Society, The Naked Kiss, Pink Flamingos, The Hills have Eyes ( I assume you mean the original), The Hunger, Fanatic and The Evil Dead are
almost all termite art and preferable to their respectable middlebrow contemporaries. I don’t really go in for this "good bad " designation myself. There seems to be an allergy to genre films,especially horror which isn’t really even a genre, on this forum. A note on Tony Scott – I’ve gotten tremendous pleasure from most of his movies. He succeeds at entertainment more often than brother Ridley succeeds at Art. Would Hannibal have been as stodgy if Tony Scott directed it? The staging of the dinner scene at the end is wonderful, a real balancing act, but the action sequence – the botched raid at the fish market – would have been a set piece for Tony. For Ridley, it’s too plainly something to endure until
we get to Florence.
White Dog.
The Naked Kiss.
The themes are great, dialogue sharp, but the principal acting is terrible, and very noticeably terrible.
Faster Pussy Cat Kill Kill!, seconded.
I just watched Plan 9 last night, hilarious.
The Breakfast Club is my fave goodbad film oh and Tank Girl.
Zoolander is a favorite, along with The Ladies’ Man starring Tim Meadows.
But those are good-bad COMEDIES, which are totally different than good-bad serious movies, like Vanilla Sky or 300.
Others include:
- Duplicity
- Anger Management
- Shoot ‘Em Up (though that’s intentionally bad)
the first hellraiser
Shoot ’Em Up
Hard Boiled
Zoolander
The Brothers Grimm
Dumb and Dumber
Color of Night (1994)
d. Richard Rush
w/ Bruce Willis, Jane March
Just don’t ask me to defend it.
Has anybody said Death Wish 3 yet? It’s probably the single greatest vigilante film ever.
Zoolander was overblown and unitentionally just bad.
Not taken seriously, Shoot ‘em up is definitely a great film . I’ve never had such a laugh with my friends before.
some have already been named
“tapeheads” goes at the top of my list
Half of the “Godzilla” films are masterpieces in their own right. I’m a particular sucker for “King Kong vs. Godzilla.” Yum.
Con Air (it is really bad but I feel a weird joy while watching the cliche development of the characters. and steve buscemi makes almost every movie where he played good, in someway)
Ils se marièrent et eurent beaucoup d’enfants (bad scenario, bad flow. but some musical scenes and dialogues tend to be original involuntarily. actually film is bad because of this involuntariness.)
Election (Alexander Payne sometimes makes mistakes in the way of comedy, if you ask me. but I love the story)
I don’t think people get this thread. it’s movies that are good because they are bad, not despite it. That said, the ultimate overblown, should be appalling yet is just awesome movie I’ve ever seen is Feast 2: Sloppy Seconds. I cannot recommend it enough.
The Room is the automatic winner, right?
Matt, I thought we can tell what we see as ‘good’ in these films although we can see them as ‘bad’ also, after reading the first post. Sometimes you love a film and find it good in someway although you know it is bad. And I thought talking about this also can be proper for this thread..
KILLER KLOWNS FROM OUTER SPACE
Definitely Tommy Wiseau’s “The Room.” If you haven’t seen that in a packed theater at midnight with a rowdy, semi-drunken crowd, well, you just haven’t lived.
Michael Findley and his wife Roberta Findley churned out some of the most outrageous, grade-z, grindhouse flicks during the 60’s. Their films just oozed Times Square sleaze. The Findley’s most notorious films were the Touch of Her Flesh series. In the first movie, Findlay plays (yes, he acted in them too!) a husband who comes home after missing his plane only to find his wife carrying on in bed with another man. Naturally distraught, he flees the scene. only to be run over by a taxi cab. He ends up confined to a wheel chair and wearing a neat eye-patch ( we must assume the taxi also ran his eye over too, I guess). He spends the rest of the film (and the two almost identical sequels) plotting his revenge, not just on his wife but just about every other female he crosses paths with. In between the grisly murders, we’re treated to topless go-go dancers (a staple of any Findley film, having nothing to do with the plot whatsoever), lesbians, plenty of pubic hair and a melodramatic narration courtesy of the maestro, Michael Findley. He’s a legend and a true auteur.
Evil Dead Trilogy.
Gets more hilariously stupid as it goes along.
I would call them guilty pleasures:
Legally Blond
Bring It On (just the first one)
Rocky IV
Coming to America
Blank Man
3-Iron 2005
DIR Kim Ki-duk
Tag line: the ultimate driving machine
This film was smart in that it kept its product placements to a minimum
I love Nick Phillips’ horror movies “Criminally Insane” and “Satan’s Black Wedding”, they are strange, very effective, cheap horror b-movies…
I just had to check if anyone mentioned “No Retreat No Surrender” or “The Last Dragon”….
Oh…and for good bad television…. the very much beloved “Small Wonder” comes out on DVD on Feb. 16th. Hehe….
These are some movies I consider favorites that people tend to call bad:
Myra Breckinridge
Showgirls
Valley of the Dolls
ABBA: The Movie
Pink Flamings
Female trouble
Mommie Dearest
The Pirate Movie
Bandidas
Bluebeard
Mighty Peking Man
Blood Freak
Phantom of the Paradise
I alwaya tell my friends that Cannon films was the real home for Good bad Movies
EG
Lifeforce
Invasion USA
Missing in Action
Death wish 2,3,and 4
The Delta force
Tough Guys Dont Dance
Masters of The Universe
Cobra
Lady Chatterlys Lover
Superman 4
Enter the Ninja
And 2 lost classics which are very good indeed
Street Smart
Runaway Train
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes
Plan 9 from Outer Space
The Toxic Avenger
Eight Legged Freaks
Peter Jackson’s Bad Taste
Doc Savage: Man of Bronze
Flash Gordon
countless HK martial arts films
They Saved Hitler’s Brain
Strange Brew
UHF
The Stuff
Alonso Díaz de la Vega
OK, I’ll just say it then, Devil Wears Prada, it’s all the journalist-wanna-be-while-becoming-what-you-criticized thing but I think it teaches us not to be prejudicious