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Fun Stuff => ENJOY => Topic started by: the_pied_piper on 06 Mar 2009, 16:32
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What movies have you seen that are so awful, cliché and generally bad that they have actually been enjoyable?
I'll start with the obvious Snakes On A Plane. Although it was written to be a good bad movie it has to go in here just for being so.
Now your turn.
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Santa's Slay was an amagingly enjoyable Bad movie.
Bill goldberg playing a viking Santa with a partial Longboat for a sled and a Human Eating Oxen as his steed. You also get to see Fran Drescher get killed in the first 5 minutes fothe movie.
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Plan 9 From Outer Space
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Lloyd Kaufman has made his fair share of both good bad movies and bad bad movies but I greatly enjoy Poultrygeist, Terror Former, and Tromeo and Juliet. Do NOT, however, for any reason watch Sgt. Kabukiman NYPD. The quality of that movie ends with the title.
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Shoot 'Em Up, and Batman: The Movie is probably my most prized possession.
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Plan 9 From Outer Space
Ah, you beat me to it.
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Starship Troopers.
Casper Van Dien, Jake Busey AND Neil Patrick Harris!!!
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I'm pretty sure I don't like "So bad they're good!" movies. For example, I'm glad I have Top Gun and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves in my life, since they're so thoroughly ridiculous, but I doubt I'd actually watch either of them again. The relationship I have with them is more like the relationship I have with Rush; there is no hard feelings because I've gotten to make fun of them so much over the years, to the point where they've definitely been a net benefit to my life. That doesn't mean I'd ever sit down and listen to an album or purchase either film.
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Street Fighter
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Roadhouse.
Remo Williams : The Adventure Begins
Tango And Cash
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ICE SPIDERSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
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Alien VS Predator: Requiem.
Mortal Kombat.
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GODS OF WAR!!!!
May your hammer be mighty.
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Big Trouble in Little China
Cliffhanger
Point Break
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Starship Troopers.
Casper Van Dien, Jake Busey AND Neil Patrick Harris!!!
Fuck you that was an awesome movie.
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Mortal Kombat: Annihilation
The Evil Brain from Outer Space
Violent Shit and its sequels.
The Guinea Pig films.
Silent Night, Deadly Night and its sequels. "GARBAGE DAY!"
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the second, third and fourth TREMORS films
though the first one is REALLY fucking good.
"how good"you say?
FUCKING good.
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Starship Troopers.
Casper Van Dien, Jake Busey AND Neil Patrick Harris!!!
Fuck you that was an awesome movie.
seconded
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Starship troopers is the sort of movie that you sit down to watch, turn your brain completely off, open the beer and say "Chew some scenery Michael Ironside."
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It was in fact your descriptions of Feast, Jens, and the subsequent conversations that led to this thread though i still haven't seen Feast yet (I will rectify this later).
Starship Troopers.
Casper Van Dien, Jake Busey AND Neil Patrick Harris!!!
Fuck you that was an awesome movie.
Thirded.
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I don't like Paul Verhoeven films. I get what he does, but that doesn't mean I have to like it. I sort of enjoy the bits with Neil Patrick Harris and the satirical propaganda, but if those are the strongest scenes in your two hour movie, I would say you have a problem.
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Get a large group of people to get very trashed and watch Southland Tales together. This works best if a substantial number of them are film students. It is a pretty fun time.
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It was in fact your descriptions of Feast, Jens, and the subsequent conversations that led to this thread though i still haven't seen Feast yet (I will rectify this later).
Starship Troopers.
Casper Van Dien, Jake Busey AND Neil Patrick Harris!!!
Fuck you that was an awesome movie.
Thirded.
Fourthed. That movie works on so many levels.
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A friend and I once watched Starship Troopers 3 and Wargames 2 back to back, and ST3 was the superior movie. They even brought Rico back!
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All Starship Troopers movies are amazing.
As far as actual bad good "so bad it's good" movies go,
* Basket Case
* Crank (The execution is flawless, but the story is so bad it's good. Read the plot synopsis for the sequel on Wikipedia if you dare.)
* Belly (Gangster movie with not one but two rappers in the lead. Directed by a dude famous for his music videos.)
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Pieces. It's about a guy who runs around killing women with a chainsaw. Most of the things that happen doesn't make too much sense but it's just so damn entertaining.
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I can't believe no one has mentioned surf ninjas yet.
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Admittedly I guess this is more of a "good good movie" then what this thread is about.
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By "good good movie" you mean "piece of shit" right?
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By "good good movie" you mean "piece of shit" right?
I was joking about it being a good movie, but it's definitely a good bad movie. there's no doubt about that.
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Oh thank god, I was hoping you were being sarcastic, but this is also the internet.
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Pfft. Amateurs.
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Obvious.
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Includes a scene where a man is attacked by a talking lump of shit. Also it's about a vampire motorcycle terrorising Birmingham. And it stars Neil Morrisey and fucking C3P0.
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Peter Jackson is a gawky alien hunter who gets his brains dashed out, but manages to cram them back into his skull and embark upon one of the greatest chainsaw rampages in cinematic history. Bastards!
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"MURDER ISN'T FUNNY!" *Begins eating corpse*
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Possibly the best poster in history.
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This is what happens when two extremely stoned looking metalheads somehow wangle funding to make a film. Nihilistic drug dealers become vampire angels and someone tears out a nuns vagina with their fucking teeth.
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A bearded serial killer summons Dani filth to tear open peoples skulls, implant demon foetuses into goth chicks and eat cats, for no easily discernable reason.
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Sometimes a budget can be a help, not a hindrance. Brian fucking Blessed.
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I can't remember if this is the one where he surfs to Japan. That's far and away the best one.
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At one point, Riki punches the top of a mans head clean off. This is after he has been tortured, buried alive for a month then manacled in a prison cell with ten centimetre thick chains. So good it should be illegal.
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The lip-synching anus matches or excels anything in Hitchcocks ouevre.
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Do the maths.
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The scary thing to consider is that this film came out four or five years before alien.
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Any film that opens with a vampire smoking an enormous cigar driving a long in a big red car and listening to Revenant Horton Heat, and manages to end with the Crips being turned into vampires by gangbanging a female vampire and then fighting Dracula's vampire mafia in an S&M club, is a good film by me.
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"I'm hear to find Duran Duran!"
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Best evil midget ever
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This tale of cannabalistic children plaguing a backwoods community is notable mainly for the unbelievably explicit slaughter of the children at the end by their own parents. One kid gets stuck to a wall with a pitchfork through his neck for fucks sake.
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I think my life is complete now. Thanks Khar
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At one point, Riki punches the top of a mans head clean off. This is after he has been tortured, buried alive for a month then manacled in a prison cell with ten centimetre thick chains. So good it should be illegal.
Reminds me of Ichi the Killer.
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Another good bad movie methinks.
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Not the same at all. Plus, Ichi the Killer was never 'bad', just weird. Compared to Riki-Oh, Ichi had a HUGE budget. Or at least much better production values.
Good bad movies are:
Things Peter Jackson did before LOTR
A sizeable chunk of zombie movies, including, but not limited to:
Hide and Creep
Dead and Breakfast
Undead (if only because of Marion's character)
Undead or Alive (starring Chris fucking Kattan)
Hellsground (the first Pakistani movie to feature excessive gore, and was essentially a ripoff of Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, and any zombie movie you care to name)
Fuck me, I've seen too many to remember. Likewise, there are lots of terrible ones here.
Game of Death II (A Bruce Lee movie without Bruce Lee, probably the best of many such films)
Delta Force 2 (Chuck Norris in his heyday)
Aw jesus why is my memory failing me now. I spent more or less a year watching movies like this.
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Gold Raiders
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Guys...see this movie! It's only on VHS but god damn is it awesomely bad. It's set in Thailand but with a lot of Americans on the cast. The Americans speak English. The Thai actors are clearly speaking Thai and are dubbed in English. In other words...the actors didn't know what they were saying to each other! Yes! This involves a plane being shot down full of gold over the jungle. A US/Thai special forces team tries to beat an evil Thai general to the gold. People get beaten up for no reason. Giant fish are hunted. Massive, laser shooting vampire bats guard a cave that must be crossed. The acting? Hilarious! The characters? Preposterous! Virtually every scene in the move? Absurd and nonsensical! It's probably my all time favorite 'so bad it's good' movie. Plus they sell it on amazon for really cheap. It's worth it!
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Barbarella
I just cannot enjoy that film at all, even in a "so bad it's good" way. It's just awful. I'll keep getting my on-the-cheap sci-fi kicks from Dark Star.
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No. That movie is just terrible.
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Man, SMB was very entertainingly bad. It just wasn't intentional, unlike most of the movies lsited so far.
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I genuinely liked the SMB movie. Also, I totally forgot.
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fuck you man. supermario brothers is GENIUS!!!
wait, who am I saying fuck you to? shit i should have quoted someone...
how bouts
The frighteners?
or is that just good-good?
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One of my favorite good bad movies.
"We're going to need bigger guns." **mills around the armory, picks up a rifle... "Too fucking small!"
:laugh:
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Such an amazing movie.
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Man, I forgot about this one.
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A lot of these (http://avclub.com/features/my-year-of-flops).
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Don't Pink Flamingoes, Bad Taste and Meet the Feebles all have pretty sizable cult followings among both fans of schlock and some critics?
And I've never heard a bad thing about Heavenly Creatures (which, like Feebles and Bad Taste, is pre-LOTR Peter Jackson).
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Don't Pink Flamingoes, Bad Taste and Meet the Feebles all have pretty sizable cult followings among both fans of schlock and some critics?
And I've never heard a bad thing about Heavenly Creatures (which, like Feebles and Bad Taste, is pre-LOTR Peter Jackson).
Yeah, but that doesn't mean they can't still be good bad movies (a lot of cult films are, but it's not a prereq).
And Heavenly Creatures is the most recent entry in the AV Club's "new cult canon", so yeah, It's generally well regarded.
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I am going to go watch bad movies with some friends! We are either doing Super Mario Brothers or Ladies And Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains.
HAY JEPH THE STAINS IS NOT A BAD MOVIE IT TOTALLY ROCKS MMM DIANE LANE \m/ \m/ \m/
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Re: the Action Jackson poster: Carl Weathers has bulked up a lot. He used to be one svelte dude.
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She-Devil was pretty bad. I could never stick around to see the ending.
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The thing I'll never understand about the Last Dragon is all the screen time the slimey white business man gets. I mean, it's not like the movie has a plot even with that guy in it. Hell, it didn't even really need one. It's current cult status within hip-hop culture has proven soundly that young kids in the '80s were perfectly happy to watch a dude called Bruce Leeroy face off against a guy called Sho'nuff, the Shogun of Harlem. It's like they knew exactly who their audience was but flinched at the last second.
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Action Jackson was on my favorites list when I was like, 18...
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Does Big Trouble in Little China count here, or is that for the Good Awesome movies thread?
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actually, there aren't any adjectives currently in existence to describe how Awesome that movie is.
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Do you know what's better? Watching it stoned....
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anything Nicolas Cage does after Raising Arizona is shit.
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Besides Adaptation and maybe one or two others but yeah, pretty much. I didn't think Ghost Rider was even "good bad" though. It was just...really bad.
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Quote from review: "THE GATES OF HELL tells the story of Dunwich, Massachusetts, a small town where a priest commits suicide in the local cemetery. This event opens the gates of hell, allowing the dead to return and walk the earth . . . unless a reporter, a psychic, and a psychologist can close them before the impending All Saint's Day holiday. In the meantime, lots of weird things start happening, all usually accompanied by an appearance of the dead priest, who's generally hanging from his noose like some kind of satanic piñata."
This movie actually made me want to throw up when I was like 13-14. Literally, I had to hold it down.
It wasn't a great movie, but it was bad/good in so many ways. :D
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A friend and I once watched Starship Troopers 3 and Wargames 2 back to back, and ST3 was the superior movie. They even brought Rico back!
They made THIRD!?
My brain is too fried from learning that to even make a good recommendation.
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The Love Guru. I remember laughing through it more than most other comedies I've seen, just because it was so atrocious. It was almost painful to watch.
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Tank Girl.
that is all.
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It was in fact your descriptions of Feast, Jens, and the subsequent conversations that led to this thread though i still haven't seen Feast yet (I will rectify this later).
Starship Troopers.
Casper Van Dien, Jake Busey AND Neil Patrick Harris!!!
Fuck you that was an awesome movie.
Thirded.
Fourthed. That movie works on so many levels.
I fifth'd this. It was friggin awesome, nothing else. ARE YOU DOING YOUR PART? <____<
From what I heard, they dropped the kitsch and the satire thing in Starship Troopers 2 and, which is kinda disappointing. As interesting as the novel was, there was no way you'd be able to try to make a film adhere more canonically to it without making it extremely dull.
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Seriously? They wear powered armor, jump for miles, throw handfuls of miniature incendiary grenades, and have shoulder-mounted nukes. How is it that addition of those would not make the movie awesome?
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Iron Man can appromiximate those qualities yet the parts of the movie that concentrated just on his capabilities were arguably the boring parts.
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He wasn't blowing up and/or frying giant bugs. Even if it didn't make the movie better somehow, it wouldn't make it worse.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g84nC5UXbXo
which category do you think this will fall into?
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Totally awesome.
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Totally fucking awesome
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On the one hand, I trust Spike Jonze and I don't trust trailers . . .
. . . But on the other hand, judging solely from that trailer it looks like they got the Max's costume perfectly right and everything else unutterably, horribly wrong. Man I hope not. But if this turns out to be (as the trailer is strongly trying to convince us it is) another American "Everybody learns to love everybody else" film then I think I'm gonna puke.
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Aw jesus why is my memory failing me now. I spent more or less a year watching movies like this.
i think you answered your own question there ...
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I think the problem is that quite a few of those movies that I saw were good, but weren't self-aware or campy in any way, so I don't consider them 'good bad'. They were just good movie with really low budgets.
Last Rites of the Dead, for one. It was basically zombie American History X, and it was pretty cool.
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No...
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And all the movies that Russ Meyer made.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g84nC5UXbXo
which category do you think this will fall into?
This video has been removed due to terms of use violation.
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No question. This is actually so good bad that it might be good good.
It's also the goriest movie of all time.
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wrong.
Dead Alive is GREAT GREAT. all caps, totally necessary.
one of my friends recently found some really shitty old VHS's at a thrift store and they are so terrible that they are good. i tried to Google them to find the covers but they are so shitty that i don't think anyone has ever even seen them. they are called "Dance or Die" and "The Newlydeads"\
edit: i found the cover for The Newlydeads!
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braindead/dead alive is also directed by peter jackson of lord of the rings fame! once you watch it you will appreciate how amazing that is.
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http://www.teethmovie.com/trailer.html
I'll let you guys do the research if you still don't get the plot.
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braindead/dead alive is also directed by peter jackson of lord of the rings fame! once you watch it you will appreciate how amazing that is.
One of my all time favorites, filmed in my neck of the woods.
Jackson also filmed The Frighteners around here as well. Another good film. Its just went for too damn long under the radar, especially for having a few big stars in it.
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And Meet the Feebles, the craziest muppet movie ever.
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braindead/dead alive is also directed by peter jackson of lord of the rings fame! once you watch it you will appreciate how amazing that is.
(Actually given the lackluster mise en scene in LOTR it's not terribly surprising to me)
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ah yeah i meant moreso in the sense that it's kind of "hey, i make some really cheesy and disgusting horror films but i think now what i really want to do is spend the next few years or so on an incredibly expensive film adaptation of one of the most famous fantasy stories ever written." i did not like the lord of the rings films either but i do find it amusing that they are somehow the same person.
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I can kinda connect the two because the way Jackson uses slo-mo is pretty much the same way a B-horror movie director would use it. Jackson's got an eye for scenery, though.
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I like all of Jackson's old work. Bad Taste was funny, BrainDead was an even better follow up. Meet the Feebles was decent. Frightners was cool. Loved Heavenly Creatures. Of them, I'd consider Bad Taste and Meet the Feebles "Bad Movies" just for technical flaws, but they're still extemely fun to watch.
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(Actually given the lackluster mise en scene in LOTR it's not terribly surprising to me)
Lacklustre mise en Scene?
That is a joke, yes? Or maybe you are using some fancy film school definition of mise en scene that does not make sense.
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According to Wikipedia, there isn't really a set meaning for mise en scene. So I have no idea what KvP is talking about.
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Okay the idea that separate people think that Ichi The Killer and Popeye are good bad movies is infuriating. These are both genuinely great films, and don't you forget it.
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Anything by Corman...anything. Especially these two though.
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Best of all, and totally unrelated to Corman, Pink Narcissus
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To give a fair idea of what I mean watch this, NSFW video. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdiV52ByFTI)
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Okay the idea that separate people think that Ichi The Killer and Popeye are good bad movies is infuriating. These are both genuinely great films, and don't you forget it.
Amen for that i got ichi the killer box set and thats the bomb.
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some of my favorites have already been mentioned Meet the Feebles, Ichi the Killer but i have to add Suburbia by Penelope Spheeris. It was the movie she did right after The Decline of Western Civilization which is prolly one of the greatest documentaries ever.
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My Name Is Bruce. Kinda reminded me of Dead and Breakfast, but if that movie had Bruce Campbell.