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What was the best "worst. movie. ever"? (lemmy.thesanewriter.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm talking about that movie you saw that was so bad it was good.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It's got to be either Tank Girl or Frankenhooker for me.

It's easy to find BAD movies, but for "Best Worst", aka, "So Bad It's Good" category there should be some really redeeming qualities that make it interesting, entertaining, quotable, or just plain fun.

Tank Girl is a mess, with Ice (I'll do anything to be a movie star and get out of rap) T as a kangaroo-guy, early Naomi Watts as eye candy Jet Girl and smart-aleck Lori Petty leading the pack as Tank Girl. Weird as all hell but some absolutely hilarious dialog ("I had a swell time, but the swelling's gone down..") and it's fun to catch those building their acting careers - not just Ice T and Naomi, but Doug Jones, Iggy Pop, James Hong, Richard Schiff, etc..

Frankenhooker is possibly the better film but super-tongue-in-cheek fun, loaded with with it's-so-dumb-snort! dialog like "Errrrkkk! Hey - Wanna date?" and "Oh, God...She's gonna blow! Duck and cover!", of course plenty of 1980s bewbs for the less-discerning amongst us.

Both highly recommended...in fact, the higher you are, the better they are. ;)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

How could you not point out Malcolm McDowell being his Malcom McDowell-ist in tank girl

That's like mentioning the 2000s Dungeons and Dragons movie and not mentioning Jeremy Irons

Or mentioning the 1993 Super Mario Bros movie and not bringing up the goombas

.... Which also fall in this category

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The award has to go to big trouble in little china it's incredible!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Big trouble in little tokyo is much... much.... much worse, in the blurst ways.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lake placid

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Shark Attack 3: Megalodon

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

That one used to be my favourite cause John Barrowman is in it.

Now I'm afraid of the water cause of my shark movie binge, and John Barrowman is a pervert who got dropped by everyone.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That film has the best line ever, though. John said it was an ad-lib where he was trying to make Jenny McShane laugh.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Slipstream (1989).. check it out if you haven't seen it. Mark Hamill, Bill Paxton and produced by Gary Kurtz (Star Wars, ESB, American Graffiti, The Dark Crystal).. This was released 5 years after Return of the Jedi with that star power and didn't even get a US cinema release.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Evil Dead

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Christmas Coupon. It's so fucked you can't take your eyes off it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Plan 9 From Outer Space has been long considered the best worst movie. Directed by Ed Wood it starred Bela Lougosi who died during filming and was replaced by his accountant IIRC who covered his face for the duration. It also features Vampira the original scream queen B-movie host.

The Bermuda Triangle, Hillbillies in a Haunted House, and She Devils On Wheels are some of my personal favorites. If schlock is your thing definitely check out Tubi. It's a free streaming service that is a bottomless pit of older bad films, documentaries on bad films and whole movies of nothing but trailers of old films. I'm obsessed!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Thunder in paradise! https://imdb.com/title/tt0395284/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I love dumb and clichet action movie.
For that I'm gonna pick Skin Trade

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Bad Boy Bubby

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

You got to watch All Star Superman on HBO Max. It is honestly the most insane and stupid superhero thing ever made and every moment is more crazy than the last. It is a 10 out of 10 laugh riot while high. I want to give some examples but I also don't want to spoil this for anyone who hasn't seen it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The English dub of the kung fu movie Shaolin V. Ninja. Voices are wildly inconsistent, plot makes no sense. A great time. Pretty sure it’s on YouTube. At least it was some years ago.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Evil Aliens (2005), a British alien/UFO encounter comedy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dak0rGzoyLU

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

American Movie

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Ninja Squad.

The directors made a bunch of movies using the same technique: buy footage from unfinished Asian action movies. Splice them with footage of European martial artists sparring in the most bizarrely colourful outfits and Ninja! headbands. Dub in ridiculous dialogue about a vague revenge plot.

Don't play any drinking games with this movie. You'll die of alcohol poisoning before the third act.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

ANY modern Stevel Seagal stuff imho

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

His classic 90s movies hit different knowing the man he'd become. There's more evidence of lazy choreography and bullshido than I noticed when I was a kid.

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