# 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:** 16\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2018, 8:49pm 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/813015/101 "2018-04-25T20:49:02Z")
I can’t pick just one. I have enjoyed many bad movies. _Lifeforce_, starring Mathilda May’s breasts, and a bunch of British actors. (Oh, yeah, and one gratuitous American. His character was the lead role in the novel. His character is ostensibly the lead role in the film. And yet he manages to make Raymond Burr’s contributions to _Godzilla_ seem vital to the story.) _Sword of the Valiant_, with Michael O’Keefe as Sir Gawaine, and Sean Connery as the Green Knight. As a Work of Cinematic Art, it is utter garbage. As a film version of a medieval romance, it’s not bad. It is exactly the sort of story that troubadours wrote to entertain pampered aristocrats who never had to work a day in their lives. The 1990 version of _Captain America_. OK, changing the Red Skull to an Italian was a bit weird. (It was filmed in Yugoslavia, which looks a little bit like Italy, and not at all like Germany.) But Ronny Cox made an awesome President of the United States! The Roger Corman version of _the Fantastic Four_. Of course it sucked. But it could have sucked a lot worse. The screenwriter had actually read the comic books (mostly from the John Byrne era) and did make an attempt to bring the comics to the screen. The guy playing Doctor Doom was a horrible actor. But he had the perfect voice for a villain in an iron mask. His armor was obviously cheap plastic, but they did a pretty good job on the mask. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2018, 8:54pm 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/813015/102 "2018-04-25T20:54:19Z")
> [@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. > [@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 liked it as well. Probably helped that I saw it in a theater with my parents, who were in their fifties at the time and likely quite familiar with Thimble Theater. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2018, 5:56am 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/813015/103 "2018-04-26T05:56:31Z")
> [@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. You’ll love “Woody woodpecker” it’s pretty much thet same movie with a pre teen romance tossed in and the1930s version of Woody CGI’d in ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2018, 11:47am 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/813015/104 "2018-04-26T11:47:54Z")
> [@simster](#): > > Maybe this is a movie that had a really stupid premise that didn’t derserve to be as good as it ended up - > > _ **Battleship** _ The Asylum knockoff _American Warships_ is better-written. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2018, 7:09pm 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/813015/105 "2018-04-26T19:09:41Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > Speaking of Dice, I very much enjoyed _The Adventures of Ford Fairlane_ as a 13-year-old boy and I still enjoy it on that same level today. this is me and “johnny dangerously”…although a lot of people swear it was specifically made for a 12-14 year old … But to me id put it in with all those parodies neilsen did in in the 90s and 00’s ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2018, 9:19pm 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/813015/106 "2018-04-26T21:19:46Z")
> [@snfaulkner](#): > > I love flash gordon. I love The bad acting. I love The stupid plot. I love The terribly confusing physics. I love Brian Blessed. And of course, I love the soundtrack! > > Fun fact: hans zarkhov’s assistant Munson is also porkins in star wars and the top…men guy in raiders. But it’s such cheerful bad acting. One of my favorites. It’s the first film I thought of when I saw the thread title. Hudson Hawk is also a hoot. It’s quieter. ---
**Author:** ![Swampwolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8edcca/32.png) [@Swampwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swampwolf)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2018, 9:42pm 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/813015/107 "2018-04-26T21:42:23Z")
For my money, it doesn’t get any better than **Forbidden Zone** [Forbidden Zone (1980) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080752/?ref_=nv_sr_2) Opening scene: A drug dealer buys a house and accidentally stumbles across a portal to the 6th dimension. You can tell he’s a drug dealer, because he’s in bad blackface. This one was done by the Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo, who eventually became (obviously) Oingo Boingo. It’s a black and white about 12-year old Flash Hercules, played by a 65-year old Jewish man in a propeller beanie who, with his best friend Squeezit the Chicken Boy, is off to save his sister Frenchie from the Ruler of the 6th dimension. Played by Herve Villechaize. He has a demon wife (Susan Tyrell), a topless daughter, a harem in panties and mickey mouse ears and a 7 foot tall frog butler named Bust Rod. And it’s Danny Elfman’s _first_ musical. He plays Satan. ---
**Author:** ![Doubticus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e56c9b/32.png) [@Doubticus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doubticus)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2018, 11:00pm 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/813015/108 "2018-04-26T23:00:31Z")
“Mom and Dad Save the World” Totally goofy, but I laughed more during that movie than most proper comedies. ---
**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 26, 2018, 11:48pm 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/813015/109 "2018-04-26T23:48:56Z")
> [@Doubticus](#): > > “Mom and Dad Save the World” > > Totally goofy, but I laughed more during that movie than most proper comedies. Love this movie. Jon Lovitz’s perfect role. Should have retired right then and there. ---
**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 27, 2018, 12:48am 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/813015/110 "2018-04-27T00:48:18Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > **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. The pipples, they are revolting! ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2018, 4:43am 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/813015/111 "2018-04-27T04:43:55Z")
Wait, how did I forget “Snakes on a Plane”? ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2018, 9:55pm 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/813015/112 "2018-04-29T21:55:48Z")
Just thought of another one. The Keanu Reeves version of _47 Ronin_. Yes, I know, they took liberties with the historical facts. But, in reality, those facts are pretty thin. 99% of our information on them was brought to us by poets, playwrights, novelists, and people with social and political axes to grind. The story has always been more myth than history. So, when the filmmakers add the fox spirit and the tengu, in some respects they are just being honest about their intentions. The way they presented the mythological elements was relatively respectful of Japanese folklore. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2018, 11:49pm 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/813015/113 "2018-04-29T23:49:41Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > > [@Doubticus](#): > > > > “Mom and Dad Save the World” > > > > Totally goofy, but I laughed more during that movie than most proper comedies. > > Love this movie. Jon Lovitz’s perfect role. Should have retired right then and there. I have to admit I liked this, although Wikipedia says it has a 9% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. I particularly liked the booby-trap that relied on the stupidity of the villain’s goons to defeat them. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2018, 12:49am 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/813015/114 "2018-04-30T00:49:43Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > _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! > [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > ^ Phoenix! > [@Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](#): > > My friend Phoenix was named after this movie! It had two songs in it that I bought the whole album for: The Hell of It, and Old Souls. People know Paul Williams more for his pop/ballad songs (which admittedly Old Souls is, and a lovely one, too!), but The Hell of It is a good rock song and surprisingly vicious. ---
**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 30, 2018, 12:35pm 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/813015/115 "2018-04-30T12:35:47Z")
> [@mbh](#): > > I can’t pick just one. I have enjoyed many bad movies. > > _Lifeforce_, starring Mathilda May’s breasts, and a bunch of British actors. (Oh, yeah, and one gratuitous American. His character was the lead role in the novel. His character is ostensibly the lead role in the film. And yet he manages to make Raymond Burr’s contributions to _Godzilla_ seem vital to the story.) > > _Sword of the Valiant_, with Michael O’Keefe as Sir Gawaine, and Sean Connery as the Green Knight. As a Work of Cinematic Art, it is utter garbage. As a film version of a medieval romance, it’s not bad. It is exactly the sort of story that troubadours wrote to entertain pampered aristocrats who never had to work a day in their lives. > The Roger Corman version of _the Fantastic Four_. Of course it sucked. But it could have sucked a lot worse. The screenwriter had actually read the comic books (mostly from the John Byrne era) and did make an attempt to bring the comics to the screen. The guy playing Doctor Doom was a horrible actor. But he had the perfect voice for a villain in an iron mask. His armor was obviously cheap plastic, but they did a pretty good job on the mask. Notes: **LifeForce** also starred Mathilda May’s butt. Credit where it’s due. It’s my theory that Dan O’Bannon would keep doing something until he got it right, then continue until he got it wrong again. He started out with the Living Dead movie **Dead and Buried** , which was awful, continued on to make **Return of the Living Dead** , which wasn’t bad, then did **LifeForce** , which was a retreate to awfulness. The worst part, offering counterpoint to te maked Ms. may, was the miserable puppet work of the re-animated bodies. I’m a big fan of Sir Gawaine and the Green Kinght, which is a story with dramatic possibilities, if done right (It’s significant that this is the portion of Thomas Berger’s novel **Arthur Rex** that was excerpted for _Playboy_ when the novel came out, illustrated with a Frank Frazetta painting), just right for an epic movie version. Unfortunately, _Sword of the Valiant_ is not that movie, despite the wonderful presence of Sean Connery as the Green Knight. But O’Keefe’s acting is as wooden as ever, and his Dutch Boy hairdo makes it really hard to take him seriously. And this wasn’t the script to make this story really live. I’m sorry, but I just couldn’t see past the awful acting and virtually nonexistent effects in that Corman _Fantastic Four_ fiasco. The FF was my favorite Marvel comic book, and now that the Marvel Cinematic Universe is coming into its own, it pains me that the cosmic concepts of Jack Kirby (mostly from FF and Thor) are ending up on the screen without the FF. – Him (Adam Warlock, as he later became) has been hinted at twice in the MCU, Ego the LIving Planet, . Instead of the Baxter Building in Manhattan we get Stark Tower. ---
**Author:** ![ArtBeforeScience](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@ArtBeforeScience](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArtBeforeScience)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2018, 1:21pm 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/813015/116 "2018-04-30T13:21:28Z")
**Liquid Sky** - You must be BAKED to see this movie. If you try it sober, you will be tempted to scoff at the shaky plot. Aliens, lesbians, and heroin in 1980s NYC club scene. Musical score sounds like circus music run through a synthesizer on bad acid. [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=5)