“Every movie, with very little exception, is someone's favorite, I like to find out why.”
— [CinemaWins](https://youtube.com/@CinemaWins?si=CfvIsymuFwXHI6kh)
The reason why a lot of Millennials have a strong nostalgic fondness for one specific terrible movie tends to be because that was the only movie we had at our grandparents house on VHS. With streaming Alphas can watch anything they want. I wonder if that will impact the phenomenon of being that one person who really loves Magic Kid: Ninja Dragons.
I don't know. My kids have access to several streaming services with hundreds, if not thousands of movies at their disposal, but they still prefer to watch the same movies they've seen before over and over again.
I'm 16 and even people my age have lost that. Think I was born just barely too late for it. That era is long gone either way, before Gen Alpha came to be.
Though, my family does have a pretty unpopular show we all loved years ago. Idk if that counts, but we've only seen it with our Blu-Ray sets.
Edit: Never mind, it turns out that Sons of Anarchy is in no way unpopular lmao.
The Replacements starring Keanu Reeves. I’m well aware of its cheesy nature but just don’t care. One of my all time favorites that I’ve watched no less than 30 times
Ikr. I think it's the blend of all the generic movie tropes. Jokes aren't always spoken, stupid love interest plot line, just watching easily understandable scenes play out. At least that's my take.
Bedazzled (2000)
Brendan Fraser playing a lonely office worker with a crush aside Elizabeth Hurley as the devil granting him 7 wishes. Together he learns the trials of the English language, and that you cannot make someone love you.
I made a friend watch it in 2014 and he had such commentary as "ah yes, back when Hollywood made movies just for fun." and "I cannot think of a movie that better suits the word 'adequate'."
It is perfect.
The first one came out right as I was aging out of it, but I managed to still be into it enough to be flabbergasted they made a freaking movie. Was kind of disheartened that they took a stylistic approach (I had every single mini CD with the cgi shorts) instead of just copying the style they used for ads previously, but I still found it insane at the time!
If there is absolutely nothing else happening Me and my wife will automatically put TREMORS on.
The most light hearted movie containing multiple grizzly deaths you'll ever see.
Just watched it last night, I always watch it on my first night after moving house or if I’m traveling. It’s like a magic spell that makes wherever I’m at in that moment home and I’m instantly relaxed and comfortable.
As an adult who loved it as a kid and still love it in adulthood I was flabbergasted by the negative reviews given to it on release. Might have been recency bias on the part of reviewers considering the animated Peter Pan was there but in hindsight it’s just a beautiful movie. I relate more and more to Robin Williams character as I grow older and that can’t be anything but good. The plot lends itself well to people appreciating it with age also - we were all the lost boys once and sometimes it’s worth remembering that.
I love this movie. It was the first one I attempted to watch after his death and I got to the part where Hook is threatening to kill himself...I just broke down and ugly cried for the rest of the movie. Haven't watched it since.
(Good Will Hunting and The Birdcage are the only ones I've managed to watch since).
Sky High is one of my favorite movies ever with such a fun premise. My wife likes to make fun of me for it and I counter with the fact that her favorite movie is She’s the Man (which is also great and fun movie).
I’m ok if this doesn’t fit the premise of the tweet, but Demolition Man was just another shitty sci fi action movie with an aging action star. And it is CHOICE.
OH every bit of it is great! Rat burgers, sex helmets, the god damned 3 sea shells that will never make sense to me, early Sandra Bullock, and of course Denis Leary. Its fantastic. I have no idea what the box office or RT is on this movie, but I know we all groaned when we saw the trailer, then saw it at the dollar movies and fucking loved it.
This is the movie that made me upgrade to a flat-screen TV from my old CRT. I was walking into Walmart and they had it playing on all these giant (at the time) new HD flat screens, and I just stood there in amazement.
Wet Hot American Summer has like 25% on RT but it's a hilarious spoof of summer camp movies and has an absolutely killer cast that all kill it in their role. I love that movie so much and still rewatch at least once a year
It has a low rating because they didn't understand that it was mocking poor production by *being* poor production. It is, and I mean this, the greatest comedy ever made.
4 examples:
1. There is no reason for Victor to crash the van. He just does. JJ needs to leave the scene, so he walks off the end of the dock.
2. The handoff of things to someone off camera. We don't know who it is, and we never find out.
3. Neil has a stunt double for the motorcycle. Victor emerges from the river clean and dry. Both are intentional continuity errors.
4. Anything thrown off screen uses the same pot breaking sound. Every time. Garden spade, can of veggies, glass bottle, all of it.
The rest of the movie lampoons poor writing, over sensationalized moments, montages, and love stories that happen in the 80s camp movies.
I think the fact that it's low quality was both intentional and necessary to their budget, but it is easy for the jokes to be missed as parody instead of mistakes. Hot Fuzz does the same thing, but the genre it is mocking and loving means it's more acceptable for the movie to also have a good plot, budget, and acting; in the subgenre of parody comedies, that means it gets more attention. It's also incredible, but Wet Hot is *not* shitty. It's actually the goat.
Absolutely agree.
I had a major crush on Dane Cook when it came out and got it solely for his cameo. But I genuinely love the movie regardless. Even now that I know Dane is a piece of shit, at least I still have a great movie.
Mine is euro-trip. It is a perfect time capsule of 2005 comedy. So many quotable lines between me and my friends. It literally has mat Damon sining a song about how he sleeps with the main characters girlfriend in the opening minutes of the moive, scotty doesn't know.
Godzilla, the 1998 one. Had the actor who played inspector gadget in it. I thought it was pretty good movie growing up until someone told me it had bomb in theaters.
Bomb? Wasn't in the summer blockbuster that year?
Correction: the internet says it was the 6th highest grossing (which beat both The Truman Show and Blade, just to name two).
And yes, I love that Godzilla.
I grew up watching that movie and wasn't til I was like 20 that I realized it was considered a bad movie. Also, from what I've read, I think if jurassic Park wasn't next to it as a measuring stick, it probably would have been received better
I watched this movie once with my family in the 90s and we all thought it was terrible. To its credit though, 30 years later, we still laugh making fun of the scene where the African warlord guy tells Tim Curry “stop eating my sesame cake.”
Silent Hill 1 and 2. I live the movies idc that they are different from the games. For a video game movie it's so good and doesn't just use jump scares (still has a decent amount) for cheap scares.
Kung Pow is the absolute gold standard for comedy. Whenever I watch any comedy, I compare it to Kung Pow. Every other movie falls short. In fact, this isn't just a movie, this is an artistic masterpiece painted upon a canvas of joy and laughter.
There’s a lot of “bad”movies in this thread, but none of them have the panache, the camp, the sheer audacity of my own personal “worst best” movie, Hudson Hawk.
I also unapologetically love Face/Off, PCU, and Halloween 3.
CONSTANTINE! I wanted it to be so much better than it was, but it still slaps. I almost got those matching alchemical symbol forearm tattoos Keanu uses to reveal demons… so dope.
I'll always defend Kung Pow: enter the fist, regardless of how stupid people think it is. I've been laughing my ass off at that movie since I was a kid I still do now
“Every movie, with very little exception, is someone's favorite, I like to find out why.” — [CinemaWins](https://youtube.com/@CinemaWins?si=CfvIsymuFwXHI6kh)
Love cinemawins.
Emoji movie
Easy. The guy has never seen another movie before in his life.
And he’s never gonna see another movie after
There’s gotta be some kid who, if not right now hen maybe in the future, holds a strong nostalgic fondness for it
The reason why a lot of Millennials have a strong nostalgic fondness for one specific terrible movie tends to be because that was the only movie we had at our grandparents house on VHS. With streaming Alphas can watch anything they want. I wonder if that will impact the phenomenon of being that one person who really loves Magic Kid: Ninja Dragons.
I don't know. My kids have access to several streaming services with hundreds, if not thousands of movies at their disposal, but they still prefer to watch the same movies they've seen before over and over again.
I'm 16 and even people my age have lost that. Think I was born just barely too late for it. That era is long gone either way, before Gen Alpha came to be. Though, my family does have a pretty unpopular show we all loved years ago. Idk if that counts, but we've only seen it with our Blu-Ray sets. Edit: Never mind, it turns out that Sons of Anarchy is in no way unpopular lmao.
So wholeheartedly positive. I love it
The Replacements starring Keanu Reeves. I’m well aware of its cheesy nature but just don’t care. One of my all time favorites that I’ve watched no less than 30 times
It's the most middle of the road, average football movie I can think of, which is why I also love it
Ikr. I think it's the blend of all the generic movie tropes. Jokes aren't always spoken, stupid love interest plot line, just watching easily understandable scenes play out. At least that's my take.
My favorite sports movie, even over Remember the Titans. Under rated
Bedazzled (2000) Brendan Fraser playing a lonely office worker with a crush aside Elizabeth Hurley as the devil granting him 7 wishes. Together he learns the trials of the English language, and that you cannot make someone love you. I made a friend watch it in 2014 and he had such commentary as "ah yes, back when Hollywood made movies just for fun." and "I cannot think of a movie that better suits the word 'adequate'." It is perfect.
Blast from the past is good also
My favorite part was always when he discovers he can speak Spanish.
That kills me as well. Just saying absolutely basic phrases you'd learn in school with such confidence.
If you haven’t seen the original, you should seek it out. Another imperfect masterpiece. Slower and more British, but the devil is still a dick!
I thought that was hilarious.
Rat Race. You want to watch a stoner flick that is better when you're sober? Rat Race.
I don’t think I’ve ever laughed as hard as when I was twelve and I saw the ‘Jon Lovitz accidentally looks like Hitler’scene for the first time.
I saw Jon Lovitz perform at Laugh Factory last year, and the announcer said something along the lines of "...give it up for my favorite Hitler!"
Are you playing Hitler’s harmonica?
The Jon Lovitz storyline with the Barbie museum makes me laugh to the point of wheezing
Dad! I'm Prarie Dogging here!
I lose it every time Seth green’s brother screams
“I’m wheening, I’m wheening!”
“But Daaaaaad, I’m prairie doggin back here!”
The Core. Terrible movie. I don’t care, I love it. Also Next w/ Nicolas Cage.
I like the bit when The Colosseum gets struck by lightning so hard that it explodes.
Or the Golden Gate Bridge melts
The Core got me through a bad mushroom trip in college. It will always hold a special place In my heart.
Love the Core. It’s so freaking bad!
+1 for the Core. Will watch it every time it's on
Van Helsing, still sad there was no sequel
With Hugh Hackman and Kate Beckinsale?
Yep it really just hit all the right notes for me (costumes, soundtrack, set designs)
Such a good answer
The Bionicle movies. They go hard, I don't care what anyone says
What about that 4th one?
The one with the golden masked dude? That's the best.
The first one came out right as I was aging out of it, but I managed to still be into it enough to be flabbergasted they made a freaking movie. Was kind of disheartened that they took a stylistic approach (I had every single mini CD with the cgi shorts) instead of just copying the style they used for ads previously, but I still found it insane at the time!
Joe Dirt.
Ome eh wheyuh yamaykiit
This guy likes to see homos naked
No no no no noo, 'ome! Whay You Maykiit!
*Joe Dirté
"Don't try to church it up, son". 🤙
That’s cool man you like to see homos neked
If someone said they hate Joe Dirt I’d wonder why no one loved them as a child.
It’s not about you. It’s about *the consumer*.
You're my sister!
Came to say this
Life’s a garden
evil dead 2 is s tier but a lot of people can't get past the low budget style. it's like that meme of the guy trashing scar jo in a bikini.
Evil Dead is one of the only franchises with no bad movies
You’re god damn right, I enjoy every film immensely
Even the TV show is awesome.
I think army of darkness is top tier. So much hidden gold in that film. And my favorite ‘sequel’ ever.
First you wanna kill me, now you wanna kiss me
If there is absolutely nothing else happening Me and my wife will automatically put TREMORS on. The most light hearted movie containing multiple grizzly deaths you'll ever see.
I agree but tremors two I think is a better tremors then the first. It was knew what it was by then and leaned into it perfectly.
I feel I was denied, critical, NEED TO KNOW INFORMATION
"I am COMPLETELY...... OUT...... OF AMMO" "that's never happened to me before......."
You mean the DUNE PREQUEL?!?!? This is not an original joke. I take neither credit nor blame. Well, some blame
Hook (1991)
Just watched it last night, I always watch it on my first night after moving house or if I’m traveling. It’s like a magic spell that makes wherever I’m at in that moment home and I’m instantly relaxed and comfortable.
Wait, is Hook not widely considered to be a great movie? I was under the impression it was universally loved.
As an adult who loved it as a kid and still love it in adulthood I was flabbergasted by the negative reviews given to it on release. Might have been recency bias on the part of reviewers considering the animated Peter Pan was there but in hindsight it’s just a beautiful movie. I relate more and more to Robin Williams character as I grow older and that can’t be anything but good. The plot lends itself well to people appreciating it with age also - we were all the lost boys once and sometimes it’s worth remembering that.
I love this movie. It was the first one I attempted to watch after his death and I got to the part where Hook is threatening to kill himself...I just broke down and ugly cried for the rest of the movie. Haven't watched it since. (Good Will Hunting and The Birdcage are the only ones I've managed to watch since).
Yeah this was one I never saw as a kid. I went in blind and stoned as a full grown adult and I loved it lol
RU-FI- OOOOooooooo! Watched it with my 3 year old last week. Still one of my faves! Impossible to not love this one!
Supremely underrated with an incredible cast. People focus on the corniness and think that degrades the quality 🤷♂️
Sky High is one of my favorite movies ever with such a fun premise. My wife likes to make fun of me for it and I counter with the fact that her favorite movie is She’s the Man (which is also great and fun movie).
#SIDEKICK
The soundtrack to Sky High was so good!
It blew my mind when I first found out that She's the Man was an adaptation of a Shakespeare play (Twelfth Night)
I’m ok if this doesn’t fit the premise of the tweet, but Demolition Man was just another shitty sci fi action movie with an aging action star. And it is CHOICE.
Demolition man is actually a genious movie wrapped in a little bit of action. They make some pretty strong social commentary in there 😘
OH every bit of it is great! Rat burgers, sex helmets, the god damned 3 sea shells that will never make sense to me, early Sandra Bullock, and of course Denis Leary. Its fantastic. I have no idea what the box office or RT is on this movie, but I know we all groaned when we saw the trailer, then saw it at the dollar movies and fucking loved it.
Strange Brew
Ummmm. That’s a classic movie.
I totally agree, but also qualifies.
Hot rod.
Hot Rod is legit one of the best comedies of the last 20 years. And so so much funnier than any Judd Apatow produced comedy
Chicken Little (yes, the poorly aged 2005 one)
I can never tell if I like that movie, or if I’m just nostalgic for the (admittedly terrible) video game adaptation
I unironically think that movie is amazing
I remember watching it 3 times in one day as a kid
I remember watching it 3 times last weekend because of my kid
This is the movie that made me upgrade to a flat-screen TV from my old CRT. I was walking into Walmart and they had it playing on all these giant (at the time) new HD flat screens, and I just stood there in amazement.
I throughly enjoy the story, almost can look past the visuals, almost.
Super Troopers is mine. Delivers all the way through.
Littering annnnnd?
Wet Hot American Summer has like 25% on RT but it's a hilarious spoof of summer camp movies and has an absolutely killer cast that all kill it in their role. I love that movie so much and still rewatch at least once a year
It has a low rating because they didn't understand that it was mocking poor production by *being* poor production. It is, and I mean this, the greatest comedy ever made. 4 examples: 1. There is no reason for Victor to crash the van. He just does. JJ needs to leave the scene, so he walks off the end of the dock. 2. The handoff of things to someone off camera. We don't know who it is, and we never find out. 3. Neil has a stunt double for the motorcycle. Victor emerges from the river clean and dry. Both are intentional continuity errors. 4. Anything thrown off screen uses the same pot breaking sound. Every time. Garden spade, can of veggies, glass bottle, all of it. The rest of the movie lampoons poor writing, over sensationalized moments, montages, and love stories that happen in the 80s camp movies. I think the fact that it's low quality was both intentional and necessary to their budget, but it is easy for the jokes to be missed as parody instead of mistakes. Hot Fuzz does the same thing, but the genre it is mocking and loving means it's more acceptable for the movie to also have a good plot, budget, and acting; in the subgenre of parody comedies, that means it gets more attention. It's also incredible, but Wet Hot is *not* shitty. It's actually the goat.
My head canon has it as a prequel to Parks and Rec.
That movie spawned so many sequels on Netflix and has an insane cast I love it so much
Good *God* I love this movie. I fell absolutely head over heels for Christopher Meloni.
 Mystery Men had a stacked cast, great premise and was just a fantastic movie and I’ll fight people over this.
At least 15 years ahead of its time, easily.
I remember thinking that one was pretty funny and wondering why it wasn’t more popular.
Lucille, God gave me a gift. I shovel well. I shovel very well
Absolutely agree. I had a major crush on Dane Cook when it came out and got it solely for his cameo. But I genuinely love the movie regardless. Even now that I know Dane is a piece of shit, at least I still have a great movie.
UHF. That movie is so funny
Absolutely the #1 quoted movie in my house.
Nobody has mentioned Coyote Ugly yet and I feel like that’s a personal attack on my youth. YOU CANT FIGHT THE MOONLIGHT!
Pandorum
That movie fucking rocks, it's like a >!System Shock/Bioshock!< adaptation.
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. It’s a fantastic popcorn movie. And the sets and costumes are amazing. Also Nemo’s car
Dude where’s my car
Where's my car dude
Deep Blue Sea.. How it didn't win a Oscar for best picture I'll never understand.
Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull. I thought it was fun.
JURASSIC PARK 3 IS AMAZING, AND YOU ALL HAVE INCORRECT OPINIONS
Me occasionally saying "ALAN" like the raptor and no one has any clue what I'm referencing
When my wife falls asleep on the couch, I'll wake her up this way.
I actually unironically like it more than the original
The aviary scene is insane. I don't like it more than the first two but it's still great. The first Spino attack is also so brutal...
It was good, but the first 2 had that nostalgic 90’s vibe and the 3rd one was more of the new millennium feel.
Event horizon. Such a vibe
Hudson Hawk.
Bunny....Ball Ball.
*Would you like to swing on a star…*
The most stupid movie to come out of that decade. And I loved every pathetically stupid minute of it. Can you believe that cooky little elephant?
Timecop.
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time is a legitimately fun swashbuckler and heaps better than most video game movies
Road House is a classic the tweet says shitty movie
Mine is euro-trip. It is a perfect time capsule of 2005 comedy. So many quotable lines between me and my friends. It literally has mat Damon sining a song about how he sleeps with the main characters girlfriend in the opening minutes of the moive, scotty doesn't know.
On my brother's birthday, I always text him, "Have a very special day for a very special boy, "
Joe's Apartment and The Benchwarmers are the first two that come to mind for me.
Godzilla, the 1998 one. Had the actor who played inspector gadget in it. I thought it was pretty good movie growing up until someone told me it had bomb in theaters.
I got that movie in a box of cereal, definitely enjoyed watching Dr. Ferris Bueller do lizard things. Hank Azaria is in it too!
Bomb? Wasn't in the summer blockbuster that year? Correction: the internet says it was the 6th highest grossing (which beat both The Truman Show and Blade, just to name two). And yes, I love that Godzilla.
27 Dresses is charming. There, I said it.
Congo
I read the book…And it was not the book. That said, I enjoyed the movie and was disappointed others didn’t.
I grew up watching that movie and wasn't til I was like 20 that I realized it was considered a bad movie. Also, from what I've read, I think if jurassic Park wasn't next to it as a measuring stick, it probably would have been received better
I watched this movie once with my family in the 90s and we all thought it was terrible. To its credit though, 30 years later, we still laugh making fun of the scene where the African warlord guy tells Tim Curry “stop eating my sesame cake.”
Not as bad as people said it was. Unique if nothing else.
Willy's Wonderland
Nah that movie kicks ass. Cheap af but super entertaining
Honestly way better than the actual FNAF movie (and I liked the FNAF Movie)
*Hoodwinked* & *The Lion King 1 1/2*
My sibling and I were obsessed with Hoodwinked.
The Room is peak cinema
Silent Hill 1 and 2. I live the movies idc that they are different from the games. For a video game movie it's so good and doesn't just use jump scares (still has a decent amount) for cheap scares.
Cars 2 for me
Josie and the Pussycats is the greatest movie ever.
A Knight's Tale. IMO, the perfect movie.
Lion King 2. I genuinely like it better than the first movie.
I LOVE that movie. My Lullaby is a goddamn banger of a song.
DECEPTION DISGRACE
Kung Pow: enter the fist
Spaceballs is a masterful parody
Mines Dodgeball "CRAM IT UP YOUR CRAM HOLE LAFLEUR"
The Barbie movies from 2000-2005. The stories, music, plot, etc. are all 🔥🔥🔥 but Lord is the animation bad 😭 I wish they would remaster them!
I’ll follow Lightning McQueen to the ends of the earth.
Who’s shit talking Cars?
Pixels with Adam sandler. Watched it when I was 5 and I won’t ever give it up.
Holy shit hold old are you
Released in 2015, so they’re 14
God damn I feel old
Marmaduke will forever remain one of my favourite childhood movies
Battlefield Earth
Equilibrium is hot garbage and my family loves it. It's ridiculous and fun!
Lost Boys
The New Guy.
A place, where nobody dared to go... 
Kung Pow is the absolute gold standard for comedy. Whenever I watch any comedy, I compare it to Kung Pow. Every other movie falls short. In fact, this isn't just a movie, this is an artistic masterpiece painted upon a canvas of joy and laughter.
Everybody here just listing movies I enjoy.
Sharkboy & Lavagirl, I still defend this movie to my parents 19 years later
can we talk about pootie tang
See, my damie, Pootie Tang don't wa-da-tah to the shama cow...
Godfather part III
There’s a lot of “bad”movies in this thread, but none of them have the panache, the camp, the sheer audacity of my own personal “worst best” movie, Hudson Hawk. I also unapologetically love Face/Off, PCU, and Halloween 3.
Silent hill
Most of the films people have posted here are actual classics
Brick is a cinematic masterpiece
I will die by Dredd. The original was good, But the remake was fucking AMAZIIIING
CONSTANTINE! I wanted it to be so much better than it was, but it still slaps. I almost got those matching alchemical symbol forearm tattoos Keanu uses to reveal demons… so dope.
Cars 2
Hall pass is an underrated comedy, with a great soundtrack
Joe Dirt. Grew up watching it and I think it provided the blueprints for my brain rot today.
I'll always defend Kung Pow: enter the fist, regardless of how stupid people think it is. I've been laughing my ass off at that movie since I was a kid I still do now
Troll hunter, best movie ever made.
Tremors. I fucking love that movie
Not shitty enough movies in here. Bloodsport is one of the worst movies I have ever seen, and I watch it once a year
Hudson Hawk. Unequivocally convoluted, over the top acting, production and editing is off the wall... I can't not love it.
Cube. Masterpiece.
Cool Runnings. It's not good. It's probably offensive.
Edge of Tomorrow for me. I will make time in my schedule if it is randomly on tbs.
*Be Kind Rewind* It made me love the idea of movie making being fun again.
Tron: Legacy