c/bad-movie-night

I finally watched that 2 star creature feature and lost 12 bucks on the whole experience

Picked up a DVD of 'Sharknado 7: Final Bite' at a gas station outside Tulsa for 12 dollars because the cover art looked hilarious, but it was just boring CGI and bad acting with zero fun energy. Me and my buddy tried to riff on it but gave up after 40 minutes because there was nothing worth laughing at, just flat scenes and a weird subplot about a lighthouse. Has anyone else wasted cash on a so-bad-it's-good flick that turned out to be just plain bad, and how do you tell the difference before you buy?

The dollar store DVD that outshone my 4K copy

Last month I grabbed a $1.50 DVD of "Sharknado 3" from a thrift store in Dover just for laughs. Compared it to my fancy 4K version, and honestly the cheap disc had a grainy charm that made the bad CGI feel almost intentional. The richer detail just exposed how silly the effects looked. Has anyone else found that worse quality actually improves these disaster flicks?

Rant: picked a 2 dollar VHS over the 4K remaster for movie night

For our Bad Movie Night last Friday in Austin, I had to choose between a beat-up copy of "Troll 2" on VHS for 2 bucks and the new shiny Blu-ray remaster. I grabbed the tape because the tracking lines and hiss felt more authentic. Halfway through the popcorn scene, the tape jammed and we lost 10 minutes, but honestly the panic was funnier than the movie itself. Has anyone else paid extra to make a bad movie worse on purpose?

Warning: my kitchen fire drill took 6 hours to fix a 2 minute mistake

So last Friday I tried to make popcorn for movie night and set the oil too high. Smoke detectors went off, my cat bolted, and I spent the next 6 hours scrubbing grease off the ceiling and wiping down every surface with vinegar. The sad part is I only wanted to rewatch The Core, not redecorate my kitchen. Has anyone else had a simple snack turn into a whole restoration project before the bad movie even started?

Three attempts to rewatch The Room, kept solving my own life instead

I put on The Room three times last Friday night. Every time, I got distracted and ended up fixing a shelf, reorganizing my DVD shelf, and finally patching a hole in the wall from a doorknob incident in 2019. It took me four hours to actually sit through the whole thing, and by then I missed the best part where the flower shop scene drags on forever. Has anyone else had a bad movie night turn into a full home repair session?

That $50 'cult classic' Blu-ray set I bought has the worst transfer I've ever seen

Compared two bad movie night approaches and one was way better

I used to just throw on whatever random bad movie I found on streaming. Last month I tried actually planning a theme night with my buddy Mike. We picked 'The Room' and then watched 'Birdemic' after. Having a clear theme made the jokes and commentary way better because we could compare the bad acting and weird choices side by side. Has anyone else tried theme nights over just picking at random?

I finally watched 'The Room' after years of hearing about it

I grabbed a used DVD of The Room from a thrift store last Saturday for $2, fully expecting just another boring movie. Instead, I laughed so hard at the random football scene that my roommate banged on the wall and asked if I was okay. Has anyone else had a bad movie totally flip your mood around like that?

Stumbled into a thrift store in Tulsa and found a VHS copy of 'The Room' for 50 cents

I was killing time last Saturday at this dusty thrift store on Admiral Boulevard, and there it was wedged between a broken toaster and a stack of old Reader's Digests. I've heard all the Tommy Wiseau stories but never actually watched it, you know? For fifty cents I figured it was worth the gamble. Has anyone else found a legendary bad movie in the most random place like that?

I'll die on this hill: The Room is not actually fun to watch with friends

Everyone acts like gathering a group to riff on Tommy Wiseau makes it better, but after trying it 3 times with different crowds, the dead silence between jokes just kills the whole vibe. Am I the only one who thinks this movie works way better alone where you can soak in the awkwardness without anyone trying to be funny?

That time the projector died mid-movie at our bad film fest

We were about 20 minutes into The Room at my buddy's place in Cleveland when the bulb just went out... total darkness. Ended up watching the rest on a laptop propped on a stack of pizza boxes, which honestly made it funnier. Anyone else have a screening go sideways on you?

That friend who said 'The Room is a masterpiece' was actually right

My buddy Mark kept pushing me to watch The Room for years. I finally gave in about 3 months ago and we invited 8 people over for a viewing. Half the room was crying with laughter by the time the rooftop scene came on. Has anyone else had a friend's bad movie recommendation actually turn out to be a perfect choice?

I finally started watching Birdemic with commentary track on

I used to just laugh at the bad acting and birds on wires, but after I threw on the Rifftrax version last weekend, the whole movie made way more sense as a comedy goldmine, so what's your go-to bad movie that gets better with a commentary?

Took me 8 years to realize I was watching bad movies wrong

I used to just put on a so called terrible movie and sit there getting annoyed. Roast me all you want but I was missing the point completely. Then a buddy at a watch party pulled up a spreadsheet mid movie and started rating each bad CGI monster on a scale of 1 to 10. That's when it clicked for me. I was treating it like a chore not a joke. Now I bring snacks and try to guess how many times the lead actor trips over a cable. Anyone else have that moment where you realized you had to shift your whole mindset to enjoy the trash?

Rented "The Rollerblade Seven" from a random dollar bin - spent $3 and it was gold

Found this 90s action movie where everyone fights on skates. Acting is awful. Plot makes zero sense. Best $3 I ever wasted for a bad movie night. Anyone else find a gem in a bargain bin?

Sat through "The Room" with a buddy who had never seen it and the pizza delivery guy joined us for the last hour

Guy walks in mid Tommy Wiseau scream, puts the pizza on the coffee table, and just sat there on my couch watching the rest with us without saying a word until he handed me the receipt.

Hit 87 bad movies this year and something clicked

Last night I finished my 87th bad movie of 2024. It was some straight-to-streaming zombie flick with acting so wooden it could build a deck. Somewhere around movie 50 I stopped hating the nonsense and started loving it. Now I look for the worst CGI explosions and laugh every time. How many bad movies have you watched this year and when did you start having fun with them?

Warning: I tried a "so bad it's good" movie marathon with my kids and it backfired hard

Last Saturday I let my 8 and 10 year old pick three movies from a pile of old VHS tapes I found at a garage sale (like, genuine trash from the late 80s). They grabbed "Troll 2," "The Room," and something called "The Amazing Bulk" which I swear was a guy in a cheap Hulk suit fighting a giant rubber octopus. I thought it would be hilarious chaos, right? But instead of laughing with me, they just got confused and bored after 15 minutes of each one. My son asked me why the acting was so bad and if the director got fired, which honestly stung a little. We ended up turning off all three and watching "Shrek" instead, so I learned that bad movie night only works when everyone is in on the joke, not when they think it's real. Has anyone else tried to share a beloved disaster movie with someone who just didn't get it?

The time I tried to watch The Room with my dad who hates bad acting

I popped in The Room last Friday thinking he'd laugh at how terrible it is. He walked out 20 minutes in, said 'this isn't funny it's just painful,' and I sat there alone eating popcorn wondering if I'm the weird one.

Rant: My friend said Troll 2 was overrated and now I can't look at them the same

They literally told me the corn-eating scene wasn't funny while we were watching it last Saturday and I just sat there like are we even watching the same movie?

Just found out the 1999 movie The Room took almost 6 months just to shoot the sex scenes

I was reading the book The Disaster Artist and it says Tommy Wiseau filmed those scenes over and over for half a year. How does a movie that bad take that long to make?

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?

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?

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?

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?