It's a Bad Movie, But It Was Fun to Watch Anyway


There are three types of interesting movies. First, there are great movies that are great fun to watch. Second, there are great movies that are not particularly enjoyable to sit through. Finally there are those movies that are bad movies, but for some reason are still quite fun to watch. Using some Q. Tarantino related films as examples, "Pulp Fiction" is the first type, "Resevoir Dogs" is in the second group and "From Dusk to Dawn" is in the third. What puts a film in the bad but fun category can be anything - a great performance, a single great scene, breath taking cinematograpghy etc. For instance, in "FD2D" I love the opening sequence. That plus a wild soundtrack makes for enjoyable viewing experience.

I'm interested in hearing about what others think are examples of bad but fun films. Please explain specifically what you thought made an otherwise bad movie still fun to watch.

I'd like to nominate "Congo". It's beyond dopey, but watching first class actors (Tim Curry, Delroy Lindo, Joe Pants and Ernie Hudson) ham it up to the max is a joy. I particularly like the goofey accents.
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LUGGAGE OF THE GODS - This is the story of how a lost tribe of cave people discover civilization when suitcases fall from a passing jet.


THE BIG BUS - Spoof of disaster films, in which a gigantic nuclear powered bus--containing a swimming pool, a bowling alley, and a piano bar; goes out of control and nearly crashes while making a coast-to-coast journey.


DARK STAR - A team of astronauts manning the beat-up spaceship Dark Star are on a mission across the universe to seek out and destroy unstable planets. The journey is wrought with mishaps, and danger seems to come from the most unexpected places. There are misbehaving pet aliens, suicidal bombs that see no reason to live and want to blow themselves up, frozen crewmates dispensing advice from beyond the grave; and a surly, unhelpful main computer that holds the men it serves in total contempt. Despite all these problems, the crew is still bored to the brink of madness.


THE IRON LADIES - The film is about a Thai volleyball team made up of gays, transvestites, a transsexual and one allegedly straight member. Locked out of volleyball courts, scorned by the league, the victims of cheating and pigheaded officials, they fight their way to the national finals. Think of "The Mighty Ducks," with a slight adjustment in spelling.

The author had probably forgot to mention FOUR ROOMS of Q Tarantino(probably he has to watch if he didn't) It's completely BAD movie but is too much fun to watch. The stars are: Tim Roth, Madonna, Antonio Benderas, Bruce Willis and Quentin Tarantino(he likes to be filmed in his own work probably).

But the most fun I've ever got is from BIG LEBOWSKI by Cohen bros that sometimes can fire a hysterical laugh
61, there are books devoted to the catagory of bad/fun to watch films - try Michael Weldon's Psychotronic Encyclopedia - and we're talking way beyond "Congo" or "From Dusk to Dawn"! Maybe you're just referring to big-budget Hollywood flicks, but to me the bad ones are just plain bad (and that's almost everything these days). I'm thinking of the kind of cult B movies that inspired quys like Tarantino - and Burton, Waters, et al - in the first place. Much worse, technically, but much less reprehensible, and much more fun to watch than calculated Tinseltown dreck.
LUDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH! So bad that's it's actually quite good, and very cool musically. It's about a German kid who was a bit gender-confused and decided to change his sexual orientation on a permanent basis, but the operation failed!! To give you an idea, the chorus of the lead song is something like, "Six inches out and 5 inches back and they left with an angry inch!" What a strange film!!