What movie is genuinely bad or most people consider bad, but is entertaining anyway?
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The Room?
I still can’t figure out if Tommy is being laughed at or with regarding that movie. It’s so entertainingly bad, but he made a series (whose name escapes me) after that that managed to also be entertainingly bad. I can’t tell if his taste is accidentally hilarious or if he figured out how to bottle lightning and can just make hilariously bad media on a whim.
It’s hard to walk that line without drifting into satire territory, becomming a self-parody, or going too far the other way from hilariously bad to just bad.
I lean more towards him doing it deliberately from the start because he pivoted so easily to the comedy series. I suspect he would have had a meltdown about the public reception if his personality was really like the Tommy Wiseau character he plays.
Though I am pretty sure that a significant part of his motivation was to have sex with (or at least a sex scene with, no idea if they actually did it like in a porno or just simulated it like on most movies) Gabrielle from Xena.
I don’t like his material after “The Room”, it feels way too unauthentic and forced self-parody to me, even if he manages to make it funny bad again (but not really same tone as the movie).
In “The Room” he’s definitely being his authentic self trying to make what his idea of “good” movie was, you can read about it in Greg Sestero’s (Mark in the movie) and Tom Bissell book “The Disaster Artist” if you doubt with what intention he made the movie. Or even listen to it in audiobok form, Greg does amazing impression of Tommy and sheds lots of background info on their history and how the movie came to be
Army of Darkness, assuming self-parodies are allowed.
Better Off Dead (1985)
Lane Meyer (John Cusack) is a teen with a peculiar family and a bizarre fixation with his girlfriend, Beth (Amanda Wyss). When Beth dumps Lane, he decides to kill himself, making bumbling attempts at suicide. Outside his morbid endeavors, Lane spends time with his oddball buddy, Charles (Curtis Armstrong), and befriends Monique (Diane Franklin), a visiting French student. Eventually, Lane resolves to race Beth’s obnoxious new beau on the ski slopes, with unexpected results.
there are so. many. montages.
Where’s my two dolllllllllarrrrrrrrs?
Love this movie.
“Man, that’s a real shame when folks be throwing away a perfectly good white boy like that”
Snakes on a Plane
Phil The Alien
“Phil is an extraterrestrial with shape-shifting ability and telekinetic powers. After crash-landing in Northern Ontario, Phil befriends a red neck child, his father, and a talking beaver as he wanders the Canadian wilderness. Phil is soon introduced to the trappings of small town northern Ontario and adopts the persona and mannerisms of a stereotypical Canadian small town alcoholic while hiding from the ineffectual and mentally traumatized military general who is trying to capture him.”
I’m just impressed that Im not the only one who’s seen this movie. I own one of the (probably) few remaining DVDs.
Mars Attacks
I don’t know if this counts as bad. It was an excellent movie, intentionally camp. And it worked
Rubber
Oh god yes haha
How could one not like a tyre killing people
Idiocracy 😀
Street fighter (1994)
Troll 2
The movie with nary a troll in it.
You mean to tell me that Nilbog isn’t “troll” spelled backwards?
Battlefield Earth.
Volcano or Dante’s Peak. Both are fun and bad in their own way
Mac and Me has a legacy thanks to Paul Rudd
It was a ‘cult revival’ a few years ago. The only movie I ever walked out of. My buddy stayed and says he enjoyed it:
Kull the Conqueror: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kull_the_Conqueror
Zardoz
