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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
00:15bad movies, not all of them deserve the reputations they've garnered. So with that in mind,
00:20I'm Josh 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
00:41much told the same story, only with more cliches and worse CGI. Lack of originality aside though,
00:48White House Down has all the big books 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
01:35Raimi vs. Loving since No Way Home came out. No, Spider-Man 3 has owned since 2007. Now let's get some
01:43things 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,
02:16it's just really, really funny. Peter's black suit antics are funny. The dancing in the street
02:22is funny. Bruce Campbell's over-eager waiter is really, really funny. On the other hand,
02:28the action is well handled, with Raimi's passion still being there for that. The final fight in
02:33particular is gnarly as hell, and directed with such gusto. With all of this in mind,
02:38for this to be lumped in with 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
02:54savior 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,
03:15which released in the same era. That's another movie that gets labelled as terrible,
03:18by the way, that's also kind of good, so you can have that one as an extra.
03:22Legion, though, is dumb fun, and not to be one of those Noel Gallagher types who screams that they
03:27don't make them how they used to, but it's even better in hindsight knowing that a movie like this
03:31probably would never get a budget like this now. Plus, it's simply difficult to dislike a movie
03:36where Paul Bettany leads Tyrese Gibson and Dennis Quaid in a heavily armed assault against zombies
03:41dressed as ice cream vendors. Number seven, see no evil. All a slasher movie really asks is that you
03:48get on its wavelength to enjoy it for what it is. Although, given alcohol's mysterious ability to
03:54lower expectations, being good and loaded for these probably doesn't hurt either. Backed by WWE as a
04:00vehicle for teacher-turned-grappler-cane, real name Glenn Jacobs, see no evil cast the six-foot-ten
04:05behemoth as Jacob Goodnight, one of those unstoppable killing machines with mommy issues. He just so
04:11happens to be holed up in the Blackwell Hotel, when a bunch of people are sent there on a cleaning
04:15assignment, but if you think this is a regular hotel without secret passageways and one-way glass,
04:21well, you'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 six, Transporter 3. When Transporter 3 arrived in cinemas, the response was expectedly
04:38harsh. In fact, the Hollywood Reporter called it a nonsensical choppily 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,
04:54you really leap onto something special. And this sequel has a shot at being the most demented entry
05:00in the franchise to boot. Wearing a bracelet that will explode if he gets more than 75 feet away from
05:05his car, Statham's character has to travel across Europe to deliver a package, and in the process gets
05:10involved in the usual martial arts standoffs and car chases. The standout is the climactic sequence shot
05:16in real time without models and CGI, where Statham drives his car onto a moving train in order to catch
05:21villain Robert Knepper. Both actors seem to be having a whale of a time, relishing playing off
05:26each other, and you'll have fun watching them to boot. Number five, Barb Wire. If there's one type
05:31of film that Hollywood does well, it's the straight-to-video action movie Rit Larch. Take a
05:36Z-grade script, give it a studio budget, and hey, presto, you've got yourself a cult classic in the
05:41making. With Pamela Anderson in the lead, Barb Wire unfathomably rips off the plot of Casablanca,
05:48with Pam in the Humphrey Bogart role as the nightclub owner who attempts to help an old flame
05:52escape the country. I mean, I could probably just stop right there, right? That's surely
05:57enough of a pulp. 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
06:07sense of deranged fun. And deranged fun is exactly what it is. Taking its visual cues from previous
06:14comic book adaptations like The Crow, Barb Wire knows it's B-grade material and never attempts
06:19to take itself too seriously. It promises trash and oh boy does it deliver trash. And hey, what's
06:25not to like about that? Number four, Resident Evil Afterlife. Returning to the director's chair for
06:30the first time since the original, Paul W.S. Anderson opens Resident Evil Afterlife with one of the most
06:35outrageous action scenes in the series. With hundreds of clones of hero Alice attacking Umbrella
06:41HQ before bad guy Albert Wesker detonates a bomb that destroys everything in sight. It might be the
06:47peak of the whole thing, but the rest of the film isn't bad either. In fact, there's more madness in
06:52Star along the way, including mind control devices, a reanimated Wesker with glowing red eyes, who's been
06:58eating test subjects, and an encounter with a giant axe-wielding monster. With Anderson at the helm,
07:04the action has more snap to it than its predecessors, and he lets nothing get in the way of giving the
07:09audience a good time. And that's ultimately what all of these movies are, a good time. Even as a
07:14hardcore fan of the games myself, I have to appreciate just how much Anderson commits to
07:19doing his own thing, even if his own thing was pretty insane. Number three, Speed Racer. For better
07:25or worse, the Wachowskis have always made movies for themselves. Though they received huge mainstream
07:30success with The Matrix, the sisters have since used that as a jumping off point to create huge
07:35blockbusters with distinct identities. And that exact element has allowed Speed Racer,
07:40one of their most criticized projects, to shine so many years later. See, the Wachowskis have always
07:45worn their anime influence on their sleeves, and that made them the perfect candidates for this
07:50adaptation. The phrase, it's like a comic book movie come to life, always gets thrown around
07:55willy nilly these days, but here that assessment is true. Speed Racer has such a sense of style,
08:01brightness and levity, that sadly marked it out as being too goofy in an era where the Dark Knight
08:06was just about to change blockbusters forever. Speed Racer though is more accessible than ever
08:10in the 2020s, and it absolutely is worth a look. Number two, 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 movie.
08:27This thing has been criticized to death, to the point where I went into it with dangerously low
08:33expectations. Which is why it was such a surprise to realize that this movie is actually kinda awesome.
08:39In a way, it's a knowing retread of the original, pitching in-universe that the Texas Chainsaw
08:44story, you know, a family terrorizing a young woman in their house, is some kind of cyclical ritual
08:50that plays out constantly. It's a weird meta-angle that eventually goes off the rails towards the end,
08:55implying that shady supernatural businessmen have been controlling the family the whole time.
09:00But before we get there, we do get to enjoy one of Matthew McConaughey's best performances,
09:05and I'm deadly serious when I say that. He is absolutely committed to making this character
09:10as 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
09:21has issues, it is panned for a reason, but there is a surprising amount to like in here,
09:26especially considering just how safe the other installments in this series played it.
09:31Number 1. Fast and Furious Tokyo Drift
09:34The Fast and Furious franchise is now one of the biggest in cinema history, but for a while it
09:38looked 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
09:48original stars. One of the lowest rated flicks in the whole franchise, this effort is often written
09:53off as the one movie that doesn't belong. The thing is though, Tokyo Drift, in one sense,
09:58is actually the movie that saved the franchise, not nearly ended it. And that's because it was
10:03directed by none other than Justin Lin. Lin, as you may know, is instrumental to the success of the
10:08franchise in the long term, being the man who fully clicked with the material and directed 3, 4,
10:135, and 6, and is set to return for the upcoming two-part finale. He brought this franchise back
10:19from the brink, and his talents are entirely on show in this maligned third flick. Seriously,
10:24if you're a fan of these movies, Tokyo Drift shouldn't be ignored. Not only do we get so much
10:29of a hand, but if you're like 4, 5, and 6, well, this is almost on the exact same wavelength.
10:35So that's our list. I want to know what you guys think down in the comments below. What do you think
10:39about these movies? And am I talking just complete gibberish? Have I lost my mind? I don't know,
10:44let me know. And while you're down there as well, could you please give us a like, share,
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10:51Even if you don't though, I've been Josh. Thanks so much for watching, and I'll see you soon.
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