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Hump Day open thread: Wonderfully bad movies




Boy. If we ever needed a midweek break, this week would be it.

Last week I said I was going to do this, and, being a man of my word, here it is.

There are some movies so bad, so ludicrous in plotting and execution, that you just have to love them. For me, such a film is the Wesley Snipes actioner Passenger 57.

Picture if you will. The world's deadliest terrorist is captured and is going to be transported to Los Angeles to stand trial. Now, one would think that such a high-value target would be whisked away on a  military jet, or at least a chartered flight where he is the guest of honor. Oh, but you'd be wrong! No. Two FBI agents take him on board a commercial flight—and not even in first class!—to meet his fate in the City of Angels.

But wait! His terrorist gang has infiltrated the plane as staff! And they take over the plane! And they start shooting people, including the hapless FBI chaperones! Sure seems that this smarmy, deadly Brit has things in control!

But no, there's more!

Our hero Mr. Snipes also happens to be on board that plane, and he just happened to have been hired as the head of a new antiterrorism unit for that airline! Now we're cooking with gas! Except, no, there's no gas! Snipes manages to dump the jet's fuel, forcing it to land. Then he gets arrested by a local sheriff! Then he and the baddie have a chase through a local county fair! Then the plane takes off again! Then! 

Oh, you just have to watch it. Turn off your brain. The plot is ludicrous, the action ridiculous. But you have Wesley Snipes delivering his classic line, "Always bet on black," and Bruce Payne as the British baddie chewing up the scenery more than a dog with a jaw lock on a sock. It is in all ways a Bad Movie, but so gleeful in its schlockiness that it works.

What are your favorite bad movies they're so good? And don't limit it to film; books, plays, music. All of it! Leave your faves in the comments.