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Post by alicechallice on Nov 12, 2022 19:14:19 GMT
I can recommend The Room if you haven’t seen it, maybe in a double-bill with Super Mario Bros. Ah yes. Super Mario Bros starring the distinguished stage actress Fiona Shaw*. *see also: Three Men and a Little Lady, The Avengers (1998), The Black Dahlia |
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Post by anthony40 on Nov 13, 2022 12:28:19 GMT
Elvira- Mistress of the Dark movie- 1988.
It's so bad, it's good!
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Post by liv22 on Nov 13, 2022 14:46:45 GMT
Does anyone else have a guilty pleasure for those cheesy Hallmark Christmas films? (Although I will admit it's too early 😂). I watched my first Christmas film of the year last week, the new Lindsay Lohan film 'Falling for Christmas' on Netflix which was very Hallmark-esque. I can't say I'd watch it again, but I definitely tolerate more cheese and dodgy acting if it's wrapped in all things festive. And there was a nice nod to Mean Girls in there! |
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Post by og on Nov 13, 2022 18:58:09 GMT
I can recommend The Room if you haven’t seen it, maybe in a double-bill with Super Mario Bros. I've only seen The Disaster Artist but can reasonably attest that The Room is one of the films topping this list. |
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Post by Jan on Nov 16, 2022 18:18:07 GMT
Another related category is films which everyone hated except you. For example I thought Heaven's Gate was a work of absolute genius.
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Post by mkb on Nov 16, 2022 22:59:29 GMT
In that category, Brainstorm and last year's Jungle Cruise.
I love both, despite their being widely derided. For humour and pure escapist fun, Jungle Cruise is as good as it gets, and the late, great cinematographer Douglas Trumbull's vision, as director, of the ill-fated Brainstorm is stunning.
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Post by mkb on Feb 2, 2023 21:29:32 GMT
I can't wait for this!:
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Post by adrianics on Feb 2, 2023 22:08:38 GMT
The ultimate "so bad it's good" film is Troll 2. It defies explanation for anyone unfamiliar with it, but just try and imagine a truly insane and nonsensical premise that's executed with almost ingenious incompetence by an almost entirely amateur cast and a crew that couldn't speak English. It's so frenzied, bizarre and and oddly intense in the way that it's directed, scored and edited with a cast so embarrassingly lacking in basic talent and screen presence yet so achingly sincere that you end up feeling bad for them and the abject screen performances become a huge part of the charm.
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Post by mkb on Feb 2, 2023 22:48:50 GMT
Thanks for sharing. I am lost for words at that clip. Blu-ray duly ordered!
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Post by David J on Feb 3, 2023 14:58:59 GMT
There's a great series by youtube channel Red Letter Media called Best of the Worst where they watch and talk about a bunch of B movies or crappy videos. Hilarious with the occasional reoccuring guest stars like Home Alone's Macaulay Culkin in the below video. You get to see some unintentionally hilarious bad movies that are worthy of watching with your mates.
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Post by Marwood on Mar 3, 2023 23:24:45 GMT
I saw Blackbird yesterday, and it’s well worth seeing just so you can ponder ‘what the hell was Michael Flatley thinking?’ I think most of the other people there had had a few drinks (at least) and their drink assisted laughter lifted up what is otherwise a dreadful bit of moneyed, middle age James Bond wish fulfilment (the pointlessly included shot of him having a shave and the line ‘let’s dance!’ are worth the price of admission by themself😝)
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Post by distantcousin on Mar 4, 2023 16:59:23 GMT
Showgirls - compulsive viewing!
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Post by mkb on Mar 4, 2023 17:52:15 GMT
Some might be tempted to add Cocaine Bear here but it's actually an excellent film, possibly my most enjoyable of the year so far. Both the horror and comedy aspects deliver, and it knows exactly what it is doing. The characters have that quirkiness that we've seen before in films like Fargo and Strictly Ballroom. The bear effects are pretty damn good too.
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Post by alece10 on Mar 4, 2023 19:20:58 GMT
I suppose Pink Flamingos with Divine should be considered as a contender.
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Post by danb on Mar 5, 2023 10:45:28 GMT
I once sat through a total snoozefest called ‘The Passion of Darkly Noon’ with Brendan Fraser cast out into a forest by a religious cult. It thought it was being arthouse & clever. It had a giant shoe in it, seemingly from out of nowhere (but a circus turned up later to claim it!) It was just nonsense. Dull nonsense. I’d loved ‘The Reflecting Skin’; Philip Ridleys previous ‘non-linear’ film.
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Post by mkb on Mar 9, 2023 2:11:05 GMT
Just back from Project Wolf Hunting, probably the most bloody film ever. The story is ridiculous, the body-count high, it's pure gore-sploitation. These sub-titled Koreans don't half like to kill people. Did I enjoy it? Hell yeah!
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Post by mkb on Mar 15, 2023 1:53:49 GMT
Fans of last year's Blackbird from Michael Flatley will be delighted to know we have an early contender to usurp the crown for 2023.
I'm just back from seeing Luther: The Fallen Sun, in fact I was the only patron at the 22:15 showing tonight. I know nothing of the tv programme that has somehow managed to run for five series, but I know this movie is so spectacularly bad it deserves a cult following.
Apart from Andy Serkis who hams it up, Alan Rickman style, as the pantomime villain, I can't tell whether the rest of the cast think they're in a spoof, or are playing it straight but very badly. If this is a measure of how able is Elba, then the idea that he could plausibly be James Bond is ludicrous. (But, they cast Roger Moore, so anything's possible I guess.)
The plot is hilariously awful, full of holes and impossibilities and mistakes. The way Luther solves puzzles is not to deduce, but simply to suddenly know the answer and be completely certain of it, no evidence required.
It's fun watching the London locations flash by, and once you've got past the first few "Oh FFS!" reactions to the dialogue and events, you can begin to savour the mastery of sheer garbage, and admire the bravura and brazenness with which the creators have managed to convince Netflix and BBC Films to invest in this turd of a picture.
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Mar 15, 2023 7:19:58 GMT
Fans of last year's Blackbird from Michael Flatley will be delighted to know we have an early contender to usurp the crown for 2023. I'm just back from seeing Luther: The Fallen Sun, in fact I was the only patron at the 22:15 showing tonight. I know nothing of the tv programme that has somehow managed to run for five series, but I know this movie is so spectacularly bad it deserves a cult following. Apart from Andy Serkis who hams it up, Alan Rickman style, as the pantomime villain, I can't tell whether the rest of the cast think they're in a spoof, or are playing it straight but very badly. If this is a measure of how able is Elba, then the idea that he could plausibly be James Bond is ludicrous. (But, they cast Roger Moore, so anything's possible I guess.) The plot is hilariously awful, full of holes and impossibilities and mistakes. The way Luther solves puzzles is not to deduce, but simply to suddenly know the answer and be completely certain of it, no evidence required. It's fun watching the London locations flash by, and once you've got past the first few "Oh FFS!" reactions to the dialogue and events, you can begin to savour the mastery of sheer garbage, and admire the bravura and brazenness with which the creators have managed to convince Netflix and BBC Films to invest in this turd of a picture. A pretty decent summary of the film. Watch the tv show though, it’s on iPlayer. Reason I didn’t bail after fifteen minutes was tv show loyalty and wanting to see if Alice was in the film despite not being listed. |
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Post by ncbears on Mar 15, 2023 15:56:45 GMT
In that category, Brainstorm and last year's Jungle Cruise. I love both, despite their being widely derided. For humour and pure escapist fun, Jungle Cruise is as good as it gets, and the late, great cinematographer Douglas Trumbull's vision, as director, of the ill-fated Brainstorm is stunning. You might enjoy this take on Jungle Cruise: |
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Post by alece10 on Mar 15, 2023 20:48:49 GMT
Fans of last year's Blackbird from Michael Flatley will be delighted to know we have an early contender to usurp the crown for 2023. I'm just back from seeing Luther: The Fallen Sun, in fact I was the only patron at the 22:15 showing tonight. I know nothing of the tv programme that has somehow managed to run for five series, but I know this movie is so spectacularly bad it deserves a cult following. Apart from Andy Serkis who hams it up, Alan Rickman style, as the pantomime villain, I can't tell whether the rest of the cast think they're in a spoof, or are playing it straight but very badly. If this is a measure of how able is Elba, then the idea that he could plausibly be James Bond is ludicrous. (But, they cast Roger Moore, so anything's possible I guess.) The plot is hilariously awful, full of holes and impossibilities and mistakes. The way Luther solves puzzles is not to deduce, but simply to suddenly know the answer and be completely certain of it, no evidence required. It's fun watching the London locations flash by, and once you've got past the first few "Oh FFS!" reactions to the dialogue and events, you can begin to savour the mastery of sheer garbage, and admire the bravura and brazenness with which the creators have managed to convince Netflix and BBC Films to invest in this turd of a picture. I watched this at the weekend on Netflix. Not sure it falls into the "films so bad they are good" as, for me, it's do bad it's bad. I've never seen the Luther TV series before and only watched it as Cynthia Erivo was in it. I thought it was awful and a ridiculous plot. I got very annoyed when Luther referred to his mobile phone as a "call phone". He is British, filmed and set in London so don't use American words. |
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Post by ptwest on Mar 16, 2023 17:24:16 GMT
Showgirls - compulsive viewing! I had a bit of time off work recently and for some bizarre reason it popped into my head that I had never actually seen this. The problem is that now I can’t unsee it which is probably worse! |
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Post by sfsusan on Jun 4, 2023 12:36:12 GMT
Howard the Duck. (One of my late husband's favorite movies solely due to the post-coital scene with Lea Thompson and Howard.)
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Post by Marwood on Jun 4, 2023 21:30:44 GMT
Howard the Duck. (One of my late husband's favorite movies solely due to the post-coital scene with Lea Thompson and Howard.) Howard shows up in one of the end credit scenes of a Marvel film (think it’s the first Guardians of the Galaxy): Marvel have been so busy wheeling out stuff left, right and centre without any regards to whether anyone actually wants to see them, I’m surprised they haven’t announced a new film for phase 8 or whatever plethora they’ve announced. |
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Post by sukhavati on Jun 5, 2023 7:35:17 GMT
My own version would be "Films the critics fawned over but which were so tedious I was furious with them" but it would be a long list and I can get angry again just recalling the c**p they persuaded me to endure - or walk out of, which is just as bad. There’s a sub-category of that which is “cult films that I don’t get”. For example I thought “The Blues Brothers” was tedious rubbish and “Withnail and I” little better. I spent the entire duration of "Withnail and I" wondering why on earth they were friends in the first place. And now, anytime Camberwell is mentioned, I can't help but think of the infamous Camberwell Carrot.
I met John Landis, the director of "The Blues Brothers," several years ago at a museum where his costume designer wife was giving a talk. I mentioned my husband loves Blues Brothers, and he just went on and on as if he'd created a masterpiece. I will allow him some points for enthusiasm, if that. It's literally a car crash of a film. I sat through it once because my husband wanted to see it, and that's it. I've questioned myself for sitting through any X-Men film because of Hugh Jackman, and the last time I sat through a Tim Burton film ("Dark Shadows") I again thought "two hours of my life I'm not getting back." At least if it's something streaming then the cost of the film is ultimately amortised.
I miss the Tim Burton who dreamed up "Beetlejuice" and "Nightmare Before Christmas." I honestly can't think of anything in the last ten years that falls into the "so bad it's good" category, at least IMO...
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Post by mkb on Sept 12, 2023 20:18:47 GMT
The Nun II
Deliciously bad plot, but the cinematography and imagery are exquisite. There are genuinely hair-raising scares, and it's great fun.
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