Favorite Bad Movies

True story: I served on a jury with Jack Warden's widow. When I told her that I thought he was great as Pops in Dirty Work, she laughed and said that wasn't the movie he was best known for, obviously, but he had fun making it.

 

I would have gone with.....the Great Muppet Caper

 

Perfect entries for this thread, IMO.

Beer League, especially, is an absolute trash movie. But if I happen upon it when channel surfing, I stop dead in my tracks.

 

Dave's at-bat here is kind of like working at Gannett:

 

The genesis of Maximum Overdrive was King's short story "Trucks." The movie did not follow the source material.

 

I've always loved that one. So many good character actors get a chance to shine in it.

 

I'm not really much of a horror guy, but Maximum Overdrive is so campy and bad, it's fun.

Maybe because Stephen King was high throughout the time he directed it (in still his only directorial job).

 

Beer League is fucking hilarious. "Don't eyeball me, tough guy...."

 

"Hey, did Dirt just say... ?"

 

He'll always be Roy L Fuchs to me, Goddamit.

And I could spend an entire weekend watching horrible dreck, one of which was on Sunday morning: Necessary Roughness.

Kevin Bacon and Sean Astin made a movie called "White Water Summer" that was on HBO practically every day when we got cable in 1987.

Another trash made-for-HBO sports movie that I loved was "Long Gone."

Strange Brew is up there.

Striking Distance only because it was filmed in Pittsburgh.

 

You can watch Strange Brew on YouTube. So dumb, so funny.

 

"Long Gone" was probably better than "Bull Durham." Great movie. Stud Cantrell > Kevin Costner -- "Fuck 'em if they can't take a joke."