What are your favorite bad movies? You know, the ones that you know are outright horrible, and have virtually no merit to them at all, but are still outstanding for some reason. It doesn't even have to be a tangible reason: I.e. Smokey and the Bandit has awesome car chases, so it does not really merit a position on this list, especially because it really exists only for the car chases. I'm talking about movies that were trying for something but totally missed the mark in almost every way. The tone just doesn't work at all, and all of the lines come off cheesy as hell. Entire scenes exist for no reason at all. Things of that nature...

I'll start it out with one of my all time favorites while I cook up a larger list, but this is the movie that got me thinking of other films in this vein, most of which I'm sure come from the 1980s, just like this first one, the 1989 Patrick Swayze opus Road House.

This is a movie that literally exists in its own universe, where bars are more dangerous than prisons, evil henchmen ride around in monster trucks, and the number one rule to avoiding a barfight is: Be nice. There are few films I've seen in my life that are more concentrated madness than this one, because virtually none of this is played for laughs, though it all ends up being pretty outstandingly funny.

So let me know your favorite tonally-jacked up, hilariously cheesball movies, and let me know why you like them so much.

Tip: odds are good that if the movie is on your list, it's one that you always put on when you have friends over drinking and they always groan. It might be great to you, but it's probably only great to you.

EDIT: Not to mention Road House is great because literally everyone that the bad guy screwed over in the whole movie shows up at the end to shoot him with a shotgun. There's one guy who has literally 30 seconds of screen time, gets screwed by the bad guy, and he's there to shoot him with a shotgun. How the hell all these guys randomly showed up wielding shotguns becomes irrelevant when you ponder "how the hell did that guy just take a half dozen shots from 12 gauges before finally going down?"

Troll 2

everything about the movie is so wrong it is suddenly right

Total Recall

Plan Nine From Outer Space is so outlandishly bad that it is incredibly entertaining. Lots of laughs around.

Mortal Kombat 1 and 2.

btw:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeIchRv7aEQ&feature=related

This is a perfect example of what I'm talking about.

I'm gonna go ahead and say Sucker Punch.
I only just saw it, and I loved it, but I can certainly see why people would say it's crap.

Streetfighter.

This. I know it's almost a cliche to bring up Plan Nine, but it's so bad that it redefines the whole idea of "so bad it's good."

Tremors.

TREMORS IS AWESOME YOU TAKE THAT BACK NI

There's a little gem called The Robot Monster that I kind of love to bits.

RoboGeisha is another bit of crap that I gain mysterious enjoyment from.

Baconfish and Ni have the idea. It's a major plus if the movie has a notable celebrity or two in the cast.

The Chipmunk Adventure. Not the new cgi movie, mind you, but the one from the 80's or early 90's where they're going around the world in hot air balloons with the chipetttes.

What?

Wing Commander had a great soundtrack and a not-great everything else.

The ultimate bad movie that is fun to watch would have to be The Room. It's tough to pick a single clip but this is some classic bad acting:

National treasure
Under siege
Kung pow
coming to America
The golden child

star wars 1, 2 & 3

It's ok, we all have our faults

The Evil Cult - an early 90s kung fu film with Jet Li.

It's got a guy flying around embedded in a boulder, over-the-top Qi-splosions, erection jokes and the most ridiculous vampire I've seen in cinema yet. It's awful, there are hundreds of people running around, the subtitles are bad and I don't think they actually match up to what's being said half the time; and the plot barely makes any sense. I love it.

The adventures of baron munchausen
Howard the duck

These, YUS... except that Kung Pow was already a parody film, so might not really qualify to this list.
Under Siege 2 = even more, yus.


A Disney Christmas Carol, in so many adorably cheesey ways... Mickey Mouse as Bob Cratchett, Goofy as Marley... it captures the point of the story while completely avoiding the most intensely grim aspects of Tiny Tim's illness and disability.

Jurassic Park - It's Crichton; it's nightmare fuel. It's brilliant... but watching Nedry's death still makes me crack up, even though the same scene in the book is downright horrific.

Kung Pow
The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra
Blood of Heroes

City Hunter

Dark Star

Krull

Altered States

Ed Wood

Monkeybone

Thanks, I've been going to meetings

Haha, that totally used to be one of my all-time favorite movies when I was five years old.

What?

I watched Southland Tales again the other night for some reason.

I don't know what the **** that movie is about...

But it intrigues me.

I was totally going to bring up Plan 9 but too late.

Ha ha ha. What a story llibja. It's also my favorite.