Crap Films You Love Anyway

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I'm sure this must have been done before but DS1 is being hard work and I fancied starting a lighthearted thread.

Inspired by the thread about films that make you ugly cry because someone mentioned A.I.

I know A.I. is generally recognised as being utterly crap but I love it. I cry and cry most of the way through but really do just love it!

So, what terrible films do you love? Or films not universally acknowledged as terrible but disapproved of on MN (for me that would be Love Actually)?

I love the 80s films - three men and a baby, Roxanne, Death Becomes Her, look who's talking, turner and hooch, planes, trains and automobiles etc etc etc - all of them!!

They are a guilty pleasure of mine, you just don't get films like that now really. Probably for good reason...

A film called Braindead. One of Peter Jacksons first ever movies. And is spectacular in its slight crapness.

Also, Evil Dead III - Army of Darkness. I think it's the best. Husband thinks it's utter piss.

ConAir - move away from the bunny 🐰
Snakes on a plane 🐍
Starship troopers 👽

228 I also love a good film at 5 on C5, especially a swapped at birth or some film with a murderous woman who is sealing revenge on her cheating husband... There was one the other day entitled "stolen from the womb" but thought it would be a bit much for me at the minute

If your heart doesn't break in that train station waiting room at the end of Planes Trains and Automobiles you are made of rock.

Lake placid

Van Helsing (which is truly terrible but I still love it, it's become my go to crappy 'I'm poorly' film!)

Any disaster movie, San Andreas is awesome although it took a while for me to get into it as the helicopter rescue was just too ridiculous and I will only accept ridiculousness in disaster movies after the disaster has happened! I was stupidly happy when I found a twister DVD for about £2 at a car boot the other year!

The Bodyguard. Everything about it: the clothes, the soundtrack, the latent longing between Whitney and Kevin, the textbook stalker's lair. Love it!
I also love any trashy schlocky horror films.

OMG twister love that

And towering inferno...

Ooh Lake Placid is fantastic!

Anything on Lifetime Movie Network. I love that shit. Hit and Run is a LMN work of genius.

Robin Hood: Men in Tights

I fucking adore that film!

The Parent Trap
Ghost
Pretty Woman

Heathers. Breakfast Club. I adore Ferris Bueller's Day Off, dated, cheesy etc etc It's brilliant :)

oooh & Lost Boys and Top Gun. Can you tell I like awful 80s films!

Thanks for reminding me of Van Helsing. I totally forgot about that movie. I loved it when I was about 15, not so sure if it's still as great watching it now though. Will have to rewatch.

Watched the Ridiculous 6 on Netflix with some friends and drinks the other night. It was terribly cliched, crude humour with lots of awful racial stereotyping and the only female character was your typical trophy/damsel character (although she did eventually turn up and kill a baddie with her bow and arrow). Despite all that, we all laughed and enjoyed it. It's one one those ones the critics slam but the public love.

Sometimes when you expect a movie to be silly and low brow before you even start watching, you can suspend your good taste and just enjoy the naffness.

Passenger 53 (so bad it's a wonder it got made! Funny for all the wrong reasons)
The wedding date
Titanic
Katherine Heigl films - the ugly truth (vibrating knickers scene hilarious!), life as we know it (mine and dds snuggle up film), 27 dresses (total cheesefest)
Ice princess (dd won't admit this one!)
RIPD - yes! Genius film!
We're the millers
The bounty hunter
Bring it on
Wedding crashers
Theweebabyseamus Hitch yes we love that too and yes to
My Stepmother is an Alien
Armageddon (totally cheesy cry at Bruce dying while simultaneously ew at him shagging liv in real life)
Cocktail yes though it hurts me to call a tom cruise film crap as I like most of them (MI6 out next year I think)
Final destination franchise, again dd and I bonding films (had to indoctrinate her into my love of horror)
Overboard yes but sorry I don't think private Benjamin is crap
Outrageous fortune - yes!
Hello again (Shelley long anyone seen this?)
First wives club
Big business (better milder was in some corkers!)
The proposal (although Betty White is of course fantastic - the hen night is genius!)
The bodyguard - awful - love it!

American made for TV based on a true story - 'money for love - the true story of Jenny Lou Harrison' type shit (made up title) Addictive!

Con air? How can a film with that cast be crap?! John malkovich AND john cusack AND Steve buscemi

Satsuki I agree Role Models NOT a crap film

If your heart doesn't break in that train station waiting room at the end of Planes Trains and Automobiles you are made of rock. - so true, should have been a red flag fore with ex he's utterly unmoved

'Heathers. Breakfast Club. I adore Ferris Bueller's Day Off, dated, cheesy etc etc It's brilliant' whoa NOT crap but classics!

I also love Blazing Saddles and Spacebars, I saw Spacebars before I ever saw Star Wars and I think it is a far superior film!

SpaceBALLS.

Yes - Hello Again, where she chokes on a scotch egg or something then haunts her ex. Terrible, but I've seen it loads.

Agree, lots of these are good films. It's easy to write off 80s movies because they can seem dated rather than classic at the moment, but they aren't so wrong they're right, they are simply right!

I love Tremors - I think it is a good example of the type of thing it is

I also cry at the end of Cool Runnings every single time. I know what they're going to do, but I still crumble every time they do it.

Oh my a God yes - Tremors! I have to see that again now!!!

Hello again is fab! Troop beverley hills too! Love shelley long
Starship troopers
Mars attacks
Anything with goldie hawn

One of my FAVOURITE films is The Holiday. I watch it at least twice a year. Also love The Wedding Date, Legally Blonde, Just Married... all great films! Some people are mentioning some genuinely great films, I'm baffled they made it onto this list.
I love love love The Trueman Show and The Breakfast Club too, but I think those are probably recognised as great films right?

Oh my God Satsuki, I love those Goldie Horn films too!

No Mercy it's an awful 80s film with Kim basinger and Richard gere, if it's on tv I have to watch it.

Deep blue sea? Think it's called that, the one about genetically modified super smart sharks with Sam l. Jackson? So bad, it's good!

Van Helsing! Wondrously terrible!

Hit Tub Time Machine and Spy are great!

Any terrible action film (think expendables or the transporter).

One of my faves of all time is "Clue", film of cluedo, with three different endings. Have never found anyone else who thinks it's as good as me!

The Island. Scarlett johanssen and Ewan McGreggor are clones kept for spare parts for selebs and multi millionaires. They eventually realise and try to cracker the system.