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What "bad" movie do you unironically enjoy?
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This is it chief
The best one.
There's a comfy, early 2000s innocence to its stupidity that is just so watchable
Any time I catch it on, I gotta watch the whole thing
Yep, both of these! Also
if that counts. I actually like all of the defend the president from killers or white house defense type movies for some reason, and will probably see Angel Has Fallen with Morgan Freeman whenever that releases 😂.
Grandma's Boy
Buffalo 66
The Lion King 2019
Mallrats
Signs
Ocean's 8
The Meg
Transformers
I'd also say Mortal Kombat, but my rewatch of it this year was rough as hell. It was MUCH worse than I remembered lol. I attribute some of this to how I rarely feel nostalgia anymore because I know 14 year old me would still love it. And to its credit it's still a pretty solid adaptation of the early video games. But the stories in the new games are all better than the one in the film.
Buffalo 66
The Lion King 2019
Mallrats
Signs
Ocean's 8
The Meg
Transformers
I'd also say Mortal Kombat, but my rewatch of it this year was rough as hell. It was MUCH worse than I remembered lol. I attribute some of this to how I rarely feel nostalgia anymore because I know 14 year old me would still love it. And to its credit it's still a pretty solid adaptation of the early video games. But the stories in the new games are all better than the one in the film.
There are a few but the one that sticks out that everyone seems to hate is The Green Lantern (2011), I got a little fixated with it before it released because I saw a trailer of Hector Hammond being infected by the unknown entity (Parallax) and the idea of something like this happening in real life fascinated me. I found some pictures of Peter Sarsgaard walking around irl in full make up and I made up some story about how he had a rare disease and sent the pic to all my friends who were like "Ohhh no, poor guy!" and "OMG what disease is that?". I actually really like the movie too.
The Cable Guy is a legitimately great movie. Most people just fail to recognize brilliance.
Now Little Nicky is a bad movie, but it's a movie that I really enjoyed & view as a guilty pleasure, but I also haven't seen it in forever so I don't know if I'd still feel the same way. I'm inclined to say yes though.
Maybe it's because I fanboy anything cyberpunk but I enjoyed it. Although it's not perfect I thought Rudd and Theroux's performances carried the movie to being enjoyable.
Ya I just learned recently it was considered trash. I always thought it was praised critically and loved by most.
Like it so much I helped kickstart a special edition and have two copies of that kickstarter bluray.
It's childhood nostalgia for a movie released when I was a year old to sell plastic robots that beat the crap out of each other. It's also a movie that i own in three different formats and have seen more than any other film I own. Can recite most of the film at this point even if it is an extended toy commercial. And it's better than all the Bay films.
I actually loved this movie as well and really felt for Hogancamp and Steve's portrayal of him, had no idea it was considered a bad movie, I thought it just didn't do that well at the box office.
For my pick I'd probably go with Space Truckers.
It's a campy space movie that stars Dennis Hopper where he plays a ....space trucker lol, and he ends up getting into some trouble and somehow comes into possession of hauling some top secret killer robots and things go from there. Stephen Dorff and Debi Mazar are the two supporting actors that travel with him and Charles Dance plays the villain of the movie, in all of his hammy goodness (if you liked him in Last Action Hero you know what to expect).
It's from Stuart Gordon, the master of HP Lovecraft adaptations like Re-Animator, Dagon, From Beyond, etc.
Also another I absolutely love is The Relic, this is one of my favorite "Monster" movies of the 90's and I was absolutely astounded to see that it had such low scores on RT from both critics and the audience, this is imo one of the best monster movies of the 90's and came around the same time as Mimic did (which I also loved). Of the few critics that liked it was none other then Roger Ebert, who said it quite nicely when he said that it cleverly combines the horror genre and the disaster genre together.
It's got a great monster design from the master Stan Winston, a great location for a monster movie (locked in giant museum) and has a great cast of actors from the always great Linda Hunt who plays the head of the museum to the lead played by Penelope Ann Miller and the main supporting actor played by Tom Sizemore.
The only bad thing I can say about the movie is that it has some lackluster CGI at parts where they used CGI for the monster (mainly when you see it full body moving/running around) however they also made ample use of practical effects for it too, it wasn't just cgi only, only used cgi in certain scenes.
Definitely Sucker Punch
I'll get behind this. It wasn't without its issues, but I found it enjoyable enough. A friend was not happy with me when I recommended it to him though
Batman vs. Superman. It's just so aggressive in how it pushes itself forward like the movie itself believes it's showing you a modern day classic. There's no trepidation, no hesitation, no sign of an inner voice that's asking itself "should I really be doing this?". The lack of self-awareness and self-reflection in the moment gives it some indescribable quality that I enjoy about it.
I just watched Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom.
It's really, really stupid. Characters do dumb things, the dumb science is even dumber, there are wild decisions made and the villains are paper thin 80's Saturday Morning cartoon characters.
I loved every second of it.
I will also say:
Ghostbusters 2
FFVII: Advent Children
Face/Off
Con Air
Dumb quotable 90's comedies like:
Basketball, Dirty Work, Half-Baked, Airheads, Tommy Boy (though in my memory this was pretty good), Little Nicky which is fucking awful but insanely entertaining.
Tron: Legacy which is a poorly executed story with beautiful visuals, great casting and a kickin' soundtrack.
Last Action Hero
It's really, really stupid. Characters do dumb things, the dumb science is even dumber, there are wild decisions made and the villains are paper thin 80's Saturday Morning cartoon characters.
I loved every second of it.
I will also say:
Ghostbusters 2
FFVII: Advent Children
Face/Off
Con Air
Dumb quotable 90's comedies like:
Basketball, Dirty Work, Half-Baked, Airheads, Tommy Boy (though in my memory this was pretty good), Little Nicky which is fucking awful but insanely entertaining.
Tron: Legacy which is a poorly executed story with beautiful visuals, great casting and a kickin' soundtrack.
Last Action Hero
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Street Fighter.
The OST is beyond reproach and I proudly own it.
Absolutely. The weird thing is this seems to be a pretty popular answer whenever I see this type of topic show up so maybe it's actually just a good movie.
It's not. I still like it though.
If Macgruber is considered bad, then that. It's the best SNL based film, and is up there with the greatest comedies of all time.
