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You know, the films that most people claim to hate.
Just as an interesting counterpoint to the other thread.
I like Moulin Rouge.
I have a soft spot for Titanic - the schmaltz just makes it more watchable. 😀
I love Dumb & Dumber.
And The Blair Witch Project isn't bad either, certainly far more interesting than the likes of Hostel or Saw.
Be honest - what other films generally considered rubbish do you really like?
Adam Sandler films like the waterboy and happy Gilmore...
They are by no means great films but they still get a chuckle out of me.
I don't like anything that's shite 😛
Seriously, Near Dark is the first to spring to mind, Blair Witch too, but I do think it's a good film.
A life less ordinary
Most (but not all) Jason Statham films.
Demolition Man (it was on the other night, and I still think it's a work of visionary genius).
Commando.
Not sure if it was poorly rated at the time, and I'm not sure if it was intentionally funny but..
Robocop 2..
[url= http://singletrackmag.com/forum/topic/films-that-are-so-awful-theyre-actually-quite-good ]Quite a lot of these tick the boxes for me [/url]
Ah, missed that thread.
Sorry folks.
Mr Deeds and Happy Gilmore are comic genius.
Quite like Splash as well.
HAppy Gilmore is a classic, I've never heard otherwise TBH.
Adam Sandler is an incredibly annoying cockbag in every film he stars in.
Ah, missed that thread.
Sorry folks.
Nah, to be fair, it's two different things. I've enjoyed quite a lot of things that are well made but received poor reviews from critics and/or joe public. Definitely not bad movies, but was just surprised when I checked the ratings after I'd watched it to see it had been slated. Quite a lot of British independent movies seem to suffer on IMDB for for example. Presumably because the international element don't "get it"?
Dude Where's My Car
+1 for Statham's stuff too.
Yep Statham here too
First time I saw Blair Witch Project was on a dodgy DVD before it was in the cinema over here. Watched it with a girlfriend in a dark room and we crapped ourselves. It was so original and damn scary. All the hype blew it out of proportion so I don't think people got it really. Tiny budget, so different from anything else. Anyway, it was great. Haven't watched it aince though.
Dez,
It was so original and damn scary.
I thought it really worked well, but I only saw it after all the hype.
Wish I'd seen it beforehand.
Anybody catch Monsters when it was on Film4 recently?
Excellent low budget Brit produced sci-fi.
Highly recommended.
Another for a Life Less Ordinary here. Great film, couldn't believe it when I saw it had 6.something on IMDb.
Hot Tub Time Machine
Hammer Horror 😉
Dude, where's my car?
and Days of thunder...
Anybody catch Monsters when it was on Film4 recently?
Excellent low budget Brit produced sci-fi.
Highly recommended.
Yeah, I saw it when it came out. Excellent film made on a minuscule budget with impressive special effects produced using little more than a couple of Apple Macs in the directors bedroom.
Yeah I thought Monsters was pretty good as well.
King Kong (remake). Lots to criticise, sure, but plenty to like as well.
Is Dumb and Dumber poorly rated? I went in to review it for a newspaper, expecting to hate it, laughed like a drain.
Pandorum
Dune.
Not a patch on the book, but a wonderful rendition of a Gothic space opera.
I like the chronicles of Riddick for the same reasons.
Happy Gilmore is my go-to film when I just want to aim my eyes at something cheery and not think too much. Always cheers me up - "I eat pieces of shit like you for breakfast".
"You eat pieces of shit for breakfast?"
It's not Oscar Wilde, but it puts a smile on my fizz. 🙂
Heavens Gate. A disastrous flop.
I love it. The only cowboy film I know of that has roller skating in it.
Pearl Harbour. I hate that I love it....
I did like Titanic, it's pretty simple- the first 2 hours is showing you things, the last hour is trashing the things you've seen. Everything else is ignorable. Just got to watch it for the spectacle really.
Monsters has 72% on Rotten Tomatoes, so not particularly poorly rated (although it has a lower audience rating).
Super troopers
the Monsters director got the Godzilla remake job off the back of it so plenty of the right people liked it.
Nth-ing Statham films (usually) and I liked Prometheus.
Was having this very conversation in the pub last night. I have to agree with loads of the films mentioned above - Happy Gilmore, Dumb and Dumber, Transporter and Crank films.
A couple more to throw into the mix are Nacho Libre and Peewee Herman's Big Adventure.
Hudson Hawk.
Reminds me of another one - absolutely panned by those people referred to as "the critics", but when I saw it I thought it was brilliant, an utter classic: Heaven's Gate.
and I liked Prometheus
Yeah, me too. I think the critics panned it because the expectation was that it was going to be another Ridley Scott alien masterpiece. It wasn't that but it was still a very good film I thought.
Hudson Hawk
now that's a lie. no-one likes Hudson Hawk.
I really enjoyed The Expendables and that got panned at the time by most critics!
Another vote for Hudson Hawk here!
Me too also with Life less ordinary. Film cracks me up!
John Carter
Troll Hunter
Two movies that shouldn't work but positively excel in entertaining me are:
Con Air
Pitch Black
One that would probably fit the original question perfectly:
The Langoliers
The most recent Judge Dredd.
Another Hudson hawk admirer here too.
Oooh!
Howard, the Duck.
Universally panned, and it's a fun little movie.
Blade I II III - etc etc and most Vampire movies before all the teen nonsense took over which I refuse to watch (in case I like them..)
Wasn't aware that Life Less Ordinary was "poor"
Most superhero movies!
Dude, where's my car is a masterpiece so it doesn't count for this thread.
[url= http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113243/ ]Hackers[/url] is my choice. Just strikes a chord for me though not really sure why as I was never a wannabe hacker and given that I work in IT, the computery bits of it are pretty laughable.
Do the computers make that bip bip bippity bip noise when characters appear on screen? If so - classic! 🙂
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Heavens Gate. A disastrous flop.
I love it. The only cowboy film I know of that has roller skating in it."
A work of genius.
Jeremiah Johnson. Regarded as a low budget flop is my favorite film.
Lost in Translation - although i think you need to be of a certain age/life experience to really get it.
Escape from New York.
DezB - Member
Do the computers make that bip bip bippity bip noise when characters appear on screen? If so - classic!
No but they have full on VR type interfaces when dealing with file systems (on the Gibson!)
Starship Troopers 😀
Top Gun: lets be honest its pretty ludicrous but I still love it.
Charlie's Angels: Its nonsense but has Cameron Diaz in tiny pants
Starship troopers is also very knowingly 'bad' though, isn't it? Wasn't there some fuss at the studio when they realised that the standard gungho shoot em up they'd paid for was actually subversive political satire?
"Cockneys vs Zombies".
Rioting Milwall and West Ham zombies fighting.
"Even when they're dead they still hate each other!"
Richard Briers as a zimmer-frame pensioner finding it hard to get up enough speed to escape a zombie attack.
Hilarious.
Taxi - (The original french one from '98, not the godawful one with queen latiffah)
Very very silly but has some really good car chases and Marion Cotillard in the nip
[i]Starship troopers is also very knowingly 'bad' though, isn't it?[/i]
I don't know of anyone who doesn't like Starship Troopers. Hmm, I'll rephrase that - Everyone likes Starship Troopers!
Hackers is my choice. Just strikes a chord for me
We'll have to agree to disagree on that one. I thought it was a bloody awful movie, the only way they could've made it worse would've been to not have Angelina Jolie take her clothes off.
Isn't that the whole point of this thread, Cougar - if everyone agreed then there wouldn't be any films that meet the thread criteria...
Outland
Miami Vice (remake)
Cannonball Run
Clubber, don't you be coming here with your logic and sensible comments.
Sorry Mr Mod, won't happen again.
The original Judge Dredd movie.
As mentioned, Demolition man plus:
Dog Soldiers - Sean Pertwee is piss funny in it.
"How you feeling sarge?"
"Peachy. just f$%^$&£*£ peachy" (as his inside are put together with superglue).
The one where Gerard "Man" Butler murders people.
Edit: Cause someone killed his wife or something.
Dune for me too, I get grief whenever I fess up to it.
+1 for Howard the Duck. Years since I've that film, most likely on video & under the influence.
Dog soldiers, good call 🙂
Although not the best film to start thinking about on a solo night ride in the deep dark woods 😉
Starship Troopers
Doomsday
How high... It's everything I hate in a film, but when I watched it it cracked me up..
Starship troopers is superb..
Taxi is NOT a bad film!
How about.. Independence Day?
Poorly rated at the time
Life less ordinary ....brilliant sublime and wonderful
its a wonderful life......James Stewart....not critically well received saved by TV
transformers .......sorry so loud I can hear them
Constantine//////love the feel and ambiance plus Tilda Swinton role
League of Extraordinary gentleman......Yesss Mr Connery
George of the Jungle...so bad but was on loop for so long in the house brilliant
The Escapist....brit prison breakout.......Brian Cox at his best.
A Team ... Liam Nesson Bradley Cooper and star of the show Sharlto Copley just silliness
Reign of fire...............dragons London a bald Matthew Mc
Sahara...........no idea why really
The 13th Warrior Antinio Banderas as an arab with Vikings.....yep
King Arthur...Clive OWen and Ray Winstone....lots going for it especially a great cast
Event Horizon....epic ideas
Taxi is NOT a bad film!
I know, but it has had it's fair share of people giving it a poor rating
The 13th Warrior Antinio Banderas as an arab with Vikings
That's a great film. Excellent Michael Crichton book too (Eaters of the Dead is the book title).
some weird definitions of poorly rated on here - the Blade trilogy, Troll Hunter, Con Air, Pitch Black, Event Horizon, Blair Witch... Seriously?
As youre all playing it so safe, I'll throw out...
Sucker Punch!
Absolutely panned by the critics, lousy scores on metacritic, rotten tomatoes etc, but I really enjoyed it, and its a whole lot more clever than many people (haters or fans) think. Munqe-chick also enjoyed it, she wasnt particularly bothered by the outfits but wasn't a fan of the computer-game-style fantasy segments but loved the intro and all the hospital-set stuff.
Denis Quaid in Savior.
Agree with Suckerpunch. Loved it. Also watched Movie 43 yesterday, was very wtf, but had us laughing.
Universal Soldier Regeneration. Great video style fight scenes: