[Film] Films that you know are absolute garbage but....

[southstandandy]

Predator - complete macho nonsence with terrible dialogue, "Mack , clear the area - no traces" after they've just blown the shit out of a guerilla compound, but I must have seen it 7 or 8 times. It's hilarious.

 

[Meade's Ball]

The Bodyguard. I genuinely enjoy it.
Any Lethal Weapon
Die Hard. Especially No.2
Any old Terminator nonsense

Basically, 80’s / 90’s films that are pure nonsense but were smashing at the time. I guess it’s nostalgia as much as anything else.

When Meade Jr was born i'd sometimes take over for a few hours in the night for him to sleep on my chest, and i was required to stay upright and awake at all costs. To do so i'd record all films shown on ITV4, and very quietly watch a number of Sly Stallone films such as Cobra and Cliffhanger and The Specialist. I felt safe in his poorly acted clasp, whilst hopeful that i would be of more meaning to Meade Jr than this classless crud. I'd feed off of it though, and still head ITV4wards of an evening to see if some reasonable action is on that i haven't watched there in the prior month.

 

[Stat Brother]

Forgive the sidestep, but I have another reasonably random film Fred.


'Films you didn't know you'd never seen until you saw them'.

The explanation should make sense of the title.

The other day I watched Saturday Night Fever.

Blimey Charlie, I'd definitely never seen it before as I was somewhat taken aback by the whole, hitty, hurty, rapey, racist homophobic nature of a film that has disco as it's subtext!!!

Yet had anyone asked, over the last 40 years, if I'd seen it I would have sworn I had.



The fella who put the film together, put all his 'clauses' into sales of the soundtrack.
A very very wealthy man.

 

[Arthritic Toe]

Twister - has everything. Completely formulaic, lead character lost her father to a tornado as a child and becomes a storm chaser, main couple fall back in love again, bad guy gets his comeuppance by being eaten by a tornado. Wonderful stuff.
Even has a Van Halen sound track.

 

[The Kid Frankie]

Highlander. Close thread.



Also Waterworld.

 

[Eric Potts]

European Cumbath, films usually have happy endings, but Monica from Prague had two dozen almost simultaneously, which ruined her hair.

I liked European Cumbath when he played Sherlock Holmes. Haven't seen him in his superhero roles.

 

[The Clamp]

When Meade Jr was born i'd sometimes take over for a few hours in the night for him to sleep on my chest, and i was required to stay upright and awake at all costs. To do so i'd record all films shown on ITV4, and very quietly watch a number of Sly Stallone films such as Cobra and Cliffhanger and The Specialist. I felt safe in his poorly acted clasp, whilst hopeful that i would be of more meaning to Meade Jr than this classless crud. I'd feed off of it though, and still head ITV4wards of an evening to see if some reasonable action is on that i haven't watched there in the prior month.

Anything that would have once been packaged in a “triple DVD action set”

 

[Poojah]

Snakes on a plane.

If you haven’t seen it yet I won’t spoil it by telling you what happens.

 

[Grizz]

Red Notice that's on Netflix at the moment. Appalling bad, but love it, a proper hark back to 80s/90s action thriller rubbish, but with Ryan Reynolds humour.

The other half watches this terrible 80s films called Monster Squad. I can watch a lot of rubbish, but this truly is awful!

 

[The Clamp]

Under Siege. Or in fact most Die Hard rip-offs are entertaining.

 

[Billy the Fish]

Die Hard 1, 2 & 3, Predator, Rambo and Terminator 1 & 2 are all brilliant films!

I'll nominate: Old School, Happy Gilmore, Elf

 

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

Titanic 2

Genuinely.

 

[ConfusedGloryHunter]

Phantom Menace

 

[strings]

Any movie starring The Rock.

They're all hot garbage but that man is charisma personified and I cannot stop watching.

Absolutely this. Baywatch is a particular favourite of mine.

 

[happypig]

Iron Eagle was truly woeful as a film, but, F16s. I'll watch/rewatch any old shite if it's got fast jets or battleships or steam trains (not diesels though, I ain't a geek)

 

[The Clamp]

I always enjoy those “home invasion” films, usually a young couple or single mother moving into a new neighbourhood to start again fall foul of a seemingly friendly neighbour/cop/new colleague who ends up to be a total psycho who sets about systematically ruining their life.

Pacific Heights kind of kicked off the genre with things like Lakeview Terrace, The hand that rocks the cradle, Cape Fear to follow, all the way up to last year’s awfully enjoyable Unhinged, with a walrus sized Russell Crowe stalking a single Mom who cut him up in traffic.

 

[albionfan37]

Just watched 'Executive Decision' for at least the 10th time

Majestic trash


https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116253/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0


I want to know if I've missed anything that ranks alongside

Commando
Con Air
&
The Core (a work of genius)

(Armageddon is too long and too crap)

Independence Day corny as anything

 

[bluenitsuj]

The day after tomorrow and also War of the Worlds (Tom Cruise). If they are on TV I will watch again and again

 

[jakarta]

Could watch this all day...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYTYqs-ytSk

Gordon's Alive!!!!

 

[BBassic]

Absolutely this. Baywatch is a particular favourite of mine.

There's a couple of other reasons to watch Baywatch as well...