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What are your favorite movies that sounded like they would be stupid, but turned out to be real solid films?

A few from my list:

The Sure Thing - John Cusack
Summer School - Mark Harmon
Adventures in Babysitting - Elizabeth Shue
Breakfast Club - well, you know

All mine are "kid" flicks, but don't limit yourself to that sub-species.

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i liked the frighteners with michael J fox when it first came out

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American psycho

cheese

memento fo shure that movie sounded liek pure crack but it owrks out ery nicely

Mario

Cabin Boy, yea, nobody saw it in the theater because it was there for only 38 minutes, but it has some great moments.
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The original Speed on paper sounds like a cheesy action movie but I really liked it.

wondash

The Sure Thing, excellent John Cusack movie!

wondash

Resident Evil. Best game-to-movie ever made!

HamiC

Starship Troopers -- almost a self-parody
Pitch Black -- visually better than expected and had a better than expected plot
Toy Story -- great kids flick that had a ton of stuff for the grown-ups
Shrek -- not as good of a kid flick as Toy Story, but better stuff for the grown-ups

Cynthetiq

Peter Jackson's Bad Taste...

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Halx

along the lines of cyn's suggestion

MEET THE FEEBLES!

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Zoolander.
its really really ridiculously good looking (and funny).

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Con Air was pretty bad, yet I always seem to watch it till the end when it comes on TV.

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MEET THE FEEBLES! - Very sick film

Dog Soliders was a lot better than I thought it would be

Kadath

Deep Cover, Larry Fishburne and Jeff Goldblum. Like the plot of Vice City. Jeff Goldblum is surprisingly intense in it for generally being such a ho-hum actor.

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Collateral Damage.....Worst movie EVER

hilbert25

It's all about the Last Dragon, the last good Blaxploitation Kung-Fu movie...

WhoaitsZ

ever see 'Soldier'? gooood AWFUL movie

WhoaitsZ

highlander
gremlins
muppets christmas carole "light the tail, not the rat" never fails to crack me up
the frighteners
the stand

Hycdubg

Escape from New York and Escape from LA, both starring Kurt Russell. I enjoyed both of those.

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lola218

we talk about this at work all the time. One of my favorite bad films has got to be OfficeSpace. bad plot, but everyone can identify with almost all the roles.

metalgeek

Cannibal: the musical.
very very funny movie.. if your into that type of thing..
(silly and violent)

MahlerIsGod

Favorite Bad FIms:
Long Kiss Goodnight, Highlander, etc

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Hudson Hawk

Bad film with some good actors...

Bruce Willis, Danny Aiello, Andie MacDowell, James Coburn, David Caruso

(and some bad ones)

Sandra Bernhard, Frank Stallone

Very off the wall...

NoSoup

I got it... Crippled Masters

It's an old school kung fu movie about two guys - one with no legs and another with no arms.

However, when the guy with no arms puts the guy with no legs in his backpack thing, they become CRIPPLED MASTERS....

I'm not really sure what the movie is about, I spent most of it laughing my ass off at how incredible cheesy and horrible it was...

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For cheesy martial arts, you can't beat 'Best of the Best' or it's sequels, 2,3, and 4. One of the stars of 1 and 2 is Julia Roberts' Brother. 3 and 4 are mind-bogglingly horrible.

I still cringe at the dislocated shoulder scene, only 'cause I've had a few of those, and even thinking about it gives me phantom pains.

YourNeverThere

Monsters Inc. I thought it would have been crapping and stupid but it was great. Just the fact that the city was powered by the screams of little children had my head spinning for most of the more sappy and not so fun parts. Over-all biggest movie surprise i've had in a while

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The Evil Dead. When we were 12 or 13, a bunch of mates and I got into the habit of hiring out cheesy horror flicks to laugh at. Evil Dead was ludicrous, but somehow became one of my favourite movies of all time.

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human

Babe:Pig in the City, should be utterly terrible, I mean, it's about a stupid little pink pig, but it's got some surprisingly deep ideas. And the chase scene is one of the funniest things I've every seen...

Nostromo

The critics hated it, but for some reason I liked "Big Trouble in Little China".

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drawerfixer

Tremors

It's certainly not an 'A' class movie, but I watch it almost twice a year on TBS, and I've flirted with buying it on eBay.

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crow_daw

Movies that I thought would suck but I really liked:
Cube
October Sky
Movies that I realize are really bad movies but I still really like:
Tremors
Evil Dead series

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put hulk down there

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Porkchop

I know dakness falls got slated. But i quite enjoyed it. usually hate this type of movie.

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These Pipes Are CLEAN!!!!!

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When I saw the previews for that movie "The Recuit" I thought it was another cliche spy film. I saw it when it came out on DVD and it turned out pretty good.

boredjerk

Inbred Rednecks

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phoenix1002

Gotta love Evil Dead 1 & 2, and Army of Darkness...

Also Ghosts of Mars, not really a good bad film, just a sucky film, but it seemed really funny at the time, for some reason...

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Nikilidstrom

Is it sad that many of the movies you guys have mentioned are my favorites?

Momento (pure genious)
Escape from New York (classic)
Evil Dead movies
Cube (not so much the sequel though)
Big Trouble in Little China
Office Space (hilarious)
Deep Cover (any Fishburne movie rocks)

but the king of them all is Dead Alive. That movie is the funniest, and quite possibly the goriest, movie I have ever seen. The monster make up is great, but the acting is so very bad. I mean, where else can you hear a line like "I kick ass for the Lord!"

classic

XenuHubbard

I second "Tremors".

And I have to recommend the extremely gory kung-fu movie
"Story of Ricky". It's excellent. A lot of splatter, and the plot is kind of ridiculous. Ricky goes to prison, and kills, well, kind of everybody. A lot of ridiculous "bosses", and sadistic wardens.

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