Zardoz

For shame! Where do you get off calling this bad?!

Oh, Repo Man would definitely be near the top of my list, I just consider it more off-the-wall than bad. Another great punk rawk cult flick that comes to mind is Penelope Spheeris' Suburbia.

I really enjoyed that as well...I will have to rewatch it when it comes out. The guy that peels his face off in the beginning was great.

Any of Mel Brooks' parodies were great. History of the World, Space Balls, Blazing Saddles...but definitely space balls number one.

Neither one should be talked about in this thread...they were just great movies.

I am shocked, you used that image...this is the proper image to use for Zardoz.

Teenagers from Outer Space, I could watch that any day. The ray-gun is awesome in this movie.

The Warriors

By most conventional measures, the dialogue is bad, the cinematography is bad, the acting is bad, it's just....bad. But, man, if it ain't entertaining as all get out. Easily my favorite bad movie.

"Warriorsssss......come out to plaaaa-aaaayyy!"

[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Warriors_(film]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Warriors_(film[/url])

I take it you've only seen the director's cut of Leon, because the regular version wasn't particularly good. Also, there's no point in responding with we don't need to talk about that in this thread, because it prolongs a slight OT post into a subthread.
LOL, I vaguely recall that one, in my recollection it's pretty much only shown late at night when they don't have anything else to run.

This reminds me of another of my favorite bad movies... Commando!

"Remember, Sully, when I promised to kill you last? I lied."

Yes, The Mask was her breakout role, but she didn't reach mega-stardom until the late 90s, with My Best Friend's Wedding and There's Something About Mary.

I'll add another favorite "bad" movie, which is my favorite Roger Corman B-movie A Bucket of Blood, a low-budget 1959 satire of the "beatnik" scene in late 50s California, starring Dick Miller as a skulking, socially awkward busboy who will do anything to gain artist cred with the chic in-crowd who haunts the coffeeshop that he works at...even MURDER. (Bwhahaha). Holds up well, and some modern parallels could be drawn with the characters in the film vis-a-vis the current hipster scene. One particular snatch of dialog I recall with the alpha-beat waxing giddy about the *amazing* breakfast he was having, down to the wheat-germ bagels, I swear could have come verbatim from a conversation at the hip brunch joint here locally in my neighborhood.

You people have no idea what a bad movie is.

Braindead (Dead Alive in US) is probably... no definitely the funniest film I've seen. How is that bad? You fuckers hate laughing or something? :P

Evil Dead 2+3 aren't bad at all. They're every bit as good as they should have been. If the special effects were better then the films would have been worse, as I think we're about to find out with the remake of the first one.

Godzilla is another example of a film that is every bit as intelligent as it should have been - not one damn bit.
It would have been better if the zillas were make of unconvincing rubber with strings and joins and shit like that. Then you could call it a good bad movie.

John Carpenter makes the best bad movies (and he also makes some of the best good movies).

Terence Hill and Bud Spencer did star in some awful yet completely irresistible gems such as "who finds a friend finds a treasure"...

Sergio Leone hated peplums. They asked him to make some. He did "the colossus of rhodes". A sword-and-sandals James Bond movies, with immortal lines such as "As long as I will live, aaargh."

Speaking of James Bond movies. Some are not very very good. I love James Bond movies.

But "OK Connery" aka "Operation Kid Brother" aka "Operation double 007" beats them all.

Also, no matter what you say, there IS a lot of (delicious) cheese in Dario Argento movies.

And I completely adore Don Coscarelli's "Phantasm" series.

And I love David Lynch's "Dune". Is it a bad movie ?

His name came to my mind, as well. Prince of Darkness is likely to be considered a bad movie by conventional/critical standards. But, as wtih nearly every Carpenter film, I find it entertaining and will watch it if I happen to stumble across it while flipping channels.

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As a teenager this film had completely terrified me. I love its pace and izs atmosphere, and its ideas. I consider it one of the good Carpenter films.

I'd say Ghosts of Mars, Vampires, Fog, Escape from L.A... require a bit more forgiveness to be enjoyed...

I'd agree with that.

And I consider Prince of Darkness one of his good movies, as well. But the critics didn't, and I can understand why even if I don't agree with their estimation.

what exactly is considered "bad"?