Another Joan Collins classic from 1979.
Posted on 11/16/2021 12:20:41 PM PST by mylife
For the most part, I don’t buy the premise that movies can be so bad, they’re actually good. If a movie’s good, isn’t it just...good? There’s no question, however, that movies can succeed by failing. Ed Wood is an extreme-but-perfect example of a filmmaker who never achieved precisely what he set out to do with any of his movies, but who nonetheless made cinematic magic out of enthusiasm, shamelessness, and no small measure of self-delusion. That kind of thing is always better than something like Sharknado—a movie that’s fun, but that works so hard to achieve silliness that you can see the flop sweat. Other, more enjoyable (better?) “bad” movies get there quite by accident.
For me, I’d almost always rather watch an interesting failure than a boring success—sometimes because passion is contagious, and just as often because a true WTF-level debacle is a rare and glorious thing. Here are 20 of them.
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Road House is not that bad a movie. Though it is poorly edited and suffers from continuity failures, it is nowhere nearly as bad as some others on that list.
Well, they switched directors from auteur Tim Burton to the homosexual Joel Schumacher, so that probably explains the odd change in direction in that one and “Batman Forever”.
“Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days.”
The Room. (“You’re tearing me apart, Lisa!”)
“Billy Jack”
Flash Gordon gets my vote.
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When I saw it in the theater, I thought that “Casino Royale” was far and away the worst movie I had ever seen. Amazingly, a number of top Hollywood personalities including the great Orson Welles were sucked into that fiasco.
Tom Mclaughlin was a worthy successor to Ed Wood. He was deadly serious when he made that crap. “The Trial of Billy Jack” achieved the glorious heights of true movie Baddom.
all the little guys running under her, looking up the tiny skirt, saying, ya I’m way too small for that.....
Another Joan Collins classic from 1979.
Pela Wayne may disagree with that.
Agreed. Dumb, and not even in a likeable way.
“The Scarlet Letter” (1995) is another movie that’s among the worst that I have ever seen. It makes hash of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s classic 1850 novel but was so bad that it was actually funny in parts. If you want to see a movie version that does justice to the book, see the silent version starring Lillian Gish (1926) or the talkie staring Colleen Moore (1934) both of whom were great actresses.
“Life as a repo man is ALWAYS intense!”
Tremors for sure....
I remember the classic Roger Ebert (RIP) review for Patch Adams with him saying “’Patch Adams’made me want to spray the screen with Lysol”.
OMG, I was a teenager when that thing came out, and most of my contemporaries thought it was great, and delivered an “important message.”
Even in my ute I saw it as the propagandizing clunker it was, with the star’s talentless wife doing for the movie what Linda McCartney did for Wings.
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