Kevin's Watch

OK, you know what I'm talking about. Those really bad movies that you just can't keep from watching over and over again.

I'm gonna start with Red Dawn. It's an awful movie, the acting's horrible, and looking back, the premise is so implausable it's laughable.

But I can't stop watching it every time it comes on TV. The dialogue's so bad I giggle like a schoolgirl. Lea Thompson looks hot when she's covered in filth. And lots of stuff blows up.

oh sheesh.

Back to the Future. took me ten YEARS to admit i liked it.

Hey, I like both those movies.

Armageddon
overblown, manipulative. loud. horrible acting by some. (Liv Tyler, Ben Afflack) but Buscemi and the russian are enjoyable. but i love the film. trash, but i am spellbound.

dlbpharmd wrote:Hey, I like both those movies.

That's the point, man. I like Red Dawn, but it's bad. It's really bad.

How can you listen to a line like...

The Colonel: All that hate's gonna burn you up, kid.
Robert: It keeps me warm.

Especially with the gawdawful delivery that C.Thomas Howell gives it and not laugh?

Braveheart. It's more my fault than anything, cause I feel guilty that, when I was a kid, I thought it to be completely accurate, history-wise. Don't get me wrong, it's a great piece of Hollywood spectacle and Mel Gibson should be congratulated. The spirit of the film is what's important, and he nailed that.

The best horrible movie, a veritable masterpiece:
Billy Jack

Oh! Back to great movie lines...

well I have a few:

Plan 9 From Outer Space - love it for how bad it really is.

Roadhouse - Can't figure it out -- it's as hockey as they come, but I watch it every time it is on...

House on Haunted Hill (the remake) - this is a bad movie, but it has three scenes that always creep me out, so I watch it...

I hadn't thought about Roadhouse. I own the dvd. As cliched as can be, but you gotta love the incorruptable good guy. And I truly consider the big showdown to be among the very best fights ever filmed. None of that stupid turning your back on your opponent and sneering when he goes down for a second, only to have him put you in a full nelson a second later. Just two highly skilled guys trying to kill each other every instant.

And again I have to go back to favorite movie lines!

Godzilla movies.

She watches all of them, too. And even plays some Godzilla Nintendo game with the kids.

Saw I, Saw II : i should feel bad for liking this stuff so much. but i can't resist it. any movie along these lines will end up in our dvd player.

My son and I own several Godzilla dvd's. Nice to have him share one of my childhood passions.

I love the old Johhny Weissmuller Tarzan movies.

Cail wrote:I love the old Johhny Weissmuller Tarzan movies.

Didn't he get arrested for being a pedophile?

The Fifth Element
Starship Troopers

I love both those movies... even though they aren't exactly academy award material.

Loremaster wrote:

Cail wrote:I love the old Johhny Weissmuller Tarzan movies.

Didn't he get arrested for being a pedophile?

I'd never heard that.

Force 10 from Navarone--Jim Brown, Harrison Ford, Tervor Howard--underappreciated film. If I see any of it I have to sit down and watch the whole thing which is rare for me as I seldom watch a movie more than once. Any of the Aliester MacClean books turned into movies-Guns of Navarone, Where Eagles Dare, The Gold Bug, The Puppet Masters, Breakheart Pass.--great actors in all of them: Eastwood, Burton, Niven, Baseheart, Bronson, you name it.

I own both Tombraider films. On second thought I don't really like them all that much.
I own and watch CON AIR every so often.

light romantic comedies of the 80's.

She Said - He Said
She's Having A Baby

stuff like that.

more recently,

Must Love Dogs.