Favorite Bad Movies

[Woody Long]

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.

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.

 

[garrow]

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

 

[BurnsWhenIPee]

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.

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.

 

[Woody Long]

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:

 

[swingline]

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 forked 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).

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

 

[John]

Another one that I'm told is a bad movie by my family when I trot it out every 6 months or so to watch it is Let It Ride.

Love the story, love the casting all the way through, and really love the notion that for one day, things could come together all the way through to guarantee you'll end up a big winner.

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

 

[nietsroob17]

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).

 

[Huggy]

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.

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

 

[Woody Long]

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

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

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

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.

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.

 

[John]

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.

 

[ChrisLong]

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.

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