Favorite Bad Movies

I didn't know that, but it doesn't surprise me. In the words of my late father: "That guy is built like a brick shithouse."

 

It's an incredible movie with almost zero pretension. It's a collection of dudes being assholes to each other in the latter stages of a declining America. I've seen it 10 times.

You can go through Adam McKay's entire catalogue and never escape the idea that he's winking at you for the funny he made. And then you have The Last Boy Scout.

 

Oh I fucking love it. I've probably seen it more than 10 times. I had the LASER DISC in college! It might still be at my Dad's house (he won a laser disc player at work). I pretty much loved everything about it, most especially the cinematography. It was all so dark & grimy. Fuck, I hope it's on one of the HBOs now.

 

Tony Scott was great until roughly Man on Fire, when, at the end, he put an "lived and died" epigraph on a fictional character. But, before, that, great. The man was a genius with sepia tones.

I was a fan of the lesser Demme (Ted), as well.

 

I had a friend whose parents watched movies religiously every weekend (they also liked to eat out a lot, which my parents never did). So I got to watch a lot of movies and get food with him often. This was one I'll always remember catching with them, on rental not in the theater. And I think I was 14 tops. I feel like we didn't have a lot of age restrictions on media entertainment back then. I really like it too. Those were the days or something!

There are some movies here I wonder if they are really that bad!? But they might be.

Might sidetrack some, but this reminds of USA Up All Night. That was many a weekend night for me back then, and they showed some wonderful things. I wonder if I'd feel the same if I came across some of that now?

 

Funny you say that about the rentals...per Wiki, Last Boy Scout did really well in that market after coming and going pretty quickly in the theatres (the spin was a violent movie released at Christmas was a bad idea). I'm pretty sure I saw it in the theatre. I'm positive we rented it a bunch. Man those were the days.

 

Plus it featured (like Die Hard, Hunt for Red October and Last Action Hero) a cameo from late Canadian comic legend Rick Ducommon!

 

Back in the day, when you couldn't find a high school party to attend, and you'd hit the video store near closing time and there was little else to choose, we'd always end up watching this for the umpteenth time. Very much B-grade Bond.

 

LOL. Never seen that...but the President from it was in.....Spies Like Us!

 

"North Dallas Forty" exposed the NFL long before that. Also had some hilarious lines in it too, especially in the final pre-game locker room.

 

For my money, the most overlooked sports movie. Maybe the lack of a happy ending has hurt it.

If they’d gone with the ending from the novel it might be talked about more.

 

I'm going to add to the list basically any movie with good Apocalypse Porn. Asteroids hitting the earth ... super mega tornado ... planes falling from the sky ...

I'm a sucker for Apocalypse Porn movies, which are almost all universally terrible.