What is your favorite bad movie? (You know by most measures it’s not a very good movie, but you love it anyway…)
I entertain a number of contenders, but this is probably my #1:
And my favorite part (aside from the thrillingly bombastic ending) is where the timestream cops flip through all the alternate universe versions of the main character and it is just Jet Li in a succession of terrible wigs. Genius. (Partly in the trailer in the beginning.)
Burn Hollywood Burn?
Doom Generation.
I love that movie! I also love Kaboom and Nowhere. Smiley Face was just stupid, but Araki didn’t write it.
I love it too but I have to roll my eyes at it every so often.
Funny, but this one would have made my list, too.
I enjoy it, in all of its campy shittiness. Jet Li seems like a guy who absolutely could have been a great action star in some better vehicles to showcase his talent, but this… whew. Man.
And yet I’ll watch it if it’s on.
Also – it has one of my all time Hollywood crushes: Carla Gugino. Merrrrrrowwww.
(She sits tied for first with Jennifer Connelly and Rachel Weisz… and whaddya mean I have a type??)
Gugino is ???
I haven’t see The One, which sounds like a futuristic Highlander rip-off, but isn’t Unleashed as bad?
Rocky Horror Picture Show.
There is a reason it bombed when it was released as regular film.
I’ll add an OT. I’m watching a current anime Heike Monogatari. It’s a period historical drama about a warring period. Any Japanese person would know the history.
One of the main character’s mother is a “shirabyoushi”. They let you know this because in the subtitles they italicize it and repeat it over and over. They never define it. In this period it means prostitute. God forbid they use that word. Also any Japanese person would know this too.
Meanwhile the story has affairs, concubines and features the deaths of 100,000s of soldiers. But we wouldn’t want to label somebody a hooker.
Relevant (sorry this is the only copy I can find on Youtube)
I haven’t “seen you” around since I belatedly read part 2 of your 3D series…Thanks! I’m really enjoying it.
Hopefully I can finish part 3 before end of year.
Thanks!
Tim Curry was pure genius in that film.
For sure. It would have been a very different film without him.
My ex saw it live in London with Tim Curry playing the lead.
Above The Law
Awful. But I’d probably watch if it was on.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzIHyF7UWY4
Under Siege. I will watch that doughy ham cook/SEAL his way into Miss July’s pants at the drop of a hat.
I’d include any of the Seagal flicks from On Deadly Ground back, but Above The Law is probably the best.
Not awful! I love that movie.
I bet that soundtrack is what Trump puts on while making out with Melania.
You are one sick puppy
Howard the Duck
No that’s just bad. The exteriors of the lab in the film were shot in Marin County at what was at the time Fireman’s Fund Insurance Company’s home office.
Ahem.
What is your favorite bad movie?
Besides, young Lea Thompson – yes, please!
Fun Fact: Lea Thompson tried to fuck her son in Back to the Future and hook up with a duck in Howard the Duck
I wish I had been her son or a duck. It wouldn’t have been “tried”.
Caroline in the C***?
OT Warner Japan just dumped a bunch more stuff.
Finally decided to make some money and released the original of “Plastic Love”.
Cracks me up how that became a huge hit now instead of when it released.
Yeah, that’s kind of the entire city pop genre.
I’m sure WBJ thinks it’s all just a flash in the pan freak rather than there actually might be a market for Japanese media in the short intestine world.
I was flying this week. One flight, the passenger next to me was a black guy, kinda togged out in a fashionable urban vibe. Nice guy.
Anyhoo, they have this gizmo on the seat backs that holds your screen for optimal movie watching. I fire up Wonder Woman on my tablet, and he gets some anime going on his. Gore, animal headed people, misc. monsters, the whole thing.
Yeah, there’s a market.
If it’s current this is my bet…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jujutsu_Kaisen
Not my general genre of interest, but I did watch this one.
Yes to young Lea Thompson, but I found some music you might like:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lz8_PZgXxUo
An ex was the on scene nurse for Howard the Duck. It paid for a new backyard.
I’d watch an 80’s after school special if it was on.
You that desperate for English content?
For years the only American show they had on TV was Full House.
My friend there seems to watch lots of American law related dramas that were popular here decades ago.
There is a Japanese version of Columbo.
あともう一つだけ…
Niiiiice.
They don’t show nearly as many American shows on basic tv like they used to. Can’t blame them. Although their domestic dramas are awful in their own way.
I love the low budget almost Spanish soap opera appeal of Japanese drama TV series.
That is probably because I’m interested in the language, however. I’d be hard pressed to recommend too many of them.
I like them, too. Some Korean dramas too. There’s a wholesomeness to it that I find enjoyable.
Who wouldn’t relate to something like https://asianwiki.com/This_is_Not_a_Business_Expense ???
Found last night that someone posted most/all of “Attention, Please” on YouTube.
Or this gem on Netflix
https://asianwiki.com/Yareta_Kamo_Iinkai
No way I’d watch it in English.
FWIW network TV is complete shit now. I assume that’s what we export more of, rather than pay stuff like HBO or Showtime?
I landed on one of the many, many new “police procedurals” a few weeks ago and watched for a few minutes. Holy crap it was awful. It was like a bad soap opera.
Obligatory:
https://youtu.be/R_DqM9iqERg
One of my fellow movie bloggers has an annual blogathon called “Against the Grain” in which fellow bloggers pick two movies: one that has a really high score on Rotten Tomatoes but that you hate, and another that has a low score on Rotten Tomatoes that you like. To be honest, my choices for the latter have been mostly enjoying them because of how badly wrong they go, but the choices over the years have been:
Untamed Youth (Mamie Van Doren movie that has her winding up as prison slave labor and all the prison labor doing a musical number in a cotton field),
Night of the Lepus
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
The Concorde: Airport ’79
Tentacles (Jaws clone with, among others, Shelley Winters)
Endless Love (1981) — boy does this one go spectacularly off the rails.
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
Oooh. Good one.
Aerosmith in all their drug-fueled glory.
Not just Aerosmith
There’s also Donald Pleasance.
Still better than most modern autotuned shit.
Bad Lieutenant, the original, not the Nicholas Cage, Bad Lieutenant Port of Call New Orleans.
What, that’s not even Ferrara’s most guilty pleasure/sinful indulgence?
I really like Bourne Legacy. It’s objectively not as good as the original trilogy, it’s actually a much lesser knockoff, and pretty scattered as its own film, but I enjoy the premise, the hero, and the supporting actress.
Watching a Mini Cooper chase scene is like watching midget fighting.
That’s the original The Italian Job (which, other than the scene of Noël Coward celebrating in the climax is a great movie).
I loved Benny Hill in that.
Wait, Men In Tights. I think I got in ahead of the hate Brooks gets for his later films, plus I was a child (and am), but I still love this movie. Spaceballs rings hollow for me, but Men in Tights is a comedy masterpiece.
I will take these cotton balls, and put them in my pocket.
I don’t mind Men in Tights, but compared to other films of his it is weak.
Spaceballs rings hollow for me, but Men in Tights is a comedy masterpiece.
I’m the opposite. Spaceballs is genius from the opening credits, Men In Tights seems forced.
For favorite bad movie: Buckaroo Banzai.
No Matter Where You Go, There You Are
“Big Boo-tay! Tay! TAY!”
The high point of Lithgow’s career.
Another fan of Waxworks II?
“History is a-made at night. Character is a-what you are in the dark.”
“What’s that watermelon doing there?”
“Sealed with a curse as sharp as a knife. Doomed is your soul and damned is your life.”
“Laugha while you can, monkey boy.”
No one dare risk the wrath of ZARDOZ?
I own a copy of Zardoz. From before I came to this site.
Outlander was bad. And not even “good” bad. Sean Connery’s agent sucked in his early career.
You mean Outland? That wasn’t worse for Connery than The Rock.
Hmmm…OK, I guess The Rock is one of my picks for this topic then, too. Hearing Connery say “The Rock” makes it all worth it.*
*half joking
Yes, I meant Outland.
Outland is the awesome. I love that movie.
Ditto. That was a great flick.
Agreed.
Limey is right about Spud being right about Zwak being right.
Well shit.
I guess I have to watch it again, because my memory is that I thought it sucked.
Hmmm…
The movie that pretends to be a sequel of Highlander is worse than The Rock.
I had seen it elsewhere earlier too. I used to live with a film nerd and the TV was mostly under his control while I taught myself my career.
Die Hard 2 and 3 are terrific. I kinda actually like 3 more than 1, because Zeus is a great foil.
Agreed.
Is Fifth Element a bad movie?
The Fifth Element is a brilliant movie that the public doesn’t get.
It had me onboard with “multipass”.
It did break up Besson’s marriage, however….
Oh, Clerks 2. Clerks 2 delivers pretty much what a schlub like me would want. It’s a jerkoff fantasy for the undeserving, underwhelming white guy who thought Clerks was pretentious, and fantasized about Rosario Dawson.
Smoke you!
Wrong answer
No. No it isn’t.
It’s a film that deserves multiple rewatches because the art and prop departments did such brilliant work that you’ll notice new things every time.
Yes
I’m… not sure.
I adore it, though.
I am similarly not sure about Starship Troopers. It seems like it has to be awful, but I will always watch it when it’s on.
I want to know more.
In the same way that Starship Troopers is a bad movie.
So much came to mind immediately:
Little Nicky: i just like it. I have no explanation for this.
Ice Pirates: Space herpes
Big Man Japan: the ending was balls but I enjoyed the movie up until the end.
Other than that just about anything I have reviewed on the site up to this point. I can’t really pick a favorite easily!
You just brought to mind, Big Trouble in Little China. Bad but good.
Forget it, juris, it’s
ChinaGlibTown.Still better than Barter Town.
I’m a reasonable guy. But, I’ve just experienced some very unreasonable things.
YOU SHUT YOUR WHORE MOUTH!
Yah. Honestly, I was too shocked by that bit of crazy to do anything other than lay down a great Jack line.
And Phantom of Paradise.
Ravenous: Staring Robert Carlyle, Guy Pierce, David Arquette, That redheaded chubby dude from Faris Bueller and Beetlejuice that ended up being a ChoMo, and the really pale cat from Band of Brothers.
Name me a better movie you’ve seen about cannibalism set on an isolated Army camp in the Sierra Nevada Mountains roughly twenty years before the Civil War…
Escanaba in da Moonlight
Planet of Dinosaurs, 1977.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_of_Dinosaurs
Stop motion critters, hilariously awful script, bad acting, sexist dialog. It’s like a slasher movie in the one-by-one picking off of the characters. I haven’t watched it in a while, but if memory serves, the space crew wears 70s track suits.
You made me think of this one!
Is that what Will Ferrell was riffing on in Land of the Lost?
I honestly don’t know… will have to look that up.
Well, track suits seem appropriate wear for a space ship to me.
Sequels are almost universally bad, but I still enjoy some of them. Porky’s II: The Next Day is one of those for me.
And in the “so bad it’s good” category, I’ll watch the nature documentary Jaws 3 whenever it comes on. Coked-up Dennis Quaid, the lovely Lea Thompson, and just-off-his-Oscar Louis Gossett Jr. combine for lots of unintentional hilarity.
Fun fact about that film: the female dolphin Sandy in the movie is actually a male named Capricorn. He still lives at Sea World Orlando (where J3 was shot), he’s fifty-five, and exceptionally talented fisherman can catch him with their bare hands.
? I had no idea dolphins can live that long.
It’s all the raping.
“So sayeth the Shepard! So sayeth the flock!”
Maximum Overdrive ????
Great scene
The all time best of all “bad” movies is indubitably Flash Gordon.
FLASH AAH AAAAAH
Indeed!
Freddie Mercury is the greatest entertainer in the history of mankind.
Fite me!
I don’t know.
I mean, I saw a couple of shows in Amsterdam that were pretty entertaining.
*chortle*
Great flying Brian Blessed!
I occasionally yell “STOP ALL ENGINES, REPEL BOARDERS” when I have to carpool the kids.
Note that they had to leave all the rousing speeches to Blessed and Dalton, because Sam Jones was…well, he never did Shakespeare; I’ll leave it at that.
Key dialog: “Flash, I LOVE you! But we only have 14 hours to save the earth!”
Also, young Timothy Dalton in tights. Rawr.
Also also, the actor who played Flash, Sam Jones, moved into my Cali neighborhood this year. By all accounts he is a nice guy. I never met him.
Ornella Muti gave Young Scruffy funny feelings.
Would have to agree.
It was the first movie that popped into my head.
Fuck, I saw that in the theater. And CONAN Der BARBAR!!!
Conan is so great it’s not bad.
re-posting:
The real Wednesday Glibs zoom:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87348925444?pwd=WStxb2EvNWp3bDFxOElmNFNUMFVkdz09
Starts at 8pm Eastern, yada yada yada.
Congo was just awful but it did have some unintended funny moments. Starting with Bruce Campbell’s death scene in the beginning of the movie; I thought, “Oh, so it’s a comedy.”
Nope. The heroine, Laura Linney was her usual lovely self, but the filmmakers decided to make the heroine the “tough guy” and made her romantic interest a complete pansy. Like pajama boi pansy. It did not work.
However, there was some serious chemistry between Ernie Hudson and Linney, and for a bit there I thought they’d have her fall for him. But they stuck to the script and pretty much ruined it.
(Another movie with accidental chemistry was “The Client.” I thought Tommy Lee Jones was going to plant a big kiss on Susan Sarandon on the tarmac at the end, and honestly she looked a bit disappointed that he didn’t.)
Haha damn, I forgot all about that movie…
STOP EATING MY SESAME CAKE!!
Oh, also The Wraith. This one appealed to the gear-head in me.
and Sherilynn Fenn appealed to the teenager in me.
An absolute gem of the Blaxploitation genre = Darktown Strutters (AKA Get Down And Boogie)
I’ll shut down the zoom at 9:30pm Eastern for lack of interest as I’m the only one there now unless more people show up.
Come join us here in the textual world!
Sorry, Clerks 2. I’m curious about this. Clerks to me is an eye rolling bore. Clerks 2 is terrific fun. Am I just basic?
I haven’t seen 2. I really like the original. ??♂️
I loved Clerks and was really not looking forward to a sequel, turns out out wasn’t half bad.
Clerks is great! Clerks 2 is funny.
I understand it was a critical success, and many moviegoers loved it, but I found “Birdman” to be appallingly unwatchable.
Oh good lord, noooo.
Escape from L.A.
That’s tough. Loved NY, but LA just seemed played out and I don’t think I’ve ever rewatched it.
The scene that made it for me was the tsunami-surfing green screen.
Ooof. Not even Buscemi can save that turd.
I think my initial response wasn’t exactly in the spirit of the question…
The Room is too easy…I dunno. The ending of Sleepaway Camp was fucking hilarious and made that piece of shit movie worth watching in the end…first time I saw that I laughed so hard my face hurt for two days afterwards.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tampopo
Probably too well acclaimed, however.
El Topo?
Tampopo is beloved. Does not meet the criteria.
*burp*
…I’m Gonna Git You Sucka
Okay, I’ll piss off now. Have fun, all.
Ooh, that’s a good one.
“We’re gonna need an orthopedic surgeon to remove my foot from your–”
How much for a rib? Got change for a hundred?
He shot me in my bunion!
Showgirls. I frigging love that flick. Elizabeth Berkeley shoulda had a great career after that one and all she got was derision. It was a Verhoevan masterpiece, that was utterly misunderstood at the time and only gained appreciation much later.
Having an unrated and R cut did that film no favors either.
Speaking of T&A fests that are awesome, I rewatched Wild Things a few months back and also loved it. Denise Richards in her pre Charlie Sheen prime and Matt Dillon and Kevin Bacon are great. It’s even got a fun twisty plot with plenty of Florida action. It’s a fun movie.
And continuing on the T&A front, Spring Breakers was absolutely fantasticly terrible. The scene with Franco and the girls with the piano and guns singing Brittney Spears was comedy fucking gold.
Spring Breakers was an interesting movie. Like probably every other Harmony Korine flick, it actually had something to say, but Korine is so far up his own ass that no one can hear anything but bits and pieces. And yeah, the piano scene was just perfect.
Yes. I used to follow one film critic at the time. He was as snooty as they come–as in loved the movies from which the audience would walk out in Cannes. He loved Showgirls. I enjoyed it too.
Oh good! The state has new vax commercials out. One is a mom talking about how her family got covid twice already so they all got vaxxed after that and she’s going to get the rest of her kids as soon as it’s approved. ?♂️ Meanwhile, her BMI is probably more of an issue that either covid itself or the vax, but let’s ignore that…
And work clarified today that the mandate is merely paused based on the injunction, but could be reversed at any time leaving not much time to meet the 1/4 mandate so still need to upload your vax card soon. Totally voluntary. But you need to do it now.
My company just announced a $500 bonus to get your booster shot (this is on top of the $100 company store gift card to get your original Covid series of shots).
Apparently we have millions of dollars to throw around on social engineering yet I’m crammed in a space that is 3X to small for my needs and my storage space for test articles is full.
No Country for Old Men
Not a bad movie, but I can’t convince dad to watch it, because he’s read all of McCarthy’s books, and he thinks the movie might be violent and depressing.
https://thefilmstage.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Tommy-Lee-Jones.jpg
“…and then I woke up.”
*clock continues ticking in the background*
*cut to black*
I can’t imagine why
Well, it is violent and depressing. ‘Cause, you know, Cormac.
Damn good flick though, Cohens second best.
Well, he’s right. It was violent and depressing.
It’s on the list of movies that I’m glad that I saw but never intend to watch again.
Vampires Kiss. Nic Cage in all his trainwreck finery.
yes
Kung-Pow: Enter the Fist
Constantine
I was thinking the first, didn’t even consider the latter.
Best Lucifer portrayal. Tilda Swinton… amazing.
If you like arty movies, Tilda does some great stuff. Early on, she was in a great version of Edward the 2nd, and Orlando is pretty good.
Best Lucifer portrayal. Tilda Swinton… amazing.
wasn’t lucifer a dude? Tilda Swinton was the angel Gabriel (if she’s the actress I’m thinking of).
Correct
Tilda was a great angel – suitably androgynous.
Lucifer was Peter Stormare. And then he fixed the cable.
Screw you right in the pucker. Kung Pow, Enter The Fist was a tour de force.
I really enjoyed Constantine.
Universal Soldier?
Puppet Master 3
Batteries Not Included
Not Bad movie, but one that featured prominently in my childhood, and which made no cultural impact whatsoever, as far as I can tell. The Rocketeer had more cultural influence than this film.
I can just imagine the pitch for that movie:
Screenwriter: I got a great idea for a film! This group of toughs hired by a greedy developer is menacing the scrappy tenants of a New York apartment building.
Studio Head: Oh, and Chuck Bronson shows up to save them, like Death Wish 3?
SW: No. Better!
SH: Stallone? Schwarzenegger?
SW: Better!
SH: Carl Weathers? One of those martial arts guys?
SW: Better!
SH: Okay, you got me. Who rides in to save the day?
SW: Little robots from outer space. And get this: they… fix stuff. Speilberg’s already on board.
Peter Jackson’s Hobbit movies.
There, I said it.
Ralph Freaking Bashke made it better and it still wasn’t that great.
Missed that part.
Saw the first on at the theater and tried to sleep halfway through.
Rented the second one for home and got up and did something else about a third of the way through.
Never saw the last one.
I thought Bashki made Lord of the Rings.
I can only assume the Hobbit movies sucked (I haven’t seen them) is because they tried to turn one short novel into three movies.
If I recall, Bashki made 2/3 of LoR and failed to get the funding for the remainder.
His hobbit movie was not terribly bad and sort of followed the book.
I loved those as a kid, no idea how they hold up today.
The Hobbit was short?
*I fell asleep too many times and never finished it
I’m drawing a blank. it’s been so long since I’ve watched movies that I can’t remember them.
I know I’ve enjoyed plenty of works that other people would regard as awful.
Another movie I am on the fence with is Buffalo ’66.
I love it and I think it’s great but I am worried I might be wrong.
Hackers. Angelina Jolie’s film debut, if I remember right. Bad acting, bad writing, and generally nonsensical, but still a great 90’s popcorn flick about outsider kids sticking it to the man.
Along similar lines, does Sneakers count as a bad movie? It was certainly a bomb at the box office, but I loved it…
In my freshman year of college my dorm was ‘Gibson Hall’, so we found it inordinately funny when the characters in Hackers were shouting ‘Hack the Gibson’. Another, larger dorm had a name very similar to the company in the movie whose name escapes me.
Also, what sort of security consultant even gives non-technical executives superuser access on the mainframe and also doesn’t enforce a password policy which would disallow a three letter dictionary word as a password?
I think it would be even funnier to watch that movie now. I’ll have to find a copy.
Sneakers was eerily prophetic wrt Dan Ackroyd. But brilliant cast, brilliant soundtrack, holey plot. I call it good.
Coyote Ugly
Top Secret
Honorable mention: Ladyhawke, not because the film is bad. No, it is not. The soundtrack, though, is so dated it’s painful and makes the movie unwatchable.
Top Secret was awesome.
Ha I think we’ve argued over Ladyhawke before – the music, while dated, does not make it unwatchable. Not if you watch it in the right spirit as an eighties kid.
I tried that. So did not work.
Top secret…shut your mouth!
I have that on DVD.
French Resistance Fighter # 1: (Flops down upon the table a dead carrier pigeon with an arrow through its breast: “There is a traitor in our midst!!”
French Resistance Fighter # 2: (after glancing at pigeon): “Well I see that you have dealt with him appropriately!!”
(Fave part of movie)
Tragically no anniversary release for Ladyhawke re-scored the film. I’d take appropriate bits of classical, doesn’t have to be a new score, kust change it, for the love of god. But that movie is Peak Rutger Hauer – I had such a crush.
Tot s agree. Been liking for a bootleg copy of “soldier of Orange” for years.
Ladyhawke is definitely diminished by Alan Parsons and his farty synthesizer. I would pay money to have that redone by an actual orchestra.
“Look at me. Look at her. LOOK AT HER!”
Before he made it in America, Rutger stared in Floris, a Dutch action-adventure period piece set in the middle ages. https://youtu.be/nkZfM2QHaSg
Great call on Coyote Ugly.
I went on my first date as a newly single bachelor tonight. She’s a former cow-orker. Eleven years older than me (and I’m no spring chicken). She basically said she is no longer interested in sex after she had her hysterectomy. She’d rather go to her snugly home and watch Netflix. Not really interested in travel. Is allergic to cats.
OK! I guess we’ll “just be friends”.
Dating sucks!
Oof, sorry, dude.
A little I’m a little unclear on why she would accept the date if that’s how she feels.
Don’t rush, dude. Enjoy being single for a while. Come visit me; we’ll go out for drinks and I’ll introduce you to a couple of your GF coworkers.
I’m going to hell for sort of laughing at that. I have no idea what middle-age dating is like cuz it’s been so many years.
Last year I had visions of what it might be like to have sex with an ostomy bag in the way.
Is Happy Gilmore a bad movie? Because it’s still makes my laugh.
“I eat pieces of shit like you for breakfast!”
You eat shit for breakfast?!
I don’t that think it’s a bad movie, I just think the Sandler haters say it is.
He has a unique talent to make any movie unwatchable. ?♂️
Happy gilmore is a great movie!
Bad Sandler movie is Cobbler.
Funny thing about Happy Gilmore film is that the VW bug is shown crashed into the tv tower a few scenes before it actually crashes into the tv tower.
Happy Gilmore is his only funny movie.
50 first dates? Billy madison? Mr deeds? Blended?
Corny sandler flicks but not the worse comedy out there.
* checks IMDB for list of movies *
I believe you are correct, although Billy Madison has some funny bits.
“Mr. Madison, what you’ve just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.”
Going Overboard is by far his best film
Oh, how can I forget The Accountant? I love that movie.
Anna Kendrick is just adorbs.
Yes, yes she is.
I think Ozy knows the guy who plays the heavy here:
https://youtu.be/ywViq6pWzvE?t=143
such a great little reaction after getting flicked in the face then tossed down.
Also, a great little wave at the end of the scene.
Wing Commander.
Freddie Prinze Jr. Tcheky Karyo. David Suchet. That blonde guy, the annoying one. Some chick. Special effects! Corny dialogue! Kind of a low rent Starship Troopers vibe.
It’s kinda sad after the cast they had for the video games proper.
If they just stitched together the cutscenes, how would it stack up as a film?
OOh, I was just thinking about that the other day. Also has Jurgen Prochnow, from Das Boot.
To me he is Jürgen Prochnow, from The Keep. A perfectly awful movie that I love and therefore on topic.
That was more realistic as a syfy than all the star trek put together… especially ships being far away when fighting because space.
Also Suchet, Iron Eagle.
David Suchet, AKA best Poirot evah.
His Murder on the Orient Express is divine.
I also recommend his reading of the Bible on audiobook and his “in the footsteps of St Paul” documentary. Not a lot of Britons share their conversion to Christianity as adults. He does.
Here’s a short clip about his Bible narration and why he chose to do it. The whole Bible narration Is free on YouTube but I bought the audiobook so I could download it all.
https://youtu.be/fIRaC7jlvE0
The Blob!
I mean you cant outrun jello?
Point Break
Also, any movie from the 80s that has the word ‘Ninja’ in the title and stars Sho Kosugi
Barry Gordie’s Enter the Dragon.
Sho ‘Nuff.
Bruce Leroy!
That is indeed a bad movie, and yet…
Mahogany is fantastic.
American Ninja is a favorite. Much bad.
Here, I’m out, thanks for playing,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UU62UcP_BA
Someday, I will introduce you to forms of written communication such as the semicolon, the period, and the long dash.
It will be awesome. You’ll be great at it, and the comma-generating portion of your brain can be relieved of all the heavy lifting on its own.
Smooches,
Hayek
Predator 2
I don’t know that they’re really bad movies (although I’m not holding my breath that they’ll garner any American Film Institute awards,) but I will watch any animated movie with Minions in it. They’re just so damn cute!
The Parent Trap with Lindsay Lohan
Such an innocent freckled little kid.
Watching cooking show. Contest is chicken wings. Vegan chef decides to cook mushrooms instead of chicken.
If you are unwilling to actually engage in the competition for whatever reason, why would you sign up for it?
to get virtue points?
I, as the audience, award him no points.
There were two explicit rules. Ignoring one is just rude.
He only stuck around because someone else served raw chicken.
And why would the producers allow them to enter if they have no intention of following the contest rules?
Cause obscure websites will talk about it?!
Hillary Clinton
@HillaryClinton
I’m excited to invite you to join my new @Masterclass
.
I’ll be teaching the skills I developed throughout my career—the challenges, the triumphs, and all the rest.
I hope these lessons will help you chart your own path with passion and purpose.
https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/1468641119252758530
Riding coattails and arranging assassinations?
good solid skills for the 21st century
Welp. I’ve done it, I’ve gone and signed up for smithing classes in january. I’ll see if I can swing a hammer at hot iron and make something other than a mess or a burn scar.
I figure instructor-led workshops are a better option for getting into that sort of activity than just trying to set up shop randomly.
And with that, I’m going to sleep.
Night, Glibs.
G’night. Your brain will thank you for learning new things.
Your back and shoulders…eh. Experiences vary.
Not to sound like Bro Ward, but I admire my own taste in DVDs. Even the least good are funny.
And someone decided I needed an introduction to Bollywood; s OK, will donate my copy of Om Shanti Om to the nearest free library.
OMG! Watch Enthrian (Robot). It’s the first big budget sci-fi film ever made in India and it stars one of the most beautiful women on Earth, Aishwarya Rai.
https://youtu.be/PoPv-Ss6YbI
The gate.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093075/
https://ktla.com/news/local-news/l-a-school-board-fires-500-employees-who-didnt-get-vaccinated-against-covid/
This is all really fucking stupid.
Perfect timing when they’re about to kick out those 34,000 kids too.
“L.A. school board fires 500 employees”
How times have changed. If I’d seen this headline 5 years ago, I’d have thought they were finally getting around to cutting costs.
https://www.nj.com/mercer/2021/12/student-found-with-loaded-gun-in-nj-high-school-officials-say.html
“All student backpacks were then searched by officers,”
Legal?
Panic freak out/exigency/reasonable possible perhaps suspicion/loco parentis/smooches… totally legal.
suh’ fam
whats goody
Good morning homey! And…. ::glances up & down thread, loses count::… all the rest of you!
Morning
Hey – great news about the smithing classes. Good luck, and please do let us know how it goes.
I’m afraid I nodded off during last night’s two-hour season premiere of Forged in Fire… and then when I finally got to bed I had a heck of a time getting back to sleep.
Well, I figured I had to finally stop saying someday and find out if I can do it. There was open space in January classes, so I signed up. Basic Blacksmithing in the first week of the month, and an everyday carry knife on the last week of the month.
I plan to take pictures if possible, but not while working.
Con Air
Whew, there are a lot of bad Nicholas Cage movies. Face/Off comes to mind.
I think we’ve missed the obvious: every single Hallmark Channel Christmas movie.
Those are the worst of the worst but they’re a moneymaker for some reason.
Bad movies?
Has anyone mentioned Kung Pow! Enter the Fist
Hey, man. If that’s your kink, that’s cool.
Are those nunchucks made out of woodchucks? No thanks…
The Pit, not the secret headquarters of Counterterrorist Strike Force Delta (codename: G.I. JOE), but the awful Canadian horror flick from 1981.
https://youtu.be/T-fSOX9tyoY
Oh, and The Keep, so bad it’s the reason we haven’t gotten a Repairman Jack movie yet.
I have a secret love of Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher. Cruise is, in every way, the opposite of the character as described in the books. Yet, I find the 2 films wonderful.
He’s probably too old to play Repairman Jack, thank God.
RJ needs someone interesting, not just “competent”.
The feud between F. Paul Wilson and Michael Mann is like watching your two best friends fighting in the front yard…
Mornin’, reprobates.
Bad movies? Thanks for making me remember this one.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brain_from_Planet_Arous
I was about 10 years old when I saw this. Still can hear the evil alien ‘splainin why earthlings should do his bidding. “After all, you have no choice” followed by evil laughter. And the ending is priceless, turns out that the evil alien is actually a spoiled brat just having a little fun.
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/12/09/investing/evergrande-default-fitch-intl-hnk/index.html
China’s economic bubble finally about to burst?
Great. You can be sure they will take down the global economy with them.
I’m trying to think of my favorite bad musical movie, but I may be the only one here at the moment who even tolerates musicals at all. I don’t think 1776 qualifies as truly bad, though it’s certainly not in the top realm of musical films – and yet every July 4th I scan TCM’s schedule hoping they’re showing it again.
l0, help me out here – other bad musicals?
I love musicals, mostly the old ones (Rodgers and Hammerstein, Frank Loesser, etc.). Haven’t seen most of the more recent ones. “Miss Saigon” was pretty awful, “Forbidden Broadway” did a great sendup including a toy helicopter on a string flying across the stage.
Ooh, Frozen! Leave it to Disney to completely butcher The Snow Queen/em>, my favorite fairy tale.
Much like I butchered that tag.
*ignores 4 year old in Frozen pajamas looming over me*
I wouldn’t put it in the “bad Disney” pile, but it surprises me how strong of a following it has.
Paint Your Wagon…does that count as bad?
Alan Carr’s Can’t Stop The Music.. The very first movie with Steve Guttenberg, Bruce Jenner is in it, and it stars The Village People.
https://youtu.be/wqeQWYwVFo0
Oh, that looks deliciously awful. Must see.
LOL I remember the breathless hyperventilating over that from the media.
Cannibal! The Musical.
Glorious. Even better with the backstory.
Ooh! I think I thought of one – Xanadu, the one thing I suspect Jeff Lynne leaves off his resume.
mmmmm…..Olivia Newton-John in aerobics workout clothes
Teenaged Tres remembers.
Guys and Dolls is one of my two favorites, along with West Side Story, but Marlon Brando “singing” Luck be a Lady is excruciating. Every time I watch that I need to put on the original cast album to hear Robert Alda do it properly.
White Christmas. For all that they are going for a traditional, ol’ timey Christmas setting, so many of the dance numbers are modern dreck. Also the anorexic supporting actress is off-putting. The wife and I like to watch it and fast forward through all the musical bits. Bing Crosby and Danny Fucking Kaye are great.
Tapeheads.
Or at least, I’ve been told it’s a terrible movie. I personally think it’s absurdist genius. Definitely the finest Cusak/Robbins ocllaboration of all time.
Mornin’ All! Skipped ahead because I need to go play “Mother May I ?” with the boot-stompers tomorrow. Birthday is on Friday and papieres bitte. They’ve scattered so much de-icing agent at the plant that my nose has been bleeding for three hours. Need to get some food and rest before my trip to our version of the DMV. They are going to shred my Medical Card and I’m scheduled for my second dose next week. You need the card for scanning. Clown World. I’ll take a pic, front and back and hopefully that passes muster, otherwise I’m in “don’t give a shit” mode right now. 18 days down, 15 until Xmas eve…
I hate whoever decided that it was a great idea to cram tabs onto the title bar.
It’s damn stupid, and I have to move the window more often than I want to drag a tab anywhere.
GridMove. Tiling window managers are superior, and moving the app is just a hot key away.
Since q-ette is sick and I’m still basically up from last night, I’ll call these Glibs After Dark.
https://archive.md/k4PkR
NSFW.
#2…drool…
Realldoll
https://www.rt.com/news/542645-israel-omicron-quarantine-coronavirus/
Isn’t Israel among the top vaccinated countries?
you need 6 shots for omicron israelies only have 3
https://www.oann.com/calif-to-begin-enforcing-mandatory-food-recycling-law/
But shoplifting/drug use/shitting in the streets is totes legal. Makes sense.
Ugh what fresh horror is this…
*clicks*
OFFS. Deblasio has been trying to push this shit on us for years.
I will not comply.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/biden-summit-democracy-rally-nations-against-rising-authoritarianism-2021-12-09/
Heh, heh, heh…ha, ha! Aaahahahaha!
Honk honk!
LOL.
The transformation of the meaning of the word “authoritarian” is complete, I guess.