We'll send him cheesy movies / the worst we can find

[aadroma]

This, again, came up when I was in Benton Harbour this past weekend (yes, I'm getting to that post. Honest!):

What, in your opinion, is the worst movie you've ever seen? Why do you find it so terrible?

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[woofytexan]

Solar Babies - I mean, really, in the future the only way to get around is roller skates? riiiight.

2nd place would be Zardoz. Such classical lines as "Guns are bad. The Penis is good." should have made Sean Connery go running from this script.

[slavetoreznor]

OMG! Solar Babies! My dad recorded everything he could manage in the 80's when he first got HBO. I remember being confused watching that gem of a movie. What's with the glowing orb? Why is rollerblading their main form of transportation?

[muckefuck]

No movie with Sean Connery wearing that little can be called the "worst" of anything. It's firmly good bad, not bad bad.

[woofytexan]

OK. Good bad in the sense that Sean Connery runs around in a loin cloth for most of the movie. Bad bad in the sense that the lines (I won't even designate it as a script) were just awful and did not go with those shoes.

[muckefuck]

I'm finding this a difficult question, because there's an endless number of bad movies out there, so to be worst, you really need a perfect storm of terrible ideas miserably executed. Nothing I ever saw on MST3K would qualify, for instance, because the cheesy films they featured didn't have any truly repulsive elements to them.

Shoulda watch ELVIRA, Mistress of the Dark - Movies.

[geargail]

... you really have to hunt them bad "b" movies down.

Larry the Cable Guy, is another source of inspiration. Remember to hold your nose.

[bitterlawngnome]

The second Fritz the Cat movie. While the animation is fine, the plot has crossed the line from trippy and psychedelic into feaked out incoherence.

[dr_tectonic]

Dungeons & Dragons.

It had some pretty FX. That's the best thing I can say about it. Otherwise, it was thoroughy and completely terrible. Worse, it wasn't even bad enough to be entertainingly bad, it was merely completely and utterly not-good.

Why in detail? Let's see. Lots of plot elements based on everyone involved being idiots. Shallow, unlikeable protagonists. Comic relief bits that fell flat. Really bad dialogue. (The main character said "Nice!" a lot, and I think it was supposed to be a catch-phrase, but... it was just a big bucket of fail.) Lots of anticlimactic bits that just didn't live up to what they obviously could have been. The list goes on...

Although I think the acting and the dialogue might really be the worst offenders.

[wolfchylde]

But what about Jeremy Irons' wonderful scenery chomping performance as the big baddie? :D That caused no end of hilarity when WE watched it *chuckle*

[dr_tectonic]

That came close to so-bad-it's-good, but didn't quite make it there for me. Too much of the rest of the movie rubbed off on it...

Baldy Villain Dude - with Blue Lipstick, padded crotch.

[geargail]

Well, He did have a Quicksand Carpet in his bedroom

[progbear]

Monster A-Go-Go. This is not “so bad it’s good.” It’s just bad. And it took two directors (no-talent Bill Rebane-who abandoned the project half-way through-and notorious exploitation filmmaker Herschell Gordon Lewis, of Blood Feast infamy) to make a film this bad! It’s basically a 15 minute idea stretched out to 70 minutes, making it feel like three hours, as the film is padded out with never-ending scenes where a camera is parked in a room and characters who have nothing to do with the film’s narrative go on and on and on about things that do absolutely nothing to advance the film’s amoebic plot. Let’s not even get into the “twist” ending, which I’m sure had the few drive-in patrons that were actually watching when this was showing wanting to drive their Studebakers right through the screen.

The only good thing I can say about Monster A-Go-Go is that it appears on DVD in tandem with Psyched By the 4-D Witch, which is of the “so bad it’s good” variety! (Oh boy is it ever!)