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…
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.