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.
And you're sure this isn't just some fanboy thing? 'Cause I've fought more than a couple pimply, overweight vamps that called themselves Lestat.
Buffy ,'Lessons'
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Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 20, 2005 7:40:50 am PST #8053 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Tom Scola - Jan 20, 2005 7:43:31 am PST #8054 of 10001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
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.
reequeen - Jan 20, 2005 7:43:49 am PST #8055 of 10001
"It's got to be the hair, Cotton. It's beautiful! Feathered and lethal. You just don't see it nowadays." Pepper Brooks - Dodgeball
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.
Hil R. - Jan 20, 2005 7:45:41 am PST #8056 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
What movies can you absolutely make zero case for as good movies, but are absolutely enthralled with?
Newsies.
Hayden - Jan 20, 2005 7:47:06 am PST #8057 of 10001
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Man, O.C. and Stiggs was proof that Altman needed to lay off the demon weed occasionally.
Frankenbuddha - Jan 20, 2005 7:48:10 am PST #8058 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Man, O.C. and Stiggs was proof that Altman needed to lay off the demon weed occasionally.
Hadn't QUINTET already proved that?
justkim - Jan 20, 2005 7:48:32 am PST #8059 of 10001
Another social casualty...
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.)
Betsy HP - Jan 20, 2005 7:50:09 am PST #8060 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Bugsy Malone.
Nutty - Jan 20, 2005 7:50:30 am PST #8061 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
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.
Betsy HP - Jan 20, 2005 7:51:06 am PST #8062 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
To be a truly GOod Bad Movie, it has to be utterly shameless. No irony, no sense that "We know better than to do this." Bad Movies glory in their decisions.