Great cast. Interesting concept. Horrible execution, with a special nod going out to the script. Not quite as bad as Star Wars Episode 2 level of writing, but pretty close.
Still, it was not an unpleasant way to kill 2 hours.
National Treasure is my go-to guilty pleasure.
I also get a kick out of the, very not PC, oriental movie detectives, Mr. Wong (Boris Karloff), Mr. Moto (Peter Lorre) and of course Charlie Chan (Warner Oland & Sidney Toler).
Does that make me a bad person?
Ravenous: Soldiers in a frontier fort become lunch for an insane cannibal.
Sorcerer: 1977 remake of “Wages of Fear”. Rag tag group of misfits must transport nitro in rickety old trucks across a jungle.
The Haunted World of El Superbeasto: Adult cartoon by Rob Zombie about a womanizing masked wrestler, his hot crime fighting sister, and nazi zombies. Need I say more?
paul newman when he was more successful actually took out news ads all over the country apologizing for the silver chalice
and I nominate any kung fu epic made by the shaw bros. fight scenes excellent everything else not so much
Rocky Horror Picture Show ?
My favourite movie of all time is “Slaves of New York”.
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Cases of old, leaky dynamite that had been improperly stored.
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counter-nitpick: nitroglycerine is what leaks out of dynamite. So while you’re precisely right, the OP isn’t wrong, either.
Wages of Fear is such a brilliant film but Sorcerer was awful.
Lots of good picks here… but I submit
And who could forget…
Ator, the Fighting Eagle (1982)
and of course The Blade Master (1984)better know as Cave Dwellers in the MST3K episode.
“How much Keeffe do we have?” MILES O’KEEFE!!!"
Just saying “nitro” implies just the clear stuff in bottles, like the “gallons of nitro” in that IMDb link.
In Wages of Fear, I believe they were actually glass bottles full of nitroglycerin.
How about
That is another movie that very much lives up to its title. The scene where KISS is sitting around a pool on a hot summer day in their full makeup and outfits including Gene Simmons perched on a lifeguard tower is just classic.
Wasn’t “Pat” a movie length version of a SNL scit that wasn’t funny in the first place? Not to mention that I can think of plenty of just bad movies.
My contributions:
The Stupids
Suburban Commando
Deep Rising. It was part of the wave of sea-going horror films from the nineties, with the action cranked way up.
I enjoy it because Treat Williams really seems to be in on the joke. He doesn’t so much chew the scenery, as he treats as a tasty snack. Something to nibble on occasionally.
I’m pleased to be the first to proffer A Boy And His Dog, starring a young Don Johnson.
A young man and his telepathic dog wander the dystopian wasteland searching for women until they discover an underground society full of circuses, clown-faced robots, and sperm-milking machines.
And if that weren’t enough, don’t miss the cannibalistic plot twist at the end!
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In a similar vein, anyone know about this mashup?
It’s Martin Denny, the “Quiet Village” guy … and what the heck is this video?
[/QUOTE]Ooh, that’s nice. Martin Denny always takes me back. The movie is The Indian Tomb(1959) directed by none other than Fritz Lang. I didn’t know that but that dancer’s figure is pure gorgeousness and I had to find out. Doesn’t have too bad a rating on IMDB, either.
Masters of Menace
Mechanic for a biker gang (Jim Belushi) dies, leading the gang to set out cross country to take his body home. Lots of cameos.
I agree on Sword and the Sorcerer. With its jet-propelled triple-bladed sword, it’s incredibly awful. But I’ll give it this – the film’s best moments (like raising the Sorcerer from his tomb) were ripped off from Robert E. Howard’s Conan stories (that opening is from “Hour of the DRagon/Conan the Conqueror”). And it did them better and more faithfully than any “official” Conan movie I’ve seen yet.
Bonus points – at the end of Sword and the Sorcerer they announced that there would be a sequel, Tales of the Ancient Empire.
Yeah, like they were ever going to make a sequel to this turkey…
Well, it took them 28 years, but they actually did make that sequel. It came out in 2010, and the title is almost exactly as promised – Abelar: Tales of an Ancient Empire.
Same director, Albert Pyun. The star, Lee Horseley, is back, too.
I haven’t seen it, but I could see this making a great Bad Film double feature.
Another suggestion – Sorceress. This is the 1982 masterpiece executive produced by Roger Corman. It’s incredibly bad, with bad writing, bad special effects, bad acting, and bad makeup. There are no actual sorceresses in the film. It looks as if it was made in some foreign country, in another language, and bought cheap and dubbed into English – but it actually was filmed in English to start with.
The poster is great, but, as is alwayts the case, the film can’t even begin to live up to the poster. The winged lion in the film looks like a bad Muppet
If you want to see it for yourself, it’s actually been posted on a popular video sharing site. I won’t link directly because that must be a copyright violation.
There are all sorts of movies posted that I thought would’ve been taken down in short order, but they’re still there.