Hackers. Till the day I die…

Evolution.

Dude, Where's My Car? is so much better than it had any right to be. And while the main characters are stoners, most of the humor isn't stoner humor. Not that there's anything wrong with stoner humor, but movies that consist entirely of stoner humor tend to drag after a while.

I will die on the hill that Kung fury is peak cinema

Last Action Hero. I know the editing is pretty bad and the rhythm is a bit messed up in the last part but it's the most meta movie ever and an homage/parody to classic action movies. Having Arnold play the main part is the cherry on top.

Mystery Men is a phenomenal send up of the superhero genre. It's simultaneously extremely 1999 and decades ahead of its time.

The cable guy. Scary Jim Carey is scary. And the ending was visionary.

Rubber. An anthropomorphic car tire. If that doesn't describe a masterclass in directing I don't know what does.

The Last Starfighter is not a shitty movie. Now go back to sleep, Louis, before I tell ma about your Playboys.

Killer Klowns From Outer Space needs no defending. It's just a terrible great time.

Tremors 2 is peak cinema IMHO. I only wish they had spent a little more on the CGI, or replaced it all with practical effects.

Sucker Punch and D.E.B.S.

no, it's not cuz I'm a lesbian!

...ok maybe it's cuz I'm a lesbian

oh also TRON Legacy. "tHe PlOt iS sTuPiD" yeah no shit it's TRON, the original was a glorified feature length CG animation test reel. I came here for pretty lights, cool motorcycles, Daft Punk, Jeff Bridges, and Olivia Wilde being hot, not for prestige cinema lmao

Treasure Planet. There's weird plot choices, but I loved the mixed animation, the music, the characters.

An actually bad but amazing movie would be Miami Connection. Karate rock band sings about friendship fights motorcycle drug ninjas. Fuck yeah bro.

Big Trouble in Little China

[PCU](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCU(film))_

No war but class war.

BIODOME

I unironically love Armageddon and The Core. Yes, they're both stupid and unrealistic movies, but that works in their favor about as often as against. Something about the way they play with the core concepts makes me love them.

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen and/or Time Bandits.

Chronicles of Riddick. Not sure it's considered a "bad" movie, but I definitely like it more than most. Just a crazy entertaining world and system they build in a short 2 hour long movie.

Kung pow enter the fist. Screw what the critics and rotten tomatoes score says. The movie is goated!

I unironically enjoy the old 2005 Fantastic 4 movie. It was cheesy as fuck, I don't deny that. But it was fun. And the comics themselves can be as bad or worse sometimes.

Also I like Julian McMahon.

Also also, Chris Evans towel scene.

Flight of the Navigator

Mine's gotta be "The Brothers Grimm" starring Matt Damon and Heath Ledger. It's the same camp vibe as the "Van Helsing" movie starring Hugh Jackman, but there's no badass super hero to save the day - there's just a bunch of imperfect people trying their best, and it's almost entirely by luck or destiny that they snatch victory from the clutches of defeat. It's also one of the most morbid depictions of childish horror i've seen on-screen, where it gives no fucks about being realistic.

I don't think League of Extraordinary Gentlemen was that bad.

Aeonflux, except I don't actually bother trying to defend it.

If you remember the 80s at all, then "Hot Tub Time Machine" is the greatest comedy ever created.

If you don't remember the 80's, then " Hot Tub Time Machine" is the greatest comedy ever created.

Hudson Hawk. Criminally underrated.

Death to Smoochy

Crank."5mls? no 0.5mls! Elevator explodes"

Peak ADHD movie

Six String Samurai. It's not good. But it's soooo quotable!

Nice shoes. Nice shoes to DIE in!

Titan A.E. Is a masterpiece.

Reign of Fire.

Lost in Space

Buckaroo Banzai

Okay, I've got one that no one has mentioned.

Space Truckers.

Without clicking the link, just imagine what it might be.

Contact

I know but that's why I like it

Dredd (2012) is a near perfect 80s/90's style, over the top action movie made 25 years too late.

Well shot action scenes.

Excellent soundtrack.

Pretty darn well paced.

Good helping of action hero one liners.

Plot is simple enough for idiot, explosion go boom, brain to follow, but also takes itself seriously enough to present the horrors of its world via interactions with minor characters.

Karl Urban manages to do more acting with only his mouth and chin, and line delivery, than many other actors do with their whole face.

Olivia Thirlby is also very, very good, I do not understand why some other director has not cast her in an action oriented role since... now that Nintendo seems to actually allow their IP in films: Make her blonde again and she is Samus Aran.

EDIT:

In case you haven't seen it... this is a bit spoilery, but here's a decent 4 minute representative sample to give you an impression of the movie.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=AUJkwWkyX70

Congo? Congo...

Hot Rod! I can quote pretty much the whole movie. It’s such a fun ride.

The Core. The perfect dumb movie that's fun to watch.

Mortal Engines!

Elrond commanding motorized london for the win

Robot Jox

Hudson Hawk

Ice Pirates (1984): A bunch of A-Listers before they were big. Great practical effects. Spaceships, Pirates, Time Travel, 'robots' It was magnificent.

Close second: The Cat from Outer Space (1978). It was a Disney flick, but really great for the time.

The faculty? Oh that's a good one.

2012

Not a movie, but Konosuba. Yeah, the show is trash, but it's my trash. I will ride Aqua until the day I die

Half the reason I love Drop Dead Fred so much is because my wife hates it so much.

Wild Wild West baby! You know, the movie Will Smith turned down being Neo in The Matrix for lol

Office Space all day

Kung Pow

George and the Christmas Star

“Who Framed Roger Rabbit”.

An absolute masterpiece in terms of blending and transitioning between live action and animation; plus the whole Disney/Warner Bros character crossovers.. just 👌🏼

So I married an axe murderer.

Office Space.

One I love and haven't seen mentioned is Equalibrium, I've probably seen it 5 times, which is a lot of times for me. I see its ham fisted metaphors and raise you gun karate.

Superman 3 beats almost ANY action movie out there. It literally has everything you could want in a movie... it doesn't take itself too seriously so it's funny as hell, has actual character development unlike anything we've seen before or since in an superhero movie, cool but believable fight scenes, morally grey characters, and RICHARD PRYOR.

There's a movie called Unstoppable (2010) with Denzel Washington, Chris Pine and Rosario Dawson. It's about a runaway train causing trouble in Pennsylvania.

I've watched it no less than 30 times.

It's not like I'm into trains or anything. I just think it's a really good movie and every single actor in it is giving 100%.

If you'll notice the arterial nature of the blood coming from the hole in my head, you can assume that we're all having a real lousy day.

Violent Night, for 90's kids who thought Home Alone went harder and want the same high from back in the day

I'm going to get impaled for this but The Rise of Skywalker. It's my guilty pleasure.

Chocolate. Taiwanese movie about an autistic girl who goes around beating up gangsters in the styles of famous martial artists she saw on TV, followed by her repeatedly demanding they give her an unspecified amount of money.

Once Bitten, Joe vs the Volcano, and Mortal Kombat are all way better movies than they should have been.

Showgirls.

Additionally the VH1 TV edit is even worse. (In a bad way)

But better in a Ms paint kind of way

Eurotrip ..."Scotty doesn't know.."

Interstate 60 - a cute quirky B movie with some hella famous actors. Gary Oldman, Christopher Lloyd, Michael J Fox, James Maraden, Chris Cooper, Amy Smart, Kurt Russell. It is a fun and imaginative ride along a made up highway. My favorite scene was the town of Morelaw.

Big Trouble - a great movie shut down by circumstance. It was set for release in late 2001, the end of the movie involves hijacking a plane with a nuclear bomb, but then 9/11 happened so they sent it straight to video and stopped advertising it. Based on a Dave Barry novel, it’s a hilarious story involving a crazy cast of characters you may meet in Florida. Another star studded cast including Tim Allen, The Tooch, Martha Stewart, Janine Garofalo, Zoey Deschanel, Omar Epps, Jason Lee, Johnny Knoxville, and many more.

I have only met a couple people ever who have seen either of these movies.

DarkStar
So stupid, but if I see it pop up on any of the streaming sites, I know what I'm doing for the next hour or so.

The Descent

My wife's family loves The Princess Bride, but I love telling them that Stardust is better. It might not be correct, but it's a pretty fun hill to die on.

The need for speed movie. It's not bad. I feel like the game they chose to reference is the worst and best choice for it.

Velocipastor and Alien vs. Predator

Surf Ninjas

Das Millionenspiel.

It's The Running Man except twelve years earlier and a media satire instead of an action movie. It comments on TV phenomena that wouldn't exist in Germany until two decades later (like scripted "reality" TV). Also, it has early appearances of one of Germany's most famous TV hosts (as the show's host, fittingly) and one of Germany's most famous comedians of the 70s to 90s (in a completely serious role, unfittingly). And unlike the Schwarzenegger movie it doesn't construct a dystopian future to introduce public bloodsports but merely gives a terse reference to a "law on active recreation" dated three years after the movie first aired.

To make it even more odd, it's actually a good movie despite being from Germany and made for TV.

Hackers

Hentai Kamen

No, I will not elaborate

Grandma's Boy. If you're a gamer, its a must watch.

Suburban commando starring early 90s Hulk Hogan, best enjoyed on the original VHS .

Wing Commander

Super Mario Bros. No, not the new CGI one, the old live action one. I know I’m not alone in loving this movie, but man is it divisive— those that don’t like it, HATE it, and I think that’s the majority opinion.

I unironically love this movie. It’s not just nostalgia either, though I did watch it as a kid. I also watched the old Zelda cartoon as a kid when it first came out, and I loved it then but I can’t stand it now. No, I’ve watched this movie recently and it still rocks. It’s perfect for what it is, I think.

• Big Trouble in Little China
• Escape From New York
• Iron Sky
• Sucker Punch
• Punisher (Dolph Lundgren)
• Red State
• Kung Fury

Year One is fucking hilarious!

Can I say a film franchise? If so then The Fast and The Furious movies.

Abraham Lincoln vs Zombies. No, not Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter, the parody of that film made on the budget of the "plot" portion of a porn flick. I don't know why I like it, but it's some good dumb fun

The Core (2003)

Scamper the Penguin.

The Feature Films for Families version, cuz I never saw the original Russian one called Lolo

Not just one, and DONT GO CALLING The Long Kiss Goodnight SHITTY YOU .. YOU .. MEAN PERSON!

The Golden Child.

I I I I I want the knife...

Please...

Sleepwalkers

Shit wrong movie. Same era. It was about aliens taking over a group of 4 friends.

Dreamcatcher

I knew a guy who swore that Garbage Pail Kids The Movie was a goddamned masterpiece of cinema.

I can only watch it in 15 minute stints before the nausea takes effect.

Moonfall.

Loads of classics in this thread, worth bookmarking to revisit later. Let me add one of my own that I haven't seen mentioned:

Babe: Pig in the City (1998) - The first movie I saw in the theater by myself, because nobody could be arsed to come along. In the end I was glad, because I cried so much.

The Cat From Outer Space

Mystery Men

Apparently mine is The Long Kiss Goodnight.

I love it. My family hates it.

I seriously doubt that it would count as 'shitty', but it wasn't very well received and is not widely known either, for me rather a kind of comfort movie I'll defend till the edges of the earth: the Cohen brothers' 'A Serious Man'

I just rewatched Earth Girls are Easy last week and that'd be on my list.

90 minutes of prime Gina Davis in a bikini doesn't hurt either.

I saw a YouTube video about crappy movies and they had Congo on there, I had such a visceral reaction to seeing it on that list. Congo is one of my favourite movies ever, i can recite every line of that movie, from Tim curry to Earnie Hudson to Joey pants, I will die on the hill that Congo is a great movie

RV with Robin Williams came out at a good age for me, I was like 12 so poop jokes and mean spirited jokes that the movie is full of clicked with me.

There's a somewhat obscure Robin Williams vehicle called Club Paradise. Critics panned it but it's a favorite in my family, we quote it all the time.

"Mr. Gundy: As the official represenatative of Her Britannic Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Second, I order you to withdraw at once or I shall be forced to shoot you between the eyes with a rather large bullet." -Peter O'Toole

Battlefield Earth

Mars Needs Moms, no idea why, I like it against my will. I have a friend that's hyperfixating on The Electric State, which got something like a 14% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Pushing Tin

Morbius is so fucking trash that I kinda love it

Fool’s Gold. It’s so bad, but gets me in the feels.

Do I though?

The English first Digimon movie. Well, I won't defend it. But I will quote and reference it probably more than any other movie. I think it's been a couple days since I've done that though.

Lady in the Water

It's a fantastic fairy tale.

Did you know Angels in the Outfield has a 31% on rottentomatoes? I'm scared to watch it again because I remember it as a perfect movie.

Empire Records.

I make references from that movie all the time and nobody ever gets it. Doesn't stop me.

I’m just going to drop selections from the Troma catalog in here:

• The Toxic Avenger
• Surf Nazis Must Die
• Class of Nuke ‘em High
• Sgt. Kabukiman NYPD
• Tromeo and Juliet

These are objectively shitty movies. Most of these movies are irredeemable; hell, some of them are down right an exercise in poor taste. A lot of it hasn’t aged well, and I’m not talking about the cinematography. I haven’t kept up with Troma in the 21st century, though, so maybe Troma has gotten worse-better or better-worse?

However, I find joy in these movies because they are like a time warp back to New Jersey and New York in the 80s and 90s. They were so low budget and always filmed around New York (except for Toxic Avenger II which somehow was filmed in Japan), that they used a lot of family members of the cast and crew or random locals as extras. It is obvious that a lot of people on screen probably didn’t know they were being filmed (or if they did, didn’t realize what type of movie they were in). There’s bad hair and makeup (but not from the effects department), and thick accents and regionalisms that have faded. There are mainstreets and skylines that don’t exist anymore, or if they do, are wildly different. It is amazing to catch a glimpse of an era that doesn’t exist anymore. This exists in all old movies, but the low-budget realness hits differently.

Most of these movies are trash, but they’re my trash. Apologies to Mr. Kaufman.

Yellowbeard

You people don't KNOW delicious camp tripe.

"Roll, stagger, crawl, crawl, roll, crawl, stagger..."

Monty Python and the holy grail

Kalo. A low budget horror movie, available on YouTube for free.

Ay lav yu.

It's a pretty funny romantic comedy if you ignore the romance.

in regions with extremely long history like in middle east, you will often have old villages that were never documented. Or documeneted like 5 governments ago, lost to breucracy.

Literally the most interesting setting for a movie. A village that doesn't exist on the map. There is one single person with an ID in entire place.

Also comedy is basically some modern people from Colorado having culture shock for a whole hour. It works well.

George of the Jungle!

Three O'Clock High

It's like someone set it to make the stereotypical '80s movie. It has surprisingly good cinematography and a soundtrack by Tangerine Dream.

Like most '80s movies, it has some things that have not aged well culturally, so be warned. I don't think it's too egregious, but it's definitely of it's time.

Bunraku, easily. I don't even like noire movies normally.

The Ice Pirates!

Peak Ron Perlman.

Like? Yes, defend? Nahhh

The Adventures Of Baron Munchausen. Peak Gilliam, and always a joy to watch. Wish I could find a higher resolution version.

Nacho Libre. Everything about that movie makes me giggle.

The Big Hit

The Ice Pirates is magnificent camp

Just Troma in general

Dirty Grandpa. The critics who didn't like it should be thrown into a river.

Aubery Plaza legit wanted to fuck Robert De Niro and it shows.

Hoodwinked!

Nobody else has even heard of my favorite film.

A Pyromaniac's Love Story

The American Astronaut

King Fu Mahjongg, and all the rest of that troops movies.

Galaxina. Low budget space western comedy. Space cowboy wants to have sex with his robot pilot but they have to order the extra parts for her.

I, Frankenstein

CGI filled brainless action with demons and gargoyles fighting a secret war. Aaron Eckhart as Frankenstein is stuck in the middle. The whole thing tries to copy the vibe of Underworld and mostly fails. Somehow I still love watching it. It's just the right kind of bad for me.

8 Heads in a Duffel Bag.

David spade and Joe Pesci. Amazing.

Fiend Without a Face 1958

Vintage claymation

Out Cold.

Warrior with Tom Hardy.

Bawl my eyes out every time.

McHales Navy, one of my favourite Tim Curry roles.

I see a few I haven't seen. Quite a few I have I also enjoyed.

Cypher - 2002

Industrial spy movie that has some strange twists. I just loved the whole feel and atmosphere around the movie.

Beyond the black rainbow

Dolph as he man

Home Alone