Favorite Bad Movies

Just saw a mention of another one on Facebook — Iron Eagle.
Absolute 1980s ridiculousness on every conceivable level, but holy shit is it fun and a classic in its own way.
"CHAPPPPYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!"

 

Agreed, with the notable exception of Erika Eleniak, Playboy playmate-turned-guerrilla warfare expert.

 

Respectfully disagree. Respectfully.
Yeah, it's dumb but stupidly dumb. Kinda like the Beverly Hillbillies.

 

I always anticipate Tom getting Shelley Long in the missionary position with his pajamas still up.

 

I have a weird fondness for a Robin Williams movie called “The Final Cut” about an implant that records everyone’s life and the people who have the job of cutting that down into a tribute video at the person’s death.

Terrible movie but the premise is so good that I enjoy it.

 

Frogs.

Enter The Ninja (gotta love Christopher George's "what you gonna do?" shrug upon dying).

 

It feels like movies about ninjas and rescuing POWs that were left behind in Vietnam accounted for 68 percent of Hollywood's output between 1983 and 1986.

 

There is an entire canon of um, well Cannon Films.

 

Favorite Cannon films could be its own thread, really. Death Wish 3 is a personal favorite. The last 10 minutes or so is one of the most unintentionally funny sequences ever put to film. Everybody in the neighborhood rises up in armed revolution against the gang that's been terrorizing them; Charles Bronson toting around a .30 caliber machine gun and spitting bullets everywhere; a guy taking out a gang member with sniper-like accuracy from 100 feet away — with a zip gun; and Chuck Cunningham getting blown to bits with a rocket launcher in an apartment while Bronson and Ed Lauter are perfectly fine despite the rocket exploding 10 feet in front of them.
It. Is. Awesome.

 

But Death Wish 2 features Laurence Fishburne and some great "death" sequences (Spoilers ahead) - Chucks daugher is sexually assaulted and runs through a third-story window falling and getting impaled on the fence (WHOA) and then Rafterman from Full Metal Jacket (who wears a crucifix for some reason in DW2) is cornered by Chuck and Chuck asks him "Do you believe in Jesus Christ?" Rafterman says "Yes, I do." Chuck: "Well, you're gonna meet him" and shoots him dead but not before waiting a beat so the guy can flinch.

 

That series had some weird early cameos by actors who had some decent success later.
You mentioned Fishburne. Marina Sirtis (Troi from Stark Trek: TNG) and Alex Winter (Bill from Bill and Ted) were in DW3.
Jeff Goldblum was in the original as one of the thugs who breaks into Paul Kersey's house and sets him down vigilante road. Danny Trejo and Mitch Pileggi were in Part 4, both in a couple of their earliest roles.
Weird trend for a franchise that's been largely low-budget dreck for its entire existence.

 

Kay Lenz was also in DW4, for no apparent reason bc she'd already had some big roles and showed side boob in Rod Stewart's "Infatuation." Side boob! This was a big deal for a 10-year-old. Anyway, I just read the Wiki entry for DW4 and what the fuck was that. I rented the movie when I was a kid, b/c I'd rent anything, but I have no recollection of that mishmosh. Probably for good reason.