Favorite Bad Movies

[BurnsWhenIPee]

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.

I didn't know that, but it doesn't surprise me. In the words of my late father: "That guy is built like a brick shirthouse."

 

[Alma]

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.

It's an incredible movie with almost zero pretension. It's a collection of dudes being assholes to each other in the latter stages of a declining America. I've seen it 10 times.

You can go through Adam McKay's entire catalogue and never escape the idea that he's winking at you for the funny he made. And then you have The Last Boy Scout.

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

It's an incredible movie with almost zero pretension. It's a collection of dudes being assholes to each other in the latter stages of a declining America. I've seen it 10 times.

You can go through Adam McKay's entire catalogue and never escape the idea that he's winking at you for the funny he made. And then you have The Last Boy Scout.

Oh I forking love it. I've probably seen it more than 10 times. I had the LASER DISC in college! It might still be at my Dad's house (he won a laser disc player at work). I pretty much loved everything about it, most especially the cinematography. It was all so dark & grimy. fork, I hope it's on one of the HBOs now.

 

[Alma]

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.

Tony Scott was great until roughly Man on Fire, when, at the end, he put an "lived and died" epigraph on a fictional character. But, before, that, great. The man was a genius with sepia tones.

I was a fan of the lesser Demme (Ted), as well.

 

[Roscablo]

Oh I forking love it. I've probably seen it more than 10 times. I had the LASER DISC in college! It might still be at my Dad's house (he won a laser disc player at work). I pretty much loved everything about it, most especially the cinematography. It was all so dark & grimy. fork, I hope it's on one of the HBOs now.

I had a friend whose parents watched movies religiously every weekend (they also liked to eat out a lot, which my parents never did). So I got to watch a lot of movies and get food with him often. This was one I'll always remember catching with them, on rental not in the theater. And I think I was 14 tops. I feel like we didn't have a lot of age restrictions on media entertainment back then. I really like it too. Those were the days or something!

There are some movies here I wonder if they are really that bad!? But they might be.

Might sidetrack some, but this reminds of USA Up All Night. That was many a weekend night for me back then, and they showed some wonderful things. I wonder if I'd feel the same if I came across some of that now?

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

I had a friend whose parents watched movies religiously every weekend (they also liked to eat out a lot, which my parents never did). So I got to watch a lot of movies and get food with him often. This was one I'll always remember catching with them, on rental not in the theater. And I think I was 14 tops. I feel like we didn't have a lot of age restrictions on media entertainment back then. I really like it too.

There are some movies here I wonder if they are really that bad!? But they might be.

Might sidetrack some, but this reminds of USA Up All Night. That was many a weekend night for me back then, and they showed some wonderful things. I wonder if I'd feel the same if I came across some of that now?

Funny you say that about the rentals...per Wiki, Last Boy Scout did really well in that market after coming and going pretty quickly in the theatres (the spin was a violent movie released at Christmas was a bad idea). I'm pretty sure I saw it in the theatre. I'm positive we rented it a bunch. Man those were the days.

 

[garrow]

Plus it featured (like Die Hard, Hunt for Red October and Last Action Hero) a cameo from late Canadian comic legend Rick Ducommon!

 

[DanOregon]

Back in the day, when you couldn't find a high school party to attend, and you'd hit the video store near closing time and there was little else to choose, we'd always end up watching this for the umpteenth time. Very much B-grade Bond.

 

[garrow]

Back in the day, when you couldn't find a high school party to attend, and you'd hit the video store near closing time and there was little else to choose, we'd always end up watching this for the umpteenth time. Very much B-grade Bond.

LOL. Never seen that...but the President from it was in.....Spies Like Us!

 

[YMCA B-Baller]

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!

"North Dallas Forty" exposed the NFL long before that. Also had some hilarious lines in it too, especially in the final pre-game locker room.

 

[Tighthead]

"North Dallas Forty" exposed the NFL long before that. Also had some hilarious lines in it too, especially in the final pre-game locker room.

For my money, the most overlooked sports movie. Maybe the lack of a happy ending has hurt it.

If they'd gone with the ending from the novel it might be talked about more.

 

[Justin_Rice]

I'm going to add to the list basically any movie with good Apocalypse Porn. Asteroids hitting the earth ... super mega tornado ... planes falling from the sky ...

I'm a sucker for Apocalypse Porn movies, which are almost all universally terrible.