# What's the worst movie you saw that you ended up liking anyway, or at least had fun watching it? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 24, 2018, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-saw-that-you-ended-up-liking-anyway-or-at-least-had-fun-watching-it/813015 "2018-04-24T03:00:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![bobkitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c67d28/32.png) [@bobkitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobkitty)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2018, 10:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-saw-that-you-ended-up-liking-anyway-or-at-least-had-fun-watching-it/813015/21 "2018-04-24T10:11:18Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > What? You’re kidding me. It wasn’t very popular in the kiddie set. There is hardly any merch. I looked for tee-shirts or pjs for the boys with wreck it Ralph. No luck. YMMV. > ETA as the OP asked, I ended up liking it! There was merchandise all over the place when it came out (and still easily found on Amazon and Walmart). Clothes, backpacks, funko pops, action figures. 14th-highest-grossing film of 2012, fourth-highest-grossing 2012 animated film, biggest opening for Disney Animation Studio up to that point, 7.7 on IMDb, 87% on RT, the critics loved it, and there’s a sequel coming out in November. You may have been surprised to like it, meeting half of the OP’s criteria, but it does not belong in the category of “worst movies” unless you have a very strange definition of such. ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2018, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-saw-that-you-ended-up-liking-anyway-or-at-least-had-fun-watching-it/813015/22 "2018-04-24T12:37:56Z")
Maybe this is a movie that had a really stupid premise that didn’t derserve to be as good as it ended up - _ **Battleship** _ ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2018, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-saw-that-you-ended-up-liking-anyway-or-at-least-had-fun-watching-it/813015/23 "2018-04-24T12:43:59Z")
> [@galen\_ubal](#): > > [_Flash Gordon_.](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080745/) It’s pretty much objectively awful in every way, and I don’t normally like any movie that’s “so bad it’s good”. But this movie, I like. This is a good choice. What a great popcorn 80’s movie that was. In a similar vein, _Clash Of The Titans_ from that same era is equally bad, and so are the _Conan_ movies and _The Beastmaster_, but I liked them all. ---
**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:** [April 24, 2018, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-saw-that-you-ended-up-liking-anyway-or-at-least-had-fun-watching-it/813015/24 "2018-04-24T12:52:32Z")
Little Nicky. It doesn’t have a great reputation, even for an Adam Sandler film, but I found a lot of it clever, and thought Sandler was very convincing as someone who genuinely has no experience with life on planet Earth. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2018, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-saw-that-you-ended-up-liking-anyway-or-at-least-had-fun-watching-it/813015/25 "2018-04-24T12:55:46Z")
> [@Grrr](#): > > There was something screwy going on with this movie. I think I had to wait like three years just to be able to rent this movie. > > I think they may have had some issues with licensing or something. (My WAG) They actually did make one or two Wreck It Ralph arcade video games. Pjnball Wizard in New Hampshire has one of them (not the better known Funspot, up on Lake Winnepesaukee). You’d think that they’d make more o them, or at least a home game version of it, since we’re past the era of stand-up video games, supposedly. In any case, I agree that Wreck it Ralph doesn’t belong in a list of Bad Movies. It’s undeniably a Good Movie, especially if you get all the gaming in-jokes. ---
**Author:** ![bobkitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c67d28/32.png) [@bobkitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobkitty)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2018, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-saw-that-you-ended-up-liking-anyway-or-at-least-had-fun-watching-it/813015/26 "2018-04-24T12:57:14Z")
> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#): > > In a similar vein, _Clash Of The Titans_ from that same era is equally bad, and so are the _Conan_ movies and _The Beastmaster_, but I liked them all. YOU BITE YOUR TONGUE!!! There is nothing bad about Marc Singer in a loincloth. 😃 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2018, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-saw-that-you-ended-up-liking-anyway-or-at-least-had-fun-watching-it/813015/27 "2018-04-24T13:05:49Z")
_Suckerpunch_ is stupid as all hell and a terrible movie but it’s very stylish and I can easily watch it as a guilty pleasure. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2018, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-saw-that-you-ended-up-liking-anyway-or-at-least-had-fun-watching-it/813015/28 "2018-04-24T13:07:59Z")
_Paul Blart Mall Cop_ is better than anyone gives it credit for. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2018, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-saw-that-you-ended-up-liking-anyway-or-at-least-had-fun-watching-it/813015/29 "2018-04-24T13:08:47Z")
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2018, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-saw-that-you-ended-up-liking-anyway-or-at-least-had-fun-watching-it/813015/30 "2018-04-24T13:17:39Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > _Nothing But Trouble_. > > For some reason _North_ is considered one of the worst movies ever, especially by Roger Ebert. But I really enjoyed it. I just understood the comedy level it was going for and thought it nailed it. > > Similarly I knew what they were going for with _Mortdecai_, which was Johnny Depp trying to make a Terry Thomas movie, and all it needed was an Editor that understood comic timing to make it work. Unfortunately Hollywood doesn’t seem to have any such Editors anymore. But I liked it anyway. I love _Nothing But Trouble_! It’s so weird! And it randomly has Digital Underground for no real reason, including a very young Tupac sporting a Yankees jersey. And on the other end of Johnny Depp’s career, I’ll nominate _Nightmare on Elm Street_. It’s a horror classic, absolutely, but watching it today it’s pretty bad. I still like it, but it was a low-budget mid-80s film and it really shows. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2018, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-saw-that-you-ended-up-liking-anyway-or-at-least-had-fun-watching-it/813015/31 "2018-04-24T13:37:16Z")
> [@GreenWyvern](#): > > Nothing can touch _Plan 9 from Outer Space_. This one is on my bucket list. I am given to understand it is an iconic ‘terrible movie’ but its cult following suggests there’s a redemptive nugget of gold in there somewhere. I keep forgetting to give it the screen time, however. I’ll throw in another vote for **Flash Gordon**. My lady & I were watching **Ted** and they kept banging on about the movie, and she got curious. I hadn’t seen it but warned her it was rumored to be truly awful. Going into it with that mindset, we really enjoyed it for all it’s campiness–cheap sets & effects, campy acting, cheesy script–cinematic alchemy. **Ted** sucked, though. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2018, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-saw-that-you-ended-up-liking-anyway-or-at-least-had-fun-watching-it/813015/32 "2018-04-24T13:46:15Z")
Plan 9 from Outer Space spoiler: Aircraft pilots sitting on folding metal chairs, holding plates as steering wheels. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2018, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-saw-that-you-ended-up-liking-anyway-or-at-least-had-fun-watching-it/813015/33 "2018-04-24T13:47:26Z")
_Ishtar_. Far better than its reputation indicates, with some great comic scenes. _The Doberman Gang_. People training dogs to rob a bank. Overall a charming caper film with a clever ending. _Twins_ with Danny Devito and Arnold Schwarzenegger as the title characters. A one-joke premise, of course, but overall pretty entertaining. Schwarzenegger was a pretty good comic actor throughout his career. _The Last Action Hero_. Case in point. I’m a sucker for metafiction, and the movie reveled in it. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2018, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-saw-that-you-ended-up-liking-anyway-or-at-least-had-fun-watching-it/813015/34 "2018-04-24T13:53:32Z")
**Ishtar** for me. I was invited to the NYC premier. Lots of stars in attendance (I sat behind Bill Murray). Everyone had a blast. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2018, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-saw-that-you-ended-up-liking-anyway-or-at-least-had-fun-watching-it/813015/35 "2018-04-24T14:31:21Z")
I have fun watching a lot of Bad Movies. For years I had a Bad Film Festival just to revel in the awfulness. as I’ve said elsewhere, I grew up on _Plan Nine from Outer Space_ and _Robot Monster_ and _From Hell it Came_ and _Caltiki, the Immortal Monster_ and the like. But the one that I am surprised that I like is **Starship Troopers**. Never have I seen a movie so much at odds – philosophically, thematically, intellectually, any other way you want – with its ostensible source material. Heinlein’s book is controversial, but it’s not dumb, and I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve read it. The movie may have started life as something else, but when they discovered they were duplicating Heinlein they didn’t just slap different names on characters (as in **I, Robot** ), but ty embraced the book, taking incidents from it and twisting it all out of shape. Make no mistake, this is a dumb movie, even while it’s being satirical and all. The military tactics are unbelievably insane – sending lightly armored down onto planets literally swarming with organic killing machines, having the soldiers get in a complete circle around the “bugs” they fire on (not a chance of Friendly Fire there!), ignoring or forgetting the various “nonstandard” bug forms (flyers, bombardier bugs, fireball-shooting bugs) and wasting manpower as if people cost nothing. Not even paying lip service to basic physics – a starship can nit notice a flying boulder until it almost hits it? And detects its presence by the gravitational pull of water in a freakin’ CUP? Or The Bugs fire asteroids at earth from another star system and they travel at sublight speed through space? In the first place, that’s outrageously accurate; in the second, this might be a problem about the time our sun goes cold. The movie is also pretty blasé about the source material, turning Sergeant Zim’s lecture about the importance of knowing how to use all sorts of weapons (including a throwing knife) into a sadistic exercise, making Johnny Rico – a Filipino, as it’s revealed at the end of the book – into a painfully Anglo character, and having Rico’s home town Buenos Aires, when it’s clear in the book that his mother was just visiting there. And Johnny looks pretty Anglo for an Argentinian, too. But the film has gorgeous special effects, and its so lovingly dumb, I find it fascinating, despite all the stupidity and gore. It’s hard to tel which there’s more of. But I’ve watched it countless times. I’ve even seen all the sequels, animated and live action. Casper von Dien got a career boost out of it, appearing in a couple of these and producing the most recent. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2018, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-saw-that-you-ended-up-liking-anyway-or-at-least-had-fun-watching-it/813015/36 "2018-04-24T14:37:25Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > I took my grand son to see ‘Wreck it Ralph’ It was really cute. Wreck-it-Ralph was not considered an objectively bad movie. It was well received and has positive critical reviews. > [@Beckdawrek](#): > > What? You’re kidding me. It wasn’t very popular in the kiddie set. There is hardly any merch. I looked for tee-shirts or pjs for the boys with wreck it Ralph. No luck. YMMV. > ETA as the OP asked, I ended up liking it! The availability of “kiddie merch” hardly defines a good or bad movie. It’s got an 87% on RT. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2018, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-saw-that-you-ended-up-liking-anyway-or-at-least-had-fun-watching-it/813015/37 "2018-04-24T14:37:36Z")
I go to a sci-fi film marathon every year and I get to watch a lot of terrible movies in a crowd, but they’re supposed to be terrible (well, many of them) and the crowd yells at the screen so it’s fun. I’ve seen _Flash Gordon_, _Plan 9 from Outer Space_ and _The Postman_ that way. Made them much more enjoyable. Last year we saw _Deep Blue_ AND _Superman IV_. Holla! I saw \*Sharknado \*and _The Room_ as Rifftrax events. So those kinda don’t count either. One of the ultimate “worst movies ever” aside from _The Room_ is _ **Troll 2** _. I watched that this past winter, from my couch with no riffers around. Definitely a “so bad it’s good” film! I guess the worst movie I paid to see at a theater that did the worst at the box office and I didn’t go just to laugh at it was _ **Dudley Do-Right** _, starring Brendan Fraser. I enjoyed it and it was classic Bullwinkle humor! ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2018, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-saw-that-you-ended-up-liking-anyway-or-at-least-had-fun-watching-it/813015/38 "2018-04-24T14:41:46Z")
_Phantom of the Paradise_ _Phantom of the Opera_ meets _The Picture of Dorian Grey_ by way of _Faust_… Starring Paul Williams. How could it be anything but awful? Directed by Brian De Palma, that’s how! ---
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^ Phoenix! ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2018, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-saw-that-you-ended-up-liking-anyway-or-at-least-had-fun-watching-it/813015/40 "2018-04-24T14:48:15Z")
> [@GreenWyvern](#): > > Nothing can touch _Plan 9 from Outer Space_. It gets my vote too. There’s also a movie with Natalie Portman and Ashley Judd called\* Where the Heart Is\* that I happen to like a lot, which for some reason get 1 & 1/2 stars in the TV schedule. I have no idea why. I mean, it’s not an Oscar-getter, but I’d easily give it three stars. I don’t know why it gets panned, or people consider it on the level of _Plan 9_ and _Robot Monster_. By the way, I have a special spot for _Robot Monster_ because it’s in 3D. Also, I tend to enjoy anything by William Castle. Then, there is the cheesiest movie of all cheesy movies, which is so good in its own special way, I can barely contain myself when it comes on TV. I even spent money getting a DVD of it, which had to be specially made from a 16mm print, because it’s to obscure a film to have been produced for DVD. It’s called Two on a Guillotine. I think anymore, you can find the whole film online, because you can find most things online now. It’s a whole lot of fun-- it’s a haunted house movie from the 60s. It was probably a great drive-in movie. I’ll also own up to being a fan of\* The Manitou\*, speaking of drive-ins. That’s where I originally saw this one. Great movie for a drive-in. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-saw-that-you-ended-up-liking-anyway-or-at-least-had-fun-watching-it/813015.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-saw-that-you-ended-up-liking-anyway-or-at-least-had-fun-watching-it/813015.md?page=3)