Fabulous call, and exactly what I meant in the OP. Aged, hell, it was bad when it came out - but I still enjoy it.
The bad movie I got the most enjoyment out of was Drop Dead Fred. As a kid I watched that movie no fewer than a dozen times. Thought it was hilarious and had a bit of a crush on Phoebe Cates (who didn’t?). If I watched it now I’d probably wonder what the big deal was. It gets a 9% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Most of these movies mentioned are all around 6 or so at IMDB. Which isn’t a “bad” movie, regardless of what the critics say. I’ll add, since Burt Reynolds just died, that a true guilty pleasure was the first Cannonball Run movie.
Arnold in Conan the Barbarian is another ‘drunk at 2 AM but can’t stop watching this’ kind of movie. Both are somewhere in the 6s at IMDB. The Fifth Element is almost an 8 there.
I liked Revenge of the Sith a lot more than I thought I was going to.
Also, I don’t ‘know it’s bad,’ but I know it’s flawed. I still remorselessly love Batman v Superman. Same goes for Ang Lee’s Hulk.
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Paul Blart: Mall Cop.
I believe that imdb ratings generally skew high, because people who liked a movie are typically more likely to be motivated to gush over it. With a few exceptions (Leonard Part 6).
There are quite a few objective standards for good/bad, but in the end, you cannot eliminate subjectivity/taste. Nor, I suppose, should you.
Joe Dirt
Freddie Got Fingered
Both are objectively bad movies. The former has an endearing, almost naive innocence to it, while the latter is exactly the opposite. I love them both.
Mars Attacks was hilarious, I didn’t know that it was unpopular.
… and pretty much everything else. I’ve never seen this movie and yet, I’m very familiar with it.
Hackers is sitting at 32% on Rotten Tomatoes. I love it and have seen it at least half a dozen times.
Barbarella.
Popeye, the Robin Williams-Shelly Duvall movie. Yeah the last third bogs down, but there are some great songs.
Showgirls. The deliriously over the top scene chewing is hilarious to me. It doesn’t hurt that Elizabeth Berkley and Gina Gershon are seriously hot.
Yep, I liked it, too, despite the fact that it is the exact same plot as Clint Eastwood’s, “For a Fistful of Dollars”. A lone gunman comes into a town that is controlled by two rival gangs, and he plays both gangs off against each other and kills a lot of folks. Then he rides out of town.
I’ll choose, “Blacula”. LOL
Streets of Fire. I like the look of it and I like the music. I wouldn’t be surprised to find out that Willem Dafoe accidentally ate an extra while he was ravenously chewing on the scenery. The only actor who even got close to earning their paycheck was Amy Madigan. But I’ll still watch it if I see it on.
*Joe Dirt *had a weak-ish but fairly coherent plot and studio-quality production values, meaning it was more middling than objectively bad. By comparison, look at Dark Star, which had sub-indy-quality production and a plot that shambled along, barely connecting its few memorable moments.
But both of those movies camped out in their mediocrity, making that their signature. They strove for the bad-for-good prize.
I nominate 80s teen movie, Girls Just Want to Have Fun. I watched this movie over and over, and got my cousin addicted as well.
Sarah Jessica Parker and Helen Hunt, way back when they were pretty young things, trying to get on Dance TV…like, oh my god, y’all. I want to see it right now.
My favorite part was when Helen Hunt changes her Catholic school uniform into kewl 80s girl clothes. On the bus!
Yes, it was Yojimbo aka* A Fistful of Dollars* set in that period and it works.
It had moments, especially Sybil Danning’s underboobs.
But seriously Robert Vaughn was excellent.