• RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
    2·
    31 minutes ago

    Oh there are so, so many awful movies that I loved as a kid that I have a positive memory of but would be better off not watching again to ruin that memory.

    Legend would have to be one of them. It’s still a spectacle to watch, and Tim Curry is incredible as Darkness, Robert Picardo is Meg Mucklebones, but it’s so far over the top it’s a fever dream.

    Cave Man with Ringo Star, Shelly Long, and Dennis Quaid. Laughed so hard I cried when I was a kid. Watched it again not too long ago and it’s pretty bad.

    Whoopee Boys, same as Cave Man. Cannot rewatch.

    Buckaroo Banzai, Revenge of the Nerds, so many other bad movies I loved as a kid. Most of the cheap action films too. Schwarzenegger’s, Stallone’s, Van Damme’s…so bad, lol. There were some absolutely great ones, though…the original Predator (‘87) comes to mind.

  • Senseless@feddit.org
    7·
    3 hours ago

    idk if it was terrible because I haven’t watched it in over 20 years… but that’d be Space Jam for me. Watched it so often, the VHS gave out and we had to buy it a second time.

  • Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
    281·
    7 hours ago

    It wasn’t until 2024 that the world understood how perfect it was to cast John Leguizamo as Luigi.

  • Notyou@sopuli.xyz
    13·
    6 hours ago

    The OG Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter movies are dope. I don’t care what anyone else says.

    • scops@reddthat.comEnglish
      5·
      4 hours ago

      The first MK movie was the archetypal “It’s good… for a video game adaptation” movie for a long time. Luckily now we have great adaptations (not necessarily movies though) to point to that stand on their own merits.

      But yeah, there’s always a part of me that will have fond memories of MK and the JCVD Street Fighter movie. Hell, add Double Dragon to that list.

  • TachyonTele@lemm.ee
    26·
    7 hours ago

    Fun fact, the two leads were drunk most of that movie because, well, because they were the two leads in that movie.

    The directors, yes two of them, were horrible to work with according to pretty much everyone that worked on it.

    • scops@reddthat.comEnglish
      1·
      4 hours ago

      I hope you’re not referring to this fight between Keith David and Roddy Piper. First, Keith David’s never been a wrestler, and second, it’s a hilariously awkward, unnecessary, and drawn out fight that deserves love, not scorn.

      Was there some other fight with a pro wrestler in the movie that I forgot about? It’s been a while since I saw it and didn’t see any wrestlers I recognized in the main cast.

  • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world
    9·
    6 hours ago

    The Last Dragon. It’s a blacksploitation movie that was trying to mirror popular kung fu movies, but “in the ghetto”.

    It’s cringe. The fight scenes are meh. The plot is… something to do with a kidnapping maybe?

    It has some cool glowy bits. 10/10.

  • ace_of_based@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    7·
    6 hours ago

    That film is well beyond bad, it’s so, so bad it’s actually amazing. I try to get as drunk as the actors when i rewatch it every other year or so

  • Zagorath@aussie.zoneEnglish
    11·
    7 hours ago

    Disney’s The Black Cauldron. Apparently it was so bad it like…almost killed off Disney animation for good? But I loved that shit as a kid. No idea why we had it, either. I was born almost a decade after it came out. Eilonwy deserves her place with the Disney Princesses, damn it!

    • Buglefingers@lemmy.world
      4·
      6 hours ago

      Wait, that movie bombed?? I really enjoyed that one as a kid! I even rewatched it as an adult and still enjoyed it!

      Granted it had more of a “gritty” feel comparatively, but still excellent IMO

    • MothmanDelorian@lemmy.world
      3·
      6 hours ago

      I saw that in I think Carnegie Hall with an orchestra doing the music when it got released. The kids such as myself liked it but the parents were silent.