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* ''[[Plan 9 from Outer Space]]'' and many of [[Ed Wood (creator)|Ed Wood]]'s other films.

** [[Captain Obvious|"Visits? That would indicate visitors."]]

** [[Humans Are Flawed|"Y'see? Y'SEE? Your stupid minds! Stupid, stupid!"]]

"No, ''you'' hold on!" }}

** Then there is this sequence:

"By going down and finding out!" }}

** "[[You Fail Physics Forever|A particle of sunlight is made of many atoms!]]"

** "[[Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale|Now you can arrange the total destruction of the entire universe served by our sun]]"

* The ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]: Coming Out of Our Shells Tour''. Don't know what it is? It's the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles performing as a rock band. What makes it So Bad It's Good? This song:

''You can count on us!'' }}

* ''[[Street Fighter (film)|Street Fighter]]'' is the epitome of this trope. While normally this movie would be another case of [[Video Game Movies Suck]], it casts [[Raul Julia]]--who, dying of cancer, asked his children to choose his final film role--as M. Bison. Raul plays it as a crazy [[Large Ham|over the top]] villain with such memorable lines as "For you, the day Bison graced your village is the most important day of your life. [[But for Me It Was Tuesday|But for me...it was Tuesday]]," and "A Bison dollar. It's worth five British pounds... For that is the exchange rate the Bank of England will set once I kidnap their Queen!" For God's sake, he has a chandelier [[Nothing but Skulls|made out of human bones]] and he wonders why people [[Obviously Evil|think he's a villain]]?

** The Chicken-men of Krankor, from ''[[Prince of Space]]'', may not be very threatening or three-dimensional villains, but they do serve as excellent comic relief throughout most of the movie. As for the [[Big Bad|Phantom of Krankor,]] he is every bit as silly as his henchmen, but he manages to drive even that off for a while because of his (twisted and power-mad) apparent [[For Science!|love of science,]] which gives him a cheesy, overdone charisma that helped make the film watchable. And he has the slowest, least intense [[Evil Laugh]] ever.

** ''[[Santa Claus Conquers the Martians]]'', one of the stupidest films ever made. From the theme song to the ending credits...well, it's like a gruesome train accident or industrial disaster. You just can't look away. Apparently, the entire film was shot in a re-purposed aircraft hangar either on Long Island or environs. Oh...last but not least, [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=428349265473317718 the polar bear and the Martian robot must be seen to be believed].

'''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000|Tom Servo]]''': You do realize what you just said? }}

** "One more sacrifice before we go?" "Alright, but this is ''[[The Final Sacrifice]]''"

* Also starring [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]]: ''[[Jingle All the Way]]''. The "Turbo Man" stuff is particularly hilariously bad, but Ah-nold is a pretty good comedic [[Straight Man]].

* ''[[Troll 2]]'' is considered a cinematic masterpiece by some, due to how hilariously bad it is. It features vegetarian monsters that turn people into lumpy green Jello (a plant-based version, apparently) so they can eat them. The monsters appear to be dwarves running around in cheap Halloween masks (actually designed, along with the costumes, by '70s erotica actress Laura Gemser). There is a sex scene that has to be seen to be believed (and then may require multiple viewings). The line, "You can't piss on hospitality! I won't allow it!" is included and is meant literally. Also, there are no trolls in the movie. Not a single one.

"Nilbog! It's Goblin spelled backwards!" }}

* ''Ghost Fever'', starring Sherman Hemsley. Hard to find, but absolutely worth the search.

* ''[[The Wizard]]''. A film about an autistic kid who wants nothing more than to play video games. 90 minutes of [[Product Placement]] for [[Nintendo]]'s finest (''[[Ninja Gaiden]]'', ''[[Double Dragon]]'', and ''[[Super Mario Bros 3]]'', which hadn't even come out in America at the time yet) and, uh...not-so-finest ("I love the Power Glove, it's so bad.") Don't make fun of us for adding the entry to this list. It's very hot...* KO punch*

** This classic bit of dialogue:

** It's an awesome film, just because it features Fred Savage from ''[[The Wonder Years]]'' and Jenny Lewis (of the band [[Rilo Kiley]]). You can't ''not'' love it at least a little.

*** There was a radio interview with Rilo Kiley where the host brought up ''The Wizard''. Jenny Lewis's reaction was the kind of, "Oh," you make when you've just been caught farting. The rest of the interview went downhill from there.

**** According to the book (yes, ''book'' not booklet) accompanying ''Superman: The Music 1978-1988'' (with the complete scores from all four films plus music from the Ruby-Spears cartoon), the fight scene was supposed to be ''in the sky above Metropolis.'' If this isn't a [[Special Effects Failure]]...

** Finally, the following lines:

'''[[The Scrappy|Lenny Luthor]]''': You can make a toupee that flies! }}

** Although the "Don't do it the people" line was lifted verbatim from ''[[Superman II]]'', from just before Zod and Ursa lob a bus full of bystanders at Superman.

* John Candy starred in ''quite a few'' movies with this trope in during the '90s. Notable examples include ''[[Nothing but Trouble]]'' and ''Once Upon A Crime''. In the late seventies though he starred in a drama-horror flick titled ''The Clown Murders''. The funny thing being that the villain in ''The Clown Murders'' is a guy in a clown mask and only appears ''a few minutes'' later on in the movie.

* And then there's ''[[Starship Troopers (film)|Starship Troopers]]''. [http://www.badassoftheweek.com/starshiptroopers.html Badass of the Week.com] explains best:

* A certain Asian grindhouse gem of a movie called ''Ninja Wars'' is a fantastic example of this trope. The plot involves a prophecy: "He who wins the heart of Lady Ukyodaio [sic] will hold the world in his hands" and an evil Japanese warlord concocting an aphrodisiac using the famous '''SPIDER''' teakettle to further his aims. The movie then veers off wildly and confusingly every which way, including several fight scenes involving the Five Devil Monks, one of whom vomits acid to attack, a plan to put Ukyodaio's severed head on the hero's girlfriend's body to fulfill the prophesy, and more hilariously bad dubbing than you can shake a stick at. The movie ends {{spoiler|With a [[Crucified Hero Shot]] in a rather confusing case of [[Faux Symbolism]].}} The dubbing is universally terrible.

* ''Ready to Rumble'', a movie made to capitalize on the [[Professional Wrestling]] phenomenon of the late '90s thanks to the [[WWE|WWF]]'s [[Attitude Era]], was produced '''with their competition!''' [[WCW]] used this to try to regain their popularity after [[Memetic Mutation|Mick Foley put their fans' asses in the WWF's seats]], and boy did it bomb! The only redeeming qualities about this movie is the unintentional humor and future WCW Champion David Arquette attempting the Spear.

* ''[[Starcrash]]'' is an Italian Star Wars rip-off that is just mind numbingly horrible in every single way: acting, continuity, props, special effects, plot, it even has the robot sidekick. It truly is so bad it's good. Or at least endlessly funny. An early appearance of David Hasselhoff. And Marjoe Gortner with a lightsaber.

* ''[[Yor, the Hunter from the Future]]''; One of the funniest ''[[Conan the Barbarian]]'' rip-offs of its time, featuring the star of ''[[Space Mutiny]]'', and an incomprehensible yet [[Crazy Awesome]] theme song:

Yor's world, he's the man! }}

** [http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=VvicLz4wLn8 And THE GREATEST THING EVER CAPTURED ON FILM.]

** Also, it tried really, really hard to jump-scare the audience with bedroom decor. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nc7ZaZz4CoU Lamp DUN!]

* [[Frank Miller]]'s directorial debut ''[[The Spirit (film)|The Spirit]]'' is by all rights, a terrible film. However, Miller dials the cheesiness up to such ludicrous levels that one can't help but be at least slightly entertained by it.

:: [[Samuel L. Jackson]] plays The Octopus as [[Large Ham|over-the top as possible]]. It's a significant surprise when he appears for the first time, you expect a menacing character...and then he whacks The Spirit over the head with a toilet while explaining that toilet humor is always funny.

* ''[[The Shadow (film)|The Shadow]]''.

* ''[http://www.agonybooth.com/recaps/Mr__T_s_Be_Somebody____Or_Be_Somebody_s_Fool_1984.aspx Mister T's Be Somebody...or Be Somebody's Fool]''. Considering that in many ways T. is either the [[Anthropomorphic Personification]] or the patron saint of [[So Bad It's Good]]...So yeah...[[This Is for Emphasis, Bitch|fool!]]

* ''[[The Room]]'', which is supposedly "the best worst movie ever made", dubbed by one ''Entertainment Weekly'' reviewer "the Citizen Kane of bad movies." [[The Onion]] explains it [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-room,25723/ here]. ''[[The Room]]'' supposedly has more than just a bad plot and bad acting - its full of failed drama and has terrible focus and transitions. It not clear if the director did so on purpose.

** Tommy Wiseau, the films creator (director-writer-producer-star ''and'' main advertiser) [[Parody Retcon|claims it was intentional]]; an actor from the film says instead that Wiseau was very sincere. Many find it easier to believe the actor, especially as it was originally advertised as a serious melodrama.

* ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5g46Ntg38cc C Me Dance]'. It's so unbelievable, most people think that link is just a fake trailer or at least a [[Stealth Parody]] until they discover otherwise. At first it just seems like your run-of-the-mill shitty cancer story, but then the cancer patient is the Messiah and then this makes the devil angry so then it turns into a horror movie, except Satan doesn't ''do'' anything. He buggers off to nurse his hurt feelings because the lead calls him a "loser." And the tagline is "A Dance That Shines Through Darkness." Just thought that deserved mentioning.

** Speaking of Batman, ''[[Batman Forever]]'' also count. They are so bad they are [[Pungeon Master|cool]].

* ''[[The Swarm]]'', an [[Attack of the Killer Whatever]] movie which represents the stupidest of [[Irwin Allen]]'s disaster movies. A cast full of reputable names had their talents wasted on a silly script, one of these names being [[Michael Caine]], who [[No Indoor Voice|shouts his way through the movie]]. The killer bees are made of [[Special Effect Failure]]. [[Every Car Is a Pinto|Helicopters and train cars explode dramatically upon crashing]] (the latter turn into obvious models first).

* ''[[Dragon Ball Evolution]]'' is possibly the most over the top film ever made, yet it sucks so hard it's just funny to watch to see what they got wrong. In fact, this movie is [[So Bad It's Good]] only when you '''[[In Name Only|don't]]''' see it as ''[[Dragon Ball]]''. But if you want to see a true example, watch the old Chinese adaptation ''Dragon Ball: The Magic Begins''.

** This movie is [[So Bad It's Good]] even by some critics' standards (at least those who knew not to [[Took the Bad Film Seriously|take the film seriously]]). For example, Alfonso Duralde of MSNBC, who generally doesn't like ''anything'' save very few exceptions, said the movie was "both entertainingly ridiculous and ridiculously entertaining."

* The obscure kids' movie ''Napoleon'', which seems to be ''[[Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey]]''-inspired. Where to start? The [[Random Events Plot]] filled with [[Wacky Wayside Tribe|Wacky Wayside Critters]]? The very loud musical score? The fact that the animals seem to have not so much been trained to act as placed on the sets and filmed doing whatever they feel like until something close enough to what's in the script happens? The fact that it was re-dubbed in America despite being [[Mad Max|made in Australia]]? Here's the kicker: It came free in a box of cereal.

* ''Beyond The Valley of the Dolls''. A Hollywood camp-fest about a band of female musicians, taken to the Nth power and waaay beyond. Infamously, Roger Ebert helped write the script.

* The original ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (film)|Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' movie. She's blonde, she's a cheerleader, and she slays vampires.

* The [[Sci Fi Channel|Syfy]] original film ''Vampires: Los Muertos'' starring Bon Jovi as a surfer/vampire slayer. He tries to stop a vampire takeover with the help of a naive teenage boy, a half-turned woman, a priest {{spoiler|Or is he?}} and a big black guy with a machine gun.

* The Gag Dub movie ''[[Kung Pow]]'' is so profoundly, mind-bogglingly idiotic it's hilarious with the right mindset. [[Love It or Hate It|Others will just hate it.]]

* ''[[The Marine]]'', starring [[John Cena]], has a pretty generic action plot and decent special effects. It could probably be considered [[So Okay It's Average]] were it not for the hilarious acting of [[Dull Surprise|Cena]] and Robert Patrick (who is fully aware what kind of movie he is in and [[Evil Is Hammy|earns his pay]]) as the crime boss. The supporting cast is equally hilarious and the dialogue?

** Special mention goes out to the scene where the [[Big Bad]] threatens at gunpoint the hostage who's currently piloting the helicopter they're both sitting in hundreds of feet above the street. (note that the reason she's flying it, is because ''he doesn't know how'')

* If the [[YouTube]] comments are any indication, the "educational" film ''[[Unarius The Arrival]]'' put out by Unarius Academy of Science (a space cult) is this. The sparkly special effects and goofy costumes of the then-cult leader Uriel (Ruth E. Norman) are fun to look at, the spaceships are actually kinda cool, and it's often hilariously cheesy. A great film to snark at that probably won't make you want to chew your own arm off to get away from.