Good Bad Movie Discussion and Recommendations - Bad Movie Connoisseurs Looking for Hidden Jems

[Product Placement]

Few I've found over the year and never see get brought up. Posted the trailers as they say more than I could ever write up on them.

Bird's Eye View - An ET's Solution for Humanity (full movie here)

Creatures from the Abyss

Fantastic Games

Cats on Park Avenue

Wishman

Body Troopers aka Chasing the Kidneystone (does have a english dub but couldn't find the trailer)

Junoon aka pajeet American Werewolf in London rip off but with a tiger

The Final Member

Bloody Muscle Bodybuilder In Hell

How's Your News?

This is America 1 to 3

If you need help finding any of them let me know, should have back ups of them all

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

Deadfall is great due to his performance

YOUUU WANNA SEEE HOTHEADED!?!?!?

 

[Nihil Jung]

YOUUU WANNA SEEE HOTHEADED!?!?!?

Viva la fuckin France, mahnn!!

 

[Michael Wade]

The trailer was better then the actual movie but this was so fascinatingly weird

Also all the American ninja movies are amazing.
The fourth one literally has the hero fight a ninja/Muslim alliance with Australian road warriors

 

[Hakase Shinonome]

Thanks, @Null, for your movie night and making me watch this. This was horrid, my fucking God. You'll be pissed off watching this, I can guarantee it.

 

[ShittlerNiggler]

Battlefield Earth made me laugh enough times for me to think it could've been an actually good comedy movie. If they turned down the seriousness, added a couple more scenes which take jabs at popular sci-fi tropes and edited the others a bit more, we would've gotten a geniune good comedy. Several scenes, like the "OUR FRIENDLY BARTENDER!" scene, already look like as if they came from a comedy sketch. Then there are scenes like these:

I liked the post-apocalyptic Beowulf movie from 1999, even tho that's mostly because I have a thing for over the top, sci-fantasy flicks. Despite it's exaggerated style every actor acts as if they were bored out of their mind. The action is really weird, which includes the 42 year lead actor pretending to do several backflips in every fight. The costumes are just goofy.


Speaking of Beowulf, The 13th Warrior is an old childhood favourite of mine, despite it having even less in common with it's source material than the 1999 movie. It's based on the book "Eaters of the Dead", which was an attempt to mix Beowulf with real history by using the travelogue of an real life Arab explorer. I would argue it's more an heavly underrated, cheesy action movie than an actually bad one.

 

[Leylon Sneed]

I've got to dig thru my movie folder. What comes to mind tho as a wtf movie is a Nicholas Cage flick:
Prisoners of Ghostland

It's not bad it just makes absolutely no sense. It was better than Bruce Willis' latest flix *cough cough* Cosmic something or another.

 

[Hakase Shinonome]

Nicholas Cage

Half of his films are hot garbage. He has no in-between of mediocrity. You either have yourself a Vampire's Kiss or a Lord of War.

Bruce Willis

This guy is literally on his deathbed, I doubt he can produce anything worthwhile.

 

[Leylon Sneed]

hot garbage

Raising Arizona was good, and The Rock(Sean Connery saved that tho), I'm sure there's a couple others. At least he isn't making movies in his house like Steven Segall.

ETA oh and The Old Way was actually pretty good. A retelling of Billy the Kidd made just a few years ago.

 

[Prince Loki]

The Star Wars Prequel Trilogy and Michael Bay's Transformers Movies were both a huge part of my childhood. With the Transformers movies, they're surprisingly funny and the CGI is absolutely incredible, although stop after Dark of the Moon, as it just becomes cynical garbage with chink-sourced CGI after.

 

[strumpets exeunt]

Half of his films are hot garbage. He has no in-between of mediocrity. You either have yourself a Vampire's Kiss or a Lord of War.

But both of those are great?

 

[Nihil Jung]

Bruce Willis

My favorite good-bad Bruce Willis is Hudson Hawk, literally an insane movie, I have no idea what they thought they were making, but it's a mess.

Beowulf

Looks like it has great potential, will check it out. Lighting reminds me of Warriors of Virtue which is a oft forgot trashfire.

Battlefield Earth

Only seen it once, aside from the jet fighter scene all I remember is John Travolta yelling "Manimals!" Over and over again.

 

[Hakase Shinonome]

The Star Wars Prequel Trilogy

I watched those this year for the first time and I don't get the hatred. It's goofy, sure, but has Star Wars ever not been? The story it's trying to tell has an actual point to it, I care for the characters, I was invested. I'd even say they're proper good films, despite what people claim. I can't say much the same for the new garbage Disney pumps out. It's not even that I have nostalgia for the media, I really don't give a shit about Star Wars. The CGI sucks massive donkey balls, sure, but I can look past that and have a think about the actual message the movie's portraying. -- Also, what's with the continual joke about Jarjar being annoying? He's in the films for like 10 minutes total, how can you get so worked up over it that even big-budget TV shows make fun of it?

 

[ShittlerNiggler]

I watched those this year for the first time and I don't get the hatred. It's goofy, sure, but has Star Wars ever not been? The story it's trying to tell has an actual point to it, I care for the characters, I was invested. I'd even say they're proper good films, despite what people claim. I can't say much the same for the new garbage Disney pumps out. It's not even that I have nostalgia for the media, I really don't give a shit about Star Wars. The CGI sucks massive donkey balls, sure, but I can look past that and have a think about the actual message the movie's portraying. -- Also, what's with the continual joke about Jarjar being annoying? He's in the films for like 10 minutes total, how can you get so worked up over it that even big-budget TV shows make fun of it?

I don't like the prequels but I think the reason they got so much hate was because the original trilogy was massive boomerslop. Call me a dumb zoomie but I think Boomers/Gen X just wanted another 3-part power fantasy about a self insert character fighting against the evil empire with the depth of a cheap comic book villain. I saw more OT fans slurp up the Disney stuff than fans of the prequels. Iirc George Lucas even said that the rebels were supposed to be based of the Viet Cong.
The prequels also get criticised a lot for having "to much politics" when it actually needed more. I appreciate that the prequels at least attempted to portray galactic governments fighting for power. The OT trilogy has a guy kill billions of his own people for no reason and an entire upper level of government getting killed without everything falling into chaos immediately after.
The worst thing the prequels did was having a random American 50s dinner, whose owner is somehow a big friend of Kenobi.

Coming to think of it, I should rewatch the prequels as well, this shit is hilarious.

 

[Hakase Shinonome]

The worst thing the prequels did was having a random American 50s dinner, whose owner is somehow a big friend of Kenobi.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=neyY2qC9pCAComing to think of it, I should rewatch the prequels as well, this shit is hilarious.

I definitely agree it could use more politics and the philosophy of them. But as said by many people before me, that fucking dinner scene should've been cut and replaced by a simple line explaining what the thing is. It's got literally no fucking purpose outside of that and it wastes 2 minutes on Lucas' obsession with CGI. The only fucking thing in that scene that's real is Obi-Wan and he looks so fucking out of place it's hilarious.

 

[AbbaZabba]

I've been watching every Nic Cage movie, and Drive Angry (2011) is his best bad movie, no contest. Deadfall and Between Worlds also have their charm, but aren't very good.

I was one of the 3 people who saw Drive Angry in theaters, and I honestly had a blast; a lot of fun 3D effects in that giant cheese-ball of a flick!

THREAD TAX: Cage, starring Lou Ferrigno as a man shot retarded in the Vietnam War being forced into an underground death match due to debts from running a bar with his war time buddy. I watched this with a friend as a double feature with Vasectomy: A Delicate Matter (starring Paul Sorvino and directed by the same man) and had a much better comedic experience with Cage instead of the purported comedy of Vasectomy.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

Lou Ferrigno as a man shot retarded

I guess that's as good a reason to come up with as any for him talking like Lou Ferrigno
obviously there's no way for a guy to lose his hearing in combat!

 

[mango_reseller]

I recently watched the Stalked By My Doctor movie series starring Eric Roberts. I did not see them mentioned here. The general concept is, Eric Roberts is a doctor and stalks his (much younger) patients. Hilarity ensues.

Highly recommended if you need some slop to kill time. In general a lot of those Lifetime (or Lifetime-like) movies are the second coming of Cannon's 80s exploitation run.

 

[Mussolini’s Merkin]

I recently watched the Stalked By My Doctor movie series starring Eric Roberts. I did not see them mentioned here. The general concept is, Eric Roberts is a doctor and stalks his (much younger) patients. Hilarity ensues.

Highly recommended if you need some slop to kill time. In general a lot of those Lifetime (or Lifetime-like) movies are the second coming of Cannon's 80s exploitation run.

I absolutely adore that series of movies, great campy fun. I think Patient's Revenge is the highlight. Absolutely bonkers plot, the musical number, and of course, Laid Back Beck

 

[Town Drunk]

I can't even find a clip on you tube of it, but Bullfighter, "starring" William Dafou, who had five minutes of screen time. A truly bizarre movie that had numerous other cameos, in a plot involving the second coming of Christ, the anti Christ, Mexican raves from a speaker equipped van, and just random thing happening at any point in time.

I am tempted to mail my copy to RLM for BOTW.