My favorite bit was when Adrian Zmed says he doesn’t know what the arrow in the wall is and then the second arrow hits and he deadpans, “Still drawing a blank.”
I laughed till my sides hurt when I watched that movie.
“Do a guy??”
“Heh, heh. I don’t know, Butthead, that’s a lot of money.”
SMACK!
“Did you give them cavity searches?”
“The witnesses?”
“You can never be too sure.”
“Give him a cavity search! And don’t stop until you feel the backs of his teeth.”
I guess you had to be there. I saw it with my brothers and thought it was the most insanely funny thing I’d ever seen.
I love Zardoz, and not just because Sean Connery is mind-blowingly delicious to look at. It’s an absolutely terrible movie, but it has heart, and I love the use of Beethoven’s 7th Symphony at the end.
It’s not the case that inside every bad movie there is a good movie trying to get out, but it’s true for this one.
Love Dan Hedaya in that. “I’m not arguing that with you!”
Oh yes. And I’ll watch it back-to-back with “Demolition Man” to get my full dose of wonderfulness.
Some of you guys have pretty strange notions of what a “bad” movie is.
Also: “These people (the witnesses) know something.”
I believe Robert Stack voiced the LEO on those scenes, which makes them all the funnier.
This is the kind of movie I watch when my wife is out of town. She just doesn’t get it…
Mortal Kombat (the first movie, not the sequel Mortal Kombat: Annihilation which was just atrociously bad).
Also,
Bunraku. Named for Japanese shadow puppet theater, which inspires the look of the movie, it’s a bizarre mashup of Bunraku, Film Noir, Western, and Samurai genres (with an oddly placed platformer video-game-ish jailbreak fight scene thrown in for good measure). The script is just awful, but the cast tries its best to sell it and the sets are certainly pretty.
And how many times do you get to watch the talents of Woody Harrelson, Ron Perlman, Demi Moore, Kevin McKidd, Josh Hartnett, and Gackt all in a movie together.
I’m going to go with Lair of the White Worm, a trippy British 80’s horror film directed by Ken Russell.
It’s basically an investigation film set in a remote part of England tying an archaeology dig and a local historical legend to present-day disappearances and reveal the last vestiges of a ancient snake-god cult. Russell goes psychedelic with the visuals, with multiple hallcuinatory dream sequences and visions. Stars a very young Hugh Grant and Peter Capaldi, and Amanda Donohoe as the very slinky villainess.
Over the Top
Classic 80s Stallone. Not really a bad movie, per se, but it’s such a clichéd, paint-by-numbers film that it really doesn’t hold up at all to a fresh viewing. I and people of my generation enjoy it primarily as nostalgia, not as quality entertainment. To fresh eyes, it’s about as compelling as an elementary school filmstrip, for those of you who remember those.
My absolute worst favorite that hasn’t been turned into a cult classic?
Megaforce, with Barry Bostwick, Henry Silva, Persis Khambatta and Edward Mulhare. It is a cheap Saturday morning action-adventure cartoon brought to life, and the Rotten Tomatoes score for it is O%.
I just watched a good one on Amazon Prime last week: Deathstalker (1983).
Barbarian/sword and sorcery movie. It is to Beastmaster what Beastmaster is to Conan the Barbarian, i.e. a ripoff of a ripoff of a B-movie. Starring some white guy and Playboy Playmates Barbi Benson and Lana Clarkson, the latter of which was murdered by Phil Spector 20 years later (not relevant here but an interesting footnote). Clarkson’s costume throughout the movie consists entirely of just a g-string, a cloak, and a He-Man style chest harness that (intentionally) conceals absolutely nothing.
I’m not sure whether or not it qualifies, and why or why not it does/doesn’t, but I love "What’s Up Tiger Lily?"
“It’s Wing Fool, you fat!” indeed.
I love Xanadu. I know it’s terrible, but it makes me happy.
I love the Worm Song scene from that movie.
Not terrible so much as dated.
Ninja vs Mafia
“Oh, hey! They’re using ninja kung fu!” :eek:
Which makes as much sense as anything else in the movie … but I still want to see it again! 
I love it too. It does have some boring parts, but then they’re offset by the * awesome! * parts.
You would have to be a Fleshy-Headed Mutant to not love this movie.
Oh My God, Zardoz. :smack: What can you say?
Has anybody seen “The Party Animal”? Another classic!
I watched the clip, and for a second I thought that the white worm was an example of a terrible creature puppet from a terrible movie. But no, it’s a diegetic creature puppet, and by those standards it’s pretty good.
Also, diegesis is my new favorite word.