Is it OK to like bad movies?

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For years, I have always seem to like movies that most people hate, like:

Rock-A-Doodle
Cool World
The Pagemaster
The "Garfield" movies.
Super Mario Bros.
The "Arabian Knight" version of "The Thief and the Cobbler"
Tom and Jerry: The Movie
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

There's nothing wrong with having your opinion. I don't see why anyone would give you a hard time about your taste in film.

If the critics pan it I probably like it

They're only bad movies if you think they're bad.

Everyone's taste in movies is subjective. I try to not listen to the critics.

yeah, same goes for video games. From my experience i can definately say f**k the critics/reviewers, think for yourself.

I belong to a (French-speaking) Internet Community who like watchin "so-bad-they're-good" movies (in French the correct word is "nanar").
Among these movies I especially enjoyed Plan 9 From Outer Space and Delta Force.
If there's anyone else who speaks French here, it's the website : http://www.nanarland.com/

You must see Mommy Dearest. It's delightfully bad.

There's nothing wrong with enjoying schlock as well as quality, as long as you can tell the difference.

Rocky Horror is terrifically bad, and lots of people love that, because it's just plain fun. John Waters actually strives to be bad, and I'm not sure but I think Andy Warhol's films were 'bad on purpose', too. For his sake, I hope so.

Personally, I find everything Ed Wood, Jr. did to be hysterically funny, but most people can't sit through them - the Tim Burton/Johnny Depp biopic notwithstanding, which actually was funny and makes the whole notion of 'so bad it's good' easier to understand. Don't believe a film with wall-to-wall nudity could put you to sleep? Watch 'Orgy of the Dead'.

Look up David Lynch's Eraserhead. Now that is one strange piece of filmmaking, and yet I find it compelling even while it disturbs me. David Cronenberg's Videodrome was not cheaply done, but is one of the most garbled complex ideas I've ever been unable to fully comprehend. I think I get it, but I'm never 100% sure. Less sure if I care, but the special effects are cool.

Tobe Hooper directed a movie called Lifeforce in 1984, based on a very good book 'Mind Parasites' by Colin Wilson, but somewhere along the line both the title and every original word of Wilson's story got thrown out and replaced by...well, a naked vampire from outer space, who destroys the world or something...I'm sure Colin Wilson was extremely embarrassed to have his name associated with it in any way, except by cashing the check, but it's hard to turn it off once you start watching...maybe its the naked vampire, I don't know...

There was a slew of Z-grade horror flicks in the 60s and 70s that are so awful (not scary or gross - just AWFUL), once I start one, I 'm masochistically glued to the screen, just to see if it can get any more boring, or whether the writer can dumb his dialogue down any more without actually forcing characters to say things like "GooGoo, Gaga", "Me go potty" and "Dink! Dink!"...Strangely all these pieces of crap have great titles, like The Corpse Grinders. What movie could live up to a name like that?

There are some movies I like that have been panned by most critics. Inversely, there are some movies I dislike that have been praised by most critics.

roygerdodger, I have four words for you: Mystery Science Theater 3000. That is a very good reason to like crappy movies.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcUkKltAidM[/youtube]

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Enjoyable if one ignores the source material and just watches it for cheesy sci-fi nonsense.


Not a bad movie at all. Excluded some of the best bits of previous versions, and wasn't nearly as gritty as I would have envisioned it, but it works. A lot of the cast is excellent (Bill Nighy and Mos Def were perfect casting, IMO), and the Humma Kavula bits are great. Not a perfect film, could have been a lot better, but I like it.

Rotten Tomatoes gives it 61%, but the top critics are at 73%, so it is by no means a bad movie. I certainly enjoyed this version, and it is worth remembering that almost everything different about the storyline was actually written by Douglas Adams before his death.

Is it OK? No. Absolutely not. And you're a horrible person, too.

Also, try the Power Rangers movie.

I'm very fond of the Garfield films.

Anyone else here like The Cable Guy?

I've always thought that bad movies can sometimes make the most entertaining viewing, purely for their silliness.

For example, Street Fighter is a utterly dreadful movie, but Raul Julia's hilarious, scenery-chewing turn as M. Bison ("FOR I BEHELD SATAN... AS HE FELL FROM HEAVEN... LIKE LIGHTNIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIING!") makes it absolutely legendary in my book