Black Dog. Look, it's got Patrick Friggin' Swayze, Travis Tritt and Meatloaf. Yeah, the Loaf himself. Oh, and a big truck. It's really bad. Embarrasingly, actually. And that's what makes it wonderful.
Pretty obvious. Tell us you're favorite movies that are so bad, they're good and why. I'll start us off:
Black Dog. Look, it's got Patrick Friggin' Swayze, Travis Tritt and Meatloaf. Yeah, the Loaf himself. Oh, and a big truck. It's really bad. Embarrasingly, actually. And that's what makes it wonderful.
It wasn't Travis Tritt it was Randy Travis, totally different but yeah, I liked it. It makes my list.
I wouldn't say "it's so bad it's good", but I would say "it's so camp that it's good".
Oh come on, now
Rocky Horror (I'm sure by now that everybody knows how harcore Rocky I am, lol)
Shock Treatment (the RH "sequel")
Flash Gordon (another movie w/ Richard O'Brien
)I really kind of liked Black Dog...
REPO: The Genetic Opera (though not quite as good as others on the list - it borders on just bad)
Phantom of the Paradise
Lair of the White Worm
Phantom of the Mall
Battle Beyond the Stars
Dreamscape
The Perils of Gwendolyn in the land of the Yik Yak (Tawny Kitaen, yo!)
Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn (3-D!)
Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone (also 3-D!)
Treasure of the Four Crowns (in Wondervision 3-D!)
Dead Heat (Joe Piscopo is the man!)
Can ya tell I hit puberty in the mid-80's? lol
Plan Nine From Outer Space
Manos: The Hands of Fate
Troll 2
Killer Klowns from Outer Space
yep - forgot about that one.
I can't believe people are still arguing over whether it was meant to be satire...
Starship Troopers.
I can't believe people are still arguing over whether it was meant to be satire...
It was meant to diss the book.
I was thoroughly surprised when I've found out the original troopers were more like Space Marines than Imperial Guard.
Does Legally Blond count? What about Knight's Tale or 10 Things I Hate About You?
I actually think the latter two are fairly good. Not great art or anything, but succeeding within their premise.
My choice has to be New Moon. Twilight was a bit too close to being so bad it's horrible instead, but New Moon had some fairly enjoyable sequences, mixed with a lot of gratuitous fanservice and narm, all coming together to make a perfect good-bad film.
The Conan movies and Starship Troopers are pretty good-bad too.
My choice has to be New Moon. Twilight was a bit too close to being so bad it's horrible instead, but New Moon had some fairly enjoyable sequences, mixed with a lot of gratuitous fanservice and narm, all coming together to make a perfect good-bad film.
If I had more friends in town I'd get everyone over to get drunk and watch that movie. Take a shot everytime we get gratuitous fan-service.
I'm surprised no one mentioned any of them yet.
My choice has to be New Moon. Twilight was a bit too close to being so bad it's horrible instead, but New Moon had some fairly enjoyable sequences, mixed with a lot of gratuitous fanservice and narm, all coming together to make a perfect good-bad film.
If I had more friends in town I'd get everyone over to get drunk and watch that movie. Take a shot everytime we get gratuitous fan-service.
That would have to be a judgement call. I mean, it's pretty obvious when someone take their shirt off, but most of the time, the boys just walk around without clothes on their upper body, so you'd have to judge if it's inappropriate for the situation before drinking.
Wow, I did not expect all this.... apathey towards The Beast Master.
Me neither I liked both the movie and the show..
I just didn't think I had to come out and say it. I thought it was a given.
One film I'm surprised hasn't been listed yet is Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The series was just good, but the original movie was definitely so camp and so bad that it rocked.
Eh, maybe I'm just far too much a child of the era, but I really don't consider The Beastmaster to really be all that bad...
Does Darkman make anyone else's list?
That movie made my step mom leave the theater in a panic! Right around the time the guy gets his fingers cut off with the cigar cutter. So yeah its definitely on my list.
Another good bad one. One of Peter Jackson's worst: Meet the Feebles.
The only scene I remember is this one:
Its the end of the movie and some building or something is blowing up or burning down or something like that. Jean Claude Van Damme is running out and he comes across the girl/love interest character. She's really hurt and stuff.
The conversation goes like this:
JCVD: "Blah, I'll save you."
Girl: "No save yourself."
JCVD: "Okay"
And he leaves her to die.
C'mon, that's so bad that its good, right?
Cyborg. He gets crucified on the mast of a beached pirate ship. Yeah.
I know EE doesn't like this one, but I think it is so bad it's good: Jesus Christ: Vampire Hunter. Love it. Surprisingly respectful of Christianity, which is just weird.
Another one that makes my list but only because of the event attached was Snakes on a Plane. I will never watch it again, but opening night was amazing. People showing up in costume, everybody sneaking alcohol into the theatre, rubber snakes and gummi worms being tossed around during the movie... yeah. It was a great event surrounding a stinking turd of a movie. Wouldn't even have been as fun if it hadn't been such a colossally stupid movie.
I know EE doesn't like this one, but I think it is so bad it's good: Jesus Christ: Vampire Hunter.
Hey, it clears out annoying roommates and guests, so it has some redeeming features. The feature film itself just isn't one of them.
Caveman with Ringo Starr and Shelly Long.
Hey!
I liked that movie!
Spaceballs.
There's some good ones, but for the most part? You can save time & just lump them all into that "So bad their good" catagory.
Now to be fair, most ended up with this result simply because of the tiny budgets (even for the time) that they were shot on & the basic format that is the seriel.....
Flash Gordon (later retitled "Space Soldiers" when it was shown on syndicated TV in the 50s) is an excellent example.
I love that movie!
Has anybody said "Big Trouble in Little China"?
I love that movie!
But theres nothing bad about that movie!
Has anybody said "Big Trouble in Little China"?
I love that movie!
But theres nothing bad about that movie!
I'm telling ya, I can watch that movie 20 times in a row...
"It won't bother us anymore."
"What?!"
"What won't bother us anymore?!"
LOL!
Street Fighter: Ham and cheese in its purest and most DELICOUS form.
Dungeons & Dragons
Dungeons & Dragons: Wrath of the Dragon God: A Sci-Fi channel original movie.
Spaceballs wasn't bad at all, it's completely awesome.
Spaceballs wasn't bad at all, it's completely awesome.
"What's the matter Colonel Sanders?"
"Chicken?"
Ah...HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Y'know, I don't think any movie intentionally designed as a spoof can really fall into the "so bad it's good" category, since that's sort of the whole purpose of it - if it succeeds at being "so bad it's good" then it's just a good comedy movie. If it fails at being "so bad it's good", then it's just a crappy waste of film...
Y'know, I don't think any movie intentionally designed as a spoof can really fall into the "so bad it's good" category, since that's sort of the whole purpose of it - if it succeeds at being "so bad it's good" then it's just a good comedy movie. If it fails at being "so bad it's good", then it's just a crappy waste of film...
That's a fantastic point. Blazing Saddles, for example, would be considered a terrible Western. It's one of the greatest movies of all time, though, precisely because it was meant to be a terrible Western.
That's a fantastic point. Blazing Saddles, for example, would be considered a terrible Western. It's one of the greatest movies of all time, though, precisely because it was meant to be a terrible Western.
Sort of like Mystery Men?
On that note, funny movies, in general, are probably better to see with friends then alone.
Mystery Men was pretty funny in a "see it with friends" sorta way.
On that note, funny movies, in general, are probably better to see with friends then alone.
Most movies are better to see with friends, SOs or family than alone. Unless everyone you hang out with is a douche ;)
But I'm also kind of anti-social.
Mystery Men was pretty funny in a "see it with friends" sorta way.
On that note, funny movies, in general, are probably better to see with friends then alone.
Totally. I can watch movies by myself just fine. I'd rather share a funny one, though.
Dungeon & Dragon: Wrath of the Dragon God...was better...which made the other one even sadder...I mean it was beaten by a sci-fi orginal movie...how low can you go there.
Oddly enough, I prefer watching comedy movies in a theater by myself or with at most one or two other people. My sense of humor tends to be slightly different than those of the people I hang out with - I'm much bigger on intellectual humor and wordplay than "dumb" humor (bodily function jokes, cheap and obvious gags, etc.) - so it occasionally irritates the hell out of me when my "funny parts" are often drowned out by people laughing about things that just happened that I didn't think were all that hysterical...
It had space herpes.
It had space herpes.
Who hasn't?
Ah, Zardoz. Wish I'd remembered that one first. That was fun. Love that movie, but not because it was good.
Mystery Men was fun, especially since it had my favourite performer in it (Tom Waits). Not a bad movie, but a good one.
Another intentionally bad movie that works wonderfully well is Lost Skeleton of Cadavra.
As for the actual topic, The Master Killer is a hilariously bad kung fu movie. The eye room bit cracks me up every time.
Caveman with Ringo Starr and Shelly Long.
Hey!
I liked that movie!
Which would kinda be the point of this thread.
that was just bad. Terribad.
Space Herpes did not save that movie.
Cannibal the Musical (shpadoinkle!)
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension