Do you still watch bad movies?

[Trevor]

Space Mutiny: I will spare you all any mention of this piece of space poo - filmed in a Johannesburg warehouse and photographed by a mentor of mine  - which also uses stock footage from better sci-fi films.

Going to watch this later tonight. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gL0otRR3bfs

I wish you good fortune 

[Alex]

Space Mutiny: I will spare you all any mention of this piece of space poo - filmed in a Johannesburg warehouse and photographed by a mentor of mine  - which also uses stock footage from better sci-fi films.

Going to watch this later tonight. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gL0otRR3bfs

Enjoyably cheesy. Did it ever get a sequel?

[Trevor]

Space Mutiny: I will spare you all any mention of this piece of space poo - filmed in a Johannesburg warehouse and photographed by a mentor of mine   - which also uses stock footage from better sci-fi films.

Going to watch this later tonight. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gL0otRR3bfs

Enjoyably cheesy. Did it ever get a sequel?

Yes it did: it was called Mouldy: The Return of Blast HardCheese  

[chainsaw midget]

To get back to the original question, I don't watch as many bad movies as I used to and part of that is because I can't find bad movies the way I used to find them. 

It used to be you could go into any store, look at their DVD or if you want to go back further, their VHS selection and there would be quite a few movies pop right out at you.  Most stores around me now have cut their movie selections down to the bare bones.  It's mostly just the new stuff and the few bad movies they do have are all newer bad movies with bland heavily photshopped boxart that does nothing to capture my attention. 

You just don't find bad movie in the wild quite like you use to.

[bob]

on my copies of physical media -- but not as much as I used to

I watch more on streaming services if the title sounds wacky enough to be fun

[WingedSerpent]

I try to catch a Friday night film on tv.  If I'm home on Sat I'll try to catch either Svengoolie (the real one, not the troll we had for a while) or Son of Ghoul, the local late show horror host.

[kornula]

My roomate and I have a shelf full of DVDs we call "Dollar DVD Hell".  We go round our town to all the thrift stores and pawn shops, scour the DVD shelves for movies that are:
1. Sucre
2. Least promising based on the description on the back

Then we place those DVDs all backwards on the shelf so we can't see the title. When we cannot figure out what movie to watch on any given night, we pluck one of those at random.   

Last night we watched "No Ordinary Hero". Its about a TV show "super hero" who's deaf.  He's like Sesame Street exclusively for Deaf children. The secondary "main character" is Jacob; a deaf kid attending a regular school.  Of course, the kid idolizes "Super Deafy" (not kidding)  I could go on how self serving and patronizing to everyone this movie is..but it's best to find out for yourselves.

[Allhallowsday]

I am disappointed... that I'll likely be up 'til 5am as TCM is showing REPO MAN (1984) starting at 3am. 




REPO MAN is the perfect example of a great movie that is also Bad.  Great soundtrack!  Bad influence!  Twisted bad taste and silly.   

[The Burgomaster]

I watch bad movies pretty frequently on DVD or blu-ray. And I keep buying more.

[chainsaw midget]

My roomate and I have a shelf full of DVDs we call "Dollar DVD Hell".  We go round our town to all the thrift stores and pawn shops, scour the DVD shelves for movies that are:
1. Sucre
2. Least promising based on the description on the back

Then we place those DVDs all backwards on the shelf so we can't see the title. When we cannot figure out what movie to watch on any given night, we pluck one of those at random.   

That sounds fun. 

And horrible. 

 

[RCMerchant]

I watched ANGEL'S REVENGE (1979) with it's only redeeming feature being Alan Hale Jr. and Jim Bakus (both from GILLIGAN'S ISLAND).
It was directed by Greydon Clark, a protege of Al Adamson, so...there ya go.

[indianasmith]

Having just finished WEREWOLF MASSACRE AT HELL'S GATE, I must sadly say yes.
So bad . . . makes the Polonia Brothers movies look like Oscar material!!

[bob]

I watched ANGEL'S REVENGE (1979) with it's only redeeming feature being Alan Hale Jr. and Jim Bakus (both from GILLIGAN'S ISLAND).
It was directed by Greydon Clark, a protege of Al Adamson, so...there ya go.

I have that.... it's definitely something

[ER]

I can't see any point to watching a "bad" movie, and I don't think most of you are into truly bad movies. From what I've gleaned in fifteen years here is that what most of you define as a bad movie actually has certain enjoyable elements that make the film good. You look past acting, plot, production, effects, and you find other things to like. Maybe a better word than "bad" is "silly." In my mind a bad movie is one that isn't enjoyable to watch, and I've seen plenty of movies ripped on here, so it's not bad movies you like, it's ludicrously silly ones of the "laughing at, not with" variety. Or has my decade and a half of going native among you led me nowhere?

[indianasmith]

I can't see any point to watching a "bad" movie, and I don't think most of you are into truly bad movies. From what I've gleaned in fifteen years here is that what most of you define as a bad movie actually has certain enjoyable elements that make the film good. You look past acting, plot, production, effects, and you find other things to like. Maybe a better word than "bad" is "silly." In my mind a bad movie is one that isn't enjoyable to watch, and I've seen plenty of movies ripped on here, so it's not bad movies you like, it's ludicrously silly ones of the "laughing at, not with" variety. Or has my decade and a half of going native among you led me nowhere?

Well, you're not far off the mark, really.  There's "So Bad They're Funny" movies, like SHARKNADO.
There are unintentionally bad movies, with A-list actors and famous directors, that are just awful, like GANGS OF NEW YORK.  A half hour story stretched into a three-hour movie!
There are "OMG I cannot believe someone got this released," which don't have a lot of entertainment value except to heap ridicule and scorn upon.
And then there are the "I want to pour bleach in my eyeballs!" bad movies, which have ZERO redeeming value, but we talk about them secretly hoping someone else will watch them and share our misery.