Flawed but Eminently Worthwhile Movies

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inspired by the Pootie Tang thread
movies which might be accurately described as failures, but still wildly entertaining, at least to you, and why.

Norm Macdonald's two features, Screwed and Dirty Work, mainly cuz I can't get enough Norm.
The most recent Time Machine, if only for Jeremy Irons bizarre performance.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 11 August 2003 14:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Hitchcock's Suspicion, The Age of Innocence, Murnau's City Girl, Flirt, The Exorcist II, Lady in the Lake (the weird movie shot all in 1st-person subjective), Until the End of the World...

― amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 11 August 2003 15:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Lady in the Lake, that is one ridiculous movie. I'm not sure how worthwhile it is beyond the formal experiment.

So many movies I like could be characterized as "flawed but eminently worthwhile." But I'm picky.

(also not sure if I'd say Until the End of the World was worthwhile... but Wim Wenders drives me nuts)

― s1utsky (slutsky), Monday, 11 August 2003 15:19 (twenty-two years ago)

But dude, Kings of the Road! Alice in the Cities! The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick!

Lady in the Lake is awesome, it's like the most sustained terrible idea ever!

― amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 11 August 2003 15:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Aren't most movies flawed though? I mean aside from most Ozu and How Green Was My Valley.

― amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 11 August 2003 15:39 (twenty-two years ago)

That's what I'm saying.

(by the way my problem is mostly with post-End of the World Wenders, when he became the worst, most annoying director ever)

And Lady in the Lake is, well, it is what it is. Cuts out most of good stuff in the book, for some reason, so he can keep talking to that awful woman. Also, Robert Montgomery = worst Phillip Marlowe EVER. Thank god you don't see him much.

― s1utsky (slutsky), Monday, 11 August 2003 15:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Haha maybe the subjective camera was the reaction of the director to the fact that he had such a lousy leading man!

― amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 11 August 2003 15:45 (twenty-two years ago)

He WAS the director!

― s1utsky (slutsky), Monday, 11 August 2003 15:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Exactly!

― amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 11 August 2003 15:47 (twenty-two years ago)

AHA!

― s1utsky (slutsky), Monday, 11 August 2003 15:48 (twenty-two years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/pic200_web/drp100/p107/p10718tp96l.jpg

You called?

― Aha (amateurist), Monday, 11 August 2003 15:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Cannibal: The Musical owns this thread for me. I can't say it's a, you know, great movie in the classic sense but at the same time it's utterly brilliant.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 11 August 2003 15:55 (twenty-two years ago)

The original theatrical Blade Runner. Director's Cut fixed most of the flaws, mind you.

― Charlie B. (Charlie B.), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 14:12 (twenty-two years ago)

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