Really BAD movies [Archive] - Literature Network Forums

iamnobody

10-29-2010, 11:35 PM

I admit it, I love really awful movies. I don't mean just bad (Titanic) I mean spectacularly bad.-Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Anyone else love a really bad movie?

OrphanPip

10-29-2010, 11:47 PM

You clearly have no taste, those movies are fabulous works of genius. ;)

Anything by John Waters, especially Pink Flamingos and Hairspray.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2YVRu09nAo

Flesh Gordon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiTXaZVI_o0

Barbarella is pretty spectacular as well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uwNEnh9uaM

And honorable mention to Caligula and Tank Girl.

iamnobody

10-29-2010, 11:59 PM

Of course, how could I have forgotten Barbarella! Love that one too!

Delta40

10-30-2010, 12:16 AM

Sean connery in Zardoz

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbGVIdA3dx0

Silas Thorne

10-30-2010, 12:20 AM

I had a period of watching Troma films, and the 'Executioner' movies.
'Rocky Horror' bad? 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show' has remained quite popular for many years now, just like 'The Sound of Music'. They are both successful musical films.
I would have thought that many of these cult 'bad' movies which go for extremes and push certain taste boundaries, like 'Toxic Avenger', 'The Class of Nuke-Em High' and 'Surf Nazis Must Die' would continue to be watched more and survive longer than many unremarkable special effects action movies, such as 'Speed 2' for example, or the later Highlander movies (although the second is just bizarre and irregular enough to push for cult status), but since grindhouse movies are becoming more and more mainstream, I'm not sure now.
I find it hard to keep watching some of these movies now. 2012 was hard to watch to the end, but some of the chase scenes were amusing.

OrphanPip

10-30-2010, 12:33 AM

I forgot to mention my avatar's source too, Labyrinth, some people say this is a so bad it's good movie, but I just think it's pure good ;).

Silas Thorne

10-30-2010, 12:42 AM

Labyrinth. Oh..I remember seeing it when I was a young man ...Oh, the dreams I had of Jennifer Connelly!

The movie was just pure art and vision, and the music matched it perfectly too. I loved the Escherian staircase and all the wonderful puppets and goblins!

OrphanPip

10-30-2010, 12:45 AM

Silas Thorne

10-30-2010, 12:59 AM

It's much more memorable than Top Gun or Crocodile Dundee, that grossed more in that year. I mean:
'there's this guy, a pilot, he flies in a fighter plane...um..I think he's kind of a rebel...he gets the girl...can't remember the rest'
and
'there's this guy...he comes from Australia, he has a big knife, no, a REALLY big knife, and goes to America....yes, they let him through customs with it...and gets the girl... she's American..'

iamnobody

10-30-2010, 01:10 AM

I'm not all convinced Labrynth counts as a really bad movie. Not was the concept good, it was very well done. Maybe it's a little cheesy, but not enough to make it bad.

Silas Thorne

10-30-2010, 01:24 AM

You mean 'good' bad, right? Like 'The Story of Ricky-Oh' ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vMKN1tYknE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Np9L0Iu_5J8&feature=related

iamnobody

10-30-2010, 01:30 AM

I mean some movies really are so utterly awful that they're good, or at least amusing. I think most of the ones mentioned are prime examples. But Labryinth wasn't a bad movie at all. Sure not everyone is going to like all the same movies, but I don't think anyone could honestly think Labryinth was that bad.

OrphanPip

10-30-2010, 01:36 AM

You mean 'good' bad, right? Like 'The Story of Ricky-Oh' ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vMKN1tYknE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Np9L0Iu_5J8&feature=related

That movie is hilariously awesome.

Lokasenna

10-30-2010, 04:09 AM

Silas Thorne

10-30-2010, 04:24 AM

So long as you find a 'bad' movie that's enjoyable to criticize, or because it is funny for all the wrong reasons. Some movies, such as 'Alone in the Dark' with Christian Slater, are so bad that you can't even enjoy watching them to laugh at.

Patrick_Bateman

10-30-2010, 09:01 AM

Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus

surely

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I16_8l0yS-g

Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus

surely

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I16_8l0yS-g

Guy's "Holy ****" is spectacular

His 'I'm getting married in 2 days' however is not

Gilliatt Gurgle

10-30-2010, 09:57 PM

This is right up my alley.
A similar thread was started last year.
You would enjoy reading through some of this:

http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?p=776768#post776768

For me - "Killer Shrews", "Monster Club", "Food of the Gods" - (H.G. Wells there's your literature connection)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hH7c63lcUY&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuSwwZ1n6KU

Thanks for rekindling the subject. Very funny!

Gilliatt

iamnobody

10-31-2010, 12:05 AM

That's awesome! Thanks for sharing.

DanielBenoit

10-31-2010, 02:05 AM

Uhh hello? The Room? Greatest bad movie of all time? No?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQ4KzClb1C4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7S9Ew3TIeVQ

Patrick_Bateman

10-31-2010, 06:54 AM

How did I quote my own post within the post?

sixsmith

10-31-2010, 07:07 AM

19 posts in and no mention of Ed Wood:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2ukRYsYPmo

Troll 2 anyone?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyophYBP_w4&feature=related

Or this genre classic:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtMZKYnLg5c

Patrick_Bateman

10-31-2010, 07:15 AM

Troma are makers of intensely bad movies. Which they actually take pride in.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Vt5G3sC7aI

Redneck Zombies

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8k92t2NgdZs

sixsmith

10-31-2010, 07:19 AM

Troma are makers of intensely bad movies. Which they actually take pride in.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Vt5G3sC7aI

Redneck Zombies

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8k92t2NgdZs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU6IqRa20Cc

Patrick_Bateman

10-31-2010, 07:23 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU6IqRa20Cc

wow

.

sixsmith

10-31-2010, 07:38 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDQOpsm7ey4

DanielBenoit

10-31-2010, 12:50 PM

19 posts in and no mention of Ed Wood:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2ukRYsYPmo

Hey, his films are unquestionable masterpieces. I don't think I've ever seen a more profound or insightful scene than in the one at 0:56 of this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHRq80QNnJM

I had nightmares from this scene:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5BX0xlGVG4

And the acting here is just incredible:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxNCTjpLNwo&feature=related

King James

11-03-2010, 02:29 AM

Shoot me but I liked Bayformers, now even though that second one is REALLY bad. I still wouldn't mind if it was just 2 hours of robots fighting, being for anything overblown with special effects.

Silas Thorne

11-18-2010, 10:41 PM

The Comedian

11-18-2010, 10:56 PM

This one is a classic of the "funny bad" genre. . .

Battlefield Earth: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9ola4qkJ78

Gilliatt Gurgle

11-18-2010, 11:07 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xt0I7GrJKw&playnext=1&list=PLF6534B18171CC73C&index=23

I don't know what the hell this is.:smilielol5: but rolling around, leaping up into the air, decapitations and spontaneous exposions seem to be a trend.

This one is a classic of the "funny bad" genre. . .

Battlefield Earth: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9ola4qkJ78

Those are brilliantly horrible !!

OK, here's one I'm sure I posted in the past, but I'm such a sucker for this one.
(with Vincent Price, David Carradine, Donald Pleasence)

From "Monster Club" :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSAvIhOQVgU

Gilliatt

Gilliatt Gurgle

11-22-2010, 09:05 PM

Well, as a matter of fact, my son and I just popped in "Screaming Skull"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5zHUaT-PIQ

.

iamnobody

11-27-2010, 01:18 PM

Wow!!

kensington

12-08-2011, 05:31 PM

I love really bad movies - you can have a great night with friends just tearing them apart. The pride of my collection is a rare-ish DVD of Manos: The Hands of Fate, though Ballistic: Ecks versus Sever and The Avengers come close behind.

My favorite is Night of the Living Dead. I actually think it is an accurate depiction of our future.

Emil Miller

12-08-2011, 07:29 PM

My favorite is Night of the Living Dead. I actually think it is an accurate depiction of our future.

Sounds more like an accurate description of the present.

Drkshadow03

12-08-2011, 08:20 PM

My favorite is Night of the Living Dead. I actually think it is an accurate depiction of our future.

Not to mention Night of the Living Dead is actually a good film.

KCurtis

12-09-2011, 06:39 PM

I admit it, I love really awful movies. I don't mean just bad (Titanic) I mean spectacularly bad.-Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Anyone else love a really bad movie?

Just your opinions though, Titanic was a good movie.

Emil Miller

12-09-2011, 06:52 PM

Just your opinions though, Titanic was a good movie.

But it wasn't as good as Attack of the Killer Tomatoes.
Just another opinion.

Varenne Rodin

12-10-2011, 12:16 AM

Manos: Hands of Fate! Track of the Moon Beast, Laser Blast, Werewolf, Giant Spider Invasion, I Know Who Killed Me. More more more. I love bad.

Varenne Rodin

12-10-2011, 12:21 AM

KCurtis

12-10-2011, 11:13 AM

But it wasn't as good as Attack of the Killer Tomatoes.
Just another opinion.

It's like comparing tomatoes to lima beens, I guess.

Climacus

12-28-2011, 11:49 PM

Old low-budget horror movies, especially such as feature Peter Cushing, Vincent Price, and Christopher Lee.

PoeticPassions

12-29-2011, 04:44 AM

Perfect Stranger with Bruce Willis and Halle Berry was so bad it was funny. Bounty Hunter with Jennifer Aniston was so bad that it couldn't be funny. Pretty much anything with Aniston is terrible. Love Happens might be the worst one.

Not every Aniston movie is bad... have you seen The Good Girl? Actually a pretty good movie.

And of course, let's not forget Office Space :)

But yes, Bounty Hunter was quite awful... haven't seen Love Happens.

I just recently watched the first 30 minutes of Maid in Manhattan. that was pretty bad.

PoeticPassions

12-29-2011, 04:45 AM

But it wasn't as good as Attack of the Killer Tomatoes.
Just another opinion.

Hahahahaha

Definitely not as good.

Emil Miller

12-29-2011, 07:07 AM

Old low-budget horror movies, especially such as feature Peter Cushing, Vincent Price, and Christopher Lee.

I take it you mean like this one:

http://youtu.be/utm3X0QGf0I

An uninteresting footnote is that Forrest Tucker also starred in another Hammer horror, The Trollenberg Terror, which was even worse than The Abominable Snowman.

Climacus

12-29-2011, 10:47 AM

I take it you mean like this one:

http://youtu.be/utm3X0QGf0I
Yes, yes, yes. :smilewinkgrin:

Sometimes they're so awful that they view as comedies - to the original producers' chagrin, no doubt. But they can be genuinely creepy too, if you give yourself over to them to be "creeped."

Emil Miller

12-29-2011, 11:15 AM

Yes, yes, yes. :smilewinkgrin:

Sometimes they're so awful that they view as comedies - to the original producers' chagrin, no doubt. But they can be genuinely creepy too, if you give yourself over to them to be "creeped."

I watched some of them for a laugh when younger but there was one that was well directed and had a double twist ending. I watched it on you tube where there is a complete unbroken video of it. This gives some idea of how different in quality it is to the normal Hammer output.

http://youtu.be/8P94QNCgZoA

BienvenuJDC

12-29-2011, 11:20 AM

I just saw one of the most cheesy 80s movies...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086856/

Gilliatt Gurgle

12-29-2011, 12:22 PM

Watched "The Incredible Petrified World", the first of 50 Sci Fi classics on a DVD box set Santa left me.
I'll give it 4/10 for John Carradine and for the old man that survived 14 years inside the volcano.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JdtGZSaTFo

.

Climacus

12-29-2011, 08:44 PM

I watched some of them for a laugh when younger but there was one that was well directed and had a double twist ending. I watched it on you tube where there is a complete unbroken video of it. This gives some idea of how different in quality it is to the normal Hammer output.

http://youtu.be/8P94QNCgZoA

Haven't seen that one. Must check it out one of these days. Thanks.