Favorite Bad Movies

and any horseplayer who's ever stood railside for a photo finish can relate to Dreyfus's frantic "Who won it???? Who won it????"

 

"Why is it taking so long?"

 

It does not remotely qualify as a bad movie. Great, Oscar-nominated movie that is arguably Tim Burton's best.

Just because the subject matter is bad movies doesn't mean the movie about it is bad.

 

As a teen about to get his learner’s permit, License to Drive was awesome. Especially any scene that included Heather Graham.

 

Cynthia Nixon in braces didn't do it for you?

 

Seven pages in and no mention of The Last Boy Scout?

"You were never around. you know what? Fuck you, Joe! I was lonely!"
"Buy a dog."

"I'm gonna need a light. You touch me again, I'll kill ya."

Though that may be less bad than prescient when it came to the real NFL.

 

In the early 2000s I used to reference the title of this movie often because of former Sacramento Kings player Hedo Turkoglu. I'd call him "Hedo 2: Electric Turkoglu," and a co-worker who was five or 10 years younger than me had no idea what I was talking about so I had to explain it to him. I'd never seen the movie, just remembered the funny title from when I was a kid.
It became a running joke and eventually we did a movie night with Breakin' 2 just to finally see it. It was as bad as you can imagine and his immediate reaction afterward was hilarious — "I feel like I have to go fuck a girl right now to get the gay out."

 

Tony Scott directed movies have their own wing in this pantheon. His first, "The Hunger", is insanely over-the-top and he stayed right at that volume for the rest of his career, once in a blue moon for better (we do have him to thank for the only Hollywoodized Tarantino script put onto celluloid), but often for very worse.

Ken Russell is another in the same vein. Michael Bay is the recent example.

Entertaining in their way, but oh so bloviated with scads of style over substance.

 

Youngblood's father was played by longtime Chicago Blackhawks center Eric Nesterenko. Died about two years ago. IIRC, he was at one time a Colorado ski instructor.

 

I'd argue Last Boy Scout had a decent amount of substance. It was trashy as fuck, but it pretty much exposed the NFL for what it is at every level. Felt like they wanted to make it a series, a la Lethal Weapon, but Bruce Willis & Damon Wayans didn't get along. No! Not those guys!

 

And Twiggy!

The scene where O'Toole mocks American vacationers is priceless.

 

I forgot Andrea Martin is pretty good in it too. And the great Jimmy Cliff!