"Bad" movies you love

[Jay321]

Looking through the guide on the tv, I saw a movie that I really enjoy. I always knew that it was a critical flop, but it was is a part of a feature that ifc is doing with rotten tomatoes called "too rotten to miss"

The movie is Chronicle of Riddick. Sure, it was poorly acted, but there are multiple Sci Fi series that were acted worse that are highly successful. It has a decent story, a unique antagonist, and the teacup scene was the original "disappearing pencil." **please note, I am not defending the next movie in the series. It was pretty bad.

Conversely what are "good" movies you hate?

Avatar. Visually stunning, but its the same story, big bad military vs. tree huggers. Tree huggers win. (no offense to tree huggers, I like trees) every "twist" is predictable.

 

[EverLux]

This will likely shock no one, but...

Jem

The plot was flimsy-to-nonexistent, and the whole thing with her father bored me to tears.
But the clothes were fun, Rio looked positively delicious wearing only low-slung jeans, the original songs were surprisingly good, and Aubrey Peeples's voice gives me chills.

Good movie I hate?

I don't know if it's fair to name this one, considering I've never been able to get through the whole thing, but I guess that's just further evidence of the level of my hatred.

Titanic

Not sure if it's the fact that I was in my "If it's popular, I shun it" phase, or maybe because I have a profound aversion to Leo DiCaprio. Celine Dion's massive hit song didn't help matters, either.

 

[jezzilee]

28 days and it's sequel.

 

[Hard_Rom]

What is actually the 3rd movie after Pitch Black and The Chronicles of Riddick is considered an improvement over the 2nd film. Pitch Black was bad. Didn't like that one. Watched it only for Claudia Black who was great in Farscape.

Battlefield Earth was real bad. But I enjoyed the book. Movie could have been a lot worse.

 

[soflabbwlvr]

Sucker Punch. The story makes no sense at all, but the cast is decent and the action sequences are off the chain. I watch it every time it comes on.

 

[Paul_Chance]

So Bad It's Good - "The Name of the King" - that movie is so horrible you'll never forget it and be quoting it for years.

I agree on Avatar - stunning visuals, but the plot was basically Dances With Aliens.

 

[Carnal_Flower]

Lol well it's kind of related . . . Titanic is the Bad Movie I Love.

I HATE Kate Winslet in it. The horrible acting of Billy Zane. The cheese-o-rama romance.

But I LOVE it. I love the whole stinking thing. The drama and excitement! I seriously watch that whenever I can.

This will likely shock no one, but...

Jem

The plot was flimsy-to-nonexistent, and the whole thing with her father bored me to tears.
But the clothes were fun, Rio looked positively delicious wearing only low-slung jeans, the original songs were surprisingly good, and Aubrey Peeples's voice gives me chills.

Good movie I hate?

I don't know if it's fair to name this one, considering I've never been able to get through the whole thing, but I guess that's just further evidence of the level of my hatred.

Titanic

Not sure if it's the fact that I was in my "If it's popular, I shun it" phase, or maybe because I have a profound aversion to Leo DiCaprio. Celine Dion's massive hit song didn't help matters, either.

 

[Sammael Bard]

Don Jon. Some love it, some don't. I found it to be edgy and different, which is saying something since all modern movies seem to be cut-paste revolving around the same central dogma.

Transformers. The first part and its sequel. It's a guilty pleasure of mine. Fuck Michael Bay's old bag of exploding tricks and the glaring plot holes. I still feel like a child whenever this shit gets repeated on HBO. Hell yeah! You go, Megan Fox.... er, I mean Lea Shebeouf. Whatever.

 

[Porkwarrior]

Pitch Black was great, especially considering it's budget. Chronicles was fun, and watchable more than once. The 3rd, with the fucking space dog? Yeah that flick was a dog.

Dredd is a personal fav, another take on "The Raid" but for a dystopian action flick it's pretty fucking cool. Plus it wiped the stain that was Stallone's Judge Dredd out of my neural net.


My personal fav REALLY BAD movie though is a Burt Reynolds classic...Cannonball Run. Burt & Dom DeLouise at their best, Roger Moore parodying himself, Jackie Chan as your typically racist early 80's Japanese caricature...it's just a cheesey romp.


Oh and Showgirls. Because OMFG so fucking bad in such hilariously right ways.

 

[KimGordon67]

This seems like a good place to admit that I cried watching the first Twilight movie on a plane.

'Dances with Aliens' - brilliant. I hated Avatar so much. 'Last minute replacement for avatar-thing where he gets to occupy another body ... is in a wheel chair!' Please.

 

[Hard_Rom]

Avatar had me in the first minute with the 3D bubbles. 75% of movies have same basic plots. You get used to good 3D quick. Not near as thrilling now to see a 3D movie as Avatar's first good 3d effects.

Books are for character development. Movies are for special effects and a bit of the old ultra-violence. Now if Sergio Leone was still making films might be different.

 

[KimGordon67]

Avatar had me in the first minute with the 3D bubbles. 75% of movies have same basic plots. You get used to good 3D quick. Not near as thrilling now to see a 3D movie as Avatar's first good 3d effects.

Yes, but the whole 'natives are more attuned with nature, but need a 'good white man' to ultimately save them from the evils of imperialism/colonialism/capitalism/whatever' plot is tedious in the extreme, a tiny bit insulting, and astoundingly unlikely. It would have been a better plot twist if they'd ended up using him as tree fertiliser.

 

[CoffeeWithMonkeys]

I love horrible horror movies. I usually will seek out movies with 1 or 2 stars.

I don't go to the movies, I have ADD and I can't just sit for 2+ hours so I have been to the movies since 1997, but I do watch a movie or two a day online. Yesterday I watched Slugs. Yes it was a cheesy scary movie about killer mutant slugs!

 

[KimGordon67]

I love horrible horror movies. I usually will seek out movies with 1 or 2 stars.

I don't go to the movies, I have ADD and I can't just sit for 2+ hours so I have been to the movies since 1997, but I do watch a movie or two a day online. Yesterday I watched Slugs. Yes it was a cheesy scary movie about killer mutant slugs!

For you ... it's pretty funny: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0779982/?ref_=nv_sr_3

 

[CoffeeWithMonkeys]

For you ... it's pretty funny: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0779982/?ref_=nv_sr_3

Must find this movie!!
Thanks

 

[CyranoJ]

Seconded for Sucker Punch. There's actually kind of an interesting high-concept thing going on if you give it a chance; plus it has hot chicks kicking ass. I really don't see what's not to like. (Also, I keep hearing how "bad" Batman vs. Superman supposedly was, and how it's supposed to have "failed" because it "only" made nearly a billion dollars, and far as I can tell its only sin is that it's not a Disney or MCU flick.)

I'm very fond of the Nicolas Cage classic The Vampire's Kiss, which is a freaking great dark comedy about a guy who mistakenly, and pathetically, thinks he's becoming a vampire. This is a favourite of "bad movie" parties but at what it's doing, I actually think it's pretty great. (The Wicker Man does belong as a bad movie but it's genuinely bad, and way more fun in detached GIFs than it is as a movie.)

I had to be won over to Excalibur back in the day, but IMO it's one of the best Eighties fantasy movies out there, right up there with Conan and Ladyhawke. Nicol Williamson's Merlin is an acquired taste, but once you acquire it, you can't get enough of it. "A dream to some... a nightmare to others!"

 

[EverLux]

Lol well it's kind of related . . . Titanic is the Bad Movie I Love.

I HATE Kate Winslet in it. The horrible acting of Billy Zane. The cheese-o-rama romance.

But I LOVE it. I love the whole stinking thing. The drama and excitement! I seriously watch that whenever I can.

lol Billy Zane is just about the only part of that movie I can stand. And that's only because he's so pretty.

 

[CharlieB4]

Oh dear, umm... here goes. Happy Gilmore.

He says preparing to duck the brickbats.

 

[sharingfantasies]

Tremors. I have no idea what it is about that dumb movie, but I enjoy it every time it comes on tv.

 

[oggbashan]

High Spirits starring a drunken Peter O'Toole playing a drunken Irishman and Darryl Hannah playing a ghost.

It is dreadful:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Spirits_(film)

The film received negative reviews from critics, as it currently holds a 17% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 12 reviews. Daryl Hannah was nominated for a Razzie Award as Worst Supporting Actress for her performance in the film, but lost to Kristy McNichol for Two Moon Junction.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Battleship. Hasbro wrapped a sci-fi plot around their board game. The only redeeming factor was the music. Loved the music they used. Acting - horrible and over acted. And after all the bad acting I watch it every time it's on. I can't help myself.

 

[Bramblethorn]

Guilty pleasure: Lair of the White Worm. Amanda Donohoe makes a great villain.

Meh: The Matrix. I went into this with over-high expectations and got disappointed; also, the "none of these people are real so it's OK for me to mow them down" bit felt a bit too much like sociopathy for my liking.

 

[shewantsmore]

Guilty pleasure: Lair of the White Worm. Amanda Donohoe makes a great villain.

Meh: The Matrix. I went into this with over-high expectations and got disappointed; also, the "none of these people are real so it's OK for me to mow them down" bit felt a bit too much like sociopathy for my liking.

I watched that film many years ago, at the time loved it,thought it was scary but funny too, wish i could see it again now,lair of white worm

 

[ElectricBlue]

I watched that film many years ago, at the time loved it,thought it was scary but funny too, wish i could see it again now,lair of white worm

Bought the DVD for $5 from a Blockbuster going out of business. One of Ken Russell's last movies. Amanda Donohoe is divine.

 

[shewantsmore]

Bought the DVD for $5 from a Blockbuster going out of business. One of Ken Russell's last movies. Amanda Donohoe is divine.

Ken russell did make some strange films