# 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:** 4
**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, 7:35pm 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/813015/61 "2018-04-24T19:35:00Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Because nobody in the movie said, “You sunk my battleship!”. They ain’t gonna sink this battleship, no way! > [@Biggirl](#): > > I thoroughly enjoyed Battleship. It wasn’t terrible. It wasn’t very great either. It was an action flick and delivered on what action flicks promise. Don’t know why it’s so hated. I said “stupid premise” - basing any movie on the Hasbro game of ‘Battleship’ seemed, well, like it had no choice but to be stupid - and they made it work. They even made the ‘plotting where teh enemy ships’ seems plausible. I watch this movie every time I run accross it - like twister - its just a movie you can watch from just about any point and enjoy it. > [@kopek](#): > > I am that oddball who actually prefers, in some ways, “American Warships” to “Battleship”. Although I must admit to sometimes hitting YouTube just for the scene of breaking out the Mighty Mo with the music in the background. Best scene ever. ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2018, 7:39pm 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/813015/62 "2018-04-24T19:39:44Z")
Men in Black 2. I’m sure it’s just because of nostalgia for the original, but the sequel isn’t as awful as the reviewers made it out to be. It has fun moments and is relatively short and doesn’t try to get serious. I still pop in the DVD from time to time. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2018, 8:04pm 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/813015/63 "2018-04-24T20:04:00Z")
**Speed Racer** from 2008. First time I saw it I wasn’t paying attention to the story and just enjoying the eye candy of it all. But eye candy can get boring after a while and I don’t remeber if I even finished watching it. Had a copy on Blu-Ray to show off the home theatre set up and after catching the beginning a few more times I started getting into the story more and found it to be really good. About a racing family, greedy corporations, a dead brother, opposing corporations, etc. A fairly in depth story with some twists with lots of eye candy to boot. It’s become on of my favorites. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2018, 8:30pm 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/813015/64 "2018-04-24T20:30:34Z")
**Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins** ; Fred Ward plays a NYC cop who gets recruited into a secret government agency to root out corruption. How secret? The only other members are the judge from _A Few Good Men_, Wilford “The Walrus” Brimley, and Jennifer Grey’s father[sup]\*[/sup] as a Korean martial-arts master. After some intensive training on how to cook rice and ride on the outside of a ferris wheel, Remo is ready to go to an Army proving ground and kick some butt. It all shouldn’t work, but it does; better than it has any real expectation of. It’s like a middle-of-the-series Bond film (and was directed by Guy Hamilton), except instead of rolling your eyes when it tries to be funny, you could actually laugh. It’s just silly enough. - Not Jerry Orbach, her real father. Although now that I think about it, I’m curious what Orbach could have done with the role. ---
**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, 8:34pm 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/813015/65 "2018-04-24T20:34:40Z")
> [@Hampshire](#): > > **Speed Racer** from 2008. First time I saw it I wasn’t paying attention to the story and just enjoying the eye candy of it all. But eye candy can get boring after a while and I don’t remeber if I even finished watching it. > Had a copy on Blu-Ray to show off the home theatre set up and after catching the beginning a few more times I started getting into the story more and found it to be really good. About a racing family, greedy corporations, a dead brother, opposing corporations, etc. A fairly in depth story with some twists with lots of eye candy to boot. It’s become on of my favorites. I’ve always liked that movie too. I remember after the theater release getting the DVD like you to watch it at home on my HDTV and surround sound setup. It was the first movie where I saw how limited some of those older 720 sets were…during the racing scenes the motion blur was so bad it was almost unwatchable. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2018, 8:46pm 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/813015/66 "2018-04-24T20:46:38Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Yep. Total garbage, and they wear their pedigree proudly. We actually staged a Sharknado film fest last summer, serving BBQ fish and Land Shark lager. No CandyGrams? ☹ ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2018, 9:01pm 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/813015/67 "2018-04-24T21:01:24Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Attack of the Killer Tomatoes. I liked it too. It was a deliberately bad parody of “Jaws”. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2018, 9:03pm 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/813015/68 "2018-04-24T21:03:00Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > I took my grand son to see ‘Wreck it Ralph’ It was really cute. I turned it off about halfway through because the whole shtick was Ralph wrecking stuff. I could see how some people would have found it amusing, the way some people thought Fatty Arbuckle falling down was funny. (Can you tell I watch a lot of TCM?) ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2018, 9:06pm 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/813015/69 "2018-04-24T21:06:02Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Plan 9 from Outer Space spoiler: > > Aircraft pilots sitting on folding metal chairs, holding plates as steering wheels. Remember the old “Night Flight”? They used to regularly play a film-school project called “I Was A Zombie For The FBI” that had similar special effects. TV Guide described the plot as “Aliens steal the formula for a popular soft drink” and that pretty much sums it up. The movie was made in the early 1980s; all the hair and clothing styles are from that era, but the cars are all from the 1950s and it’s shot in B&W. In case you’re wondering if it’s on DVD and Netflix, yes, it is, and that’s how I got to see it again. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2018, 9:11pm 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/813015/70 "2018-04-24T21:11:29Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > Any of the Sharknado movies. Somehow when they deliberately make a movie as bad as humanly possible, it works. Having guys like Al Roker in there works, the plot is insane but they make no attempt to suspend your disbelief, the movies are so bad that they’re good for a laugh. The actor who plays Finn has said that he took the role in the first movie because he was in a situation where he really needed the money, and was hesitant to do so because he feared ruining his career with something like that on his CV. Hoo, boy was he wrong! My favorite Sharknado moments? - In “Sharknado 2”, ZZ Top are extras in a crowd scene on a subway. - In “Sharknado 4”, whenever the director of the scientific institute that studies sharknados walks from place to place, he’s followed by two very attractive Asian women in miniskirts who walk like models on a catwalk. ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2018, 9:22pm 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/813015/71 "2018-04-24T21:22:59Z")
**The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen**. What I liked about it was imagining how I would have done each scene differently. ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2018, 9:34pm 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/813015/72 "2018-04-24T21:34:47Z")
_Mars Needs Women_. As I recall the credits, it starred Mr. Tommy Kirk (never before and never after saw “Mr” as part of an actor’s name). Don’t remember if Miss Yvonne Craig got an honorific or not. Plus the closing scene, where they filmed the view from behind Tommy in the afternoon, and the view from behind Yvonne Craig in the twilight ---
**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2018, 11:24pm 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/813015/73 "2018-04-24T23:24:22Z")
I didn’t love _Battleship_, but I did love that it resulted in one of my all-time favorite McSweeney’s articles [Excerpts from William Shakespeare’s Battleship](https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/excerpts-from-william-shakespeares-battleship) > [@](#): > > CAPTAIN > How now, Rihanna? What ho, guy from True Blood? > What news dost thou bring from the radar thingie? > > RIHANNA > Ay me, dear captain! Most grievous fortune! > For we are invaded by space robots! Personally, I’m a huge fan of _Frankenstein: the College Years_, a 1991 TV movie that I taped as a child and watched over and over. It was so unloved that I don’t believe you can even buy a real copy of it anywhere, and have to make do with crappy VHS-\>Youtube transfers. But I love it, damn it. I also like watching bad movies and making fun of them with people, but I feel like that’s sort of a different thing. I like those movies _because_ they are bad. I like this one in spite of its badness. ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2018, 11:34pm 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/813015/74 "2018-04-24T23:34:40Z")
_Weekend at Bernie’s_. I actually saw it a preview screening where we were given cards to provide feedback. It’s incredibly stupid, but also very funny. Poor Terry Kiser. No matter how many roles he plays he’ll always be dead to me. ---
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> [@SpoilerVirgin](#): > > _Weekend at Bernie’s_. I actually saw it a preview screening where we were given cards to provide feedback. It’s incredibly stupid, but also very funny. Poor Terry Kiser. No matter how many roles he plays he’ll always be dead to me. _Weekend at Bernies_ was a top-notch farce: if it had been filmed in France and titled _Samedi et Dimanche à Chez Bernard_, the critics would have raved. ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2018, 1:17am 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/813015/76 "2018-04-25T01:17:24Z")
> [@Infovore](#): > > Honorable Mention: “Xanadu.” I’m having a hard time deciding between _Xanadu_ and _Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band_. The music is the only meat among all the corn and cheese, and somehow that’s OK with me. ---
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> [@Grrr](#): > > I just watched one on Amazon the other day called “Killer Donuts” (or something like that). Anyway, it’s about these donuts that come to life and eat people. So horrible, but damn, I couldn’t stop laughing. > Also, the only reason I know Hudsucker Proxy is an awesome movie, is because I was too lazy to get up and change the channel when it happened to come on my TV. > > And they say laziness doesn’t pay off. This is how I ended up watching _Galaxy Quest_, (which doesn’t belong in this thread AT ALL, it’s a terrific flick) but yeah, sometimes laziness pays of in unexpected ways! ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2018, 1:52am 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/813015/78 "2018-04-25T01:52:35Z")
I enjoyed **Hudson Hawk**. ---
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> [@Sam\_Stone](#): > > I enjoyed **Hudson Hawk**. One of those movies I never think about but whenever I’ve ever come across it in the wild I end up watching it. ---
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In the other thread, in regards to films mentioned by others I have a soft spot in my heart for **Smokey and the Bandit** and, to a lesser extent, **The Blair Witch Project**. Y’all wound me. I also had a great time during Pacific Rim and Battleship. Both completely stupid movies, but enjoyable nonetheless. [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=3) [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=5)