Films considered to be shit that you enjoy

[Noodle Lizard]

There appears to be a good deal of animosity towards The Imaginarium Of Dr Parnassus, but it's possibly my favourite Terry Gilliam movie.

[DrunkCountry]

My brother-in-law loves this grey area of taste, somuchso I sometimes think he seeks out forgotten/unknown godawful films just to get an 'oooh! We are schooled, master!' from his Twitter following. Buckaroo Banzai, as mentioned above, is one he often brings up during conversations about oddity films or guilty pleasures etc. I have never figured out what people see in this film. Just don't get it, but to each their own.

I do have very soft spots for

Miracle Mile - probably considered dated, the Tangerine Dream OST sucks any real shot at longevity out of it, rather than shit
Saturday the 14th - silly, silly fun
The Glitterball - a fucking bizarre kid meets/befriends/falls in love with alien silver ball Children's Film Foundation movie that seemed to be on every Christmas when I was a child in the '80s

[Norton Canes]

Grease 2. Knocks the original into a tin can.

[Bad Ambassador]

http://www.podnose.com/018-the-saint

[clingfilm portent]

Congo is great fun. Quite brazen in its ridiculousness. The scene where they shoot down the anti-aircraft missiles with flare guns is something that even Asylum would deem far-fetched.

Tremors, classic.

The Burbs, classic.

Commando, classic.

Just goes to show that critics are fucking useless.

[DukeDeMondo]

Knowing.

Folk laugh away because Nicholas Cage vs A Load Of Numbers sounds like the sort of thing no film with the weight of a flea's pish in brains could ever be about, but no, it's properly good. Audacious, even, a man might say. Easily my favourite Alex Proyas film, although Dark City isn't far behind. The sort of thing that doesn't get produced on that scale very often. For good reason, you might think, a film about Nicholas Cage is tormented by an 8 or a 91 for fuck sake, but that's the sort of thing you could only say if you hadn't seen it, or if you made your mind up before you started watchin and then just took the piss out the thing from start to end even when there's nothin to take the piss out of.

[Jerzy Bondov]

The last time I watched Commando my face hurt from smiling and laughing. It's fucking brilliant.

[billtheburger]

Maximum Overdrive

I did a thing on a website about this a few years back.
These are what remains:

[Shit Good Nose]

I too have always liked Maximum Overdrive, and never really understood why people have always been so down on it. 

It seems the perfect candidate for one of those films that develops a cult which the critics then latch onto 10-20 years later and it starts getting some momentum and the good notices it actually deserves.

But nope - still 5.4 on IMDB.

[Shit Good Nose]

Cannonball Run.

I also genuinely love Cannonball Run 2.  More of the same.  Which is why it's good.  "You're the tallest short guy I've ever seen."  And Abe Vigoda.  I draw the line at Cannonball Fever, though.  One half decent scene.  Even the great John Candy can't save it.

Talking of Abe Vigoda, I will again mention the film I mentioned in the original thread - North.  Do not get the hate at all.

[Twed]

Would somebody who loves Smokey and the Bandit (but only the first one) like Cannonball Run?

[Shit Good Nose]

Would somebody who loves Smokey and the Bandit (but only the first one) like Cannonball Run?

Yes.  Similar sort of in-jokery.  Of the two I would say Cannonball is better, even though most of the rest of the world would disagree.

Mind you, I do also like Smokey 2 and, for all its many many faults, Smokey 3.  It helps that Smokey 3 is infinitely better than Cannonball Fever.

[Kane Jones]

Would somebody who loves Smokey and the Bandit (but only the first one) like Cannonball Run?

I prefer Cannonball Run to Smokey & The Bandit. I also think Hooper is a brilliant film if you enjoy these Hal Needham/Burt Reynolds films.

[BOBBY FLOWERS]

Alien Resurrection[nb]I also like Alien 3[nb]theatrical cut[/nb] but the debate on whether that's good or bad[nb]it's good[/nb] has been done a few times on here already[/nb]

[Custard]

Grease 2. Knocks the original into a tin can.

Rewatched it recently. Yup, it's a more than adequate go at doing another one. Some ace songs, too

WE'RE GONNA SCOOOORE TONIGHT!

[Small Man Big Horse]

Alien Resurrection

I'm fond of that too, it looks stunning and even if the plot's a bit of a mess I did enjoy the ride.

I have a soft spot for Southland Tales. I would never call it a good film but I really enjoy the ambition of it, and the batshit craziness. In 10 years I reckon people will view it in the same way they do Buckaroo Banzai now.

I completely agree with you there, it's a flawed film but it's ambition can't help but be admired, and I did enjoy it a great deal. Given how his career's panned out so far, I've a feeling it might be the best film Richard Kelly ever makes.

Crimewave would be my immediate response to the thread, it got terrible reviews when it first came out but I think it's one of Raimi's best, the ridiculous slapstick is a huge amount of fun, and Reed Birney (who's pleasingly had a bit of a comeback of late, at least tv wise) makes for the perfect lead, whilst Bruce Campbell's great too.

[BOBBY FLOWERS]

I'm fond of that too, it looks stunning and even if the plot's a bit of a mess I did enjoy the ride.

I re-watched the trailer after I'd posted to see if I could remember what I liked about it or to see if it threw anything up to put me off and I the look was something I noticed. It managed to be comic book while still keeping the look bang on and it still felt part of the Alien universe (in a way that Prometheus didn't).[nb]The human/alien at the end of Alien: Resurrection is Gigeresque in a way that the pastiche and overt nods to Giger in Prometherus didn't manage.[nb]and I'm going to guess the new faithful Aliens sequel that we should have had will make an arse of this as well[/nb]

Spoiler alert

The Alien looking at Ripley like a kicked dog affected me more as a child than anything else in the other films. Actually I don't remember anything else standing out like that for me as wean although maybe it's embarrassingly cloying to you emotionless adult husks.

[close]

[/nb] All this despite the whole premise having the look of a cheap cash in - a premise that makes the third film redundant. (This might be coloured by the fact I probably first saw it when I was about 7 so it always was part of the Alien universe for me.) 

[Custard]

Watching Commando again. Fuck me, the opening montage of him and his daughter is amazing

[Avril Lavigne]

I have a soft spot for Southland Tales. I would never call it a good film but I really enjoy the ambition of it, and the batshit craziness. In 10 years I reckon people will view it in the same way they do Buckaroo Banzai now.

I did enjoy watching it and probably will watch it again, although even as someone who made the effort to read the graphic novels which comprised the first half of the story, I had no idea what was going on throughout most of the movie.

I'll add my name to the list of fans of The 'Burbs, it's one of the 20-or-so movies in my collection that I've upgraded from DVD to Blu Ray just to spend hours going through all the special features & behind-the-scenes material.

Speaking of Joe Dante, I like Gremlins 2 much more than 1.

[batwings]

Congo is great fun. Quite brazen in its ridiculousness. The scene where they shoot down the anti-aircraft missiles with flare guns is something that even Asylum would deem far-fetched.

Not that far-fetched really. Flares may be  deployed by military aircraft to decoy heat-seeking missiles so its technically possible.

For example, in the following clip from a 1970s  documentary,  a pilot shoots down a missile with a flare fired through the cockpit widow of an inverted Concorde.

https://youtu.be/noWbhLfbRvk?t=171

Beat that, Congo.

[Dr Rock]

Showgirls. Hilarious black comedy. I know it's got a cult following now, but still massively misunderstood if people think it's 'so bad it's good.'

[Custard]

I'd love Showgirls a lot more if they'd take out that ridiculous (and pointless) rape scene. Fuckin' 'orrible

[Blumf]

The pixels... are not right.





Similar to Commando, I always make time for Raw Deal



So many 'bad' 80s bits to it, gotta love it.

[Ballad of Ballard Berkley]

Rock Horror Picture Show.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show isn't considered to be shit. On the contrary, it's a much-loved cult film. Yes, as you say, it's become one of those "fun things for unfunny people" in subsequent years, but the film itself has always been highly regarded.

[kngen]

Grease 2. Knocks the original into a tin can.

This is the view of my wife and her brother. I never really liked the first one, but sequels where only minor supporting cast members from the original agreed to sign on depress the hell out of me for some reason.

_{Also, one of my classmates used to sing that Reproduction song all the time - and claimed it was from 'Grease 2', which I'd never heard of and thought was highly fanciful. He said he had it on video, but couldn't lend it to me because it was from America and wouldn't play on my video machine. Pretty much the perfect storm of classroom bollocks-talking there, right? Except when I found out there was indeed a Grease 2, I cast my mind back and reappraised: he was the son of an Egyptian diplomat who travelled to the US extensively; and of course NTSC tapes were unplayable on PAL machines until a long time after this took place (the early 80s). I mean, in light of all this, can we really be sure there isn't actually a film called Basketball Heads?}

[Mollusc In Country]

The 'Saw' films. Nothing special, obviously, and I haven't seen them in years now, but watchable. I know that along with Hostel they're credited with inspiring a load of crap 'torture porn' films, but I've always thought Saw had much more to it than that.

[Van Dammage]

The 'Saw' films. Nothing special, obviously, and I haven't seen them in years now, but watchable. I know that along with Hostel they're credited with inspiring a load of crap 'torture porn' films, but I've always thought Saw had much more to it than that.

The first Saw film (for me at least) is far from Torture porn. It's got a bit of mystery about it and it's a lot more tame than the sequels. Love it. Great soundtrack and twist too. A solid horror / thriller.

Also since someone mentioned Commando I'm going to have to throw in :



Hard Target.



and Con Air.



This bit was always a highlight in commando because the car was in perfect condition in the next shot.

[Claude the Racecar Driving Rockstar Super Sleuth]

What with all the bile being directed at the remake, I wouldn't be surprised if Ghost Busters 2 has received a bit of a revisionist reappraisal lately. Probably not. Anyway, I've always quite liked it. Obviously it's not as good as the original, but it seems to have been on the telly a lot more, over the years, which helped it worm its way into my mind.

[mothman]

I'm quite partial to Mission To Mars, Ghosts Of Mars... no, there's no trend here... and the Eric Bana Hulk. And of course The Mothman Prophecies.

[Puce Moment]

Alien Resurrection[nb]I also like Alien 3[nb]theatrical cut[/nb] but the debate on whether that's good or bad[nb]it's good[/nb] has been done a few times on here already[/nb]

I should say. I don't have much time for Aliens, and Alien3 is pretty decent, but Alien Resurrection was properly fun. Those underwater shots of the Alien are fantastic, and the cloned Ripleys scene is probably the most emotionally devastating scene in any Alien film.