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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Annette Bening was originally cast as the romantic lead but she was fired because she and Patrick Swayze had no chemistry.
Bening was then Oscar-nominated for Best Move by an Actress in a Flop.
Funny that I can’t find Liquid Sky and O.C. & Stiggs on Netflix or Amazon Prime...
I love that movie. The sequel, The Lost Skeleton Returns Again, was not quite as good.
The same people also did Trail of the Screaming Forehead
It was good enough for the Rittenhouse prosecutor to use in his closing argument.
Lol, Liquid Sky. I took a date to see that. We never dated again.
Plan 9 from Outer Space deserves all the accolades-——truly the best of the worst.
In one memorable scene, a hubcap was used to simulate a flying saucer.
“I saw this on a med cruise in the Navy. Really weird movie.”
I don’t remember that one, but did you see Kentucky Fried Movie? That was on the rotation in the same time frame (1979) when I was on a WestPac.
Funny that I can’t find Liquid Sky and O.C. & Stiggs on Netflix or Amazon Prime...
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Ah. Liquid Sky. Now that there is one of the weirdest cult movies I’ve ever seen. I think that came out around the same time as Repo Man. I actually rewatched it not too long ago on one of the million free movie channels on my Roku TV. Can’t remember which one.
Agree! Cherry 2000 comes to mind, with Melanie Griffith! What a great movie!
Plan 9 from Outer Space was so inventive.
Bela Lugosi died before filming ended......but his successor used Bela’s cape to good advantage.
In every scene he held the cape over his face....thus .becoming the classic Lugosi screen legend.
LOL
In the Bond department, I’d nominate A View To A Kill. I recall my old video movie guide book panned The Man With the Golden Gun (1974), but IMHO that was a decent and watchable one with nice on location photography.
But I suck so neener neener...
No arguing with that.
Kentucky Fried Movie was great! It’s still funny.
Nice!
Killer Tomatoes. Manos: The Hands of Fate. Missile to the Moon. Silent Running.Dirty Dingus McGee. They Call Me Trinity. Tons of funny/crappy/campy/interesting/kooky movies.
I liked One Tin Soldier. That’s about all worth remembering of Billy Jack.
Original Night of the Living Dead.
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