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Krull the conqueror which not only is a terrible movie but also a terrible game and I love both. Then again Im 50 and I love many bad videoganes from the Atari era such as ET or Delta Force (also bad game and movie also produced by Cannon films)

Underrated classic

Oh, I forgot to mention the not good movies that I watched over and over again on VHS in my childhood.

Number one would be the 1959 version of Journey to the Center of the Earth where James Mason plays a Scotsman and doesn't even bother with an accent and Pat Boone also plays a Scotsman but gives up on the accent after about 10 minutes. The whole plot is moronic and the effects are terrible and I love every single minute of it. The only true compliment I can give it is that Bernard Herrmann's soundtrack is terrific.

Then there was the 1980 attempt that Disney made to appeal to college kids, Midnight Madness. It was a total flop and I love every single minute of it. FAGABEEFE!

Third would be an animated movie that was made in France and dubbed into English called The Secret of the Selenites. It was a Baron Munchausen film, but I'm guessing they thought Americans wouldn't know who that was, so they left his name out of the title. It has a terrible pop song in the beginning that is in the "so bad it's good" territory.

The langoliers will always have a spot for me to watch it.

Also : OH HI MARK

I would love to see a director's cut of that film because it was a victim of massive executive meddling after the fact.

It was directed by Annabel Jankel, Rocky Morton, who created and directed both the British and U.S. versions of Max Headroom, which is why it has a cyberpunk look. It was co-written by Ed Solomon, who wrote Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure and Men in Black.

And then executives shat all over it.

You also have to remember that in 1993, there was almost no Mario lore. Mario was a guy who jumped on mushrooms and turtles to rescue the princess and sometimes got extra powers to help him. Luigi was his brother who could basically do the same thing. There was really no characterization and plot to speak of. They had a ton of freedom to do whatever they wanted and that freedom was taken away from them.

There is a cut out there done by my friend Garrett Gilchrist, who also restored The Thief and the Cobbler, where he tried to get it as close to Jankel and Morton's original cut as he could, using things like workprints. But we'll never know exactly how good it could have been.

Tank Girl was a very similar situation, but still ended up an okay film.

Pitch Black and Chronicles of Riddick

I watched the Mario Bros movie as an adult a few years back and really enjoyed it. It was a fun take on the lore!

The only thing I felt was weak was Dennis Hopper. His performance had strong "I'm too good for this" vibes. Based on the other things I know him from, that's wildly untrue - it should have been a great fit for him. Chew the scenery and be an arsehole - basically be the Deacon from Waterworld, or the villain from Speed!

Hook my beloved. I understand objectively why it is not a good movie, but having watched it 852 times throughout my childhood, I could not find fault with it on a recent rewatch.

edit: I watched that movie so early and so often, that I can recite whole scenes not by word, but by phonemes and cadence, because my language skills weren't fully developed at the time.

Drop Dead Fred did it!

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2.

Go ninja go ninja go....

Willow 1988 my first taste of fantasy

Airborne 1993 put me in a rollarblading phase

Tremors 1990 all three are good fun

I've not had a chance to experience this infamous Mario Bros movie. Hope I can find some time to sit down and really immerse myself.

Also, can I interest anyone in the masterworks of Neil Breen?

SpyKids trilogy, and Shark boy and Lava girl rule still rules.

Maximum Overdrive and Over the Top for sure.

Clutch Powers (2010)

It wasn't until 2024 that the world understood how perfect it was to cast John Leguizamo as Luigi.

Oh there are so, so many awful movies that I loved as a kid that I have a positive memory of but would be better off not watching again to ruin that memory.

Legend would have to be one of them. It’s still a spectacle to watch, and Tim Curry is incredible as Darkness, Robert Picardo is Meg Mucklebones, but it’s so far over the top it’s a fever dream.

Cave Man with Ringo Star, Shelly Long, and Dennis Quaid. Laughed so hard I cried when I was a kid. Watched it again not too long ago and it’s pretty bad.

Whoopee Boys, same as Cave Man. Cannot rewatch.

Buckaroo Banzai, Revenge of the Nerds, so many other bad movies I loved as a kid. Most of the cheap action films too. Schwarzenegger’s, Stallone’s, Van Damme’s…so bad, lol. There were some absolutely great ones, though…the original Predator (‘87) comes to mind.

Fun fact, the two leads were drunk most of that movie because, well, because they were the two leads in that movie.

The directors, yes two of them, were horrible to work with according to pretty much everyone that worked on it.