I have discovered over the years that I have little to no taste whatsoever and have shamelessly enjoyed:
Harlem Nights
I, Robot
The Boondock Saints and All Saints Day
Alien Vs Predator (only the first one though)
Lucy (I feel like people just get stuck on that using only whatever percent of the brain but this is a movie that requires you to use no part of your brain except the part that processes images)
Big Game (President Samuel L. Jackson is shot down in the woods in northern Europe and it’s up to a kid to save him)
The Punisher (Dolph Lundgren version)
Punisher War Zone
I like all the Terminator movies, including 3,4 and 5.
The Big Year - a movie about bird watching staring Jack Black, Steve Martin and Owen Wilson. I love it, but I’ve never met another human that seems to have even heard of it. 41% on Rotten tomatoes.
The Hangover II - Hilarious. Don’t get all the hate. I might even like it better than the first one.
John Carter of Mars - Again, don’t understand the hate. Enjoyable movie.
I wanted to like this one, but I thought it wasn’t bad enough to be good bad, and wasn’t good enough to be good good. I was ALL IN on the stupid idea, but I didn’t really enjoy the movie.
But yes, support for Mortal Kombat (Which has the added distinction of being a movie I expected NOT to enjoy) and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves.
Saw it on Netflix a few years ago. It was just okay. It was amusing, but I didn’t really find anything in it funny.
The problem with this is they basically just made the same movie again, and just changed the setting from Las Vegas to Thailand. In a vacuum, it would be a funny movie, but as a sequel, it was redundant and pointless. I spent the entire movie thinking, “I’ve never seen this movie before, and yet I’ve seen all of this before.”
I also expected not to like Mortal Kombat and did love it, but I don’t think it’s a bad movie - it’s not high art or anything, but I think they did a great job with making a fun movie and took the premise seriously enough that you can get into the move but not so seriously that you roll your eyes.
Battlefield Earth is the one that I’ll put in this category. I watched it on a Saturday of drinking beer and watching movies and while it’s supposed to be atrocious, we all had fun watching stuff blow up. It doesn’t live up to it’s budget, but I didn’t regret seeing it or only enjoy it because of how bad it was.
It has only a 34% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes with an aggregate score of 4.5/10. Even only 57% of the audience liked it with an aggregate score of 2.9/5, and the audience scores are usually higher for popcorn flicks. So I think it can be classified as a “bad movie” by overall standards.
(MK: Annihilation scored a 3% fresh from critics and 25% favorable from audience with aggregate scores of 2.3/10 and 2.5/5.0 respectively. Also, while the sequel scored a 0% fresh from Top Critics, the original scored a higher 38% fresh rating from top critics than critics as a whole.)
I trust I’ll get no argument on this one. It stars Pauly Shore, if you’re not familiar with this film and are wondering how “bad” it is. Personally, I love this movie. I can’t really even explain why. Arguably Shore’s best film (I know, it’s a very low bar), it also stars a young Carla Gugino and the fat redhead kid from The Sandlot. A good performance from the late, great character actor Lane Smith, too.
I remember hearing about this movie on Sunday night radio. Cheap Trick was at the height of its popularity and, like other super-popular bands of that time, Hollywood tried to tie their music to a movie. The Sunday night program was hyping up the movie and interviewing the guys in the band and it was increasingly clear that they didn’t have much more enthusiasm than 'Hey, we got paid to play music and write a couple songs; that’s our profession!"
So I skipped that one.
After that flop*, I strongly suspect they said 'Never Again!"
I liked both of those! I saw them on broadcast TV at 2AM and they were fun.
I’m quite surprised nobody has mentioned Hawk the Slayer or the 1970’s Dr. Strange. Again, those were flicks I saw rebroadcast as late-night movies. I think they were aimed at Dungeons and Dragons enthusiasts – and they might have dampened some of that fad quite a bit. :dubious:
