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Top Ten Bad Movies I Love
(Sun 11/04/2007 10:12pm)
Credit where credit is due - eelbonjack did this blog first and I'm emulating his example! The following list includes movies that I know are technically bad movies, how they are made and how they play, and yet I love to watch. The order is a little hazy - mostly I'm ranking them ascending to worst quality AND YET there are movies that are technically worse than some of these that I still watch and enjoy, just not as much as these. So there are really two criteria: 1st, they have to be movies I LOVE to watch over and over again to make the list; 2nd, they are ranked in order of how bad they are.
10 - Cannonball Run
... star cast but simplistic plot and no real story, such cardboard characters – but so much fun, especially Captain Chaos and the over-the-top fight scenes.
9 – Delirious
... sappy, ridiculous, more soap-opera than the show in the movie; but I find it endlessly amusing - what can I say, a movie with John Candy, Raymond Burr, Emma Sams AND the guy who played Sledgehammer had me at the cast list.
8 - Joe's Apartment
... singing cockroaches, 'nuff said
7 - Crash N Burn
... most of the acting is pretty bad, and the dialog is so bad it's good “What's the matter, fatso? I thought we'd bake some cookies!” - I have a soft spot for Full Moon movies, however, and this is the second film in the list with Megan Ward
6 - Flash Gordon
... Sam Jones as the comic-strip space hero – Timothy Dalton and Max Von Sydow are really slumming it here, but they both have so much fun, and its got a Queen soundtrack!
5 - Robot Jox
... not usually a big robot fan, and this one has such corny, off-the-wall acting, but I can watch it over and over “Can we skip the middle man and make a direct deposit?” Heh. “My name is Athena.” I can't help enjoying this bad film. If you can't tell, I'm a big fan of B Sci-Fi.
4 - Johnny Mnemonic
... Keanu Reeves before the Matrix doing basically the same kind of cyber-punk story; poor Gibson, his work is so much better than this; AND YET I can watch this one repeatedly for some reason
3 - How To Make a Monster
... oh, this movie is so very, very bad; the production values, the story's development, the mostly blah characters – I like Tyler Mane and Clea Duvall, however, and this one gave me a line I use all the time “You'll learn, intern. You'll learn.” Anyway, I like the story concept.
2 – Barbarella
... as much as I like watching this movie, it often bores me as it is so dull most of the film; there are highlights of hilarity (both intended and unintended), there's the opening credits (I'm a sucker for Jane Fonda), there's the orgasmatron, and who can forget Pygar? This is soft-core porn, but not for sex nor nudity but instead for sheer guilty pleasure of watching such cheese.
1 – The Pirate Movie
... 80's rock musical based on the Pirates of Penzance. YES, you read that right. YES, it looks as unbelievable as that sounds. The music is part of my being, though, and I often catch myself humming different songs from this glitzy, silly, off-beat musical.
I do this list in part to show that I can admit movies I love to watch are actually bad movies. I also do this to show that I can clearly enjoy movies "that are not Shakespeare" (how I hate that stupid throwaway response) and indeed can have fun with films that aren't trying to win Academy Awards.
Comments are welcome (unless they are pointlessly, needlessly antagonistic and baiting) and I look forward to more people sharing such lists!
(Sun 11/04/2007 10:12pm)
Credit where credit is due - eelbonjack did this blog first and I'm emulating his example! The following list includes movies that I know are technically bad movies, how they are made and how they play, and yet I love to watch. The order is a little hazy - mostly I'm ranking them ascending to worst quality AND YET there are movies that are technically worse than some of these that I still watch and enjoy, just not as much as these. So there are really two criteria: 1st, they have to be movies I LOVE to watch over and over again to make the list; 2nd, they are ranked in order of how bad they are.
10 - Cannonball Run
... star cast but simplistic plot and no real story, such cardboard characters – but so much fun, especially Captain Chaos and the over-the-top fight scenes.
9 – Delirious
... sappy, ridiculous, more soap-opera than the show in the movie; but I find it endlessly amusing - what can I say, a movie with John Candy, Raymond Burr, Emma Sams AND the guy who played Sledgehammer had me at the cast list.
8 - Joe's Apartment
... singing cockroaches, 'nuff said
7 - Crash N Burn
... most of the acting is pretty bad, and the dialog is so bad it's good “What's the matter, fatso? I thought we'd bake some cookies!” - I have a soft spot for Full Moon movies, however, and this is the second film in the list with Megan Ward
6 - Flash Gordon
... Sam Jones as the comic-strip space hero – Timothy Dalton and Max Von Sydow are really slumming it here, but they both have so much fun, and its got a Queen soundtrack!
5 - Robot Jox
... not usually a big robot fan, and this one has such corny, off-the-wall acting, but I can watch it over and over “Can we skip the middle man and make a direct deposit?” Heh. “My name is Athena.” I can't help enjoying this bad film. If you can't tell, I'm a big fan of B Sci-Fi.
4 - Johnny Mnemonic
... Keanu Reeves before the Matrix doing basically the same kind of cyber-punk story; poor Gibson, his work is so much better than this; AND YET I can watch this one repeatedly for some reason
3 - How To Make a Monster
... oh, this movie is so very, very bad; the production values, the story's development, the mostly blah characters – I like Tyler Mane and Clea Duvall, however, and this one gave me a line I use all the time “You'll learn, intern. You'll learn.” Anyway, I like the story concept.
2 – Barbarella
... as much as I like watching this movie, it often bores me as it is so dull most of the film; there are highlights of hilarity (both intended and unintended), there's the opening credits (I'm a sucker for Jane Fonda), there's the orgasmatron, and who can forget Pygar? This is soft-core porn, but not for sex nor nudity but instead for sheer guilty pleasure of watching such cheese.
1 – The Pirate Movie
... 80's rock musical based on the Pirates of Penzance. YES, you read that right. YES, it looks as unbelievable as that sounds. The music is part of my being, though, and I often catch myself humming different songs from this glitzy, silly, off-beat musical.
I do this list in part to show that I can admit movies I love to watch are actually bad movies. I also do this to show that I can clearly enjoy movies "that are not Shakespeare" (how I hate that stupid throwaway response) and indeed can have fun with films that aren't trying to win Academy Awards.
Comments are welcome (unless they are pointlessly, needlessly antagonistic and baiting) and I look forward to more people sharing such lists!
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