Dr. DVD

Alexander

-Cinematography was good
-Sets and locations were impressive
-Beautiful music by Vangelis

1492
-see above reasons for Alexander and paste them here

BuddhaWake

I love this movie:

how about CABIN BOY
1. Elliot is great in it
2. wacky and fun plot
3. great set designs

gp1086

I love lots of movies many people consider "bad". Here are a few that come to mind immediately:

Never Back Down (2008) - 22% RT - This movie got me into enjoying MMA and back into working out hard in the gym. As a huge fan of The Karate Kid, was great to see it in a more modern context in a city I am more familiar with, Orlando. I've rewatched this movie so many times.

Halloween (Rob Zombie) (2007) - 24% RT - How a remake should be done in my eyes. Take an already well-established story/villain/etc. and insert additional context, character development, etc. while still paying homage to the main story of the original.

Bad Boys 2 (2003) - 23% RT - I don't care if it's Michael Bay and there's more explosions than I could possibly count, this movie was a ton of fun and loved watching it when it was in theaters and again on DVD. Liked Jordi Malla as the villain (Johnny Tapia), too.

gmanca

4. "STOP EATING MY SESAME CAKE!"

Howard The Duck

The basic plot is pretty good/creative
Lea Thompson at her hottest
Great effects work from ILM/Phil Tippett

rbrown498

Private School...for Girls

1. Phoebe Cates's bare bottom
2. Awesome 80s soundtrack
3. ... ... uh, shorter than Berlin Alexanderplatz

DieselsDen

POOTIE TANG

---Chris Rock and Dave Attel are in it
---"only the third time a man had been mauled by a gorilla at that steelmill"
---Louis CK directed it

Dr Mabuse

This is the defend a bad movie thread.

BambooLounge

I think the final version (Alexander Revisited: The Final Cut) was actually a good film:

1. Corrected the piss poor narrative structure of Alexander
2. Corrected the truncated feel of the 2nd cut of Alexander
3. Third time was a charm

Just wanted to use the 3 Reasons structure there...realize me thinking it is a good film is not the exercise called for in the OP.


Bad Film: Road House

1. Pain don't hurt
2. falling stuffed polar bear
3. yeah...his throat...gone

Ky-Fi

Cabin Boy is comedy awesomeness.

Shazam

Hey Dragonheart is a good movie.

Franchot

The Limits of Control

Paz de La Huerta -- in the nude (again)

Naturalistic acting of the lead character

Bill Murray

Alan Smithee

From Justin To Kelly

Songs are catchy
Some nice-looking girls, even though they don't get naked
Even a bad musical is still better than having no musicals at all

Rockmjd23

Beastmaster (1982)

My favorite of the Conan-alikes.

gp1086

Road House is a ton of fun.

Shazam

Sucker Punch

- Emily Browning
- Vanessa Hudgens
- Potential for unedited nip slips

Dr. DVD

No dice on the third one, even in the director's cut.

Let me also add:

-Jamie Chung
-Nice replication of a Liquid Television/Heavy Metal cartoon
-Great moments for showing off your surround system

Transfomers 2
-First 15 minutes are quite an adrenaline rush
-Lots of Baysplosions
-Again, shows off surround system quite well.

Defiant1

Agreed on all counts. I actually like Alexander a lot and as not in the "so bad it's good" category but as actually good. I figure I can't be alone with all those different versions floating around.

1492 is an extremely well-mounted production but IMO is hampered a lot by Gerard Depardieu's weak performance.

nando820

gotta go with this one too

CloverClover

Lovely Bones is a great expressionistic film, with very complex filmmaking and emotional acting.

War Horse is a Spielberg masterpiece full of true filmmaking magic.

White Dog is one of the most beautiful and profound films I've seen

(the last two are acclaimed but considered terrible by the internet at large)

CloverClover

good one!

bluetoast

King Kong (Jackson version)

1. The interactions of the crew/guests on the boat was well done.
2. The action scenes on the island (and in particular with Kong) were exciting.
3. The production diaries were awesome, even if you think the movie sucked.

PenguinJoe

Mystery Men

-Awesome plot
-Funny actors
-creatively went on a limb (even if it failed miserably)

DRG

A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge

1. Retains the dark, low-budget gritty aesthetic of the original.
2. The homoerotic stuff is actually a pretty gutsy move, not just for the era but for a franchise pic. It also adds a surreal touch to the film that really helps the '"what's real, what's a dream" factor.
3. The "you've got the body, I've got the brain" scene.
4. "Help yourself, fucker!"
5. The dream sequences still had the randomness of dream and their 'wtf' moments (like the dog with the human face). The later films seem to abandon this for the most part in favor of 'high concept' dream sequences.

Obi-Wanma

I don't care what anyone says, Mystery Men is great.

bluetoast

Mystery Men
- Wes Studi is in it
- Kel Mitchell is in it

Street Fighter
- Hilariously awesome motivational speech by JCVD
- Raul Julia did a great job
- The characters looked accurate to the games at least
- Wes Studi is in it