Just watching the Perfect Storm on ITV2. It's utterly preposterous! It lost credibility on the idea that they could fly a Black Hawk helicopter through a tornado. But then when the C130 turned up to refuel it mid-air - in a hurricane - we became strangely enthralled as to how ridiculous it could get. Every single word of ludicrously clichéd (even for Americans) dialogue is comically over-acted. As mrs Binners observed, all it's missing is for Nicholas Cage to pop up saying 'I just want to get home to my wife and kids!'
Your nominations for films that are so monumentally awful, they become strangely compelling?
Love, Actually. I watched it for the first time on Friday. It should have been terrible, but was somehow endearing and enjoyable.
Crocodile Dundee II, absolutely love it but not sure compelling the right word 😀
All the fast and furious movies.
Is like if they made the sun newspaper into a movie.
Prometheus. Actually no that's just awful.
Idiocracy.
SHARKNADO !!
Roadhouse
Every which way but loose
I suspect it was done in a very knowing way, but The Fifth Element is gloriously bonkers.
Watching 1941 on telly right now 🙂
I got stuck watching one of the "step up" movies. by the end I was quite into it!
Step Up is a bit of a guilty pleasure for me.
Mind you, I could happily spend an hour and a half watching Eliza Dushku eat crisps.
one that springs to my mind was a good few years ago now called street trash. a load of down and outs in a scrap yard drinking some poisonous stuff that melted their insides. also included them slicing someones n*b off and playing american football with it.
Independence Day. Truly awful film but I always find myself watching it when it's on.
Deep blue sea
sobriety - MemberLove, Actually. I watched it for the first time on Friday. It should have been terrible, but was somehow endearing and enjoyable.
I was forced to go and see Love, Actually by an ex (I wanted to see Master And Commander: Far Side Of The World but was vetoed). Loved it. Never admitted it 😆
Iron Sky,which is fantastic. Who isn't going to love a sci-fi comedy about a Nazi base on the moon?
Ski School. Low budget, badly made but so quotable and fun. It's become a ritual that we watch it every year now, usually in a dodgy bunk house in January...
Many hate it though.
The Fifth Element
GTFO! Nothing about that film is awful.
+1 for Love Actually here as well...but if i could cut the annoying American woman with the demanding brother out then it would improve the film no end.
I've never understood this genre - I used to have a group of mates that would hunt down shit films to guffaw at, horror films and suchlike, the bond movies, but I never quite got it.. shit films to me are just a bit shit..
it made me feel quite stupid if I'm honest 😳
Dog Soldiers.
Anything with Statham in it.
Terrorvision - so bad it's nearly good.
Dog soldiers for me, so crap it's good 😀
Edit- snakebite beat me to it 🙂
Jingle All the Way, bit of a festive staple for me
Junior - Arnie, DeVito and Emma Thompson. Not my type of film! So cringeworthy but I could watch this again and again!
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Oh I've just remembered. 2012! Quite simply the most hilariously rubbish hollywood blockbuster in decades.
Behind Enemy Lines (it was on TCM last night)
its badness is largely down to Owen Wilson's performance (exacerbated by his more recent character stereotyping) but the plot, the Team America gung-honess and the political ignorance don't help, but I do find it a captivating film
Just thought of another one - Starship Troopers.
Little Shop of Horrors...
Feed me Seymour!
I quite liked Dog Soldiers!
Rich, it's a gloriously bonkers film. Everything about it is awful, script, hammy acting etc. And yet, it is simply sublime!
Starship Troopers is another, very knowing.
bjj.andy.w, just add Taxi, Blade and Donie Darko and you've listed some of the best films of my formative years!
Waterworld.
The Fifth Element
What the hell?
Right where'd I put the ban hammer.
I suspect it was done in a very knowing way, but The Fifth Element is gloriously bonkers.
Just put this on, actually. I was discussing with the wife how it's the only film I can think of that aims to be simultaneously a spoof and a serious action movie and achieves both brilliantly. It's a perfect film.
I once watched Plan 9 from Outer Space, supposedly the worst film ever made, thinking it'd be so bad it'd be a laugh. It went beyond that and it really was just shit.
I'm not sure if stuff like XXX or Jason Statham films count as 'so bad they're good', because they're supposed to be stupid and some of them do it quite well.
Who am I? with Jackie Chan is a bit of a weird mix. Some of it is really crappy but some of it is just genius.
Starship Troopers is a clever film. The main message is really obvious when it's pointed out, but it's so unusual that you just don't notice it at first. The first time you watch it after you've twigged it's like watching a different film.
However none of these come under the 'so bad it's good' category. They are all high quality films.
I might nominate.. Independence Day. Bad, but I really enjoyed it in the cinema.
Starship Troopers can be viewed (in a chin stroking style) as commenting on fascism and fascist imagery. On the other hand it's got huge bugs and lots of beautiful people getting killed. I like it both ways.
Con Air.
Binners, TPS is biographical btw. The helicopter stuff happened by all accounts including the ditching and the loss of a crew member. The bits after the radio mast blew off the Andrea Gail are made up of course as the boat and crew were never found and the captain of the yacht that was rescued doesn't agree with the account given by his two female crew mates. His account is backed up by the fact his yacht was washed up on a beach three days later perfectly intact.
All of Arnies films.... oh and Con Air
Definitely starship troopers!
I'll give a vote for Ali G film
Titanic 🙂
Without A Clue - Michael Caine as Sherlock Holmes - his worst performance since Jaws, The Revenge.
The original evil dead and it's sequels. Brilliant
The 3 Thunderbirds films, a huge amount of work in the gerry anerson ones, but poor story lines, but extremely wartchable, the third just poor acting but plenty of action.
Just put this on, actually. I was discussing with the wife how it's the only film I can think of that aims to be simultaneously a spoof and a serious action movie and achieves both brilliantly. It's a perfect film.
Spot on! It's at once awful and awesome! I love it for that.
Leviathan. Actually, had it not been released in the same year as 'The Abyss', it might have been quite good. Any movie going up against something directed by James Cameron and starring Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Ed Harris and Michael Biehn was in for tough competition. I still love Richard Crenna's (of the Rambo movies) line - "Natura non confundenda est. Loosely translated: Don't F*** with Mother Nature"
The Holiday, cheesy yet heart warming chic flickness.
Dark Star.
SST is not awful!
It's a work of genius.
The fact it's such a subtle parody makes it even better.
Snakebite, Dog Soldiers was epic. The Howling and An American Werewolf in London were for wimps by comparison.
Pfft! Rubbish! They bottled it! An utterly ludicrous film and then that all die anyway. I is disappoint! I wanted a completely unbelievable happy ending. Now excuse me while I have a little cry
Oh, forgot Highlander.
Come on, it's a bloody awful film!
Oh, Predator too, which is enjoyable if you're heavily sedated.
Highlander? Oh yes awful, awful film, but love it!
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The revenge of Billy the kid. Probably the best bad film ever.
A Knight's Tale. On now, too.
"Chaucer's the name, writing's the game"
Epic badness, but awesome.
Moulin Rouge?
I have to drink a bottle of Absinthe before I can open the DVD case though......
Dark Star
I was thinking of this one but couldn't remember the name.
Enter the Dragon, was on recently. Terrible movie, but totally awesome. Bruce Lee's physique is amazing
A Knights Tale is brilliantly bad flashy! Makes you wonder what they were thinking, but I'm glad they did! 🙂
Flash Gordon - Can't believe the thread has got this far, mentioned several classic films & not mentioned that...
I have a soft spot for a knights tale as my wife and I watched in hospital waiting for my first daughter to be born, in a ward on our own was a nice bit of light relief and will always be crap but totally ace at the same time....
The Goonies!
****in' awful!
****in' genius!
The Goonies!
Absolutely bladdy awful!
Absolute bladdy genius!
Better?
Any film with Steven Seagal in it. You have no choice but to look on in bemused horror.
It's pure poetry in Hard to Kill when he wakes up from his coma sporting a beard and a beer belly
They Live.
I suspect that those that appreciated Iron Sky will love it!
Sahara
Bit of an Indiana Jones rip off with Matthew Mcconaughey in it so it should be shite... but somehow its awesome
Oh just remembered -
Eight Legged Freaks
Highlander - Sean introduces himself to the french sounding clansman as a Spaniard - Priceless
Galaxy Guest but rather deliberate.
5th Element is a brilliant film for the reasons mentioned above
Teeth....
(the one about the growler with nashers)
Can probably add Shaolin Soccer to the list that I'm watching now, & it's follow up Kung Fu Hustle..
Priest - oh so wrong but it just works (provided you like vampire movies adapted from graphic novels...)
Kung Fu Hustle is absolute genius, no way it should be on this list!
Didn't realise it had a prequel/sister film though, must get it watched!
Kung Fu Hustle is absolute genius, no way it should be on this list!
It is a great film - Shaolin Soccer is currently on Netflix.
Volcano, the bit where the guy melts in the subway tunnel is hilarious!
Hobo with a shotgun, flippin ridiculously nuts film but entertaining.
Bad Boy Bubby. Not sure this qualifies either but it's properly twisted.
I've got that on VHS somewhere.
Showgirls, although not sure it doesn't go all the way back to being awful again.
13th Warrior
Daft Viking & Arab prince fun
Never Back Down. Laughably horrendous, but upsettingly entertaining. It's like Fight Club without the plot.
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This one so needs to star Troy McClure....
Moby Dick 2010
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