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Stuart Saves His Family was a film nobody needed or asked for & it was released on the tail end of a string of roundly awful SNL character based movies. It's failure was all but guaranteed, which makes the fact that it's a genuinely good & well written film all the more strange. SSHF is the best kept secret of the post-Wayne's World SNL movie trend.
Speaking of SNL movies, I really enjoy A Night at the Roxbury. I cannot justify this in any way. I'm sorry...I'm so sorry.
Sheeeiiit, I own A Night at the Roxbury. Good? Bad? Who cares. The movie makes me laugh (and I HATED the sketch it's based on).
"Emilioooo!"
The Ladies Man ain't a slouch either. That one has it's moments.
Speaking of SNL movies, I really enjoy A Night at the Roxbury. I cannot justify this in any way. I'm sorry...I'm so sorry.
Never apologize. Own that shit. Walk round with your head held high and a shirt saying 'I Love A Night At The Roxbury, And My Cock Is MASSIVE'.
Well, the shirt is optional, I guess...
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Masters of the Universe. Love it love it love it love it.
^This^
Gwildoooooooooooooooooor! So difficult to beat Frank Langella's practical Skeletor. I actually love the cheesy fx work in that film. So, so much. And the sword fight between He-Man and Gold Skeletor is fackin' bad ass.
I loved Frank Langella in this, damn that man knew the type of film this was going to be. What shocked me was how this film was not even CLOSE to the cartoon, a shame we never got that sequel.
I'm going to add in Hackers. God this movie is corny as hell but it's a visual delight.
Speaking of SNL movies, I really enjoy A Night at the Roxbury. I cannot justify this in any way. I'm sorry...I'm so sorry.
I taped "Hudson Hawk" off Showtime during one of their free previews back in the day and watched it to death throughout my adolescence. Such a batshit insane exercise in movie-making, but damn if Bruce Willis isn't enjoying himself.
I liken a film such as Van Helsing to a puppy: it is so earnest and so eager to please that no matter how much it keeps you awake or vomits up grass its dumb ass ate, you cannot bring yourself to stay mad at it.
I taped "Hudson Hawk" off Showtime during one of their free previews back in the day and watched it to death throughout my adolescence. Such a batshit insane exercise in movie-making, but damn if Bruce Willis isn't enjoying himself.
I hold no shame in loving the shit out of that piece of shit. Bruno's having a blast as is Jimmy Coburn, Danny Aiello, Richard E Grant and Sarah Bernhardt. Hell even world famous acting plank of wood Andie McDowell seems to be enjoying herself a little.
On top of that you get a tonne of quotable lines, some halfway enjoyable song and dance numbers, Rome looks damn beautiful, David Caruso says nothing and gets punched in the face and a dog called Bunny dies by catching a projectile bomb in its teeth and being flown out of a medieval castle window.
I could go on, but Hudson Hawk is a quite wonderful and glorious mess of a movie that no one should be ashamed of enjoying.
"If Leonardo di Vinci were alive today, he'd be eating microwaved sushi naked in the back of a limousine with the both of us."
That line of dialogue alone is more entertaining than 75% of the movies I saw last year.
Dumb and Dumber does not belong on the list with those others, Bucho. The title is basically a mission statement and it hits its marks as well as any comedy you could name.
And before it even comes up, I swear on Christ's balls that if anyone mentions Dirty Work in this thread, I will track their IP address and beat them with a fire poker.
You and me both. I love the hell out of Dirty Work. "Back then, we didn't have fancy birth-control methods like pulling out." 
I decided to celebrate the signing of the NDAA by watching Revenge of the Fallen and Dark of the Moon - back to back.
Fuck it. I really enjoyed Revenge of the Fallen. I know, it's gross. Couldn't make it all the way through Dark of the Moon, though. That shit was just trying too hard.
This is a movie I saw as a kid and then a bazillion times on cable. It's awful But it has John Boy Walton as the hero, Sybil Danning's massive boobs, hilarious original Star Trek style aliens and is based on Seven Samurai. I give you....
Battle Beyond The Stars
And I love it.
This is a movie I saw as a kid and then a bazillion times on cable. It's awful But it has John Boy Walton as the hero, Sybil Danning's massive boobs, hilarious original Star Trek style aliens and is based on Seven Samurai. I give you....
Battle Beyond The Stars
And I love it.
There is no shame in loving Battle Beyond the Stars. Only pride.
How any one can say 'no' to Robert Vaughn and George Peppard in space is beyond me.
I watch Hudson Hawk several times a year. Never been afraid to admit it either.
Never been afraid to admit it either.
DERAILING DOG!!! HAVE AT THEE!!!
Sheeeiiit, I own A Night at the Roxbury. Good? Bad? Who cares. The movie makes me laugh (and I HATED the sketch it's based on).
"Emilioooo!"
The Ladies Man ain't a slouch either. That one has it's moments.
I also own it. I owned it on VHS. And I loved the sketches too, though the Jim Carrey one got played out.
Also, "The King of 21 Jump Street: Richard Grieco."
Galaxy Quest before Galaxy Quest. Lovitz is God-like in this.
Isn't that the movie that, whenever he's asked about it, Lovitz freely admits that it sucks but he had fun making it?
So, so many I could name. My formative film years were a sea of glorious floating crap that I'll never renege on.
My two favourite films in high school that weren't Aliens or Predator had to be the 'British Predator 2 rip off that inexplicably starred Rutger Hauer' called Split Second! Awesome film. All the weapons look like nerf guns spray painted black and his character is even called Harley Stone. Brilliant.
Also had a pre SaC Kim Cattrall still with her Star Trek hair cut, as the love interest/widow of partner killed by pyschic alien monster, there's a scene at a graveyard where they meet and you know Cattrall's kinda tall and you realise, holy crap Hauer is hell tall!
And the second film was the 'kind of a Predator 2 rip off as well only the alien was a galactic drug dealer who shot CD's at people' called Dark Angel with Dolph Lundgren and the awesome Matthias Hues as the alien.
Interesting both my fave awful films cost 7 million and neither made back their budget. Dark Angel grossed 4 million and Split Second 5 million.
I've never quite lost my taste for crap. Still watch every DTV action movie I can. For some reason my kids adore Dead or Alive so I've watched that dozens of times. Every time I see Eric Roberts download his kung fu powers into his sunglasses I giggle uncontrollably. Greatest video game adaptation ever. Stuff the boring Prince of Persia film.
So, so many I could name. My formative film years were a sea of glorious floating crap that I'll never renege on.
My two favourite films in high school that weren't Aliens or Predator had to be the 'British Predator 2 rip off that inexplicably starred Rutger Hauer' called Split Second! Awesome film. All the weapons look like nerf guns spray painted black and his character is even called Harley Stone. Brilliant.
Also had a pre SaC Kim Cattrall still with her Star Trek hair cut, as the love interest/widow of partner killed by pyschic alien monster, there's a scene at a graveyard where they meet and you know Cattrall's kinda tall and you realise, holy crap Hauer is hell tall!
And the second film was the 'kind of a Predator 2 rip off as well only the alien was a galactic drug dealer who shot CD's at people' called Dark Angel with Dolph Lundgren and the awesome Matthias Hues as the alien.
Interesting both my fave awful films cost 7 million and neither made back their budget. Dark Angel grossed 4 million and Split Second 5 million.
I've never quite lost my taste for crap. Still watch every DTV action movie I can. For some reason my kids adore Dead or Alive so I've watched that dozens of times. Every time I see Eric Roberts download his kung fu powers into his sunglasses I giggle uncontrollably. Greatest video game adaptation ever. Stuff the boring Prince of Persia film.
Welcome to CHUD!
Welcome to CHUD!
Thanks, long time silent lurker. Bored at work.
I enjoyed the experience of going to see Transformers III in Thailand because firstly, I'd never had to go through a metal detector to get into a cinema before and secondly, it was worth it to be amongst an entire audience of Thais standing for the king's picture before the movie, many of whom were still wearing their 3D glasses.
*posts message, turns off computer, hides under covers*
This movie ran on cinemax for at least 2 years. I used to watch it at night when I got off work. Must of seen it at least 30 times
This movie ran on cinemax for at least 2 years. I used to watch it at night when I got off work. Must of seen it at least 30 times
There's definitely a group of actors who figure strongly in beloved crap movies and Christopher Lambert is like the Bizzaro Gary Oldman of this universe!
There's definitely a group of actors who figure strongly in beloved crap movies and Christopher Lambert is like the Bizzaro Gary Oldman of this universe!
Does that make Ice the Denzel?
Ahhh Tank Girl. A terrible fuckin' movie.
I had the DVD for years.
Not sure if this counts but I love love love:
Personally i'd argue Barbarella has transcended crap to become a camp classic. It's an iconic film which I think excludes it.
I stand unafraid - in fact, proud - to declare my undying love for any movie CYF made before he got to Hollywood. I own nearly 25 of his HK movies on DVD, many of which are not objectively "good" by normal standards. However, I find CYF so astounding and watchable that anything he is involved with becomes unreasonably charming and delightful
After breaking out in A BETTER TOMORROW, he started working at a furious pace, cranking out more movies a year than some stars make in a decade. Many of these films are rather "quirky" and odd, but it's exactly that unhinged CYF madcap energy I find so intoxicating
I really liked it too, though I honestly have no idea why.
Exactly. There IS a difference. People can admit to guilty pleasures. What you are asking us to do is list films we are literally ASHAMED of loving. Like for instance, if someone in here admitted to actually liking How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days...
<slowly back out of the room>
When I went through a long and depressing bout of unemployment I watched Boat Trip 3 or 4 times. I will never watch it again but I didn't hate it at the time, plus the hot girl wore some see through shirts.
Yeah, Boat Trip is on my list too, if only for Roger Moore.
I've grown to genuinely love Highlander 2.
There, I've said it.
You really can't find a finer example of a bunch of talented people coming back to proven material, and proceeding to all lose their fucking minds at the same time. The film isn't just a mere bad sequel, it's gleefully deranged, like they went through a checklist of all the things that worked about the first movie and said "Okay, how can we take each of these things in the most bizarre direction imaginable?" Zeist, confused-looking Connery, the fully-clothed back-alley sex scene literally amongst the severed heads of two freshly-murdered aliens, Michael Ironside trying to play the Kurgan's wackier brother, Old Connor (Why did Lambert feel like he had to talk like a french Lemmy?), Virginia Madsen trying to pass herself off as the leader of the most unconvincing band of eco-terrorists known to man... Oh God, it's... Beautiful.
What's more, I've come to the belief that Highlander 2 is a genuinely valuable part of film history because it's practically an A-Z of effective franchise-killing. Seriously, everything you can possibly do to fuck up a great first film, Mulcahy and co. pull off here with style. Young filmmakers need to see this so they know where the pitfalls are. Film school won't teach them this shit. I wrote a gleefully detailed blog post about this idea (Cheesy plug: http://plasticinemegaphone.com/2011/06/30/the-glory-of-highlander-2/ ) but the general summary is that this movie isn't just terrible; it's gloriously terrible.
For best results, follow up a viewing with the half-finished alternate ending. Nothing says 'Movie Magic' than Awkward Bluescreen Christopher Lambert on a Wire.
YES! I have no shame in loving Highlander 2.
Nacho Libre is a genuinely good film. For the life of me, I don't understand why it gets so much hate. It's a live action Chuck Jones cartoon, for Pete's sake!
There is absolutely NOTHING wrong with Nacho Libre. I'm convinced the backlash against was nothing more than residual hate for Napoleon Dynamite spilling over onto it.
Can I come clean - I enjoy DAREDEVIL. I like Ben Affleck in it, I like Joey Pants all rumpled, I like the stuff they do early on with how Murdock deals with being blind (folding the bills differently in his wallet etc), I like the heightened sound design, I like the obvious Catholic imagery. I don't think Michael Clarke Duncan has been as intimidating in anything he's been in since.
The soppy crap-rock soundtrack works, and I like how charming some of the crappy CGI is.
Although of course, Colin Farrell deserves to be in a totally different, much better film.
I legitimately like the director's cut of this film. It's not perfect, but it isn't bad either. Ghost Rider, on the other hand, was shit.
I loved Frank Langella in this, damn that man knew the type of film this was going to be. What shocked me was how this film was not even CLOSE to the cartoon, a shame we never got that sequel.
The director has since freely admitted he more inspired by FF4/Doctor Doom and Jack Kirby's Fourth World than by the actual cartoon series itself. Hell, John Byrne declared that it's probably the best New Gods flick we'll ever get and that Skeletor as depicted makes for one hell of a Darkseid.
I absolutely fucking LOVE Masters of the Universe and proudly admit it. I hope to god we get a Blu-ray of it at some point. I was so psyched when I found out they'd be going practical with Red Skull in the Cap movie, because it was already done expertly in this.
I liken a film such as Van Helsing to a puppy: it is so earnest and so eager to please that no matter how much it keeps you awake or vomits up grass its dumb ass ate, you cannot bring yourself to stay mad at it.
The fuck I can't!
How any one can say 'no' to Robert Vaughn and George Peppard in space is beyond me.
Exactly!
So, so many I could name. My formative film years were a sea of glorious floating crap that I'll never renege on.
My two favourite films in high school that weren't Aliens or Predator had to be the 'British Predator 2 rip off that inexplicably starred Rutger Hauer' called Split Second! Awesome film. All the weapons look like nerf guns spray painted black and his character is even called Harley Stone. Brilliant.
Also had a pre SaC Kim Cattrall still with her Star Trek hair cut, as the love interest/widow of partner killed by pyschic alien monster, there's a scene at a graveyard where they meet and you know Cattrall's kinda tall and you realise, holy crap Hauer is hell tall!
And the second film was the 'kind of a Predator 2 rip off as well only the alien was a galactic drug dealer who shot CD's at people' called Dark Angel with Dolph Lundgren and the awesome Matthias Hues as the alien.
Interesting both my fave awful films cost 7 million and neither made back their budget. Dark Angel grossed 4 million and Split Second 5 million.
There is absolutely NOTHING wrong with you for loving the double-dose of sheer awesomeness that is Dark Angel (aka I Come In Peace) and Split Second.
There's definitely a group of actors who figure strongly in beloved crap movies and Christopher Lambert is like the Bizzaro Gary Oldman of this universe!
Even if Neveldine & Taylor weren't the directors of Ghost Rider 2 and Idris Elba wasn't involved, I'd still give it a go in theaters for the sheer fact that it will allow me to see Christopher Lambert on the big screen again!
Does that make Ice the Denzel?
Yep.
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Personally i'd argue Barbarella has transcended crap to become a camp classic. It's an iconic film which I think excludes it.
Barbarella is a classic dammit!
I stand unafraid - in fact, proud - to declare my undying love for any movie CYF made before he got to Hollywood. I own nearly 25 of his HK movies on DVD, many of which are not objectively "good" by normal standards. However, I find CYF so astounding and watchable that anything he is involved with becomes unreasonably charming and delightful
After breaking out in A BETTER TOMORROW, he started working at a furious pace, cranking out more movies a year than some stars make in a decade. Many of these films are rather "quirky" and odd, but it's exactly that unhinged CYF madcap energy I find so intoxicating
I love both The Replacement Killers and The Corrupter. They aren't on the same level as his efforts with Woo, but they are still good movies. Same goes for Woo's Broken Arrow and Hard Target. Both are good action movies. Things didn't go wrong for Woo in Hollywood until the gloriously awful MI2, which I love anyway. I haven't seen Windtalkers since theaters and don't recall much about it. Paycheck is pretty damn vanilla though.
Movies I shamefully love....
- Baby's Day Out
- Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend
- Big Bad Wolf
- Captain Ron
- Conan the Destroyer
- MacGruber
- The 6th Day
- Street Fighter
- Wayne's World 2
I'm sure I'll think of some more later.
I also ridiculously love Joel Schumacher's Phantom of the Opera and I refuse to feel guilty about it. I have the soundtrack in my car!
Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend?
Wow.
I love both The Replacement Killers and The Corrupter. They aren't on the same level as his efforts with Woo, but they are still good movies. Same goes for Woo's Broken Arrow and Hard Target. Both are good action movies. Things didn't go wrong for Woo in Hollywood until the gloriously awful MI2, which I love anyway. I haven't seen Windtalkers since theaters and don't recall much about it. Paycheck is pretty damn vanilla though.
Movies I shamefully love....
- Baby's Day Out
- Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend
- Big Bad Wolf
- Captain Ron
- Conan the Destroyer
- MacGruber
- The 6th Day
- Street Fighter
- Wayne's World 2
I'm sure I'll think of some more later.
I also ridiculously love Joel Schumacher's Phantom of the Opera and I refuse to feel guilty about it. I have the soundtrack in my car!
I love most of his Hollywood films, but not all of them, so I couldn't include them it's my blanket statement about loving all his HK work
There is nothing wrong with this film. Well...okay, the Ices are not the finest actors in the world, but its still worth it for the gimmick of seeing them on the same team. Otherwise, this is a well-made, fast paced Walter Hill film. Not amongst his best, but a damn fine modern take on Treasure of The Siera Madre. Plus it has Bill Paxton doing what Bill Paxton does best: being in over his head.
Anyway, I like Airborne. Yes, fuck you, that Airbone.
Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend?
Wow.
Yep. My DVD copy is within sight of where I am sitting right now.
Also, while I feel zero shame in admitting it, I had a great time with Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides last year. I also enjoy the Underworld films.
Hmm. well if awesome but terrible B-movies don't count as actual awful movies and we're talking shame levels of 'I wouldn't tell my mates' shame... I'm actually a terrible sucker for rom-coms.
But only really good rom-coms. Top five being.
1. It happened one night (original Gable/Colbert movie which by no stretch is a bad film, genre defining and a clean sweep at the oscars)
2. Only You (the last good US Rom-com)
3. Moonstruck (childhood Cher crush)
4. Four Weddings and a Funeral (I had the Wet Wet Wet song on casette tape)
5. Love Actually (Bill Nighy is awesome)
Movies I shamefully love....
- Baby's Day Out
- Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend
- Big Bad Wolf
- Captain Ron
- Conan the Destroyer
- MacGruber
- The 6th Day
- Street Fighter
- Wayne's World 2
Oh shit, I completely forgot Street Fighter! Guile will forever be ginger and Belgian in my heart.
"Ah'm gunna get on my bawt, go up reever an' kick dat sick sunuvabeetch Bison's ass SAW HARD, dat every Bison wannabeez gunna fill it. Naw who wants to gaw horm...
...An' who wants ta gaw with MEH?!?"
Suck on that, Shakespeare.
STREET FIGHTER is worth it for the absolutely masterful Raul Julia. Even on his deathbed he knows exactly what kind of performance a film like this needs: a ridiculous one.
The most hilarious part of KNOWING is Nic Cage handing his kids over to the Intergalactic Paedophile Ring at the end, no questions asked.
STREET FIGHTER is worth it for the absolutely masterful Raul Julia. Even on his deathbed he knows exactly what kind of performance a film like this needs: a ridiculous one.
Yep, Julia's a joy in the movie. In fact, the 'For me, it was Tuesday' scene remains my favourite not just because of Julia's delivery, but because it's freakishly well-written and well-constructed in comparison to the rest of the movie. It's like a genuinely good writer and director showed up on set that day, before they were quietly disposed of for fear of the movie actually turning out good.
It took me a while to take to STREET FIGHTER. But i enjoy it now, despite hating it when i first saw it years ago.
My picks
1) HIGHLANDER III: THE SORCERER (It copies large chunks of the original film. The Japan landscape is fantastic and i have a crush on Deborah Kara Unger).
2) STREET FIGHTER: LEGEND OF CHUN LI
3) DOA: DEAD OR ALIVE
"Tell you what. After I've crushed my enemies, we'll see about getting you published. That should cheer you up, hmm?"
"The temple above us was the wonder of the ancient world. Bisonopolis shall be the wonder of my world. But I think the food court should be larger. All the big franchises will want in."
"I hoped to meet Guile face-to-face on the battlefield, where we could engage each other in unarmed combat. Then I would snap his spine. But why? Why do they still call me a warlord? And mad? All I want to do is to create the perfect genetic soldier."
Bison should've won.
Bison did win - our hearts. Levitate on, big guy (Sniff).
HUDSON HAWK is awesome and I will fight and kill anyone who declares otherwise.
Add me to the Street Fighter lovers, although not just for Raul Julia. I actually feel like a lot of the actors get into the goofy spirit of things, people like Ming-Na "Mulan" Wen as Chun-Li or Wes Studi as Sagat. Even Van-Damme seems like he's having fun.
But Raul is indeed a treasure in it, as evidenced by the surprisingly touching "Vaya con dios, Raul" dedication. "Something wrong, Colonel? You come here prepared to fight a madman, and instead you found a GOD?" "For you, the day Bison graced your village was the most important day of your life. But for me... it was Tuesday." "Why do you address a fellow warrior with such disrespect?" "OF COURSE! His death was designed to ingratiate his spies with you! I guess you didn't SEE that, did you?" Ah, I could quote him all day.
Ok, I STILL enjoy both "Fantastic Four" movies. I watched them the other day, and if they were made today by Marvel Studios, I think they'd turn out about the same way. They're safe, middle of the road, workman-like superhero movies, that NEVER take any chances.....but somehow I still find myself liking them.
I was always indifferent towards the Fantastic Four comics, so I can't get too upset about all the changes (like I did with Batman Forever, B & R, and Daredevil). Jessica Alba and Ioan Gruffudd are terrible, and any scene with them together is pretty painful. Plus, neither of them seem to have a grasp of the action or comedy, that comes so easily and comfortably to both Michael Chiklis and Chris Evans. The movies even completely obliterates one of the greatest comic book villains of all time, Dr. Doom, and I STILL like them.
Also, a month ago I got home, turned on HBO, and a movie called "Grind" was on. I sat on the couch, did not take off my shoes, work clothes, or coat....and watched that entire movie. I have no idea why, but was completely absorbed in a skateboarder movie. God help me.
I loved Frank Langella in this, damn that man knew the type of film this was going to be. What shocked me was how this film was not even CLOSE to the cartoon, a shame we never got that sequel.
What's more of a shame is that they built sets and costumes for a sequel. When Cannon's deal with Hasbro got killed, they put all of that post-production work into Cyborg: a film that will hopefully never be mentioned in this thread again.
And speaking of Albert Pyun, or films that were going to be directed by him. I rented Captain America repeatedly for an entire year. I had this weird thing as a kid for renting movies where I thought the cover was awesome, and then convincing myself later on that I wasn't disappointed. Probably why I watched Dollman. Twice.
No discussion of Pyun is complete without lauding THE SWORD AND THE SORCERER. That shit's up there with FLASH GORDON as far as I'm concerned for ridiculously enjoyable camp/schlock.
