Terrible awful dreadful films you have enjoyed

[Sea Star]

Star Wars isn't a bad film in any sense imo, its a fairytale done in space clothes and I think this often leads people to deride it- but if you like space and you like fairytales, well its mint.

except the infamous holiday special obvs

it seems to fit the template of bad movies imo - bad acting, poor script, wobbly sets, ridiculous plot, tacky looking costumes, below par special effects etc. I liked it when i was 10 but haven't really enjoyed it particularly since then.

 

[DotCommunist]

it seems to fit the template of bad movies imo - bad acting, poor script, wobbly sets, ridiculous plot, tacky looking costumes, below par special effects etc. I liked it when i was 10 but haven't really enjoyed it particularly since then.

I take you've never seen the remastering? it looks polished now. Can't defend the acting cos it is all cheese but han/leiea is always funny. And as I say, fairy tale. Hansel and Gretel has a ridiculous plot. Beowulf has a silly plot. Baba Yaga has the eponymous witch riding a house that has chicken legs.

Still good stories. And the space combat in SW is top notch, totally unrealistic to how space combat would go, but then the best space combat scenes are rip offs from naval warfare

 

[Reno]

The sordid, 70s neo-noir-on-a-budget Point of Terror, starring the Dyanne "Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS" Thorne as an overripe femme fatale, is one of my all time favourite films. Check out the dialogue and fashion statements 27 minutes in to get a taster (great pinky acting too!):



It's one of the great bad movies and one of the few I find genuinely entertaining from start to end.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

The sordid, 70s neo-noir-on-a-budget Point of Terror, starring the Dyanne "Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS" Thorne as an overripe femme fatale is one of my all time favourite films. Check out the dialogue and fashion statements 27 minutes in to get a taster (great pinky acting too!):



It's one of the great bad movies and one of the few I find genuinely entertaining from start to end.

3.8 on IMDB. That's low. Mind you, looking at the scores, there are loads of 2s and 3s, but also quite a few 10s.

 

[Reno]

it seems to fit the template of bad movies imo - bad acting, poor script, wobbly sets, ridiculous plot, tacky looking costumes, below par special effects etc. I liked it when i was 10 but haven't really enjoyed it particularly since then.

I really am no Star Wars fan and I'm with you on the acting and script (though its important to keep in mind that the film was a homage to low budget 30s scifi serials), but at the time the effects and production design were so groundbreaking, they revolutionised the entire film industry.

 

[8den]

I get tired of po-faced superhero films, Flash Gordon is anything but, like Adam West era Batman. Despite his long and distinguished stage and screen career, Brian Blessed still likes to pretend he's a hawk man

The birth of my son was announce by brian blessed himself. He tweeted "SAMUELS ALIVE", for me

 

[Orang Utan]

I was forced to sit through "Flesh Gordon" once all in the name of male bonding. Tedious and shite... what's to like?

I've always contended that it is a far better film than Star Wars

 

[Reno]

I've always contended that it is a far better film than Star Wars

It's certainly more fun, but it's no Star Crash.

 

[DotCommunist]

I've always contended that it is a far better film than Star Wars

AS is referring to the shit soft porn version which even you could not claim as better than star wars

 

[youngian]

"Dr Flexi Jerkoff" stop sniggering at the back. I notice Flesh Gordon features an actress called Candy Samples. And she didn't even get a Bond film.

I must say Christopher Plumber delivered the exposition on Star Crash with much gravitas and dignity under the circumstances. At least he wasn't in Caligula.

 

[Reno]

I could mention...

..but I have come round to thinking its some sort of twisted masterpiece.

(and no, it's not the all-female version of Dumb and Dumber)

 

[marty21]

I really am no Star Wars fan and I'm with you on the acting and script (though its important to keep in mind that the film was a homage to low budget 30s scifi serials), but at the time the effects and production design were so groundbreaking, they revolutionised the entire film industry.

didn't realise that, so it was sort of a re-boot of Flash Gordon?

 

[Reno]

didn't realise that, so it was sort of a re-boot of Flash Gordon?

It wasn't a exactly reboot of Flash Gordon, more of a big budget version of serials like Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers and some of the clunkiness was on purpose. The most obvious stylistic nod to the 30s/40s serials are the scene transitions, which are wipes and which weren't generally being used in the 70s anymore. They got used in old B-movies and serials a lot to avoid costly establishing shots. Star Wars of course had the money to spend and purely used them as a homage.

 

[marty21]

It wasn't a exactly reboot of Flash Gordon, more of a big budget version of serials like Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers and some of the clunkiness was on purpose. The most obvious stylistic nod to the 30s/40s serials are the scene transitions, which are wipes and which weren't generally being used in the 70s anymore. They got used in old B-movies and serials a lot to avoid costly establishing shots. Star Wars of course had the money to spend and purely used them as a homage.

I meant the Buster Crabb thing - was he in both?

 

[Reno]

I meant the Buster Crabb thing - was he in both?

Yes, he was in both. Your basic 1930s go-to scifi hunk.

 

[scifisam]

I like Eagle Eye for some reason. Basically an action movie with a mad machine and Shia LeBouef, not terribly well done except for a couple of bits, but it works for me.

80s comedies are also my go-to. Anything with Whoopie Goldberg in (Jumpin' Jack Flash especially), anything with Bette Midler in (not Beaches - that's not a comedy; Ruthless People is awesome), etc. Similar to Romancing the Stone in some ways.

And if you haven't seen Galaxy Quest then you should. It's actually a very good film but a lot of people assumed it wouldn't be.

 

[8den]

Its got Weaver & Rickman in silly make up its awesome

 

[Dr. Furface]

Andy Warhol's Dracula. It's absolute garbage - no doubt intentionally so - but very funny. And it's a soft porn classic too.

 

[blairsh]

Crank 1 and 2

 

[T & P]

 

[8den]

The only thing less credible than the CGI in this scene is the acting. The expression on the guy after his car hits the animal is a contender for the up the arse thread.

 

[not-bono-ever]

On her majesties secret service. yes, the Lazenby one

to live and die in LA

faces of death - terrible John lydon B movie, but sorta compelling



I fail to see how Romancing the stone is in this thread-its a beautiful throwaway love story

 

[Reno]

On her majesties secret service. yes, the Lazenby one

That film has been critically rehabilitated a long time ago and is now generally considered to be one of the best Bond films.

 

[not-bono-ever]

good!

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

Karate Kid (I,II,III).

III certainly. II I can see people feeling that way but when I rewatched the original in the cinema I was supprised at how good it held up. It is legitimately good not just cheese good.

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

That's what I was thinking. Plenty of people have told me I like shit films but I don't think they're shit, eg, the Star Trek movies with the original cast!! I love them!

Even 5?

That certainly has its good bad moments.

 

[Humberto]

Heaven is for Real

shit but managed to watch it to the end

 

[DaveCinzano]

LAMBERT AND VAN PEEBLES - TOGETHER AT LAST!

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Red letter media's best of the worst might be worth looking at.

Best of the Worst: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJ_TJFLc25JR3VZ7Xe-cmt4k3bMKBZ5Tm

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

It's certainly more fun, but it's no Star Crash.

Star crash is mental. Imagine shooting bombs with soldiers inside??? Wouldn't actual bombs have been better? This kind of weirdness sums up most of the script oddities.