EW: Bad movies you love anyway

[madbrian]

Posted: 11/13/07 at 12:16pm

Entertainment Weekly's staff mentions some of the movies that they love, even while acknowledging that they are bad movies.

http://www.ew.com/ew/gallery/0,,1546137,00.html

What bad movies do you love? For me, it would have to include Adventures in Babysitting and Sister Act II.

Edit: I had to include Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Updated On: 11/13/07 at 12:16 PM

[SNLMedia]

Posted: 11/13/07 at 12:18pm

Both "Problem Child" movies. Gross-out humor at its best!

[BroadwayBound86]

Posted: 11/13/07 at 12:23pm

Seven of those movies I own and love. I'm not surprised. Every movie Ilike the critics never do. Awwell.

Mine would have to be On The Line
Updated On: 11/13/07 at 12:23 PM

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 11/13/07 at 12:26pm

They really don't reach very far back, do they?

There are a million bad movies I love - Grease 2, Valley of the Dolls and Myra Breckinridge are a few.

[Craww]

Posted: 11/13/07 at 12:28pm

A+++ to Don't Tell Mom The Babysitter's Dead and A Knights Tale, EW list. I approve.

Almost all the movies I own are bad movies I love anyway. They're more rewatchable than legitimately great movies. Josie and the Pussycats, Killer Klowns from Outer Space, Zoolander ... Rent.

[blueroses]

Posted: 11/13/07 at 12:30pm

Mommie Dearest, Thank God it's Friday, Real Genius...there are too many to remember.

[tazber]

Posted: 11/13/07 at 12:32pm

I don't even know where to begin. There are so many great "bad" movies.

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 11/13/07 at 12:32pm

THE NET has Jeremy Northam with his shirt off which helps and BIRTH is just flat-out brilliant.


My pick: TIMES SQUARE! I urge you to rent this utterly preposterous, silly, yet totally engaging film from the superproducer of the seventies Robert Stigwood (EVITA, GREASE, SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER). True to form, Stigwood brought out the double album treatment for this one and its still one of the best soundtracks ever put to film: The Pretenders, The Ramones, Patti Smith Group, XTC, plus some oddities like Desmond Child and Rouge and a very good track by Gary Neuman. The film presents a very pre-Guliani take on Times Square and has the best performance by the quick flameout Robin Johnson. She was chosen over thousands of actresses to play the rebellious Nikki and she gives a true-blue starmaking performance. Unfortunately, the film tanked and she was bound to a binding contract with Stigwood which didn't let up for years ("they were trying to make me the female John Travolta" she laughs on the commentary) so whatever momentum she may have built dissipated. By the end of the eighties, she had quit acting. SUCH a shame...she's brilliant. The other actress is Trini Alvarado who went on to do LITTLE WOMEN, THE FRIGHTENERS and some other films.
But oh, that soundtrack! I defy you to watch TIMES SQUARE and not have "Damn Dog" stuck in your head!


Here's the trailer...you gotta watch this.

Updated On: 11/13/07 at 12:32 PM

[Liverpool]

Posted: 11/13/07 at 12:35pm

Far and away is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Terrible, OMG. what a ****ty movie.

[Calvin]

Posted: 11/13/07 at 12:36pm

"Goddess of Love," starring Vanna White. C'mon. Little Richard and David Leisure in the same movie? How can you lose?!
Updated On: 11/13/07 at 12:36 PM

[tazber]

Posted: 11/13/07 at 12:36pm

that made me think of The Apple. Which is just...I don't know waht the word for it is.

The number one all time greatest "bad" movie in my book has to be
Wild In The Streets with Shelley Winters. Just a bizarre acid trip of a flick.

[blueroses]

Posted: 11/13/07 at 12:36pm

Also Hollywood Knights, Bachelor Party, The Allnighter, Satisfaction, The Legend of Billie Jean.

Seriously, this could go on forever.

[ShbrtAlley44]

Posted: 11/13/07 at 12:36pm

I'd definitely put Snakes on a Plane on that list. Others include Deep Blue Sea, Twister (even though it's not really BAD, it's just kind of ehhh - but I freaking love it), Spice World, Showgirls, Jaws: The Revenge, Mars Attacks, oh God, so many!

[justagirl2]

Posted: 11/13/07 at 12:39pm

I'd say Showgirls is the definitive one. I adore Teen Witch, as well.

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 11/13/07 at 12:40pm

Oh, Taz. I have been trying to get folks interested in THE APPLE for years!

Do the BIM!
Here's the trailer

[robbiej]

Posted: 11/13/07 at 12:40pm

The one movie I loved and a child and continue to love as an adult (unlike, say, THE PIRATE MOVIE which I find unwatchable) is MIDNIGHT MADNESS. It's a scavenger hunt movie featuring hunky Greg Naughton, Eddie Deezen and, in his debut feature role, Michael J. Fox as the troubled Scott.

The entire opening credits (with the catchy title song) features my absolute favorite seventies icon: rollerskated college co-eds with big, un-bra'd 70's titties.

[BroadwayBound86]

Posted: 11/13/07 at 12:41pm

Oh man....Spice World. That's in my movie collection as well. I've gotta add Crossroads as well to the list. I can feel the glares from people now.

[blueroses]

Posted: 11/13/07 at 12:42pm

Robbie, I loved Midnight Madness!

[SNLMedia]

Posted: 11/13/07 at 12:43pm

I forgot to add "Hocus Pocus". So bad but who doesn't love Bette Midler as a witch?

[robbiej]

Posted: 11/13/07 at 12:43pm

Let's sing it!

When Midnight Madness
starts to get to youuuuuuuu
Doesn't matter what you say
Doesn't matter what you do
You gotta plaaaayyyyyyyyyyyy!

[justagirl2]

Posted: 11/13/07 at 12:45pm

BroadwayBound, I may or may not own both of those movies and watch them on occasion. Don't worry.

Man, I really do love Crossroads, though. That whole scene at the piano where he plays "I'm Not a Girl" for her? Unintentionally hilarious.

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 11/13/07 at 12:48pm

The Apple

Beyond the Valley of the Dolls

[mauriposa]

Posted: 11/13/07 at 12:56pm

OMG! The Net! I went through a phase as a kid when I rented that movie every week.

I loves me some crappy movies. Of course, no list of bad movies is complete without a Hilary Duff mention. Raise Your Voice, would have to be my favorite.

[justagirl2]

Posted: 11/13/07 at 12:57pm

Oh, Raise Your Voice is SO bad!

[ShbrtAlley44]

Posted: 11/13/07 at 1:03pm

Hocus Pocus is so not a bad movie, but it's brilliant either way.