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


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Armageddon and Desperado


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

Hudson Hawk for me, too. This was the first movie that came to mind when I read the topic... I love this movie.

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I liked Hudson Hawk too never understood why it wasn't more liked.

Now when I watched Hawk the Slayer and the saw the Lord of the Rings I was left thinking what was so special about Legolas and the other elves, that elf in Hawk the Slayer would have slaughtered the entire orc army before they could get that barrel of gunpowder even into sight he would have only needed an array of people ferrying him spare arrows... of course a series of smiths making new ones to keep up with the demand!

Thanks to that movie I used to think elves were able to imitate machine guns with their bows!

Starship troopers always left me worried since I couldn't tell who was actually the bad guy in that movie, the cartoon series made it a little clearer although I suppose the sequel ought to be listed but my true guilty pleasure is Death Train with Pierce Brosnan, Patrick Stewart and an actress formerly with Baywatch.

I've always assumed its qualified as a bad movie but I found it enjoyable but then it did have Christopher Lee as one of the villains so that explains some of its appeal!


Surf's up. I saw it with one of my young cousins and for some inexplicable reason I just like it. Suppose it's not a bad film its just a bit of an odd film to like.

Also love Hot shots part deux. Again I would argue that it's a great film but I know a lot of people who just don't like it. Also to further its bad reputation it was written by one of the people responsible for the Star Wars Holiday Special.

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Tholas wrote:

Armageddon and Desperado

oh gods... Desperado.

The most redeaming thing about that movie, Salma Hayek.

Spoiler:
When the two guys get off the train with their guitar cases I said "Let me guess, two machine guns and a rocket launcher." I was kidding

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Definitely Robocop
Heathers, Jaw Breaker
Motel Hell
Sword and the Sorceror
Lastly,
Xanadu

Hahah!

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Salma Hayek makes me think of Satanico Pandamonium - that's right, From Dusk to Dawn, where she dances with the big snake.

Army of Darkness - Hail to the King, baby.

Buckaroo Banzai with Peter Weller & a great John Lithgow mad scientist.


hopeless wrote:
Starship troopers always left me worried since I couldn't tell who was actually the bad guy in that movie

I repeat, that movie is genius. The odd morality and "what the hell is REALLY happening here?" is part of the appeal. It criticizes war propaganda by being really good war propaganda (the fact that the actors are all young and pretty soap opera level stars does belong to the concept).

I forgot to mention: any movie with Christopher Lee is automatically good.


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Showgirls is so great.

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grrtigger wrote:
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.

When I watch it now, it actually feels more like an episode of TOS than any of the other movies. Now, whether a 2-hour episode of TOS is good or bad, I still think the plot and dialogue was more like the series than the later (better as movies) films.


Really terrible stuff, I feel ashamed of having seen and still enjoyed...

"Mission Impossible II" ( gotta like Tom Cruise in "Ninja" mode, even though it is.... TOM CRUISE *cough*)

"Batman IV" - The Joel Schumacher one.... crucify me, but it's the best of the initial series of four....

"Kull the Conqueror" - bad, worse, Kull ! Still I feel an evil glee watching this... this..... "omega movie" ?

"I am Legend" - bad throughout, but at least Will Smith gets taken out, messily even, so it cannot be thoroughly bad, right ?

"Tremors" - a wonderful series of very very cheesy horror movies. Best with a bottle of spirits and a huge sideorder of Nachos !


Jal Dorak wrote:
grrtigger wrote:
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.
When I watch it now, it actually feels more like an episode of TOS than any of the other movies. Now, whether a 2-hour episode of TOS is good or bad, I still think the plot and dialogue was more like the series than the later (better as movies) films.

Any Star Trek movie is a mental apocalypse, visuals, plot and acting to scar the mind for decades to com... then again I am to Star Trek, what anti-matter is to matter... we cannot exist in close proximity^^

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nevermind wrote:

"Batman IV" - The Joel Schumacher one.... crucify me, but it's the best of the initial series of four....

Ugh, you should be ashamed of yourself!

;-)

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Callous Jack wrote:
nevermind wrote:

"Batman IV" - The Joel Schumacher one.... crucify me, but it's the best of the initial series of four....

Ugh, you should be ashamed of yourself!

;-)

Is that the one with the crotch shots of everybody putting their bat belts on?


messy wrote:

big trouble in little china.

terrible movie, yet i love it. :-)

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'Bit Trouble in Little China' is one of my favs. I own the DVD. It is one of the three Kirk Russel and John Carpenter Master Works. The other two being 'The Thing' and 'Escape from New York'.

I wish they would make more movies like that.

I also like:

Blade
Jurassic Park
Starship Troopers
Wing Commander
Return of Fire
> Eight Legged Freaks < ( <- must see. It also has Scarlett Johansson it in. )


magdalena thiriet wrote:
hopeless wrote:
Starship troopers always left me worried since I couldn't tell who was actually the bad guy in that movie

I repeat, that movie is genius. The odd morality and "what the hell is REALLY happening here?" is part of the appeal. It criticizes war propaganda by being really good war propaganda (the fact that the actors are all young and pretty soap opera level stars does belong to the concept).

I forgot to mention: any movie with Christopher Lee is automatically good.

'Starship Troopers' by Heinline is tons better than the movie. I think I have read the book at least twice.

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Blade was kewl.

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Heathansson wrote:
Blade was kewl.

Agreed.

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Doom.

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Callous Jack wrote:
Heathansson wrote:
Blade was kewl.
Agreed.

I actually thought Blade II was the best of the series.

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Jal Dorak wrote:
I actually thought Blade II was the best of the series.

I might be with you on that, I'll have to watch them again.

But the third one was terrible.

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Callous Jack wrote:
Jal Dorak wrote:
I actually thought Blade II was the best of the series.

I might be with you on that, I'll have to watch them again.

But the third one was terrible.

What, you don't like HHH?

The only good part about the third one was "Dracula" owning all the other wannabe vampires.

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nevermind wrote:


"Tremors" - a wonderful series of very very cheesy horror movies. Best with a bottle of spirits and a huge sideorder of Nachos !

Tremors II was the best of the movie series. However, I liked Tremores: the Series the best.


David Fryer wrote:
nevermind wrote:


"Tremors" - a wonderful series of very very cheesy horror movies. Best with a bottle of spirits and a huge sideorder of Nachos !
Tremors II was the best of the movie series. However, I liked Tremores: the Series the best.

I loved Tremors III. "What kind of supreme being would condone such irony?" :-)

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David Fryer wrote:
nevermind wrote:


"Tremors" - a wonderful series of very very cheesy horror movies. Best with a bottle of spirits and a huge sideorder of Nachos !
Tremors II was the best of the movie series. However, I liked Tremores: the Series the best.

They're all good. The first one was a straight-up monster movie. The later ones were tongue-in-cheek, which is the best way to go with sequels in a series like that.

Gotta love Burt Gummer.

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

I was actually gonna put this down, seeing as it's my favorite movie of all time. The first time i got trashed with a friend, we were watching this. it also introduced me to the genre of westerns and satire, opened the door to other mel brooks comedies and is just plain funny. last semester, me and my friend must have watched this movie 6 times at least. in a period of 16 weeks, that's not bad. the only reason i didn't put it down is that the list is supposed to be about bad movies,m or at least movies you shouldn't like. and given that he uses such jokes and stereotypes and still manages to make it funny for everyone watching? sheer genius!

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I really liked the "Seargent Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band" movie with the Bee Gees and Peter Frampton. Also starred George Burns, Steve Martin, Alice Cooper, and Aerosmith. Found it was number one on some 'worst movies ever made' list.


Heathansson wrote:
Emmett Otter's Jugband Christmas.

Hey, hey. TV Christmas specials are a whole other level of guilty pleasure. That one is at least a Jim Henson production, so it's got a bit of cred.

As for movies...every time "The Beastmaster" comes on cable, I tend to end up watching it, although I have only watched the "Portal of Time" movie once.

Also, all of the bad "Planet of the Apes" sequels, including the time-traveling ones.


The Blade movies and Chronicles of Riddick were BAD... and also bad. But I love watching them for the design elements.

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Heh. Gotta add my vote for "Soldier" with Kurt Russel.
Awful movie but I love watching it.

-J

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Ooh! I have another one. The first Dungeons and Dragons movie. I realize that based on every cinematic and geek-based criticism element it should be a bad movie, but I really enjoyed it. I watch it every time I start feeling blase about DMing.

and based on what several of the people here said, I suppose I'll have to add the Riddick movies to my list, even though I don't see why they're bad. I found them to be quite entertaining and well acted. And they gave me ideas to stick in the homebrew setting. though I may also just be crazy...

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Heathansson wrote:
Skeld wrote:


The Postman.

/ducks

I liked it.

I did to. I saw it after it came out on DVD and, consequently, after hearing everyone talk about how much it sucked. Maybe my expecations were just really low, but I enjoy it none the less.

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Skeld wrote:
Heathansson wrote:
Skeld wrote:


The Postman.

/ducks

I liked it.

I did to. I saw it after it came out on DVD and, consequently, after hearing everyone talk about how much it sucked. Maybe my expecations were just really low, but I enjoy it none the less.

-Skeld

Me too....I think they saw Robin Hood and WaterWorld, then didn't see it but talked crap assuming it sucked anyway.


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magdalena thiriet wrote:
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.

GAG! Are you serious?

LOTR cartoons for me (if that counts).


Ralph Bakshi's "Lord of the Rings"

Some things were much better done than Peter Jackson's version, but on the whole, the movie isn't that good.


Tholas wrote:
Armageddon and Desperado

I almost choked when I read this. There's bad, and then there's Michael Bay bad.

I shudder just thinking about how bad Armageddon is.

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Billzabub wrote:

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Buckaroo Banzai with Peter Weller & a great John Lithgow mad scientist.

YES! Oh god yes! this movie was amazing in a "holy crud this makes little sense and should never have been made" sort of way. it is the most ridiculous alien invasion movie ever, but I loved it. I even went so far as to go out and get the comic series. there's just something about his explanation of the name.

"my father was Japanese, and he named me what he did because of his love for the old west. Buckaroo Banzai."

Awesome! Plus it has Jeff Goldblum and John Lithgow and a character named Perfect Tommy? even better!

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The 80's Transformer cartoon movie.

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magdalena thiriet wrote:
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.

I dunno if I'd rank it that highly, but there's no part in it I can actually point to and say "that was bad". the acting was great, the message poignant and it made me laugh. but "one of the most intelligent (and misunderstood) films made in last 20 years"? i'd have to disagree.

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What was that Madonna movie?

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brent norton wrote:
The 80's Transformer cartoon movie.

Where else can you get classic lines like...

"Quiet or you'll be held in contempt of this court."
"I have nothing but contempt for this court."

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I just remembered Independence Day. Proof positive that Macs are alien technology.


Conan the Destroyer and Godzilla (with Matthew Broderick). For a long time I really dislike these films until I changed my perception.

Instead of thinking of Conan the Destroyer as a horrible sequel, I just divorced it from the first movie mentally and thought of it as a pseudo D&D movie. I suddenly loved it then.

As for Godzilla, again when I thought of it as a "Godzilla" movie I loathed it. But when I (1)mentally started ignoring the ex-girlfriend (that character was a total waste of space) and (2)mentally titled it "Operation: Godzilla" imagining the military titled the creature "Godzilla" based on its simularity to the movie monster suddenly I like it a lot better.

The movie I should have liked but didn't really. Cloverfield. Don't get me wrong, it was fine to watch it once, but I have no desire to ever see it again, and to me that is really the telling point if I like something.

Movies I have a love-hate feeling for, the Jurassic Park Movies, especially the ones with Jeff Goldbloom (god I hate that guy, he can't act, he plays the same character in every movie and it is a crappy character).


brent norton wrote:
The 80's Transformer cartoon movie.

Two words:

Spoiler:
Rodimus Prime

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Moff Rimmer wrote:
brent norton wrote:
The 80's Transformer cartoon movie.

Where else can you get classic lines like...

"Quiet or you'll be held in contempt of this court."
"I have nothing but contempt for this court."

Well there is Pacino in "...And Justice for All."

Al Pacino; I'm out of order? You're out of order! The whole trial is out of order! They're out of order.


grrtigger wrote:
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 ;)

I saw the first Michael Keating Batman movie around 1990. it played in the amphiteater at my college and cost $2.50. Eighteen years later I am still bitter over spending that much to see such drek. Jack Nicholson was terrible as the joker. I did not expect much from Keating as Batman because he is not right for the role, not that he is a terrible actor.

The original Batman movie with Adam West is a great favorite of mine. But anything with Julie Newmar in that skin-tight Catwoman outfit is automatically fine art.

All others are pretenders, Adam West is the one true Batman!

Edit: This one had Lee Merriweather as Catwoman but is is still a magnum opus.

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Bill Lumberg wrote:
The original Batman movie with Adam West is a great favorite of mine.

Watching them run up and down the pier with the bomb for 10 minutes was simply painful for me.

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pres man wrote:

Conan the Destroyer and Godzilla (with Matthew Broderick). For a long time I really dislike these films until I changed my perception.

Instead of thinking of Conan the Destroyer as a horrible sequel, I just divorced it from the first movie mentally and thought of it as a pseudo D&D movie. I suddenly loved it then.

So how to you feel about Kull the Conquerer? Because your feelings of Destroyer are how I feel about Kull - it's an awesome D&D movie.

As for a movie I should like but don't?

1. Anything by James Cameron. But especially The Abyss. (Titanic is just terrible anyway, but the Abyss is good enough to like).
2. Neverending Story...stupid scary G'Mork.

I'd like to add one to my list of "shouldn't like":

Last Action Hero.

I watch a tonne of action movies. I admit that it occasionally doesn't know what it wants to be, but otherwise I love it as a comedy/parody of one of my favorite genres. "You can't trust him, he killed Mozart!" and the scene with the dynamite. Classic parody.

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