/191 "2012-07-24T14:27:45Z")
> [@Mississippienne](#): > > Last Action Hero. > > I will defend this movie to my dying breath. It is as perfect a fantasy-humor-action movie as has ever been made. I think a lot of people went into it expecting a standard Arnie action flick, and were put off by the layers of meta. But that’s the point of the movie – celebrating and parodying 80s/90s action cliches. And oh so quotable. > > “He killed Mozart!” > > “Schwarzenegger.” “Gesundheit.” > > Arnie shoots into his closet, a dead ninja falls out. “You knew someone was in there?!” “There’s \*always \*someone in there.” Totally agree - fun movie. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2012, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-were-pretty-much-regarded-as-stinkers-but-you-secretly-enjoy/628075/192 "2012-07-24T15:20:47Z")
Wow! A lot of good (bad) movies already listed. For me: _Mystery Men_ - A great superhero spoof. “I shovel. I shovel _very_ well.” How can you not love a movie with a villain named Dr. Casanova Frankenstein? _Xanadu_ - I was a huge ELO fan back in the day, and Olivia Newton John sure was purty. Had a great soundtrack that I still listen to. A profoundly silly plot, though. _Buckaroo Banzai_ - I, too, loved it even when I first saw it. I loved it when it wasn’t cool to do so. _Blair Witch Project_ - I know it has a lot of haters, but I found it mesmerizing pretty much almost all the way through. The final shot still gives me a little shiver. _Daredevil_ - Not on my Top Five Superhero Movie list by any means, but not a stinker IMHO. _Stealth_ - Exciting aerial combat sequences and Jessica Biel looking especially tasty. Liked it more than I thought I would. Someone mentioned _Heaven Can Wait_, which is one of my all-time favorite movie romances. It’s at 87% on Rotten Tomatoes, so I don’t think it belongs in this thread at all. _Virtuosity_ - An adequate near-future crime thriller. _Cliffhanger_ - Decent action flick; John Lithgow has never been scarier. _The Village_ - Not nearly as good as _The Sixth Sense_, but a decent thriller (even though I knew the twist). Nobody does “growing sense of quiet foreboding” quite like M. Night. _Executive Decision_ - Did just what it set out to do, with the bonus of a surprising death pretty early on. _Limitless_ - Only at 69% on Rotten Tomatoes, but I’d put it at 98% - it was hands-down the best movie I saw last year. A great technothriller. Bradley Cooper convincingly plays both a schlub freelance writer and a Wall Street high flyer - shoulda got an Oscar. _Wild Wild West_ - It probably helped that I remembered the original TV series only vaguely, but the movie was so ridiculously over-the-top that I enjoyed it. The scene where Will Smith and Kenneth Branagh trade racist/amputee insults is a guilty pleasure. _Deep Impact_ - A surprisingly touching end-of-the-world sf adventure/drama. _Coneheads_ - Goofy fun. _A.I. Artificial Intelligence_ - What can I say? Spielberg knows how to push my buttons. Despite some plot holes, it still packed an emotional wallop for me. _Star Trek: The Motion Picture_ - I rewatched this recently and it holds up pretty well. Yes, it’s slow, but there’s a certain gleaming majesty to it. And it’s fun to see the cast reunited. _Aeon Flux_ - Perfectly serviceable sf adventure. _The Island_ - Not the cloning drama, but the older one with Michael Caine as a reporter investigating reports of latter-day pirates of the Caribbean. Better than I thought it would be, with a father/son subplot that works pretty well. _The Hidden_ - Late-Eighties B-movie about an alien fugitive on the run. Exciting and clever, with an emotional punch. Don’t you judge me! ---
**Author:** ![tullsterx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tullsterx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tullsterx)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2012, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-were-pretty-much-regarded-as-stinkers-but-you-secretly-enjoy/628075/193 "2012-07-24T19:28:43Z")
> [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](#): > > Apparently I am the only person alive who thought _Indiana Jones and the Temple Of Doom_ was the most enjoyable movie of the entire _Raiders_ franchise. > > (I saw it in the theater when I was 12 or so, and maybe Kate Capshaw had something to do with it…) +1 ---
**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:** [July 24, 2012, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-were-pretty-much-regarded-as-stinkers-but-you-secretly-enjoy/628075/194 "2012-07-24T21:56:56Z")
I always watch “Road House” if I stumble on it during business trips late night in the hotel. Kick me, but I think the Costner “Robin Hood” was hilarious. Gratuitous = violence, murder by all manner of weapons, sex, zombies, car chases, explosions, Satan, etc. Nick Cage in “Drive Angry”. Don’t even pretend it’s serious. It’s so over-the-top, it’s parody. I’ve got to get the DVD. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-were-pretty-much-regarded-as-stinkers-but-you-secretly-enjoy/628075.md?page=9)