Bad movies that are fun to watch...

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I've compiled a list of movies that have been mentioned that I think make the list in the first post. I'll try to keep it updated as more movies are mentioned.
 
Swift
I've compiled a list of movies that have been mentioned that I think make the list in the first post. I'll try to keep it updated as more movies are mentioned.
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What, no Bill & Ted?

How can you go wrong with Keanu Reeves before he was a total tool?
 
Swift
• Wayne’s World 1 & 2
• Star Wars – All of them
• Starship Troopers
• Anchorman
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After reviewing this thread, I've come to the conclusion that I don't enjoy watching bad movies. I do enjoy some of the movies listed, but I actually thought they were good. Star Wars 4-6 for example, Anchorman which was hilarious, Wayne's World 1 was also hilarious. I thought those were all good movies.

Nobody liked Starship Troopers it seems. I read the book, and I watched the movie and I thought they were both good. The thing about Starship Troopers is that you have to understand the pseudo-reality they were actually TRYING to acheive. I guess people thought it was bad because the pseudo-reality bothered them... they mistook it for bad acting, or bad dialogue, when it was supposed to reflect a completely different mindset about life, death, and what's important. I think most people just didn't get starship troopers.

Anyway I guess I never really understood the "so bad it's good" mentality.
 
danoff
Anyway I guess I never really understood the "so bad it's good" mentality.
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It's not that at all.

It's just movies that you know really aren't all that "good" as far a film goes. But it's still fun to watch.

I've got another one, "The Last Dragon" That movie was incredibly weak. But man, it's cool to watch a young black guy in harlem try to b Bruce Lee. :D
 
I'm suprised people are saying Anchorman, that got good reviews everywhere. I seemed to be the only person that thought it was terrible.

a6m5, how can you call Blade 1 & 2 bad films!??? Blade Trinity thats a bad film, but the 1st are certainly not. Great films
"Some mother******* always trying to iceskate uphill" love that line.

Oh and Charlies Angels, i even liked full throttle!
 
555
I'm suprised people are saying Anchorman, that got good reviews everywhere. I seemed to be the only person that thought it was terrible.

a6m5, how can you call Blade 1 & 2 bad films!??? Blade Trinity thats a bad film, but the 1st are certainly not. Great films
"Some mother******* always trying to iceskate uphill" love that line.

Oh and Charlies Angels, i even liked full throttle!
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The Blade movies and the Charlie's Angels movie were all quite bad. Angles was worse than Blade, but they were still poor movies. I didn't find any of them fun to watch.
 
danoff
The Blade movies and the Charlie's Angels movie were all quite bad. Angles was worse than Blade, but they were still poor movies. I didn't find any of them fun to watch.
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AAHH!! I'm sorry, but Blade 1 was very tight. The main plot of the enemy vampires was kinda out there(the second one had a much more consise plot). But on the whole I thought it was very well done.

Charlie's Angels is only for people that want to see girls be James Bond, but a really, really fake female James Bond. :yuck:
 
The best bad film ever is an absolute classic. I guarantee that some of you have seen it before.

It features Fred Ward and Joel Grey. Fred Ward is a cop, shot and left for dead. He's rescued by Wilfred Brimley and finds himself being trained in bizarre martial arts by mysterious Korean "Chiun" in a large warehouse building - training which allows him to dodge bullets and run on water. It also features a performance by a young Captain Janeway...

Remo: Unarmed and Dangerous (or Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins)

Utter, utter classic, but complete tripe.
 
G.T
Starship Troopers 2.

What a load of crap, but was fun to watch anyway because it was so crap. :lol:
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I dissagree on that one, I thought it was the switch it off kind of crap, but were all free to think for ourselves.
 
Some of my favorites are:

Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai
Killer Klowns from Outer Space
Army of Darkness
The Fly
Rollerball

But my alltime favorite bad movie is Dark Star. :D
 
Famine

Remo: Unarmed and Dangerous (or Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins)

Utter, utter classic, but complete tripe.
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I still remember the poster for that in the video store when I was about 8 years old. heh heh.
 
tabs
I'd have to say Commando, this movie is so ridiculous I couldn't believe my eyes the first time I watched it.

Matrix: Remember, Sully, when I promised to kill you last?
Sully: That's right, Matrix. You did!
Matrix: I lied.
Matrix drops Sully off the cliff.

Freakin' GOLD.
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Good man, tabs! "Commando" is one of my all-time favorites. I literally have seen it bunch of times in the theaters, on tapes, then on my DVD. I can't believe I forgot that one. :ouch:


Der Alta
As a quick point to a6m5, they actually made a sequel to "the Arrival".

Yes, it was worse.
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I know, DA. My DVD is the dual-sided one with both. :D


555
I'm suprised people are saying Anchorman, that got good reviews everywhere. I seemed to be the only person that thought it was terrible.

a6m5, how can you call Blade 1 & 2 bad films!??? Blade Trinity thats a bad film, but the 1st are certainly not. Great films
"Some mother******* always trying to iceskate uphill" love that line.

Oh and Charlies Angels, i even liked full throttle!
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Well, either way, I love them. "Trinity" wasn't very good though. Second Blade is my favorite.

Famine
The best bad film ever is an absolute classic. I guarantee that some of you have seen it before.

It features Fred Ward and Joel Grey. Fred Ward is a cop, shot and left for dead. He's rescued by Wilfred Brimley and finds himself being trained in bizarre martial arts by mysterious Korean "Chiun" in a large warehouse building - training which allows him to dodge bullets and run on water. It also features a performance by a young Captain Janeway...

Remo: Unarmed and Dangerous (or Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins)

Utter, utter classic, but complete tripe.
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I've seen that couple of times, under the second title. Did you like the "Tremor", famine? There's another bad(kinda) movie I enjoy on DVD.


live4speed
Spaceballs, complete crap but I liked it.
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That was a good one. 👍 Dark Helmet was just hillarious!
 
Kung Pow is classically retarded, and at the top of my list.

I rather enjoyed Napoleon Dynamite, and is one of my favorites, for some odd reason.....

Night of the Living Dead series, also retarded, and in need of recognition here.

The Tremors series, also quite st00pit. Really just plain sad. Not a Kevin bacon fan. Nope, not at all.
 
I agree with Remo, but only because I have most of the books. Now those were truly bad, yet good. :lol:

Agree with Tremors, totally camp, done in the spirit of some of the best creature features of old. The sequels left a lot to be desired, though... but they have their good moments.

Starship Troopers was something I really really hated. How do you ruin a classic? Let me see:

1. It sucks thar all the main characters are Asian... I know, let's cast every blonde we can get our hands on.

2. Starship Troopers are all men because they're statistically stronger... Starship pilots are all women because they have faster reflexes... aww... screw that, let's make the Space Marines co-ed so we can do the boobies in the shower scene.

3. Intelligent bugs carrying laser rifles? Who's going to believe that? Someone call up the animation department... order me some generic brainless bugs. Oh before anyone says that they were intelligent... since when was mindless swarming intelligent?

4. Insanely cool robotic exoskeletons? How are we going to see Casper's pretty mug? Forget it.

5. Oh, remember to insert some philosophy into the classroom scene, otherwise, we'll have nothing from the book. Not too much of it, as RAH's semi-fascistic ultra-right wing views won't slide with our target audience.

They took what could have been a kick-ass action movie as good as Aliens, as deep as 2001 and as gritty as Apocalypse Now and turned it into a teen-scream blood and gore formula film. Total suckage.
 
a6m5: You're right, I do recall that it was a double sided disk. :)

How could I forget such classics as Remo Williams (I have the comic book follow-ups), and Tremors (I have the special edition disk).

I can't believe they made a "Tremors 4" movie. Termors 2 had only about two good lines in the whole movie.
 
Wow, I cant beleive all these classic comedies are considered to be crap. :rolleyes: I think they are great, and often better than most comedies coming out today.


Anyways Im suprised nobody has mentioned UHF yet. Its so awful yet if its on I just have to watch it. :)

http://imdb.com/title/tt0098546/
 
I'll throw in Strange Brew and Raising Arizona to the mix.

And yes, I own both. :D
 
I've never known anyone call Starship Troopers crap, OK its a lil daft. Now the 2nd film, that is utter utter tosh! not even enjoyable tosh.

I disagree with Commando, i used to love it, but it just seems like every other 80's action flick.

Kung Pow, what a film, tottaly and utterly stupid, but hilarious!! i've only seen it once, but i remember giving it a 9/10 at the time.
"Woof".......................... 2 seconds later the dogs lips move.
 
Animal House and Raising Arizona are NOT bad movies. They aren't DUMB movies either. They're both great comedies that have stupid, and dumb people in them, but no way are they BAD movies.
 
Solid Lifters
Animal House and Raising Arizona ... They're both great comedies that have stupid, and dumb people in them...
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I agree with you there, but I'd be willing to bet that there are people that consider those things to be the makings of a bad movie.

Two more I thought of - Bloodsport and Over the Top. Both "actors" have been mentioned, but not the movies specifically.
 
niky
Starship Troopers was something I really really hated. How do you ruin a classic? Let me see:

1. It sucks thar all the main characters are Asian... I know, let's cast every blonde we can get our hands on.

2. Starship Troopers are all men because they're statistically stronger... Starship pilots are all women because they have faster reflexes... aww... screw that, let's make the Space Marines co-ed so we can do the boobies in the shower scene.

3. Intelligent bugs carrying laser rifles? Who's going to believe that? Someone call up the animation department... order me some generic brainless bugs. Oh before anyone says that they were intelligent... since when was mindless swarming intelligent?

4. Insanely cool robotic exoskeletons? How are we going to see Casper's pretty mug? Forget it.

5. Oh, remember to insert some philosophy into the classroom scene, otherwise, we'll have nothing from the book. Not too much of it, as RAH's semi-fascistic ultra-right wing views won't slide with our target audience.

They took what could have been a kick-ass action movie as good as Aliens, as deep as 2001 and as gritty as Apocalypse Now and turned it into a teen-scream blood and gore formula film. Total suckage.
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Granted it could have been a lot better. But I still thought it was good. It had a great feel to it, like you were looking at this pseudo-reality where life didn't matter all that much. I found it really interesting. But I totally agree with your criticisms, having read the book I too realize how much better it could have been.
 
I never new starship troopers was a book............... Still, great entertaining film.
If you want a really stupid thing that is wrong with the film, why dont they just use big-ass nukes on the planets?? would be alot easier.

Niky, watch the 2nd movie! Then you realise the 1st film isnt so bad.
 
Let me smake a statement about the ones i listed...
Me saying that they are so bad they are good is a pretty overly simplistic statement. What i should've said were the movies i listed were ones that i almost felt guitly about liking. This could be because they got terrible reviews, all my friends hate it but i still like it(starship troopers 1), they are dumb comedies or parodies of other films (hotshots, naked gun, spaceballs. etc) or simply the movie is just terrible (starship troopers2).
 
The Starship Trooper's book is highly recommended by the Commadon of the USMC.
 
I have vowed to myself never to watch ST2... hell, I made the same promise about 2Fast2Furious, but since it was on HBO for free, I decided, what the heck.

I'm not surprised the USMC recommends Starship Troopers. Heinlem was a real soldier, and he felt a romance for the armed services that shows in the book. He doesn't sugarcoat the horrors of war, but he espouses a commitment to the Marine ideals, the old "Semper fi" that really shows. He viewed military service as the duty of any citizen... and voting as not a right, but a privelege to be earned through blood sweat and tears. In other words, you can't make political decisions about the government, unless you've served in it and seen what it's all about.
 
Hackers, with Angelina Jolie. The movie is complete crap, but watch it with a bunch of drunken engineering students, and it's a riot. Not only for watching the characters be in awe of a 28.8k modem (this movie was made in 1995...), but also watching everyone's excitement over a split second of Mrs. Jolie's nipple.
 

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