No!!! Napoleon Dynamite is a masterpiece and national treasure.
Favorite bad movie
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The Bobby Brown song from Ghostbusters 2 is underrated awesomeness.
He goes into great detail describing the plot in 90s main stream pop rap stylings. It's perfect. I don't know that any other top 40 song has described a film plot in such detail.
Charlton Heston chews the scenery, like he does in most movies. He was the best overacting actor around.
I always watch Waterworld and Battlefield Earth any time they come on TV. I've been told by people smarter than me that they are two of the worst movies ever made, but I like them.
Oh my god, that thing is criminally underrated
Edit: it is obvious that I need to explain given all the dislikes
I love the original Thing movie. It was a classic that I watched so many times with friends in HS and I looked forward to watching the remake with my kids. I guess I was focused on “Favorite” in the title and I assumed the bad was for “lower budget”. I didn’t watch it in a theater. I don’t recall it being that big of a deal. The first I knew of it was when a buddy that worked at a grocery store brought it home from the stores VHS rental selection for all of to watch with several other low budget movies. It was then a regular in our viewings because it was great fun.
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Battlefield Earth deserves any criticism it gets. Waterworld, while not a great movie, is not that awful. It's funny because the main thing people have always complained about was the budget. Those sets got wiped out 2 or 3 times due to storms and had to be rebuilt.
Battlefield Earth is truly terrible.
Waterworld though, it has Dustin Hopper as a dystopian villain and he’s great at it, and it has some funny scenes but overall it’s still pretty bad.
Using critics as the decidersI enjoyed each more than I probably should of:
Stealing Harvard
Balls Out Gary The Tennis Coach
Let's go to Prison
Stealing Harvard
Balls Out Gary The Tennis Coach
Let's go to Prison
I purchased the DVD for $3 at Wal-Mart. Best $3 I ever spent.
Especially after the three more recent Terminator movies, the third move and the TV series are actually pretty good for what they are. I remember at the time the third one didn't have a huge budget and I believe Arnold put up cash himself for that chase scene you are talking about. And because it was practical effects (Like the mad max movies, original indy trilogy, the new top gun hit) it has held up well over time vs a ton of other stuff.
I think sometimes people hurl lazy criticism at sequels without really thinking it through. Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome is very similar to T3. Other than Fury Road, the chase scene at the end of Thunderdome is probably the best one I've ever seen.
Adding on to the DMX theme, Cradle 2 the Grave. Dumb movie but Gabrielle Union made me watch it over and over as an 11 or 12 year old.
I watched Soylent Green recently...I think because I think it's funny a real large nutrition company has called themselves "Soylent" without trying to be ironic. I'm a sucker for that kind of movie but I can't say I love it.
He's not HORRIBLE in Soylent Green and Apes...but he's so him, it kind of takes the viewer out of it. I haven't watched Ben Hur or the Ten Commandments in over 20 years but I'm guessing they are the same.
Also as an 80s/90s kid I was just obsessed with Phil Hartman's SNL spoof about how they keep changing the recipe but every time they change it, it's actually still people.
