Movies that are so bad their good

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It might just be me but I love movies that are god awful I love watching them its a sick fetish of mine I love any movie by Ed Wood who is often called Ed Wood the worst director of all time

Does anyone else like watching bad movies?

I'll watch anything as long as it's not boring. That's the worst thing a movie can be. At least bad movies are entertaining in their badness. As much as I criticize Michael Bay, I'll gladly watch whatever pile of donkey s**t he releases onto cinema screens, just to enjoy watching the train wreck.

I am the same way check out this mvoie trailer its awful but funny

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZSWkL5KN1w

Bad movies? Ed Wood? Here you have that and the greatest soundtrack ever - twice.

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Robot Monster? Calculate your chances! Negative! Negative! Negative!

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Ed Wood didn't make Robot Monster, Robot Monster was the work of Al Zimbalist and director Phil Tucker, he who made the Lenny Bruce/Timothy Farrell movie "Dance Hall Racket" as well as "Cape Canaveral Monsters".

Watch Dance Hall Racket

Santa Claus Conquers the Martians

Todd Browning's: Freaks

Reefer Madness

Cocaine Fiends

Sex Madness

Test Tube Babies

Maniac!

Eraserhead (more bizarre than bad)


Videodrome (ditto)

Logan's Run (epic for a couple months, until Star Wars came out)

Escape from New York (not really that bad in its day, but comically dated by modern standards)

You might also enjoy a series called 'Fireball XL5' - not really fair to classify it as 'bad', since it was made for Saturday Morning Children's Television in 1962, but it is a marionette puppet show Science Fiction series (ala Thunderbirds or Team America) filmed in black and white and has a quaint charm all its own.

I guess its just a matter of opinion whether or not the movie Mystery Men belongs in this category, but I like it a lot and it doesn't quite ever attain 'good' status, in terms of writing content - its funny because of the ludicrousness of the characters, not so much because of the wit of the script.

There's a Spielberg film from the mid 80s called 'Explorers' that kind of fell flat (and is waay overlong), but still had a certain charm in spite of its flaws. Or maybe I was just really, really high a lot in those days.

Dolph Lundgren (one of several Schwarzenegger wannabes) did a SF film around 89 called 'I Come in Peace' that didn't totally suck.

I'd like to put the Tom Cruise film 'Legend' on the list, but no...no matter how much I want to like it - it still blows. Same for 1980s 'Flash Gordon.'


A few years back (2004), there was a 5 DvD set that was sold in an old fashioned tin lunchbox, called 'The Educational Archives' and a followup set in 2006, that are chock full of the old educational films kids used to have to watch in class back in the 50s, 60s and 70s - propaganda scare films about drugs, bicycle safety, personal hygiene, stuff like that. Hours of stoner fun giggling at how goofy things were in Mom and Dad's generation. And mine.

There's a sort of abbreviated version of this on a disc called 'What Were We Thinking?'

And a collection called 'Exploitation Madness' with ten or twelve different movies in it.

And while you're collecting Ed Wood's classics, don't forget the nudie epic 'Orgy of the Dead' and his one whack (pun) at hardcore porn, 'Necromania'

How about the original Conan the Barbarian movie starring Arnold Schwarzenegger? I used to think that movie was a comedy before my brother informed me that it was supposed to be serious.

Ed Wood's Night of the Ghouls. I just love the "John Doe" scene at the beginning.

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Here you go, enjoy.

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The original "Wizard of Gore." lol Now, kids. Don't go looking for the trailer on youtube. It's bad for your tender minds. o.o

Or this one Japanese film Ninjas vs Aliens. That was some good cheese.

Another movie that was bad in most respects actually had some good peculiar special effects. "The Incredible Melting Man" I used to watch Mystery Science Theater 3000 and this was one I missed when it was still airing. I found out after already seeing the movie that MST3k riffed on it. I went ahead and downloaded with BT and burned it to watch on my playstation.

Starship Troopers!

Twilight and Drag me to hell. Both of them failed at what they were trying to do and both of them were f*****g hilarious.

Ray Sager's performance in the Wizard of Gore, well, he likes to make excuses for it, about how the original actor bailed out so he was given the role at the last moment. "What can be safer than swallowing a sword?... no DDT, no calories, an excellent way to get your iron!"

As for the blood, it's typical of the director. The acting I think is worse in Blood Feast.