I love bad movies - the kind made on a budget of $1.50 that you can watch over and over, find the mistakes, laugh every time you watch - not the kind that are so bad there isn't even anything funny about them and you wish you had the time back that you spent watching them. Almost in this category is Highlander: The Source which is a straight-to-DVD release that is supposed to come out sometime this year. Adrian Paul, Jim Byrnes, and Peter Wingfield aren't hard to look at - they are the only reasons I don't want my 94 minutes back. I've heard that "they" want to reshoot parts of the movie. The only thing that will save it is to go back to the original idea (where do immortals come from?) and start the movie all over again. But that won't happen.
My all-time favourite bad movie is the classic Plan 9 From Outer Space - the worst movie ever made by the worst director ever, Ed Wood.
I'm adding to my Ed Wood collection. In addition to Plan 9, I have Glen or Glenda (I Changed my Sex), Bride of the Monster, Night of the Ghouls.
Other classic bad movies - Attack of the Killer Tomatoes (I don't think Return of the Killer Tomatoes or either of the other 2 sequels count as classics but Return does have George Clooney) and Little Shop of Horrors (with Jack Nicholson as the guy who likes to go to the dentist).
Maybe not a classic but certainly worth one viewing - It Conquered the World (Peter Graves, Lee Van Cleef, Beverly Garland - great cast! - what were they thinking when they read the script? Something that looks like a giant aspargus conquers the world. Great idea for a movie! Let's do it).
Bad - no redeeming features - not even worth watching once - Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women.
I know I've forgotten some bad movies I've seen and enjoyed.
Anybody have any favourites or not-so-favourites?
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5 comments:
Goodness, you're a bigger movie buff than I ever realized. Well, naturally I'm gonna say one awful, awful movie that's so bad it's humorous is that flick Julie Cypher directed, Teresa's Tattoo. Plot is totally unbelievable (but it's meant to be so), and it's an obvious campy kinda parody something-or-other, but what's being spoofed remains a mystery. The fun thing is seeing all the stars (Lou Diamond Phillips, Majel Barrett, C. Thomas Howell, Kiefer Sutherland, Nancy McKeon, k.d. lang, Melissa Etheridge, and the list goes on) make complete fools out of themselves.
I forgot about Teresa's Tattoo...and that Majel Barrett was in it.
I was wondering if it was my taste in bad movies or are the majority of them somewhere in the sci-fi genre? Maybe it's the cheesy special effects (hey, how good could they be if the budget is only $1.50?)
Too bad Gene Roddenberry wasn't in it. ;-)
I think a good many bad movies are sci-fi. It's the cheesy effects, which end up being funny. Other bad movies usually are simply bad, not even funny, because the dialogue or writing is awful.
Have you seen Plan 9? You can see the string pulling the spaceships; the curtain behind the pilot is a shower curtain. There are so many things wrong with the movie...One of the DVD versions (yeah, that's a movie that needed the Special treatment) has a commentary by Tim Burton. What's there to say about the movie that hasn't already been said? Not that that's going to stop me from seeing it. That version is also in colour. Should be interesting to see whether a good job was done on it.
I like bad funny movies because they can be watched again. Bad bad movies are hard enough to watch once.
Wild Hogs - I'm not sure what category this movie fits into. It's definitely not very good but it is very funny. So if you just want a good laugh or like any of the actors (John Travolta, William H. Macy, Tim Allen, Martin Lawrence), it's worth downloading or seeing when it gets to the cheap theatres.
The downloaded version that is currently available was just somebody going into the theatre with a video camera. Not great quality but watchable...and you can hear the audience laughing but you don't see them (the taper must have been in the front or the theatre wasn't very full). It's like watching a sitcom with a laugh track.
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