I have a dear friend who has one of the most annoying habits ever. (Actually, now that I type it, that sentence fits damn near everyone I know, from Stephen all the way down to my Aunt Tilly from Akron.) She is a movie contrarian, championing bad films, taking shots at good ones, and laughing raucously during truly scary sequences and incidentally ruining them. While I appreciate that mileage varies, it seems that watching SyFy originals is a high price to pay to enjoy a few moments of giggling, especially if the things involve Dean Cain. Still, as a big fan of certain films that others like to mock, I understand the urge, but sometimes a crap movie is just a crap movie. Even Joel and the crew at MST3K couldn’t find much to mock on ‘Monster A Go-Go,’ leaving them to go off on unrelated tangents to make the episode funny, leading to today’s reputedly bad query…
The MS-QOTD (pronounced, as always, “misquoted”) wants the bird’s eye lowdown on this caper, whatever that means, asking: Which reputedly bad movie do you feel MOST earned the public’s derision and hatred?
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Man, Independence Day: Resurgence was… real bad.
The first one has a cheesy charm to it and I can’t help but love it despite its flaws. But that sequel, man, there’s no joy in it at all. It’s just kind of… there… being terrible.
I didn’t even know there was a sequel.
Then I apologize for introducing a bland trainwreck into your knowledge place.
That Dungeons & Dragons movie with Marlon Wayans and Jeremy Irons comes to mind as something that bored audiences of all ages. At least, among the audience when I went to see it. In the theater. Thanks for helping me remember that, I’m going for some dandelion time now.
Happy to be of service?
I never saw the movie, but I remember the one word review by Gene Shalit for the 1980 movie “Xanadu”. “Xana-don’t”
It has a 25% Rotten Tomatoes score if that means anything.