Unironcally Good B-movies
#1
A lot of my enjoyment from mst3k/rifftrax is when i actually do indeed LIKE the movie they're on.
so i like watching it and hearing the riffs, liking both simultaneously.

Stone Cold comes to mind, that was a standard cop movie for its time, good helicopter stunts (suck it Blue Thunder) ... 
Future forces, Deadly prey .... this is the stuff i grew up on renting VHS tapes from the mom&pop video store ... 
then the early 90s direct to video movies like Cyber Tracker, kung fu movies with Cynthia Rothrock etc

ah, nostalgia...

Please post your favorite unironically good/bads Smile
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#2
[Edited: Totally misunderstood the question!]

Boggy Creek 2 tops my list. The seriousness it takes itself makes it all that much funnier.
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#3
I really like R.O.T.O.R and like the end song..

But I can't take most of MST2k's films seriously..
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#4
LOVE Stone Cold!! Now if only they'd do another chesserific film from that era: Cobra, with Stallone.
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#5
(Jul 12, 2021, 02:06 am)knowMATTER Wrote: LOVE Stone Cold!! Now if only they'd do another chesserific film from that era: Cobra, with Stallone.

I love Cobra, and my fave bit of Cobra trivia is that it was based on an early Beverly Hills Cop script.
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#6
I've always loved Black Gestapo. In between the nudity and vigilante violence there's a genuinely compelling story about power corrupting. If I was somehow given free reign to remake one film, I'd pick that one.
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#7
Quatermass and the Pit.
Not sure if it counts, since it's a classic, but it is such a B movie that it's a C movie. If you've never had a chance to see it, it's a great Lovecraft-tinged story about ancient cosmic horror. The effects are so bad, but the story is one of the best ever told in the genre, and it co-stars General Veers himself, Julian Glover.
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#8
(Jul 12, 2021, 11:27 am)JetJaguar73 Wrote: Quatermass and the Pit.
Not sure if it counts, since it's a classic, but it is such a B movie that it's a C movie. If you've never had a chance to see it, it's a great Lovecraft-tinged story about ancient cosmic horror.  The effects are so bad, but the story is one of the best ever told in the genre, and it co-stars General Veers himself, Julian Glover.

It is a classic, with a solid denouement. I do prefer the original 1958 TV mini-series version, but only just. Nigel Kneale was a hell of a creator. Shame he hated Dr Who and Blake's 7 so much that he turned down offers to write for them. Still, they took shots backby ripping him off a lot lol
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#9
supposedly Vice Squad (1982, Wings Hauser plays the villain) is pretty good for a b-movie, but I've only seen the first 30 minutes so I don't know if I should recommend...

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#10
Signed on anything with Cynthia Rothrock. Yes, including the Santa Claus one, which I think is adorable.
I saw "Contamination" at a horror film festival and the audience loved it. Lots of great silly gore scenes and a likeable cast.
In the non-RT'd pantheon, I love "Panic Beats," "Suffer Little Children," and a host of others.
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