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Hackers, Waterworld, The Postman

Super Mario Bros (1993)

Dude, Where's My Car

TRON: Legacy, although "terrible" might be bit harsh on it. I first watched the movie when I had a fever of 103 and it was perfect for that.

All-time great movie soundtrack, though.

Hudson Hawk, Bruce Willis' longtime passion project where he and Danny Aiello play singing cat burglars.

I genuinely love it despite it not being very good at all. Saw it in the theater knowing nothing at all about it.

The Boondocks Saints

Street Fighter

It's terrible. Almost nobody can act. I suspect none of the writers had even looked at the game beyond a few screenshots. The script and plot are laughable.

But then Raul Julia shows up. He knows this is crap. But his kids love the games. He's literally dying of stomach cancer in every scene. He knows this is his last movie. He's going to fucking enjoy it, and so are you.

Freddy Got Fingered. It’s a hysterical mess.

Tremors

Troll 2

There’s even a documentary about how bad it is.

The Core

It's so fucking stupid that it is like a Trainwreck you can't look away from.

If I love it I objectively think its good. There are quite a few that people think were bad and most bombed hard and I loved them here goes one.

Hudson Hawk: Sandra Bernhard and Richard Grant were the most over the top bad guys. They were having a great time being that. The whole cast was just playing it like it was a blast to be there.

Apparently Van Helsing (2004) was critically panned and most people think it is bad but I will watch it every few years and find it very entertaining.

The Core

I once made a list of 7 movies that fit this criteria.

The Room, because duh. This movie is great because it is so terrible and sincerely thinks it is great. The story behind the movie is just as fantastic. If you must, get a hold of The Disaster Artist as an audio book. It is fantastic. Ignore and forget that piss tier James Franco movie that the book was based on. The book is so much better and it is hysterical to listen to in Greg's own voice + his Tommy impressions are perfect.

Winter's Tale - a supposed Adaptation of a Shakespeare play or something. In reality it is the most chaotic and hilariously terrible movie I can think of, complete with terrible Colin Firth haircut and Will Smith as an edge lord Devil. And so many more great things. I had a blast watching this one.

Jupiter Ascending. If I remember correctly, it was made by the siblings who made the Matrix and it is the most nonsensical sci-fi turd ever, but man is it funny. Unintentionally, might I add. I don't remember much from this film other than laughing so hard I was crying.

The Wicker Man woth Nick Cage. I love the original. That one is genuinely great and terrifying. The Nick Cage one is a clown show and no one can tell me that it isn't funny to see Nick Cage in a bear suit, punching women.

Show Girls. For obvious reasons. A total and utter mishandling of a very serious and at times horrific subject matter, but mishandled so poorly it surpasses being offensive and falls straight into hilarity.

Breaking Dawn Part 2. Martin Sheens laugh. Renesmee doll that was replaced with CGI horror. Grown man imprinting on a baby. Martin Sheen's laugh. Fakeout fight scene that made all the dead serious fangirls scream and cry in the cinema on release. "You nicknamed my daughter after the loc nest monster??" Also, Martin Sheen's laugh.

The Death Note Netflix Adaptation. I invited my anime friends to a watch along when this movie came out initially, because I knew what would happen when I did. The anger and outrage was interspersed with bewildered and hysterical laughter and replays of scenes that were so bad, nobody could believe their eyes. I was just there to sow the chaos at the time and harvest the reactions. It was wonderful.

Bonus movie: Velvet Buzzsaw, but it doesn't count because I genuinely think this one is a great satire and I genuinely enjoy the movie. It's just that almost everybody else who's seen it, seem to loathe it with a passion. So it's a reverse Killers of the Flower Moon for me, where everybody seem to love it, while I think it is total and utter ass. In both cases, I am left confused at the public opinion and I will stick with mine.

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension is a horrible movie and I absolutely love it! It is just so bad it is good.

I'm gonna tentatively say Cloud Atlas, but I don't think it's terrible. I am aware that not a lot of people like it, and I believe if the Wachowskis had followed the book, it would have been better received.

Cloud Atlas, the book, was structured in a way that was easier to follow, and made for a narrative flow through its seven timelines. Seven timelines in and of itself is quite a tall order, but the point was that kindness and art resonate through each timeline. In the book, the first six timelines are told halfway through. At around the halfway point, you jump to the next timeline. When you get to the seventh, it plays through in its entirety (I think — I feel like the epilogue, if it was in the book, would have gone at the end — I haven't read the book yet, but it's on my list of books to read. I'm just aware of how it's formatted). Then the other six timelines finish, but this time in reverse order. So if the timelines are 1-7 and the halves are A and B, the book is basically 1A, 2A, 3A, 4A, 5A, 6A, 7A, 7B, 6B, 5B, 4B, 3B, 2B, and 1B. That makes sense. The film takes the book, cuts off the spine, throws all the pages up in the air, picks them up in random order, and then that's the screenplay. It jumps all over the place without rhyme or reason. And it's three fucking hours long!

The first time watching Cloud Atlas, I don't think anyone liked it. But once you know what's going on and you go back and watch it again, that second time, you know what all the stories are, and you're not getting thrown around as much. If I had the budget to adapt the book, I'd probably do it as anime and have 14 episodes, and you can see above how I'd do it. So each half would get a single episode. You'd be kinda lost for the first half, but then going through the second half, everything just clicks. I'm not sure how I'd do it as a film, except to say I fucking wouldn't. That the Wachowskis made it work for those of us with the patience to sit through a second and third viewing is kind of a miracle. At the very least I'd want to do a miniseries.

Cloud Atlas was not objectively terrible, but it was objectively flawed, and deeply at that. I still love it.

Also, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. Widely hated for Kevin Costner not being able to pull off an English accent and director Kevin Reynolds letting him get away with it. And yet, I don't think if Reynolds had recast Robin, it would have been as good. So if you look at the guys who were active in movies in 1991, you got some choices. Richard Gere probably could have pulled off the acting part. The machismo of Robin Hood? Of that Robin Hood? Maybe not. If you go with the classic Peter Pan-built Robin, and get rid of the war hero opening, maybe — but then how do you explain Morgan Freeman's character? And you don't write him out. There were plenty of actors who could have done the English accent and the action scenes, but there's something about Kevin Costner, American accent and all, that really tied that movie together. And it's kind of bad, Robin Hood with an American accent. I mean, what even is that? And yet, I love it.

Plan Nine from Outer Space, of course.

Iron Sky. Its completely shut, but funny AS hell.

I liked Shyamalanamans "The Last Airbender." I started hearing how everyone thought it was terrible, and I've kept my secret until now.

AeonFlux is pretty bad, I watch it every few years. Never saw the show.

Lethal Weapon #4

The plot is "have seen it before, many times".

The stunts are "have seen it before, and after, many times".

But I just love their jokes.

There is a movie called Club Paradise. Mid-80's comedy starring Robin Williams and Jimmy Cliff, Twiggy, a bunch of 80's comedy regulars, Peter O'Toole is in it. The plot of the film is local honest people vs corrupt government and business, but minute to minute it's mostly a spring break shenanigans movie starring a bunch of adults? Like, Rick Moranis and Eugene Levy play a pair of potheads named Barry and Barry who repeatedly fail to score weed and chicks.

It has mostly negative reviews, but I'm fond of it. It DOES NOT work as a cinema film, I cannot imagine going to a theater, sitting reverently and quietly as it boomed down at me, but it works on TV as "let's put a tape in while we're getting ready for Family Saturday Afternoon Hobby Outing/waiting for Family Saturday Afternoon Hobby Venue to open."

Wildzero.

You've probably never heard of it but you should watch it. if you're in your 20s and have the liver of a god then also try the drinking game.

It's a Japanese film from the late 90s/early 00s that stars the Japanese Rockabilly band "Guitar Wolf". the band consists of the lead, Guitar Wolf, as well as Bass Wolf and Drum Wolf. The film is ahead of its time, especially for Japan, as far as current social issues. I can't say which ones specifically as that would spoil the movie.

The film is centered around a fan of Guitar Wolf that wants to be as big a star as them. It is also a zombie movie. How the zombies came to be is believe to be from aliens but doesn't really specify how exactly. Nor does it specify the aliens intents and purposes but they're in the movie just...they're in the movie. There's also at least like 3 subplots that don't go anywhere or really have any effect on the overall movie.

It's awesome.

I've been told Madame Web is objectively bad. I like it. I like the atmosphere of it. I like the main character despite reports that the actress gave an intentionally bad performance. I like the Britney Spears song playing in the diner scene. I like the story of her suddenly having to look after three teenagers. I know there are plot holes but I don't care. I like the comedy, that may or may not have been intentional. I find the part where she "kidnaps" the girls funny. I like that Peter Parker is born in it, but I don't get why they don't say his name. Yeah, overall I like this movie but nobody else seems to.

Dark Star. Absu-f-ing trash movie, but still a classic.

I don't love any movie I consider terrible, but I do enjoy some parts of movies I consider terrible.

I have a love hate relationship with Michael Bay Transformers. Love the character designs, the flashy action scenes, but I absolutely abhor the plot (yeah if you can call it a plot).