Yes, it’s time for open discussion Tuesdays, with your host, da BBB!
Todays topic for discussion, boys and girls, are movies that you not just liked but loved, that everyone else seems to hate.
Movies that you loved so much that you found yourself willing to brave the displeasure of the masses, break out against peer pressure, and say, “Hey, I liked that movie. Screw you guys.”
My top five list are all movies I loved. Movies that, even now, if they were to come on the screen I’d be perfectly happy sitting down and watching them, and in many cases laughing, all over again.
My top five movies that I loved that everybody else hated?
1) Hudson Hawk.
This one ought to challenge you poor bastards. I love Hudson Hawk. Yes, I freely admit it. In fact, I am quite proud of it. I have yet to see a Bruce Willis film I didn’t love, but this one had so much of that Willis humor I couldn’t get enough. To this day I still find myself singing that damn song. I loved seeing James Coburn in the film, and I laughed out loud the last time I saw it when I realized that our favorite badass from CSI: Miami was Kitkat. Most of the ‘goofy movie’ genre leaves me cold, but in this one the hilarious spoofs and silliness hit just that right note for me.
2) Judge Dredd.
Ahh, yes. Damn do I love this film. Stallone was okay… but Armand Assante is a living god. I first saw him in “I, The Jury” playing the wierdest damn version of Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer that ever hit the screen, but he has an amazing, powerful big screen presence. When he croons to the death machine robot, ‘”We’re going to war”, it sends chills down my spine. And his ending traditional ‘big villain reveal’ dialogue to Stallone made me wish Dredd would just wise up, dump the fat cats and join him, as the clones exploded from their creche chambers all around them. I could scarcely imagine the chaos Assante would have brung to that city if he was let loose and Dredd was by his side, but I guarantee I would have enjoyed watching it.
Only down side was, Rob Schnieder lived, damnit. I would have loved to see him get blown up hardcore. Ah, well.
3) Soldier.
MMMmmMMMMMmmmm, I love that movie.
I don’t even think I can explain it. It simply worked for me. AS a film that was supposed to be disposable direct to video crap, Kurt Russell was excellent, and that was all that mattered about it. I enjoyed the hell out of the movie, every bit of it, even the parts that were kinda ludicrous from a ‘could that ever really happen? Who would give these complete retard desk jockey losers access to a loaded firearm, let alone put them in charge of a super soldier program, eh screw it, it’s a movie’ kinda way.
Okay, so the only reason I loved it was Kurt Russell’s performance. Whatever.
This one… this one is going to be hard to describe. See, you might think it’s simply “Aliens, revisited”, but to me it was an amazing congruence of things that all came together.
I’ve been a Ron Perlman fan since Beauty and the Beast. I even had, and you’ll die laughing at this, but I even had Ron Perlman reading poetry on tape, a promotional tie-in from his Beauty and the Beast days that included music from the TV show. I still remember enjoying hearing his rendition of “Acquainted with the Night”. If you never saw Beauty and the Beast at the actual time it was out, I honestly have no way to explain it to you. The 80’s were a strange ass time, you might remember the music videos, but I don’t know how well you might remember the inner city street crime that was just peaking then… and now, in hindsight, we know that it began to recede even then, but at the time you never knew if “Escape from New York” might not be in our immediate future. It was a wierd and yet hopeful TV show to have around.
But you take his time in Beauty and the Beast, add in his part in City of Lost Children, bring Dominique Pinon from City of Lost Children to stand by his side, portray them both as nasty sided mercenaries, and then, and THEN, bring in freaking Michael Wincott, from The Crow, from Strange Days, the freaking GUY OF GISBORNE from Robin Hood (also known as the Robin Hood with the brnx accent and the quotable line “I’ll cut his heart out with a spoon.” ‘Why a spoon?” “It’ll hurt more, you idiot.”) as their mercenary boss.
Top it all off with a cloned Alien/Human hybrid super soldier, and you’ve got a recipe for crazy.
Yeah, I brought a lot of baggage to this movie, the movie itself kinda was an afterthought. Having scenes of Aliens swimming after their prey was the cherry topping on this sundae of awesome for me.
Oh yeah, you mighta heard of Ron Perlman recently. He went on to do some things like, oh, I dunno… Hellboy? Maybe that rings a bell if Beauty and the Beast or City of Lost Children is too old school. :)
5) Howard the Duck.
I’m not going to apologize for this.
Soe things are so galactically awful, so terribad, that they are just… giggle fests.
All I can say is, it was the mid 80’s, and Lea Thompson was, umm… well, she was certainly quite an attractive lady. Uh huh, yep, sure ’nuff.
Okay, so seeing her making out with a duck was… different, but what the heck, it’s no crazier than the rest of the film.
Okay, and watching the principle from Ferris Beullers Day Off turn into an evil alien and destroy everything in sight rocked. I felt he earned it, after what that punk Ferris put him through.
Mmm, oh yeah.
So that’s my list of the five films I totally loved, that everyone else I knew thought sucked.
What are yours? Don’t be shy, you know you’ve got that movie you loved that your friends rag you about. Come clean.
Hey, I told you about my Ron Perlman poetry collection, how bad could it be?
Hmm, Amazon shows those cassettes as still being available… hmmm…
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Ok Well Gods and Generals I loved everyone else felt was long boring and didnt like those beards! LOL
and to this day my kids dont understand why every year at this time I have to watch: “It Happens Every Spring”
:)
Ishtar
Dustin Hoffman and Warren Beatty as two singer songwriters that are just terrible and end up in a middle eastern country being chased around by terrorists. Hilarious film that gets a bad wrap because it didn’t do well in the box office. I highly recommend it.
Okay, I have to chime in on this one…
Robot Jox
I think it is the absolute worst (fun) movie ever made. Acting? Terrible. Special Effects? Rotten. Story? Preposterous. Plot Twists? See ‘em a mile away…
Gary Graham, from the old Alien Nation (TV series, not the movie) and Enterprise, stars as an illerate Robot Jox, future warriors who duel in huge robots as an alternative to outright war. Whoever wins the match, their country get the area of land as a prize…
Best parts include: obvious while male stuntman, standing in for african-american female, corniest bad guy ever “I have already killed you Achilles, right here” , and these land-bound robots taking off into orbit for no apparent reason, only to come down right where they started.
Absolutely rotten, and you laugh all the way though it.
Hexed
A parody of the standard Hitchcock fare, but with enough bizarre little touches that strike my funny bone (but no one elses). I guess this one speaks right to me, as I have not found another soul on this planet that gets even a chuckle out of this one. My recommendations of this film have lost me friends.
Staring Ayre Gross, Claudia Christian (Babylon 5), R. Lee Emery, and they even got Normal Fell to be in this one.
“Don’t hit me, I’m a republican!!!”
Big Trouble in Little China
Sure, a predictable choice. You just gotta love a flick that sets out to be bad, and succeeds. One of the more quotable films out there, “You know what old Jack Burton says? Yes sir, the check is in the mail…”
That’s all I got now, nice topic on an endless Tuesday…
Number one has to be “Clue”. Who doesn’t love Tim Curry and OMG, Madeline Kahn and Christopher Lloyd and…. the whole cast was Fabulous!
Number two: “Big Trouble in Little China”. Kurt Russell just rocks this one.
Number three: “My Chauffer”. Deborah Foreman is just soooo cute. “It is Babe, isn’t it?”
Number four: “The Last Unicorn” Nobody would ever watch it with me but didn’t matter. I loved it then & still do today.
Number 5: “1941″ If you haven’t seen this yet, be warned, it’s in no way shape or form politically correct. Hooo boy is it not politically correct, but soooooo funny! Many, many big names, silly scenarios abound and stupidity frolics through with abandon. Loved it!
1) I have never seen before
2)My husband has made my watch that movie way too many times…ugh…
3)other one of his favorite…
4)I like this movie
5)OMG LOVE THIS MOVIE…cracks me up every time I see it.
and on Ferris Beullers Day Off is another fave of mine got to love the 80’s movies lol
~Flirt~
I haven’t seen Howard the Duck yet, but the rest of them I really liked.
One movie I find a lot of people don’t like but I just can’t get enough of is Dune.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ld2DMsyy0go
I have to agree with BBB on “Soldier” and “Judge Dredd”, and Chaninn on “Clue” and “Big Trouble in Little China”. All good movies in my opinion! Two Kurt Russell movies in there…
I find that some movies I thought were TOTALLY AWESOME as a kid are less than lackluster when I rewatch them as an adult. Two movies that come to mind:
Hawk the Slayer – A sword with a mind of its own, a repeating-crossbow-carrying one-armed veteran, an elf that spends an eternity crafting each arrow only to shoot one every half-second, and Jack Palance as the main villan. The Fog – They remade this one haven’t seen it, but when I was a kid the original scared the CRAP outta me. I made my wife sit through the original a while back and she said I was off movie-picking duties. Times change!
I can only really think of one right now.
The Astronaut Farmer
Something about the Main Character’s quiet determination to do whatever it took to realize his dream, his unfaltering love for his family and how everything plays out just struck a chord with me. I just felt like it was an under-appreciated masterpiece.
My #1 “Bad” movie that I love is My Blue Heaven. Steve Martin and Rick Moranis (sp? — whatever, the SCTV Dude). Basic story is mobster enters witness protection program and is sent to small San Diego suburb, hilarity ensues. Totally hi-larious, I can’t get enough of it.
@Chaninn — Do people hate 1941? It’s Speilberg, for chrissake! I put it down as a very much “like”, but didn’t measure up to Animal House, so not a “love” here.
@BBB, I’m with you on Hudson Hawk, I still sing Swingin’ on a Star waaaay more than anyone would prefer.
- The Shadow. Pre-fattening up Alex Baldwin in one of the precursors to the modern super hero films where they were still trying to figure out how to translate a dark superhero into a feature movie. Yep it was campy, but it was cool. And the honest-to-god actual LIGHTING effects were nice as well.
– Star Wars: The Phantom Menace. Excluding the Gungan Who Will Not Be Named, I actually thought that the political machinations were intriguing, seeing some of the events hinted at during the original trilogy quite exciting, and seeing more than one Jedi on the screen at once was pretty kick-a$$. Yeah the dialog was a bit stilted, but methinks we have edited out how bad A New Hope was in our fanboy and fangirl minds!
– Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. Maybe not that people thought it was bad, but people never saw it. Quite fun Pulp Science Fiction which was visually beautiful. Any film with Gwennyth Paltrow AND pre-Brad Angelina Jolie (in leather and an eyepatch!) gets a thumbs up in my book.
– Love Bites. OK, another unknown that was designed to be bad and campy. It was a pre-feminist rant, but with Obi-Wan (yes, Ewan referred to himself as Obi Wan in the credits) and Renee Zelwinger playing off some great chemistry, it was a movie that WORKED!
– The Goonies. Well… maybe just because my wife looked at me funny when I sqee’d when I saw it on cable this past week. Outcast kids our age (OK… my age, go with me here) going on a treasure hunt near their home with cool traps and gadgets? Yeah. Tell me you didn’t identify with them…
Just to be clear on this… if your friends tell you that Big Trouble in Little China sucked, you need better friends. It’s not on this list because everyone I know agrees with me it is teh aw3some.
And Robot jox… oh god, I forgot about that one. Not only was it horrible HORRIBLE horrible fun, but they somehow got a sequel made. I’ll never understand hollywierd.
Barr… damn, I agree with you on Shadow. I liked that movie a lot. As far as Sky captain goes… I wantedd to like it, but I thought it really did suck.. except for exactly one thing.
Sky Captain gave me a visual on what Honor Stephanie Harrington could look like in a major motion picture if played by Angelina Jolie. For that 5 minutes of cinema, I forgive it all it’s faults.
Hudson Hawk was all you had to say. I have watched that movie so many times but unlike you I have convinced most of my friends and now they all love it too. We will just stop what we are doing if it comes on and sometimes we just pop it in to watch it for no better reason then its just that good.
Very few movies like that can hold up but its jokes still resonate every time.
I think Alien Resurrection is my favorite of the series, honestly. I absolutely adore Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s films and like you, anything with Ron Perlman is full of win.
I think my favorite bad movie would be Flash Gordon. >.>
one i like but was completely disbelievable was hackers, then again.. many probably love the movie for the dream scene of dade’s involving jolee. ::cough:: put down the slow/stop motion, and step away from the remote.
Hoodwinked! is on my list, bad reviews, but I enjoyed it. then again.. I enjoy animated movies, (they are rarely really aimed at children, and this one is no different) reviewers typically dont.
I liked Clue, the Shadow, & The Phantom.
Mel Brooks – Silent movie i found extremely funny.. only one spoken word in the entire movie was from Marcel Marceau (a very famous mime, says NO!)
I know I will probably get flayed for this.. but I had no problem with, and for the most part thought the unnamed gungan wasn’t that bad.
I like and bought Final fantasy: the spirits within. I thought the movie was incredibly well rendered, and had great voice acting. Also a FF nut.. I have and have beat 7,8,9,&10. Have 10-2, 12, tactics and anthology. and never did pick up 11.. oh well.
One I actually own and can’t stand (don’t ask why.. it just happened..) is mystery men.
Would you like to swing on a star
carry moonbeams home in a jar
and be better off than you are
or would you rather be a mule
My absolute favorite song from Hudson Hawk. Haven’t seen the movie in a while, going home tonight and digging it out. :)
Only one I can think of that I loved but is generally loathed is Oliver Stone’s Alexander.
While I think some parts of the movie got tedious, much of the parts people complained about were in fact historically accurate. He did sort of combine the battles of Gaugamela, Issus, and Granicus, but that’s understandable while trying to hit on key points in a very, very long campaign. While I normally hate Colin Farrell, I think he did a great job nailing the personality of Alexander (who was said to be quite whiny and a drama queen). Val Kilmer I also thought did a great job as Philip II.
My partner also enjoyed Perfume: Story of a Murderer. It’s kind of a sick, twisted, artsy movie. He describes it as beautifully depraved.
I love your taste in movies :) your top 3 are the movies i absolutely adore, especially “hudson hawk”. There are a lot of movies that I absolutely love and most people find bad, just like a lot of times, I dislike popular movies. I loved “the mummy” and its sequels, “big trouble”. “reign of fire”, I can watch “snow dogs” over and over though that might have something to do with sheer awesomeness that are huskies), and yes, not only do I love “hackers” I actually have and listen to the soundtrack quite frequently. same goes for “Virtuosity” this was honestly the first and practically only movie I liked Russell Crowe in.
I don’t like “Gladiator”, and am sort of OK with “lord of the rings” (basically – I love the visuals of it, the costume design and general details, but the movies themselves leave me cold), and I have no clue what exactly people think is so good about movies like “Royal Tennenbaums”, “Running with scissors”, etc. yes, apparently – I’m very very shallow :P
wtb edit for comments – Sky captain and the world of tomorrow…oh man… I actually like that movie a lot (even though I don’t like Patrow much) but what you said about Honor Harrington, BBB? right on!
Number Only: The Last Starfighter. Every time I meet someone new I make them watch this. My wife hates it. My friends hate it. Also, according to my youngest brother, Jesus hates it as well. Well, they are wrong. I spent a good portion of my life becoming a video game paragon in order to one day be selected by Centauri to fight in a GunStar against the Kodan Armada and defend the Frontier. I just realized how lame that sounds, but I assure you: The Film Is Excellent.
I also love Howard the Duck. And Soldier. My husband likes Hudson Hawk (I haven’t really seen it).
Other movies I like that nobody else seems to:
The Adventures of Ford Fairlane
Speed Racer
Hudson Hawk is one of mine – my sister and I loved it since it came out. However pipping it at the post is LA Story – the Steve Martin quirk fest that almost everyone else I know hates (except for one cousin who coincidentally has the same name, job and taste in weird movies as I do). Finally, in the comedic action genre I couldn’t get enough of Demolition Man but most people thought it was pretty cliched and didn’t bear re-watching.
Hackers was one of my all time favorite movies. I had no idea that was Angelina Jolie for eons. I loved it when they were in the ‘hacker club’ and pulled out all the hacking books. I was just sitting there going ‘yup, yup’… I was a hacker in the old PC AT days, I’m in ur BBSes, hacking your single user posted icky love chats, lol. I loved that totally hollywoodized computer film. Cassie actually bought it for me from DVD Express (back when it existed) as a present for my massive DvD library. I can’t even imagine how many years ago that was. I was still single in my old apartment? Wow.
Sharvhan, I’ve never seen the movie… but if Val Kilmer and Colin Farrel are in it, I’ll be adding Alexander to my Netflix.
Leah, I remember liking Virtuosity quite a lot… and I totally didn’t recall that as being Russell Crowe. I first liked Crowe from the great, great movie “L.A. Confidential”, and then came back to liking The Quick and the Dead” because of him. Now, well… he’s a good actor, that’s all I need to know about him.
The Last Starfighter is on my DvD shelf… I do love that film. “Our controls are smashed, and we’re heading straight for the Sun! What do we do?” Visor flips over eye… “We die.”
But I feel like I should be flogged. How, how could I have forgotten the evil awesome insanity that is The Adventures of Ford Fairlane?
Ah, yes… any film that opens up with the death and mutilation of Vince Neil is simply tops in my book.
Oh yeah… and the koala. Gotta love the koala.
LA Story!!! Hehe… I had one of the lines from Steve Martin as my answering machine message for a few months, gotta go dig that out. Man, I love your taste in movies.
Hey, “Howard the Duck” was NOT awful! It was very true to the spirit of the comic books! Okay, the duck didn’t really look like Howard, and apparently they couldn’t get Kiss to be in the movie, but, hey! Glad it made your list, but . . . pwease doon dis da duck? :)P
I loved Howard the Duck and Judge Dredd too.
I have a severe tolerance for bad acting and writing and directing if it’s just plain entertaining, so my list is huge.
Some others in my list have to be The Last Starfighter (though with the number of us loving it in this post, maybe it shouldn’t count), Wild Wild West, Look Whos Talking sequels, Weekend At Bernies (1 and 2), Armegeddon, Mac and Me, and many more.
I think my all-time favourite unpopular movie has to be Waterworld, though.
As a big tuff guy who hates chick flicks, I’ll always watch a Hugh Grant film. Why oh why do I like Notting Hill. Don’t like either leads but I still own the dvd. The Hollywood Saloon podcast guys did a Guilty Pleasure episode a few years ago. They talked about quite a few of them. miss that show
Any Steven Segal movie. Especially the especially bad ones.
Yellowbeard – may not be universally hated but a lot of people I would expect to love it just go meh…. I however, adore this film.
I love The Last Starfighter too! Haven’t seen it for ages, am now gonna have to look out for it.
Fobok has to win the contest…
you’re totally right, Waterworld IS one of the movies that I loved watching, still love watching, I giggle over some of it’s awesomeness, in fact right from the first moment when he drinks his own pee, I knew it was gonna be a hoot.
The whole moment where the screenwriters wrote in that horrible dialogue, that part where the girl kidnap victim is talking about what an unstoppable demn killing machine he is, right when he’s killing his way into the guts of the ship? That’s god level bad writing, right there. And yet, I am entertained. There should be an award to give people that manipulate your emotions intentionally, are baldly blatant about doing it with a lack of subtlety that should be insulting… and yet leave you enjoying it anyway. It’s a skill.
All of this, and if there is a movie that has received worse reviews and slams out there that I like, I can’t possibly imagine it. Even to this day people still take shots at Waterworld.
I mean, jeez, the only film I can think of that is that reviled is Catwoman. I never saw it, maybe based on how many hate it I ought to.
Nahhh, let’s not go nuts here.
I love terrible movies.
Just one recent one that NOBODY agrees with me: Cloverfield
Many of my friends never even went to see it because “it sucks.” Or they rented it and hated it.
I’ll be the first to admit, it’s probably terrible on TV. However, in the theater it was an EXPERIENCE. I’m normally a fidgety guy, but I did not move one inch for 90 minutes. I was sweating when the thing was over.
Oh, but NOBODY else liked it. “They don’t even show the monster!” First of all, yes they do. Just because the trailer didn’t ruin the entire movie doesn’t mean it’s not there. Secondly, so what? The movie is about the survivors, not the monster.
i like a lot of costner’s stuff, water world, the postman, robin hood, they do seem to have a lot of the same elements to them (bad writing and lots of cliches) but decent storyline despite the writing.
@leah reign of fire was decent, i preferred the first dragonheart, the second one did have a couple good moments, but a few good moments does not a good movie make. (when the young dragonling was learning to breath fire, turned to face away from a village and instead farted fire on the village.)
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension… nuff said.
Best line ever…..
Perfect Tommy: Pictures don’t lie.
Reno: The hell they don’t. I met my first wife that way.
Because I absolutely love post-apocalyptic type stuff, I’ll toss out two that I can’t get enough of, but really, really got panned when they came out:
Waterworld. Yeah, I said it. So what if the dialogue is totally canned, and completely unbelievable? I’m way too amused by this whole flick for it to be healthy. Maybe it’s *all* of Dennis Hopper’s lines (”Why is that man firing?”), or maybe it’s the cool underwater city dive scenes. Maybe it’s just fun to say “half an hour, half an hour” over and over. Despite the overwhelming Costnerness of it all, I love this one.
No Escape. Shoeless Joe goes bananas in another movie purporting Lance Henriksen to be some kind of badass. Once again, much ass-kicking, death, and building submarines from common household materials. I don’t have a logical explanation for liking this, I just do. I also like (spoiler, lol) seeing the Warden get owned.
…and I totally didn’t read the comments prior. But seriously, like nobody would think of Waterworld already, lol. :P Have a toast to St Joe on me.
Hancock – only the first half. The rest of the film is a smouldering pile of plot, except that the overall theme was good. I can’t figure out if I liked it or if it was just bad.
Soldier, have it on DVD and VHS it rocks. Shouldn’t even be on the list of bad movies. Kurt was great
Two way tie between Beastmaster and Sword and the Sorceror, both bad and I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen them
Mars Attacks is also on my list
Six String Samurai, so bad and so weird that I HAD to watch it to the end. Then sat thru it 2nd time just to be sure.
A Boy and His Dog, the only Don Johnson flick that has ever been worth watching (Harley Davidson and Marlboro Man doesnt count Mickey Rourke is in it)
And the WINNER Army of Darkness. So over the top so campy that I can watch it over and over
Oh yeah one major point in Catwoman’s favor…Halle Berry barely covered in tight black leather with a whip….sorry I just don’t need a whole lot more
Big Trouble in Little China & Escape From New York (more than Soldier), Demolition Man & Oscar (more than Judge Dredd), The Fifth Element & Last Boy Scout (more than Hudson Hawk) . . . Gee Bruce Willis, Stallone or Kurt Russell – short list of those I love and ALL my friends cannot stand! Fortunately hubby and kids like them too!
BBB, I would disown you right now and never visit again… except for your placing Hudson Hawk at the very top of your list. Because of that, I forgive you the rest of your choices.
Regarding Hudson Hawk, I recommend that people read “With Nails: The Film Diaries of Richard E. Grant” for insight on just how horrible an experience it was for everyone involved in the making of the film.
Nice list BBB,
A couple to add to it -
1. Rustlers’ Rhapsody – Tom Berenger as a singing cowboy. “Tell me about this man who shoots other men in the hand?”
2. Top Secret – Val Kilmer singing Elvis!
3. The Thing – Kurt Russel. Aliens in the artic!
4. Startship Troopers – Can you get more B movie intentionally?
5. Cobra – Sly Stallone – love that car.
Cheers
Kol
twilight….edward is sooooo hot. (completely joking)
Oooo, apocalyptic movies. When they went through that whole meteorite fixation in Hollywood, I was just in cheese heaven. Armageddon was my favourite of the lot (another Bruce Willis movie BTW) but I also liked Space Cowboys and even (perish the thought) Sudden Impact.
A friend of mine talks about a particular genre she describes as “Americans helping Americans to save the world” and those can be great fun as well.
Have to agree with you on number 1 – I love Hudson Hawk :) have been one of my favourite movies ever since i first saw it
ok for me (if i can get to five i will)
1. Hudson Hawk
2. Bill and Ted’s Excellent adventure/bogus journey
3. Robin hood prince of theives – I just LOVE alan rickman in that movie
4. FX / FX2 – not so much that people don’t like these movies, I just don’t think anyone remembers them lol
5. Highlander – (shame all but one of the sequels were unbeleivably awful)
I have to agree with a lot of stuff here. I don’t know how anyone can hate Cloverfield, it’s an amazing piece of cinema and I love it to bits.
Starship Troopers I could watch over and over again (heck, I even bought Maruader)
Last Starfighter was awesome, I remember watching that on rental in the 80s
Big Trouble in Little China I will always make the time to watch, that’s just a great movie no matter what anyone else may say.
There are probably other ones that I can’t remember too.
OMG Top Secret is already mentioned! It is just hilarious!!
And, yes, Hudson Hawk is one of those always-see (I spent a long time watching CSI Miami wondering why Horatio looked so familiar…) and find myself humming the song on random occasions…gonne have to find that one on Youtube methinks…eberything is on Youtube right ;P
Going to have to go with Joe Versus The Volcano. Great cast: Meg Ryan, Tom Hanks, Lloyd Bridges, Ossie Davis to name a few.
Fantastic music. Out there story … a modern fairy tale.
Hudson Hawk is still my #1 movie of all time. Even though some of the actors are my least favorite they played their parts so well. You can’t not laugh at this thing it is so goofy.
My other top films are “Clue” and “Four Rooms”. Just hilarious.
alan rickman is a decent actor, normally gets typecast as a villain, or at least someone you don’t want to be around
- Die hard – AR plays the main villain Hans
- Robin hood – AR as the sheriff
- Harry potter 1-? – Snape
does have a few comedic roles that i know of.
- Galaxy quest – By grapthar’s hammer you will be avenged.
- Hitchiker’s guide to the galaxy (the newer one) – the extremely depressed robot.
Now, I haven’t seen any of these, but my great uncle was (till he died) a “b” film maker in hollywood. Larry Buchanan.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0118041/
some of his movies have developed a cult following.
“Mars needs women” and “Goodbye, norma jean” were two of his more well known.
Kattrinsaa: Mars needs women was addictively silly.
And Rickman, also actually played a GOod gy. He played a supporting role to Kevin Kline in a movie called January Man. (Which by the way wasn’t half bad)
Doesn’t Rocky Horror Picture Show at least deserve mention as a horrible movie that is so bad that it’s great fun to watch?
I will admit that it’s definitely more of a theater film, not so great in your living room. but still…
I’ll join the crowd with Hudson Hawk – LOVE that movie.. Another one I’ll add that I haven’t seen mentioned is Cabin Boy, with Chris Elliott – that one just cracks me up.. Hmm I may have to have a Hudson Hawk/Cabin Boy movie marathon tonite.. I’ll be watchin’ alone, though – my wife hates them both LOL
~Zell
I gotta post usually I just lurk :)
Hudson Hawk was a good movie haven’t seen it in a while tho. Waiting for someone to put in ‘Mad Max’ series :D
Others on my list are ‘Mambo Italino’ and ‘Empire Records’ Now i gotta go and bring out the old movies and drive my kids nuts.
I’m totally on your side for Howard the Duck and Hudson Hawk. Two of the best movies ever made. Classic, and that Bruce Willis humor makes it a movie I can’t watch just once.
I love just about every movie that have been listed here, One of my favorites Brain Donors with John Turturro and Bob Nelson with a modern version of the Max Brothers movies. Just Kills me laughing over and over… Anyone else ever see this??
I saw Steven Seagal listed earlier… gotta go watch me some Under Siege again, I love Tommy Lee Jones in that.
Ely, thank you for reminding me of Empire Records… “Shock me shock me shock me with that deviant behavior…” hehehe and how can you not love Mr Zen Gambler Lucas, who need I remind you was also my favorite reason for watching CSI Miami, before they fricken KILLED him off the show, those worthless bastards.
Ahh, and who can forget Mark, who eats a pan full of brownies, turns on a GWAR video, and has a trip where he gets pulled onstage of the GWAR show… and gets eaten… and then giggles.
It just doesn’t get ANY better than that.
Shit, I’m not playing tonight, I’m watching Empire Records.
My vote goes to Zardoz. One of Sean Connery’s early films. Giant floating heads spewing guns, Connery in lederhosen, what more could you ask for
Starship Troopers – all the way!! huge fan and ALL of my family and friends hate it.
Last Action Hero – so terrible that it was fun as hell. Ridiculous story line, but again…very fun movie. Everyone thinks I’m lame for loving it.
Short Circuit – one of my favorite movies from when I was a kid. I think i was the only kid who could watch this 5 times a day.
I can’t really think of any more that haven’t already been mentioned.
I didn’t know people thought Hudson Hawk was bad.
I trumpet the 2003 Hulk movie as a “bad movie worth watching because of the amazing soundtrack”.
Every time I see Howard the Duck mentioned, I keep thinking of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle movies. Am I the only who who liked those?
I’m also guilty of LIKING (the horror, I know) the last two Matrix films.
I cannot believe how many people like the same bad (or perceived bad) movies I do!
Clue, Hudson Hawk, Judge Dredd, Demolition Man, Big Trouble in Little China, Barry Gordy’s The Last Dragon, the Shadow, My Blue Heaven, Star Ship Troopers, Last Starfighter…
I love all these movies unapologetically. My wife loves to pick on my movie selection, but it astounds me how many people LOVE The Last Dragon, despite the horrible acting! (Fantastic soundtrack, tho)
I’m surprised nobody else mentioned The Last Dragon… but maybe that’s just me. :)
OMG rocky horror picture show.. I attended A&M, there is a student group there called The Cephid Variable, (which is a constant, and used the greek letters for Delta Psi Phi as part of their logo) which is the group for all sci-fi/fantasy/horror/anime/oddball fans they had an annual RHPS event.. I had almost managed to forget that.. thank you very much.. :-P
LOVE all those movies. Some of the other movies that people said were bad but I liked…
Godzilla with Mathew Brodrick.
Labrynth
The Last Unicorn
and those are just to name a few. I have seen every single one of the movies that have been listed and I have really like all of them alot.
that may say something.
I loved the two Matrix sequels. Yeah, the Zion stuff was boring, but everything that happened in the virtual world was just too awesome for words.
Even the Architect scene. Especially the Architect scene.
TRON
OK OK Maybe not many people hated TRON.
What about Streets of Fire? Nobody I know likes that movie…
Since Im lurking, and I have enjoyed every single movie listed, I figured Id throw a couple more in for your viewing pleasure.
Mortal Combat, 1 and 2, plus the tv series ( they made a tv series???)
The mating Habits of the earthbound human ( hard to find in the store, its misfiled alot becuase of the title and rating, but its very tame,no nudity ( sadly, CARMEN ELECTRA!!! ) you could watch this with 11 year olds!! ) No one I know has seen this, but everyone I show my copy too ( heheh ) loves it. Think Alien’s version of natiional geographic in the wilds of los angelas ;)
As for Catwoman. I would have avoided this as well, except for a few things. Halle Barry accepted her raspberry award for it IN PERSON, It was filmed in Vancouver Canada, and I have a friend who works in the industry that filmed several scenes for it who stated plainly ” this is a terrible movie, the worst Ive every worked on, Go see it to watch Halle berry saunter around in that COSTUME…drooool” And he knows bad movies… he worked on costners “the Postman” ;)
1. Near Dark
2. Fifth Element
3. Lastr Man Standing
4. Alien Mine
5. Modern Problem
Love them all but my freinds just don’t undersand
Many of my bad favorites are listed but I can’t believe that no one has mentioned the 1960’s Batman. The first and best bad super hero movie. “Holy Bat-Shark Repellant!”
Here’s my list
1) Dr. Detroit – weird pimp and scientist movie. I watched it with my grandpa who muttered the entire movie “stupid stupid” until the boobie sceen when he finally shut up and his eyes bugged out.
2) Zapped – Scott Baio is zapped with amazing power to lift up girls skirts etc.
3) Legend of Billie Jean – “whats fair is fair” I wanted to chop my hair so bad like hers lol.
4) Gotcha! – Paintball spy movie in the Eastern block. (Awesome!)
5) Cannonball run – too many funny funny stars – Jackie Chan, Burt Reynolds, Sammy Davis Jr. etc.
Sorry, but I got thinking and had a few more to add
6) Valley Girl – “like gag me with a spoon”
7) Strange Brew – Bob and Doug McKenzie Canadian Icons. We had a movie book that was shaped like a bottle of the stubbie beers for Strange Brew.
8) Mannequin – sooo bad yet entertaining
9) Spaceballs – Use the Schwatz!
10) Gleaming the Cube – Christian Slater is a skater dude who rescues his foreign adopted brother.
Dune: I’m a complete Frank Herbert fanboy and watch this just to get myself angry. “Cover your heads!” I shout at the screen. The story’s absolutely butchered, but it’s got Patrick Stewart pre-Trek, and its visual sense (the lack of head coverings aside) is really great.
The Snapper: It’s not widely considered a bad movie, but everybody I knew (who went to see it b/c it’s about the family from The Commitments) that saw it was bored silly. But I thought it was hysterical; I liked the rantings of Colm Meany (I do see movies without Star Trek actors in them, I swear), the scenes between him and his daughter and the social impropriety of the daughter spending her entire pregnancy drinking Guinness at the pub.
Robin Hood: Yeah, this was awesome. Morgan Freeman inventing C-sections on the fly. Alan Rickman canceling Christmas. And the pointless arrow-splitting shot (a central part of the whole folk legend, and it’s thrown away in a pointless scene with nothing at stake and nobody watching. Priceless. (Rickman’s been in TONS of stuff, btw. Was also a good (if grumpy) guy in Dogma). Another get-me-good-and-angry movie. Love those.
Mister Roberts: Tons of people loved this — just nobody in my age demographic. Growing up, this was on every Easter afternoon and I’d watch it at my grandmother’s while dinner was getting ready. Could never get any of my friends to even look at the thing for more than 5 minutes.
The Hidden: Oy, was this bad. Alien tentacles sprouting out of a guy’s arm so he duct-tapes ‘em back in. I dragged my friends to see it because I liked the commercials and spent the next week apologizing. Then the next weekend I went to see it again.
Wait wait wait… Adderly, you totally missed it.
I said movies that other people hate.
You put Last Man Standing and Fifth Element in your list.
Clearly, this was a mistake. Because both of those star Mr Bruce Willis. And both of those are galactically awesome.
I mean, Last Man Standing… Christopher Walken and two gun mojo with .45s in an old west cowboy gangster gunfight movie. OLD. WEST. COWBOY. GANGSTER. GUNFIGHT.
I don’t CARE if the core story is pulled straight from Eastwood’s Man with no Name. I do not care.
OLD. WEST. COWBOY. GANGSTER. GUNFIGHT.
And Fifth Element… well, shit, all I can say there is, that movie is long overdue for being re-released in an IMAX version.
Are we green? Thought so.
Sorry, just kidding… I’m sure there are people that hated those movies. Thank god I don’t know any of them personally.
Supposedly a couple years back, 5th Element was listed as one of the worse movies of all time.
How could they! *cry*
There are so many movies listed above that I have totally forgotten but absolutely loved!
let me add (I might have missed them…
1. Demolition Man – Even though I am not a fan of Stallone
2. Tango and Cash – Only cause Kurt Russel was in it
3. Reign of Fire – Come on… Destruction of Humanity ftw.
4. Mars Attacks! – “We Come In Peace” (zap)
5. Three Amigos! – This might be popular I am not sure. I love it though!
-=Dannth
oh oh and
The Jerk
Love it!
BBB you had me until Howard the Duck….I tried to enjoy it I really did but…..Damn it was bad.
I think I am the only dude on the plant who enjoyed Lady in the Water (gotta read between the lines) and Salton Sea, I dunno if I am the only person who saw it but when ever I talk about it people look at me like I am from another planet, excellent movie Val Kilmer was great in it.
One other is House as well as House II (laughed my ass off) but it is incredibly dated now.
Oh Oh and Hunted starring Christopher Lambert (Shudder) but if you blink and go to the can at the right times you can completely miss him and make this an excellent martial arts flick.
ooh, I forgot… despite the Bruce Willis accolades, my personal pick for “Best Bad Movie Actor EVAR” has got to go to Bruce Campbell. with that in mind, I present to you:
1) Army of Darkness – Jesus, do the quotes ever end? “Alright you primative screwheads, listen up! Ths is my BOOMSTICK!” (note: new engineering gun takes cobalt(steel), walnut stock, hair trigger to make. l-o-l.) “Good, bad – I’m the guy with the gun.” “You found me beautiful once!” – “You got ugly real fast!” or “Henry, from what I see you’re Duke of Jack and Shit, and Jack just left town.” Lord, this movie is so insanely bad it’s great. I swear to you, I have a VHS copy in my desk drawer at work – it’s that essential.
2) Evil Dead II – not quite the same as Army of Darkness, but seriously… his possessed hand running along inside the walls while he tries to nail with a shotgun, or the same hand trying to kill him with dinner plates? Made of awesome.
3) Bubba Ho-Tep – takes a little more Bruce appreciation for this one.. I was particularly amused at the casting for JFK. Also, I named my Forsaken Mage Bubbahotepp, because this movie is so awesome. Had to use the extra “p” because the awesomeness was already known, apparently.
The Navigator
FF: Advent Children
Labyrinth
Clue
TMNT
I think that this post needs to be followed up with a post about movies that you hate that everyone else thinks are fantastic. Sure bet that none of the shows on that list feature the fabulous Mr Willis or Mr Martin
(oh, and while we are at it with Steve Martin? Mixed Nuts).
Born of the 70’s..child of the 80’s…..
Timerider — time travel + motorcycle = win!!
League of Extrordinary Gentlemen — Sean Connery + Jules Vern = Win x2!!!
Chronicles of Riddick — Necro stuff……cool!
(Edit: Real Genius – BBB) — Val Kilmer + lasers = Popcorn!!
The Name of the Rose — Sean Connery + murder mystery = win!
Young Sherlock Holmes — Speilberg + first ever CGI = uber win!
BTW…completely forgot about Hudson Hawk….when I rented it waaaayyyy back in the day…could not understand why it wasn’t more liked….it was an extension of Bruce’s character from Moon lighting…more or less….IMHO (must aquire dvd……)
many of us have very similiar taste in movies…..reead BBB….play WoW……….I’m sensing a personality profile here………..odd!
great blog btw…..check it daily!! :)
I can’t believe nobody has listed these two gems yet:
Airborne: Seth Green makes this movie. The Right Said Fred dancing scene makes me laugh convulsively every time.
The Big Hit: Wesley Snipes and John Woo produced? Mark Wahlberg, Lou Diamond Phillips, Bokeem Woodbine, Christina Applegate, and Antonio Sabata Jr.? Yep, all true, and nobody really knows this movie. It makes me sad.
Alltime best terrible movie…
Be Cool. How can you not love a gay Rock slappin his ass in chaps? Really?
Tremors The ultimate buddy movie Val and Earl FTW
Hellboy The ultimate Love Story. The guy from hell who can’t be burned and the girl who bursts into fire.
Wow, BBB. I’ve seen all of them except for Soldier and I actually liked them all too. >.>
I see an awful lot of movies that I’ve liked on this list.
Haven’t noticed this one being mentioned though:
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
Tremors?!?!
Possibly the greatest B-movie of all time
The sequels were beyond awful, but truthfully I don’t know anyone who didn’t enjoy the first.
Ok Tremor fans, question for you. What two items were NEVER on the same person during the movie?
I love the Big Hit…I thought I was the only person to like that movie (or have actually seen it)
Here is one that I love that people just don’t like Sneakers (too many secrets) Gandhi as a villain FTW!!
And Remo Williams The adventure begins (that little oriental guy is THE BEST)
@Thibbledorf:
Salton Sea was amazing. It’s so unknown and that’s a shame. Vincent D’onofrio as a redneck meth-head with no nose? Awesome.
A few of my favs that everyone hates:
1. Idiocracy – I’ve even overheard strangers saying how bad this movie is but i love it. It’s about a cryo experiment that goes wrong and they wake up in the future and everyone is incredibly stupid and lazy. Points out all the flaws in today’s society that are gonna bite us in the ass in the future. Same guy who wrote & directed Officespace.
2. The star wars prequels were all awesome and Jar Jar Binks was absolutely integral to the plot. They made him stupid and overtly racist to appeal to kids (read: dumb racist kids).
3. Blade Runner – People for some reason hate blade runner. It was insane. Much better without the voiceover also.
4. SURF NINJAS – Incredible. Rob Schneider and both Ernie Reyes SR & JR. Probably one of the stupidest movies i love.
2nd comment:
Despite my fandom of Bruce Willis, I was really bored with Last Man Standing.
Someone mentioned Mortal Kombat – which was awesome – and Mortal Kombat II – which was hideous. I’m almost embarrassed to own the 2nd movie. :(
Oh, and while the critics absolutely pan everything he’s done since Unbreakable, I have found enjoyable entertainment out of all of M. Night Shamalyan’s films. Yes, that includes The Village (though admittedly it hasn’t aged well), Lady in the Water, and The Happening (despite it’s horrible title).
I would have to say I really enjoyed Lucky Number Sleven even though a lot of other people didn’t.
As far as movies I think should have done better and most seemingly don’t know about I would have to say Equillibrium. I can’t nominate it for this because everyone I have made watch this movie has loved it.
Of your list I have to agree Soldier was a great movie. I don’t think I saw any of the rest….
OH one more does anyone remember the movie Solo? I can’t even find that movie anywhere to rent it anymore. Movie is about an android that was designed to be a killing machine but do to a malfunction didn’t want to kill things and escaped. He found his humanity sort to speak in a jungle village which he ends up defending at the end of the movie with a lot of explosions!
Yes! solo was a good movie. I liked Mario Van Peebles in that, he was good in heartbreak ridge too (it was a clint eastwood film after all)
I ran across (in the dusty attic of my brain) a movie I liked, but my GF at the time didn’t.. Ultra Violet. I didn’t even try to show Aeon Flux to her, but I liked that one too.
The Big Hit…man, I love that movie. China Chow /drool
Any of you folks like Deathrace 2000?
My wife clued me in to The Big Hit – awesome movie! Unfortunately, we only had it on VHS, haven’t bought it on DVD yet.
Phew, a lot of movies I like in here! :)
Hudson Hawk, Fifth Element (even hubby likes it, he was bzzzzzz!-ing at me yesterday), Labyrinth, Waterworld, Goonies, Clue, Rocky Horror, and OMG Empire Records. I’m going to have to watch that again too. Damn the man, Save the Empire!
As for ones I didn’t notice on the list (though I didn’t read each and every comment)
Crossroads, with Britney Spears. That one was a bit personal for me, I’m adopted, and the scene where she goes to see her mom… even though the situation was different for her, the reaction she has afterwards has me in tears each and every time.
Anything with Lindsay Lohan. Mean Girls, Freaky Friday, Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen.. yes, even Herbie. It’s a girl crush thing, OK?
The Devil Wears Prada, with Anne Hathaway.
The Running Man
Demolition Man (he doesn’t know how to use the seashells??!)
Robin Hood: Men in Tights
I don’t have a whole lot to add, though I have to admit I’m in agreement with so many movies already listed here. There is one though that I’m shocked hasn’t been listed, even though I laugh my ass off every time I see it. My wife HATES the movie, and I mean HATES it, to the point she won’t allow a copy in the house (at least not one that she knows of). I’m talking about Mystery Men, starring Ben Stiller, William H. Macy, and Janeane Garofalo. I can’t really put my finger on any one thing that makes me love that show it just makes me laugh my ass off. The superpowers, the costuming, the dialogue, the plot, all of it is just massively entertaining to me. Everyone else I’ve ever shared the movie with has reacted with varying levels of distaste, dislike, or outright loathing.
Has anyone else here seen and enjoyed this show, or am I truly alone out here….
Gith – I watch Mystery Men every time I see it on :) I love that movie and have yet to meet someone in person who enjoys it :(
Did you know that “Soldier” was actually set in the same universe as “Blade Runner?” It’s true. The opening scene was originally intended to feature a flashback of the battle at the Tannhauser Gate, which folks will recall was cited in Roy’s dying monologue.
Also: @ Javan – I love “Mystery Men.” That movie is side-splittingly funny.