Best Bad Movies

[nelsonmuntz]

I have never seen "The Room". It looks incredible.

My best bad movie is Ishtar.

 

[G0UCONN]

Con Air
Mystery, Alaska
Deep Blue Sea

 

[Mano]

So I came in here to say The Core, a truly horrendous movie that's so bad it made me start laughing at it, and I tried to remember who was the leading man opposite Hillary Swank. I mistakenly thought it was Gerard Butler (actually Aaron Eckhart) and then I realized the correct answer to the question is: Every Action Movie Gerard Butler Has Been In In The Past 15 Years. It's just a litany of terrible but passable movies. Just pure dreck that is mostly unoffending. Just look:

Reign of Fire
The 2nd Tomb Raider
Timeline
Gamer
Law Abiding Citizen
The Bounty Hunter
Machine Gun Preacher
The "Fallen" franchise
God's of Egypt
And this year's Geostorm

That's not even including his romcoms!

 

[nwhoopfan]

Reign of Fire

He was in that? Matthew McConaughey and Christian Bale are the headliners from that one. (Checked IMDB, he was in fact in it, been too long since I've seen it)

You've missed some of his biggest movies though--300 and How To Train Your Dragon movies. And RocknRolla was pretty good. While none of his flicks have been great many of them have been pretty entertaining. I love how he has a thick Scottish accent regardless of his role--Egyptian god, viking, Spartan warrior king, doesn't matter. Gerard Butler don't need no damn voice/accent coach!

 

[nwhoopfan]

A couple comedies come to mind for me. Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story and Zoolander (the first one; the second one has to be one of the worst bad movies ever). Dumb and Dumber too (and another one to avoid sequel at all costs).

 

[nelsonmuntz]

I watch The Happening most times it is on cable. I know it sucks, but there is something weirdly captivating about it.

 

[Mano]

He was in that? Matthew McConaughey and Christian Bale are the headliners from that one. (Checked IMDB, he was in fact in it, been too long since I've seen it)

You've missed some of his biggest movies though--300 and How To Train Your Dragon movies. And RocknRolla was pretty good. While none of his flicks have been great many of them have been pretty entertaining. I love how he has a thick Scottish accent regardless of his role--Egyptian god, viking, Spartan warrior king, doesn't matter. Gerard Butler don't need no damn voice/accent coach!

Yea I left those off purposefully since I actually think 300 is pretty decent and Zach Snyder's style was pretty new and thusly not so overbearing yet. Haven't seen more than a few parts of Rocknrolla. And the Dragon movies are just quality kids films, so not really in keeping with the OP.

 

[Mano]

I watch The Happening most times it is on cable. I know it sucks, but there is something weirdly captivating about it.

Wow, yeah, now that's just a plain bad film. It was shockingly bad. I do the same thing when it comes on.

As an aside are there any better (worse?) good, bad actors than Wahlberg and Butler?

 

[nelsonmuntz]

A couple comedies come to mind for me. Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story and Zoolander (the first one; the second one has to be one of the worst bad movies ever). Dumb and Dumber too (and another one to avoid sequel at all costs).

Dodgeball is stupid, but I wouldn't consider it a bad movie.

For a movie to qualify for this thread, it:

1) Had to be trying to be good,
2) it needs to have been critically panned at the time.

 

[nwhoopfan]

Not too bad, but not very good, and panned by critics. That probably could be applied to a lot of movies. I'll have to try to come up with something that fits well for this thread.

 

[G0UCONN]

I think Step Brothers is one of top 10 comedies of all time but think it was panned.

So it may belong on the list.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

I can't watch 10 seconds of the movie, but I know some women like Grease 2 with Michelle Pfeiffer.

 

[HuskyHawk]

A couple comedies come to mind for me. Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story and Zoolander (the first one; the second one has to be one of the worst bad movies ever). Dumb and Dumber too (and another one to avoid sequel at all costs).

Zoolander is one of the great comedies of all time, and Dodgeball was funny.
I actually quite liked Reign of Fire.

As for actual bad movies that are great:
Evil Dead series
Flash Gordon
Conan
Highlander
All the “Blade” movies
All the “Underworld” movies.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

So I came in here to say The Core, a truly horrendous movie that's so bad it made me start laughing at it, and I tried to remember who was the leading man opposite Hillary Swank. I mistakenly thought it was Gerard Butler (actually Aaron Eckhart) and then I realized the correct answer to the question is: Every Action Movie Gerard Butler Has Been In In The Past 15 Years. It's just a litany of terrible but passable movies. Just pure dreck that is mostly unoffending. Just look:

Reign of Fire
The 2nd Tomb Raider
Timeline
Gamer
Law Abiding Citizen
The Bounty Hunter
Machine Gun Preacher
The "Fallen" franchise
God's of Egypt
And this year's Geostorm

That's not even including his romcoms!

I thought Reign of Fire was decent, so I am not sure it qualifies.

Timeline is almost a prototype of a good bad movie. Big budget and reasonably big cast, the plot is incoherent and several of the stars look embarrassed to be in the movie. Critics hate the movie, but there is something about it that makes it watchable.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

Zoolander is one of the great comedies of all time, and Dodgeball was funny.
I actually quite liked Reign of Fire.

As for actual bad movies that are great:
Evil Dead series
Flash Gordon
Conan
Highlander
All the “Blade” movies
All the “Underworld” movies.

+100 for Flash Gordon

 

[pepband99]

Any votes for "Just one of the guys" (1985) ?

A cheesy 80s style comedy with very likeable characters. I quote it far too often for something this old and undistinguished.

The little brother character is particularly well done.

 

[G0UCONN]

Better Off Dead.

 

[Dove]

Any votes for "Just one of the guys" (1985) ?

A cheesy 80s style comedy with very likeable characters. I quote it far too often for something this old and undistinguished.

The little brother character is particularly well done.

Does not belong on this list. It is an epic movie and little known.

In fact, when my wife calls me a smart-ass I quickly respond, better than a dumb ass.

 

[Waquoit]

I thought Jonah Hex wasn't that bad. The editing was pretty jarring and it didn't stick the landing but Josh Brolin was an excellent Hex.

 

[pepband99]

There is a better screenshot from that movie, just not postable here

The line i use most often: "Oooon me" as in "A buck's worth in. On me."

Does not belong on this list. It is an epic movie and little known.

In fact, when my wife calls me a smart-ass I quickly respond, better than a dumb ass.

 

[nwhoopfan]

All the “Underworld” movies.

I liked the first one far more than any of the subsequent sequels. Same deal with the Resident Evil franchise.

 

[nwhoopfan]

Better Off Dead.

I loved that movie when I was in high school (well, probably still do). Very quotable. Not sure I would call it a bad movie. This category has me utterly confused.

 

[nwhoopfan]

Yeah, not even sure what qualifies here. Big Trouble in Little China maybe? My brother and I loved that when we were growing up, used to quote it all the time.

 

[G0UCONN]

Rock Star

Three o'clock High

 

[G0UCONN]

Yeah, not even sure what qualifies here. Big Trouble in Little China maybe? My brother and I loved that when we were growing up, used to quote it all the time.

"It's all in the reflexes"

 

[nwhoopfan]

A recent movie, definitely panned by critics--Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets. Visually stunning, great set up the first 5-10 minutes. Plot maybe a bit incoherent, lead actors aren't great, but it's entertaining, not nearly as bad as the critics would have you believe. I predict in a few years this will be in heavy rotation on cable tv--TNT, TBS, FX, Sci Fi, channels like that.

 

[nwhoopfan]

I have never seen "The Room". It looks incredible.

Now you can watch it as a double feature w/ the new James Franco movie "The Disaster Artist" that is about the making of "The Room." Franco plays the director/lead actor.

 

[dbmill]

Zoolander is one of the great comedies of all time, and Dodgeball was funny.
I actually quite liked Reign of Fire.

As for actual bad movies that are great:
Evil Dead series
Flash Gordon
Conan
Highlander
All the “Blade” movies
All the “Underworld” movies.

Conan the Destroyer is certainly cheap trash, but I find it more than watchable. It is a real hoot, especially with the casting of Grace Jones and Wilt Chamberlain.

Flash Gordon is a movie with tongue firmly inserted in its cheek, and not all that bad at all. Together with its Queen soundtrack, it is over the top fun if you can get into it.

 

[Dove]

"Up In Smoke". I just stumbled upon it and have never seen it before. Wow!!

Hysterical...yet horrible.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

Rock Star

Three o'clock High

Rock Star is terrible, and really should have ended the career of everyone in it. The ending is the writing equivalent of hurling feces at the audience. That said, big stars (Wahlberg, Aniston, Olyphant, West), big budget. It definitely qualifies.

I am going to DVR it next time I see it on the cable Guide.