I grew up with friends who LOVED Adam Sandler so I am with kraftdeluxe on "The Waterboy" thing. As well as "Little Nicky". But, the most vivid film reminiscince from childhood past are the gag inducing films my father dragged me to.
These include: "Spawn", "Armageddon", "Batman Forever", and "Starship Troopers".
A group of borderline-retarded teens get on a bus to DC with Chong as the busdriver and a Star Trek-obsessed Kevin Macdonald in a hijacked minivan chasing them. They steal booze, piss out the emergency exit, have sex, put a wild hotel party on a lobbyist's tab, and stop pork barrel politics!
Posts: 571 | Location: Detroit (suburbs) | Registered: 18 May 2004
Nobody's had the guts to mention Showgirls? I know it gets lots of votes in the Worst Film of All-Time Sweepstakes, and I guess I can understand why, but I think it's pretty darn good entertainment, whether you take it seriously or not. OK, let the stoning begin.
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Posts: 12874 | Location: Behind the Orange Curtain | Registered: 14 May 2004
Originally posted by mark f: Nobody's had the guts to mention Showgirls? I know it gets lots of votes in the Worst Film of All-Time Sweepstakes, and I guess I can understand why, but I think it's pretty darn good entertainment, whether you take it seriously or not. OK, let the stoning begin.
I watched about 3/4 and didnt find it THAT bad. I mean it was decent camp.......ok who am I kidding where did I put my stones...
"Mom & Dad Save the World" starring Jeffrey Jones, Teri Garr, Jon Lovitz, Eric Idle, & Kathy Ireland. I don't think it was actually released to theaters, I first saw it on HBO. I just LOVED Jon Lovitz in this. In a movie that takes place on a planet of idiots, he is the biggest one & the most hilarious! I can't help but do his sloppy nasty kiss on my wife & then adding his trademark, "You're Welcome!"(Yeah, I know, what a lucky woman!) The soldiers are great too! My favorite scene with them is at the rebel camp. They know there is a light grenade on the ground & what it can do, if you pick it up you disappear in a flash of light, yet, they MUST pick it up because it actually reads, "PICK ME UP" on it! The best shot is when the second to the last soldier, surrounded by the empty clothes of his fellow officers, is standing over, reading it & then they go to the last soldier calling back to base, "I think we're gonna need some reinforcements out here." The effects are terrible & the "fish women" look plastic but, the movie is just hilarious to me. I was excited when I found it on VHS & even more extatic when I found it in widescreen on DVD!!!
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Posts: 2542 | Location: Springfield, Oh! Hi ya, Maude! | Registered: 01 January 2007
I think one movie I really liked that would generally be considered bad is Demolition Man. I don't know why, but I've always liked that flick. In fact, I just bought a used copy of it for $2.00 this weekend.
Posts: 1376 | Location: Valparaiso, IN | Registered: 01 July 2006
"Blind Fury" (1989) starring Rutger Hauer was a movie I saw when I was about 12 or 13 years old. At that time this movie rocked! I was young & it was a movie about a blind swordsman. What's more cool than that to a kid? After many, many years I found it on DVD for 5 bucks & just had to have it! I got home, popped it in, & couldn't believe how awful this movie actually is ! The acting is terrible & the sword fighting isn't all that great. There's even a scene at the end that involves him fighting a ninja type guy in a room with a hot tub that has been electrified by fallen lights. Near the end of the fight, the ninja decides to start swinging by a cord over the hot tub to make slashes at our hero. I'm sure I don't have to tell you what happened next . No, I don't enjoy it on the same level as I did when I was a kid, but it does make me laugh!
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Posts: 2542 | Location: Springfield, Oh! Hi ya, Maude! | Registered: 01 January 2007
"Men At Work" -- w/ Charlie Sheen and Emilio Estevez. A bad film for sure, but still funny and something I'll watch when I happen upon it.
"The Arrival" -- Not everyone thinks this one is bad, but I've seen/heard quite a few negative opinions about it. After seeing Ebert's positive review I gave it a shot, and it's pretty decent. There are some genuinely chilling moments, and some thrilling action sequences (the one on the huge SETI satellite dish, for example).
I'm not any kind of Charlie Sheen fan, it's just coincidence that he's in both of these.
Battle. Field. Earth. I fear to watch, yet I can never turn away. How many times can Travolta say rat-brain and get away with it? Why does he get to have a career after that? How was Forest Whitaker convinced to participate?
While we're on the subject of respectable actors finding themselves in films of irredemeable garbage, pity poor Malcolm McDowell, Sir John Gielgud and Peter O'Toole in Caligula. What a steaming load of garbage that one was. I still get a bit queasy thinking about several specific scenes that I don't want to detail here.
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Posts: 1429 | Location: State of Disarray | Registered: 10 January 2007
Originally posted by Nhazghaal: Battle. Field. Earth. I fear to watch, yet I can never turn away.
You probably couldn't turn away because watching CAVEMEN FLYING HARRIER JETS is friggin' awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Posts: 2542 | Location: Springfield, Oh! Hi ya, Maude! | Registered: 01 January 2007
Cobra w/Sylvester Stallone (love bad acting, and the chopped 1950 Mercury he drives.)
Deep Blue Sea (1999) - Completely ludicrous shark movie. Samuel Jackson parodies (I hope) his speech from Pulp Fiction just before a giant mechanical shark leaps out of the water and eats him. I laugh every time I watch it.
Big Trouble in Little China Army of Darkness Labyrinth Battlefield Earth Mom and Dad Save the World Cobra
I love all of these movies. I own them all except Mom and Dad...
When Cobra drinks the beer in the supermarket shoot-out may be one of my favorite film moments ever. And then they play the angel of the city song. Classic.
Posts: 616 | Location: kentucky | Registered: 02 October 2007
! The acting is terrible & the sword fighting isn't all that great. There's even a scene at the end that involves him fighting a ninja type guy in a room with a hot tub that has been electrified by fallen lights. Near the end of the fight, the ninja decides to start swinging by a cord over the hot tub to make slashes at our hero. I'm sure I don't have to tell you what happened next 
. No, I don't enjoy it on the same level as I did when I was a kid, but it does make me laugh! 
