Your Top 5 (or 10) Favourite Bad Movies

[Andrew]

And by "bad", I mean they're not critically acclaimed and you know they're far from cinematic masterpieces - in fact you might freely admit they're garbage - but you like them anyway because they're good for a laugh or you enjoy them ironically/on some other level. I guess you could call them guilty pleasures.

Mine would be:

1. Mortal Kombat (the sequel is up there too)
2. Slackers
3. Joe Dirt
4. Freddy Got Fingered
5. Dude, Where's My Car?

Very little substance, not heavy on favourable reviews or too many redeeming qualities (in particular Freddy Got Fingered) but I must admit I like them all the same. They certainly wouldn't make my regular top five/ten though.

Special mention: Dirty Love (written by and starring Jenny McCarthy). I had heard that it was one of the most awful movies ever made, so I had to see it just to find out how terrible it was. It's woeful, but selected parts are funny for all the wrong reasons, a series of "It can't get any lower than this...oh wait, I take that back" moments.

[cyanide]

For sure I've seen 5 terrible movies but I have trouble remembering them to list them due to my brain wanting to block the memories forever.

1. Holy Man (with Eddy Murphy. My god. I literally walked out of the theater. I never walk out of theaters.)
2. Aeon Flux
3. Fantastic Four II
4. Big Trouble in Little China
5. Matrix III

What should be on the list: any super cheesy horror movie, action or comedy.

[Andrew]

Are those movies you actually enjoy(ed) though? I was going for movies that are difficult to defend as good movies, but you like them anyway.

[el badman]

300
Matrix III
Terminator III
The Faculty
...

I tend to forget the name of all those bad movies from the 80's and 90's, but I'll probably ass some more when I can remember them...

[J@3]

I couldn't really rate them, but mine would be...

The Final Destination Series
Revenge of the Nerds 1 + 2
Bloodsport 1-800
College Kickboxer
Street Fighter
Mortal Kombat 2
Weird Science
Class of 1984
TMNT 2 (go ninja, go ninja go...)
Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back
10 Things I Hate About You
Lake Placid
Anaconda
Varsity Blues
Air Bud 1
The Air Up There

Oh and two others, the one with Johnny Knoxville pretending to be a retard to win stuff in the special Olympics, and the one where the three guys form a little league baseball team.

[benji]

Decoys

Dark Water
Star Wars - Episode I: The Phantom Menace
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier

Anything on MST3K that isn't Hamlet. Rifftrax also assists in this, like with Daredevil, Battlefield Earth, etc.

[el badman]

Daredevil

Oh shit, how could I forget that one...Worst movie ever in my list.

[Jackal]

1) Jingle All The Way
2) Fast & The Furious series
3) Batman Forever/Batman & Robin
4) Van Helsing
5) Hard Target

[Joe']

- Billy Madison (best movie ever when you're drunk..)
- Dude, Where's my Car?
- Dumb & Dumber
- Me, Myself & Irene
- Weekend at Bernie's

Honorable mentions: the Jackass movies, the American Pie Presents... movies and Happy Gilmore.

[Its_asdf]

1. Mortal Kombat (the sequel is up there too)

Hah, I remember wanting to see the sequel sooo badly after seeing the first one when i was 8 years old. Fast forward like 6 years and finally on one boring summer evening I rented it from blockbluster to see how it would go... I don't know whether it was because I had finally hit puberty or because that movie was so gosh darn horrid that even I couldn't stand to watch it.

[Andrew]

I think the cheesiness is easier to spot when you get a little older. As the Nostalgia Critic and the Angry Video Game Nerd have emphatically pointed out, movies based on video games are usually a disappointment.

[benji]

They don't have to be, the problem is when you say "fuck it" to any kind of good plot. The original Mortal Kombat isn't horrible because it tries to build a mythos. Street Fighter and DOOM? Yeah, fuck it. Whatever you need to get the stars fist fighting.

[Andrew]

True. I've sometimes wondered if Ocarina of Time could be done well on the silver screen.

[benji]

It's easy to make a great Zelda mythos movie, or "adult" mythos. The problem is the conglomerates who say "let's throw in fan references (see: BFG9000 reference in Doom) and they'll buy tickets!"

I'd question anyone who can't crib off of the Zelda mythos for a film or three and not be able to deliver something palatable.

Especially Metroid. Anyone who can pull that off is a great filmmaker.

Hell, Mario was a slam dunk, but they decided it was a bigger challenge to try and make it soul-crushing.

[Andrew]

It's easy to make a great Zelda mythos movie, or "adult" mythos. The problem is the conglomerates who say "let's throw in fan references (see: BFG9000 reference in Doom) and they'll buy tickets!"

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[Joe the Space Marine]

streetfighter movie?

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[Andrew]

No, the Jean-Claude Van Damme one.

[Joe the Space Marine]

This was only an homage. Not a whole movie. The reason why I posted it was because dispite being 3 minutes long, it's better than the whole Jean Claude movie.

[Lean]

Star Wars - Episode I: The Phantom Menace

Yousa seem to be troubless of Jar-jar.

[Joe']

All this talk about Jean Claude Van Damme reminds me: I have to include The Quest in my list, I used to watch that movie all the time.

[el badman]

Most of Van Damme's movies would make quite a pathetic list. I don't remember most of the titles, but I think Universal Solider was one of them, and it certainly was shitty.

[Its_asdf]

All this talk about Jean Claude Van Damme reminds me: I have to include The Quest in my list, I used to watch that movie all the time.

The only scene I remember from that movie was when that black dude bit/grabbed the guys balls or something. Good tmes.

Space Jam, anyone?

[Andrew]

Space Jam was good enough for what it was.

[Calamaro]

Space Jam was good enough for what it was.

Second that.

I decided to include 300 and Sin city (wich were originally on my top 5 movies list) here.
1.300
2.Sin city
3.Die hard saga
4.Jingle all the way
5.Transformers

[Null17]

Not really a top 5er but I really had fun watching 10,000 BC. It wasn't until after that a lot of stuff in the movie didn't make sense.