What movie do you really like -- but really shouldn't?

[Moff Rimmer]

Inspired by the "What movie inspired you" thead.

I was watching Demolition Man last night. Every indication tells me that I REALLY shouldn't like this movie -- the acting, the plot, etc. But for some reason I really like it. I don't get it.

So what movies do you find that you really like even though they should be labeled as bad movies?

[Skeld]

Moff Rimmer wrote:

So what movies do you find that you really like even though they should be labeled as bad movies?

The Postman.

/ducks

[Cainus]

Skeld wrote:

Moff Rimmer wrote:

So what movies do you find that you really like even though they should be labeled as bad movies?

1980's Whoopi Goldberg action movies. That's right. Top that!

Jumpin Jack Flash, Burgler, every time they're on TV at like 2 in the morning I can't resist watching them.

It's a sickness.

[Faux Real]

It's probably the Blob remake from the 80s... But my family's seen it so many times (probably once a year) that I don't think we consider it a guilty pleasure.

[drunken_nomad]

Moff Rimmer wrote:

Inspired by the "What movie inspired you" thead.

I was watching Demolition Man last night. Every indication tells me that I REALLY shouldn't like this movie -- the acting, the plot, etc. But for some reason I really like it. I don't get it.

So what movies do you find that you really like even though they should be labeled as bad movies?

Dude. Denis Leary rocks in that one!

Mine are Dean Cameron movies. Sure most people like Chainsaw in "Summer School", but how about "Bad Dreams", "Ski School 1 AND 2", "Rockula" or his amazing sublime turn in the Emilio Estevez/Charlie Sheen vehicle "Men at Work"?!?!?

[Wicht]

Judge Dread
Ultraviolet
Alien: Resurrection

Those are the first three that come to mind. There are many more.

[kessukoofah]

Wicht wrote:

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Ultraviolet
...

That's pretty much at the top of my "Guilty Pleasure Movies" list, followed closely by the first two Pokemon Movies and League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. To understand that last one, it's not that great a movie, is fairly predictable and in no way matches up to the comic, which I am a huge fan of. Given my track record of not usually liking comic or book adaptations it's actually quite shocking to those around me that I like this movie.

[TriOmegaZero]

Scary Movie 3. Only one I watched of that series that had any merit.

[David Fryer]

Death Race 2000

[Callous Jack]

Starship Troopers.

[messy]

big trouble in little china.

terrible movie, yet i love it. :-)

messy

[Wicht]

Callous Jack wrote:

Starship Troopers.

Thats just.... wrong.

And Messy, Big Trouble is a great movie, a classic even. You shouldn't feel guilty about liking it. :)

[It's pronounced boo-LAY!]

Water World
Constantine
Dragonheart

And in reverse, there is a movie that I think I should like, but I just hated.

Braveheart

Bulette

[Callous Jack]

Wicht wrote:

Callous Jack wrote:

Starship Troopers.

Thats just.... wrong.

And Messy, Big Trouble is a great movie, a classic even. You shouldn't feel guilty about liking it. :)

I know...sigh...

And Big Trouble in Little China rocks, I wish there were more movies like it out there.

[David Fryer]

Callous Jack wrote:

Wicht wrote:

Callous Jack wrote:

Starship Troopers.

Thats just.... wrong.

And Messy, Big Trouble is a great movie, a classic even. You shouldn't feel guilty about liking it. :)

I know...sigh...

And Big Trouble in Little China rocks, I wish there were more movies like it out there.

I even used it as a basis for an adventure in my Gamma World campaign. I may tweak it for Pathfinder.

[TriOmegaZero]

Ooo, my wife brought up another one. Chronicles of Riddick.

[Wicht]

A few more of mine that I can't keep from watching, some of which I like better than others though: Bats, Beowulf (w/ Christopher Lambert), Howling V: The rebirth, The Covenant, Lake Placid, Mom and Dad Save the World, Universal Soldier, We Come in Peace (w/ Dolph Lundgren).

[The Shade]

Carebears, the movie

[Matthew Morris]

The Black Hole.

I have it on DVD and it's my guilty pleasure.

[David Fryer]

Wicht wrote:

Universal Soldier

What about Universal Soldier II

[grrtigger]

Deep Blue Sea. I don't know why, but I watch the whole thing all the way through every time.

[Callous Jack]

David Fryer wrote:

Wicht wrote:

Universal Soldier

What about Universal Soldier II

Speaking of Van Damme, I still like Bloodsport quite a bit.

[lynora]

Callous Jack wrote:

David Fryer wrote:

Wicht wrote:

Universal Soldier

What about Universal Soldier II

Speaking of Van Damme, I still like Bloodsport quite a bit.

Is it bad that I have that movie memorized to the point that I no longer watch it so much as listen for the audial cue of when a scene I think is cool is about to come on? I've even seen all the Bloodsport sequels. All of them. Wow. That is so pathetic.

I can't believe no one mentioned Roadhouse yet.:)

[Heathansson]

Skeld wrote:

Moff Rimmer wrote:

So what movies do you find that you really like even though they should be labeled as bad movies?

The Postman.

/ducks

I liked it.

[Heathansson]

TriOmegaZero wrote:

Ooo, my wife brought up another one. Chronicles of Riddick.

Just tell her, "it's been a long time since I've smelled beautiful."

She liked it too, she's just proppin bad. ;)

[Billzabub]

Hudson Hawk. I don't know why, but I think it's funny as hell.

Roadhouse rocks. Tons of good lines.

[lastknightleft]

mean girls

[Moff Rimmer]

Billzabub wrote:

Roadhouse rocks. Tons of good lines.

"Good lines" -- reminds me of The Running Man. "See here Sub-Zero, now just plain Zero."

[grrtigger]

lastknightleft wrote:

mean girls

That's a pretty good one. I have such a weak spot for girlie movies; Romy & Michele's High School Reunion is totally, like, one of my favorite movies ever! Legally Blonde is also really good.

[Hugo Solis]

"The Quest" of Van Damme. For my that would have made a much better "street fighters" movie. I believe it was named The Quest... In Mexico the have the nasty habit to change some of the movie titles...

[Bill Lumberg]

It's pronounced boo-LAY! wrote:

Water World

Constantine
Dragonheart

And in reverse, there is a movie that I think I should like, but I just hated.

Braveheart

Bulette

Continue to hate Braveheart, it deserves to be hated.

I have seen most of the classic Godzilla movies from the sixties and seventies. And I enjoy them.

[Sebastian]

The original Hellboy.

By the numbers, I should've hated that movie. Really really hated it. But I liked it quite a bit.

(Now, if you were to follow this train to the next logical thread, what movie do you really hate, but really should like, the answer is the Dark Knight. I feel like a failure as a geek for not loving that movie.)

[Sebastian]

Bill Lumberg wrote:

Continue to hate Braveheart, it deserves to be hated.

You sir, are a gentlemen and a scholar. In the book of over-rated geekery, Braveheart is number one with a bullet.

[Jal Dorak]

Anything by Steven Seagal (and yes, that includes Direct-DVD releases).

[James Keegan]

Anything with Vin Diesel bellowing,"KILL OR BE KILLED!!"

[Hugo Solis]

Sebastian wrote:

The original Hellboy.

By the numbers, I should've hated that movie. Really really hated it. But I liked it quite a bit.

(Now, if you were to follow this train to the next logical thread, what movie do you really hate, but really should like, the answer is the Dark Knight. I feel like a failure as a geek for not loving that movie.)

Hey! Hellboy deserves our respect just for beign hellboy!... Sadly you are right. I think the plot for the first movie was better than the second but it was still in diapers

[grrtigger]

Hugo Solis wrote:

Sebastian wrote:

The original Hellboy.

By the numbers, I should've hated that movie. Really really hated it. But I liked it quite a bit.

(Now, if you were to follow this train to the next logical thread, what movie do you really hate, but really should like, the answer is the Dark Knight. I feel like a failure as a geek for not loving that movie.)

Hey! Hellboy deserves our respect just for beign hellboy!... Sadly you are right. I think the plot for the first movie was better than the second but it was still in diapers

I loved Hellboy. I never read the comics, but for me the movie hit all the right notes: introduce the characters, define the universe, stay internally consistent, keep the story moving, and every now and then give us a little wow.

Plus, of course, I got a ton of ideas for my game, which is always a nice bonus.

[David Fryer]

Jal Dorak wrote:

Anything by Steven Seagal (and yes, that includes Direct-DVD releases).

Esspecially that flick he did with Kurt Russell where he dies 30 minutes into the film and his name never appears on the credits. I wish I could remember it's name now.

Edit: Executive Decision was the name.

[David Fryer]

Sebastian wrote:

Bill Lumberg wrote:

Continue to hate Braveheart, it deserves to be hated.

You sir, are a gentlemen and a scholar. In the book of over-rated geekery, Braveheart is number one with a bullet.

I once wrote a thesis paper about how historically inaccurate that movie is. I could start ranting but I won't. I still consider it the greatest affront to my family ever made. I'm related to Edward I and William Wallace by the way.

[David Fryer]

Just remembered. Star Trek I, III, and V.

[Callous Jack]

I loathe the Hellboy movie and I collected all the damn comics.
/snarl

[grrtigger]

David Fryer wrote:

Just remembered. Star Trek I, III, and V.

I is pretty cool. It's not the best, but it was the first, so it automatically gets bumped at least one letter grade.

[grrtigger]

Callous Jack wrote:

I loathe the Hellboy movie and I collected all the damn comics.

/snarl

Yeah, I'm like that too about most of the other comic book movies. Don't even get me started on Jack Nicholson's Joker ;)

[T'Ranchule]

Ohhh, I could be here all day. Just quickly:

Conan the Destroyer
Red Sonja
American Ninja
The 80's Allan Quatermain movies starring Richard Chamberlain
Hell, ANTHING from the Golan/Globus stables
The Time Guardian (Australian Sci-Fi trash at it's finest)
Many, Many more.

And yet I have still not seen Hawk The Slayer. I feel ashamed.

Billzabub wrote:

Hudson Hawk. I don't know why, but I think it's funny as hell.

That one's on my list too. Bruce Willis and Danny Aiello singing Swinging on a star and Richard E Grant hamming it up like there's no tommorrow. Priceless.

EDIT: Oh, how could I forget! AvP 2: Requiem. Yes, it's a piece of crap, but I genuinely enjoyed that film.

[Boone]

Blazing Saddles. That movie is wrong on so many levels...but it is hilarious.

[David Fryer]

Boone wrote:

Blazing Saddles. That movie is wrong on so many levels...but it is hilarious.

If you are going down that road, then I must add Spaceballs and Men in Tights to my list. Also the Planet of the Apes remake.

[Callous Jack]

How can you put a Mel Brooks movie on the bad movie list?

[David Fryer]

Callous Jack wrote:

How can you put a Mel Brooks movie on the bad movie list?

Not, bad, just irreverant. Some of the jokes, like a Druish princess are awefully politically incorrect.

[Callous Jack]

David Fryer wrote:

Callous Jack wrote:

How can you put a Mel Brooks movie on the bad movie list?

Not, bad, just irreverant. Some of the jokes, like a Druish princess are awefully politically incorrect.

Hehe, classic.

[magdalena thiriet]

First of all, Starship Troopers is genius, one of the most intelligent (and misunderstood) films made in last 20 years. And the most intelligent and thought-provoking scifi film I have ever seen (yes, I have seen Matrix). The fact that it is also frigging cool comes as an extra.
For the record, I also love 300. And Conan the Barbarian (Conan the Destroyer less so).

What else, what else...would this be the point to mention Lucio Fulci? Dario Argento? Mario Bava?
Russ Meyer films are also great fun.

And almost forgot...Liquid Sky is wonderful film too.

Scary Movie 3 is the best one of the three Scary Movies I have seen, and has plenty of funny moments.