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00:00Sometimes movies get a bad reputation. Even if you haven't seen them, you know that there's some
00:04that just blow. The Wicker Man remake is embarrassing, The Godfather Part 3 sucks,
00:09and Batman and Robin ruined cinema, to name but a few. However, for as fun as it is to dunk on bad
00:16movies, not all of them deserve the reputations they've garnered. So with that in mind, I'm
00:20Josh from WhatCulture.com and these are 10 terrible films that are actually awesome.
00:24Number 10, White House Down. Okay, here's the pitch. It's Die Hard, but in the White House,
00:30with Channing Tatum taking out the villains that are threatening his daughter. Now, here's the
00:36problem with this movie. White House Down opened three months after Olympus Has Fallen, which pretty
00:42much told the same story, only with more cliches and worse CGI. Lack of originality aside though,
00:48White House Down has all the big bucks action sequences that you'd expect from this sort of
00:53thing. And it's sheer joy as no-think escapism leaves Olympus Has Fallen choking on its dust.
00:59Put simply, if you want to see a car smash through the wall of the Oval Office and President Jamie Foxx
01:04take on his enemies with a rocket launcher, well, you need to see this movie. Further fun is provided
01:09by a car chase on the White House lawn with helicopter gunships and machine guns and whatnot.
01:14And if you still need convincing about the film's merits, just try sitting through a double bill of
01:19Olympus Has Fallen and London Has Fallen back to back. Yeah, I know there's more than those two
01:24movies, but even I wouldn't want to put you through three of them. Number nine, Spider-Man 3.
01:30Okay, here we go. Spider-Man 3 owns. And I'm not just saying that because there's currently a Sam
01:36Raimi vs. Loving since No Way Home came out. No, Spider-Man 3 has owned since 2007. Now let's get
01:42some things out of the way. Is it as good as the first two installments that preceded it? No. Does it have
01:48its problems? Absolutely. Is it a bad movie though? Hell no, it isn't. Yes, the film is overstuffed,
01:55the Uncle Ben retcon sucks, and Venom is done dirty, but there's so much to love surrounding
02:00those pitfalls. Raimi's movies always put the focus first and foremost on the interpersonal drama
02:05of the characters, and that shines through in this sequel still. The breakup of Peter and Mary Jane's
02:10relationship is handled really well, as is Peter's spiral caused by his own arrogance. Also, it's just
02:16really, really funny. Peter's black suit antics are funny. The dancing in the street is funny.
02:23Bruce Campbell's over-eager waiter is really, really funny. On the other hand, the action is
02:29well handled, with Raimi's passion still being there for that. The final fight in particular
02:33is gnarly as hell, and directed with such gusto. With all of this in mind, for this to be lumped in
02:39with the worst superhero films of all time, is an absolute crime.
02:43Number eight, Legion. Legion casts Paul Bettany as a machine-gun-wielding archangel who arrives at a
02:49truck stop in the Mojave Desert to protect Waitress Charlie, who's about to give birth to the future
02:54saviour of mankind. The forces of evil are also present and manifest themselves as potty-mouthed
02:59old ladies who can spider-walk across ceilings or zombies that can only be stopped by heavy artillery.
03:05It sounds awesome, right? Like a real slam-bang supernatural thriller that just wants to give
03:10you a good time. Well, it absolutely is, though not quite as good as Constantine, which released
03:15in the same era. That's another movie that gets labelled as terrible, by the way, that's also
03:19canny good, so you can have that one as an extra. Legion, though, is dumb fun, and not to be one of
03:24those Noel Gallagher types who screams that they don't make them how they used to, but it's even better
03:29in hindsight knowing that a movie like this probably would never get a budget like this now. Plus,
03:35it's simply difficult to dislike a movie where Paul Bettany leads Tyrese Gibson and Dennis Quaid
03:39in a heavily armed assault against zombies dressed as ice cream vendors.
03:44Number 7, See No Evil. All a slasher movie really asks is that you get on its wavelength to enjoy
03:50it for what it is. Although, given alcohol's mysterious ability to lower expectations, being good
03:55and loaded for these probably doesn't hurt either. Backed by WWE as a vehicle for teacher-turned-grappler
04:01Kane, real name Glenn Jacobs, See No Evil casts the 6ft 10 behemoth as Jacob Goodnight, one of
04:08those unstoppable killing machines with mommy issues. He just so happens to be holed up in
04:12the Blackwell Hotel, when a bunch of people are sent there on a cleaning assignment, but
04:16if you think this is a regular hotel without secret passageways and one-way glass, well,
04:21you're sadly mistaken. Is it going to completely blow your mind? Absolutely not. Is it going to fill
04:26a void in your life when it gets to 2am and you're looking for something to do? Well, it might do just
04:31that. Number 6, Transporter 3. When Transporter 3 arrived in cinemas, the response was expectedly
04:38harsh. In fact, The Hollywood Reporter called it a nonsensical chopperly edited bore. But if you need
04:44reassuring as to just how awesome this movie is, just watch the Transporter refueled instead. Put simply,
04:50when you combine Corey Young's fight choreography with Jason Statham's general badass charisma,
04:55you're really onto something special. And this sequel has a shot at being the most demented
04:59entry in the franchise to boot. Wearing a bracelet that will explode if he gets more than 75 feet away
05:05from his car, Statham's character has to travel across Europe to deliver a package, and in the
05:09process gets involved in the usual martial arts standoffs and car chases. The standout is the
05:15climactic sequence shot in real time without models and CGI, where Statham drives his car onto a
05:20moving train in order to catch villain Robert Knepper. Both actors seem to be having a whale of a time,
05:25relishing playing off each other, and you'll have fun watching them to boot.
05:29Number 5, Barb Wire. If there's one type of film that Hollywood does well, it's the straight-to-video
05:34action movie Rit Larch. Take a Z-grade script, give it a studio budget, and hey, presto, you've got
05:40yourself a cult classic in the making. With Pamela Anderson in the lead, Barb Wire unfathomably rips
05:46off the plot of Casablanca, with Pam in the Humphrey Bogart role as the nightclub owner who attempts to
05:52help an old flame escape the country. I mean, I could probably just stop right there, right? That's
05:57surely enough of a pull. Well, if it's not, though it was panned on release, the flick did have some
06:02supporters. Hell, Roger Ebert even conceded that the movie, quote, has a high energy level and a sense
06:08of deranged fun. And deranged fun is exactly what it is. Taking its visual cues from previous comic
06:14book adaptations like The Crow, Barb Wire knows it's B-grade material and never attempts to take
06:19itself too seriously. It promises trash and oh boy does it deliver trash. And hey, what's not to like
06:25about that? Number 4, Resident Evil Afterlife. Returning to the director's chair for the first
06:31time since the original, Paul W.S. Anderson opens Resident Evil Afterlife with one of the most outrageous
06:36action scenes in the series. With hundreds of clones of hero Alice attacking Umbrella HQ, before bad guy
06:42Albert Wesker detonates a bomb that destroys everything in sight. It might be the peak of the
06:48whole thing, but the rest of the film isn't bad either. In fact, there's more madness in Star along
06:53the way, including mind control devices, a reanimated Wesker with glowing red eyes, who's been eating
06:59test subjects, and an encounter with a giant axe-wielding monster. With Anderson at the helm, the action has
07:04more snap to it than its predecessors, and he lets nothing get in the way of giving the audience a good
07:09time. And that's ultimately what all of these movies are, a good time. Even as a hardcore fan of the games
07:15myself, I have to appreciate just how much Anderson commits to doing his own thing. Even if his own thing was
07:22pretty insane. Number 3, Speed Racer. For better or worse, the Wachowskis have always made movies for
07:28themselves. Though they received huge mainstream success with The Matrix, the sisters have since used that as a
07:33jumping off point to create huge blockbusters with distinct identities. And that exact element has
07:39allowed Speed Racer, one of their most criticized projects, to shine so many years later. See, the
07:44Wachowskis have always worn their anime influence on their sleeves, and that made them the perfect
07:49candidates for this adaptation. The phrase, it's like a comic book movie come to life, always gets
07:54thrown around willy-nilly these days, but here that assessment is true. Speed Racer has such a sense of
08:00style, brightness and levity, that sadly marked it out as being too goofy in an era where the Dark
08:05Knight was just about to change blockbusters forever. Speed Racer though is more accessible
08:10than ever in the 2020s, and it absolutely is worth a look. Number 2, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 4,
08:16The Next Generation. So many of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre movies have been trashed over the years,
08:22but the one that's universally hated is the Renee Zellweger and Matthew McConaughey starring fourth
08:27movie. This thing has been criticized to death, to the point where I went into it with dangerously
08:33low expectations. Which is why it was such a surprise to realize that this movie is actually
08:38kind of awesome. In a way, it's a knowing retread of the original, pitching in-universe that the
08:43Texas Chainsaw story, you know, a family terrorizing a young woman in their house, is some kind of
08:49cyclical ritual that plays out constantly. It's a weird meta-angle that eventually goes off the rails
08:54towards the end, implying that shady supernatural businessmen have been controlling the family the
08:59whole time. But before we get there, we do get to enjoy one of Matthew McConaughey's best
09:04performances, and I'm deadly serious when I say that. He is absolutely committed to making this
09:09character as nasty and brutish as he can. He totally goes for it and it works, creating a genuinely
09:16threatening aura and making for the franchise's best villain outside of Leatherface. It obviously has
09:22issues, it is panned for a reason, but there is a surprising amount to like in here, especially
09:27considering just how safe the other installments in this series played it. Number 1, Fast and Furious
09:33Tokyo Drift. The Fast and Furious franchise is now one of the biggest in cinema history, but for a
09:38while it looked like it was dead in the water before it really even had a chance to shine. After two
09:43middling installments, the series continued with Tokyo Drift, a spin-off that lacked any of the original
09:48stars. One of the lowest rated flicks in the whole franchise, this effort is often written off as the
09:53one movie that doesn't belong. The thing is though, Tokyo Drift, in one sense, is actually the movie that
09:59saved the franchise, not nearly ended it. And that's because it was directed by none other than
10:04Justin Lin. Lin, as you may know, is instrumental to the success of the franchise in the long term,
10:10being the man who fully clicked with the material and directed 3, 4, 5 and 6, and is set to return for
10:15the upcoming two-part finale. He brought this franchise back from the brink, and his talents are
10:20entirely on show in this maligned third flick. Seriously, if you're a fan of these movies, Tokyo Drift
10:27shouldn't be ignored. Not only do we get so much of a hand, but if you're like 4, 5 and 6, well, this is
10:32almost on the exact same wavelength. So, that's our list. I want to know what you guys think down in the
10:38comments below. What do you think about these movies? And am I talking just complete gibberish? Have I lost
10:43my mind? I don't know, let me know. And while you're down there as well, can you please give us a like,
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10:50day. Even if you don't, though, I've been Josh. Thanks so much for watching, and I'll see you soon.
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