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“To rate a special place in our hearts,” the authors, Edward Margulies and Steven Rebello, write, in “Bad Movies we Love,” "they have to go way out to dementedly inspired places that few movies dare to go.”
Their highest rated movies make the "Hall" and get four hearts, which indicates the film is so wretched and lovable that any connoisseur of bad movies should get their hands on them immediately.
Like these gems:
“Beyond the Forest,” the definitive high camp 1949 classic, with Bette Davis, chewing up the scenery, as the “riotously miscast" Rosa Moline, possibly the most warped femme fatale ever.
The film begins with this warning title:
This is the story of evil. Evil is headstrong — is puffed up. For our soul's sake, it is salutary for us to view it in all its ugly nakedness once in a while. Thus may we know how those who deliver themselves over to it end up like the Scorpion, in a mad frenzy stinging themselves to eternal death.
(And gets worse/better from there.)
A lovably bad movie has to have pretensions of greatness, which leaves out classics like “Plan 9 from Outer Space."
Which merely had pretensions of getting made.
A classic in the genre is “The Cobweb,” a deep psychological 1955 drama that centers around the selection of new drapes for the mental clinic.
And the conflict, surrounding.
Gloria Graham, who's married to the head of the clinic:
“They shouldn’t allow me within a hundred miles of material where there’s a budget involved."
1979 was a banner year for bad movies, with “Moment by Moment” providing a moment-by-moment slew of unintentionally hilarious moments—pairing the unlikely duo of Lily Tomlin and John Travolta, who, for some unknown reason, is named Strip.
This hot tub scene is a classic because it seems like she's commanding him to remove his garments, when he already has.
He: “Do you love me?”
She: “Strip.”
He: "You don’t love me?"
She: “Oh Strip.”
And if we’re diligent, we can even find endearingly awful dialogue in reasonably good movies, like “Wall Street,” where Bud walks out alone in his blue bathrobe on his terrace overlooking Central Park and has this introspective moment.
“Who am I?”
We all have those moments.
I hope I’ve inspired you to list your “favorites.”
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Well the first "bad" funny movie that comes to mind is "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" which refuses to die, and then there are so many others that I disliked, but others raved about, so I am not a good judge of what's bad, apparently....I did not like "Pulp Fiction" or "Married to the Mob" or "Straw Dogs" or "Saving Arizona" or "Mad Max" or lots of "campy" films that seem gratuitously violent, but I could appreciate the total work of "The Godfather" although it was also violent.
On the other hand, I did like the campy-ness of Mel Brooks ' "History of the World" and the silliness of "Monty Python and...(whatever)"....However, he overshot the mark on his parody of Star Wars with his "Space Balls."
And then "Airplane" and "Blazing Saddles" have some lines that are just funny in isolation! "Ham on 5 Hold the Mayo" and "I'm So Tired, etc."
Old bad horror movies had to include "The Blob" and "Them," but they were scary in their time, as we were so innocent.
Good to see Kentucky Curmudgeon yesterday! Going now to the pillows....I am sure this august village can come up with more good/bad movies or films than I can....I will check back tomorrow and see the crop! See you in t he club car ...
Trogg with Joan Crawford is one of my Favorites. Then of course there always Whatever Happened to Baby Jane & Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte. So many to choose from I can't wait to read what the rest of the Village suggests.
"RUN FORREST ... RUN !!!"
Biggest waste of Film/Time/Money ever to come out of Hollywood ... Somebody had to have kost an Election Bet for this Movie to get made ...
I cannot imagine Tom Hanks' being in such dire straits needing Money ... One of two Movies that were just ....... WRONG !!! He never should have made either of them, but especially unredeeming is Andy's Nephew .......
LOST ...
Hen-Reeeeee, Henry Aldritch ... get yo' butt over heah and he'p poor Mr. Gildersleeve with his closet afore The Shadow gits ya.
My all time favorite has Neal, the dog...
I picked the wrong week to quit amphetamines...
Sorry, couldn't resist... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vg2O5SlZ25g ;
Topper, the movie, gave way to a TeeVee series.....Ahhhh, those days were seemingly so gentle......and stereotypes were what we assumed was reality....the other reality, in Korea, was as disparate as Afgahnastan is now, (well, except for the draft).....movies provide an escape,and, they were the first real adaption of air conditioning!! On hot days/nights, the Theeeeaaahter gave us respite,in the form of air conditioning,and a dispensing of reality,and,at $0.25, it afforded a whole family the 'mini vacation'. . Now we have cacooning.....same everything, but you don't leave your house......say...are they trying to keep us captive?!?!
More puddin', please.
I may have asked this before in this forum but, can anyone explain why a Kansas City faggot is anymore queer than any other fag?
KC~ it has to do with the BBQ....
and I guess I should qualify that with; Kansas City, Kansas, OR Kansas City, MO...?
RY ~ not sure if it's Mo or Ks...I would assume Ks for a myriad of reasons...I was always intrigued why Mel Brooks chose Kansas City as his example of flamboyant fags over other cities like San Fran or Key West. Guess he was trying to be time-frame accurate given the time in which the movie is supposed to be set. Of course he could have used Denver or Chicago or Houston, but Kansas City?
It's too early. In the UK, a fag is a cigarette.
My local cinema is charming - it's small, Art Deco and still has snogging seats in the back upstairs. Plan B to see a movie is a 10 mile drive to the interesting early 1960's Arts building in a local college, worth going at this time of year to see the view and the sunset. Plan C involves 30/40 mile drive, which is OK going, full of anticipation, but a bit of a drag coming home late and tired. North Wales is not Hollywood. Plan D ~ the best one, is to find a film on TV or stick one of those DVD things into the side of it - recline on the sofa and if it's a 'good' film it will engage me sufficiently to stay awake - otherwise, I am perfectly placed to snooze off. My worst ever going to see a film was a freezing winter evening and the heating had broken down in the cinema. They were showing Bonnie and Clyde - not the greatest movie ever made. My boyfriend of the time cringed as I insisted we walk out at half time and demand a refund. So I did the demanding and got a full refund - which at least paid for us to go somewhere warm and get hot coffee.
Movies that are so bad we love them? I had a friend in grad school who watched The Green Slime whenever it was on late night TV (when else would they show it?). I watched it once with hime, and it was sooooo bad. Folks were getting attacked by huge blobs of green jello My own favorite for "why did they do this?" is Defending Your Life with Albert Brooks (who also wrote and directed the movie), Meryl Streep (short of cash?) and Rip Torn (what a name!). The plot is that when you die you wind up in a celestial courthouse in a conference room defending your life with the aid of a lawyer. There's a prosecutor and three judges. If you win, you get to "go on." If you lose, you go back to earth and a new life to try again. The phrase "sweet andsappy" come to mind. How did they talk Mery Streep into doing this movie? She, of course, is the heroine who has saved kittens, loved children and probably walked old ladies across the street. Brooks, by the way, has done little of note other than a voice in Finding Nemo and several voices in The Simpsons.
Why is it any movie beginning with The can automatically be added to the bad list? For instance The Alligator People, The Crawling Eye, The Brain That Wouldn't Die, The People That Time Forgot,The Slime People, The Movie that Time Forgot and my all time favorite excepting The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini, that unforgettable classic The Movie That Won't Go Away.
more on the honor rollIn defense of Albert Brooks, the man is not only a comic genius, he is--like his brother Super Dave, may he rest in peace-- a comic Einstein. The Muse is another such classic.
Oh...I think any bad movie that is so good you love it has to have an obvious silly feel to it, include monsters and be cliche ridden. It must leave you grinning and happy though you knew it was nothing more than a B-grade. Often too, they attract such a following that they attain cult status
My personal favourites include "Deep Rising" about a deep sea octopus monster that overtakes a cruise liner and literally sucks the life out of its victims, and the "Tremors" series, which featured the Graboids, the Shrieker and the Ass Blaster. The inspiration for these subterranean desert monsters was the Mongolian Death Worm.
"Undercover Brother" is so offensively stupid that I laughed all the way through it. We're not talking each to his own taste here....I mean, for example a Monty Python movie could never show up on some people's Bad Movies list---we are talking BAD terrrible low budget movie. For me, it was trumped only recently in the middle of the night by "Blubberella." omg. Hours later when I woke up again my stomach still hurt from laughing.
p- together on this one. MOTHER with Mr. Brooks had some great moments. "No one misunderstood you better" And the sweating scene on Broadcast News is classic Brooks when he gets his break as anchorman and the Producer sez "This is more than Nixon ever sweated." Then there's Steve Martin in THE JERK. and Kentucky Fried Movie and What Do You Say to a Naked Lady? and many of Michael Caine's and lots of George Clooney's and the one shot Bond George Lazenby. Nick Cage has met few scripts he doesn't like. And the TV Series MY MOTHER THE CAR...
As long as there is Popcorn and Soda Pop, Junior Mints, and previews of coming attractions they get my money and my heart. People love to bitch and moan anyway. The Big Screen is magical and I keep TCM going all day in the office and they have a great APP. Movie Posters are some of the finest art around. Sometimes Bad is Good and forces one to notice things like camera work, lighting, and finding humor in the strangest situations. And I love wearing those 3D glasses...
Everything is coming out 3D these days. I think a pair of designer 3 D glasses, with attachable neck harness, would be a great addition to the next owner's manual.
Have ya met "Rubin and Ed"? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102817/ ; All you have to do to find fellow Rubin and Ed fans is stand up in a crowded room, put your hands over your head and cry out "I am the king of the echo people", if someone starts laughing out loud or clapping that means they've seen the movie. If you just get a lot of nervous giggles and no one makes eye contact you can never go back to that place again.
Or Troll 2? This movie is a sequel to a film that was never made and is AWFUL in a truly entertaining way.
My personal favorite is a little local film called Shift 2 (also a prequel-less sequel). My friend's husband and his brother made this movie about 15 years ago, and it is sort of a spoof on every rogue cop movie ever made. My older brother and his friend Brian were some of the bad guys. Horrible and epic at the same time. I'll have to call Wendell and get a copy of it for my very own one of these days.
This is a very subjective topic. Lot's of bad movies out there. The movie Motel Hell comes to mind. Anyone seen it? My husband loves it, so I had to watch it once. It's about some crazy farmer who abducts people and buries them in the ground to be harvested as food later. Very campy, very strange. Another movie he found that I actually liked (sort of...) is called Welcome to Woop Woop. It takes place in Australian outback. A bunch of folks who remained after a mine was closed down make a living by making dogfood out of kangaroos that fall victim to road kill. It stars Rod Taylor (the same Rod Taylor who was opposite Jane Fonda in Sunday in New York and Tippi Hendron in The Birds) as the patriarch. The only entertainment at this place is old Rogers and Hammerstein movies that were left after the mine closed, so that is the musical backdrop. If you like quirky, wierd moves, check it out. And be sure to watch the final credits.
The Human Centipede was the worst of the worst. then they went & made a sequel.. Who ever suspected that a bad idea could be made out to be even worse the 2nd time around....
How about an awesomely bad movie from the director that brought you the awesomely awesomeness of the Lord of the Rings trilogy? Check out Peter Jackson's "Dead Alive" claymation sumatran rat monkeys that turn you into a zombie with one bite.
Uh how about Kung Pao Enter The Fist? As suggested by a coworker. I haven't seen it yet but apparently I'm renting it tonight to revel in its awfulness.
How about movies within movies? Has anyone seen Be Kind Rewind?
......and this is why we'll always have books. Not that there aren't bad books,too...
I've heard the Shades of Grey books are pretty bad. I know they are "bad" as in very naughty, but I also hear they are poorly written. They became an overnight sensation before they could be properly edited. At least that's what I heard. I haven't read them, but my hairdresser loved them.
Seeing a campy, bad movie can be a fun thing to do on a Saturday night when I need to laugh. And there are times when I want to see a tear jerker because I need a good cry. But in the long run, the movies that say with me are the ones that make me laugh and cry; they make me think and on top of that, are visually pleasing. Now, that I've said all this, what moves meet my criteria? Are they among my favorites? I can truthfully say yes. Among my favorite movies are: The Best Years of our Lives, The Fugutive, Out of Africa, To Kill a Mockingbird, Sideways, The Uninvited, To Have and Have Not, The Lion in Winter. Just to name a few. My favorite campy movie that meets my criteria for a good movie would be The Big Lebowski. I love the Coen Brothers...
ChefDeb, Undercover Brother is hilarious! I've seen it a few times and it's always a riot. Just saw The Outlaw and wondered if it was billed as a comedy...I don't think so, but it should have been. It was finished in 1940, opened briefly in San Francisco in 1943 before being shut down for indecency, finally reopening in 1949. Howard Hughs hyped the attributes of Jane Russell (which didn't include her (non) acting skills) and generally promoted the the idea that it was a naughty movie.
great to see you SF...how's your sister?
Now I really want to see Beyond the Forest. I love Bette Davis.
JANE wasn't The Outlaw most known for Hughes inventing the underwire bra?
I'm so glad you think Undercover Brother is funny! I am now looking forward to Welcome to Woop Woop.
Pooling our money and drawing straws for who had to hide in the trunk while keeping the laughter down was de rigueur for the Twin Aire Drive In. Any extra coins saved went for Zero Bars. The summer thunderstorm steamed up the windows and the speaker crackled even as Jeremiah Johnson roamed through the Rockies or Cornel Wilde ran from his pursuer in The Naked Prey. We passed around the bootleg cheap whiskey in half pints & joints of twigs and seeds rolled with ZigZag papers. And Raquel Welch chased by T-Rex in One Million Years BC steamed the windows in the VW microbus even more. She still looks marvelous!
"What's Eating Gilbert Grape" is a train wreck of a movie.
MISS NACHISTA: You're Crackin' Me Up !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Finis
ChefDeb, that's funny, but looking at the promotional posters for The Outlaw, I don't think bras were part of the equation....but it's funny...maybe he did. My husband wasn't familiar with her, not even with the ...was it...Maiden Form bra commercials? If not Maiden Form, some other bra for the full figured woman.,,,slips my memory.
Hey JANE & CHEFD.....................I have always liked Jane Russell because I read how she befriended Marilyn Monroe when they made the movie w/ the song, Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend, and she was incredibly kind & understanding about her problems. That just always made me really like her.Weirdly, I have nothing else to add!