# Who here likes cheezy movies? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 26, 2008, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-likes-cheezy-movies/474526 "2008-11-26T04:07:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Emily\_Litella](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emily_litella/32/3370_2.png) [@Emily\_Litella](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emily_Litella)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2008, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-likes-cheezy-movies/474526/21 "2008-11-26T19:02:51Z")
Psycho Beach Party - but it’s intentionally cheezy. ---
**Author:** ![Rube\_E.Tewesday](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f0a364/32.png) [@Rube\_E.Tewesday](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rube_E.Tewesday)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2008, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-likes-cheezy-movies/474526/22 "2008-11-26T19:13:41Z")
> [@Icerigger](#): > > I have the DVD of **The Neptune Diasaster**. A Canadian mini-sub, with an American in command of course, along with Ernest Borgnine is attacked by goldfish. Halifax, Halifax, this is Triton. Dispatching Navy submarine Onondaga to render assistance! Is that the one where apparently every scene is in close-up, as if they didn’t want you to see how cheesy the sets are? ---
**Author:** ![Saltire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saltire/32/553_2.png) [@Saltire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saltire)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2008, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-likes-cheezy-movies/474526/23 "2008-11-26T19:36:25Z")
For years, I used to say my favorite movie of all time was a cheesy John Ritter/Anne Archer film called _Hero at Large_. Burt Convy has third billing. ---
**Author:** ![tds1273](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/df705f/32.png) [@tds1273](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tds1273)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2008, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-likes-cheezy-movies/474526/24 "2008-11-26T20:26:48Z")
[Cabin Boy](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109361/) [Cannibal: The Musical](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115819/) [Kung Pow: Enter the Fist](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0240468/) [Joe’s Apartment](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116707/) [Strange Brew](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086373/) [The Willies](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103268/) …it’s like the KFC stacker bowl of film. They all get regular screen time and often much more than even my favorite non-dairy movies; cheese has really good replay value. I’ve only heard stories of [Moron Movies](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0280960/) and More Moron Movies, but I’ve never seen them…yet! ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2008, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-likes-cheezy-movies/474526/25 "2008-11-26T22:14:35Z")
_Joe Dirt_! Is _The Day After Tomorrow_ cheezy? I love that one, and my husband loves the one with the giant alligators, with Betty White as a dotty old lady. ---
**Author:** ![Atomicflea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/58956e/32.png) [@Atomicflea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atomicflea)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2008, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-likes-cheezy-movies/474526/26 "2008-11-26T22:19:08Z")
_Overboard_. I love that flick, and I can’t resist it when it comes on. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2008, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-likes-cheezy-movies/474526/27 "2008-11-26T22:21:37Z")
> [@Atomicflea](#): > > _Overboard_. I love that flick, and I can’t resist it when it comes on. I love this movie, too…but I had no idea it was in the “cheesy movie” category. Is that the general concensus? ---
**Author:** ![Jelly\_Roll](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Jelly\_Roll](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jelly_Roll)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2008, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-likes-cheezy-movies/474526/28 "2008-11-26T22:27:54Z")
I can’t resist _Center Stage_. Completely cheesy ballet movie, in which, if you weren’t paying attention for the first hour, don’t worry! The last 30 minutes is a ballet that completely recaps what happened in the first hour. And set to music by Jamiroquai, no less! Already mentioned here, but _Point Break_ is another one on my list. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2008, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-likes-cheezy-movies/474526/29 "2008-11-26T22:30:09Z")
I will watch pretty much _anything_ made prior to 1935, regardless of quality. ---
**Author:** ![TWDuke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e495f1/32.png) [@TWDuke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TWDuke)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2008, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-likes-cheezy-movies/474526/30 "2008-11-26T22:36:37Z")
Most movies that other people claim are so bad they’re good just seem bad to me. I’d rather spend the time and money watching something so good it’s great. But I will make an exception for **Plan 9 From Outer Space**. There’s just something awesome about it’s over-the-top, goofy badness, as opposed to the numbing incompetence of, say, **Manos: The Hands of Fate**. [quote=“Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies, post:3, topic:474526”] [ul] [li]Clueless is a favorite[/ul][/li][/QUOTE] This isn’t so bad it’s good, it’s just good. It’s close to brilliant. It only pretends to be a dumb high school romantic comedy. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2008, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-likes-cheezy-movies/474526/31 "2008-11-26T23:03:40Z")
> [@want2know](#): > > OK, I’ll play. > > Nothing, and I mean _nothing_, beats [**Reflections in a Golden Eye**](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062185/). > > Marlon Brando as a (not-very) repressed homosexual Army officer. > Robert Forster as the object of his (not-very) repressed affections. > Elizabeth Taylor as his slutty wife. > Brian Keith (yes, “Uncle Bill”) and Julie Harris as the couple next door, an officer and his insane wife. How insane? She once _cut off her nipples with a pair of garden shears!_ > > If you like major-studio cheesy movies, you must see this. It’s the standard by which all others are measured! Man, I love this movie. ---
**Author:** ![tds1273](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/df705f/32.png) [@tds1273](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tds1273)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2008, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-likes-cheezy-movies/474526/32 "2008-11-26T23:05:08Z")
How the hell did I forget **Howard The Duck**?! It’s a brick of cheddar deepfried in cheese-wiz. So good. ---
**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:** [November 27, 2008, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-likes-cheezy-movies/474526/33 "2008-11-27T00:48:41Z")
Mentioned in the MST3K thread, but perfectly at home here: "[Baron del Terror" (The Brainiac)](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054668/) One of the best so-bad-its-good movies I’ve ever had the pleasure of watching. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2008, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-likes-cheezy-movies/474526/34 "2008-11-27T01:45:54Z")
> [@Beware\_of\_Doug](#): > > I will watch pretty much _anything_ made prior to 1935, regardless of quality. Wow, I agree. If I had to limit my movie watching to one decade, it would be the thirties. ---
**Author:** ![Sleel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/73ab20/32.png) [@Sleel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sleel)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2008, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-likes-cheezy-movies/474526/35 "2008-11-27T13:09:06Z")
[Similar thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=335151&highlight=doog) that I believe also spawned the term “doog” on the boards. There are a lot of cheesy yet watchable movies from the 80s and early 90s. For some reason (maybe nostalgia for most age brackets here) that decade or so spawned many, many so-bad-they’re-good flicks. A few of my favorites: Van Damme is practically the poster boy for doog movies. One of his worst, yet still fun to watch, is Cyborg. Universal Soldier may be one of his best as far as having the highest production values, and it’s still pretty bad. Yet fun. Without the electronic music that screams “cheap 80s synthesizer,” Ladyhawke wouldn’t be seen as cheesy at all. I love that movie, but I have to set brain phasers to IGNORE SOUNDTRACK to watch it. Roadhouse and Point Break. One had moments of possible greatness, mixed with terrible, terrible crap. The other had some sphincter-tightening action scenes and a nonsensical plot. Both are doogness epitomized. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2008, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-likes-cheezy-movies/474526/36 "2008-11-27T14:25:52Z")
> [@blondebear](#): > > Mentioned in the MST3K thread, but perfectly at home here: "[Baron del Terror" (The Brainiac)](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054668/) One of the best so-bad-its-good movies I’ve ever had the pleasure of watching. I loved that when I was a kid! That was a staple after Sammy Terry went through his array of good horror films. I got it a few years ago in a cheapie DVD set & was amazed that it still held up. (Sammy Terry, Indiana’s 1962-86 horror film TV host.) ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2008, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-likes-cheezy-movies/474526/37 "2008-11-27T14:29:14Z")
Do we agree that if USA Network brought back Night Tracks, USA Up All Night (even if Gottfried was hosting it) or Commander USA, there’d be a reason to watch that station again? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-likes-cheezy-movies/474526.md?page=1)