# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2018, 2:35am 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/813015/81 "2018-04-25T02:35:06Z")
**Xtro** is a great example of this. The movie makes no sense; I can not tell you the full details of the plot. However, it is kind of amazing. The special effects are incredible. It was…a memorable movie. [I mean…watch this scene.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M7oT1l0J0w) ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2018, 3:14am 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/813015/82 "2018-04-25T03:14:40Z")
> [@Aspidistra](#): > > A legitimately terrible movie that I have a bit of a soft spot for - _Wild Wild West_. Yes, it is made of dumb, with dumb filling and dumb on top, but it has Will Smith and Kevin Kline in it, so how bad can it be really? > > Probably didn’t pay for any particularly nice houses though… Will Smith in a rap song said that his check for Wild Wild West was delivered on a flatbed truck. I really enjoyed that movie though. ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2018, 3:26am 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/813015/83 "2018-04-25T03:26:54Z")
> [@Dendarii\_Dame](#): > > **The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen**. What I liked about it was imagining how I would have done each scene differently. That movie was SO disappointing. The premise had all kinds of potential but it was just horrible. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2018, 3:31am 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/813015/84 "2018-04-25T03:31:13Z")
> [@ZPG\_Zealot](#): > > Howard the Duck is one of my guilty pleasures. It has layers. All very stupid layers, but piled together I find them funny. Another vote for Howard. I was at a gas station mart out in the boonies somewhere and the bored cashier was watching Howard The Duck on a little TV/VCR combo. As he was ringing me up I excitedly told him it was one of my favorite bad movies. He gave me a “yeah, whatever” look and handed me my change. So I guess we \*kinda \*bonded over it. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2018, 4:45am 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/813015/85 "2018-04-25T04:45:06Z")
No love for _ **Santa Claus Conquers the Martians** _? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2018, 5:12am 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/813015/86 "2018-04-25T05:12:31Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > …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. Nein, Herr Professor! Er sieht aus wie viele Menschen in Argentinien. (No, Professor! He looks like many people in Argentina.) > [@Inigo\_Montoya](#): > > 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. No, there isn’t, but it isn’t the worst movie of all time. It isn’t even Ed Wood’s worst. > [@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. “American Warships” is awfully good, considering. I tend to prefer The Asylum’s mockbusters over the blockbusters they try to cash in on, like their “War of the Worlds” which followed the book better than Tom Cruise’s. I once emailed the woman listed on their site as the receptionist (old sales trick) to see who I should pitch an idea to and she said they have plenty of nuts already (see their name) and didn’t entertain outside scripts. And she had gone from receptionist to executive vice president but they hadn’t updated the website. Their loss, but it was more of an AIP movie. > [@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. Another set of products from The Asylum. I always liked “Carnival of Souls” and thought it was a pretty good film, but I think people dismiss it as just another drive-movie. ---
**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 25, 2018, 7:37am 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/813015/87 "2018-04-25T07:37:50Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > I always liked “Carnival of Souls” and thought it was a pretty good film, but I think people dismiss it as just another drive-movie. That movie is all kinds of awesome! ---
**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 25, 2018, 12:19pm 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/813015/88 "2018-04-25T12:19:39Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > **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. It’s even more like a “middle of the series” Bond film than that – it was written by Christopher Wood, the guy responsible for the worst and most puerile of the James Bond films (\*\*The Spy Who Loved Me \*\* and **Moonraker** ) You want to know how bad he was? He’s the guy who gave us Jaws. You may like Jaws as the Indestructible Killer whose very existence is a joke based on shark movies, but he’s beyond even Fleming’s rogue’s gallery or oddball themed villains (Oddjob was _his_ indestructible killer). By the time he (and his pigtailed girlfriend) showed up, it was clear that the films had descended to kiddie matinee level. ---
**Author:** ![SykoSkotty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@SykoSkotty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SykoSkotty)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2018, 12:28pm 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/813015/89 "2018-04-25T12:28:01Z")
Grease 2 Lousy movie but fun to watch a very young Michelle Pfeifer strut around in tight black pants, and the songs were cheesy but enjoyable. ---
**Author:** ![TRC4941](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trc4941/32/6792_2.png) [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2018, 1:58pm 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/813015/90 "2018-04-25T13:58:37Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > Going by IMDB, my favorite movie with a terrible rating is Furry Vengeance. Seeing Brendan Fraser abused by cute animals is great even if the plot is bad. Yes!! I watch this with my grandkids all the time. They’re 7 & 6 yrs old - it’s perfect for them. I think what I enjoy the most is watching them laugh. Two of their favorite parts are the port-a-potty and the skunks in the car scenes. Right before those scenes I can just see their bodies tensing up, waiting for the moment to shriek in laughter. I have to admit I laugh right along with them. ---
**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 25, 2018, 2:28pm 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/813015/91 "2018-04-25T14:28:48Z")
> [@SykoSkotty](#): > > Grease 2 > > Lousy movie but fun to watch a very young Michelle Pfeifer strut around in tight black pants, and the songs were cheesy but enjoyable. This is one of the favorite movies of my friend’s wife. I have to admit that I never saw it. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2018, 2:33pm 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/813015/92 "2018-04-25T14:33:08Z")
**Zorro, The Gay Blade** has a negative Rotten Tomatoes score and is built around comedy elements that we can _maaaybe_ slide over from ‘cringeworthy’ to ‘dated’. But it’s genuinely entertaining, and occasionally approaches perfection. ---
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2018, 3:09pm 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/813015/93 "2018-04-25T15:09:26Z")
> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#): > > 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. The _first_ Conan movie I regard as a great film. The _second,_ yeah, lump that in with Beastmaster and CoTT. Not that I won’t watch any of those, they are fun. > [@ZPG\_Zealot](#): > > Howard the Duck is one of my guilty pleasures. It has layers. All very stupid layers, but piled together I find them funny. HtD the movie, as fun as it was, was still disappointing as they missed what made the source material great. I’m hoping that the MCU keeps hitting home runs long enough to do Howard the Duck as he was meant to be. (I mean, they made **Ant-Man** cool…they can do just about anything.) > [@Dendarii\_Dame](#): > > **The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen**. What I liked about it was imagining how I would have done each scene differently. Granted, that movie needed a couple more re-writes. It’s still better than the graphic novel. ---
**Author:** ![Edward\_The\_Head](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ce73a5/32.png) [@Edward\_The\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edward_The_Head)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2018, 3:19pm 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/813015/94 "2018-04-25T15:19:45Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > _Freddy Got Fingered_ is not a good movie by any standard, but I laughed my ass off. I liked this movie, it gave me exactly what it said it would, stupid funny laughs. There’s a movie called [ThanksKilling](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThanksKilling) about a killer turkey, which is a dumb as it sounds. But I’ve seen it a few times and it’s just stupid fun. The acting is horrible, and some scenes just make no sense what so ever, but it’s funny and I own a copy on DVD. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2018, 3:31pm 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/813015/95 "2018-04-25T15:31:03Z")
Definitely the _Sleepaway Camp_ series. Schlocky, cheap, poorly written…and the main character is a joy to watch. It’s like watching a female Kid Joker in full manic mode. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2018, 3:42pm 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/813015/96 "2018-04-25T15:42:01Z")
_ **Popeye** _. I think I’ve met only 3-4 other folks who liked it, but I knew the ‘original’ history of Popeye from the ‘Thimble Theater’ comic days so the Oyl family and others didn’t come as a shock to me as to those who only related to the 1950’s-60’s cartoons. Robin Williams and Shelly Duvall were the perfect Popeye and Olive for that movie. Still watch it now and then. ---
**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 25, 2018, 4:21pm 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/813015/97 "2018-04-25T16:21:23Z")
> [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](#): > > _ **Popeye** _. I think I’ve met only 3-4 other folks who liked it, but I knew the ‘original’ history of Popeye from the ‘Thimble Theater’ comic days so the Oyl family and others didn’t come as a shock to me as to those who only related to the 1950’s-60’s cartoons. Robin Williams and Shelly Duvall were the perfect Popeye and Olive for that movie. Still watch it now and then. I’d second that. It was a perfect recreation of the original comic strip, which no one understood (it was pretty clear when everyone talked about how Duvall was perfect for Olive Oyl without mentioning that Richard Libertini was perfect as Geezle.) ---
**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 25, 2018, 5:20pm 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/813015/98 "2018-04-25T17:20:49Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > I’d second that. It was a perfect recreation of the original comic strip, which no one understood (it was pretty clear when everyone talked about how Duvall was perfect for Olive Oyl without mentioning that Richard Libertini was perfect as Geezle.) I was a fan of the old Thimble Theater, too, but I think Jules Feiffer (who wrote the screenplay) carried it too far. His Popeye didn’t like spinach! I realize this is perfectly consistent with the old E.C. Segar strip (Popeye didn’t need no spinach – at most stroking the feathers on the Whiffle Hen was enough), but by far the bulk of the audience had no idea what he was talking about, and was appalled. Certainly Mad magazine, in their parody of it, threw a fit. If they were going to include Bluto as the heavy (straight outta the cartoons, although he had a nominal presence in the early strip), why keep the spinach out? Ray Walston was perfectly cast as Poopdeck Pappy, too. The main reason I didn’t like the film is that the songs were pretty awful. And I hated their deliberately stylized town of SweetHaven. ---
**Author:** ![Dropo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Dropo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dropo)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2018, 6:07pm 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/813015/99 "2018-04-25T18:07:09Z")
\*The Fountainhead \*(1949) - Ayn Rand’s unreadable book becomes a ludicrously entertaining melodrama pitting uncompromising architect Howard Roark (miscast Gary Cooper) against dickwad critic Ellsworth Toohey. Patricia Neal is super-hot as the love interest; the scene of her hot ‘n’ bothered watching Cooper jackhammer is hilarious. Cooper tries, but it’s pretty obvious he has not a clue what he’s talking about in his climactic courtroom speech. Awful, yet well-made and eminently watchable. _Candy_ (1968) - I love sixties movies and this is one of the best/worst. An all-star cast in a one-joke film that has at least three dud gags for every gem (“You can’t bring a frozen guru into California!”) Richard Burton as the drunken sot poet MacPhisto (but was big Dick really acting?) and Ringo Starr as a Mexican gardener (an unsung comedic casting coup) stand out among the big names lured to appear in this mess. _Boom_ (1968) - A little seen Liz Taylor-Dick Burton flop beautifully shot in Sardinia. Dwarf Michael Dunn plays Liz’s “head of security” as a mini-Il Duce, Liz’s jewelry and clothes are incredible and Noel Coward (as the “Bitch of Capri”) shows up for dinner and _bon mots_. Considerably worse than _Night of the Iguana_ - my fave Tennessee Williams adaptation - but almost as entertaining. ---
**Author:** ![DrCube](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a3d4f5/32.png) [@DrCube](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrCube)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2018, 8:09pm 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/813015/100 "2018-04-25T20:09:46Z")
Anybody mention **Pootie Tang** yet? The first movie I saw during my first bit of freedom in the Army. So there’s a nostalgia factor there, but it’s also pretty funny. The main character doesn’t speak a word of English, or any human language, just suave, jive-inspired gibberish. And he’s the only superhero I know that whips the bad guys with a belt. Put in another vote for **Cabin Boy**. Chris Elliot was in **Get a Life** , too, if we are allowed to include terrible TV shows that we nevertheless liked. > [@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. Oh man, I saw **Sharknado 3** while tripping on acid, and that was a hell of an experience, let me tell you. I had absolutely no idea what was going on, but something tells me that wasn’t _entirely_ the fault of the drugs. Couldn’t stop laughing though. [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=4) [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=6)