movies that you saw because you knew they were bad and thought they would be fun to watch but they actually just made you want to kill yourself

- the da vinci code

myra breckinridge

bratz

in high school my friends and i had a masochistic thing with tom arnold movies ... they were never fun to watch and they were always depressing.

Armageddon, ah god I felt like Michael Bay and Jerry Bruckheimer had taken a shit into my eyes for 2 hours.

hot tub time machine
bad boys 2

I tried to watch Ballstic: Ecks vs. Sever last night but failed.

Ballistic, rather

I love Myra Breckinridge.

John Boorman's film of

EXORCIST II:
THE HERETIC

The Principal was the only time I ever did this.

Ecks vs. Sever is really depressing and torpid.

I love Myra Breckinridge.

― macaroni rascal (polyphonic), Tuesday, 9 November 2010 23:18 (23 seconds ago)

^^^

http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:1ggovVIwIHSN8M:http://stores.homestead.com/unitedindependentmedia/catalog/thirteen-DVD.jpg&t=1

Ecks vs Sever is terrible, but for several years I had convinced myself that it was so good it's bad. (SPOILER: it isn't)

A cultier choice would be The Forbidden Zone, which I heard many good things about from so-bad-its-good fans but irritated the fuck out of me.

I thought Lady in the Water would be hilarious due to slocki's thread, but I thought it was basically unwatchable. I turned it off halfway through.

national treasure

"I Accidentally Domed Your Son" remains the worst movie I have ever attempted to watch.

I only watched Da Vinci Code so I'd be ready the next time some tosser told me I couldn't criticise if I hadn't seen it.

Don't normally watch bad films on purpose but am at a loss to account for why I've seen Next.

The Happening

anything directed by clint eastwood

Howard the Duck

Oh and our Joel made me watch that Day the Earth Stood Still remake but I hadn't anticipated fun in the first place.

anyone seen all of The Room?

Like 10 times?

have you killed yourself?

Would you like me to?

anything directed by clint eastwood

― rip poopy g stinkgarten 09/11 never forget (nakhchivan)

lol u kids

Jerry Springer: Ringmaster

Screwballs might be the most extreme case I've experienced of this, though. Wanted to join a monastery by the end.

city slickers

The Room is def not an example of this phenomenon.

I watched The Ugly Truth on a plane once. And then I watched 500 Days of Summer straight after (my tolerance of the latter might just be in comparison to the former). Actually, I think every film I've ever seen on a plane apart from Pirates of the Caribbean might qualify here.

http://www.impawards.com/2004/posters/day_after_tomorrow_ver3.jpg

anything directed by clint eastwood

― rip poopy g stinkgarten 09/11 never forget (nakhchivan), Tuesday, November 9, 2010 6:36 PM (31 minutes ago) Bookmark

http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/shallots-2.jpg

^^^shallots

Rhymes with challops

^^^onions

rhymes with funyuns

http://paceshipseastwind25.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/patent-swivel-rowlocks-lg-wp.jpg

rascalolicums

Thread of Shallops

Transformers

little miss sunshine

not sure if 'clint eastwood films are miserable shite' is true challops within the context of ilx

i dunno, i thought 'million dollar baby' would have some interest being abt boxing but jesus it's relentlessly grim

Million Dollar Baby got so many things about boxing wrong.

yeah, it's against the rules to throw someone's head into a stool like that

it was a documentary iirc

Million Dollar Baby got so many things about boxing wrong.

Casting Hillary Swank as (a) a woman (b) a boxer.

TBF Clint's main area of knowledge re: pugilism is bare-knuckle fighting rednecks and orang-utans in honky-tonk car parks.

now there's a challop, watch and learn kids xp

man, ondemand leads me down this path too often

- year one
- dan in real life
- the taking of pelham 123 (remake)
- 88 minutes
- prom night

pelham 123 remake- nah man you let yoursef down there in fairness

anchorman

Sky Movies keeps listing it as The Taking of Pelham 1,2,3 and the commas are driving my inner movie pedant nuts.

click

Twilight New Moon - had SO much fun at a screening of the first Twilight movie with some friends, it was so bad and cheesy and and stupid, and fun. But New Moon was such a snorefest the bad stuff just wasn't funny.

the whole time during the pelham 123 remake i just kept thinking about denzel washington reading the script and being like, "holy shit, i'm 95 pages into this script and my character STILL hasn't gotten out of a chair? and they're gonna pay me $12 million for this shit?"

Oh god Prom Night was just absolutely fucking horrible. Every second that I was watching it I hated myself. Jonathan Schaech sure has fallen a long way from The Doom Generation, That Thing You do and boning Christina Applegate.

That last one isn't a movie but if it was I'd watch it.

pelham commas blowing my mind

with "year one" i was like "this really can't be THAT bad" and woof, it really was that bad

Ultraviolet: a very long live-action esurance commercial.

Oh fuck yeah Year One that was another one that my boy made us watch, I was begging for sleep after 10 minutes but it just wouldn't happen.

didn't think pelham 123 was that bad....has james gandolfini and some minor travolta lols

it's the sort of thing you'll eventually end up watching if you have insomnia/fast dsl/rapidshare

Gamer

Pelham suffers from comparison with the original, but yeah it's not THAT bad.

Law Abiding Citizen. ugh. double ugh.

with "year one" i was like "this really can't be THAT bad" and woof, it really was that bad

― J0rdan S., Wednesday, November 10, 2010 12:28 AM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark

kent jones rates it, apparently

Srsly I've seen funnier Ant & Dec routines

oh god

VANTAGE POINT

that movie is just..... water torture

Again: Shutter Island. Thought it'd be good junk.

I saw the old Prom Night for the first time right before this past Halloween. I DVRed it from the Chiller channel. Anyways it looked like I was watching a VHS that had been copied over 10 times. I couldn't see what was happening in most of the murder scenes. Just terrible. I thought it was going to be good though :/

haha, i saw Prom Night on VHS many years ago and thought that we just had some bum copy. couldn't see anything.

The Hottie And The Nottie, save for a couple of choice lines. Joel David Moore is the single worst and most annoying character in the history of film, and next thing he had a major speaking role in Avatar. O Superman.

Transformers 2: revenge of the something or other

The Happening - best comedy of 2008

The worst movie like this: The Quest starring (and directed by) Van Damme.

it's like 90 minutes but feels like fucking forever. i'm still watching it, as a matter of fact.

I thought "Chronicles of Riddick" would just be a bunch of bad guys touching their fingertips to one another and leering, "...RIDDICK." But unfortunately other things happened in that movie that made it boring. I turned it off partway through.

gigli

I feel like every movie on DVD box sets like this qualify for me:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51LzgsWMxJL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

Bought with the expectation that the movies would be campy fun, but they're mostly just insanely boring. "Robot Monster" was the highest quality thing on here. That should tell you something!

"The Brain Machine" was by far the worst.

Another one like this was the movie version of Doom. It could have been a dumb but fun movie about shooting demons from hell on a space station. Instead, they made it a dumb but not fun movie about shooting mutants on a space station. I was livid.

2012 FTW!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTiTcmQKaBs

if you get through this 6 minute clip from Screwballs you have some small idea of how oppressive the movie feels as a whole. Iirc it was Roger Corman's attempt to "out-porky's porky's"

I Hate Valentine's Day

I spent so many summer nights in high school watching horrible movies that I can't even remember half of them. We'd get 7 movies for 7 days for $7 and just pick the worst shit based on the box and how angry everyone else would get at having to watch it.

The two that stand out as the worst are Skullduggery and R.O.T.O.R. Skullduggery at least had a horrible theme song that we used to sing in falsetto but that was it.

I have watched many terrible movies (including accidentally domed your son which us just awful) and "vulgar" takes this by a billion miles

Jury Duty

There. I said it.

What was that Jet Li film... "The One"? i recall remarking to my date partner that it was like watching a porno - you just wanted to fast forward through the unncessecary, shitty plot/dialogue bits to get to the kung fu scenes. That was shite.

I have a vague memory of laughing all the way through "8mm" but I was stinking drunk so I dont think I was in the right mindset to be watching it anyway.

I would like to see "2012" and "The Happening" with great lulz expectations.

Jason Statham's half-hearted attempt at an American accent in the one was kinda LOLworthy.

Bio-Dome
This one is seriously the worst movie I've ever seen. I rented it with a bunch of friends, but only two of us managed to make it through the whole movie. One friend got so angry at it he fled out of the apartment.

Freddy Got Fingered
If I hadn't smoked some before watching this, I'm pretty sure I would've fled this time.

Basically, a bad horror or action movie might provide some unintentional humour, but there's nothing worse than a bad comedy.

Battlefield Earth - the camera angles gave me headaches

One of the Resident Evil movies--the 2nd, I think--was so stupid and so offensively awful that I wanted to hurt everyone involved in making it. An unwise 5-movies-for-$5 choice.

paul blart mall cop

"Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey"

i can't watch bad films ironically - a friend he;d some girls'-night-in last week where we ate pizza and watched 'dirty dancing 2: havana nights' and it just made me so depressed and annoyed :(

*held

Love Paul Blart and Bogus Journey :(

This is devolving into "shit films I have watched". There's no way you'd start out expecting campy hilarity from some of this dross. Thing is I kinda like a lot of bad movies. Something like Scanner Cop is tedious as hell for large chunks and indefensible on most levels but I'd still watch it and its wacky brethren again and don't hate it in any way.

Tuomas is right that bad comedies are the worst of the worst but I think I might find a way to "appreciate" them on some grim trainspottery level, too.

reason i picked 'click' is, it's really gd depressing, at the level of content. can't really remember it but basically the dude wastes his whole life or something. to earn enough cheese to put his kids through college? also sandler farts right in david hasselhoff's face, it's gross. i have a relatively high sandler threshold but 'click' is way over the line.

films where the premise is supposed to be uplifting but is actually really fucking depressing are good candidates for terribleness

also films where "the moral order" is "restored" at the end

also that film developer shoite with Robin Williams in

Fat Guy Goes Nutzoid, I thought it'd be entertaining Troma rubbish at least but it's just a sad film about a mentally ill guy that can't decide if it's a comedy or message drama. If you're making a film that bad at least put some vaguely attractive people in it eh. Actually most Troma probably fits the premise of this thread, but that one in particular left me feeling actually depressed.

Most of Troma's output is not watchable for the reasons they think it is, that's for sure.

Caligula - looked like campy absurdity, in actual fact it's nearly as disturbing as Salo.

Personally, I expected Salo to be thought-provoking but mostly found it boring. Endless sub-Nietzschean monologues, and not even that much torture porn to keep me awake. The only disturbing scene was the tongue-cutting one, and that lasted about 3 seconds.

Always pays to remember that Salo is a black joke tbh. Also the sub-Nietzschean monologues are half of Sade's shtick.

also that film developer shoite with Robin Williams in

What? No! That film was quite watchable!

Salo otoh is the only film I wanted to walk out on (but didnt!), but I knew what it was going in, so it does NOT count here.

xpost

Horrible stupid film where all plot twists are based on people doing stupid things that no human being would ever do, plus who-gives-a-shit characters, plus OMG ROBIN WILLIAMS PLAYING EVIL HE'S SO VERSATILE

There's no way you'd start out expecting campy hilarity from some of this dross.

I saw the trailer for "Bogus Journey" and was totally expecting campy hilarity from it! It may be the single worst movie that I took my wife to be too early on in our relationship*. So painfully bad was it that we were bummed out for several days afterwards. Later, seeing a different film, we saw the trailer again AND THE TRAILER WAS STILL FUNNY. Uh. *If you asked my darling this question, hew answer would undoubtedly be "Institute Benjementa" which I <3<3<3. I thought she was going to pack me in after that one.

Brothers Quay is a watershed needing careful timing in any relationship.

Yes. I found this out the hard way :( 14 years later, she still ribs me about it.

There is a lot of stuff I don't even bother suggesting Mrs V watches with me any more.

ya i concur with noodle vague please keep just straight "bad movies you have watched" out of this thread, it's about movies you KNEW were going to be bad but thought owuld be entertainingly so

I'd have to say Brooklyn's Finest was unbearable. I couldn't get through the first half of the movie, it rode on the typical and overused "tough hardcore cop" theme and felt like a show pilot.

Spun
burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

The 9th Gate might belong in this list but I think I really enjoyed it and I need to watch it again to decide if I did or if it's terrible.

I'd have to say Brooklyn's Finest was unbearable. I couldn't get through the first half of the movie, it rode on the typical and overused "tough hardcore cop" theme and felt like a show pilot.

― That's not a "laugh track", it's an audience and you're in it. (MintIce), Wednesday, November 10, 2010 8:57 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

argh come on you didn't go into brooklyn's finest thinking it would be so bad it's good

same thing with a roman polanski movie

THIS IS NOT "SHIT MOVIES YOU HAVE SEEN" PEOPLE.

yeah i thought brooklyn's finest would be dece, not in a big way, but it was just kinda meh

now street kings, that was a bad movie i thought would kinda suck

Having seen Pirates I always assume there's every possibility of a Polanski flick being WTFingly terrible. Especially one with a plot that read like the Da Vinci Code.

But I ended up enjoying it in a not camp or ironic way, which was double weird.

9th gate is great

campy and ridic but great

Having seen Pirates I always assume there's every possibility of a Polanski flick being WTFingly terrible. Especially one with a plot that read like the Da Vinci Code.

― the Ford Escort Cabriolet of middle-aged men (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, November 10, 2010 9:05 AM (51 seconds ago) Bookmark

but come on you weren't like oh let's go see the new polanski movie, it's going to be ~deliciously awful~

same thing with a roman polanski movie

The Ninth Gate got horrible reviews and looked really campy - could totally understand that one

xpost yeah see "campy and ridic but great" is pretty close to "bad but fun to watch"

not to deny that a lot of these aren't questionable

naw there are a lot of movies that are kind of campy and ridic but actually great and nowhere near "bad"... like the black cat frinstance

uh and you know that coming in?

I didn't go see 9th Gate, I watched it on TV well after its reputation was established. I think if you wanted to watch it for "so bad it's good" reasons it mostly isn't bad enough, or good enough. Can't tell, as I said.

no but i would never go into a roman polanski movie expecting like, plan-9 levels of badness. it's ropo so there's always a good chance of quality

This is a Polanski movie that got slammed by critics and featured Johnny Depp in a goatee chasing the devil, sounds like the def of a potential movie you know is bad but think might be fun to watch

ok let's stop splitting hairs over this

i have never seen battlefield earth but i understand it fits the thread concept perfectly

If we stop splitting hairs we could probably host the site on an Amiga or something.

an amiga? no, a commodore 64

to split one lil hair, if Battlefield Earth made you want to kill yourself instead of laugh your ass off you're probably a scientologist.

Was gonna go Vic 20 but thought it might be a bit abstruse

...as I believe L. Ron once said

to split one lil hair, if Battlefield Earth made you want to kill yourself instead of laugh your ass off you're probably a scientologist.

― da croupier, Wednesday, November 10, 2010 9:12 AM (49 seconds ago) Bookmark

again, i didnt see it, but everyone who has that i've talked to said it was just a brutal grind to sit through

you know too many scientolgists

I think the missing element here is whether you try to sit thru the bad movie stone cold sober.

TS: Kevin Costner's accent in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves vs Michael Caine's in On Deadly Ground vs Travolta's.

Bug

you know too many scientolgists

― da croupier, Wednesday, November 10, 2010 9:14 AM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark

i dont understand this reasoning, non-scientologists like this movie and scientologists dont?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqWK85gJaxc

if you went into this thinking "oh here's an ironic romp" saw the above and said "oh god actually this is just awful and sad and i don't want to live" maybe you really don't have the stomach for ironic romps

i spit on your grave

Ultraviolet: a very long live-action esurance commercial.

TBH, this is almost exactly why I enjoyed the hell out of "Ultraviolet"

Right, Sex and the City (the first one) is my definitive answer to this. I'm not making that mistake with the second one.

if you went into this thinking "oh here's an ironic romp" saw the above and said "oh god actually this is just awful and sad and i don't want to live" maybe you really don't have the stomach for ironic romps

― da croupier, Wednesday, November 10, 2010 9:29 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

i dont really mean awful and sad so much as, not fun to watch

i dont even understand what we're arguing about here tbqf

or indeed, if we even are

I recently watched Toolbox Murders on Netflix, thinking, "OK, it's a well known title, supposed to have some notoriety in the horror world, title got appended to a Tobe Hoober 'remake,' even if it's bad it should be fun to watch." Instead it was just sordid, and depressing, and ugly, and ill-conceived, and poorly paced, and didn't make any fucking sense, and had characters who took up screen time but were literally irrelevant to the film. I felt about about myself for having watched it and wished everyone involved with it were dead.

Battlefield Earth is hilarious!

didn't make me want to kill myself but when i finally watched the hangover i just kept waiting for it to end. felt like forever.

my friend lance wrote the greatest defense of tobe's toolbox remake:

http://www.kindertrauma.com/?p=14924#more-14924

I have been for several years compelled to watch Ecks vs. Sever because I can't figure out how what is supposed to be a fast-paced action film can be so notoriously rotten without having any redeeming camp value. I want to experience it for myself

hangover was one of those "everyone loves this so i should watch it" kinda things. i get burned that way a lot. still mad that i had to see american beauty. that movie did kinda make me want to kill myself. but i didn't watch them cuz i thought they would be bad/fun i thought they were supposed to be good.

eck -vs- sever isn't so bad.

yes it is

yeah people were all "you have to see the hangover", i was bored.

there are many many fantastic things about The One:

-cameos by Mark and Mike from American Movie
-"hiroshi" font used for computer default font
-"I AM U-LAW!"

i guess that's only three things.

talisa soto is in eck. that's all the goodness i need.

I remember "The One" as being stupid and funny.

toolbox murders remake was ok! i mean yeah not great but oh man i have seen lots lots worse while plumbing the horror depths.

tbh Caligula which someone mentioned up there def qualifies, and despite the fact that im sure others will disagree, surviving the last 45 minutes of Zardoz is a joyless fucking slog.

but srsly dudes, if you have to pick just one movie about a clown getting raped this year, it still shouldn't be "Vulgar"

... how many movies about raped clowns are there to choose from?

btw don't answer that, because I know you know the answer

Off topic on Zardoz: I recently picked up the novelization that was co-written by Boorman around the time the movie was released, and it is quite good I think.

I love how this is what you first see with Zardoz:

http://www.movie-mistreatments.com/Zardoz%20Images/Z-1-Sharpie.jpg

G.O.R.P.

I thought, hey, I might be in the mood for some sub-Meatballsian '80 summer camp hijinx. Man it was truly painful and I had to turn it off.

per imdb keyword search:

Keywords (Exact Matches) (Displaying 1 Result) 1. clown-rape (1 title - Vulgar (2000))

still idk make yer own clown rape movie and then bury it in your yard without watching it and yer still ahead of sitting down with vulgar

is that the kevin smith movie? he apparently had a clown-rape movie in mind since even before clerks.

he is a visionary obv

he's quite a vision too.

man, hassle a guy about not fitting into an airplane seat and the next thing you know it's clown rape movies everywhere

As stated before, I was completely unable to appreciate any camp in Battlefield Earth b/c I was watching it on a giant TV and all of the V8 camera angles gave me a nasty headache.

again, i didnt see it, but everyone who has that i've talked to said it was just a brutal grind to sit through

― irritable bol syndrome (s1ocki), Wednesday, November 10, 2010 9:14 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark

It was, I saw it in the theater even. I didn't mention it though because... that's pretty much what I expected.

all neil labute movies make me want to kill myself. same with all ed burns movies. i think they are actually the same person. they make the same movies anyway. horrible people doing horrible things. (i've turned around when it comes to todd solondz. i liked dollhouse okay but happiness just made me cringe in a bad way. so i avoided storytelling but then i finally watched it and it was hysterical! he should just always try and be funny.)

omg i never made the neil labute-ed burns connection before but you're totally right

their movies make me want to kill them tbh

I'm intrigued by LaBute's career second wind as crazy guy directing insane garbage like Wicker Man and Lakeview Terrace. Ed Burns is horrible though.

Re: Jury Duty & Bio-Dome

On a dare, I once subjected myself to a Sunday-afternoon marathon of the films of Pauly Shore. In addition to the aforementioned, this also included the golden gems Son in Law & In the Army Now.

His cinematic debut. Encino Man, was deemed too 'high brow' for the exercise.

Five or six Godfrey Ho cut-n-paste "Ninja" films - after a while I realised that the glory of Ninja Terminator was an anomalous flash in his career.

Also Batman and Robin - I can't remember why I went to see this, but I must have expected some enjoyment, right?

not if you'd seen batman forever

Batman Forever, aside from Two-Face, was okay!

oh cmon, execrable turn from jim carrey, and it was filmed in a shitty nightclub iirc.

is ninja terminator better than ninjas versus zombies? because ninjas versus zombies was awesome.

oh god now i remember one. there are very few people who have my tolerance for bad movies and bad comedies, but this was just...wow...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/50/Just_Married.jpg

yeah but how many people went to see it for the lols

once again THIS ISN'T A LIST SHITTY MOVIES THREAD

says who?

the thread title

the movies in the thread title sound pretty shitty to me

ITT: List ILX Threads Where the Title is Adhered To for More Than 5 Posts

i would go on an arsenal thread and talk about lebron james because ehh who gives a shit really

i knew just married was bad and i thought it would be fun to watch but it made me want to kill myself. i'm totally on target there.

xp

Man I totally SB blatant thread premise ignorers I'm just saying this is King Canute work is all.

The Cat in the Hat with Mike Myers. This movie was so shockingly bad that when i tried to show friends how bad it was, I wouldnt stand it.

how hard is it to understand "so bad it's not good"

http://madeinatlantis.com/movies_central/2003/15905ee70.jpg

I mean, The Love Guru was terrible, really terrible, but at least it seemed like it was SOMEWHAT well-meaning. Cat in the Hat is a frightening grotesque monstrosity, a sadistic bad acid trip smeared with smug Shrek-generation pop culture humor and shockingly tasteless jokes. There are some really entertaining reviews of this movie that I highly recommend seeking out!

did anyone say dirty work

dirty work is an underrated (tho flawed) classic! - & not in the sense of ironic camp.

@Philip upthread: Ninja Terminator is exceptional. Haven't had the chance to catch the Zombie one.

Paper Heart

if you say that five times into a mirror tape store shows up behind you.

sometimes there is nothing worse than a bad genre flick. there are some boring-ass biker and blaxploitation movies out there. dreary zero-budget westerns. non-erotic not-thrilling erotic thrillers. the one thing bad movies with a big budget have going for them is pretty colors and zippy fx. i like shiny things...

there are some boring-ass biker and blaxploitation movies out there. dreary zero-budget westerns. non-erotic not-thrilling erotic thrillers. the one thing bad movies with a big budget have going for them is pretty colors and zippy fx

Which is my disappointment with Red. I ended up skipping The Expendables because of the post-release reviews, so I went with this for my requisite summer action movie (plus Helen Mirren too!), but it was basically Space Cowboys with weapons.

wasn't that exactly 'what it said on the tin' tho

"Nosferatu In Venice". 'Watching' this as I type. Words are unable to describe the collision of WTF that is Klaus Kinski in a blond mullet wig (?) hanging out with a group of gypsies on the outskirts of Venice (It.) then kneading on some Euro-babe's breasts before putting the bite on her. I'm only an hour in.

if you went into this thinking "oh here's an ironic romp" saw the above and said "oh god actually this is just awful and sad and i don't want to live" maybe you really don't have the stomach for ironic romps

― da croupier, Wednesday, November 10, 2010 9:29 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

i dont really mean awful and sad so much as, not fun to watch

― irritable bol syndrome (s1ocki), Wednesday, 10 November 2010 16:19 (Yesterday)

I took the "actually just made you want to kill yourself" in the thread title to mean more than just "oh this movie i got for being bad fun is just bad boring" - I mean you were the guy complaining this was becoming a "list of movies you've seen" thread. Most movies people rent for ironic amusement aren't actually minute-for-minute riveting - most could be reduced to 8 minute "best-of" youtubes, but anyone acting like Battlefield Earth was devoid of ironic entertainment and just a chore probably isn't ironically entertained much.

Every single SyFy original movie seems to fit this bill. They should be so much fun, but they never seem to deliver.

I took the "actually just made you want to kill yourself" in the thread title to mean more than just "oh this movie i got for being bad fun is just bad boring" - I mean you were the guy complaining this was becoming a "list of movies you've seen" thread. Most movies people rent for ironic amusement aren't actually minute-for-minute riveting - most could be reduced to 8 minute "best-of" youtubes, but anyone acting like Battlefield Earth was devoid of ironic entertainment and just a chore probably isn't ironically entertained much.

― da croupier, Thursday, November 11, 2010 9:07 AM (45 minutes ago) Bookmark

bro, let's not keep having this argument, because i dont even know what it's about and i havent even seen battlefield earth and im tired.

I love a good bad movie as much as anyone, I'd like to think. I will sit all the way through pretty much anything after I start it. But I swear, "The Cat in the Hat" is beyond 'bad movie'. If watching a bad movie is like rubbernecking at a car accident, then that movie is like having a cop at the accident scene come up and repeatedly kick you in the balls.

Battlefield Earth, I think without the Scientology link, would just be remembered as another dumb sci-fi movie.

It would never have been made without the Scientology link in the first place!

Or written.

"40 Days and 40 Nights" seemed like it would just be a bad sex comedy, sometimes those are just fun to pick apart and revel in the stupidity. Was going to turn it off but for some reason was curious how it ended. It wound up having one of the worst endings of any movie I can think of; John Harnett's ex girlfriend straight up breaks into his apartment and literally rapes him (this is supposed to be a comedy, for the record), and then his current girlfriend blames him for it. I can't imagine how bizarre this ending would be should the genders be reversed. Just left me with a real bad taste in my mouth.

Also - "Frogs". Thought it would be a fun and campy old horror movie but there aren't really any real quotable lines or even funny parts. Just a ridiculous movie about Frogs trying to kill people.

signed, a group of frogs sitting at a computer

They should be so much fun, but they never seem to deliver.

there are some exceptions to this, primarily Mansquito and Sharktopus

anytime i see this face in a movie i want to die. luckily he is now on a horrible lawyer show with horrible belushi and i can avoid that pretty well and hopefully he will never make another movie again.

http://reporter.blogs.com/.a/6a00d83451d69069e20120a54bf7e6970c-pi

He was good in Stand By Me! But that's probably about it.

Last Tango In Paris

i think kevin dunn's presence in a film as an unctuous authority figure is always a bad sign, even if he's a decent dude IRL. his face is shorthand for "easy way out."

yeah, stand by me gets a pass. not that i would probably ever watch it again, but i did like it at the time and he hadn't grown that hugenormous pumpkin-faced head of his yet. he just always looks demented and creepy and he scares me.

Yeah, it would not surprised me at all if he turned out to be a serial killer.

Maybe he will murder me for that last typo.

I predict the upcoming movie 'unstoppable' will fall into this category

it would be funny if, when you go see it, after the movie ends it goes back to the beginning and the exit doors lock from the outside

and then you realize what the real 'unstoppable' thing was

We recently tried to watch The Garbage Pail Kids movie, which I thought would be loldumb but instead it was disgusting and made me hate everybody.

I Accidentally Domed Your Son - now this can't be ALL bad

Every single SyFy original movie seems to fit this bill. They should be so much fun, but they never seem to deliver.

― She Got the Shakes, Thursday, November 11, 2010 2:37 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

otm. they should all be trailers, tbh.

that new alien invasion movie Skyline coming out looks like a crappy SyFy channel movie with better effects

skyline looks pretty lol for a number of reasons - you can tell it was made on the cheap and directed by an effects studio, because despite all the fancy CGI there's no sets and it stars eric balfour & david zayas

i think kevin dunn's presence in a film as an unctuous authority figure is always a bad sign, even if he's a decent dude IRL. his face is shorthand for "easy way out."

― omar little, Thursday, November 11, 2010 1:37 PM (8 hours ago) Bookmark

dunn was born to play an old, broken down eric mangini

Netflix instant-watch/streaming is the worst/best for this

but what's good is that you can stop
i watched 10 minutes of the Footloose remake but the pain was to great to go on
i watched at least half of Easy A

and 15-20 minutes of many bad/emo low-budget 'indie' movies that made me feel like i was slowly falling into a deep pit of the filmmaker's own despair

wait Easy A was great

yah easy a doesnt belong here

i thought it would be better

seemed too contrived in its 'wackiness'
i really dig the actor who plays her best friend though

anyway, it made me sad

did you watch any of Hellcats? that was terrible but weirdly watchable due to Aly Michalka's scary charisma

hellcats not on canadian netflix :/

Fucking Island Girl. Was expecting so-bad-it's-good, got a wonderful mix of tedium and racism.

Hellcats was basically 60% broody college relationship angst and 40% this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dDt-luKtD8

ZOMG IT'S A CHEER-OFF

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imMUJugGhuU&feature=related

I still can't believe this was a television show, even on the CW

hahahaaaaa wow

search for hellcats on Youtube and you can essentially watch the entire series without any of the irritating backstory/DRAMA and just revel in the ludicrous cheer sequences