“I'm fuzzy on the whole good/bad thing. What do you mean, "bad"?”
—Dr. Peter Venkman (Bill Murray) in Ghostbusters
“East, West…Mere points of the compass…”
—Dr. No (Joseph Wiseman) in Dr. No
You ask me, honey
What it was all about
Ya even asked me where the light went
When it went out
I'm B-A-D
I'm bad
Don't mess with me
—Bo Diddley, “I’m Bad”
LERNER INTERNATIONAL was lucky enough to be given the
chance to contribute to the very popular, and highly recommended guest-blogger “Bad Movies I Love” series at the excellent film site Rupert Pupkin Speaks.
Of course, “Bad” in this sense means “What other
people, blinded by their own lack of imagination, consider bad.”
At Rupert Pupkin Speaks, my list of “Bad Movies I Love”
includes
Will Ferrell’s Land of the Lost (2009),
The Island (1980),
directed by Michael Ritchie
Johnny Knoxville’s The Ringer (2005),
The Legend of Lylah Clare (1968) directed by Robert
Aldrich
John Waters’ A Dirty Shame (2004)
and
Zardoz (1974), directed by John Boorman—BTW, I forgot
to mention in my commentary that Zardoz’s
Big Stone Head and the Exterminator Masks (pictured above and below) were based
on director Boorman’s own face! Groovy!
Meanwhile, in the wake of writing up my “Bad Movies I
Love,” I kept coming up with more and more films that I was kicking myself
really hard for forgetting to include—mainly because I never think of films I
like as genuinely bad.
One film like this is Apollo 18 (already thoroughly commented about HERE), and two others are 2002’s Scooby Doo, and 1967’s Hurry,
Sundown.
