Worst Movies And TV Shows That You Still Love...

[SteyrAUG]

It's no secret I am a fan of movies and old tv shows. This includes B movies, schlock films from the 60s and 70s and all kinds of MST3K fodder. But there are some even I never expected to develop a fondness for.

1. The Greatest American Hero (1981-1983) - Part of this is of course nostalgia, this was a fun show when I was a young teen. The theme "Believe it or not" is possibly one of the greatest earbugs known to man, becoming even more popular than the show itself. The goofball schoolteacher turned superhero in training appealed to the geeky kid in all of us. Connie Sellecca was pretty hot too. Been watching this one on DVD lately and it's still fun, only the music for montage elements of each show are hard to take, it's really awful country music made for TV with extra cheese.

2. Grease (1978) - I got drug to this one as a kid by my parents when it first came out. I suffered through an "old people" film at the time even though I thought the main theme was pretty cool. I actually bought the soundtrack on cassette tape and the summer of 78 when I built a tree house out of wooden pallets my friends and I did the construction to Grease by Frankie Valli. A few years later when this became a cable TV regular I became a fan due to a newfound interest in Olivia Newton John and Dinah Manoff. And while she was a bit old to play a high school kid, Stockard Channing singing "There are worse things I could do" would hardly have been the worst thing I could have done.

Again, saw it recently and while some of it is truly cringeworthy I'm still a fan of Olivia Newton John and Dinah Manoff in this movie and Channing singing "There are worse things I could do" still isn't so terrible.

Those are the worst two I can think of at the moment.

[ramairthree]

Bubba Hotep
A F'in masterpiece of genius mistaken for a horrible, no budget C film people don't want to finished because they think it is so bad.

Man From Atlantis
I really like that show, along with Six Million Dollar Man, The Incredible Hulk, Wonder Woman, Knight Rider, and a ton of the horribly written ridiculous plot, etc. Shows from my childhood.

[docsherm]

1. The Greatest American Hero (1981-1983) - Part of this is of course nostalgia, this was a fun show when I was a young teen. The theme "Believe it or not" is possibly one of the greatest earbugs known to man, becoming even more popular than the show itself. The goofball schoolteacher turned superhero in training appealed to the geeky kid in all of us. Connie Sellecca was pretty hot too. Been watching this one on DVD lately and it's still fun, only the music for montage elements of each show are hard to take, it's really awful country music made for TV with extra cheese.

I loved that show and remember that it was so funny when I was a kid. The fact that he lost the instructions and could never really figure out how to fly was great.

[wildcard600]

Bubba Hotep
A F'in masterpiece of genius mistaken for a horrible, no budget C film people don't want to finished because they think it is so bad.

Bubba Ho-tep is brilliant and dare I say, Campbell's best role. Ossie Davis really shines as Jack Kennedy as well. Great film.

[flenna]

I loved that show and remember that it was so funny when I was a kid. The fact that he lost the instructions and could never really figure out how to fly was great.

That was a great show, one of my all time favorites. And remember Robert Culp's overuse of the word "scenario"?

[Arik]

Only in reruns but I remember the show Spiderman from the 70s....or maybe it was early 80s.

There was Batman of course

Sledge Hammer. Like a funny Dirty Harry





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[Kain]

Doom. I think most people hated it, but I enjoyed it. Granted I went in expecting a total suck fest, which probably helped. Oh, and I never played the games. lol.

[SteyrAUG]

That was a great show, one of my all time favorites. And remember Robert Culp's overuse of the word "scenario"?

Some great 80s gun porn in that show as well, especially Maxwell's use of early model Colt Automatics in some episodes.

[uffdaphil]

From an older perspective-- I still love the early '30s B westerns with no musical soundtrack. Lots of hoofbeats, stare downs and snap shooting six guns. The Painted Desert (1931) is a prime example. Pre Hopalong Wm. Boyd and Clark Gable's first speaking role Plus a couple of veteran silent stars who were top box office a decade earlier. Pure slow hokum compared to todays bloated action flicks, but well worth savoring if you have any attention span remaining.

[Dennis]

Even back when I was a kid watching Greatest American Hero I loved the opening clip where Robert Culp goes to his ankle Commander and returns fire.

OK just watched it and it was a full size 1911 from a seated ground position but still cool and he was rocking an AR180 in the closing credits!

Dennis.