Buffy ,'Never Leave Me'
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I think your post cut off "Oyle" Betsy. :)
Seriously, though, if you've ever heard the singing in the old cartoons (and many of them had songs), Duvall wasn't too far off the mark.
I just realized that DUNE and POPEYE are similar in that they are unmistakebly the work of idiosyncratic directors who are probably trying to tackle a genre/subject/whatev that's dead wrong for them.
As far as unreasonable love goes, I'd be hard-pressed to defend my love for huge portions of the Ken Russell ouvre.
Flash Gordon really is the grand master of trashy bad movies that are fun despite having no redeeming features, though. Plus, I think it may be what made me gay, along with countless others.
The problem with Popeye is that Jules Feiffer was trying to write E. C. Segar's Popeye, while Altman was trying to direct Max Fleischer's Popeye.
Two completely separate things.
Flash Gordon is right up there. Who can deny the rockin' Queen soundtrack?
Also for consideration - the Conan movies, and Beastmaster. Absolutely, every time.
Then there's my long list of Teen Girl High School movies, for some reason. And Stupid Guy movies. Love 'em.
What movies can you absolutely make zero case for as good movies, but are absolutely enthralled with?
Newsies.
Man, O.C. and Stiggs was proof that Altman needed to lay off the demon weed occasionally.
Man, O.C. and Stiggs was proof that Altman needed to lay off the demon weed occasionally.
Hadn't QUINTET already proved that?
Xanadu!
Gene Kelly, Greek mythology, and roller skates. What's not to love. It's pure cheddar.
I also adore Popeye. I will admit to seeing Grease 2 several times in the the theater when I was 11. (It was a Navy base theater. Admission was $1.)
Bugsy Malone.
I think a complicating factor to Frank's quest on this front is that many movies are made these days to exploit that "wow, this is such a bad movie and I'm having so much fun" market. Like, a third half of John Carpenter's movies are successful in this way. (Another third, successful at something less ironic. THe last third, unsuccessful by any measure.)
Actually I would suggest that any movie that has been labeled "[blank]-sploitation" has a good chance of falling into the category we are trying to describe.