Favorite Bad Movies

Armageddon is the worst movie I have ever seen. Zero redeeming qualities.

 

Day After Tomorrow qualifies as that for me. Cool optics, if nothing else

 

I can't pass up a chance to see any of the Sharknado movies. Maximum Overdrive needs to be seen in a state of giddy exhaustion.

 

Wasn't that the movie/novella Stephen King wrote while at the height/nadir of his coke addiction?

Speaking of Maximum Overdrive, sort of, the most fucked up bad movie I've ever seen is Wisdom (Emilio Estevez starred in Maximum Overdrive & Wisdom). It was a harmlessly dumb enough movie about two lovers on a murderous spree (the original Natural Born Killers?) but just ends with Emilio's character waking up and you realize the whole thing was a dream. It was like they ran out of money and time (though Wiki says he made it under budget and ahead of schedule).

 

I must submit The Rocky Horror Picture Show for consideration. I was a serious cultist back in the late 70's. I've seen it a couple of hundred times on a big screen. Bad movie, good music, lots of fun.

 

A theatre in my hometown began offering weekend midnight showings of Rocky Horror during my junior year of high school. First weekend, they drew fairly well via curiosity seekers and all anyone could talk about at school the following week was how awesome it was. Second weekend, they sold the joint out both Friday & Saturday and I managed to get into the theatre for one of the showings. I slipped down an aisle drenched with water and God knows what else and skinned my elbow up something fierce trying to get on to the stage to sing and dance to songs I'd never heard before in my life. An absolutely awesome time, couldn't wait to show off my wounds at school on Monday. On Friday night of the third weekend, kids showed up drunk and one threw a garbage can through a window in the lobby. And that was how a theatre in my hometown stopped offering weekend midnight showings of Rocky Horror during my junior year of high school.

 

I was 21, 22 maybe, when I first read about this cult film phenomenon. I'd already done the Harold and Maude cult film, and I think I had seen Eraserhead. Anyhow, the Film Forum in downtown Atlanta ran Rocky at midnight and two a.m. on Friday and Saturday and midnight on Sundays. I got to know the regulars fairly quickly, and watched it back to back more than a few times.

The audience for Rocky Horror at two a.m. on a Sunday morning was something to behold, and so was the reaction when a bunch of us descended on the Waffle House at 4:15 or so.

 

I feel sorry that kids these days miss out on the pin ups:



....oh and the 80's blow dry look.

 

Unless I missed their mentions in the preceding pages, should we ignore:

Attack of the 50-Foot Woman

Anatomy of a Fall

Ishtar?​

 

My two guilty cinematic pleasures both feature one of my favorite fellow New Jerseyans: Artie Lange.

I'm not sure what's better, Artie Lange's Beer League or Dirty Work - but they both make me laugh every time.

 

Hot damn, how could I forget Night of the Comet? So dopey but so fun. Could tell everyone had a blast making it, especially during the empty mall scenes. Another movie where it felt like they ran out of time and money so they just hurriedly wrote the ending. Also, Catherine Mary Stewart, a six for sure.

 

Dirty Work is a straight up good movie! Norm is so acidic and dry that it holds up better than many of the other "immature man child" kind of movies of that era to me.