Get John Milius to write something - anything will do - and set it in Mexico. Then cast Nick Nolte and Powers Boothe in it. For support, bring in Rip Torn and Maria Conchita Alonso. A big Jerry Goldsmith score will do nicely. And to direct, just call Walter Hill.

What can possibly go wrong? Well, nobody going to see it for starters, plus steenking reviews all round (except for Roger Ebert, who was savvy enough to spot he was watching the future of action films 15-20 years ahead of time).

It's brash. It's bloody. It's basic. It revels unapologetically in every tequila-soaked excess. And it's one of my favourite sit-back-and-eat-your-pizza films ever.

A masterpiece AND you get Dennis Wilson and James Taylor into the bargain. I love it to bits.

Car porn, what's not to like.

Macca's (so bad it's kinda good...ish) Give My Regards to Broadstreet but I don't think anyone has a kind word to say about the Sgt Pepper film..or do they??? Managed to sit through it all once and wanted to maim Peter Frampton.

On a completely different matter....is there anyone out there who like me believes that Beckton Dumps by Humble Pie is the best song ever recorded ever by anyone....ever???

Fascist future earthlings played by crappy soap actors (and Michael Ironside and The Kurgon from Highlander) fighting giant bugs from another planet. Denise Richards as an ace pilot. So wrong it's right.

Howard. The. Duck

Not surprised it bombed at the box office, but its loadsa fun. and Lea Thompson is sweet beyond belief. Just think, if it hadn't tanked Lucas might not have disappeared into his shell and we may not have had the Star Wars prequels. Bah.

One of the darkest books I've read begets one of the funniest films I've seen.

Probably not much maligned, but I could watch it again and again and again.

See also: Ghost, any John Hughes film like Weird Science, St Elmo's Fire or The Sure Thing and anything else that takes me back to a more simple time in my life.

I have a strong affection for this fella's offerings despite the dreadful reviews. Unbreakable had a great comic-book sensibility, and both Bruce Willis and Samuel Jackson were excellent. I really enjoyed The Village, though all and sundry told me I was wrong: I thought it was proper, old-fashioned storytelling; I suspect the twist disappointed many but I would argue that the twist wasn't really the point to this film. I even enjoyed The Happening, though I must admit I was watching it on a plane and everyone knows one's critical faculties are reduce exponentially the higher one goes. Yes, it featured Mark Wahlberg fighting flowers, but there were some genuninely creepy scenes of mass suicide too.

I think what I like most is his ideas, even if they aren't always successfully translated to screen. Mind you I've not seen The Lady in the Water or Last Airbender, both of which sound dreadful, so it could be the end of the ffair for me.

and I enjoyed the Garfield movie. I think I was recovering from surgery or something. Yes, that's it.

Always slated as the worst of the big baseball movies (after Field Of Dreams & Bull Durham), ravaged for its superobvious symbolism, for Redford's semi-cypher performance, and for changing the ending of the book, me, I think it's absolutely wonderful, has me in bits every time, perhaps I'm just easily manipulated.

I also never quite get what everyone has against "Indiana Jones & The Temple Of Doom".

Seconded from above: Halloween 3, Starship Troopers and Howard The Duck, though the latter could have done with a lot more of the comics' cynicism... great monster, though.

No controversy here, of course - he has plenty of fans these days. But his films fit the bill - rightly maligned for the rubbish that they are, but fun nevertheless. Plan 9 from Outer Space is the pick of the bunch; the DVD has a documentary that's a good half-hour longer than the movie itself.

Affable little comedy with Jeff Goldblum and Emma Thompson which the critics absolutely hated. I think it's quite charming. And has a very funny sex scene.

It's got Brad Pitt speaking in unintelligible 'pikey'.

It's got Vinnie Jones.

It's got Bricktop.

It's got a dog with a squeaky toy in it.

It was directed by Guy Richie.

And despite all that - it's ace.

was on the telly one night and I must've just been in the right mood for a bit of hokum.
It fit the bill perfectly.

Whenever there is a list of the greatest comedy films of all time, this gem made in 1960 never gets a mention. It boasts the greatest ever turn by Terry-Thomas as the ultimate cad Raymond Delauney and a great cast including Ian Carmichael and the peerless Alistair Sim. The scenes with TT and Carmichael duelling for the affections of love interest April Smith are some of the funniest in screen history. Fact!

Most people who have seen it are not impressed - I thought it was pretty good.

steven seagal film. All the acting ability of a wardrobe, but, hey.. Oh, and 'Under Siege' had Elena Eliak without a vest on. What's not to like?

kung fu

that perennial Massive favourite.......

MOULIN ROUGE!

I'm not ashamed to say I love it, for its gaudy campiness, brilliantly adapted soundtrack and sheer joie de vivre.

Cue the haters....

Patrich Swayze as a surfing dude (Zen) master criminal, Keanu Reeve as a FBI agent who is so dedicated to catching his man he will jump out of a plane without a parachute.... [ridiculous]2 and [absurd]3, but bloody great viewing with a beer on a Friday night.

I'll go for a few comedy films.

The 'TV spin off' always gets a tough time in The Radio Times but 'Dad's Army', 'The Likely Lads' and 'Porridge' are every bit as good as the programmes they came from.
Also, Tony Hancock's two films, 'The Rebel' and 'The Punch & Judy Man', are much better than many reviews will have you believe.

And 'Carry On Sergeant', 'Carry On Spying' and 'Carry On Screaming'!

Oh, and despite Lazenby, 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service' is from the 60s, has the best score of any of the James Bond films, the best 'hide out' (the Alps) and Diana Rigg.

Andrew Dice Clay

The Carry On series is a national treasure and should be included in the National Curriculum.

British Gangster films, whilst often maligned, aren't that bad:
Love, Honour & Obey
Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels
Snatch
Long Good Friday
there is obviously more than 4 - avoid anything with Danny Dyer though, except possibly 'The Football Factory'

Also worthy of mention:
ID
The Firm
Scum
The Sweeney
Slade In Flame (although this one has been recently "critically re-appraised")

As perhaps befits a movie dealing with memory and confusion and repetition, I'm pretty sure I've talked about this movie here before...

I love it. One of those films where I can SEE why people hate it, and I can see it's self-indulgent (in fact, self-indulgency is kind of the whole theme), but something about it just moves me immensely. I've never seen another film which captures so well the poignancy of time passing.

Great music, and contains the immortal line to Robin Askwith by a fan:
"Ere! Aren't you that Mick Jagger? You are aincha! You're making a comeback!"
The film has its knockers but that's all part of the fun.

Do The Clapham

This film was absolutely slated when it came out, but I think it's truly wonderful in pretty much every respect and it looks sumptuous - I'll take models, stop-motion and props over CGI any day.

But I actually quite enjoyed Sex Lives of the Potato Men. Made me laugh quite a lot at various points.

The fact that I love this film is because of the tight plotting and gripping action sequences - and absolutely nothing to do with Jacqueline Bisset spending pretty much the entire movie in either a bikini or a wet T-shirt. Nothing at all.

There are a lot of comedies coming up for discussion, perhaps as it's the genre that can most painfully flop in front of an audience.

I will propose the (original) 'The Nutty Professor'. Many people dismiss this because they can't stand the Jerry Lewis schtick, but I think this particular film is clever, visually inventive and very funny in the way it punctures male stereotypes of the Mad Men era. In fact, I may mix myself an Alaskan Polar Bear Eater this weekend and watch it again.

Starring Arnie and directed by James Cameron.
This is a very entertaining film.

Not sure if this was actually a maligned film but I doubt many would make a point of seeing it.
Next time it's on the telly you should watch it.

Sean Connery hated it so much, he stopped making films. Alan Moore disowned it (as usual). But I quite like it in a Hellboy kind of way.

Banderas! Hayek! Slo-mo walking away from MASSIVE explosions! Guns in guitar cases!

From the moment I saw the trailer and Banderas clicking his neck and saying 'let's play' I knew that a) this film was going to be utter tosh and b) I would bloody love it.

Is, deservedly, much maligned. But it has at least one (brief) moment that makes it worthwhile:

Darwin Mayflower: I'll kill your friends, your family, and the bitch you took to the prom!
Hudson Hawk: Betty Jo Byarski? I can get you an address on that, if you want.

The congratulatory look that (nemesis) James Coburn gives (hero) Bruce Willis? Priceless. Worth watching the whole tiresome movie for.

Ishtar? I suspect that it might be quite entertaining.

to get the Massive back up - Peter's Friends and The Tall Guy. I remember loving them. I admit that I haven't watched them in over 15 years and like a Curly Wurly they will be a big disappointment in a thirty somethings hands but they still hold a place in the section of my heart named Blockbusters.

I put it down to the fact that I a was little bit fragile in 2005.

The other one about the magic kingdom etc. with Claire Danes, Michelle Pfeiffer, De Niro.

Just good fun, bears repeated watching.

he 's alright yeah? Kno wot I mean? Lock Stock yeah? Rock n Rolla? Snatch. Even vat Sherlock Homo number - good films yeah? Alright, ver bloke is a pwopah knob yeah? And if he come down my manor I'd have to nut ver twat. Aving said that I'd still give his ol missus one Two if she asked nicely. But...yeah. He's done some good films. Anyone got a problem wiv vat - outside yeah?

Look to your soul if you slag it off.

Slighty unsavoury in places but I think I like it. Perhaps I'm just being ironic, I'll have to watch it again.

Revolution with Al Pacino.

Heavens Gate with Kris Kristoffersen.

... Anal Spunkfest" - not popular with the Massive - in fact I'm the only one who ever seems to mention it. It's up there with "Touch of Evil" for it's opening tracking shot. And how innovative is it to record the director's commentary at the same time as the actual movie? Classic.

Yes, I know, (hangs head in shame!)

That scene where Rik Mayall is in the tree with young Elizabeth and she starts to cry about how much her mum hates her and is always shouting at her and Rik's really sweet to her telling her she's the nice one and the 'mega beast' mother is the bad one. Then Rik picks his nose and rubs it on Elizabeth's jumper. It's so sweet!

"Don't move dirtbag!"

Officer Hightower, Kim Cattrall, the Blue Oyster Bar - half decent sub Blues Brothers storyline.

I just can't help laughing.

Also Footloose. Still Kevin Bacon's finest hour.

Where the series really peaked - wonderful bad taste comedy and hilarity involving ball-shaving, a dance off in a gay club, accidental sex with the elderly, dancing to Van Morrison, characters pretending to be each other, & one of the all time greatest quotes:"Voltaire can suck on my balls!"

I think it got the odd good review, but I think Kiss Kiss Bang Bang with Robert Downey Jr is fantastic and one of those films I could pretty much watch everytime. Why it isn't raved over as a classic work of cinema, I don't know!

The Sex Lives of the Potato Men or Jerusalem, the 'lost' style council movie. However that would have just been been bloody minded as they are both much maligned and in both cases for very good reasons.

However talking gangster films, I dont recall The Long Good Friday being criticaly mauled and it was/is a very good film.

Danny Dyer; this does run agianst the crtical grain, I thought the Business was a great film as was Football Factory (in fact I can take every football hooligan film you can throw at me, with the possible exception of Green Street).

There are also a lot of seventies comedy movies that have been re-evalued over recent years and some stand up better than others. I for instance can watch On the Buses whenever it's on, the fim versions of Please Sir, Bless This House and Man About the House are also pretty good. but seeing the staff of grace brothers in Spain still doesnt work and I will never understand why George and Mildred got the movie treatment.

Rocketeer

Bullshot

The Devil's Backbone

Arachnophobia

Nickelodeon

The Titfield Thunderbolt

Big Trouble in Little China

I´m not sure if I dare join this thread.

Any of them but especially Jackass 2 with the fart helmet. I lost the plot.

A western in all but setting, where the feted gunslinger (read bouncer) rides in to save the town (club) from the hissable cattle baron (gangster). Brainless and exploitative, with gratuitous sex and violence a-go-go. And none the worse for it.

Utter balls.

But Christopher Lambert running around Manhattan with a Samurai Sword I can happily watch at any time.

Plus Clancy Brown is The Kurgan. Proper screen villainy. He should have won.