Favorite Bad Movies

[Huggy]

"You really like Chiquita's Banana in the third?"

"Who?"

and any horseplayer who's ever stood railside for a photo finish can relate to Dreyfus's frantic "Who won it???? Who won it????"

 

[BurnsWhenIPee]

"Why is it taking so long?"

 

[YMCA B-Baller]

Don't know if Ed Wood qualifies, but I love it.

It does not remotely qualify as a bad movie. Great, Oscar-nominated movie that is arguably Tim Burton's best.

Just because the subject matter is bad movies doesn't mean the movie about it is bad.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

License to Drive. 24 percent on Rotten Tomatoes my ass.

As a teen about to get his learner's permit, License to Drive was awesome. Especially any scene that included Heather Graham.

 

[BTExpress]

Young Jennifer Tilly bouncing around in a low-cut mini-dress doesn't hurt, either.

Cynthia Nixon in braces didn't do it for you?

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

Seven pages in and no mention of The Last Boy Scout?

"You were never around. you know what? fork you, Joe! I was lonely!"
"Buy a dog."

"I'm gonna need a light. You touch me again, I'll kill ya."

Though that may be less bad than prescient when it came to the real NFL.

 

[Batman]

I'll resist my own temptation to get up my own ass about what actually constitutes a bad movie and just offer up this obvious choice.

Could have chosen any clip available on Youtube. All of them krush.

In the early 2000s I used to reference the title of this movie often because of former Sacramento Kings player Hedo Turkoglu. I'd call him "Hedo 2: Electric Turkoglu," and a co-worker who was five or 10 years younger than me had no idea what I was talking about so I had to explain it to him. I'd never seen the movie, just remembered the funny title from when I was a kid.
It became a running joke and eventually we did a movie night with Breakin' 2 just to finally see it. It was as bad as you can imagine and his immediate reaction afterward was hilarious — "I feel like I have to go fork a girl right now to get the gay out."

 

[YMCA B-Baller]

Seven pages in and no mention of The Last Boy Scout?

"You were never around. you know what? fork you, Joe! I was lonely!"
"Buy a dog."

"I'm gonna need a light. You touch me again, I'll kill ya."

Though that may be less bad than prescient when it came to the real NFL.

Tony Scott directed movies have their own wing in this pantheon. His first, "The Hunger", is insanely over-the-top and he stayed right at that volume for the rest of his career, once in a blue moon for better (we do have him to thank for the only Hollywoodized Tarantino script put onto celluloid), but often for very worse.

Ken Russell is another in the same vein. Michael Bay is the recent example.

Entertaining in their way, but oh so bloviated with scads of style over substance.

 

[Liut]

Feels like most of my favorite movies could be classified as "bad," but I'm OK to own that.

Youngblood tops my list - The notion that pillow-hands Rob Lowe can go back on the farm for 3 days, get stronger and learn to fight well enough to beat the ass of a big-time hockey enforcer is silly. But Cynthia Gibb ...

Youngblood's father was played by longtime Chicago Blackhawks center Eric Nesterenko. Died about two years ago. IIRC, he was at one time a Colorado ski instructor.

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

Tony Scott directed movies have their own wing in this pantheon. His first, "The Hunger", is insanely over-the-top and he stayed right at that volume for the rest of his career, once in a blue moon for better (we do have him to thank for the only Hollywoodized Tarantino script put onto celluloid), but often for very worse.

Ken Russell is another in the same vein. Michael Bay is the recent example.

Entertaining in their way, but oh so bloviated with scads of style over substance.

I'd argue Last Boy Scout had a decent amount of substance. It was trashy as fork, but it pretty much exposed the NFL for what it is at every level. Felt like they wanted to make it a series, a la Lethal Weapon, but Bruce Willis & Damon Wayans didn't get along. No! Not those guys!

 

[garrow]

Club Paradise, despite having Robin Williams, Eugene Levy and Rick Moranis (who are hilarious in it) and the lovely Joanna Cassidy in it, is not a good movie though I watch it often. Peter O'Toole is 10 steps beyond mailing it in he's so bad.

And Twiggy!

The scene where O'Toole mocks American vacationers is priceless.

 

[Huggy]

And Twiggy!

The scene where O'Toole mocks American vacationers is priceless.

I forgot Andrea Martin is pretty good in it too. And the great Jimmy Cliff!