Wondering what people’s favorite “bad” movies are. Can be low budget, box office flops, foreign, so bad it’s good, whatever. I’m pretty big on Cannon Group stuff and cheesy Turkish pop cinema (Tarkan vs. the Vikings, etc.). Mostly go for 80s stuff as that’s my generation.
Equilibrium https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0238380/ A mixture of all dystopian sci-fi with a never seen before (or after, for obvious reasons) martial arts style called Gun-kata.
Many good titles were mentioned here. So as not to add to the repetition, I will add some obscure, but I think fun-to-watch, movies:
The Replacements. Keanu Reeves playing a sub quarterback. It’s stupid fun even if you don’t like football and the supporting cast of football players are great.
Torque
If Fast and Furious was motorcycles, but was dreamed up by a coked up meth head https://youtu.be/Aqmze9kIvMU
Drive
Stars the guy who hosts Iron Chef and Brittany Murphy. Legit martial arts mixed in the middle of an insanely bad it’s good movie. https://youtu.be/7y3sCYmqOz0
Solid picks!
I’m going with little known/flops.
Gataca Fandango Byrdy (might be Birdy, saw it when I was young) Head office (old HBO movie)
Can’t find any reference to the first one, I remember Head Office though.
Gataca was a more recent film, like 2008 or something. It starred Ethan Hawk, Jude Law and Uma Thurman. Ethan plays a naturally born person trying to excel in a world where only generically enhanced people seem to have any rights. It’s a little slow and cerebral but I like underdog stories. Fun fact, the name Gataca was derived from the four letters used to define genes G A T and C.
Oh I know Gattaca (it was 1997), thought you were saying Gattaca Fandango Birdy as one title. LOL
Great (awful?) 80’s musclebound heroes movie.
A Cannon classic!
Does Big Trouble in Little China count?
Otherwise, and in no particular order:
- UHF
- Six String Samurai
- Hudson Hawk
- Repo Man
- Hobo with a Shotgun
- The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai across the 8th Dimension
- Death Race
- Dead Alive
- WolfCop
I had a friend in college who was so proud of his VHS of UHF. Solid choice.
Repo Man is also a solid, underrated choice.
“That’s why I don’t drive see… The more you drive, the less intelligent you are.”
+1 for Dead Alive
The largest volume of fake blood in all movie history. It always shocked me that Peter Jackson was ever considered to do LotR, since I was quite familiar with all of his previous work. I remember nearly falling over when I heard the announcement and let me tell you, the images in my head at that point were NOT what we got in the theaters!
Big trouble and buckaroo bonsai are two of my favorites.
Big Trouble counts as one of the greatest movies of all time. :)
Jennifer’s Body made some money but was poorly critically received, but it is actually a pretty good horror movie that was marketed poorly
Lake Placid is meant to be a goofy comedy horror movie that is a fun watch and made just enough to trigger endless terrible sequels like Hellraiser and Amityville, reviews treated it like it was trying to play seriously but some of the lines are so cheesy
Kelly Scott: The lake is so black and still.
Sheriff Hank Keough: Yeah, we wanted to call it Lake Placid, but someone said that name was taken
If you’re into 80s action/thriller The Guest is an homage that does a really good job, and has a unique soundtrack
Brick, early 2000s neo noir with the cast talking like a bunch of 1920s private eyes and gangsters. Like The Guest it was received well critically but just had a really small release.
Blue Underground has a bunch of stuff no streaming service would ever touch
- America 3000
- Shaolin vs Evil Dead
- Battle Beyond the Stars
I kinda feel like actual kung fu movies (not things like Kung Pao: Enter the Fist, etc.) are their own special category, lol! Had almost forgotten about America 3000, yet another Menahem and Yoram gem!
2.8 on IMDB! Holy cow that’s quite impressive in its own way!
It’s a real gem. Dad and I used to watch it every week.
I’ll have to check it out and apparently I need to create another list of movies to marathon based on title words since I just watched The Sasquatch Gang.
The Last Dragon, hands down.
A perennial favorite, I have the 4k UHD Steelbook of that one :)
- The Evil Dead (1981)
- Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone (1983)
- Re-animator (1985)
- Evil Dead II (1987)
- Over-sexed Rugsuckers from Mars (1989)
- Dead Alive (1992)
Never even heard of Rugsuckers, I’ve found several movies I totally missed from this post. Thanks!
I really like Miami Connection. It’s so cheesy, but in an endearing way.
I’ll have to check that one out, somehow never seen it.
Iron Sky counts, right? Its budget is a bit high but it’s a B-movie and it knows it.
I had forgotten about that one, but yeah pretty solid B!
- Maniac Cop
- Anaconda
- Dean Koontz’s Phantoms
- Ruthless
- Deep Blue Sea
- The Baker
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Jennifer Lopez was in a more recent one that was high budget but was so bad it reminded me of Anaconda.
LOL Phantoms sitting at 9% on Rotten Tomatoes. Definitely checking that one out!
It’s actually pretty hard to find!
