Mine is August Rush, it’s so cheesy and I know it’s terrible but I’ve watched it a bunch of times.
I love August Rush too. The emotion is so real!
The most embarrassing thing I’ve watched would be a romance-ish anime like High School of the Dead.
When it comes down to it though, I’m open to almost anything. I worked in the entertainment industry for a decade and I’ve enjoyed everything from silly cartoons to epic IMAX masterpieces.
Sin City.
The story is bad in so many ways, but I love this extreme cynism.
It really is a great bad movie
How High. It was one of the only movies I owned on iTunes so I watched it frequently
Dungeons & Dragons: Wrath of the Dragon God. It’s a B-rate movie, but the grittiness is part of its appeal. It’s like if a group of LARPers made a movie.
Saying that I “love” it is a bit strong, but I find it enjoyable and definitely better than Dungeons & Dragons (2000).
Duplicate of https://lemmy.world/post/48669808
https://stackoverflow.com/ called. They want you to pay them. /s
Short Circuit 2
Why would you be ashamed of this?
There’s no shame here. Punk Johnny 5 zooming in to save the day, sparks flying, I Need a Hero blasting… Peak cinema.
I feel personally attacked. It’s better than the first film.
Los locos kicn your ass, los locos kick your face, los locos kick your balls into outer spaaaaace!
A great performance by Michael McKean as always.
We just don’t talk about Fisher Stevens. Poor guy deeply regrets the role.
It’s such a quotable movie!
No disassemble!
Tu mama haci el amore co mi perro
Johnny’s in the tunnel with Oscar…
I’m no so ashamed but Waterworld is a glorious spectacle with great world building and an over the top performance by Dennis Hopper
It is a terrible movie that is also a glorious spectacle and everyone (except Kevin Costner) is fantastic. Nothing makes any sense, but is fun to see and frequently illogically clever.
Watched it last week!
I’ve never understood why everyone dislikes this movie. I’ve loved it since I first watched it.
The thing about Waterworld is that it’s a) a lot of fun, and b) absolutely terrible, but it’s only terrible in the way that most movies of that time were terrible. It has this outsized reputation for being bad which is mostly down to the fact that it lost a lot of money (because it was extremely expensive to shoot and audiences immediately clocked it as being a Mad Max rip off with no new ideas to bring to the table). It’s no more awful than any other summer action blockbuster of its time, and it has plenty of fun moments in amongst all the usual trash.
Hackers. It is not a good movie. It is not an accurate representation of computer hacking. But it has Jonny Lee Miller, Angelina Jolie, Mathew Lillard, and Fisher Stevens as the villain. The very ridiculous villain. I have not seen a movie quite like it since.
Crash… and Burn!
I watch this at least annually just because. Mix of cheese, nostalgia, I don’t know.
Hack the planet.
Actually, I think it’s lack of accuracy is kind of brilliant. It was weird in the day, but it has allowed the movie to be watchable far into the future without being terrible. Like watching it today the only time it gets cringey is when they specifically mention tech specs. e. g. 28.8 kbs modem. If they would have left that out it would fit in most time periods, by not really fitting into any of them.
The only part of the movie that I can’t stand is the big ending and whats her name can’t STFU in the background asking stupid question. Her voice just grates on me
Same when she is screaming in “Goodfella’s”
hell yeah. my wife and i walked down the aisle to the song “Heaven Knows” from the soundtrack. our wifi ssid is crashandburn
hack the planet!
Speed Zone. It has John Candy and Eugene Levy in it… and a red Lamborghini skipping across a pond like a skipping stone (and that’s the joke). Dumb as hell but as far as car/race films it’s kind of fine. I mean, how seriously do you need to take a movie about a cross-country race? It was originally going to called Cannonball Run 3 but was dropped from the franchise. I’ve never seen the others.
Not that ashamed, but it’s not a great movie.
Thanks for this. You just solved a mystery I’ve had for most of my life. I caught that Lambo scene once on TV without context, and I’ve wondered for like 35+ years what movie it was. It always randomly flitted into my mind when I wasn’t near a computer, and then I’d forget to look it up.
I loathe to recommend AI chatbots, but they are good for stuff like this. I was talking to someone about a music video they remembered a couple parts of, so we asked ChatGPT and it told us what it was.
I’ve had a few white whales I’ve chased for years on Google. It didn’t work for me. I’m sure a chatbot could have found one of them a lot faster.
The first Cannonball Run is a classic shit movie. You gotta put it on your list
Frankenhooker.
It’s crass and trashy and I fucking love it.
I thought I was the only person on Earth that had seen this movie! It’s amazing.
WANNA DATE?!
I went to my town’s local fireworks display the other day, and I saw a guy wearing a Frankenhooker tshirt just out in the wild!
Should I add this to Zombie Strippers?
Oh Frankenhooker is far more thoughtful and clever than Zombie Strippers, imho.
The end of the film almost makes it a feminist film when the tables are turned and the main character gets his comeuppance.
Also Hard Ticket to Hawaii
I don’t know any other film that passes the Bechdel test in a scene where two former Playboy models are topless in a hot tub together and talk about something other than men. A very unique and strange way to pass the Bechdel test that feels like it undermines the entire point of the Bechdel test existing.
Also Con Air, a star studded wild romp that’s so fucking stupid it rounds the bend to brilliant.
Ok so I actually just really love bad movies, that’s the thing. I could be on this thread all day.
Leon The Professional.
Deeply problematic themes for a child actor. Luc Besson is a creep and wanted the problematic parts to be explicitly pedophilic.
But in the end, it’s a fun story and Leon is nothing but a professional and a gentleman. The movie never crosses any major lines, its just uncomfortable.
You cannot, nor should not, make movies like this today. Still, this specific movie is good.
I love this movie and I have never seen any of it as being pedo. I have always felt that love being expressed in was between 2 abused people finding a kinship and love that they had both always been denied. It’s about a child who loves and adores her savior and first person to ever be a parental figure. Someone who literally goes on a massive killing spree and gives up his own life to save her. And it’s about someone who has been isolated and unloved his entire life suddenly finding his first real friendship and first real experience of someone loving him with no reservations, expectations, or demands. The type of love that only an innocent child can express towards a parent or caretaker. The movie does this amazing job of framing the development of this beautiful and deep kinship inside of an incredibly violent action movie. I adore this movie and the amazing acting and directing that went into it. I really wish that the director wasn’t a complete and certified pedo, but I think that it’s entirely possible that everyone came together and made this a beautiful movie despite, and even in spite of, the director being a pedo.
The Core
YUSSSS
You monster.
That movie, in my mind, hinges on the premise, delivered by Stanley Tucci: “but what if we could?”
I know he’s not the first and won’t be the last, but damn if that didn’t annoy me back in '03. It was just so… gutless as a sci-fi explainer.
All the animated Tinker Bell movies by Disney.
We recently watched the old Peter Pan, and I never realized Tinkerbell was a murderous hoe.
Never trust the Fae
I’m not really ashamed but I have some 90s classic anime on DVD and people try to shame me for it all the time. Like, they sell it on the shelf in the corner and go ‘YOU ARE ONE OF THOSE ANIME NERD WEIRDOS’. Except I’m not. It’s just shit I liked as a teenager and I re-watch every few years. I don’t get why it is so ‘shameful’ to have these in my possession. I know nothing about anime since like 2004.
It’s Cowboy Bebop, Escaflowne, and Neon Genesis.
I am not an anime nerd at all, but I do like cinema and good tv.
90s anime is best anime.
You have good tastes.
Bebop is great and what a great/strong soundtrack.
Eva is much more than mech fights. A lot more.
Good stuff.
Hudson Hawk.
Bunny, ball ball!
