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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How could they leave off Hawk the Slayer? It had Jack Palance hamming it up, ping pong balls and silly string as special effects, a remarkably short giant and a remarkably tall dwarf, really amazing crossbow and archery work, and cheesy dialogue throughout. Might have been a TV movie, so that could be why it was overlooked.
Dune and Showgirls are the only 2 I’ve ever seen.
Dune was horrific. I walked out on it when the inflated guy was flying around the room.
Showgirls was great. I never got why it was bashed so completely. Sure, Showgirls was a B-movie but a great one. It is in my collection and I rewatch it regularly.
I guess I’m nuts.
Agree
You got it!
Valley of the Dolls is so bad and cheesy it’s good. Especially Patty Duke chewing up every scene she is in.
No wire hangers ever!!
Faye Dunaway said that role ruined her career.
“He does science.” 😄
As the holiday season approaches I must ask, where is “Santa Claus Versus the Martians?”
As the holiday season approaches I must ask, where is “Santa Claus Versus the Martians?”
Anyone else remember “Tarzoon - Shame of the Jungle”? It was a crude, hand-colored cartoon movie starring Johnny Weismuller, Jr. as the voice of Tarzoon (Weismuller Jr. was mentally handicapped and was exploited shamelessly for this movie).
Tarzoon gets kicked out of the treehouse for not being able to keep Jane satisfied, and it’s all downhill from there. John Belushi also had a very weird part in it. Some parts are so juvenile that they are actually quite funny - like the penis monsters that shake and shoot globs of goo at their enemies.
I caught it in a theater when it first came out, and it was yanked up and buried shortly thereafter (because the Weismuller family sued IIRC).
Terence Hill...SuperFuzz. One of my favorite movies as a kid. Absolutely ridiculous, but great.
I will add “Forbidden Planet” to your list of lower budget sci-fi films that were very good.
Fully agree! The Trinity movies were great.
If we’ve learned anything here its that people love bad movies
Just in time for the holidays!
I don't know whether to yell "DAMMIT!" since you beat me to it, or laugh out loud because I had the same thought! See post #196 & ENJOY! :-)
Yes. That movie was shown with “The Groove Tube”.
“Billy Jack” was so bad I was rooting for the rednecks.
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