The SO BAD THEY'RE GOOD! movie list

[machoo02]

Ok...so this one is inspired by The BAD! movie list (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=465551) and The GOOD movie list (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=464302), but I want to combine the best of both worlds: movies that are so rife with bad acting/poor direction/no budget/absent plot/etc but nonetheless manage to become a good, enjoyable film. Dust off your favorite B film suggestions, and let them fly. IMDB links are welcome, and preferable.

Here are a few to start:

Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter - IMDB (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0311361/)
Dead Alive (aka Braindead) - IMDB (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103873/) (great zombie film by Peter Jackson about 10 years before LOTR...how far he's come!)
Bad Taste - IMDB (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092610/) (another really quirky yet funny film by Peter Jackson)
The Terror of Tiny Town - IMDB (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0030845/)/BadMovies.org (http://www.badmovies.org/movies/tinytown/) (Three words: Midget Western Musical!)

[mcurtiss1970]

Hot Dog: The Movie

[Billy_McBong]

snakes on a plane!!!!

[lasking]

Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End :popcorn:

[shen-an-doah]

Imagine if the Japanese made Army of Darkness and you'll have Versus (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0275773/).

[lasking]

who can tell me why my profile image can\'t display?

[LollYouSuckZor]

Hahaa, Me and my girlfriend are going to the movies, but we haven't decided a good movie, I keep reading these for any tips :P

[bunker]

Oh man I can own this thread ^^:

Drive - http://imdb.com/title/tt0116147/ - A prototype enhanced human is on the run from Chinese-hired hit men. It's actually pretty entertaining, but the plot is rather hilarious.

Soldier - http://imdb.com/title/tt0120157/ - this is great! Kurt Russell says about 3 things in the entire film ^^.

Atomic Train - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0144039/ - there's a train with an atomic bomb on it... I think it blows up at some point. I saw it in French so I didn't really have any idea what was going on.

Spontaneous Combustion - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098375/ - probably not worth the watch but it's on my list of crappy films so I must have enjoyed it (if 'enjoyed' is the right word).

The Final Countdown - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080736/ - An aircraft carrier is sent back in time for some reason.

[Aside: I'm shocked at how highly the above films are rated]

Moving Target - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0389179/ - I can't even begin to describe how unbelievably awesome this film is. Basically this sinister group of people decide to fight the martial arts champion of the world to the death in what looks like the woods behind their mate Dave's house. I think it is filmed on a camcorder, and you can clearly see that no contact is made during the martial arts bits. There is pretty much no production value whatsoever, the acting, script, and plot are all abysmal... I'm sorry I'm really not doing it justice, but just know that I bought it from £1 shop (it came free with another film).

McBain - http://imdb.com/title/tt0102422/ - y'know I think this might have been on the other side of the DVD I got Moving Target on. Christopher Walken (what is he doing in this film?!?) goes to Vietnam Colombia for some reason and blows some stuff up - that's basically all you need to know of the plot. There's some pretty hilarious acting in there, and the odd helicopter (that's how you know it's a good film :) ).

Anything with Dolph Lungren in it.

Oh and anything directed by Uwe Boll if you're really in to torturing yourself.

I think I'll just stop there, but there's a bunch more crappy action films I could list. I'm going to watch 'Team Delta Force: Operation Clear Target' now :).

/shame

Edit: I'm adding one because it's just that good. http://imdb.com/title/tt0457090/ - The Marksman. I really don't know what Wesley Snipes is doing lately. This one is noteable for both the 'cut-and-paste' action film plot and just generally how they really didn't put much effort into making it. There's one scene where his team-mate firing out of a window and it switches between two angles in which he's using a completely different gun. I LOL'd.

/more shame

[RAV TUX]

The Matrix all three movies!

[shen-an-doah]

The Matrix all three movies!

I disagree. The first was a grea action film, so maybe it fits, but the other two were just bad. There was no goodness in there whatsoever..

[yabbadabbadont]

Soldier - http://imdb.com/title/tt0120157/ - this is great! Kurt Russell says about 3 things in the entire film ^^.

That was a great film. It is true that he had very few lines, but that was his character. The only thing is, you could still tell what he was thinking throughout the entire movie. I think it is one of his best efforts.

[steven8]

Buckaroo Banzai

[tgalati4]

Ditto for Snakes on a Plane. Watch the Youtube videos either before or after the film. Being drunk helps.

[machoo02]

I disagree. The first was a grea action film, so maybe it fits, but the other two were just bad. There was no goodness in there whatsoever..
I have to agree with you here. Besides Rav, you've put the Matrix trilogy in the other two threads! Put in some new films!!


Keep 'em coming! Bunker, I've already added Drive and Versus to my Netflix queue. Can't wait!

[steven8]

I tried watching the first Matrix and felt it was just a waste of time.

[guitarmaniac]

Anything with Chuck Norris!!!

[yabbadabbadont]

Buckaroo Banzai

"Laugh while you can. Monkey boy."

Priceless. :lol:

[steven8]

"Laugh while you can. Monkey boy."

Priceless. :lol:

I love that flick! My wife hated it!! :popcorn:

[Bigbluecat]

You can't have a thread like this without some classics

Attack of the killer tomatoes
The creeping terror
Tromeo & Juliet http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114733/ (this is a fabulous film)

[yabbadabbadont]

I love that flick! My wife hated it!! :popcorn:

Now who would hate a rock star, surgeon, scientist, race car driver?!? Unfathomable. :lol:

[Chayak]

Dog Soldiers http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0280609/

It wasn't a high budget movie but it still manages to be a decent flick, particularly how realisticly the soldiers act ;)

[steven8]

Now who would hate a rock star, surgeon, scientist, race car driver?!? Unfathomable. :lol:

Exactly!

"Is someone crying out there? In the dark."

Man, that flick is great!

[mech7]

Deuce bigallow male gigolo :D

[mips]

The Final Countdown - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080736/ - An aircraft carrier is sent back in time for some reason.


I'm ashamed to say I actually kinda enjoyed that movie...

[shen-an-doah]

Dog Soldiers http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0280609/

It wasn't a high budget movie but it still manages to be a decent flick, particularly how realisticly the soldiers act ;)

Excellent film. I need to watch that again sometime...

[mcurtiss1970]

RoadHouse has to be on there too.

[Bachstelze]

Wayne's World !

[mech7]

Rambo I / II / III
Commando

pretty much every 80ies style action flick with sly or arnie :D

[3rdalbum]

Spiceworld - no plot description necessary.

[junior aspirin]

Rambo I / II / III
Commando

pretty much every 80ies style action flick with sly or arnie :D

agreed. also anything with Steven Segal in.

[mikehvorup]

you can't go wrong with

The Toxic Avenger
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090190/

[shen-an-doah]

agreed. also anything with Steven Segal in.

Especially Under siege :D

[machoo02]

you can't go wrong with

The Toxic Avenger
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090190/

Yeah...pretty much anything from Troma Films (http://www.troma.com/) should be on the list.

[machoo02]

Deuce bigallow male gigolo :D
I think I have to veto this one...it belongs squarely over in Bad movie list. Nothing redeeming about this film (except for the aquarium shop girl!).

[jgrabham]

Speed (like hell could that bus jump that gap)

Shaun of the dead (although its supposed to be bad; thats the joke)

[Hygelac]

I'm surprised that no one has mentioned "Plan 9 From Outer Space" yet! Isn't it a classic of the 'so bad they're good' genre? Or, do you all just think that it was a genuinely great movie? :rolleyes:

[mech7]

I think I have to veto this one...it belongs squarely over in Bad movie list. Nothing redeeming about this film (except for the aquarium shop girl!).

No way man this the most funny movie i know :D the sequel was really really bad though.

[machoo02]

Killer Klowns from Outer Space (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095444/) (I forgot how much fun this one is)

[der_joachim]

Highlande. Only the first one. The others are just really really bad.

[crimesaucer]

Evil Dead 2: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092991/

This movie rules.

[zami]

I stumbled across this post looking for something else entirely... I hope no one minds the resurrection!

1)
The Beastmaster
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083630/

I watch this every five years or so... at least up to the scene were the plastic garbage sack monsters swallow people. Alas, alack, I have little time to burn on movies these days.

This films poorness is extra close to my heart, as I talked my husband into renting it with me once. He sat down expecting something Conan-esque. You know, a fantasy film with a budget and actors and effort? Heh. Heh. Heh.


2)
Cave Dwellers
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086972/

I first saw this movie thanks to MST3K, but this flick is hilarious all on it's own. Action sequences featuring people not otherwise in the movie, the cheapest and cheesiest of costumes, classic bad-guys with bad-guy mustaches, Ator's weird and slightly creepy body, the confusing plot, the joy of noticing digital watches and handrails in medieval times.... aaahhh. With a lot of "bad" movies, the joke wears a little thin long before the movie is over. Cave Dwellers moves along pretty quick and never gets dull.

-zami

[FurryNemesis]

Golden Ninja Warrior.

Powered by plotholes...
Atrocious dubbing (but of course)...
The slow motion lags... You can see the individual frames...
Had my friends and I in stitches....

[tbroderick]

RoadHouse has to be on there too.

Road House is a classic. Nothing bad about it.

[hardyn]

Big Trouble in Little China...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090728/

[ThrobbingBrain66]

Wendigo
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0275067/

Man of the Year
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0483726/

[hanzomon4]

Flash Gordon
http://ia.imdb.com/media/imdb/01/I/16/97/95m.jpg (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080745/)

Classic!!:lolflag:

[handy]

Cat Woman, not good.

Merlin, not good.

The Core, not good.

Original Sin, not good.

I do not know how Nicholas Cage got an academy award, unless it was for over acting!

Face Off, 20 minutes was all I could stand!

Gone in 60 Seconds, not good.

Shaun of the dead, I could enjoy.

[machoo02]

How about The Stuff (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090094/)...yogurt-like dessert that turns you into a zombie, anyone???

[@trophy]

Van Helsing... it was so bad I saw it in the theaters three times with various groups of friends (we're all media majors, and none of us could believe how jaw-droppingly bad it was).

Trivia: Try counting the times someone swings on a rope during that movie. It has the highest count of any non-tarzan related film I've ever seen!!!

Oh, and Trolls 2... there's 90 minutes of my life I'll never get back...

[Kingsley]

Norbit
Phat Girlz
The Hills Have Eyes 2

:d

[shen-an-doah]

Van Helsing... it was so bad I saw it in the theaters three times with various groups of friends (we're all media majors, and none of us could believe how jaw-droppingly bad it was).

Trivia: Try counting the times someone swings on a rope during that movie. It has the highest count of any non-tarzan related film I've ever seen!!!

It has Kate Beckinsale in a corset. It doesn't need to be good.

[LaRoza]

Devil Women from Mars

Supposed to be exciting I think, but it is very funny. The robot looks like a refrigerator.

[Sporkman]

Starship Troopers

That's actually a movie that appears bad, but is really a very clever satire.

[LaRoza]

Starship Troopers

That's actually a movie that appears bad, but is really a very clever satire.

The second one is just bad, not even clever in ANY way.

[Anonii]

Did someone say Evil Dead? Because I'm sure that someone said Evil Dead.

[Sporkman]

The second one is just bad, not even clever in ANY way.

Ah, didn't see that one.

[%hMa@?b<C]

Evil Alien Conquerors should top that list.

[LaRoza]

Ah, didn't see that one.
Don't, I am usually not critical of movies, but every thing was bad in that one. It isn't even interesting.

[use a name]

Gunmen: it's real bad and only fun to watch while fast-forwarding. Storyline: 2 men run from a couple of dozen other guys with machine guns. In the end they find a boat called 'gunmen'.

[Itiki]

Barb Wire and the Mission Impossible series!

[@trophy]

Did someone say Evil Dead? Because I'm sure that someone said Evil Dead.

No, this is for movies that are so bad that they're good. The Evil Dead series is just good.

[zami]

Road House has been brought up a few times. Anyone who enjoys watching Road House needs to be aware of the Road House Rifftrax -

http://www.rifftrax.com/cart.php?m=product_detail&p=42

-zami

[Unknown 4242]

Santa Clause Conquers the Martians. Need I say more. Extremely corny, bad acting, ridiculous props, and just strange characters.

At least the Mst3k episode was funny.:popcorn:

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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0776520/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sGVNCE1_Aw

[shadowdude1794]

The Doom movie anyone? It was just terribly funny/bad.

[Ozor Mox]

Anaconda. So awful it was the funniest hour and a half I've had in a long time, didn't stop laughing!

[benny bronx]

Infra Man. A bionic(?) good guy who battles alien/demons and, even with all their powers, everyone seems to rely on kung fu.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRQXtWuQcjw&feature=related

[stir-crazy]

Yeah...pretty much anything from Troma Films (http://www.troma.com/) should be on the list.

Agree with this and the Killer Klowns from Outer Space. Add to that a new entry, Fido...fantastic cinematography. And any Evil Dead/Army of Darkness flick. And Black Sheep, the Kiwi version, not the one with Farley and Spade.

Also add an oldy, Welcome to Woop Woop...the only redeeming acting John Stamos has ever done. Good luck finding it though...I'm quite proud of my VHS eBay find.

And last, what's on my tube right now...Time Bandits...a classic!

[chucky chuckaluck]

the rush hour trilogy
deadly weapon (the one with mel gibson, not whatsherface)
the terminator and its spawn
live and let die (funniest movie i've ever seen)

[Denestria]

you can't go wrong with
The Toxic Avenger
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090190/

This was on twice last week!

Flight of the Living Dead (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0780583/) (think snakes on a place with zombies instead of snakes)
Fido (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0457572/) (zombies have been tamed)
The Host (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0468492/) (Korean monster movie, haven't seen it in awhile and not sure it qualifies for this category)
Black Sheep (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0779982/) (zombie sheep) :lolflag:
Pretty much anything with Bruce Campbell in it. Saw "My Name is Bruce" and Bruce himself at the premiere last week. If you like bad Bruce Cambell this movie is awesome.

I love zombie movies! Awful is good.
*HA, I just saw Stir said Fido and Black Sheep too!

[cb951303]

idiocracy: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/

[Denestria]

idiocracy

Scarier than any horror movie I've ever seen. :)

[SunnyRabbiera]

My list:

Plan 9 From Outer Space
Time Chasers
The Evildead trilogy
This island Earth
Street Fighter: the movie
Bride of the Monster
Bride of Chucky
Freddy Vs Jason
Dude, wheres my car?
Time bandits
The Blob (the Steve McQueen version!)
Flash Gordon
Howard the Duck (a personal favorite believe it or not)

[Golem XIV]

The Leprechaun series (http://www.imdb.com/find?s=tt&q=leprechaun&x=0&y=0). I happened to zap into the 4th installment and I was hooked. It was so bad that I couldn't stop watching, just to see the heights (depths) it could reach.

[cb951303]

You Don't Mess with the Zohan: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0960144/