What's your favorite *bad* movie?

The answers (in order recieved):

  • Hackers

  • Army of Darkness. Absolutely hilarious, but the cinematics and acting are, how should we say, NOT oscar-caliber?

  • So difficult to say. I want to give shouts out to "Star Crash," "Space Ninja: Swords of the Space Ark," "Zombie Lake," "Mafia vs Ninja," "Avenging Disco Godfather," and "Ninja Thunderbolt."

    But my answer has to be "Leprechaun 4: In Space." It has just the right amount of bad to maximize its interest/amusement value. Even the gratuitous nudity is amusing ("this is your death"). The juxtaposition of leprechaun with space marines & alien princess is inherently amusing. It avoids the cardinal sin of bad movies (though shall not bore), and of course, Warwick Davis! Doing a John Wayne impression....

  • The Long Kiss Goodnight

  • Poor White Trash 2

  • Deuce Bigalow....i LOVE tourette's syndrome lady!

  • Howard the Duck...best viewed with a high fever and cold medicine. *g*

  • By FAR, Rocky IV. Easily the most ludicrous, but also easily the most entertaining of all the Rocky movies. Ludicrous because A) in theory, Drago should've been able to kill anyone with a single punch, yet Rocky lasted 15 rounds while Apollo didn't last two, B) there was no reason why Rocky should've fought Drago at all unless he was trying to kill him, C) Rocky single-handedly ends the Cold War, D) there's simply too many to list. Entertaining because A) Dolph Lundgren played one of the most memorable monosyllabic villains of all time, and probably torpedoed his career in the process, B) James Brown was involved, C) the soundtrack, D) the Soviets came out of a comic book.

    Let's face it, Rocky I was excruciatingly slow, good, but slow. Rocky II was a bit faster, but still slow by today's standards. Rocky III and IV really picked up the pace, and that's when I hopped on board as a youngster. Apollo was a good guy, but Clubber Lang and Ivan Drago were comic book villains. My brother and I absolutely ate it up. It was almost like the movie was made for kids. They kept the mushy Rocky-Adrian stuff down to a minimum and the spectacle to a maximum. I'm 26 years old, I double majored in political science and history, and yet the first thing I think of when I heard the old Soviet anthem is that scene in Rocky IV when Drago enters the arena in Moscow.

    Runner up: Top Gun. Great flying scenes, hammy performances and cheesy dialogue. It probably set the tone for future Bruckheimer movies, but before it got old. It followed the same track as Rocky IV, cartoonish villains (also known as "the enemy" and their "MiG-28s,") memorable yet cheesy dialogue, over the top bad acting, and a spectacular soundtrack.

    Honorable mention: Universal Soldier. Dolph Lundgren and Jean Claude van Damme are involved, need I say more? This is easily the greatest Van Damme film ever made, which is either saying a lot or not saying a lot. Van Damme makes Dolph Lundgren look like Laurence Olivier.

  • And yes, I own all three on DVD.

  • Airplane! definitely.

  • "Signs" starring Mel Gibson. This movie is totally abstruse and dimwitted.

  • Valley Girl (1983) - a nice blend of 80's flick and "Val - speak" Plus much of it takes place in the Glendale Galleria (the OLD Galleria, not the new fancy one) Starring Nicholas Cage, this movie is awesomely bad!

  • Summer Magic. It's so bad it's good. Hayley Mills is my hero.

  • Star Crash! Where else can you see Christopher Plumber as the Emperor of the Galaxy teaming up with his son, David Hasselhof, to fight an evil villain whose space fortress is shaped like a flying fist? Favorite line: "Imperial Battleship! Halt the flow of time!

  • Oh my. I have a soft spot in my heart for Zombie Lake, only because I was the only person to ever have seen it (three times none the less) for maybe 15 years until badmovie said he knew someone who also saw it (but only once I believe). Plus, good zombie vs bad zombie knife fight? ROCK! I saw it on the TV Double Thriller Creature Feature whatever so I saw the "alternate clothed version". There was quite a lot of Zombie Lake that was entirely new to me! I'm also fond of Reptilicus because it was the first movie I ever picked to watch for Smithee Culling and it had a large rampaging silly string spewing monster that terrorized Copenhagen. Hee!

  • "Showgirls," no question!!! :) It's the ultimate in "so bad it's good" guilty pleasures...the dialogue alone..."You are a whore, darlin!"

  • Crossing Delancey. It's *bad* because it's a chick-flick but *good* because it exemplifies my experiences with men.

  • Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones

  • harold and maude

  • Lethal Weapon 4 - ...if only they cut out all the scenes except for the highway chase scene featuring Jet Li.

  • Tank Girl!

  • The Matrix.

  • Army of Darkness or Joe's Apartment...unless you mean "bad" as in "naughty" then it would be Slut Wars III: Revenge of the Syph (don't bother trying to get it, it's not real folks, i just like to be witty...sickos)

  • Well, if we're going for bad movies I've seen the most number of times, then probably "Wildcats", which was an awful football movie with Goldie Hawn coaching an inner-city high school team. It was really awful, but for some reason my brother and I worked it into our regular movie-watching rotation. Maybe it was the mystical lure of Nipsey Russell...

  • Big Trouble in Little China ("When some wild eyed, eight-foot-tall maniac grabs your neck, taps the back of your favorite head up against the barroom wall, and he looks ya crooked in the eye and he asks you if you've paid your dues...well, you just stare that big sucker right back in the eye and you remember what old Jack Burton always says at a time like that: 'Have you paid your dues, Jack?' 'Yessir, the check is in the mail.'")

  • The Hobbit

  • 20 MILLION MILES TO EARTH. Sample dialogues:"Nobody will get hurt, unless they poke me. Owwww! That is it! I am going to kick your butt from here to my home planet! How do you like this? Does it feel good? Does it feel like being stabbed with a pitchfork?"

  • Clue! HA HA HA HA HA! I knew that would get a rise out of you, Donald. This is such an easy question...it's Xanadu. I have the DVD ***AND*** CD. A musical from the early 80s with Olivia-Newton John rollerskating. Not one of Gene Kelly's finest cinematic moments!

  • Bill and Ted's exellent adventure.OOooooOOOoo! Zombie Lake!! "About Last Night" with Demi Moore and Rob Lowe. THere was no point to the movie and the acting was really really bad......

  • dEATH BECOMES HERE

    My answer:

    Evil Toons. A comedy, so not Smithee material, but certainly bad enough.
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