Finely Aged Suck

The audiobook was well-done, at least. And the movie was kind of pretty. Just as long as I avoid Breaking Dawn's gory birth scene, I can stand it. (Heck, I think I even liked reading the part where all the other vampires came to see Renesmee!)

I kinda, sorta, maybe...

Enjoyed Modelland. And I think I want to see the movie (if it comes out).

Also I used to absolutely love Cori Falls fanfic and still read it sometimes.

Independence Day. You can smell the cheese through your TV/sound system's speakers whenever this comes on, and yet it will pull you in like a black hole, especially if you happen to turn it on during one of Goldblum's scenes.

EDIT: Holy crap, necro...

edited 21st Jun '12 2:12:27 PM by Willbyr

Supposedly, there's a sequel planned. We can only hope this involves epic space batttles.

I shall defend Ladyhawke heatedly. Cheesy? Hell, yes. But good.

Well, except for the background music. That's aged particularly badly.

edited 9th Jan '13 5:14:49 PM by Euodiachloris

You're certainly not alone. I once saw some well-known author (I think it was Poul Anderson) give a fairly vigorous defense of the movie. Apparently they did some first-class research into many of the historical elements of the film, and showed their work. I don't remember all the details, though.

Cosmic Race on the Playstation 1. The developers very clearly had no idea what they were doing and the resulting game was glorious.

On that note, how about Shadow The Hedgehog? The more I think about it, the more I'm convinced it's a Stealth Parody of darker and edgier reboots of franchises.

Shadow the Hedgehog is a perfect example of So Bad, It's Good.

15 years later, and I still think Planescape Torment is one of the best games ever. But damn, it's painful to go back to it, with pixelated graphics^* that were so awesome at the time and especially the really counter-intuitive D&D 2nd edition rules.

I'm watching Babylon5 again, for the second time. The CGI is ... almost laughable, but at the time it too was cutting edge. All my troping is also giving me a more critical looks at the episodes, as I can see better this time around where some of the acting is really weak and not supporting the tropes.

Very well then... A few horrible works whose inaneness have only ripened with age that I have had the displeasure to behold:

Plan 9 from Outer Space (Can you prove it didn't happen?) The Room (You are tearing me apart Tommy!) Trolls 2 (Stupid spelled backwards is still stupid) Superbabies 2 (What compelled me to it continues to elude me)

... and more to come ladies and gentlemen

Not too old, and only a specific part of it, but Deus Ex's voice acting and modelling. It's like a fine wine that's matured too long - it's graced with age but it still wasn't fantastic then, and it seems worse now. But it has a charm with it because it's there for a reason, and fulfills that well enough that it becomes So Bad, It's Good to me.

I recently discovered the pulp novelist Michael Avallone. Pretty much everything he wrote was critically panned, but I absolutely love him because he loves writing so much. The Purple Prose, Author Appeal, and less-than-great attention to continuity just add to the enjoyment. A lot of his stuff reminds me of fanfiction, in a good way. This page does a good job of describing what I like about him.

The PC Game of Tek War. One of the weirdest first person games out there, with William Shatner doing speeches as only he can, weirdly dressed villains, "futuristic" settings (mainly involving lots of shiny metal and glass), and much more. Definitely so bad it's good.

Free jazz is hilarious. I mean listen to this.

It's surreal genius, but also I can't stop laughing.

Edited by MaxwellDaring on Feb 13th 2020 at 7:32:36 AM

Lots of pop music fits that description — or as Lester Bangs put it “Rock music as cretinous swill.”

-anything by The Shaggs, especially “My Pal Foot Foot.”
-several garage band pop standards, such as “Surfin’ Bird” by The Trashmen.
-several novelty pop songs such as “They’re Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!” by Napoleon XIV.
-select Bubblegum pop standards, such as “Sugar Sugar” and “Jingle Jangle” by The Archies.

For movies, will second “Plan 9 from Outer Space” and add “Glen or Glenda” and “Sinister Urge,” also by Ed Wood, Jr.

• Richard Harris (good ol Dumbledore) singing Mac Arthur Park, I would say the version has a very nice instrumental break in the middle and I think the disco version from Donna Summer will never reach that level of awesome but, the lyrics..
• Xanadu: yes, this is a bad film, but that effects using in the dance went deep into the last days of disco cliches, I still remember several commercials in Mexico (special for Superior beer tend to use it to remark "the blonde everyone wants") and even we see that effect in Safe and Sound music video. And, all the songs from ELO (and probably Suddenly)... that side of the soundtrack is really worth the time.

• Thundercats: Yes, it was plain, but I enjoyed a lot, specially because Latin American dub make a big effort to make Lion-O and Mum-ra really enjoyable, and yes, probably Snarf was the best contender for worst sidekick against Scrappy Doo.

And I would say, old Mexican telenovelas were cheesy, but far better of what Mexican have in their screens right now. I think Turkish telenovelas and Korean dramas took the best part of what Mexicans did in the 80s.

Edited by Travsam on Apr 17th 2024 at 5:11:06 PM

One of my biggest introductions to a lot of the Marvel Universe is its comic form was, of all things, Heroes Reborn. My first Avengers comics, my Captain America comic, and one of my first FF comics and some of my first Iron Man comics came from there. For that matter, my actual first IM and FF comic were from shortly before Onslaught — and my God, do I now realize did a lot of them suck.

A little over ten years ago, I went and got back issues from the HR Avengers and later got the TPB, and yeah, did the Liefeld stuff suck. Say what you will about Wildstorm, but at least they tried to clean up his mess (I'm not including the Cap stuff since the only issue from the HR era I'd gotten was the first-Wildstorm issue). The IM stuff was better than Teen Tony, at least. I still get a kick out of it, but yeah, HER was indeed trash.

Edited by Anicomicgeek on May 6th 2024 at 12:14:47 PM