The "So bad they're not good...they're awesome!" movies of yours.

Besides, any excuse that I have to promote The Apple is a good one. Yes, I'm obsessed. Less picky, more clicky!

I nominate the film that perfectly encapsulates the theory that the drugs really were better in the 70s:

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Peter Frampton! The Bee Gees! George Burns! Alice Cooper! Aerosmith!! Steve Martin!!!! and skintight white stretch satin...on the guys!!!! By the time Billy Preston comes down to sing "Get Back" I'm getting ready to head out to the 7-11 for some Funyuns and Hi C because of the contact high.

Oh, that's a good one. And for no reason whatsoever, Carol Channing is one of the people dancing at the end.

The Beastmaster

Our intrepid hero, Dar (Marc Singer), can see through the eyes of the eagle, control the strength and speed of the panther and harness the cunning of the ferret to rescue the damsel in distress (Tanya Roberts), displace the evil ruler (Rip Torn) and bring justice and peace to the land.

Very cool scene with some bat-like creatures who can fold a person into their wings and melt them into gobs of greenish goo.

Really, really bad movie. But I love it. The sequels and television show sucked for reals, but the original movie is sucktastic.

Oh, man, I loved "Beastmaster". Not just because of Marc Singer in that loincloth! I swear!

Okay maybe a little.

^^ What she said. Marc Singer was one of my first TV/movie crushes.

And I seem to recall Tanya Roberts posing for Playboy around that time, which put the movie in a positive light even though I never saw it....

Was Tanya Roberts also in Sheena?

Oh my goodness, yes! She WAS Sheena! I loved the migraine gesture she used to summon the animals.

That movie was on HBO all the time when I was a kid. Blossom's dad was "Vic Casey" if I remember correctly.

Speaking of cheesy favorites that used to be on HBO all the time back in the day before they realized they didn't have to show one film five times a day for a month, I can still quote far too much of "Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes." (Yes, that's its entire title.)

My favorite quote, of course, is:

MAAAAAA-DERRRRRRR!! FAAAAAAA-DERRRRRRR!! FA-MA-LEEEEEE!!

(If you saw the movie, you're laughing right now.)

Greystoke: Etcetera was on BBC1 in the UK last night. I didn't watch it (although now I rather wish I had) but I read in the TV guide that Andie MacDowell's voice was dubbed by Glenn Close. Damn, that's embarrassing, when you don't even get to say your own lines in a Christopher Lambert flick.

Dude, Greystoke was just awesome, and at least they managed to read the original Burroughs before they filmed it.

I think it was her first film and her S. Carolina accent was a bit low rent for someone as posh as her character. But they either dubbed it really well, or the fact that they explained Tarzan's French accent by having Ian Holm be some French-speaking Belgian who finds ZHAWN made it not seem so obvious.

Of course, the fact that Lambert hopped around on her bed like a monkey (literally) may have distracted one from the dubbing as well.

I'm going with the Dolph Lundgren epic Masters of the Universe, featuring Frank Langella as Skeletor.

Dolph! 80s cartoon! Loincloths! Swords! Horrible "magic" FX! Mall hair! Love!

DAMN! I missed that one. And Dolph Lundgren in a loin cloth had to be up there with Miles O'Keefe in a loin cloth or Marc Singer in a loin cloth. Although, surprisingly enough, Christopher Lambert in a loin cloth wasn't as scrawny and unimpressive as you'd think, either.

But Frank Langella as Skeletor?!??!? FAB-ulous!

That movie is a flat-out blast. My buddy and I took little nephews and nieces to see it the first weekend it was out. The place was jam packed with kids who went running out into the lobby afterwards like their hearts had been injected with a syringe full of pure sugar and Jolt Cola. It's the dictionary definition of a cheesy favorite. Langella's performance is beyond even Univision/Telemundo-villain hammy.

Actually, in the original book, French is the first language outside of ape-speak that Tarzan learns. That was taken straight from Burroughs.

Does Burroughs also explain why he slapped his own head with his dead grandfather's hand? If so, was it as portentously hilarious in the book?

Go rent (or if you're daring, buy} Ralph Bakshi's 1970's treatment of Lord of the Rings.

I swear I never laughed so long and hard at anything else in my life.

Is that the one that jumps from animated to live action for absolutely no reason? We had to watch it in school and from what I can recall, it was like one painfully long acid trip.

Yup, it also mixes live action and animated characters in the same scene. Swear to God, laughfest.

A lot of Lord of the Rings is rotoscoped as well. Rotoscoping is where live-action footage is shot then the animators either trace the footage or examine it closely while they animate it. Ralph Bakshi uses it A LOT in his animated films and it always looks awful to me. In some cases he just traces the outlines and the scenes play in silhouette. It just looks out of place. Rotoscoping can be done to great effect, however. Lots of early Disney movies were rotoscoped, including the Blue Fairy in Pinocchio. Anastasia, Don Bluth's animated film from the late '90s, also features rotoscoping to fantastic effect, in my opinion.

I understand Peter Jackson was actually inspired by Bakshi's version of Lord of the Rings and certain shots in The Fellowship echo shots in Bakshi's version. I don't even like the live-action LOTR movies, so sitting through an inferior animated version is impossible. I think I got through 30 minutes.

Battlefield Earth.

I had forgotten just how awesomely bad this movie was, and then they showed on one of the movie channels this weekend. Everything about it is so bad, and yet so good. John Travolta, the "special" effects, the wipe feature they use every single time there's a new scene. I can't help but watch it everytime it's on TV.

Troop Beverly Hills. It is one of my favorites. I used to watch this obsessively when I was younger and had all of the lines memorized. Even now, I still know most of the dialogue when I watch it. Sad, I know.

That reminds me! Overboard and Baby Boom. (From the old thread.) Troop Beverly Hills is in the same sort of league as those two.

Overboard was one of my favorites growing up. "You shot a chicken?" still makes me laugh.

I love the original Hayley Mills Parent Trap and will watch it whenever it comes on tv. Mostly because I love Maureen O'Hara and Brian Keith, but I can't help but love the First Date restaurant scenes and all of the shenanigans they pull on nasty Vicky.

Grease 2 Starring Michelle Pfeiffer, Maxwell Caulfield, and Adrian Zmed. The songs are so bad they hysterical. "Re-pro-DUC-tion! Reproduction!" "Coo oo ool Rider" I love this movie! Makes me smile every damn time.

Gidget with Sandra Dee - James Darren was the cutest boy ever. And I loved that she got all dressed up in a dress, hose and heels for a beach party.

The Cutting Edge and Center Stage. I watch them every time they come on TV.

Toe pick!

I love that one too, especially the school pageant or whatever it is. "I'll be your girl for all seasons, all the year through..."

I can't get enough of the original Out of Towners with Jack Lemmon and Sandy Dennis. Cracks me up every single time I watch it.

Lost In America is another favorite of mine. Albert Brooks (best fro on a white guy) is hilarious in this.

Ooo, yeah, with Paulette dressed in skimpy lingerie. Quite the liberal high school there. And don't forget "Let's do it for our country/our country wants us too." Man, those people were stupid.

I love Zoolander for some brainless fun.

The Perfect Man-Hillary Duff (SHUT UP) It is very queso like.

Prime-Cheesy Love story about a older woman Uma Thurman with a 23 yr old guy who just happens to be the son of her therapist played by Meryl Streep.Better than you would think.

Boomerang-Great soundtrack.

Love the movie, but I could never got past the fact that Paulette appeared to be older than most of the teachers. She was the Gabrielle Carteris of Grease 2.

To prepare myself for Rocky VI, I watched Rocky IV on Netflix. Wow. That movie is deliciously cheesetastic. Best parts:

Apollo "ringing the bell", though that was from Rocky III, I think.

Apollo's Uncle Sam costume.

Robot.

The great training montage ending with Rocky running up the mountain and screaming, "DRAGOOOOOOO!!!!"

"I must break you."

Brigitte Nielsen's hot lesbian vibe. No way she was actually Drago's wife.

"The Russian's been cut!"

"If I can change, you can change. Everybody can change!" Gorbachev stands up and gives the slow clap. Rocky singlehandedly ended the Cold War.

You covered most of my Rocky IV highlights...but here's some more:

"If he dies...he dies."

"All your strength! All your power! All your love! Everything you've got! Right now! NOW!" I'm so glad that Duke is going to be back in Rocky Balboa, helping him build some hurtin' bombs. Best cornerman ever.

The "No Easy Way Out" montage. Great editing, great song.

Drago's awesome ring entrance before the fight in Russia.