c/bad-movie-night

Spent 45 minutes trying to find a movie that's "so bad it's good" on prime and gave up

I sat down last night with a friend and we wanted to watch a real stinker. You know, something like The Room or Birdemic level bad. But searching through Prime was impossible because every movie has a 3 star rating and I can't tell if it's ironically good or just boring bad. We wound up scrolling for almost an hour before we just put on Troll 2 again. Has anyone found a reliable way to filter for these gems without having to already know the title?

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jakep24•5h ago

Forget watching The Room for laughs, I finally saw the error in my MST3K approach

I used to just throw on Mystery Science Theater 3000 episodes and half-watch while scrolling my phone. Last Friday I finally sat down and watched Manos: The Hands of Fate without any commentary. It hit me: I was missing the whole point of bad movies by not paying attention to the actual awful acting and nonsensical plot. The way the camera lingers on nothing for five seconds or the kid whispering nonsense made me laugh harder than the jokes. Now I watch a bad flick straight through first, then go back with the riffs. Has anyone else flipped their whole bad movie night routine like that?

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wren652•2d ago

That time my buddy said watch The Room on a first date and I actually did it

My friend Mark told me to take my date to a screening of The Room as a joke test. I figured it was a bad movie night classic and she seemed chill. We went to the 9pm show at the Alamo Drafthouse in Austin and she laughed harder than I did. Three months later we're still together and she quotes Tommy Wiseau at me randomly. Has anyone else used a terrible movie as a relationship test and had it backfire or work out?

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emery965•3d ago

Sharknado marathon almost ruined movie night for good

Watched all six Sharknado movies in one weekend last month. By the third one I couldn't tell if the bad CGI was making me laugh or slowly killing my soul. Has anyone else binged a franchise so bad it looped back around to painful instead of fun?

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nathan289•5d ago

Picked Sharknado 3 over The Room for our bad movie night last Friday

I figured Sharknado 3 would be more fun since it's so stupid, but after 30 minutes of bad CGI and Tara Reid's acting we all just sat there bored. Has anyone else picked the wrong bad movie for a group and totally killed the vibe?

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lee_grant97•6d ago

Am I the only one who thinks The Room is overrated for bad movie night?

Honestly, everyone acts like The Room is the king of so-bad-it's-good flicks, but I think Battlefield Earth from 2000 takes the cake. With its 6-minute long Travolta scenes and that weird brown filter over everything, it's way more painful and fun. The Room has the same jokes recycled every watch, but Battlefield Earth keeps hitting you with new dumb stuff each time. Anyone else feel like The Room gets too much credit while worse movies get ignored?

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nathan_barnes•7d ago

Hot take: Watching 'The Room' at a dive bar totally changed how I see bad movies

I went to this dingy place called The Roxy in Austin last Friday for their monthly bad movie showing. At first I was just there for the cheap drinks and laughing at how awful the acting was. But when everyone started throwing spoons at the screen during the flower shop scene, I realized the whole experience is about the crowd going along with the nonsense. Has anyone else had a bad movie night turn into something way more fun because of the people around you?

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grace_fox3•9d ago

My buddy called The Room a masterpiece and it actually made me think

Last weekend my friend Dave said The Room is basically a perfect movie because it makes you feel something real even if it's confusion and laughter. He argued that most big budget films are forgettable but everyone remembers Tommy Wiseau's weird accent and that ridiculous rooftop scene. It hit different because I always just laughed at it but he made me see there's some weird artistry in how honest the bad acting is. Anyone else ever had a conversation that totally flipped how you see a so bad it's good movie?

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jade_hernandez•9d ago

Changed my mind on MST3K-style riffing after watching "The Room" with my cousin

I used to hate watching bad movies with people talking over them. Figured it ruined the whole experience. Then my cousin made me sit through "The Room" last Friday and she did these perfect funny comments the whole time. It actually made the 2 hours fly by and I laughed way more than I expected. Has anyone else found a specific movie or person that changed how you watch bad films?

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robinson.holly•10d ago

Realized my bad movie threshold shifted after watching "The Room" at a dive bar last Friday

I was at this sticky-floored bar in Brooklyn with a $5 cover and they projected that movie on a bedsheet. 30 people were throwing plastic spoons and I finally got why cheesy acting and awful scripts make a movie way more fun than a boring good one. Has anyone else had a specific screening that totally changed what you look for in a bad movie?

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jade3•11d ago

Caught a double feature of The Room and Birdemic last night and something clicked

I used to just laugh at the bad acting but after watching them back to back I noticed every single scene has this weird dead air between lines that makes the whole thing feel off. Has anyone else noticed that bad movies share a specific pacing quirk like that?

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oliver_ward14•12d ago

Can we talk about how bad old 80s sword-and-sandal movies actually were?

I watched Beastmaster again last week after not seeing it since I was a kid, and man, the special effects are worse than I remembered. The ferret sidekick had more screen presence than the main actor. Anyone else revisit a childhood favorite and realize it's actually terrible?

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maxb46•14d ago

Crossed 150 bad movies on my watch list and I'm honestly embarrassed

Started keeping track last summer after I watched "The Room" for the first time and got hooked on this garbage. Now I'm at 153 movies that are so bad they're fun, like a sci-fi flick from 1989 with a tin foil robot. Am I the only one who feels weirdly proud of a number like that?

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fisher.mason•16d ago

I laughed at Sharknado until I watched it at 2 AM

Kept telling my buddy it was just internet hype. Dumb CGI and flying sharks, how bad could it be? Watched it with a few beers last Friday and couldn't stop laughing. The scene where the shark eats the guy mid-air in Chicago convinced me this was pure gold. Anyone else have a movie they dismissed that turned into a legit bad movie night favorite?

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finleyk87•16d ago

Spent $14 on a streaming rental of The Room, fell asleep 20 minutes in and woke up at the credits

Wasted a whole Friday night and my money on that so-bad-it's-good classic but I was too tired from work to even appreciate the terrible acting, anyone else ever pay for a bad movie and then miss the whole thing?

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wesleyburns•18d ago

Can we talk about how Sharknado 2 is actually better than the first one

I saw both of them streaming on Tubi this month and the original is too slow with characters taking themselves seriously, but the sequel leans into the cheese from minute one with that cameo from the Today Show hosts getting eaten.

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abbyr96•19d ago

Took me 7 years to realize I was watching bad movies wrong

I always fast forwarded through the boring parts until my buddy pointed out that those dull scenes are what make the bad dialogue and weird acting so funny later. Has anyone else accidentally been ruining their own bad movie night by skipping the slow stuff?

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casey_barnes•20d ago

Appreciation post: The weirdly detailed volcano model at the local natural history museum

I spent 20 minutes staring at that cheesy 90s lava flow diorama with the blinking red lights and realized it's basically the bad movie equivalent of a disaster film, complete with terrible acting from the plastic figures - has anyone else found a goofy museum exhibit that feels like a B-movie come to life?

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park.troy•21d ago

Went to a drive-in theater in Ohio last weekend and one movie was dubbed over so badly it was hilarious

I drove out to this old drive-in near Mansfield with some friends and they were playing a double feature of action movies from the 90s. The second one was some cheap martial arts flick and the dubbing was completely off. Like the lips were moving for 5 seconds after the words stopped. At one point a guy yelled "I'll get you" but his mouth said something totally different. We were laughing so hard we missed half the plot. Has anyone else seen a movie that bad where the audio was just wrecked?

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robin_campbell36•21d ago

Spent 3 hours rewatching The Room just to find one deleted scene

I showed my buddy The Room for his first time last weekend. He kept asking about some weird scene with Tommy Wiseau in a flower shop that I totally forgot existed. I spent three whole hours scrolling through my DVD extras and online clips trying to find it. Turns out it was never even in the final cut, just a rumor on some bad movie forum from 2012. We laughed so hard after I realized I wasted half my night for nothing. Has anyone else gone down a rabbit hole for a fake scene in a famously bad film?

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laura211•22d ago

Spent 90 minutes trying to pause a VHS tape from 1988 at a thrift store last Saturday

I was digging through a bin of old VHS tapes at a Goodwill in Sacramento and spotted this horror movie called "The Zombie that Ate Seattle." The cover looked SO CHEESY I knew it had to be in my bad movie collection. I got it home and my VCR ate the tape for a solid 20 minutes before I could even get it to play. Then the movie was so terribly made that the whole plot was just people running in circles for an hour and a half, I couldn't stop laughing. Has anyone else bought a bad movie from a thrift store that took forever to get working?

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spencerl32•24d ago

The night my dad walked out halfway through The Room

Back in 2005, I rented The Room from Blockbuster and invited my dad to watch it with me. After about 20 minutes he stood up, said 'This is the worst thing I've ever seen,' and went to bed without another word. Has anyone else had someone just give up on a bad movie that fast?

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anna_hill•1mo ago

Why I picked the 1980s monster flick over the modern remake for movie night

Everyone seems to love the 2010 version of that cult classic about a giant spider. They say the effects are cleaner and the pacing is better. But I went with the original 1985 one for our last bad movie night. That thing has a scene where the spider puppet clearly gets its leg tangled in a cable and they just kept filming. The acting is so stiff it feels like a high school play with a bigger budget. Plus the soundtrack sounds like someone hit a Casio keyboard in a panic for 90 minutes. My friends groaned at first but by the end they were laughing harder than at any modern comedy. Has anyone else gone with the older version and found it way more fun?

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jade3•1mo ago

Spent 3 hours tracking down the worst audio sync issue in a bad movie only to realize my TV had a weird game mode setting on

I was rewatching The Room with friends and everyone kept pointing out the lips weren't matching the words until I checked the settings and saw game mode was adding some delay, took way too long to figure out for something so dumb.

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eva_garcia56•1mo ago

$12 spent on a knockoff Sharknado DVD and it was the best bad movie night ever

I saw this DVD at a flea market in Phoenix for like 12 bucks and figured why not. Popped it in last Friday with some friends and we were dying laughing the whole time. The effects are so fake like the sharks look like they were drawn in MS Paint and the acting is beyond terrible. One scene a dude gets eaten but you can literally see the wire holding the plastic shark. I thought I wasted money but honestly it gave us like 3 hours of entertainment. My buddy tried to count all the plot holes and gave up after 20 minutes. Anyone else got a cheap find that turned into a goldmine for bad movie night?

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