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iippo: the movies (and games) are surprisingly good really.
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toxicTom: I have both the Director's cut version of Escape from Butcher Bay on disk and Assault on Dark Athena from GOG. But I've never played the latter.

I always wanted to re-play EfBB and give it another go with the commentary (14h!) enabled. But I've heard it can be tricky getting it run nowadays. And AoDA doesn't have the commentary AFAIK.
ive got both on steam and atleast those versions run just fine.
I have two (that I own)

- The Room. I'm surprised it hasn't been mentioned. It's a movie that's so bad, so unintentionally hilarious, that it becomes fascinating. Every time you watch it, you alter between laughing your ass off at everything they got wrong (which is to say everything) and asking yourself "What? How? Why?" Not to mention being a wonderful source of memes. I recently read Greg Sestero's book "The Disaster Artist" (which shed a bit more light on the history of this movie) and some parts made the movie funnier. And that guy, Tommy Wiseau, is really fascinating due to how he is completely disconnected from reality.
- Dungeons and Dragons. Another cliché-ridden movie that gets everything wrong, worth watching just for the camp factor, the ridiculous plot, the few memorable cameos (Richard O'Brien as the Thieves Guild master and Tom Baker as the Elven King) and Jeremy Irons' overacting (seriously, that guy was having the time of his life. It deserves to be witnessed at least once). If you're a fan of Dungeons and Dragons, you'll hate this movie with a passion. If you don't, you got a wonderful example of a "So Bad it's Good" movie that'll make you laugh.


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skynet464: Conan the Destroyer. Yes, the bad Conan. I liked it as a kid. :P
I liked it too completely unironically. It's actually a better Dungeons and Dragons adaptation than the actual Dungeons and Dragons movie. Red Sonja was a lot worse (the only good part was the soundtrack (Ennio Morricone is awesome no matter the movie) and some of the set pieces).
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toxicTom: At least in my usual social circles nobody seems to like The Chronicles of Riddick. I love that movie! (Though Pitch Black is even better). Unfortunately I haven't seen the third yet.
Ha, yeah, I really like CoR. I think people mostly dislike it because they get a case of whiplash going from Pitch Black, which is largely viewed as serious sci-fi, to a demented Star Wars/Flash Gordon take-off. I still need to see the third one, too.
Lake Placid, Wing Commander and Independence Day. I don't care what the interweb says. All three are good, with the latter even being very good.

Btw I saw 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers' recently (70s remake). I saw it many years ago, and had forgotten how incredibly suspenseful it is.
Death Bed: The Bed That Eats
Wild Zero
Milky Way
Jess Franco films
Pootie Tang. Taken as a whole, it is dire, but there are many excellent and hilarious moments.

Reign of Fire. Again, awful, but McConaughey jumps off a smokestack while swinging an axe. Also, dragons versus helicopters.
Hmm just thought of something. When I was a kid my parents had a shop right across from a video store. I used to walk around in the store after school and look at the various covers. I remember begin perplexed as to how the death star was in one piece on the cover of episode IV and seemingly semi-destroyed/ under construction on the cover of episode VI. Anyway, I just now recalled a cover of a film that may very well fall into the guilty pleasure category. It was a girl on top of a tank and that is all that I remember. Think I'll look it up some time.
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grimwerk: Pootie Tang. Taken as a whole, it is dire, but there are many excellent and hilarious moments.

Reign of Fire. Again, awful, but McConaughey jumps off a smokestack while swinging an axe. Also, dragons versus helicopters.
The only thing I hated about Reign of Fire was that the Dragons, sadly, look like Wyverns.


WHY DOES EVERYONE WHO PUTS DRAGONS IN THEIR MOVIES LOOK LIKE WYVERNS!!!

Even Elder Scrolls from Besthesda who are suppose to be fans of Dungeons and Dragons and supposed to know the difference between Dragons and Wyverns still just called the Wyverns in Skyrim (and the Statues in Morrowind and Oblivion) Dragons :(
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Matewis: Btw I saw 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers' recently (70s remake). I saw it many years ago, and had forgotten how incredibly suspenseful it is.
I saw it many years ago, too. And I'd really like to see it again. Awesome cast, too.
Ghost.. The Goonies.. Ghostbusters.. Groundhog Day.. The first few seasons of Buffy. Robocop. CLASSICS.. :)
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Matewis: Btw I saw 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers' recently (70s remake). I saw it many years ago, and had forgotten how incredibly suspenseful it is.
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toxicTom: I saw it many years ago, too. And I'd really like to see it again. Awesome cast, too.
Yep, Donald Sutherland rules!
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koima57: Ghost.. The Goonies.. Ghostbusters.. Groundhog Day.. The first few seasons of Buffy. Robocop. CLASSICS.. :)
But those are not guilty pleasures, are they? Ok, maybe Ghost...
And Buffy - the first few seasons? IMO 6 is best. 7 is more back to the roots.
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koima57: Ghost.. The Goonies.. Ghostbusters.. Groundhog Day.. The first few seasons of Buffy. Robocop. CLASSICS.. :)
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toxicTom: But those are not guilty pleasures, are they? Ok, maybe Ghost...
And Buffy - the first few seasons? IMO 6 is best. 7 is more back to the roots.
My 14 yo niece maybe mocked me too much about these ones, perhaps.. :P

Buffy was "good" until the move to university, IMHO. Then a real lottery, no constant quality assurance. Special mention to the part with the Godess, Grace? and Dawn the "key", lol..That was bad filler. :/
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koima57: My 14 yo niece maybe mocked me too much about these ones, perhaps.. :P

Buffy was "good" until the move to university, IMHO. Then a real lottery, no constant quality assurance. Special mention to the part with the Godess, Grace? and Dawn the "key", lol..That was bad filler. :/
I found it to be brilliant. But to each his own I guess. Dawn/Glory were no filler. The events were even hinted at in earlier seasons. Season 5 is in fact my second favourite. And btw. Having (not introducing) Dawn at the beginning of season 5 and not explaining it until a few shows later was hilarious and creative.

As for your niece. Buffy probably hadn't had much impact in Europe (at least not in Germany). Here it was marketed as teenager fantasy series along the lines of Charmed. Wereas in America there are whole books about the mythology and it's references to the "real world", the psychology of Joss Whedon and the characters.

Maybe our tastes are different, but maybe if you watch those season more closely (think Shakespeare instead of Xena) they will grow to you more.
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Steely_Gaze: Too many to list, though Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins sits firmly at the top of the heap.
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Coelocanth: Oh ye gods, I really enjoy that one. Back when it was released I was working at a theater running the projectors. I actually paid to see it three times (at other theaters) and saw it where I worked at least another 10 times.
The delicious thing for me was that, after watching the movie, I learned my father had a massive collection of Destroyer and Executioner novels. I read all 100+ books he had over the course of one magical teenage summer. Hooked me on Men's Action series, and cheesy pulp fiction.

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skynet464: Conan the Destroyer. Yes, the bad Conan. I liked it as a kid. :P
I watched that movie when I was a kid, but admit nothing in all Hyperborea will compare to the original. It stands as the only truly "good" (from a film standpoint) sword and sorcery movie.

That said, rewatching Conan the Destroyer, I discovered it is the perfect Dungeons & Dragons movie. Seriously, each of the characters conforms to their roles, there's an epic adventure with ugly monsters, and even magic kinda works in a sort-of Vancian D&D-esque structure.

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Matewis: Anyway, I just now recalled a cover of a film that may very well fall into the guilty pleasure category. It was a girl on top of a tank and that is all that I remember. Think I'll look it up some time.
Any chance the movie in question is Tank Girl?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114614/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

I friggin' love that movie. :D