What movies were pretty much regarded as stinkers, but you secretly enjoy?

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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.

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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 :slight_smile:

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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!

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Big Trouble Tim Allen & Rene Russo in a Dave Berry written, crazy Florida caper flick.

Boris & Natasha 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 - Trey Parker and Matt Stone, from pre-*South Park *fame days. Let’s build a snow man!

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I feel that way about Rat Race.

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I loved Grease II!! Much better than Grease.

Coooool rider, I want a coooool rider.

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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.”)

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Rat race is one of the funniest films ever that few people have even heard of.

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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.

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Mad love for it, especially Teri Garr…grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr :smiley:

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Totally agree - fun movie.

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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!

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+1

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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.