What movie was just so awful that it ended up being unintentionally funny?

[drumwolf]

The one movie I've seen that was like that was the Vanilla Ice flick "Cool as Ice," which was so horrid that it was unintentionally hilarious. The scenes showing him in his ridiculous outfit, making a fool of himself on his motorbike, and reciting such "cool" lines as "Drop that zero and get with the hero" are absolutely priceless. And the acting and dialogue were so bad that I spent a large chunk of the movie wondering, "How the hell could any director, actor or studio exec even think that people would actually swallow such absolute garbage?" This is a true cinematic car wreck.

Can anyone recommend any other films that are also so horrid as to be funny? I've heard that the Mariah Carey bomb "Glitter" is like that, and I would imagine that "From Justin to Kelly" would be too.

Any other examples?

[GRLMGC]

1. The Swarm

Greatest piece of crap EVER!

[EstimatedProphet]

2. Anything by Ed Wood

Also, Reefer Madness

[drm604]

13. You said the magic words

"Ed Wood". "Plan 9 From Outer Space", "Glen or Glenda", "Bride of the Monster". Of course, the Johnny Depp movie about Ed Wood was fantastic.

[PartyPooper]

3. History of The World Part I was pretty awfully funny.

It stank to such high heaven. They never released Part II.

:D

:hi:

[HeyManThatsCool]

4. It's Called HUNTING HUMANS

and it was sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo bad that since 10 of us saw it together 8 months ago we STILL quote from it & bust up laughing.

[LoZoccolo]

5. I wouldn't say awful, but the beginning of /Hell Up In Harlem/...

...is like so implausible that it's funny. It's the sequel to Black Caesar, but they change the ending of Black Caesar at the beginning. Then there's a hospital scene that's one of those come-in-armed-and-put-the-doctor-at-gun-point-so-you-get-immediate-attention scenes, and it may have been the first one in cinematic history. It's so over the top with so many gangsters involved doing things like holding the cops that are chasing them hostage that it's funny.

[mitchum]

6. "Caligula" and "Mandingo"...

it's why I watch both of them a couple of times a year

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

7. Exorcist 4.

[DELUSIONAL]

8. A spaghetti western -- staring Gregory Peck

It was bad from beginning to end -- but I would watch it again because it WAS so bad.

At the end the character Peck played was supposed to be dead -- but it was so obvious that he was breathing.

Italian westerns in general are a real hoot.

[last_texas_dem]

9. American Movie

This was a movie my friend and I picked out based on the cover; we'd never heard of it and it looked interesting so we decided to give it a shot. It's basically a low-budget rambling mess about two guys making some sort of "B"-movie. Really strange stuff, and we didn't care for it all while we were watching it, but now we reference it from time to time and crack up at the sheer weirdness of it.

[mahina]

16. "Two Guys"???? Silent Bob and um- the other guy

That movie is hilarious. That poor yutz .

[fishwax]

26. I've seen that one

My wife didn't care for it, but I thought it was very funny. The part where the best friend of the director talks about his drug hospitalization is hilarious. Not because people almost overdosing on chemicals is funny, but just because of his methodical, unperturbed, MiddleNorth accented telling of the tale. :)

[peekaloo]

40. Modern day Ed Wood.

:D

[mahina]

10. The Brain that wouldn't Die

Hooooo baby that is a screaming stinker, tears and sore tummy from laughing. But then it's a mystery science theater selection so it's not as secret a pleasure.
still....hehehe

[mitchum]

25. One of my favorites!

I first saw it as a kid and decades later I finally have my own copy

[crispini]

11. Chesty Morgan starring in "Double Agent 73"

In which Chesty actually smothers guys to death with her ginormous bosom. It's hysterically laugh out loud funny.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071437/

[BrklynLiberal]

12. Johnny Mnemonic with Keanu Reeves. The best actor in it was Ice-T

[Lydia Leftcoast]

14. A Japanese film called Ningen no Shoumei, which came out in 1977

The title means "Proof of Humanity," and during my year in Japan, it appeared as a book, a movie, and a TV miniseries. The author followed it up with a book called Yasei no Shoumei, or "Proof of Savagery," which had a plot twist that makes Angel Heart seem perfectly logical and sensible. This, too, was made into a movie.

The muddled plot of Ningen no Shoumei concerned a half-black, half-Japanese man who is found murdered during a fashion show in the Hotel New Otani in Tokyo.

It is learned that he is from Harlem, so the Japanese cop goes to New York and teams up with cops played by Broderick Crawford and George Kennedy (who must have really needed the money) and learns that the murder victim is the love child of a famous Japanese fashion designer. She killed him to prevent anyone from finding out that she had a half-black child.

The production values were laughable. In one scene, the Japanese cop was explaining why he hated the idea of going to America--during the Occupation, American soldiers had beat his father to death. So there's a flashback to the incidence, and all the alleged 1940s G.I.s have 1970s hair and beards.

In another scene, the fashion designer reveals to her son by her current marriage that she once had an affair with a black G.I. When she makes that statement, there's a literal thunderclap and a flash of lightning.

The fashion designer is cornered by the police, so she finds a convenient cliff (in Tokyo??) and dives off it into an artificially enhanced Day-Glo sunset.

In the last scene, George Kennedy, who earlier showed the Japanese cop around Harlem, is walking through a vacant lot for no reason when a black man jumps out from behind an abandoned building and stabs him to death, yelling, "Japanese lover!"

I started laughing during the scene with the long-haired G.I.s (sinking down in my seat and covering my mouth so that the people around wouldn't think that I was laughing at the idea of a Japanese being beaten up by Americans), and every time I thought I had the giggles under control, there'd be some other bit of idiocy.

[Kurovski]

15. "The Red Shoes" is hilarious.

The female lead is very talented, but she couldn't save it from all the over-the-top queens dragging her into a pit of uproariously unintentional humor.

And the cliches about artists are just nuts enough to be funny.

I recommend this film highly to anyone in the mental health field.

And to all you ex-ballet-class taking gals who swooned over it, I apologize. I couldn't help myself. (I blame the other two smart-mouths who watched it with me this New Years.)

[Lydia Leftcoast]

27. I mostly remember thinking that Moira Shearer's character was

a ninny for not telling both her company manager and her lover to each stuff a toe shoe up their respective asses.

[Kurovski]

29. Yep.

A lot of holding back on her part.

Very dated, goofy script.

[newsguyatl]

17. evita

and a movie called "the prophecy"

[susanna]

19. Don't laugh, but the Prophecy lives on...

A couple sequels were produced, one with Christopher Walken. Which is the ONLY REASON I KNOW it went beyond the original. Mr. Walken's the man. ;-)

[newsguyatl]

20. why the hell did they keep sniffing

the roses?

my sister and i were CRACKING UP in the theatre!!

[susanna]

21. I have absolutely no earthly idea.

And I cracked up, too... ;-)

[newsguyatl]

22. LOL!

too funny :hi:

[LDS Jock]

18. Glitter, yes.. also For The Love Of The Game with Kevin Costner

me and my friend just laughed and laughed.

[roguevalley]

23. myra breckenridge.

[GRLMGC]

24. Sextette

Actually, that was just painful

[derbstyron]

28. Glitter.

I bought the DvD I enjoyed it so much.

And it has a commentary track from the director that is even
more entertaining (she's the only person not in on the joke).

[messyca]

30. "White Noise"

I saw it last Saturday, and embarrassed myself by laughing inappropriately throughout the whole movie. I had tears in my eyes, and if I hadn't just paid $8 to see it, I would have left 20 min. into it.

[frylock]

31. cobra with sylvester stallone..

I always make an effort to watch it whenever it's on TBS or TNT. Damn, that movie is hilarious!

[Rabrrrrrr]

32. Love Story

laughed so hard I could hardly contain myself, it was so overdone and awful.

[LDS Jock]

37. love means never having to say you're sorry

for laughing at that over done movie. I thought Jenny was a bitch.. didn't know why we were supposed to be sad when she died.

[driver8]

33. Showgirls...

One of the biggest pieces of shit ever made!

[LDS Jock]

36. I think its so bad its good

[maveric]

34. "Striptease". And every other film with Demi Moore in it.

She's by far the worst actress in Hollywood.

[Seabiscuit]

35. "Druids". Worst movie ever. So bad we laughed all the way thru it.

Christopher Lambert never looked so ridiculous as he did in those big wigs. And that's saying a lot. He's always looked ridiculous.

[PassingFair]

42. Gawd yes...

that movie was AWFUL!

[StaggerLee]

38. Dolemite

Who can forget the gratuitous violence against dominoes scene?

:D

on edit**There are so many funny scenes that it boggles the mind. Walk, don't run, to see this movie!

[peekaloo]

39. Mommie Dearest

[jdonaldball]

41. "The Ten Commandments"

There's a scene where Yul Brynner buries his head in his hands while Charlton Heston hams it up, giving an exaggeratedly serious speech. It looks like Brynner is thinking, "Oh God, I didn't realize overacting could get THIS bad!"

[PassingFair]

43. Valley of the Dolls

"I'm Neely O'Haraaaaaaaaaaaa!"

[sundog]

44. Open Water

sad to say I was laughing half the time... I heard it wasn't so good, but *wow*