BAD MOVIES WE LOVE

movieline magazine’s deliciously trashy tour through over 200 of hollywood’s film fiascos

For those of you who believe that great stars equal great films, we offer you Fatal Attraction. And for anyone who insists that Hollywood never actually sets out to make an awful film, please rewatch The Sandpiper immediately. Just when you thought you'd have to yawn your way through another gushing coffee table tome on Hollywood comes this hip, irrevent, devastatingly witty tour through more than 200 of the most hyped, highly touted and wonderfully bad movies of all time.

Compiled by the caustic authors of Movieline magazine's popular feature "Bad Movies We Love," this outrageous book leaves no stone (including Sharon) unturned as it skewers some of Hollywood's big-budget film fiascos ever, and the stars who made it all happen — from Airport and Cocktail, from Bette Davis and Laurence Olivier to Julia Roberts and Kevin Costner. Packed with provocative behind-the-scenes information and 16 pages of captioned stills, this High Camp homage to garbage is proof that sometimes moviemaking means having to say you're sorry — very sorry. From Plume Books

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AMAZON REVIEWS OF BAD MOVIES WE LOVE

“★★★★★, This is one of the funniest books I've read in my life. Hollywood really churns out some crap-ola movies sometimes and these two catty and funny authors take the movies apart in all of their glory. They carefully dissect the ridiculous dialogue, bad montages, the bad hair or casting that makes the entire movie laughably bad.

What I really like to do is search for these movies on cable and then record them - setting myself up for a deliciously bad movie night.

This is a great book for the cinema crowd or if you just like to have fun watching over produced bad Hollywood movies from time to time!” —

“★★★★★, Absolutely hilarious collection of short reviews of bad movies — who's in them, how they got that way and what to watch for. The reviews ARE vicious (and hysterically on target) but it's obvious the authors do love movies so they don't come across as cruel.

These guys love bad films (as do I) and pick out a actually mind-boggling number of them. They're put under descriptive chapters such as..."Trash Yourself Cinema", "Vanity, Thy Name is Lucy", "Bad Girls", "All This and Troy Donahue Too" etc etc. There's also a whole chapter dedicated to Sharon Stone--"The Stone Age"! To show what a good sport she is Stone even writes a short funny foreward to this book.

There's an introduction explaining how the authors picked their films AND 16 pages of movie stills (all in beautiful b&w). This is dated (it only mentions videos and it came out in 1993) but it's well worth having. As the great film critic Pauline Kael said (and I'm paraphasing), "You can't know great films without knowing bad". Too true.”

“★★★★★, I hate to say it, but I think I have seen every movie in this book, most more than twice.

This is a very funny (and helpful for the afficianado) book. The premise is different than the usual book about "bad" movies: no "Plan Nine from Outer Space" et al- that's left to Michael Medved and his ilk. No, these are movies that just are slightly crazed, over the top, or just, well, BAD. Ones that will make you ask "What were they thinking? What were they smoking! " Some of the movies are laugh-out-loud stinkers like "Female on the Beach", some are just jaw-droppingly awful like "Xanadu". But the writing is funny and fresh, and you will find yourself agreeing with the reviews of the movie you have seen, and going to the video store for the movies you have not.

Unfortunately one of the authors is no longer living, but I would hope that they could collect the rest of the reviews from Movieline (the magazine from which this book sprang) and put out more editions as soon as possible.”