20 Movies So Bad, They're Actually Really Good Some movies are so terrible that they come full circle and become good again. Which is the best.

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[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.

[hercuroc]

The Lonely Lady with Pia Zadora

[Allegra]

Baseketball. Still one of the funniest movies, ever.

That one is hilarious.

[hercuroc]

I liked The Hidden.

[JennysCool]

The Guy from Harlem, Birdemic. Rifftrax versions.

[JonPreston]

YouTube has a wonderful selection of absolutely horrible (and free!) 1950s science fiction movies.

[NorthWoody]

I’m not changing your mind because I agree.

Kelly Lynch as the smoking hot small town veterinarian (whaddaya know, she’s single) was a highlight.

I’ve seen it probably eight times or so, as many times as I’ve seen any movie.

“Be nice, until it’s time to not be nice.”

[Georgia Girl 2]

Repo Man was great and I can’t believe they left “Tremors” off the list.

I conned my two sisters and brothers in law into going to see “Anaconda”. I’m still hearing about it. 😆

[HartleyMBaldwin]

Dune is the only movie on your list that I’ve seen. It was so bad it was...really bad.

You could also format a list better than that one. A hard return after each item would have been easy.

[M Kehoe]

“Scanners.”

5.56mm

[Trillian]

[Fledermaus]

Yeah, Joel was headed that way in Batman Forever.

[dfwgator]

Who remembers this one?

Me!!!!!!! Jacqueline Bisset was my biggest teenage crush.

[kiryandil]

My wife LOVES Road House - Sam Elliot and The Swayzemeister.

[kiryandil]

“There can be only One.”

[Clutch Martin]

C.C. and company. 1970

Joe Namath,

Terribly reçeived with classic critique’s emanating from the best of the day.

[dfwgator]

Then there was that Brian Bosworth movie, that name escapes me.

[shotgun]

It was good enough for the Rittenhouse prosecutor to use in his closing argument.

[justme4now]

The Legend of Nigger Charley

"Somebody warn the West.
Nigger Charley ain't running no more."

Yes, it was a real title to a real movie!

[notdownwidems]

200 Motels, Night of the Living Dead, Attack of the 50-Foot Woman, Ishtar

[OttawaFreeper]

I wonder if they have this one from 1950. I have a video movie guidebook that said of this movie that if you can seriously pay attention to it after five minutes, you are likely a very troubled person.