What are some of your favourite movies that might be considered bad by general consensus, but you still have an earnest fondness for?
Escape from L.A. and Maximum Overdrive are two that come to mind. I'm aware they're not good, but I still love them. It might be because I grew up watching them, but having rewatched them as an adult, they were still as fun as I remember.
Resident evil franchise,especially the final chapter. I didn't saw so much hate for a movie in my entire life as for the final chapter received.
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shareThis is a bad question for me because I just don't like bad movies. I remember watching Buck Rogers in the 25th century as a kid on cable over and over. Same with Thank God It's Friday. So call it Stockholm Syndrome or whatever but lack of options led me to have some affection for those two terrible films.
shareIt's much the same with the two I mentioned. They were on cable all the time, so that's what I watched.
I don't generally go out seeking bad movies (maybe sometimes out of curiosity). But it's inevitable that a person's going to see a bad movie, or a few, in their life. And you might end up liking some of them.
I've seen a lot of bad movies simply by accommodating girlfriends, family members, going with a large group of people... Because of this I've watched the Transformers and Twilight franchises... Underworlds... Sometimes I'll watch simply because a film becomes an important part of pop culture and I think people should keep up with major touchstones that everyone's talking about. Other times they'll be on a list that I want to complete... so I'll do it for that reason.
But rarely do I like them... and I do try to go in with an open mind even to this day.
I don't know if I've seen Escape from L.A... (seen New York) I know I haven't seen Maximum Overdrive... maybe I'll try them one day.
Lol. That's very true. My wife is an avid believer and very religious so I'm bound to see some really low quality religious movies. They have very little budget and very little creativity too. I respect the passion though.
There was a movie when the husband character kisses his wife, the actress potraying the wife magically changed. Turns out, they replaced the actress with the actor's real life wife for the kissing scene!
That said, sometimes we watch great religious movies too. The most recent one was Scorsese's Silence. Maybe the best religious movie I ever saw.
That movie was called Fireproof. Kirk Cameron played the husband and kissed his real wife.
Good movie.
I was forced to see a Transformers movie for movie night. Thankfully I fell asleep pretty quickly, so I can still say I've avoided those.
Escape from L.A is basically Escape from New York, but bad... As for Maximum Overdrive, it's just a ridiculous movie. Idk, if it's going to be bad, it helps if it's fun bad at least. That's obviously very subjective though.
Stephen King said that Maximum Overdrive was SUPPOSED to be "a moron movie."
Have you seen Beer For My Horses? Look at who's in it: Barry Corbin, Willie Nelson, Tom Skerritt, Gina Gershon, Toby Keith, Claire Forlani AND Ted Nugent, playing a mute!
Likewise for me, minus Buck Rogers and TGIF. Or Twilight, thank god I've been spared enduring that.
Off-hand, I can't think of any, but there may be a few.
Does The Breakfast Club count?
My husband loves anything by the Asylum.
So basically if it has a shark or vs in the title we have to watch it!
Lol. I already love your husband.
shareWell then, I recommend Bait ( 2012 ) , a low rated but dicy thriller; and for the most part, the shark scenes were pretty realistic.
shareAmen to Bait
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Iron Sky, it's like "Springtime for Hitler" from The Producers, only taken seriously. You either hate it, or you love it. For me, it was like being 8 years old again and discovering Mad Magazine for the very first time. I freaking love this film.
Sushi Girl, Tarantino homage that actually out-pulps Tarantino.
No One Lives, AMAZING pulp action plus intelligence, plus carnage, which is rare.
The Big Bang (movie NOT the vomitous TV show) combines Film Noire with quantum mechanics. When was the last time that you read a sentence like that?
None of these is, in fact, a bad movie. I think of them as art trouve. They have low budgets, and most people who read their blurbs On Demand would probably pass on them, so they meet Mina's criterion for being judged bad by consensus acclaim. Remember this: the majority opinion is almost always wrong. These suckers rock!
Yep,Iron Sky is a treasured DVD here!
It is like a perfect storm of things he likes,Nazis and Space!
We also have films about Nazi zombies (Dead Snow) and I think there is one about an army of Nazis made in the manner of Frankenstein's monster.
Iron Sky was pretty great. I mean, Moon Nazis...
shareThank you,I just read out the plot to him and I think it's safe to say we'll be looking out for it!
shareI'm gratified by the reaction to Iron Sky here. There's tremendous venom and hate for it on the Iron Sky boards on this site.
shareReally that's a shame.
I do sometimes think people watch stuff that's a bit put of their comfort zone and are then surprised when they don't like it!
I really liked The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and was surprised that it attracted so much hate too.
I don't think I've seen many Asylum stuff. They have a tv show, Z nation. I avoided it at first, but it's so much fun.
shareI loved,loved the first season of Z nation.It was The Walking Dead but not taking itself too seriously but I just went off it after the first season.
The Zombie tornado was a rather sublime moment of silliness!
I haven't seen the latest season, waiting to be in the mood for that silliness.
The giant cheese wheel is my personal favourite. I like that they actualy acknowledge that they are in the apocalypse. I feel that if it did happen, you'd be mentioning it constantly.
Ha! I'd forgotten that.
There was also the tidal wave of Zombies...or the Zunami! It was a great episode with Citizen Z encountering an astronaut called Yuri too.
The Zombie bear was also pretty great.
I'm almost tempted to watch again,there were moments of genius.
Did you watch TWD?
Yes I think you're right that if the Apocalypse did happen you'd think and talk about little else!
I do watch TWD. But it's become so repetitive that I don't know if I'm coming back next season. It's only saving grace for me is Carol's character, but I've lost interest otherwise.
Z nation, despite it's ridiculousness is moving the story along quite nicely. And I feel like the characters have more of a purpose and a goal, that allows the story to progress and develop something new or different each season.
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace is my all time bad movie favorite. It's the last Christopher Reeves' Superman so it has a special place in my heart. I saw it countless times and it gets better everytime.
shareAlthough they are not my "favorite" movies, I really like Exorcist II: The Heretic and The Last Airbender despite the fact that they received huge hate.
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I'll tell you my favorite bad movie MOMENT...it's in some late 1950's movie where a girl named Joan is going through her dad's desk and finds an envelope marked JOAN'S ADOPTION PAPERS in huge letters...about 3 inches high. It's written in this utterly ENORMOUS block printing!
To this day, my friend and I still joke about it. One of us will be saying something like "I was looking in the garage the other day, and..." and the other will say, "Oh my god....did you find JOAN'S ADOPTION PAPERS ? ! ? "
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So, they were very subtle in the way they went about showing Joan's adoption papers lol
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<< So, they were very subtle in the way they went about showing Joan's adoption papers lol >>
Yes : ) And what parent would label their child's adoption papers that way, if they wanted to keep it a secret??
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