Good "bad" movies

[Famous Mortimer]

Thinking about it again (and seeing the rap video about The Room on youtube) my absolute favourite bit is when the previously unseen man and woman are having sex on Tommy's settee, and the guy pulls a face when the woman starts going down on him. It's like he's chewing the world's biggest piece of gum, and isn't sure if he likes it or not.

[Little Hoover]

Dont really think this belongs in the game forum so I'll post it here.

The Room - The Game http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/547307

[Pepotamo1985]

Haha, that was released on my birthday and someone forwarded it to me. It's pretty interminable, but quite funny.

[Big Jack McBastard]

I'm uncertain anyone will know what I'm on about here, but I'm absolutely sure I saw a clip for a low budget, distinctly non-Hollywood (straight to DVD) film a few years back, the core of which was dead soldiers rising from their graves to vote. I distinctly remember a shot of one turning up at a polling booth all zombiefied and in uniform to drop his ballot in a box.

I'm guessing it was trying to be damning of George Bush and America's foreign policy and the like but it looked unbelievably shit. I really hope someone twigs and can point me in the right[nb]wrong[/nb] direction.   

[AsparagusTrevor]

It's not Homecoming you're thinking of is it? An episode of Masters of Horror, directed by Joe Dante. I think most if not all of the MoH episodes were released individually on DVD.

[Big Jack McBastard]

Hmm you might be right, I shall find out presently!

[Big Jack McBastard]

The Room - The Game http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/547307

That is frighteningly thorough.

[QDRPHNC]

Not a bad movie, but certainly one that's been almost forgotten: The Hard Way. Everything about it says straight-to-DVD, and it does dip into some mainstream schmaltz, but Michael J. Fox and James Woods are on top form, and some of their dialogue is wonderful.

[Gulftastic]

I really liked 'The Hard Way'. Fox was excellent spoofing his own movie star persona, and James Woods was typically fantastic.

[Ignatius_S]

It's not Homecoming you're thinking of is it? An episode of Masters of Horror, directed by Joe Dante. I think most if not all of the MoH episodes were released individually on DVD.

That's the one - definitely came out on DVD, as well as the collected releases.

[Famous Mortimer]

Don't know if this counts, but I watched "Independence Day" last night and thoroughly enjoyed it. It was a very competently made film with immensely stupid plot points and dialogue...I even found myself getting kinda caught up in it all. Certainly not a bad film (there's a better argument to be made for the main cast and director not taking themselves seriously at all), probably not good, worth watching with a group of people and a few stiff drinks...

[Famous Mortimer]

It's like I'm doing a round of early Adam Baldwin films at the moment:

Digital Man
A 1995 sci-fi action film. Super-powered android goes rogue in a tiny Nevada town...or does he? Basically, it's every awful video-shop cheapie you've ever seen, but made with a bit of skill and a half-decent cast. And jokes, when the redneck inhabitants of the town interact with the android or the team sent to take him down. It's probably a bit awful, but it held my attention all the way through and there are many worse choices the good-bad film enthusiast could make.

[Marty McFly]

Don't know if this counts, but I watched "Independence Day" last night and thoroughly enjoyed it. It was a very competently made film with immensely stupid plot points and dialogue...I even found myself getting kinda caught up in it all. Certainly not a bad film (there's a better argument to be made for the main cast and director not taking themselves seriously at all), probably not good, worth watching with a group of people and a few stiff drinks...

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[mikeyg27]

RELEASSSSSSSE MEEEEE!

I think I said this the last time we did this sort of thread but Independence Day is probably the film I've seen the most times[nb]DISCLAIMER: most of those viewings were when I was 12[/nb]. When I caught it midway on Film4 the other day I had to stay with it to the end again for some unknown reason, and it was worrying how much of the dialogue I was able to recite out loud[nb]and I think "So, it's an organic life form" is one of the shittiest, stupidest, most pointless lines ever filmed[/nb]. It was also amusing watching it with my mum who hadn't seen it before and was made to jump with fear at least three times during the

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[Cohaagen]

and I think "So, it's an organic life form" is one of the shittiest, stupidest, most pointless lines ever filmed

For some reason, "you're talking about line-of-sight..." always gets me.

[SavageHedgehog]

I remember Ruthless Reviews saying that they like the idea of summer popcorn movies, the trouble is most of them suck, and they said ID4 typified that; it should be a great time, but it's ultimately just kind of boring and stupid. I feel the same way I'm afraid, I've always wanted to really like it, the ingredients are there for a great time, but somehow it's never worked for me. I feel if I'd seen it in a packed house on its original release, or even when it first hit video, I might have really "got" it; some of these big event movies kind of lose resonance when you see them for the first time on BBC1 some nine years after its releae.

While I'm defending unpopular dinosaur pictures in the concurrent sequel thread, I might as well mention that I enjoyed the infamous Roger Corman-produced Jurrasic Park cash-in Carnosaur a lot more than I expected to. Yes the effects are poor, if not without charm, but there's a pleasingly off-the-wall sense of humour (there's a product placement trick with Coke cans that has to have been a joke), an appealingly odd plot and a nice dose of scenery chewing from Diane Ladd as the villain. Writer/director was Adam Simon (semi-famous for his cameo in The Player) who also made "the other Brain Dead" with Bill Paxton and Bill Pullman, an intriguing Twilight Zone-style mindfuck that's a good little B-movie I personally wouldn't call "bad". The trailer mesmerised me when it appeared at the start of the Weekend at Bernie's VHS.

[Blue Jam]

I think I said this the last time we did this sort of thread but Independence Day is probably the film I've seen the most times[nb]DISCLAIMER: most of those viewings were when I was 12[/nb].

Interesting, the films I've seen most are definitely Brazil and Withnail and I, my two favourite films, but there are plenty of crap films I've also seen numerous times despite the fact that I know they're crap. Independence Day is one of them, I must have seen it at least four times, and Con Air is another even though I like that film about as much as Charlie Brooker does. How does one chalk up so many repeated viewings of crap films? I've done it myself and am none the wiser.

[rjd2]

Piranha 3-D. Who's paid a ludicrous amount of money to see this film? £8.90! Fuckers!

My favorite porn person  Gianna Michaels gets killed horribly/hilariously in that if I recall correctly.

I think I may have watched Lock Stock a million times, its no classic but ffor some reason I never switch the channel when it comes on the telly.

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

Apollo 13 and Deep Impact are possibly my most watched films. Without really having tried or liked them that much.

[SavageHedgehog]

I've seen The Lawnmower Man a scary number of times, in both theatrical and director's cut versions, and I can probably tell you most of the differences. I've also seen Psycho IV numerous times, because it was always on C5 in my teens.

[Steve Lampkins]

Some films just seem to always be on, and you find it's juuuust entertaining enough to not bother reaching for the remote.

[Famous Mortimer]

"Old Dogs".

John Travolta and Robin Williams in one of the most incomprehensible films ever. A comedy with no jokes, characters behaving in the most insane ways...I'm still puzzling over it.

Have a listen to this - http://www.earwolf.com/episode/episode-3-old-dogscasey-wilson