OT: Bad/cliche/cult movie recommendations

[billythekid]

Revenge of the Nerds. Half the hijinks those crazy kids get into would likely land them in jail today.

We have bush! We have bush!

 

[AreBee1969]

Some might say it is painful to watch, but to that I replay "Pain don't hurt."

I classify Road House as the worst movie I've seen the most times. Absolutely love it.

As far as cult classics, The Big Lebowski may be the king of them.

 

[CL82]

Total Recall and Running Man are pretty bad. Watched them sort of recently and was amazed at how crappy they were.

(They are dated, to be sure, but I still prefer the original version of total recall to the recent remake.)

 

[nwhoopfan]

(They are dated, to be sure, but I still prefer the original version of total recall to the recent remake.)

The remake was pretty soulless and unnecessary, but that doesn't make the original any better.

 

[CL82]

The remake was pretty soulless and unnecessary, but that doesn't make the original any better.

Soulless? Soulless?

how can a movie with such quality such as "Benny, you're screwed" and "consider this a divorce" be considered soulless?

"Think about it"

 

[nwhoopfan]

Soulless? Soulless?

how can a movie with such quality such as "Benny, you're screwed" and "consider this a divorce" be considered soulless?

"Think about it"

I was talking about the remake.

 

[CL82]

I was talking about the remake.

Oh, absolutely agree then.

 

[temery]

The Matrix

 

[nwhoopfan]

The Matrix

I haven't watched it in a long time, but I thought the original was great. They got progressively worse with each sequel.

 

[HuskyHawk]

Soulless? Soulless?

how can a movie with such quality such as "Benny, you're screwed" and "consider this a divorce" be considered soulless?

"Think about it"

I mean, Sharon Stone in that film simply melts the screen. Nobody has ever looked better than that. Then you’ve got the woman with 3 um…yes. That is a timeless classic. Comedy all along the way. I do think the remake was also good, only because Colin Farrell is always good.

 

[nwhoopfan]

I mean, Sharon Stone in that film simply melts the screen. Nobody has ever looked better than that. Then you’ve got the woman with 3 um…yes. That is a timeless classic. Comedy all along the way. I do think the remake was also good, only because Colin Farrell is always good.

No argument about Sharon. Although the remake had Jessica Biel and Kate Beckinsale. The original was absolutely cheesy. The remake is more serious. It's not terrible, but it's extremely forgettable.

 

[Husky25]

Red Dawn (original). If we are talking Cult Classics rather than "so bad it is good" then Lost Boys is a timeless classic. Another Cult classic that is actually good, The Crow.

Any originally cheesy movie that under went a recent remake (2000 or more recent) is a winner. The remakes were unnecessary money grabs, whose mere existence should be roundly denounced. Cheese is what made the originals so good. The reason the remakes largely fell flat was they were incapable of capturing the unintentional flippancy of the original.

There was no entertainment reason to redo Point Break, Red Dawn, Footloose, RoboCop, The Karate Kid and Total Recall. There was also no Earthy reason for Roadhouse to have a sequel either.

That said, the above originals are all terrific for the proposed thread topic.

 

[Husky25]

Figured I'd reach out to the learn-ed minds of the boneyard for this. My friends and I do a monthly "bad-movie" night where we watch some really bad films, get drunk, and do our own version of mystery science theater 3000 mocking them. They don't have to be bad movies per se. We've watched Batman & Robin, Suburban Commando, Highlander, Cannibal the Musical, etc.... The most recent movie was Thankskilling which was the worst thing ever created. Looking for recommendations for future iterations.

The Wraith has phenomenal MST3000 protentional.

I know because a group of my friends and I have done it.

 

[HuskyHawk]

Any originally cheesy movie that under went a recent remake (2000 or more recent) is a winner. The remakes were unnecessary money grabs, whose mere existence should be roundly denounced. Cheese is what made the originals so good. The reason the remakes largely fell flat was they were incapable of capturing the unintentional flippancy of the original.

There was no entertainment reason to redo Point Break, Red Dawn, Footloose, RoboCop, The Karate Kid and Total Recall. There was also no Earthy reason for Roadhouse to have a sequel either.

That said, the above originals are all terrific for the proposed thread topic.

Sure, with a couple of clarifications. RoboCop wasn't really cheesy. It was a serious film addressing some serious points and I think some people just missed that due to the violence. Total Recall reboot was viewed as a correction for similar reasons, the story wasn't really meant to be told the way it originally was. The more tense Collin Farrell version was entirely different and thus ok. Kind of like the Dune remake.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

If you want to go low budget horror, and are from the northeast, Block Island Sound is pretty special.

 

[Husky25]

Sure, with a couple of clarifications. RoboCop wasn't really cheesy. It was a serious film addressing some serious points and I think some people just missed that due to the violence. Total Recall reboot was viewed as a correction for similar reasons, the story wasn't really meant to be told the way it originally was. The more tense Collin Farrell version was entirely different and thus ok. Kind of like the Dune remake.

This is getting of the intended track certainly, but corporate greed and corruption of an overwhelmed privatized for-profit police force, leading to greater socio-economic disparity of a major US city has one target. Action, explosions, violence, and "mature" content has another.

Certainly, there is crossover, but if a screenwriter or director thinks that millions of theater-goers, as a whole, didn't fully comprehend their underlying "artist" vision of a popcorn flick, I can't fathom thinking the millions of theater-goers are to blame.

Take the following as an example. Roadhouse 2 was direct to video and was awful. Does demand actually exist for a "remake" of the original Roadhouse? Of course it appears to be only loosely related to the plot of Roadhouse. In which case there is little reason, other than to avoid being sued, to call it Roadhouse...2/10. Yeah, I'll probably watch it.

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[CL82]

Sure, with a couple of clarifications. RoboCop wasn't really cheesy. It was a serious film addressing some serious points and I think some people just missed that due to the violence. Total Recall reboot was viewed as a correction for similar reasons, the story wasn't really meant to be told the way it originally was. The more tense Collin Farrell version was entirely different and thus ok. Kind of like the Dune remake.

Total Recall is based on the original short novel We Can Remember It For You Wholesale. The original movie follows the storyline much more closely. Other than the basic concept of hidden memories, the Colin Farrell version really is a new plot that capitalizes on a familiar title. For what it's worth the original story is pretty campy as well.