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I'm sure this has been done a MILLION times, but my computer is too slow to do a search. I like The Crush-every single scene cracks me up. I haven't seen anything this funny (unintentional?) in a while. Any suggestions?

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Thursday, 12 December 2002 12:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh, there's also Chasers (have I got the title right?) - Dennis Hopper plays a pervert with a fantastic false nose. Essential if you haven't seen it.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Thursday, 12 December 2002 12:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Can't Stop the Music - 1981? - by The Village People

I am NOT kidding! This is the greatest worst film of all effin' time. YOU MUST SEE THIS ONCE BEFORE YOU LEAVE THIS EARTH, ALL OF YOU

― Vic, Thursday, 12 December 2002 12:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Please see Boxing Helena.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 12 December 2002 12:24 (twenty-three years ago)

That (that) Vanilla Ice film, 'Cool As Ice'(?)

― DavidM (DavidM), Thursday, 12 December 2002 12:25 (twenty-three years ago)

Even though everyone I know (that i've asked) likes "Hudson Hawk" it always gets billed in the tv listings as utter rub. they are wrong.

― Alan (Alan), Thursday, 12 December 2002 12:29 (twenty-three years ago)

A Boy & His Dog

Caligula

Showgirls

― Queen G (Queeng), Thursday, 12 December 2002 13:18 (twenty-three years ago)

Starship Troopaz. I quite like Body Of Evidence tho with uh... whatshisname in it, I don't think you could call it completely bad. Oh uh Willem Dafoe!

― nathalie (nathalie), Thursday, 12 December 2002 13:28 (twenty-three years ago)

I endorse the suggestions of Can't Stop The Music and Showgirls. I'm always up for any old Hong Kong kung fu flick, good or bad.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 12 December 2002 13:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Grease 2

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 12 December 2002 13:32 (twenty-three years ago)

Ohmygod Grease 2 is spectacularly bad. I now have that re-pro-duct-ion song in my head!

― smee (smee), Thursday, 12 December 2002 13:45 (twenty-three years ago)

every gary oldman film ever. especially state of grace. it really is a terrible, terrible film, but it's got gary oldman and sean penn in advanced states of alcoholism. and you get to see gary oldman, greasy as fuck with long dirty hair talking about how he has to take a bath cause he's finally got so dirty that he can smell himself. classic!

oh, and speaking of actually good actors having fun chewing scenery in crap, crap films, how about warlock? richard e grant and julian sands (mmmmmm, julian sands...) chomping their way through everything in sight, and muttering in bad scottish accents about how CREATION WILL BE UNMADE!!!

― kate, Thursday, 12 December 2002 13:49 (twenty-three years ago)

starship troopers is not a great bad film. it is a good good film.

― Alan (Alan), Thursday, 12 December 2002 13:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Julian Sands has already featured in two suggestions above. He is always good for a rubathon.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 12 December 2002 14:20 (twenty-three years ago)

Is Julian Sands the anti-Bill Murray?

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 12 December 2002 14:22 (twenty-three years ago)

Dark Star - either a horribly sloppy fucked-up sci-fi flick, or a brilliant parody of every "serious" sci-fi flick out there... or some combination of the two. I don't know, but it's amazing.

― Dave Fischer, Thursday, 12 December 2002 14:55 (twenty-three years ago)

best bit in hudson hawk (also weirdly stark and hardcore)

hot chick in red car "hey mister, are you gonna die?"

― bob zemko (bob), Thursday, 12 December 2002 15:07 (twenty-three years ago)

Does anyone remember the "Hieronymous Bosch" joke from...oh what was that film where L.A. gets covered by lava? Tommy Lee Jones is in it.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Thursday, 12 December 2002 15:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Search and Destroy
Communion

These are both genuinely good films which barely even registered on the straight-to-video-ometer...

Clue: C.Walken is in both. The hand-dance he does in Communion is sublime. The "penis-claw" film-pitch Ileanna Douglas does in Search and Destroy is the pinnacle of her somewhat overlooked career.

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 12 December 2002 15:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Two guys are trying to rescue a giant Bosch painting from a museum.

Guy 1: Damn, this Hieronymous Bosch is HEAVY!
Guy 2: (I'm paraphrasing here) That's because he deals with man's inability to accept death,etc.

I'm so bad at this...

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Thursday, 12 December 2002 15:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Beyond the Valley of the Dolls. You also must see this before you die.

― j.lu (j.lu), Thursday, 12 December 2002 15:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Inclination to sin.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 12 December 2002 15:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Ghost Dad.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 12 December 2002 15:19 (twenty-three years ago)

I enjoy bad films with dance-offs like Center Stage and Save The Last Dance. Oh, and City of the Living Dead!

― Genevieve, Thursday, 12 December 2002 15:24 (twenty-three years ago)

"Stuart Saves His Family", which may in fact not be bad at all.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Thursday, 12 December 2002 15:27 (twenty-three years ago)

I endorse the suggestions of Can't Stop The Music and Showgirls.

Beyond the Valley of the Dolls. You also must see this before you die.

Both Wise and Good suggestions, nay, commands. On the hyperobscure but oh so entertaining level, Vampire On Bikini Beach is simply mindboggling -- and even or especially if you hate Star Trek, the fifth film (Final Frontier) is an extended car-wreck of massive proportions.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 12 December 2002 15:32 (twenty-three years ago)

*marlon brando in 'the island of dr. marreau (sp?)',
*anthony hopkins and his bearskin in 'legends of the fall',
*another christopher walken master stroke = "mascara..." in 'the comfort of strangers', which also features discussion of a 'forever fucking machine'
'vampire on bikini beach' --> reminds me of my favourite movie when i was 9, 'dr. goldfoot and the bikini machine'

― minna (minna), Thursday, 12 December 2002 16:09 (twenty-three years ago)

Beyond the Valley of the Dolls and Showgirls are both genius! Can't Stop the Music is really lousy, but fits this category perfectly.

― Sean (Sean), Thursday, 12 December 2002 16:15 (twenty-three years ago)

My favourite part in Showgirls is when the girl opens the door on the bad woman and she is standing up and shaving her leg!

Also: Mannequin and lots of James Spader movies, esp Dream Lover.

― Genevieve, Thursday, 12 December 2002 16:20 (twenty-three years ago)

St. Elmo's Fire

― Jeff W, Thursday, 12 December 2002 16:25 (twenty-three years ago)

Evil Dead 2

Any movie where throwing-red-paint-on-a-wall = blood-shed...CLASS.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 12 December 2002 16:32 (twenty-three years ago)

but... but... beyon the valley of the dolls is NOT BAD. it is the best film, ever, in the history of filmaking (that is not performance or barbarella). HOW CAN YOU CALL THIS FILM BAD, IT IS BRILLIANT!!! IT IS BETTER THAN A BENTLEY!!! BETTER THAN A BENTLEY! A BENTLEY! A BENTLY!!! AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH...

― kate, Thursday, 12 December 2002 16:38 (twenty-three years ago)

legends of the fall! yes! i always forget the name, but think of it as that ridiculously long film starring brad pitt's ass.

that madonna movie from the 80's...desperately seeking susan, was it?

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Thursday, 12 December 2002 16:44 (twenty-three years ago)

reminds me of my favourite movie when i was 9, 'dr. goldfoot and the bikini machine'

Ha! One of my housemates just got this for cheap a while back and so we watched it. My god, does it drag at points and the alleged humor made me want to kill. But it's still great.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 12 December 2002 16:49 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm with Kate; BTVOTD really is one of the greatest ever.

Nick: you mean like "Tenebre"? Best red-paint-against-a-wall scene ever!

― Sean (Sean), Thursday, 12 December 2002 18:21 (twenty-three years ago)

Real Genius.

Hannibal Brooks.

Die Hards.

Goldeneye.

Mission:Impossible.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 12 December 2002 18:30 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't see where anyone has mentioned Zardoz or Barbarella. The science fiction genre has brought us so many aimless plots, I feel a certain kinship.

― Aimless, Thursday, 12 December 2002 18:34 (twenty-three years ago)

"Roadhouse" (especially the Swayze tai-chi scenes)

― dan (dan), Thursday, 12 December 2002 18:41 (twenty-three years ago)

It's just occurred to me that about half of the films Fred Ward has ever been in fit in this category. He must be the king of this thread.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 12 December 2002 18:43 (twenty-three years ago)

oh, Tremors, fo' shiza.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 12 December 2002 18:46 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh God I forgot Tremors! God, I have no idea what I find so appealing about that film (other than the line "What the SHIT!?!", which literally had me pissing my pants with laughter), but I simply CANNOT turn it off once it's on!

And I know not of this "Tenebre" of which you speak, Sean, but I do now.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 12 December 2002 19:10 (twenty-three years ago)

The Nude Bomb
(the ill-fated Get Smart film)

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Thursday, 12 December 2002 19:44 (twenty-three years ago)

the val kilmer/marlon brando island of dr moreau feat. the o.g. mini-me

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Thursday, 12 December 2002 19:54 (twenty-three years ago)

Riding with Death.

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 12 December 2002 20:17 (twenty-three years ago)

It stars Jim Stafford = it is pain.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 12 December 2002 20:29 (twenty-three years ago)

Ned and I used to make it a regular happening to dig out really bad but really entertaining movies and have showings. The last movie I sent out was "Blood Freak".

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 12 December 2002 21:39 (twenty-three years ago)

Ah yes, how did I forget that bit of joy? "GOBBLEGOBBLEGOBBLE!"

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 12 December 2002 21:43 (twenty-three years ago)

"Lair Of The White Worm" deserves mention here.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 12 December 2002 22:07 (twenty-three years ago)

And indeed almost everything else by Ken Russell. If only Fred Ward had been in a Ken Russell film, we'd have a clear winner. (He hasn't, has he?)

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 12 December 2002 22:21 (twenty-three years ago)

buncha peops already said it but say it again : how the fuck is "Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls" bad? it's probably the best film i've ever seen!

― duane, Thursday, 12 December 2002 22:34 (twenty-three years ago)

admittedly i have only ever seen about 3 movies ever, i hate the movies.

― d, Thursday, 12 December 2002 22:35 (twenty-three years ago)

also how is anything ever by Ken Russell "great"? yeesh.

― D, Thursday, 12 December 2002 22:36 (twenty-three years ago)

Last time I visited this family-owned video store in the Burbs, I found a ton of movies that I haven't seen on the shelves in ages. I found Class of 1984 and I just had to rent it because it had punks on the cover of the box.

If you like exploitation movies, you have to see this one. It's just like those hysterical psychploitation movies from the sixties, only it's punks instead of hippies. Or like JD movies from the fifties. Rebel kids out of control! Roddy McDowell's lab rabbit gets roasted! Michael J. Fox as the preppy who gets his ass kicked! Timothy Van Patten looking more like a Loverboy reject than a punk! Someone gets their arm sawed off on a table saw!

― Kerry (dymaxia), Thursday, 12 December 2002 22:50 (twenty-three years ago)

P.S. I heard that it was banned in the UK, for violence, presumably. It's like Straw Dogs in a high school.

― Kerry (dymaxia), Thursday, 12 December 2002 22:52 (twenty-three years ago)

'Ooo La La Le Legs'

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 12 December 2002 23:02 (twenty-three years ago)

every gary oldman film ever

every Udo Kier ever.

http://www.udokier.de/images/filmbilder/udokier018.jpg

― erik, Thursday, 12 December 2002 23:03 (twenty-three years ago)

You have all listed some of my favorite movies.

― Mandee, Thursday, 12 December 2002 23:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Every Udo Kier ever??? Hang on a minute, "Suspiria" is pure brilliance!! Not because of him necessarily, but still.

That said, both Warhol's Dracula and Frankenstein fit the bill. How about Joe Dallesandro's accent (he's supposed to be Italian)?? Ok forget about that, how about Joe Dallesandro's ass!!

― Sean (Sean), Friday, 13 December 2002 01:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Surf Ninjas

― A Nairn (moretap), Friday, 13 December 2002 02:27 (twenty-three years ago)

'slapshot', paul newman's crowning achievement and the greatest hockey movie ever made.
'youngblood' is the second best hockey movie ever but probably still belongs on this list. patrick swayze in a coma nearly brought me to tears.

― keith (keithmcl), Friday, 13 December 2002 03:34 (twenty-three years ago)

I am unsure as to whether anyone else in the world has actually seen this, but 'Welcome To 18' had me and 4 of my friends in uncontrollable laughter for about 20 mins. We watched the 'disappearing boat' scene in slow motion five times - one minute the boat is there, the next minute it blows up, but all you can see through a gap in the flames is calm water.

― Livvie, Friday, 13 December 2002 03:41 (twenty-three years ago)

jon voight's ridiculous accent- "this river can kill you a thousand different ways"- makes 'anaconda' a fantastic bad film.

― keith (keithmcl), Friday, 13 December 2002 03:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Listzomania (Ken Russell, of course)

Exorcist II: The Heretic (will you LISTEN to the music they play in the trailer?! HA HA HA HA HA)

Xanadu (Opening line: "Oh well...guys like me shouldn't dream anyway!")

The Thing That Couldn't Die (I've never seen Mystery Science Theater's treatment of it, either)

Lust for a Vampire (classic classic classic -- plus, there's nothing better than an audio commentary where the director laughs at his own film)

― Joe (Joe), Friday, 13 December 2002 03:49 (twenty-three years ago)

also how is anything ever by Ken Russell "great"?
*cries*

― rosemary (rosemary), Friday, 13 December 2002 04:28 (twenty-three years ago)

Holy shit! How could I forget: Legend of the Seven Golden Vampires

Hammer Films AND the Shaw Brothers. Sweet Jay-sus...

― Joe (Joe), Friday, 13 December 2002 04:34 (twenty-three years ago)

Slapshot is a great movie! Did more for hockey in the States then anything else before Gretzky or maybe Lake Placid Olympics.

Realyl bad films: Piranha 2: The Spawning (directed by a famous director whose intials are SS), Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, Repo Man (no real plot but GREBT dialog) and Lethal Ninja.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Friday, 13 December 2002 04:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Beyond the Valley of the Dolls. You also must see this before you die.
Well AFTER you die, it' sorta IMPOSSIBILE, non?

― nathalie (nathalie), Friday, 13 December 2002 09:25 (twenty-three years ago)

Repo Man is GREAT!

I just remembered a real classic - LIAR, with Tim Roth and Renee Zellweger. Tim has these fits where he goes into a trance, stands on a chair, and tries to unzip his fly. They're meant to be really tense, but they are hilarious. I only saw it because I had a huge crush on Renee after Jerry Maguire, but now she scares me.

Uncut's ever reliable movie review section gave it five stars!

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Friday, 13 December 2002 09:46 (twenty-three years ago)

great bad boy joe dalleseandro

http://www.dacre.org/stills/webd/Dalf068.jpg

― erik, Friday, 13 December 2002 11:43 (twenty-three years ago)

"beverley hills ninja" w/ chris farley. fat guy tries martial arts - breaks stuff / falls over. classic!

― bob snoom, Friday, 13 December 2002 14:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Crossroads!

And I refuse to say that Showgirls is bad in any way. It is the best movie ever, damn it.

― Nicole (Nicole), Friday, 13 December 2002 14:13 (twenty-three years ago)

repo man's plot is intense!!

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 13 December 2002 14:32 (twenty-three years ago)

Totally! The safety of the whole world is at stake!

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Friday, 13 December 2002 14:34 (twenty-three years ago)

UUUUUUDOOOOOO!!! I love Udo Keir. love, love, love him. andy warhol's dracula is fucking genius, what are you talking about?

joe dellasandro... uuuuuhhhhh... ::drools uncontrolably:: i have sat through every minute of trash, flesh and heat in order to catch glimpses of that man's ass. yum.

and why is that so many of the movies that people are posing here as the worst films of all time are my favourite movies? it is not my taste that is wrong, it is society's. so there.

― kate, Friday, 13 December 2002 14:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Kate, I didn't know you were such a big fan of "Crossroads".

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 13 December 2002 14:54 (twenty-three years ago)

I still crack up thinking of the middle aged man who ran out of the theater sobbing when Kim Catrall told Brit she didn't want anything to do with her.

― Nicole (Nicole), Friday, 13 December 2002 14:56 (twenty-three years ago)

How about Joe Dallesandro's accent

Joe practices marxism to the max
to cut decadent aristos in half with his
axe, but NO funny Italian for him.
just plain heroic white trash american
but completely OTT.

http://www.udokier.de/images/filmbilder/udokier022.jpg

"he looks ghastly pale...but then all vegetarian are"

― erik, Friday, 13 December 2002 17:58 (twenty-three years ago)

More, a i've been ab-sent:

But I'm a Cheerleader

Now, Voyager (yes, it's actually *bad*-bad imo, I mean, that kid just comes in and ruins it, wtf - but so obviously good too)

Portnoy's Complaint - again, can be taken both ways. but see it you must. how many other movies from 1972 featured BOTH karen black and a jewish-mother-figure talking about how masturbation is bad "b-cause you'll get cum in your eye!" the most disturbing thing about this though is the vague feeling it may be semi-autobiographical. but don't let that (or the 1-star rating on allmovie.com) dissuade you, U MUST SEE THIS

and the winner of all time: (even though it too can be taken in a good-good context, honest!): the 1963 Cleopatra - "Oh Richard, er, Antony, I lurve u to death mwah mwah mwah!! WE R Goinn@ Roole Da Wurld!!!! POUR SOME MORE OIL ON ME BITCHEZ!!!!!"

― Vik, Friday, 13 December 2002 20:45 (twenty-three years ago)

as anthony siad to cleopatra as he opened a grate of ale ooh I say

oh no, that's Carry On Cleo.

― erik, Friday, 13 December 2002 23:29 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't think anyone's mentioned Head yet -- the Monkees movie. HOW CAN YOU NOT MENTION IT? Did you miss the part just now where I said it's "THE MONKEES MOVIE"?

My gosh.

Also Joe Vs. the Volcano, Slumber Party Massacre, Spice World, and -- if the following count -- Josie & the Pussycats and the Brady Bunch movies.

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 13 December 2002 23:43 (twenty-three years ago)

anything with Judge Reynhold in it

― stevem (blueski), Saturday, 14 December 2002 00:37 (twenty-three years ago)

Identity Crisis, directed by Melvin Van Peebles. Not only is it possibly the worst movie I've ever seen (about a rapper named Chilly D who gets possessed by the spirit of a gay fashion designer killed by arabs), Melvin and son Mario had the fuckin' gall to write a book about the making of it. Horrendous editing, weird color shifts, atrocious acting. It's the tops.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 14 December 2002 20:12 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't think anyone's mentioned Head yet -- the Monkees movie. HOW CAN YOU NOT MENTION IT? Did you miss the part just now where I said it's "THE MONKEES MOVIE"?

That's a fucking great movie! It's like Frank Zappa's 200 Motels crossed with The Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour, except neither hateful nor boring!

As for my own suggestion- Cruel Intentions 2 owns this thread, if only for the moment in the middle of it where the main character says, for no apparent reason whatsoever, "this is like a godamn Godzilla movie". And the lezzed-up kissing cousins, of course.

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Saturday, 14 December 2002 23:46 (twenty-three years ago)

communion rules this thread

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 14 December 2002 23:48 (twenty-three years ago)

a rapper named Chilly D who gets possessed by the spirit of a gay fashion designer killed by arabs

Just another day on ILX.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 15 December 2002 00:37 (twenty-three years ago)

But Ken Russell rules over Communion

― Andy K (Andy K), Sunday, 15 December 2002 00:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Empire Records - Renée Zellweger and Liv Tyler must just cringe at the thought that videos of this movie exist. It's got great production values, a ridiculous plot, terrible direction, awful performances and more unintentional hilarity than any other movie I've ever seen besides Plan Nine From Outer Space. I know a guy who has seen it over a hundred times.

― J (Jay), Sunday, 15 December 2002 00:56 (twenty-three years ago)

communion?? come on: WILD SIDE.

― jones (actual), Sunday, 15 December 2002 01:05 (twenty-three years ago)

J, the scary fucking thing is that a lot of people really LIKE Empire Records. Granted, they're all people who thinking working at a megastore would give them carte blanche coolness but it does seem to be some kind of endearing fantasy to people.

I think it blows horrendous goats myself.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 15 December 2002 01:08 (twenty-three years ago)

the scary fucking thing is that a lot of people really LIKE Empire Records

You're not kidding. I've jsut been reading some of the reviews over at IMDB--half the reviewers utterly hate it, but the other half talk about how they've seen it hundreds of times, how it speaks to their lives, how it's the BEST MOVIE EVER . . . I'm speechless.

― J (Jay), Sunday, 15 December 2002 01:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Repo Man: Bad Film vs ONE OF THE BEST FILMS EVER MADE

*Evidence weighs in favor of the latter*

and Emilio's career was straight downhill from there.

― webcrack (music=crack), Sunday, 15 December 2002 02:32 (twenty-three years ago)

Requiem for a Dream

Most laughs I ever had watching a movie.

― David Allen, Sunday, 15 December 2002 03:48 (twenty-three years ago)

I was chilled and impressed by Requiem... nothing bad about it in my book. And *finally* we get a performance that doesn't glamorize drug use in the slightest; Ellen Burstyn was great. Nobody comes to a good end in it at all, but not in a way that makes you secretly think they're fab, or glamorous or anything. I guess most people don't think most drug scare flicks are secretly glamorous, but I do/did. I'm scared to see it again.

― Sean (Sean), Sunday, 15 December 2002 05:05 (twenty-three years ago)

Also, don't knock the music -- a snippet of which is currently doing double-duty ratcheting up the tension and atmosphere with various Two Towers trailers and commercials...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 15 December 2002 05:06 (twenty-three years ago)

The music was good, and I heard about the Two Towers thing on Ebert...

However, my god, the characters either A) were obnoxious and made me want to punch them in the face or B) Laughable. Especially the pile of stereotypes that was Tyrone.

That, and the Ass 2 Ass scene, holy shit. Couldn't Darren Aronofsky think of a more plausable fate for the drug addict? He didn't have to SPICE IT UP AND DO STUFF ONLY INDIE FILMS COULD, EDGY.

― David Allen, Sunday, 15 December 2002 06:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Are You Being Served? The Movie

― erik, Sunday, 15 December 2002 09:54 (twenty-three years ago)

does the star wars christmas special count as a "film"

― geeta (geeta), Sunday, 15 December 2002 09:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Requiem makes me wanna kill
Evil Dead 2, Repo Man & Dark Star are great great great great. Slightly dodgy effects and acting doesn't make them bad.

I hear Finding Forrester is hilarious. It's sad that http://yourethemannowdog.com is down.

― Keith McD (Keith McD), Sunday, 15 December 2002 10:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Must add to this- I saw John Carpenters Vampires last night-

Best line (in a high pitched screechy voice):
"He killed a priest!!"

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Sunday, 15 December 2002 10:59 (twenty-three years ago)

it wz a zombies movie really tho, not a vamp movie

i liked the sort eternal twilight feel of the lighting

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 15 December 2002 12:04 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes, and James Woods is always value for money.

I'm told he has a very attractive rear end for a man his age, but I wouldn't know...

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Sunday, 15 December 2002 12:14 (twenty-three years ago)

Spice World, and -- if the following count -- Josie & the Pussycats and the Brady Bunch movies.

The first two are GREAT movies and the second two are bad movies that know they're bad movies, so they don't count.

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Sunday, 15 December 2002 13:57 (twenty-three years ago)

Re: Requiem (YES, overrated, YES "ass-2-ass" deploarble) - "However, my god, the characters either"

- but hey! that FRIDGE really rocked man, not only the most interesting character in the movie but by-and-far _even though it got snubbed in the noms_ *THE* GREATEST PERFORMANCE BY A KITCHEN APPLIANCE, HANDS DOWN. Wuz so totally robbed by like Judi Dench or whoever

― Vic, Sunday, 15 December 2002 18:38 (twenty-three years ago)

it's all about beastmaster, y'all!

― Tad (llamasfur), Sunday, 15 December 2002 20:47 (twenty-three years ago)

Anyone ever watch "Heartbreak Hotel"?

― Michael Bourke, Sunday, 15 December 2002 20:57 (twenty-three years ago)

Speaking of James Woods, seeing him at the end of "The Boost" ain't too glamorous either. Drug scare films need to be really scary!!

― Sean (Sean), Sunday, 15 December 2002 21:38 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.carpuzi.com/images/boost.jpg

― erik, Sunday, 15 December 2002 22:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ok, so the beginning was glamorous!

― Sean (Sean), Sunday, 15 December 2002 22:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Can't believe no-ones said Lifeforce yet. Truly classic, Vampires from outer space lay waste to London. A gloriously hammy Frank Finlay, Mick Jagger's brother as a vampire and a pre-Star Trek Patrick Stewart in a role which he must have forgot to put on his cv.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Sunday, 15 December 2002 22:41 (twenty-three years ago)

lifeforce starts REALLY well

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 15 December 2002 23:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Also, Rock N Roll Nightmare

A movie about Sammy Kurr, an 80s hair metaler/satantist who dies, comes back, and shoots lazers out of his guitar.

― David Allen, Sunday, 15 December 2002 23:48 (twenty-three years ago)

The first two are GREAT movies and the second two are bad movies that know they're bad movies, so they don't count.

See, I might reverse that -- Brady Bunch & sequel, great movies; Spice World, bad movie that knows it's a bad movie. Josie & the Pussycats, I don't know. Some moments of both (I wish they'd found a genuine redhead to cast as Josie, but I don't have any complaints about RLC).

All of them fit the category of "movies I love to watch which many people groan at the very mention of," which I figured was a good criterion :)

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 16 December 2002 00:21 (twenty-three years ago)

"LUST FOR MURDER"/YOU CAN'T FIND BETTER USE OF A VOICEOVER ANYWHERE.

― naked as sin (naked as sin), Monday, 16 December 2002 00:36 (twenty-three years ago)

Roadkill

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Monday, 16 December 2002 01:24 (twenty-three years ago)

ON THE BUSES! was anyone bale to grit their teeth through it this weekend. cor blimey, etc.

also Are You Being Served movie is GREBT.

― Alan (Alan), Monday, 16 December 2002 11:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Mr. Humphries in tents

― erik, Monday, 16 December 2002 12:04 (twenty-three years ago)

Flash Gordon
The Swarm
When Time Ran Out
Moonraker
Independence Day
The Stud & The Bitch

― Ben Mott (Ben Mott), Sunday, 29 December 2002 13:18 (twenty-three years ago)

Battle Beyond The Stars
Hawk The Slayer
A Chorus Line
Sheena
Red Sonja

All 1980's films I find. I see a pattern emerging...

― Ben Mott (Ben Mott), Sunday, 29 December 2002 14:09 (twenty-three years ago)

in flash gordon the girl has the most ridiculous baddest funniest "flash, help me" lines in the whole galactica.

― erik, Sunday, 29 December 2002 14:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Dude, The Poisedon Adventure. That one is amazing. I love the part where Gene Hackman tells all the women - except the fat chick - to take off their dresses because "you can't climb in those". No one asks them to take off their spike heels though. It's brilliant. And he's supposed to be a priest or something, but he runs around screaming "You're all assholes! Why do you listen to that pompous dick!" It's brill.

― Ally (mlescaut), Sunday, 29 December 2002 18:58 (twenty-three years ago)

'Leprechaun IV: Leprechauns in Space'

― geeta (geeta), Monday, 30 December 2002 07:57 (twenty-three years ago)

Cruel Intentions

― Mary (Mary), Monday, 30 December 2002 08:35 (twenty-three years ago)

The Poseidon Adventure is indeed fantastic. Leslie Nielsen's deadpan performance as the ill-fated ships' captain, Shelley Winters' underwater ballet, the bit where the ship lurches and the cast are obliged to "flail" whereupon Gene Hackman takes the opportunity to feel up Carol Lynley...

Splendid film, but The Swarm is grander by a country mile.

― Ben Mott (Ben Mott), Monday, 30 December 2002 12:45 (twenty-three years ago)

copacabana

― michael wells (michael w.), Monday, 30 December 2002 15:01 (twenty-three years ago)

Speaking of Leprechaun, one must give some credit to Leprechaun in the Hood. Although it's really quite painful to watch as a whole, the zombie flygirls and the great rap song that they dance to are truly classic. Can't wait until Lebprechaun: Back in Da Hood comes out...

As for other cheesy horror, I've always been fond of the first Jack Frost film. Don't confuse it for the one featuring Michael Keaton--I'm talking about the one put out by APix in 1997 with the hologram of the killer snowman on the front of the box. It's probably best known for featuring Shannon Elizabeth in her first "big" role, but I've always loved it for the great one-liners and some of the worst child acting ever. Truly, the fucker IS a snowman!

― Brad Koski, Monday, 30 December 2002 21:45 (twenty-three years ago)

My god, I totally forgot about 'Leprechaun in the Hood'!! That was Leprechaun V, wasn't it?

― geeta (geeta), Monday, 30 December 2002 21:52 (twenty-three years ago)

How do you go from "Willow" to being the star of the "Leprechaun" franchise?

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 30 December 2002 22:01 (twenty-three years ago)

I believe it was the fifth film, although I'm not positive. I think they're trying to leave the numbers off now, maybe hoping that people won't connect the older ones with the newer ones.

I still can't believe that they're making a sequel to what is, by far, one of the worst sequels I've ever seen. Not that the original Leprechaun was anything that special, but Leprechaun in the Hood really didn't have that much going for it beyond the flygirls and the rapping... Yet, I still find myself on the edge of my seat waiting for the local Blockbuster to get a copy in.

― Brad Koski, Monday, 30 December 2002 22:07 (twenty-three years ago)

Tank Girl.Lori Petty is just about right for the lead part,Malcolm McDowell is less sinister than his Clockwork Orange days but still makes a good 'baddie',Ice-T as a mutant kangaroo(HAHAHAHAHA!),and the oh-so-sexy Naomi Watts as Jet Girl(I do love a woman who knows how to correctly grip a tool!Fnar fnar!)Classic!

― Eugene Speed (Eugene Speed), Monday, 30 December 2002 22:48 (twenty-three years ago)

I've seen Beastmaster mentioned but what about Beastmaster 2: Through the Portal of Time? A girl drives a sports car through a brick wall into a desert? A man runs in place in front of a painted sunset? Hilarity.

Best tagline ever: Jack Frost - He's chillin... and killin.

― Vinnie (vprabhu), Tuesday, 31 December 2002 03:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Wild Things

Triple xXxcellent, natch.

Bram Stoker's Dracula

The Women

― felicity (felicity), Tuesday, 31 December 2002 03:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Army of Darkness

― Kim (Kim), Tuesday, 31 December 2002 05:25 (twenty-three years ago)

Army of Darkness is just great! No bad involved whatsoever.

― Nicole (Nicole), Tuesday, 31 December 2002 05:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Well, I agree, but it wasn't exactly about to win an Oscar or anything.

― Kim (Kim), Tuesday, 31 December 2002 05:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Army of Darkness had future Xena and Hercules characters as Joxter and The Prince of Theives in it. And GREBT dialog. "Good, bad, Im the one with the gun." Best part is the extra who grabs a helmet and runs down with the skeletons in jeans holding a broom.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 31 December 2002 05:41 (twenty-three years ago)

'Wild Things' totally lost me, that was the most complicated film ever. I didn't 'get' 'Usual Suspects' either. Am I retarded?

― dave q, Tuesday, 31 December 2002 10:26 (twenty-three years ago)

Also I think I'm the only person alive who liked 'Prelude to a Kiss'

― dave q, Tuesday, 31 December 2002 10:26 (twenty-three years ago)

I liked 'Field of Dreams' and 'Dances with Wolves' too

― dave q, Tuesday, 31 December 2002 10:32 (twenty-three years ago)

'Charlie's Angels' was a masterpiece. I don't understand why everyone said the (admittedly also great) 'Brady Bunch Movie' was a classic and bagged on 'CA' so much, cuz 'CA' did the high-concept shit while also being more 'detailed' in the SparkleAuto sense than everything else in the shitcom/QT[sorry but after some consideration in the 'Genius'-v-charlatan dept. re Mr Potty Mouth I've decided that he's the Man, other ppl favorably re-graded to A+ status = Beck, Steve Albini] interface to date, sort of B Spears to 'Mulholland Drive''s W Coyne or T Yorke (compare the 'line-reading' scenes in both, also C Diaz' "I love...tickets!", D Barrymore's streaking vs. I Rossellini's) Plus I loved the shit w/ the killer muffins, the race cars, the 'Efficiency Expert' coke-machine skit, "I'm getting cold, Yoko!", Crispin Glover, the tuba gadget, the Japanese dialogue, everything! What a great flick! One weird thought I had tho - is the idea of having films about chicks who are completely perfect in every conceivable fashion supposed to be 'empowering' or does it just cause more depression as the standard 'role model' standard skyrockets into the stratosphere? Whatever, I loved it!

― dave q, Tuesday, 31 December 2002 10:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Well, I agree, but it wasn't exactly about to win an Oscar or anything.

Yeah, but then most movies that are nominated for Oscars are at the pinnacle of craptitude.

― Nicole (Nicole), Tuesday, 31 December 2002 17:49 (twenty-three years ago)

well dave q if it makes you feel any better I had trouble following part of the plot of Dumb and Dumber. For me, every movie is a whodunit.

― felicity (felicity), Tuesday, 31 December 2002 17:56 (twenty-three years ago)

"Dumb and Dumber" had a plot?

The epitome of what Nicole is describing would have to be "JERRY MACOCKFARMER". Especially that ugly little kid.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 31 December 2002 18:53 (twenty-three years ago)

"Penitentiary II" ownz every other so-called bad film on this thread. Leon Isaac Kennedy + Mr T + midgets drinking wine = utter genius.

― J0hn Darn13ll3 (J0hn Darn13ll3), Tuesday, 31 December 2002 22:13 (twenty-three years ago)

"Dumb and Dumber" had a plot?

At one point in the movie the one brother goes over to Lauren Holly's house, sees the other brother's truck parked in the driveway and goes home angry.

Later, I asked my friend "But how did he know that that other guy was over there?"

It was explained to me.

― felicity (felicity), Wednesday, 1 January 2003 00:41 (twenty-three years ago)

BLOODSPORT
DEATHRACE 2000
ANDROID
CANNIBAL FERROX (aka MAKE THEM DIE SLOWLY)
STARSTRUCK
PINK FLAMINGOES
FEMALE TROUBLE
ROMPER STOMPER
EATING RAUL
SUDDEN MANHATTAN
NEAR DARK
ANOTHER DAY IN PARADISE
BETTER OFF DEAD
TIMES SQUARE
DC CAB
GOOD TO GO
CAR WASH
BROKEN VESSELS

― DEFINITIVE ANSWERS, Wednesday, 1 January 2003 04:05 (twenty-three years ago)

American Psycho 2. Mila Kunis trying to hit on William Shatner. Oh yes. Oh my.

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 1 January 2003 08:06 (twenty-three years ago)

'bloodsport' was great, they lifted a lot from 'youngblood' except that it wasn't about hockey.

― keith (keithmcl), Thursday, 2 January 2003 03:58 (twenty-three years ago)

'Better Off Dead'...yes!!! ("You look pretty stupid to me" - second funniest line ever) (FUNNIEST line ever - "Damn it!"['Summer School', which unfortunately wasn't even good enough to be on a Great Bad Films thread, but that line was fuckin hilarious])

― dave q, Thursday, 2 January 2003 11:29 (twenty-three years ago)

The Transporter

― felicity (felicity), Sunday, 5 January 2003 23:59 (twenty-three years ago)

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