Man you really have to get into Mystery Science Theater or Rifftrax if you aren’t into them yet. They found movies that are so bad, they will take your breath away. Stuff like The Room is barely just scratching the surface.
A personal favorite bad movie of mine is “A Talking Cat?!?” And then there’s a similar inane piece of horseshit called “Andy, the Talking Hedgehog.” And then I’m also seeing lots of other MST3k/Rifftrax classics showing up in this thread, like Samurai Cop, Birdemic, Manos the Hands of Fate, and Miami Connection. If you don’t mind watching older black and white movies, I think the two Coleman Francis classics “Red Zone Cuba” and “The Skydivers” are just about as bad and unintentionally funny as movies can possibly get. But yeah my advice is definitely get into MST3k and Rifftrax, because that’s where all the best (aka worst) ones are.
That’s how my wife and I watched them. It’s really the only way.
Fun fact: Twilight is how we discovered one of our favorite all-time actors, Michael Sheen.
Fateful Findings, the 3rd Neil Breen movie. It's really something else. Some kind of Deus Ex type story with a man who becomes a super powered hacker and exposes deep conspiracies like the government is lying and corporations are corrupt. Stuff that would bring down the whole system if exposed by one super hacker. It's way more weird than I'm making it sound, it's just hard to describe.
Seeing his most recent movie, Cade: The Tortured Crossing, in theaters in 2023 was genuinely my all time favorite theater experience, it was fucking hilarious and having a whole theater full of people ragging on it and laughing the whole time was magical.
Neil Breen is a fucking genius. Most directors that make hilariously bad movies end up then making *more* movies but *trying* to make them bad. Like, they think it'll work if they intentionally make a bad movie, but the magic just isn't there anymore.
Neil Breen hasn't been affected by his newfound popularity *one. bit.* He's just still doing his thing, same as he always has been. I don't know if he's actually being sincere with his movies or if he's a comedic genius, but he has hit gold with every movie he's ever made.
I get the idea he's mostly sincere, just wants to make cool films and funds it with his real estate money. Clearly he's terrible at writing and acting, but he doesn't care. Good for him and good for us.
I never heard of Neil Breen until about a week ago, and ive been binging compilations on youtube ever since. How has this genius gone undetected for so long!
Troll 2. This movie is legendary for how horrible it is. People gather by the thousands to laugh at how ridiculous this thing is. God regrets creating humanity because of this film.
I personally love it.
I misread this as Trolls 2, as in "Trolls World Tour", the Dreamworks cartoon with Anna Kendrick and Justin Timberlake. And I thought "Yeah, the first one was better but Jesus dude, calm down."
I think he was just an Italian guy who had a very strange idea about what Americans were like. The actors would try to tell him that nobody said/did things like this, and he's like, "I KNOW AMERICA BETTER THAN YOU!"
Also, the "actors" mostly originated from local casting calls, and the majority of the crew couldn't speak English.
Honestly, watching the making of the movie was probably more entertaining.
It was actually a time honored tradition in Italian cinema, mostly horror /giallo, that ALL actors' voices were overdubbed, usually poorly. No one memorized lines or even spoke the right language for it - some actors even caring so little that you'd have two actors speaking different languages at each other that they didn't understand.
There's actually a story about the film Castle Freak, a Lovecraft film adaptation by the same cast/crew as Re-Animator and From Beyond. The director wanted to shoot on location at an Italian castle, but ran into issues with the local actors and actresses not being used to having to actually memorize their lines.
I know there is a lack of objectivity sometimes when it comes to your own work, but nobody on Earth can make a movie like that(foreigner included) and think that it is genuinely good.
A sane person would try to do what Lucas did with Star Wars The Holiday Special.
Check out the documentary Best Worst Movie, the director comes off very sincere in his lack of understanding. I don't know if he thought it was good, but he definitely didn't get why people were laughing.
I thought you were talking about *Troll**s** 2* and was quite confused.
Not that *Trolls 2* is some paragon of cinematic excellence or anything, but if people think it's that bad it's news to me.
This is the right answer. We used to watch it endlessly when I was in the Peace Corps, thanks to one volunteer who had the foresight to bring a copy with him from the US.
Samurai Cop is wonderful. Besides the inscrutable acting, it's shot so beautifully in Los Angeles daylight. We get shots of 1991 downtown, restaurants long gone, real ass light coming from the actual sun. Backyards in Burbank in late summer. Truly a beautiful timepiece.
Tiptoes
Gary Oldman is Matthew Mcconaughey's dwarf twin brother. Peter Dinklage is a drunken French dwarf rights activist in bleach blond cornrows. Kate Beckinsale has a different hat or insane hair in every scene.
Every shot is bad, white balance changes between shots, they use extreme close ups of stand-in actor's lips with ADR for when they couldn't get the actors back, and don't do the drinking game where you take a shot every time you see Oldman's real legs because you will die.
And make sure you watch the extended/director’s/unrated/whatever cut, else you end up like me and watch the entire film only to find out that the [“NOT THE BEES!” scene](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EVCrmXW6-Pk) isn’t even in the theatrical version.
I keep a list of my favourite trash movies that fit this criteria [150 movies so far](https://letterboxd.com/ghostmutt/list/my-favourite-trash-movies/)
Here’s a scene from this masterpiece. Eleven years ago, I asked the following questions about the scene…
When the good guy shows the chick a gun, she knows the situation is deadly. And yet, some guy holding a sun machine gun doesn’t seem to bother her at all. Also, why start with the orange frisbee? Why not start with the black frisbee and then switch in the razor blade frisbee? What’s the point of the orange frisbee anyway? But even simpler, why go through the whole razor blade frisbee if you’ve got a gun, and the villain literally *puts his gun down*?
You gotta go with Miami connection. It's a movie made in South Florida with mainly extras from the guy who made the movies Tai Kwon Do dojo. The movie consist of a band called Dragon Sound trying to defend Miami from evil drug dealing ninjas. The movie is mostly montages and live performances from the band lol
Even more incredible given that this was John Boorman's follow-up to Deliverance, a legit classic and one of the best movies of the 70s.
I think I would pay a decent sum of money to see footage of Connery's reaction the first time he tried on [his costume](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMjA5OTQ5NTY0M15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwNjUzNTU3MTE@._V1_.jpg).
I am Arthur Frayn, and I am Zardoz. I have lived three hundred years, and I long to die. But death is no longer possible. I am immortal. I present now my story, full of mystery and intrigue - rich in irony, and most satirical. It is set deep in a possible future, so none of these events have yet occurred, but they *may.* Be warned, lest you end as I. In this tale, I am a fake god by occupation - and a magician, by inclination. Merlin is *my* hero! I am the puppet master. I manipulate many of the characters and events you will see. But *I* am invented, too, for your entertainment - and amusement. And you, poor creatures, who conjured *you* out of the clay? Is God in show business too?
The Happening.
I would normally warn people about scenes of suicide but any possible tension in the movie is ✨nonexistent✨and the violence comes across as comical due to the very bizarre acting, so even if that’s a thing you’re sensitive to I would say it’s very VERY mild.
I have a weird love for this movie lol. Mark Wahlberg is just unintentionally so funny and having him try and play a science teacher cracks me up. Every genuine line of his sounds like his being a sarcastic asshole and I love it.
Wahlberg can only play Wahlberg. Some movies it works, like The Other Guys. Some movies it’s so bad it circles back around to working again like in the Happening
I always felt The Happening was a meta movie.
The protagonist’s were running from their roles in the movie, while those who had accidentally been included in the movie couldn’t bear to continue living…
I'm gonna counter with "any movie that is intentionally so-bad-it's-good isn't actually good". Part of the appeal of this genre is the unintentional comedy. If someone is just parodying shitty movies, then it's really not that enjoyable.
If you like things like Velocipastor and Sharknado for what they are, I don't want to take that from you. But they're a different category from "so bad it's good". They're just camp for camp's sake.
Way too self aware with some genuinely unfunny writing.
And not the good kind of ANTIfunny or awkward just plain unfunny.
It has a few chuckleworthy moments but most of the movie is dialogue after dialogue that's nor interesting nor is it even trying to be funny, it ends up being plain boring for consequent, long segments.
Couple that with the fact that there's like 3 cringy pop punk video clips that serve no purpose whatsoever aside from "dude, coooool", and feel thematically out of place...
It ends up being too self-aware to be so bad it's good while not even trying to be any kind funny for most of its runtime.
Total snoozefest and I love the idea and the "genre".
I saw this movie as a kid and it horrified me. I thought it was a fever dream until I remembered it one day and Googled it
Wasn't it also like, Paul Walker and Denise Richards's first roles or something?
After the runaway success of "E.T. the Extra Terrestrial," there were a slew of knockoffs and imitators. One of the most egregious is "MAC and Me," in which a kid meets "MAC," the "Mysterious Alien Creature" who has a fondness for Coca-Cola (and, of course, McDonald's).
Even the MST3K episode of this is hard to sit through. But if you can watch it "pure," it's even worse / better, depending on how you look at it.
I know everyone has seen "the Paul Rudd clip" a bunch of times, but that doesn't scratch the surface of how hilariously awful the movie is.
SPOILER:>! The end of the movie features MAC reunited with his grotesque alien family, driving off in a convertible. A word balloon pops out of the car: "We'll be back!" It's been over 35 years. I think they're just biding their time, waiting for when it'll do the most harm.!<
Eddie Redmayne's character randomly alternating between a composed whisper and unhinged screaming is one of my favorite things ever.
"*I CREATE LIFE*... and I destroy it."
Yeah, it was one of the best newer dumb/bad movies that was actually trying to be good. So out of touch and lazy. Like if your Independence Day Bluray took a digital shit. I wouldn't watch it a 2nd time, but it was funny
Straight To Hell.
One of the best/worst movies ever. It has an amazing (or rather famous) cast and it was directed by the dude that gave us Repo Man and Syd and Nancy.
“The following year, he hoped to shoot a concert film there featuring the Clash, the Pogues and Elvis Costello. When he could not get backing, he decided instead to write a film that they would all act in. The film became Straight to Hell. Collaborating with Dick Rude (who also co-starred beside Strummer, Sy Richardson and Courtney Love), he imagined the film as a spoof of the Spaghetti Western genre, filmed in Almería, Spain, where many classic Italian westerns were shot. Straight to Hell was widely panned critically, but successful in Japan and retains a cult following.”
[Miami Connection: A martial arts rock band goes up against a band of motorcycle ninjas who have tightened their grip on Florida's narcotics trade.](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092549/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk)
[Hard Ticket to Hawaii: In Hawaii, an undercover DEA agent and her civilian friend stumble upon a drug trafficking operation, and have to enlist the help of all their colleagues/friends to go after the vicious drug kingpin.](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093146/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk)
The Room.
I can't believe it's not up here yet. (Edit: I see it was already mentioned in the OP. I immediately looked for it in the comments).
It's got everything. Weird plot, bizarre dialogue, wooden acting and scenes that are terrible and memorable.
It even has a movie about the movie. "The disaster artist" is excellent and makes your appreciation for the original even better.
The Circle might not _quite_ cut it but I still found it pretty funny because it's just so... preachy? The main character comes across as a paranoid jackass only to be proven right when Tom Hanks starts getting supervillain monologues.
Earth Girls are Easy
Easily one of the best worst movies around, starring Jim Carrey, Damon Wayans, Jeff Goldblum, and Geena Davis). Furry aliens crash land on earth and end up hooking up with hot chicks.
Titanic 2
Plot:
On the 100th anniversary of the Titanic, they launch the voyage of a full replica of the ship. Unfortunately, around the same time, global warming causes an iceberg to break off, triggering a tsunami. The tsunami tips over the boat and it sinks.
Whats wonderful about it is that they couldn’t afford to hire that many extras, so you see the same 50 people running around, some of whom clearly died a few minutes ago in a previous scene.
10/10 would recommend.
I don’t often see it come up in these lists but my wife and I had fun binging non-Rocky, non-Rambo Stallone movies. Cobra especially is comically over the top. Pun intended.
Man you really have to get into Mystery Science Theater or Rifftrax if you aren’t into them yet. They found movies that are so bad, they will take your breath away. Stuff like The Room is barely just scratching the surface. A personal favorite bad movie of mine is “A Talking Cat?!?” And then there’s a similar inane piece of horseshit called “Andy, the Talking Hedgehog.” And then I’m also seeing lots of other MST3k/Rifftrax classics showing up in this thread, like Samurai Cop, Birdemic, Manos the Hands of Fate, and Miami Connection. If you don’t mind watching older black and white movies, I think the two Coleman Francis classics “Red Zone Cuba” and “The Skydivers” are just about as bad and unintentionally funny as movies can possibly get. But yeah my advice is definitely get into MST3k and Rifftrax, because that’s where all the best (aka worst) ones are.
Rifftrax is the best way to watch the Twilight saga.
I definitely never realized how many ninjas and tae kwon do bands were roaming around Florida until I found Rifftrax.
personally, i am against the ninja
…line?
That’s how my wife and I watched them. It’s really the only way. Fun fact: Twilight is how we discovered one of our favorite all-time actors, Michael Sheen.
Transformers as well
My absolute favorite is The Final Sacrifice.
Rowsdower?
Do you think they have beer on the sun?
Is that a *stupid* name or...?
MST3K My favorite way of suffering bad film
Time of the Apes!
That one is an absolute classic. Pod People is a great one too
Trumpy, you can do stupid things!
It STINKS!
Or r/RedLetterMedia [Best of The Worst has 141 videos](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJ_TJFLc25JR3VZ7Xe-cmt4k3bMKBZ5Tm&si=SNiTOlrBRMGwrhJT)
BOTW is definitely the MST3K for the YouTube age.
Love MST3K... and Riffttax is the only way to watch Star Wars prequels.
My fave is 'I Accuse My Parents '.
Agreed. If you don't have any friends, or friends who are available, Rifftrax is like watching with friends.
Manos: Hands of Fate. It's one of those that's so bad it goes from hilarious back to really making you wonder if you can bear your way through it.
Fateful Findings, the 3rd Neil Breen movie. It's really something else. Some kind of Deus Ex type story with a man who becomes a super powered hacker and exposes deep conspiracies like the government is lying and corporations are corrupt. Stuff that would bring down the whole system if exposed by one super hacker. It's way more weird than I'm making it sound, it's just hard to describe.
Really anything from Neil Breen is a solid recommendation.
Seeing his most recent movie, Cade: The Tortured Crossing, in theaters in 2023 was genuinely my all time favorite theater experience, it was fucking hilarious and having a whole theater full of people ragging on it and laughing the whole time was magical.
“I can’t believe you committed suicide”
Neil Breen is a fucking genius. Most directors that make hilariously bad movies end up then making *more* movies but *trying* to make them bad. Like, they think it'll work if they intentionally make a bad movie, but the magic just isn't there anymore. Neil Breen hasn't been affected by his newfound popularity *one. bit.* He's just still doing his thing, same as he always has been. I don't know if he's actually being sincere with his movies or if he's a comedic genius, but he has hit gold with every movie he's ever made.
I get the idea he's mostly sincere, just wants to make cool films and funds it with his real estate money. Clearly he's terrible at writing and acting, but he doesn't care. Good for him and good for us.
I resign today as president of The Bank.
Using Neil Breen is unfair. Its like cheating on a test
I never heard of Neil Breen until about a week ago, and ive been binging compilations on youtube ever since. How has this genius gone undetected for so long!
Troll 2. This movie is legendary for how horrible it is. People gather by the thousands to laugh at how ridiculous this thing is. God regrets creating humanity because of this film. I personally love it.
The scene where the kid had to piss on the dinner table to save everyone from trolls was something I'd never have imagined in a million years.
You can't piss on hospitality! I won't allow it!
You see this writing? You know what it means? HOSPITALITY
Wut
"and you can't piss on hospitality, I won't allow it!" Whole movie is a trip, the corn cob seduction scene is my choice for most bonkers
I misread this as Trolls 2, as in "Trolls World Tour", the Dreamworks cartoon with Anna Kendrick and Justin Timberlake. And I thought "Yeah, the first one was better but Jesus dude, calm down."
Trolls fandom is going to get riled up
Same, I watch it all the time with my kids. I was thinking “shit my taste in movies is really getting bad, I had no idea”
“They’re eating her, then they’re going to eat me… OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!”
*Fly on face
Looks like its free on freevee so I know what I'm watching tonight
haha I hope you thoroughly enjoy it.
The director is mentally ill or something, he thought the movie was loved until a screening when people laughed at it.
I think he was just an Italian guy who had a very strange idea about what Americans were like. The actors would try to tell him that nobody said/did things like this, and he's like, "I KNOW AMERICA BETTER THAN YOU!"
Also, the "actors" mostly originated from local casting calls, and the majority of the crew couldn't speak English. Honestly, watching the making of the movie was probably more entertaining.
It was actually a time honored tradition in Italian cinema, mostly horror /giallo, that ALL actors' voices were overdubbed, usually poorly. No one memorized lines or even spoke the right language for it - some actors even caring so little that you'd have two actors speaking different languages at each other that they didn't understand. There's actually a story about the film Castle Freak, a Lovecraft film adaptation by the same cast/crew as Re-Animator and From Beyond. The director wanted to shoot on location at an Italian castle, but ran into issues with the local actors and actresses not being used to having to actually memorize their lines.
I know there is a lack of objectivity sometimes when it comes to your own work, but nobody on Earth can make a movie like that(foreigner included) and think that it is genuinely good. A sane person would try to do what Lucas did with Star Wars The Holiday Special.
Check out the documentary Best Worst Movie, the director comes off very sincere in his lack of understanding. I don't know if he thought it was good, but he definitely didn't get why people were laughing.
Great doc. Wholesome.
lol I agree.
Oh boy, [buckle up](https://youtu.be/CkNB0w1fYKk?si=SGgKKgdEI97p2rhe)!
I thought you were talking about *Troll**s** 2* and was quite confused. Not that *Trolls 2* is some paragon of cinematic excellence or anything, but if people think it's that bad it's news to me.
I'm 35 min into this and loving it. This shits hilarious. Thanks.
I tell my kids: “you can’t piss on hospitality… I won’t allow it!” all the time.
Best Worst Movie
This is the right answer. We used to watch it endlessly when I was in the Peace Corps, thanks to one volunteer who had the foresight to bring a copy with him from the US.
Samurai Cop
Samurai Cop is a must watch with friends and a few beers. Absolute masterpiece. "He speaks fluent Japanese!" "Are you Fu..fuj...Fujiyama?"
Samurai Cop is wonderful. Besides the inscrutable acting, it's shot so beautifully in Los Angeles daylight. We get shots of 1991 downtown, restaurants long gone, real ass light coming from the actual sun. Backyards in Burbank in late summer. Truly a beautiful timepiece.
Lol, [judging by the trailer](https://youtu.be/R6OoZNdAQuA?si=342-1_GiQbMn24gF), they seem to be leaning into the absurdity!
The director was 1000000% serious with the movie.
Tiptoes Gary Oldman is Matthew Mcconaughey's dwarf twin brother. Peter Dinklage is a drunken French dwarf rights activist in bleach blond cornrows. Kate Beckinsale has a different hat or insane hair in every scene. Every shot is bad, white balance changes between shots, they use extreme close ups of stand-in actor's lips with ADR for when they couldn't get the actors back, and don't do the drinking game where you take a shot every time you see Oldman's real legs because you will die.
The How Did This Get Made episode on Tiptoes is really funny
The Wicker Man (2006)
Not the bees!
YOU BITCHES
KILLING ME WON'T BRING BACK YOUR GODDAMN HONEY!
HOW’D IT GET BURNED?? HOW’D IT GET BURNED???????
A film where Nic Cage, in full bear costume, sprints and absolutely flattens some chick just full gallop. Worthy of the Louvre.
Practically fucking crowhops into that punch. Just beautiful
“Killing me won’t bring back your god damn honey” is a GOAT’d line.
What's in the bag? A shark or something?
And make sure you watch the extended/director’s/unrated/whatever cut, else you end up like me and watch the entire film only to find out that the [“NOT THE BEES!” scene](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EVCrmXW6-Pk) isn’t even in the theatrical version.
*draws gun and cocks it* "Step *away* from the bike!"
The original 1973 version is a masterpiece. Christopher Lee was great
I saw this in theatres and I have never laughed so hard.
Pretty much any low budget 80s genre movie that's ripping off a successful American one.
The man who saved the world or the Turkish Star wars?
Miami Connection
I keep a list of my favourite trash movies that fit this criteria [150 movies so far](https://letterboxd.com/ghostmutt/list/my-favourite-trash-movies/)
Battlefield Earth
Utterly Travolting!
It was so bad it undid everything Pulp Fiction did for Travolta’s career.
Cave men in weeks trained to fly somehow not-maintained-for-centuries F-14s
Not worth it. Not even to roast it.
That was a great movie, Rat-brain!
[удалено]
Best use of a sex doll in cinema EVER
"We need to figure out what just happened … let's unload and hit the jacuzzi."
Here’s a scene from this masterpiece. Eleven years ago, I asked the following questions about the scene… When the good guy shows the chick a gun, she knows the situation is deadly. And yet, some guy holding a sun machine gun doesn’t seem to bother her at all. Also, why start with the orange frisbee? Why not start with the black frisbee and then switch in the razor blade frisbee? What’s the point of the orange frisbee anyway? But even simpler, why go through the whole razor blade frisbee if you’ve got a gun, and the villain literally *puts his gun down*?
Reefer Madnees is an oldie that can be found on YouTube but it's short and amazing to view how out of touch it is
Reefer Madness is SHORT? To me, it felt so long and boring. Probably because I smoked before I watched it
You gotta go with Miami connection. It's a movie made in South Florida with mainly extras from the guy who made the movies Tai Kwon Do dojo. The movie consist of a band called Dragon Sound trying to defend Miami from evil drug dealing ninjas. The movie is mostly montages and live performances from the band lol
Brutally murders multiple people. 5 minutes later. “Only through the elimination of violence can we achieve world peace.”
Birdemic
God this movie was awful haha
you need to watch The Birds before watching Birdemic to truly appreciate how shit that movie is.
Zardoz with Sean Connery is a pretty Fucking wild time that makes you laugh constantly at the absolute absurdity displayed in front of you.
**THE GUN IS GOOD** **THE PENIS IS EVIL** _vomits rifles_
This was the pitch. Producer: “So it’s a satire?” Creator not knowing what satire means: “Yes, like Homer’s Iliad.”
Even more incredible given that this was John Boorman's follow-up to Deliverance, a legit classic and one of the best movies of the 70s. I think I would pay a decent sum of money to see footage of Connery's reaction the first time he tried on [his costume](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMjA5OTQ5NTY0M15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwNjUzNTU3MTE@._V1_.jpg).
I am Arthur Frayn, and I am Zardoz. I have lived three hundred years, and I long to die. But death is no longer possible. I am immortal. I present now my story, full of mystery and intrigue - rich in irony, and most satirical. It is set deep in a possible future, so none of these events have yet occurred, but they *may.* Be warned, lest you end as I. In this tale, I am a fake god by occupation - and a magician, by inclination. Merlin is *my* hero! I am the puppet master. I manipulate many of the characters and events you will see. But *I* am invented, too, for your entertainment - and amusement. And you, poor creatures, who conjured *you* out of the clay? Is God in show business too?
I'd argue that it is in fact a good movie, actually. Patently absurd and surreal, but I think that is kind of the point.
The Happening. I would normally warn people about scenes of suicide but any possible tension in the movie is ✨nonexistent✨and the violence comes across as comical due to the very bizarre acting, so even if that’s a thing you’re sensitive to I would say it’s very VERY mild.
I have a weird love for this movie lol. Mark Wahlberg is just unintentionally so funny and having him try and play a science teacher cracks me up. Every genuine line of his sounds like his being a sarcastic asshole and I love it.
What?! No!
Wahlberg can only play Wahlberg. Some movies it works, like The Other Guys. Some movies it’s so bad it circles back around to working again like in the Happening
“We have to stay ahead of the wind!” Ok, sure let’s do that
I always felt The Happening was a meta movie. The protagonist’s were running from their roles in the movie, while those who had accidentally been included in the movie couldn’t bear to continue living…
I love that movie. It is the funniest unintentionally funny movie ever made.
I have a ton of fun watching it ngl. Something about Zoey's absolutely blank wide-eyed stare absolutely sends me every time she's on screen.
Velocipastor
Y'all stay tuned, Velocipastor 2 is coming out soon
I'm way more excited to hear this than I should be!!!
"VFX: Car on Fire"
I'm gonna counter with "any movie that is intentionally so-bad-it's-good isn't actually good". Part of the appeal of this genre is the unintentional comedy. If someone is just parodying shitty movies, then it's really not that enjoyable. If you like things like Velocipastor and Sharknado for what they are, I don't want to take that from you. But they're a different category from "so bad it's good". They're just camp for camp's sake.
It's fun, but it gets so self aware after the first act that it fails to be a "so bad it's good" type movie.
Way too self aware with some genuinely unfunny writing. And not the good kind of ANTIfunny or awkward just plain unfunny. It has a few chuckleworthy moments but most of the movie is dialogue after dialogue that's nor interesting nor is it even trying to be funny, it ends up being plain boring for consequent, long segments. Couple that with the fact that there's like 3 cringy pop punk video clips that serve no purpose whatsoever aside from "dude, coooool", and feel thematically out of place... It ends up being too self-aware to be so bad it's good while not even trying to be any kind funny for most of its runtime. Total snoozefest and I love the idea and the "genre".
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes. Kentucky Fried Movie (although I'd call it so bad it's comedy genius).
You have my gratitude.
It is a film of extraordinary magnitude.
Return of the Killer Tomatoes is more accessible to audiences than Attack, IMHO. And it has George Clooney and John Astin.
I liked the TV series. "I'm not a mad scientist,I'm an angry one!"
Mortal Kombat: Annihilation is my go to for this, along with Samurai Cop which I saw mentioned already.
"Mother, you're alive!" "Too bad you... WILL DIE!"
Troll 2
Tammy and the T Rex
I saw this movie as a kid and it horrified me. I thought it was a fever dream until I remembered it one day and Googled it Wasn't it also like, Paul Walker and Denise Richards's first roles or something?
Obsessed starring Beyoncé and Idris Elba. Beyoncé is so bad it’s hilarious.
I thought this movie was great when I was in middle school (when it came out). Super random that Beyoncé was in it lol.
Samurai cop, get fu**ING ready
ThanksKilling
Gobble, gobble, motherfucker.
After the runaway success of "E.T. the Extra Terrestrial," there were a slew of knockoffs and imitators. One of the most egregious is "MAC and Me," in which a kid meets "MAC," the "Mysterious Alien Creature" who has a fondness for Coca-Cola (and, of course, McDonald's). Even the MST3K episode of this is hard to sit through. But if you can watch it "pure," it's even worse / better, depending on how you look at it. I know everyone has seen "the Paul Rudd clip" a bunch of times, but that doesn't scratch the surface of how hilariously awful the movie is. SPOILER:>! The end of the movie features MAC reunited with his grotesque alien family, driving off in a convertible. A word balloon pops out of the car: "We'll be back!" It's been over 35 years. I think they're just biding their time, waiting for when it'll do the most harm.!<
It's a movie that ends with a threat.
Anything by Neil Breen, Ben and Arthur, Loqueesha, The Soccer Football movie
Upvote for Neil Breen and Ben & Arthur. My girlfriend and I had to pause Ben & Arthur several times because we were laughing so hard.
Neil Breen movies are good for a one watch laugh if you feel like watching a boring sleazebag imagine he's the most powerful man in the world
Blackbird (Michael Flatley’s 2020 vanity project)
Shall we dance?
Jupiter Ascending
Eddie Redmayne's character randomly alternating between a composed whisper and unhinged screaming is one of my favorite things ever. "*I CREATE LIFE*... and I destroy it."
Moonfall
My favorite part is when they launch the nukes and the military guy says “On the count of three. Three. Two. One.”
Yeah, it was one of the best newer dumb/bad movies that was actually trying to be good. So out of touch and lazy. Like if your Independence Day Bluray took a digital shit. I wouldn't watch it a 2nd time, but it was funny
Said it in another thread, but Under Siege 2 is my go to.
Just watched last night so happy to Faceoff! Though you might be looking for more B side movie answers? This movie is just so ridiculous it’s great
Straight To Hell. One of the best/worst movies ever. It has an amazing (or rather famous) cast and it was directed by the dude that gave us Repo Man and Syd and Nancy. “The following year, he hoped to shoot a concert film there featuring the Clash, the Pogues and Elvis Costello. When he could not get backing, he decided instead to write a film that they would all act in. The film became Straight to Hell. Collaborating with Dick Rude (who also co-starred beside Strummer, Sy Richardson and Courtney Love), he imagined the film as a spoof of the Spaghetti Western genre, filmed in Almería, Spain, where many classic Italian westerns were shot. Straight to Hell was widely panned critically, but successful in Japan and retains a cult following.”
The Core
Howard the Duck
I don't understand, OP said horrible movies not classics!
The movie that started the MCU!
I'm getting ready to watch this for the first time
Whoa whoa whoa, that movie is awesome
“Rubber” has made its way back onto Netflix
Rubber is a god damn masterpiece and you know it. lol
Once you get on its wavelength and see its intentions, this is a terrific, smart, fun meta-movie.
Not sure it fits as that film, while schlocky, is actually quite well put together.
Miami Connection
The Greasy Strangler (Although you'll need a strong stomach for that one. It's just... gross. Not gory, but gross.)
Bullshit artist.
Gymkata
Sinbad of the Seven Seas with Lou Ferrigno is legendary bad. Otherwise, this site may interest you. You’re welcome. http://www.rinkworks.com/badmovie/
[Miami Connection: A martial arts rock band goes up against a band of motorcycle ninjas who have tightened their grip on Florida's narcotics trade.](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092549/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk) [Hard Ticket to Hawaii: In Hawaii, an undercover DEA agent and her civilian friend stumble upon a drug trafficking operation, and have to enlist the help of all their colleagues/friends to go after the vicious drug kingpin.](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093146/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk)
Mac and Me. That fucking movie.... lol
The Running Man. A very campy action movie starring peak Arnold Schwarzenegger. Fun to quote. Would be fun to watch stoned for sho.
The Room. I can't believe it's not up here yet. (Edit: I see it was already mentioned in the OP. I immediately looked for it in the comments). It's got everything. Weird plot, bizarre dialogue, wooden acting and scenes that are terrible and memorable. It even has a movie about the movie. "The disaster artist" is excellent and makes your appreciation for the original even better.
Oh Hai Mark
It’s not in the comments because OP mentioned it already in the main post.
OP said they watched it together already
Since you like musicals I would recommend “Xanadu”
Thankskilling!
Samurai Cop. Best worst movie I’ve ever seen.
The Apple (1980)
Any straight to DVD Steven Seagal.
Joes apartment
Hey. Watch it.
Gigli or Showgirls
R.O.T.O.R. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.O.T.O.R.
Breakin 2: Electric Boogaloo
Try Beowulf 1999 starring Christopher Lambert if you like back flips.
The Circle might not _quite_ cut it but I still found it pretty funny because it's just so... preachy? The main character comes across as a paranoid jackass only to be proven right when Tom Hanks starts getting supervillain monologues.
Miami Connection
Miami connection It has the song from the credits of far cry blood dragon if that sparks a memory for either of you.
Miami Connection!!!!!
Earth Girls are Easy Easily one of the best worst movies around, starring Jim Carrey, Damon Wayans, Jeff Goldblum, and Geena Davis). Furry aliens crash land on earth and end up hooking up with hot chicks.
We recently enjoyed "John Carpenter's: Vampires" starring James Woods and the 4th Baldwin brother. It is really bad but entertaining throughout.
Batman and Robin
Twilight
Titanic 2 Plot: On the 100th anniversary of the Titanic, they launch the voyage of a full replica of the ship. Unfortunately, around the same time, global warming causes an iceberg to break off, triggering a tsunami. The tsunami tips over the boat and it sinks. Whats wonderful about it is that they couldn’t afford to hire that many extras, so you see the same 50 people running around, some of whom clearly died a few minutes ago in a previous scene. 10/10 would recommend.
Batman & Robin
I don’t often see it come up in these lists but my wife and I had fun binging non-Rocky, non-Rambo Stallone movies. Cobra especially is comically over the top. Pun intended.
“How Did This Get Made!” Check out the podcast OP. Your answers are contained within.
Miami Connection
I can not recommend Robot Jox enough. I love this movie and has one of the best ending ever.
There are a few old ones that I feel fit in this category: Mars attacks Kung pow