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Movies that you love despite the knowledge that they are by any civilised yardstick awful

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21:13 / 08.04.04

Films you know you shouldn't like, but can't help yourself - I'll get the ball rolling;

1. Cable Guy
2. Dead Man on Campus
3. The Adventures of Ford Fairlane
4. The Last Dragon
5. Transformers the Movie

21:37 / 08.04.04

Not a top 5 but my all time favourite film is 'Ring of Bright Water'. I couldn't tell you why, I've seen better acted, better filmed, just plain better films. But over the years I've lost the guilt associated with it. Wednesday night I proudly proclaim it my favourite film when others were banging on about 'Princess Mononoke', 'Versus', and 'Manon De Sources'.

Hmmm. Off to watch it again.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

21:38 / 08.04.04

I absolutely adore Footloose.

Haus of Mystery

22:19 / 08.04.04

Not the top 5, just some of the shite I can stomach:
-St Elmo's Fire
-Jumpin' Jack Flash
-Adventures in Babysitting
-Ghostbusters 2
-Red Sonja

Yotsuba & Benjamin!

01:45 / 09.04.04

DRUM. LINE.

I said it.

02:05 / 09.04.04

The Star Wars prequels, they're nowhere near the originals, but they're still much better than almost any other action movies out there right now.

Math is for suckers!

02:38 / 09.04.04

Hackers. 'Nuff said.

02:41 / 09.04.04

The Craft. Fuck, that movie is GARBAGE. But Fairuza Balk is HOT!

12:51 / 09.04.04

I got a few doozies:
Last Action Hero
Long Kiss Goodnight
Mallrats
Daredevil
Ghostbusters 2
Gi Joe the movie

13:02 / 09.04.04

Is it wrong to like Mallrats? I love that film.

14:31 / 09.04.04

Flash Gordon
Max Von Sydow is indeed the man in his one.

Dune
Not that mini-series on the SciFi channel, but the 80's movie that Lynch directed (and later took his name off of).

Rising Sun
I don't even like crime thrillers, but for some reason this one won't be turned off if I see it.

Half Baked
Let's face it, at times this makes Cheech and Chong seem like intellectual heavyweights, but considering the appropriate way to watch this film, who cares?

The Godfather
Who really like this film anyways?

14:51 / 09.04.04

Uncle Buck
My Boyfriend's Back
Bloodsport
Krull

Yotsuba & Benjamin!

14:55 / 09.04.04

I gotcha back on Star Wars, Patrick. And after watching all of Clone Wars, its clear awesomeness is all the clearer.

15:22 / 09.04.04

The Lynch Dune was indeed great. And just to clarify, he took his name off a sci-fi channel extended version, not the original theatrical release (though he was dissatisfied with it). I think the film has some great looking sets, some great dream sequences, and that internal monologue technique is a great way of conveying information about the characters.

19:12 / 09.04.04

Thanks for the clarification on Dune. I rather like the music as well.

20:13 / 09.04.04

The Godfather
Who really like this film anyways?

I like it, it's my all time favorite and really doesn't belong in this thread. It belongs in the "Don't dislike something just because it's popular" thread. Is anyone besides me conviced that Micheal Corleone has some kind of Jedi mind control power?

Another movie that may or may not belong in this thread is Gangs of New York. I have a feeling that the scene with Daniel Day Lewis wrapped in the American Flag-"Fear preserves the order of things"-is the real reason the release date was pushed back after 9-11.

After all it's never been truer than it is now.

20:57 / 09.04.04

The one that immediately springs to mind is;

John Carpenter's Vampires.

"Just because you're a priest, don't think I won't kill you!"

Fucking brilliant.

18:42 / 10.04.04

Vampires cracked me up -- to this day, I dunno if it was the horror equivalent of Starship Troopers (Vatican-employed vampire hunters who kill an entire town and then have a keg party at a nearby hotel with a bunch of hookers? What?!), or if Carpenter just deliberately made the most politically incorrect movie he could think of just to do it or what. (For similar quandaries, I refer the viewer of gleefully b-movie b-movies to Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars, which I've seen probably, like, six times. Ice Cube vs. a steroidal Marilyn Manson clone, dialogue that on its own could provide enough soundbites for an entire Rob Zombie album, the '80s MET-ALLLLLLL! soundtrack that makes it seem impossible this movie could have been made in 2001, even though it was...I just don't have the words.) For me, the Vampires high point has gotta be a beaten-down James Woods looking blearily up at his Anne Rice-inspired nemesis and croaking out something like, "Go to hell, you polesmoking fashion victim."

lord nuneaton savage

11:09 / 11.04.04

That and the blatantly obvious running-out-of-money-before-the-final-fight-scene element. It has one of the least climactic endings I've ever seen.

Sodding hilarious though.

Especially when he cuts the priest.

Haus of Mystery

21:22 / 13.04.04

Nutty Professor. In fact most Eddie Murphy films.

05:12 / 14.04.04

Bloodsport? Come on! That's classic, that is...

10:54 / 14.04.04

Spies Like Us
Pokemon the Movie
Dentist on the Job
and many, many Carry On... films

11:08 / 14.04.04

For me, the Vampires high point has gotta be a beaten-down James Woods looking blearily up at his Anne Rice-inspired nemesis and croaking out something like, "Go to hell, you polesmoking fashion victim."

"Finish the job Padre, my nuts are on fire here!"

"When I was kicking your ass back there, did you get a little wood?"

I've only seen that film once, but it sticks in the mind so vividly..

What is with John Carpenter anyway? Does he know his films are so magnificently laughable and dated, or is he just senile? Either way, I hope he makes more of them rather than actually making a good film and having a 'return to form'..

11:19 / 14.04.04

Not entirely on topic, but as far as shit John Carpenter films go I've got a real weak spot for Prince of Darkness. Pretty crappy until the last four or five minutes, which has two images that have always stuck in my head. Knowledge of that ending makes the rest of the film slightly less rubbish, too - seems to coat everything in an odd sense of disease and slight wrongness (unintentional, most likely).

11:25 / 14.04.04

Razor Blade Smile. My goth fetish is so powerful that I honestly don't mind the dire dialogue, acting and plot.

MC still hasn't forgiven me for that one.

11:31 / 14.04.04

For some reason, I can watch 'A Few Good Men' over and over again. I don't even really like it all that much, I just don't seem to get tired of it.

I really like 'Baise Moi', even though it seems obvious that it's basically rubbish, like a hardcore A-level media studies project. It gives the impression that someone started trying to make a Dogme film, then gave up and just tried to break all the rules and have some fun instead.

I genuinely think 'Charlies Angels' is one of the greatest films ever made, pure pop bubblegum cinema. And I love 'Dougal and the Blue Cat' (The Magic Roundabout movie), which I don't think is a conventionally 'bad' film in the way that the others are, but is the sort of film which people either avoid like the plague, or only enjoy ironically.

D Terminator XXXIII

12:58 / 14.04.04

el chimpo, oooh. I also have a passion for Charlie's Angels, but in my case it's more centred around the sequel, Full Throttle. It's... If I start, I'd have crashed the design of Barbelith threads because I can talk and write about it for hours on end and never get tired of it... And I don't inherently think it is wrong, just that I find it eerie there are people in Hollywood who will throw millions in the hundred of what is basically an X-Ray of my subconscious.

And if someone has to inject me DNA, Theroux would be perfection required.

13:35 / 14.04.04

I haven't seen Full Throttle yet.

You mean it's even better than the first one? Gosh...

I think I may be spending more money I don't have very soon.

D Terminator XXXIII

13:51 / 14.04.04

It is definetely better. Yes. Yes, it is.

14:07 / 14.04.04

Razor Blade Smile: Officially the worst film EVER. It's crazy, and makes no sense. The Illuminati. The bit at the end with the clapping. But I loved it *hangs head in shame*

Murray Hamhandler

16:38 / 14.04.04

Freddy Got Fingered
Gummo
Pieces
Dirty Work

I'm sure there's more. I enjoy some really shitty movies sometimes.

17:03 / 14.04.04

Space Truckers!

19:15 / 14.04.04

Yeah...I too love Razor Blade Smile. It's so fucking preposterous that there are actually too many things to mention -- though the two that leap immediately to mind are: a woman sneaking...SNEAKING...onto a guarded compound in daylight wearing nothing but skintight black latex and going totally undetected, EVEN THOUGH there are two guys standing there playing tennis like five feet away from her as she kinda slinks around looking gothy; and that credit sequence, because it just cracks me up when the vampire chica silhouette produces an Uzi and starts blasting away. Uh...I gotta say, though, I probably only still own it (and it's why I bought it in the first place) because every time I look at Eileen Daly looking like that I just gotta say godDAMN. I mean...Jesus. Just, just...y'know...I mean...

21:10 / 14.04.04

4 words:

Jesus christ-vampire hunter

its an early 90's punk movie where jesus is resurrected to battle vampires because they are taking lesbians and performing odd science experiments. Jesus has short hair and earrings, and does kung fu. It has the 60's batman scene change (the psychedelic spiral in the background with a fan fair and"bat-man!" sung) except its "je-sus!" and a spinning cross. Its terribly acted and had to have been shot on no budget at all, not to mention ludicrous writing and plot, but is the funniest damn thing Ive ever seen.

21:18 / 14.04.04

My local cinema had three screenings of Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter last year, and I went to all of them.

I don't think it belongs in this thread because it's utter, utter genius, and furthermore it's knowingly shit and does wonderful things using the conventions of shit-ness, if you see what I mean..

And is it early 90s? I thought it was made just a couple of years ago..

But anyway, I still offer you my hand in marriage for bringing up the subject.

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