Starship Troopers.
Terrible but eminently watchable films
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As a side theme - films that if you watch the first 5 minutes ......you are hooked
Capricorn one - Gets me every time - seen it countless times but if i see it in the guide.....on it goes!
Capricorn one - Gets me every time - seen it countless times but if i see it in the guide.....on it goes!
Tenacious D, Pick of destiny.
I'd never heard of them or Jack Black when I first watched that (2007 or so?) but it had me hooked within a a minute. I still think it's the best opening to a film I've ever seen.
Wayne's world would be a close second, saw it at cinema not knowing anything about SNL or the main stars but from the first scene knew it was going to be special.
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
Nah that's actually a brilliant film.
I'm gonna throw Air Force One into the mix. Harrison Ford phoning in his performance as a Rambo president and Gary Oldman doing a terribly stereotypical Chechen terrorist and yet it's still great.
Oh and Event Horizon with Laurence Fishburne and Sam Neill or Sphere with Dustin Hoffman, Sharon Stone and Samuel Motherfecker Jackson.
Event Horizon isn't a terrible film though...
While talking about Air Force One I used to love watching Executive Decision too!
While talking about Air Force One I used to love watching Executive Decision too!
In Face Off, did they ever explain in the film why they swapped faces but had still had completely different body types and how no one noticed?
Denise Richards alone made it watchable.
Plan 9 from Outer Space - never had more fun watching a movie.
Someone mentioned Police Academy, also a good shout.
Wild Zero, although I don't know if films that are trashy on purpose count.
Someone mentioned Police Academy, also a good shout.
Wild Zero, although I don't know if films that are trashy on purpose count.
Surely The Room is the only answer here?
Wrong Turn, I still know what you did last summer, House of wax
Event horizon is awesome
Good choice, panned by critics but has a decent following. I always remember it for some great horror scenes and suspense but ultimately it is a bit of a bore.
Screamers is another one that has a bad wrap, but also a bit of a sci-fi cult classic.
I'd say Idle Hands is complete shit but for some reason I enjoy it, probably cause it has a ridiculously hot (albeit very young) Jessica Alba.
Last Action Hero is really enjoyable for how kinda shitty it really is. Demolition Man somehow retains a jovial charm that doesn't seem to age, the quality of the film is overall kinda bad but it just works. I reckon there's a lot of 80s or 90s action films that fall under the category of "Bad but enjoyable". Maybe in 20 years time people will look at stuff like XxX in the same way, whereas for me it's just bad and not enjoyable.
Brilliant film!!! "Where we're going we don't need eyes"... what a line!
I'll add mine to the list. John Wick, brilliant movie, all that death over a dog!
That's great. Paul Verhoeven is a god among men.
Dawn of the dead (original version). Low budget as hell but great film.
Amazing flick. So good.
I'd add "Dude, Where's my Car" to the list. Terrible but hilarious.
Single White Female is a decent watch. Typical early 90s thriller. Jenifer Jason Leigh 
Love Black book by Verhoeven - actual suspense for once - did not know where it was going!
Chinese kung fu movies. Terrible acting and special effects. (You could tell it was ketchup) but damn they never get old.
One of the movies that made me not join the army. They don't make these anymore with so much morbid humor.Sam Neill's scream at the end made it even more terribly awesome. Great pick.
I see those and raise you Blind Fury - 80s classic with Rutger Hauer as a blind Vietnam vet with a vengeance and a big sword!
Not seen that yet, but I defo need to.
That's a great film.
Dark Angel/I Come in Peace, 1990 Dolph Lundgren film about a Houston cop who gets into some trouble with an intergalactic drug dealer. 'I Come in Peace!' 'Then you go.... in pieces....'
Crank 2 High Voltage
rubbish
Rubbish because they're not bad or rubbish because they're not watchable?
It was certainly served with a large slice of ham.
Still, they don't make them like that anymore
That sounds unbelievably terrible.
Give it a watch, it's something else.John Wick is not terrible so doesn't deserve to be on the list.
There is so much more behind the dog death that I wonder if you were paying any sort of attention
definately worth a look - not a "family film" shall we say!
Not sure many of his are!
Agreed, but worth it for the 964 Cab, at the end
Demolition Man
The Bill and Ted movies. I love them, but highbrow cinema they are not.
Hackers
Intermission
Showgirls
The last of the high kings
The Wicker man
Intermission
Showgirls
The last of the high kings
The Wicker man
There is a brilliant brilliant documentary about how to not get ahead in Hollywood about the making of the boondock saints that is actually better than the movies. It’s called overnight and if you love the movies you should really see it
The Final Destination series.
It helps the entertaingly comfy factor that they're all basically the same movie.
Big action-horror piece with plenty of gory deaths > rewind > they cheat death > oh no they didn't > now we watch them die one by one with fun kill scenes and a threadbare plot.
With all the horror reboots and 00s nostalgia I can't believe there hasn't been a new one for over a decade.
It helps the entertaingly comfy factor that they're all basically the same movie.
Big action-horror piece with plenty of gory deaths > rewind > they cheat death > oh no they didn't > now we watch them die one by one with fun kill scenes and a threadbare plot.
With all the horror reboots and 00s nostalgia I can't believe there hasn't been a new one for over a decade.