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Nothing about it should justify how incredibly funny it is to me. Showing it to anyone either creates a convert, or leaves the poor victim giving me dirty looks for weeks afterwards.
Ditto. Although I've found alcohol helps the conversion effort, and improves viewing enjoyment.
chromedog wrote: For me, "Terrible" films aren't something I'll watch more than once. Things like:
Rocky Horror Picture Show,
Lord of the Rings,
Solaris (Soderbergh version)
Transformers (1986).
Those are fighting words....
I'm 48.
I don't have the rose tinted glasses of nostalgia +3 (I was 20 when TF movie came out, not a kid, and not a collector of transforming robot toys).
The other three just put me to sleep faster than NyQuil.
I'm OVER 50 (and so far over everyone's BS, too).
Old enough to know better, young enough to not give a ****.
That is not dead which can eternal lie ...
... and yet, with strange aeons, even death may die.
chromedog wrote: For me, "Terrible" films aren't something I'll watch more than once. Things like:
Rocky Horror Picture Show,
Lord of the Rings,
Solaris (Soderbergh version)
Transformers (1986).
Those are fighting words....
I'm 48.
I don't have the rose tinted glasses of nostalgia +3 (I was 20 when TF movie came out, not a kid, and not a collector of transforming robot toys).
The other three just put me to sleep faster than NyQuil.
Well, that tends to happen with anything on a screen when you get to your age
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"The language of modern British politics is meant to sound benign. But words do not mean what they seem to mean. 'Reform' actually means 'cut' or 'end'. 'Flexibility' really means 'exploit'. 'Prudence' really means 'don't invest'. And 'efficient'? That means whatever you want it to mean, usually 'cut'. All really mean 'keep wages low for the masses, taxes low for the rich, profits high for the corporations, and accept the decline in public services and amenities this will cause'." - Robin McAlpine from Common Weal
Although a darkened screen at the wrong refresh rate will also put me to sleep (always has). 24-25fps in a darkened room will send me off to noddytown.
Showscan and IMAX don't tend to when they are shown at a higher than 24fps framerate, though.
I'm OVER 50 (and so far over everyone's BS, too).
Old enough to know better, young enough to not give a ****.
That is not dead which can eternal lie ...
... and yet, with strange aeons, even death may die.
IIRC they give the blind girl a "machine gun" so she doesn't have to aim too well..... ?
...ah to be young and at Uni. again.
Seems inconceivable now hat "classics" like the Nuke'em high series, Toxic Avenger et al will be unseen.
..huh apparently with Paul Walker and Fergie from Black Eyed Peas !
didn't know that.
...think I just lost a bet made in 199somethingor other with regards to people from it going on to have careers.
The VHS/Blockbuster years were a great time for crap/schlock horror/sci-fi films.
It was like if you had an idea -- there's been a nuclear war so now people travel around on roller skates ! -- or whatever you could get the film made.
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We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.
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I love watching the terribleness that is Sharknado!! They're all frigging awful. But I laugh my ass off at the awfulness. And the roommate who said Princess Bride is a bad movie? That man needs swift access to an electric chair. Don't give him the sponge to bite on either. He deserves swift and painful justice. Them's not fighting words, them's execution words!
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Princess Bride is a classic, and not in any sort of terrble way.
Sharknado is a special case. The concept alone makes you want to watch it once. They get less bad with each incarnation. Sharknado 3 and 4 might actually be good, as a parody of themselves.
Spoiler:
Sharknado 3 just dispenses with realism altogether, and has a Shark Battle in SPACE, that ends with the hero surviving re-entry from orbit in the belly of a shark. Sharknado 4 has a full on cyborg amongst the heroes. It basically becomes a superhero franchise, and you'll cheer them for it
Rocky Horror Picture show is another special one. Watched it for the first time, alone, on DVD and didn't get it. Got dragged to a theatre, where it was performed live as well on a screen, whle drinking and surrounded by enthusiastic, and sometimes scantily clad, fans, and it became an experience. The BBC did a live annniversary performance that is worth watching, and this year there was a remake on US televison for Halloween that was pretty good.
Buttery Commissar wrote: Well, I had a film I loved and thought was awesome, until I showed other people. They stared at it/me like I was smearing raw sewage on my own walls.
...The Proposition.
Still no idea if I'm terrible people, or my friends are just easily appalled.
I see this as the problem with films; everyone's opinions seem way more polar opposite than you'd find in almost any other medium. It seems to boil down to how intensely you watch a movie, what you aim to get out of the film, and most importantly, what attitude you had before you went into a theatre or sat down on the sofa to watch it.
Still, with my favourite movie of the year being Zootopia, I don't think I'm in any better position to be a film critic than most people I know/follow on the internet
As for crap films I've watched... I don't think I really have watched something ghastly, as I'm sure I'd remember it; films to me are forgettable at worst, and I only have a very small capacity in my brain for remembering good ones. Most of them just go through the filter a few months after I've watched them, and I never return to see them again.
I will say that Insurgent (the sequel to Divergent) legitimately made me fall asleep in the theatre before I was poked awake by the friend I was going with, something I've never ever done before. Even if I tried my hardest, I couldn't tell you who anyone was or what they were doing; I guess that could be more insulting to a director than a movie that was so terrible it sticks in your memory.
Nothing about it should justify how incredibly funny it is to me. Showing it to anyone either creates a convert, or leaves the poor victim giving me dirty looks for weeks afterwards.
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Something about that line nearly had me in tears.
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ZergSmasher wrote: Okay, I'll bite (and have an exalt for mentioning Krull, one of my favorite bad movies!).
Tremors 1 and 2
Krull
Battle Beyond the Stars
Conan the Destroyer
Masters of the Universe
Robocop (the original one, the sequels were just terrible without being very enjoyable and I haven't even seen the reboot)
Judge Dredd (the one with Stallone)
The Black Hole
Aliens vs. Predator (the first one)
Deep Blue Sea
You take that back! Deep Blue Sea was awesome!! Better than Jaws, anyway...
Whoa, whoa, easy there killer! I love all of those movies despite their flaws. For me, if a movie entertains me, I like it no matter how bad it is considered in general. For that reason I could probably add Waterworld (which is basically Mad Max on the ocean) and Star Trek Nemesis to my list. Both are generally not well regarded, but I thoroughly enjoyed them. Hell, I even enjoyed Wing Commander on a certain level (barely).
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toasteroven wrote: I have a weakness for sword and sandal epics, no matter how boring, dull, or just plain awful.
So yes, I even love Hercules Against the Moon Men.
There is nothing like watching two oiled, Italian men wrestling with each other... amirite!
I will join your love of sword and sandal, and ante up with Gladiator movies! To think Lou Ferrigo in The Seven Gladiators is one of the better ones! That is a genre in trouble.
I also LOVE the movie The Apple
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The Toxic Avenger
Tromeo and Juiliette(The one where they stay alive, but Juliette is a pig women)
Silent Night Deadly Night
Jack Frost
Jack Frost 2: Revenge of the killer mutant snowman
Freddy Vs. Jason
I've only watched this movie once. Several years ago now when I was on proscribed medication. I had the worst nightmare after this movie. I haven't tried to watch it again.
Here's one for the list, Skullheadface.
The rewards of tolerance are treachery and betrayal.
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~16000 Astra Militarum: 
~1200 | Imperial Knights: 
~2300 | Leagues of Votann: 
~1300 | Tyranids: 
~3400 | Stormcast Eternals: 
~5000 | Kruleboyz: 
~3500 | Lumineth Realm-Lords: 
~700
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