Mine is August Rush, it’s so cheesy and I know it’s terrible but I’ve watched it a bunch of times.
The original Mario Brothers movie, given how terrible of an experience it was for the actors.
Howard the Duck.
I’ll see myself out.
best lucas film, best marvel film, peak lea thompson. all in one package. hell yea!
Ashamed? None. I refuse to be ashamed of loving dumb trash. A couple of days ago I introduced my wife to A Knights Tale. She enjoyed it immensely and said it was one of the stupidest movies she’s ever seen.
If you love something, there’s always a good reason why, even if that good reason is buried under a mountain of flaws.
Honestly The Longest Yard with Adam sandler It’s pretty poorly written. But I love it
Hackers. It is not a good movie. It is not an accurate representation of computer hacking. But it has Jonny Lee Miller, Angelina Jolie, Mathew Lillard, and Fisher Stevens as the villain. The very ridiculous villain. I have not seen a movie quite like it since.
Actually, I think it’s lack of accuracy is kind of brilliant. It was weird in the day, but it has allowed the movie to be watchable far into the future without being terrible. Like watching it today the only time it gets cringey is when they specifically mention tech specs. e. g. 28.8 kbs modem. If they would have left that out it would fit in most time periods, by not really fitting into any of them.
I watch this at least annually just because. Mix of cheese, nostalgia, I don’t know.
Hack the planet.
hell yeah. my wife and i walked down the aisle to the song “Heaven Knows” from the soundtrack. our wifi ssid is crashandburn
hack the planet!
Crash… and Burn!
Hawk the Slayer from the early 1980s rush on medieval fantasy. Jack Palance as the bad guy (of course)…
The one where the witch has magical silly-string and bouncy-ball powers? 😂
Leon The Professional.
Deeply problematic themes for a child actor. Luc Besson is a creep and wanted the problematic parts to be explicitly pedophilic.
But in the end, it’s a fun story and Leon is nothing but a professional and a gentleman. The movie never crosses any major lines, its just uncomfortable.
You cannot, nor should not, make movies like this today. Still, this specific movie is good.
I love this movie and I have never seen any of it as being pedo. I have always felt that love being expressed in was between 2 abused people finding a kinship and love that they had both always been denied. It’s about a child who loves and adores her savior and first person to ever be a parental figure. Someone who literally goes on a massive killing spree and gives up his own life to save her. And it’s about someone who has been isolated and unloved his entire life suddenly finding his first real friendship and first real experience of someone loving him with no reservations, expectations, or demands. The type of love that only an innocent child can express towards a parent or caretaker. The movie does this amazing job of framing the development of this beautiful and deep kinship inside of an incredibly violent action movie. I adore this movie and the amazing acting and directing that went into it. I really wish that the director wasn’t a complete and certified pedo, but I think that it’s entirely possible that everyone came together and made this a beautiful movie despite, and even in spite of, the director being a pedo.
I’m no so ashamed but Waterworld is a glorious spectacle with great world building and an over the top performance by Dennis Hopper
The thing about Waterworld is that it’s a) a lot of fun, and b) absolutely terrible, but it’s only terrible in the way that most movies of that time were terrible. It has this outsized reputation for being bad which is mostly down to the fact that it lost a lot of money (because it was extremely expensive to shoot and audiences immediately clocked it as being a Mad Max rip off with no new ideas to bring to the table). It’s no more awful than any other summer action blockbuster of its time, and it has plenty of fun moments in amongst all the usual trash.
I’ve never understood why everyone dislikes this movie. I’ve loved it since I first watched it.
It is a terrible movie that is also a glorious spectacle and everyone (except Kevin Costner) is fantastic. Nothing makes any sense, but is fun to see and frequently illogically clever.
Watched it last week!
Well now I’m in a quandary. I want to say Hudson Hawk except I’m not ashamed. You either appreciate its quirkiness or you don’t. And if you do you are simply a better, more evolved person than the rabble who doesn’t like it.
Anna Baragli came to play.
It’s a guilty pleasure of mine, too. I’m not ashamed. I like what I like.
hudson hawk gets rewatched here all the time. it is a good movie.
I saw it in the theater and loved it then. Still do.
The Core
YUSSSS
You monster.
That movie, in my mind, hinges on the premise, delivered by Stanley Tucci: “but what if we could?”
I know he’s not the first and won’t be the last, but damn if that didn’t annoy me back in '03. It was just so… gutless as a sci-fi explainer.
National Treasure
Some movies are just good fun, and Nicolas Cage is frankly in a lot of those kind of flicks. Con Air is up there, too.
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent is a beaut. Definitely not ashamed to enjoy that one.
Only a tad ashamed that Nic and Pedro rank pretty highly on my list of stupidly adorable on-screen bromances.
I love August Rush too. The emotion is so real!
The most embarrassing thing I’ve watched would be a romance-ish anime like High School of the Dead.
When it comes down to it though, I’m open to almost anything. I worked in the entertainment industry for a decade and I’ve enjoyed everything from silly cartoons to epic IMAX masterpieces.
Short Circuit 2
Why would you be ashamed of this?
I feel personally attacked. It’s better than the first film.
Los locos kick your ass, los locos kick your face, los locos kick your balls into outer spaaaaace!
A great performance by Michael McKean as always.
We just don’t talk about Fisher Stevens. Poor guy deeply regrets the role.
Punked out Johnny Five is the best Johnny Five.
It’s such a quotable movie!
No disassemble!
Tu mama haci el amore co mi perro
Johnny’s in the tunnel with Oscar…
There’s no shame here. Punk Johnny 5 zooming in to save the day, sparks flying, I Need a Hero blasting… Peak cinema.
Buckaroo Banzai!
It is so so very good.
Terrible answer, who would be ashamed?
There is no regret in loving this movie, it is a masterpiece.
Robocop singing power ballads.
Jeff Goldblum in a goofy cowboy outfit.
John Lithgow as a scientist gone mad from what he’s seen and Christopher Lloyd as a weird alien.
God it’s a fucking treasure along the lines of Big Trouble in Little China.
John Bigbooty, you are the weakest individual I ever know!
Bigbooté! Bigbooté!
heck im not ashamed of liking that one.
Frankenhooker.
It’s crass and trashy and I fucking love it.
WANNA DATE?!
I went to my town’s local fireworks display the other day, and I saw a guy wearing a Frankenhooker tshirt just out in the wild!
I thought I was the only person on Earth that had seen this movie! It’s amazing.
Also Hard Ticket to Hawaii
I don’t know any other film that passes the Bechdel test in a scene where two former Playboy models are topless in a hot tub together and talk about something other than men (there are no men in the scene, just the two women). A very unique and strange way to pass the Bechdel test that feels like it undermines the entire point of the Bechdel test existing.
Also Con Air, a star studded wild romp that’s so fucking stupid it rounds the bend to brilliant.
Ok so I actually just really love bad movies, that’s the thing. I could be on this thread all day.
Should I add this to Zombie Strippers?
Oh Frankenhooker is far more thoughtful and clever than Zombie Strippers, imho.
The end of the film almost makes it a feminist film when the tables are turned and the main character gets his comeuppance.
Zombie Strippers is based on a French Existentialist play and is a major critique about a lot going on in the time. It would have been better with its deleted scenes.
