What are some fantastically bad films that I can screen for my coworkers?
What are some fantastically bad films that I can screen for my coworkers?
#0What are some fantastically bad films that I can screen for my coworkers?
Posted: 11/6/05 at 1:18pm
I work in an entertainment media publishing house. Last week, I had people laughing till they cried over Cry-Baby and Mommie Dearest. I'm planning to buy Pink Flamingos and Serial Mom to liven up the place even more.
Any other suggestions?
#1re: What are some fantastically bad films that I can screen for my coworkers?
Posted: 11/6/05 at 1:21pm
A classic film turkey: Plan 9 From Outer Space
It's an Internet series, but... Happy Tree Friends! (Not for the faint of heart, or those of a weak stomach...)
"I'm not in Bambi and I'm not blonde!" - Idina Menzel
#2re: What are some fantastically bad films that I can screen for my coworker
Posted: 11/6/05 at 1:22pm
'Mary Reilly' is very bad and has some funny, funny moments.
Glenn Close cracks me up.
Andy Worlhol's HEAT is hysterical.
So bad but sooooooo good.
I'm addicted to it.
#3re: What are some fantastically bad films that I can screen for my coworker
Posted: 11/6/05 at 1:22pmYou consider Serial Mom bad??!!
MrMidwest
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/8/05
#4re: What are some fantastically bad films that I can screen for my coworker
Posted: 11/6/05 at 1:25pmCrimes of Passion with Kathleen Turner.
#5re: What are some fantastically bad films that I can screen for my coworker
Posted: 11/6/05 at 1:25pm
I was going to say the same about cry-baby
here's a few turkeys
Glitter
Dude, Where's My Car
Troll
Plum
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/4/04
#6re: What are some fantastically bad films that I can screen for my coworker
Posted: 11/6/05 at 1:25pm
Oh, you mean funny-bad? Because I can give you a lot of just plain bad.
-Anything with the word Pokemon in the title
-Fantastic Four
-Virtuosity
The Musketeer
-Baby Geniuses
-Batman and Robin
Then, there's ones I haven't seen but have a...reputation:
-Gigli
-Glitter
-Kazaam
-Anything Deuce Bigelow-related
-Captain America and the old Punisher
-Ninja Turtles, Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter and Mario movies
MrMidwest
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/8/05
#7re: What are some fantastically bad films that I can screen for my coworker
Posted: 11/6/05 at 1:27pmMyra Breckinridge, Invasion of the Bee Girls, Savage Streets, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Mandingo
Plum
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/4/04
#8re: What are some fantastically bad films that I can screen for my coworker
Posted: 11/6/05 at 1:28pm
Battlefield Earth and Swordfish, if you want to go on a John Travolta run.
Freddy Got Fingered! The Adventures of Pluto Nash! Man, I'm a roll.
Updated On: 11/6/05 at 01:28 PM
#9re: What are some fantastically bad films that I can screen for my coworker
Posted: 11/6/05 at 1:29pm
No, I think Cry-Baby and Serial Mom are GREAT but John Waters knows he is the king of "deliberately bad." That's what makes him so fantastic!
I've seen the Warhol film HEAT and loved it. Any Warhol/Paul Morrissey film with Joe Dallesandro in it is bound to be great. There must be a collector's set somewhere.
I'll have to check out the other films you all mentioned. I do mean funny bad (Batman and Robin doesn't count because it's just boring).
Updated On: 11/6/05 at 01:29 PM
Plum
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/4/04
#10re: What are some fantastically bad films that I can screen for my coworker
Posted: 11/6/05 at 1:30pmHmm...how about From Justin to Kelly? I haven't seen it so I can't say where it falls on the spectrum of awful.
MrMidwest
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/8/05
#11re: What are some fantastically bad films that I can screen for my coworker
Posted: 11/6/05 at 1:31pmI have Heat on video. I've always wanted to see Bad w/ Carroll Baker.
#12re: What are some fantastically bad films that I can screen for my coworker
Posted: 11/6/05 at 1:32pmWow, you're all so educated on bad films. I LOVE IT.
Plum
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/4/04
#13re: What are some fantastically bad films that I can screen for my coworker
Posted: 11/6/05 at 1:32pm
Ooh, I know. The Ladies Man. You know, that guy with the magic belt. That was really something else.
Meet Joe Black! Okay, the movie was mostly boring, but the car accident at the beginning is hysterical.
Updated On: 11/6/05 at 01:32 PM
#14re: What are some fantastically bad films that I can screen for my coworker
Posted: 11/6/05 at 1:34pm
LOL.
Let me add to my own list FLESH FOR FRANKENSTEIN. Bad and sexy - a perfect combination.
I also have to get down to seeing The Bad Seed. The Bailiwick in Chicago (which is on the same block as my publishing house) put on a stage production of that recently. I like movies about little girls who are either being tormented or are the subject of someone else's torment.
MrMidwest
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/8/05
#15re: What are some fantastically bad films that I can screen for my coworker
Posted: 11/6/05 at 1:35pm
Good site
http://www.coolcinematrash.com/movies.htm
The Apple must be seen to be believed.
#16re: What are some fantastically bad films that I can screen for my coworker
Posted: 11/6/05 at 1:40pmI can't believe Imitation of Life (1959) is on that list. That has to be one of my favorite movies. I know other people laugh at the over the top moments, but I find it so... touching. I know I'm not the only one who feels that way about the film (and its beautiful opening song).
#17re: What are some fantastically bad films that I can screen for my coworker
Posted: 11/6/05 at 1:48pmAlone in the Dark. I haven't seen it, but the reviews of the movie on Rotten Tomatoes are so hilarious, it has to be horrible.
Wanting life but never knowing how
MrMidwest
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/8/05
#18re: What are some fantastically bad films that I can screen for my coworker
Posted: 11/6/05 at 2:12pmrobbiej's avatar just reminded me of another: Flash Gordon.
#19re: What are some fantastically bad films that I can screen for my coworker
Posted: 11/6/05 at 2:21pmYou'll have to get it online, but this Hugh Grant gem, "The Lady and the Highwayman," based off a bad romance novel, is well worth the eight bucks on Ebay. My best friend and I have SO many so-bad-they're-wet-your-pants-funny lines that we quote to each other constantly. Every once in a while, when life gets rough, we just have to have a "Lady and the Highwayman" evening and laugh our rear ends off.
#20re: What are some fantastically bad films that I can screen for my coworker
Posted: 11/6/05 at 3:37pmReally really bad... "Epicenter" with Traci Lords. And no, it's not porn. It can't decide if it's a disaster movie or a cop movie, and it ends up failing so miserably at both it's very funny. The earthquake scene is SO bad that I was laughing the whole time.
Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. - Randy Pausch
#21re: What are some fantastically bad films that I can screen for my coworker
Posted: 11/6/05 at 3:47pmDD, I actually had a dream about Supervolcano last night. So if Epicenter is worse than that, I MUST see it.
Wanting life but never knowing how
MargoChanning
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
#22re: What are some fantastically bad films that I can screen for my coworker
Posted: 11/6/05 at 3:57pm
Laugh out loud funny:
Johnny Guitar (BIZARRE -- Joan C and Mercedes McCambridge with lesbian subtext in th old west)
Lost Horizon (The musical version from the 1970s)
Cobra Woman (Maria Montez -- HILARIOUS)
Naked Kiss
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
Boom (Taylor, Burton and Noel Coward)
Candy
Beyond the Forest (Bette Daavis "What A Dump")
Caged (1950, if you can find it -- the ORIGINAL women in prison film with Agnes Moorehead)
#23re: What are some fantastically bad films that I can screen for my coworker
Posted: 11/6/05 at 4:19pm
Oh yes, OS... it's much worse. Nothing like a shoot-out in the middle of a 7.5 earthquake - and everyone has perfect aim. 
Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. - Randy Pausch
broadwaystar2b
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/28/04
#24re: What are some fantastically bad films that I can screen for my coworker
Posted: 11/6/05 at 4:22pmJAWS 3D
Videos