We all have them... the guilty pleasures... the movies we know are really bad, but we still love them for (in)explicable reasons.

So which are your favorite terrible movies?

Why are they terrible?

Why do you love them?

kleinbl00:

1) Caveman starring Ringo Starr.

It's terrible because it's a cheap-ass campy sendup of The Quest for Fire starring Ringo Starr.

I love it because it's a terrible sendup of The Quest for Fire starring bad claymation, Ringo Starr, Dennis Quaid and Shelley Long.

2) The Blue Lagoon.

It's terrible because Brooke Shields is pedophile bait for like the whole film.

I love it because it's a gorgeous piece of cringe.

3) Michael Bay's The Island, but only with the director's commentary.

It's terrible because it's a Michael Bay movie, and his first real failure as a director. As in it's not even a good Michael Bay film. It's just awful.

I love it because the director's commentary is all about Michael Bay not willing to live with the fact that it's a terrible failure and him enthusiastically throwing everyone else under the bus for two hours.

4) Less Than Zero.

It's terrible because it's a hail-mary adaptation of a completely unadaptable book where clearly, more than half of the budget went up the nose of the director and Robert Downey Jr.

It's awesome because the other half went into the art direction, which is pretty much a self-parody of '80s cocaine chic, while the soundtrack was supervised by a young, hip Rick Rubin such that it's got Bananarama doing Hazy Shade of Winter and Slayer doing Inagaddadavida, as well as some of Thomas Newman's finest work.

5) Freejack.

It's terrible because Mick Jagger is a terrible actor and a worse villain. I believe this is the movie that convinced Anthony Hopkins (briefly) to stop acting.

I love it because Rene Russo, Buster Poindexter, Ministry in the soundtrack, and some poor enterprising sound designer decided that in the future, bullet ricochets are James Brown saying "Huh!"

6) Hardware.

It's terrible because it's a cheap, poorly-edited catastrophe of a Miramax techno-horror film that doesn't make a lot of sense.

I love it because the dialogue is bizarre, the acting is tortured, the cinematography is fuckin' off-the-chain and the art direction was Chris Cunningham before the world told him he was a genius.


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