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Some are enjoyable, some aren't. It depends on the film.
None of these are technically good, but if I'm channel surfing at 2 AM, it's hard to turn away...
Buckaroo Banzai
Big Trouble in Little China
Pretty much any Tremors movie.
Pretty much any Fast and Furious movie.
OTOH there are garbage movies that need to be shot into the sun:
Dark Tower
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Hey! Rogue One was better than any of the Sequel Trilogy movies, there I said it. It's not great, but at least it was not a clear destruction of an amazing saga, just a tiny side-story. Some people couldn't see it yet with The Force Awakens due to all the nostalgia flooding in... but it was pretty obvious to me they were just ripping-off the originals, and by the last movie everyone understood that it was all just a very, very, veeeery bad idea.
Rogue One is garbage, full of cardboard cutouts, not characters, and stuff that makes zero sense because of the change in writer/directors.
Example: We meet Cassian and he straight up murders an innocent informant because someone wanted to give him a "Han shot first" moment.
Later, when he's sent to assassinate a legitimate military target, OH! He gets all sweaty and-just-can't-pull-the-trigger!
Why? Because the first scene was done by the 2nd guy and the 2nd scene done by the first guy.
Gareth Edwards was incompetent, burning money and resources shooting off script footage "because it felt good". That's why the trailers were full of scenes not in the movie. It wasn't cut content, it was content with no purpose.
https://www.polygon.com/2017/1/6/14195898/rogue-one-star-wars-trailer-jyn-erson
Then they kick him off the film and bring in Tony Gilroy to save the film...
“I’ve never been interested in Star Wars, ever. So I had no reverence for it whatsoever. I was unafraid about that,” said Gilroy. “And they were in such a swamp … they were in so much terrible, terrible trouble that all you could do was improve their position.”
So the guy brought in to save a Star Wars film has outright disdain for Star Wars... How did that work out for Andor?
https://www.ign.com/articles/andor-showrunner-said-his-mandate-was-to-completely-avoid-fan-service
“We didn’t want to do anything that was fan service,” he explained. “We never wanted to have anything… the mandate in the very beginning was that it would be as absolutely non-cynical as it could possibly be, that the show would just be real and honest.”
Yeeeahhh...
https://www.indiewire.com/features/general/andor-viewership-star-wars-bad-branding-1234781916/
"the latest — and greatest — 'Star Wars' TV show isn’t generating the same kind of buzz as the stories that came before it. Viewership, by what metrics we have, has been so-so. Audience demand (as measured by Parrot Analytics) doesn’t compare to the likes of 'Obi-Wan Kenobi' at its peak, nor can it match 'The Mandalorian' right now, nearly two years since a new episode debuted. And for those who question all ratings data in the confounding era of peak TV, take it from Tony Gilroy himself.
'I think I was surprised,' the “Andor” showrunner said in a recent interview with Variety. 'I thought the show […] would have this gigantic, instantaneous audience that would just be everywhere, but that it would take forever for non-"Star Wars" people or critics or my cohort of friends to get involved in the show. The opposite happened. We ended up with all this critical praise, all this deep appreciation and understanding from a really surprising number of sources, and we’re chasing the audience.'"
Gee, you intentionally avoid everything your audience likes and you can't figure out why they don't show up?
I wouldn't say so. But it seems a lot of people disagree with me.
They can be an acquired taste. ;)
Hopefully it’s not like the Reddit version, where most of the posts were about good movies.
Edit: Hmm…you did mention Troll 2, which is a good movie
A ridiculous and fun movie I love is The Ice Pirates.
For a bad movie, I'll recommend The Visitor since I don't see it discussed much. The birthday scene in that is one of my all time favorites!
The Ice Pirates is a fun movie! The movie's director (Stewart Raffill 🙌🏻) also made Mac and Me + Tammy and the T-Rex, both ridiculous movies in their own right!
Funny that you mention The Visitor; I posted that one a little while back in !badmovies. ;) A truly baffling movie!
Yes!!! I love The Room! I first watched it on Adult Swim on April fool’s day ages ago and I met Greg Sestero at a movie party!
Dude!
I’ve met both Tommy and Greg several times, including seeing them reenact the entire movie as a play with actors they hired from Craigslist.
LOVE The Room. Seeing it in theaters is so damn fun.
That sounds absolutely mad, you have to tell us more!
That’s so awesome!!! Greg had audience members come on stage with him to reenact scenes from the film. It was so much fun!
I was going to meet Tommy, but then we went into the damn lockdown so he had to cancel. I don’t think he’s been back to my home state in a while.
But I’m sure I’ll get the opportunity one day :)
Awesome! :D