'Bad' Movies, TV Shows, Books Etc. You Like

[lovecraft68]

The 13th Warrior, in my opinion, wasn't as bad as a lot of people make it out to be. And I say that as someone who isn't overly interested in Norse history and who was bored to tears by what little I saw of the Vikings series.

I enjoyed that movie.

Sometimes you just have to shut down the logic and go for the ride.

I love the line doled out out when Banderas makes his sword and one of the vikings says "If you die can I give to me daughter?"

That and after he sleeps with the villager, "Did she kill you or bring you back to life?"

 

[Two21B]

"Alien: Resurrection." To be clear, I don't see this as a bad movie, but I know that's the popular opinion surrounding it. I'd gladly watch Winona Ryder do instructional knitting videos if she were inclined to make them. Her interactions with Ripley in "Resurrection" were quite lovely.

 

[Plathfan]

If you haven't seen it, the New Roadhouse makes the original look like an Oscar winner. The thing is just awful in every way, even less of a plot, and unlike the original, there is not one character you can like because...you know shit about all of them, even the lead. The original had a sort of campy charm to it because it never took itsef seriously, and Swayze and Elliot were good in their roles, and the secondary characters were all a bit quirky, in this there's....nothing

Even the fight scenes are awful. Original actually had some well-choregraphed fights, this was like a cartoon.

This is a parody of the genre and quite funny. Seeing the world in black and white prevents the overly serious from recognizing any form of satire or parody.

 

[Priscilla_June]

Star Wars…. *runs*

 

[jaF0]

Assault on Precinct 13 anybody? (The real one, not the copy).

 

[jaF0]

Big Trouble in Little China. (Kim Cattrall)

Which brings up Mannequin (also Kim Cattrall.)

 

[Two21B]

"Big Trouble in Little China" is a masterpiece.

 

[alohadave]

Flash Gordon. A movie that was never even supposed to good. The director was set on making the movie just that way. Just campy and fun and add a Queen soundtrack to drive home the point with a railroad spike. I love it.

I love Flash Gordon. Total camp and the drama with making it is crazy.

Sam J Jones was/is a hot mess. Left filming and never returned for looping, so all his lines were dubbed by someone else. He was known to be difficult to work with, and it didn't change much when he had a guest spot on Stargate SG-1.

A couple years ago when the Jadorowski Dune docu was released was the concept art for his treatment, and I can't help but to think that if he had made Dune, it would end up similar to Flash Gordon.

 

[Plathfan]

Top Gun was great fun as a teenager; I watched it maybe four times. There's no way I could watch it today.

"Talk to me, Goose."

 

[jaF0]

I think back on ' *batteries not included ' quite often, but I don't now if it's considered a good movie or a bad one. I just like the little guys.

 

[alohadave]

Same here. I liked each new one less and less. I thought Clan of the Cave Bear was unique and compelling, and the second and third novels were pretty good overall, even though I spent a lot of the third one hoping Jondalar would get trampled by an aurochs or something. Fourth one wasn't bad, but the fifth and six are so long and so little happens. I guess after the success of her first one editors and publishers decided to just let her do whatever she wanted, even if that meant repeating the same explanations of what elecampane is good for and how loess dust is formed and blah blah blah three times in each book. And that mother song that she copied and pasted over and over again... that felt like it was 10% of the last couple of books by itself.
But whenever I read the first one again I usually feel compelled to endure the entire series for some bizarre reason.

Ayla is the ultimate Mary Sue character.

And I loved the first three books. The forth wasn't bad, and I never got past two or three chapter in #5. They got more and more unbelievable.

And there was a lot of rape scenes, and sex in general. I usually skipped over them in re-reads.

 

[lovecraft68]

This is a parody of the genre and quite funny. Seeing the world in black and white prevents the overly serious from recognizing any form of satire or parody.

Hmm, no. This wasn't parody, it was simply an awful movie.

McGregor was good for a couple of laughs because he basically played himself, other than that...ugh.

One of those movies that paid very little homage to the original and should have just been its own movie, but only way it was going to get clicks was to use the original title.

 

[jaF0]

Stripes had some good scenes during Basic, but went completely off the rails after that.

 

[MrPixel]

Sam J Jones was/is a hot mess. Left filming and never returned for looping, so all his lines were dubbed by someone else. He was known to be difficult to work with, and it didn't change much when he had a guest spot on Stargate SG-1.

I was unfamiliar with this actor, but on your mention skimmed his Wikipedia page. Funny quote of a quote from his wife about his acting career, "You've been waiting for the phone to ring. The phone isn't ringing. We have kids. There's the door. Don’t come back until you're providing." So he found other work for between (evidently rare) acting gigs. The difficulty in not having work in his chosen profession could maybe have some sort of causal relationship with his bad rep?

 

[gunhilltrain]

“Nazis at the Center of the Earth” was such a bad movie that I couldn’t help but like it.

This might have been the most tongue-in-cheek movie ever. Or worse yet, it was meant to be taken seriously. The dome that opens up is, I think, based on the one that Albert Speer had planned to build in Berlin.

 

[WrongFrog]

The 13th Warrior, in my opinion, wasn't as bad as a lot of people make it out to be. And I say that as someone who isn't overly interested in Norse history and who was bored to tears by what little I saw of the Vikings series.

It's one of my favorites, and I never understood why people thought it was bad.

 

[jaF0]

This might have been the most tongue-in-cheek movie ever. Or worse yet, it was meant to be taken seriously.

There's always The Producers.

 

[gunhilltrain]

There's always The Producers.

The 1968 one was awesome. The remake with Matthew Broderick: should never have been made.

"That's our Hitler!" Those three young women must be pushing age eighty at this point.

 

[jaF0]

I'm thinking Zero Mostel and Dick Shawn. I didn't know about the other. I don't do remakes.

I started watching Vanishing Point one night and didn't recognize it at all. Then I figured out it was the fake.

 

[gunhilltrain]

I remember watching that one because my MIL was a big Connery fan and collected all his stuff going back to Darby O'Gill. I remember thinking it was just a hair away from being a good movie because the story was actually intriguing.

Connery could pull off the most ridiculous scene and still look convincing, as in Highlander (also with immortals). Christopher Lambert was terrible, but Clancy Brown chewed up the scenery in one of his first movies. Somehow the climatic battle takes place in Long Island City, Queens, and nobody there notices it.

 

[Rob_Royale]

It's one of my favorites, and I never understood why people thought it was bad.

Agree completely. Very good movie.

 

[gunhilltrain]

I'm thinking Zero Mostel and Dick Shawn. I didn't know about the other. I don't do remakes.

I started watching Vanishing Point one night and didn't recognize it at all. Then I figured out it was the fake.

Spoiler alert! I like how they have random people watching the filming just sitting around. Was he supposed to be high on something and he didn't see what was happening?

 

[MrPixel]

A buddy just reminded me of a campy/awful flick that amused me - Spies Like Us. It's only on my list because much of it was filmed in my home town.

 

[gunhilltrain]

Assault on Precinct 13 anybody? (The real one, not the copy).

That had a huge number of the most inept gang members ever. Where did they learn their tactics? They look like the Union Army assault at Fredericksburg, if anybody knows what I'm talking about.

 

[jaF0]

Earth Girls Are Easy.


Stupid, stupid flick, but has Geena Davis in a very itsy bitsy teeny weeny bikini.