So bad it's good?

Showgirls. The first time I saw it, I swore I'd never have sex again.

And I'm gay.

This was one of those movies that was meant to be Important; Esterhaus and Verhoven wanted to make a movie that would elevate the recently-instituted NC-17 rating to a higher status. Something that was meant to replace the original X rating that was usurped by the porn industry. Something beautiful and meaningful.

What they got instead was a steaming turd on a paper plate.

The only person who knew what she was up against was Gina Gershon, and she just reveled in the badness of it all. Elizabeth Berkley and Kyle MacLachlan tried to infuse their roles with serious, by-the-book acting. Gina Gershon's tongue was so far into her cheek, it was amazing you could understand her when she was speaking. They tried to do a feminist, sisters-are-doin'-it-for-themselves tone but the boobies distracted from that.

They got PRINCE to do a song for the soundtrack, fer cryin' out loud!

The two memorable, horrifying scenes everybody mentions: Elizabeth Berkeley having a seizure...I mean...having a serious orgasm in a swimming pool and The Rape (it's over in less than five minutes, but you swear it goes on for at least ten times that).

The pacing is dreadful. Glaciers complain about it. The first time I saw it, I'd expected at least two hours to have gone by when I checked the time; it'd only been 45 minutes.

BROWN RICE AND STEAMED VEGETABLES! CHIPS! BROWN RICE AND STEAMED VEGETABLES! CHIPS! LET'S HAVE SOME CHIPS WHILE WE TALK EARNESTLY ABOUT OUR BOOBIES!

All designed to show you what a really, truly, horrible, awful, corrupting influence Las Vegas really is. It's 42nd Street meets Valley of the Dolls.

Then there was the VH1 Edit. When it was shown as part of their "Movies That ROCK!" series, they had to do something about most of the rampant toplessness of the actresses. Since it was impossible to complete cut many of the scenes without rendering the movie any more incoherent than it already is, they digitally painted bras onto the actresses.

Poorly.

They moved independently of their wearers.

Showgirls was taped in front of a live studio audience!

Jersey Shore, like? Those people were so embarrassing they were entertaining. I wanted to call'em white trash but to my great despair, they're orange.

Battlefield Earth - a masterpiece of hilarity, from the costuming to the dialogue to the "acting." The writing is so ridiculous, and illogical, and nuts, it might be enough to put it in the category, but along with the rest...

Television, there's so much. Notably Tru Calling - corpses speak to Eliza Dushku and make her run errands and relive her day over, to fix their problems. It's so hilariously bad it's fun.

Jericho (S1) - So impossibly terrible it was tv gold. About nuclear detonations happening in the continental U.S. and how it affects residents of the town of Jericho, Kansas. The big money shot in the pilot is of a mushroom cloud exploding, seen over mountains. There's not really a lot of Kansas with a mountain view.

The residents take shelter from radioactive fallout by doing various things, like going inside and watching it through the window, and using explosives to seal themselves inside a mine shaft. It's there, I believe that a medical doctor advises someone to drink tincture of iodine to ward off damage from radiation.

It's GOLD, people. Each and every episode of the first season is just a laugh riot. The second season saw the writers use google or something, I dunno, it got more in tune with the reality of Earth living and way less fun.

Once Upon a Time used to be so bad it was good. Now it's just.... Awful.

Grease 2
Gigli

They don't show many television shows in Japan, and the ones they do show are reruns of CSI and 24.

Battlefield Earth has already been savaged, so I'll leave that alone. Instead, I present Godzilla, the 1998 travesty with Matthew Broderick as the worm guy, Maria Pitillo who seems to have disappeared from the acting world although I'm sure she's working somewhere, and Hank Azaria, who, along with Jean Reno, made the movie somewhat better than the POS it really was.

Things I hated. Dumb script. Who the frig said that Godzilla is this fast lizard that doesn't remotely resemble the Japanese version? And it eats fish? Okay...

Poor acting. Maria Pitillo's gasps and moans made me think she was watching Barbie and Ken get it on. I mean, maybe she's improved since then, but pretty as she was back then, it made watching her--ahem--act, painful. The rest of the cast...I don't know how they kept a straight face.

Direction. Well, with Roland Emmerich, he ain't subtle, that's for sure. But it moved fast enough.

Script. This proved to me that Dean Devlin should be barred from ever putting his hands on a keyboard again. 'Nuff said.

Have to admit, I didn't like the 2014 reboot of Godzilla the first time around. But y'know something, I watched it again and found myself liking it more and more. It doesn't have the trademark roar, and the radioactive breath should have been introduced earlier, but the final battle was magnificent. Godzilla did what he/she was supposed to do: Stomp the living shit out of the Mutohs. Mission accomplished, and I have high hopes for the sequel.

I second Showgirls. And striptease (God, Burt Reynolds, what are you doing?). And zombie Strippers.

Pretty much most movies about stripping are so bad they're good.

Howard the Duck is another amazing cinematic flop. Shaped my childhood, to be honest.

And Joss Whedon's Dollhouse. God, I love/hate that show. Eliza Dushku couldn't act her way out of a paper bag but it was such a cool premise!

I just wonder if The Galactic Seven is on anyone's list? HMM? Hey, I'd be ok with that.

Devious Maids. It's a show on Lifetime. The acting is terrible. The plot lines are ridiculous. The characters are selfish and self-indulgent and pathetic. Yet...I love it.

Also Mistresses. The acting a bit better than the above, but...still terrible. But I love it.

I wonder if either one will come back for a 3rd season this summer...

Any Irwin Allen TV show from the sixties (Time Tunnel, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Lost in Space, Land of the Giants, et. al.). Horrible and cheesy, yes, but ridiculously good fun.

I'm a big fan of good bad movies ever since I was a kid and saw things like The Revenge of Killer Tomatoes and Earth Girls Are Easy. I knew there was something special in these films.

As I grew older, I became a fan of MST3K and started to look bad movies on my own and saw all type of cinematic abominations but nothing, I repeat, nothing! Can come compare to this disaster. A tentatively kiddy film shot in 1970's South Florida called Santa Claus and the Ice Cream Bunny.

Watch it if you dare!

Well, there's one of the most famous 'it's so bad it's good' movies of recent history, The Room. Tommy Wiseau is entertaining as hell, even if it is for the wrong reasons whenever he's trying to 'act'.

And then there's The Amazing Bulk. It's the type of train wreck you just can't look away from. Just give this scene a little watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brZH4lBt7X0

The Killer Shrews might just be my favourite. A 1959 film, starring James Best, most famous from the TV show, The Dukes of Hazzard. It is abysmal. Plot lines that make no sense, terrible acting, a mad scientist, a running joke that isn't even a joke (the main female character's accent) and - well, the best bit: the shrews.

The shrews in the film are actually dogs with masks on. It's beautiful, it really is.

Oh, and to mimic Buzzfeed, you'll never guess how they resolve the situation. Mostly because it is stupid.

It's in the public domain now and dotted around the internet, so you should check it out if you like bad horror movies.

Zombie Strippers wasn't that bad. Not that good, but not terrible in the same way as Santa Claus Conquers the Martians. Jenna Jameson has some acting skills (seriously) and Robert Englund in fun to watch.

If you want prime feces, check out It Came From Hell. (And one critic's reply "And to hell it can go!") Bad acting, wooden acting from a guy reincarnated as a killer tree (bad pun there) no direction...I'll bet even the most die-hard fans chucked popcorn at the screen.

The scene where he throws the bad woman into the quicksand--yeah, this is a spoiler because, like is anyone gonna see this piece of drek--is funny as hell. Looks like the actor is smoking a joint. Must be my bad vision. True crap...but you can't turn your head away...

Sara K. said:

The Killer Shrews might just be my favourite. A 1959 film, starring James Best, most famous from the TV show, The Dukes of Hazzard. It is abysmal. Plot lines that make no sense, terrible acting, a mad scientist, a running joke that isn't even a joke (the main female character's accent) and - well, the best bit: the shrews.

The shrews in the film are actually dogs with masks on. It's beautiful, it really is.

Oh, and to mimic Buzzfeed, you'll never guess how they resolve the situation. Mostly because it is stupid.

It's in the public domain now and dotted around the internet, so you should check it out if you like bad horror movies.

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Even with the masks on, they don't look like shrews!

The new CSI Cyber, so bad and over dramatic it's good.

I like the bad films of the 60s that show an innocent world that you know doesn't exist, but I don't mind pretending for a couple of hours.

Once Upon A Timeis still my main "so bad it's good" guilty pleasure. I love how cheesy it is, and how in the enchanted forest, every important thing is always less than a day's ride away.

I also loved Legend Of The Seeker, which sadly only lasted 2 seasons. It was based on Terry Goodkind's high fantasy novels.

Sharnado.

Lock thread.

Sharknado 2 had the advantage of cheesy celebrity cameos.

Now lock thread.

they digitally painted bras onto the actresses.

Poorly.

They moved independently of their wearers.

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Surf Ninjas is so bad, but I love it because the story and the actors didn't try to take it seriously.

Pterofan said:

Sharknado 2 had the advantage of cheesy celebrity cameos.

Now lock thread.

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Sharknado 2 is a classic in bad. This should be shown to all prisoners 24/7. If that won't set them on the path to righteousness, nothing will.

Birdemic: Shock and Terror.

The director had dubbed himself the master of the romantic thriller.

It's on a whole new level of bad, but you can't stop watching. That CGI...