In this sequel to the "In love with terrible music" thread, lets talk about the bad movies we all love. I just bought this first one yesterday and have watched it three times:

Twister
Twister is one bad movie, but I love it. I think that has a lot to do with the fact I've always had an interest in observing bad weather and really, as bad as Bill Paxton and Helen Hunt's acting is it does kinda work in a "I can't believe this kinda works" sorta way. I actually get a chuckle when Bill's like, "get in the pit now, get underground, now... now this and now that" when trying to direct people to safety. Additionally, seeing Cary Elwes smug character get his in the end is awesome as is the cheesy and rather predictable score.

Coneheads
"Nebs! Human authority figures! We must degress immediately!"

Again, Coneheads is bad, but my oh my do my friends and I quote this thing like a bugger. Just love the alternate terms the cones have for certain objects, like Nebs (cops), blood-valve chamber (heart) flemdip (bad guy, a hustler of cone), gus chamber (bedroom), snarglees (male reproductive organ), etc, etc....

Oh, man. I read this thread at work on my cell phone, and was wanting to answer it all day. Almost all of the live action movies I watch are shitty movies, and I only do so because I find them to be infinitely more entertaining than movies that actually succeed at doing what they want to do. There are exceptions to this rule (Dark Knight, for example), but in general I have the most fun with shitty action movies like these . . .

Anyways, one of the movies I talk the most about in my circle of friends is Mcbain (1991) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102422/ This is easily one of the dumbest action movies ever conceived, which in my eyes makes it nearly unassailable. You've gotta love a movie that unflinchingly portrays scenes of inanity, such as when main character McBain shoots down a fighter jet with no less than a handgun, or where his badass surgeon friend performs an operation in some bacteria-infested jungle somewhere in Colombia with nothing else than a bic pen and a knife. Viewers will constantly be left in awe at what the directors/writers/whoever is in charge of this shit think they can credibly get away with. Throw in some truly abysmal dialogue, and you're good to go!

Punisher: War Zone (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0450314/) was universally panned by critics, which is completely understandable. Aside from the appropriately stone-faced Ray Stevenson as the titular Punisher, none of the actors really hit home well enough for the acting to be called exceptional in any way. But I liked it because it featured the same unabashedly crazy action that peppered Mcbain (mentioned above). There were scenes that had me literally asking myself "Yo, did I really just see that shit?". It doesn't feature the same apocalyptically bad dialogue that McBain had, but the f---ing unbelievable action scenes made up for it.

My buddy got completely stoned one day and downloaded a whole bunch of shit online, one such file being Riki-Oh: Story of Riki )http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riki-Oh:_T … _of_Ricky). This is a tough movie to talk about because so much of it defies logic. Everything about the movie is poor, but somehow, the film becomes so much more than the sum of it's parts that even now, it is hard to find words. How does one explain the first time you see some of this shit happening? Dogs get kicked in half with an almost pornographic level of glee, heads are exploded like so much ripe fruit, dudes get skinned and tortured in ways that are as brutal as they are bizarre and creative. It sounds like a hard movie to stomach, but the low-budget effects make it goddamn hilarious. I strongly urge everyone to watch this movie (in the English dub, if at all possible).

That's my list so far. My holy trinity of terrible movies that I love.

I'm in love with terrible video game movies.*

Street Fighter? Loved it as a 10-year-old kid and still do. Ming-Na as Chun-Li? Awesome. Kylie as Cammy? Awesomer. Yeah, the plot made no sense and JCVD couldn't act, but I thought the movie was cheesy good fun and had enough references to the game to keep me entertained. I especially loved that final group shot at the end.

I'm not sure if Mortal Kombat really qualifies as a terrible movie (although the sequel most assuredly does). The fight scenes had some nice choreography and the story stayed surprisingly true to the game.

Okay, I'll admit it: I loved MK: Annihilation as well. It was truly awful, but entertaining in so many ways. Sheeva's "Date's over" followed by her getting crushed two seconds later? Gut-bustingly hilarious. Also great: Johnny Cage dying five minutes into the movie; Sub-Zero vs. Scorpion; Kitana's kiss not reviving her mother. The god-awful CGI (or were they stop-motion?) "animalities" at the end of the movie were just plain bad, though.

*I draw the line at Uwe Boll movies. Nothing redeemable about any of those.

I loved the fact that they made the twisters almost sentient. Wasn't one literally following them at the end of the movie? It's as if it was saying "I killed your father, and now I'm coming for you!"

I'm glad I'm not the only one who's noticed this, although I kind of think of it in another way. When the twister chases them at the end it's almost like the Twister's saying "how DARE you try to comprehend the secrets within me! Just for that, I chase you now!"

As for Mortal Kombat, can I totally agree with the first movie being quite respectable. I think it's a lot like DOOM in that respect (though there isn't much of a story to follow in DOOM so they had a lot of leeway with what they did.)

Postal is awesome in it's own absurdness. House of Dead is pretty much fun to see once, Alone in the Dark is probably the only movie where I started fast forward. In the Name of the King is what is it, you can't make much of a game which has farmer rising as killing machine, and it's almost must see to see Burt Reynolds and Ray Liotta overacting (again).

Still haven't seen Bloodrayne's, and someone probably will point if I'm missing any other Bowelmovement movies.

In other hands, Mortal Kombat is still awesome. And Silent Hill is damn good, and I like RE-movies.

This was pretty much a good suprise, after that horrible mob-dinner dialogue earrape.

Can't remember any other movies which could be terrible but I end up liking, no wait. Wing Commander, which is again a game movie, dammit.

The only thing I've seen with Ray Liotta in it was GoodFellas, which is my mob movie of choice.

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Poor Spider, sniff....