Films so bad they are good?

Sarevok · Post by **Sarevok** » 2004-10-09 03:08am

Dungeons and Dragons, Plan 9 from outer space, Atomic Train, Kung Pow, Asteroid.

Icehawk · Post by **Icehawk** » 2004-10-09 04:22am

They Live

Saw this one on TV a few months back.

wautd · Post by **wautd** » 2004-10-09 08:55am

Ligier wrote:Is it nostalgia on my part, or does Commando qualify as "so bad, it's good?"

funny

it happens to be on tonight

I guess i'll tape it. Been a while i saw it

And they say Jason Voorhees is dangerous in a hardware store

Patrick Degan · Post by **Patrick Degan** » 2004-10-09 10:11am

The Brain From Planet Arous (1958) —John Agar's most laughably demented performance, in a film with a ludicrous floating brain-monster and a dog possessed by a "police brain". And all played quite seriously.

You can't beat 50s schlock sci-fi for pure comedy.

Mayabird · Post by **Mayabird** » 2004-10-09 10:13am

A lot of these movies are only funny to me if I'm with a group of people so we can mock it together, ala MST3k. Alone, I can't stand many of them.

Patrick Degan · Post by **Patrick Degan** » 2004-10-09 10:26am

How can you not find humour in a film like this:

The Brain From Planet Arous(1958)

The Aliens · Post by **The Aliens** » 2004-10-09 10:32am

Robot Monster wins, hands down. When the bubble ray gun came out I almost pissed myself laughing.

Patrick Degan · Post by **Patrick Degan** » 2004-10-09 10:36am

The Aliens wrote:Robot Monster wins, hands down. When the bubble ray gun came out I almost pissed myself laughing.

Precisely my point —you can't beat 50s schlock sci-fi for pure comedy.

Tsyroc · Post by **Tsyroc** » 2004-10-09 11:07am

Icehawk wrote:They Live

Saw this one on TV a few months back.

I love the fight between Keith David and Roddy Piper.

Suplex onto concrete....OH! That's gotta hurt.

This does remind me of another John Carpenter movie that I like despite some parts of it being awful. Escape From L.A. Snake is just too cool and that version of the USA is just too much fun.

ReinnResauq · Post by **ReinnResauq** » 2004-10-09 12:52pm

IRG CommandoJoe wrote:The Philadelphia Experiment II. A 1993 Nazi empire alternate timeline movie where they use an F-117 in 1943 to drop 50 kilotons worth of nukes over Washington, DC, killing 15,000,000 people and thus winning the war.

That's an awesome stupid movie. It's got a worse timeline than even the Terminator 3 DVD.

Speaking of Terminator 3, that's a movie so bad I have to watch the whole thing.

Icehawk · Post by **Icehawk** » 2004-10-09 04:09pm

Tsyroc wrote:
I love the fight between Keith David and Roddy Piper.

Suplex onto concrete....OH! That's gotta hurt.

Lol, that was probably the saddest excuse for a fight I've ever seen, not only was it cheese but it just droned on and on.

This does remind me of another John Carpenter movie that I like despite some parts of it being awful. Escape From L.A. Snake is just too cool and that version of the USA is just too much fun.

OMG I had forgotten about that one! I remember thinking it was gonna be a great movie and going out to see it on its opening night.

(was only a naive 14 year old at the time)

Petrosjko · Post by **Petrosjko** » 2004-10-09 04:10pm

ReinnResauq wrote:
IRG CommandoJoe wrote:The Philadelphia Experiment II. A 1993 Nazi empire alternate timeline movie where they use an F-117 in 1943 to drop 50 kilotons worth of nukes over Washington, DC, killing 15,000,000 people and thus winning the war.
That's an awesome stupid movie. It's got a worse timeline than even the Terminator 3 DVD.

Speaking of Terminator 3, that's a movie so bad I have to watch the whole thing.

T-3 just reeked in general. A rehash of all the old 'cool spots' from previous movies, toss in some eye candy, add a little ferret to play John Conner...

Presented for your consideration, Black Dragons

The IMDB summary does not do this 'comedy' justice. The plastic surgeon in question turns five short Japanese men into tall American men, perfect replicas of the industrialists they are replacing. Then, tossed into a prison cell with another Japanese guy, working with only scalpels, he switches identities with the other prisoner and is released in his place, to hunt down the double agents.

Bela Lugosi is one of the kings of 'so bad it's good'...

Also presented for your consideration... admittedly, it's a serial, but it is notable for being Leonard Nimoy's first Hollywood acting job...

Zombies of the Stratosphere

How can you beat a serial with a nefarious Martian plot to blow up the Earth so they can slide Mars into Earth's place and enjoy a more temperate climate? As the summary says, not a zombie in sight, but inexplicably at the end, when Leonard Nimoy is the sole surviving Martian and actually gets his only dialogue in the movie, the hero refers to him as a 'zombie'.

The cheese, it buuuuuurns.

Post by **haas mark** » 2004-10-09 05:54pm

Without doubt, Orgazmo and Evil Dead.

Eleas · Post by **Eleas** » 2004-10-12 10:48am

Action, dramas, whatever - at least when they go bad beyond bad, they're funny. Like D&D, which truly is a wonderful time.

That's the sad thing about comedies. When they're bad, they're just embarrassing. If you don't believe me, just watch Shaolin Soccer.

Durandal · Post by **Durandal** » 2004-10-12 12:34pm

I couldn't make it all the way through Shaolin Soccer. I tried. I really, really tried. But it was just fucking awful.

XXX came very close to being so bad it was funny, but it didn't go all the way. It took itself just seriously enough to be a shitty action movie rather than an action movie gone wrong.

Post by **Alyrium Denryle** » 2004-10-12 12:38pm

Cthulhu Mansion

Jeepers Creepers

"Is it dead?"
"They never are" *continues running over the demon over and ovver again*

Eleas · Post by **Eleas** » 2004-10-12 12:42pm

Durandal wrote:XXX came very close to being so bad it was funny, but it didn't go all the way. It took itself just seriously enough to be a shitty action movie rather than an action movie gone wrong.

Hmmm, yeah. I dunno if this fits with the rest, but Matrix: Reloaded certainly worked for me as a comedy (at least some scenes). The frenchman is very funny, and the very suggestion that the Zionites are supposed to be our heroes is hilarious. I mean, I could have liked them if they weren't so style over substance and annoying, but now, even their deaths are funny. It's also amusing to interpret the pretentious bullshit of the God figure at the end and note how the movie is cheapened by the tie-in with Enter The Matrix.

What can be said, besides the truth? It's a competently made badflick.

Frank Hipper · Post by **Frank Hipper** » 2004-10-12 02:12pm

Alyrium Denryle wrote:Jeepers Creepers

"Is it dead?"
"They never are" *continues running over the demon over and ovver again*

Hey! Jeepers Creepers was a cute little flick, not bad at all! Certainly not anywhere near "So bad it's good"...
And the hero dies screaming in the end!
How often does that happen in movies?

Guardsman Bass · Post by **Guardsman Bass** » 2004-10-12 02:13pm

This Island Earth is really amusing to watch when you watch it through the Mystery Science Theater 3000 medium.

Ghosts of Marswas so bad it was comical,too- and it had some comical bits. Two examples are when one of the black guys tried to be fancy with the cutting knife, and cut off his own thumb, and the other is when the heroine and the weird, badly shaved guy just randomly decide they are going to have sex since they are gonna die(although they don't get to do it).

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2004-10-12 02:30pm

Drunken Wu-Tang.

You can't claim to have seen good bad movies until you've seen the Watermelon Monster, Porcupine Back, and the world's largest tinfoil wrapped sword.

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi · Post by **Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi** » 2004-10-12 04:52pm

Jack Frost 2

I only watched the last part, but that was all I needed to realize how bad it was. Especially when the supposedly unstoppable snowmen were stopped with banana daquiris. It had me thinking: If they made a channel that aired only Z-grade crap, it would do so well.

Enforcer Talen · Post by **Enforcer Talen** » 2004-10-12 10:16pm

Korvan wrote:
ReinnResauq wrote:I'm probably going to get flamed here, but Dungeons and Dragons is one of my favorite fantasy movies. True, there are holes in the plot big enough to drive a Mack Truck through, but I still love it.
I can't imagine what you see in that abomination. Imagine playing a DnD game where you enter the dungeon containing the ultimate artifact of dragon control. A dungeon completely devoid of monsters. And the only trap is a chute that leads directly to... a pit of deadly snakes? spikes and blades? No, it leads directly to the treasure room containing the artifact where you are confronted, by all thing, some sort of friendly lich that just lets you waltz out with the artifact.

Any DM that lead me through that is ending up with a wedgie and is paying for the entire pizza.

And the baffling part is that the man behind the film was supposed to be a huge DnD nut, yet he produces a film worse than what some studio execs with no gaming knowledge could ever do.

All right, rant over. My pick for a good "bad" movie is Mutant on the Bounty. It's worth it for the title alone.

shit, dnd has that has an ending? I could never work through the first half.

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2004-10-12 10:23pm

I can't find it anywhere, I can't remember what it was called....

but it involved TAP DANCING NINJA....

think Iron Monkey meets Singing in the Rain....

wautd · Post by **wautd** » 2004-10-13 03:19am

Eleas wrote:
That's the sad thing about comedies. When they're bad, they're just embarrassing. If you don't believe me, just watch Shaolin Soccer.

it gets a high user rating though

bohemianfey · Post by **bohemianfey** » 2004-10-13 09:44am

Premutos: Lord of the Living Dead

You can't even explain this one. Random porn (yes, real porn) scenes, zombies with lightning powers, almost completely irrelevant plot and FUN FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY.

It's just something you love to hate.