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AfterEllen.com Huddle: Best Worst Movies

This week ScreenJunkies.com made a list of the five “Best Worst” Movies Ever — aka movies that are so bad they’re good. In their number one slot is Showgirls, the NC-17 rated trainwreck that everyone loves to quote and watch when it comes on, even on basic cable when the boobs are covered up digitally.

They also list Spice World and Ladybugs, so that should give you an idea of what we’re talking about.

So team, what Best Worst movie could you watch over and over again?

The Linster: I love Puccini for Beginners. I’ve watched it a dozen times, undaunted by Allegra’s temporary distraction with a man because, well, she’s Elizabeth Reaser. As a slightly butch lesbian, she is irresistibly sexy.

Honestly, I didn’t know that this movie was considered bad until I started writing for AfterEllen.com. But to tell the truth, I don’t remember much about the story except that Allegra had flings with Justin Kirk and Gretchen Mol, then ended up with Julianne Nicholson. But who cares if it’s a bad movie? Allegra still makes my heart skip a beat

Heather Hogan: I was a little kid the first time I saw The Cutting Edge and I loved it so much that as we were leaving the cinema, I asked my dad if it was going to win an Oscar. He laughed really hard and said, “Sweetie, just — no.” And I suppose that’s cute and everything, but I’m a for real grown-up now and I still want to know: Where is Moira Kelly‘s Academy Award?!

I own The Cutting Edge on VHS and on DVD, and no matter where I’m going or what I’m doing, no matter if it’s day or night, no matter that I can quote the whole movie frontwards and backwards, I’m going to sit down and watch it in its entirety if I catch it on TBS. My greatest dream in life is to look at someone one day and say, “Don’t say we’re not right for each other because the way I see it we might not be right for anyone else.” And for my beloved to reply, “We’re doing the Pamchenko.”

Trish Bendix: You have probably never heard of Get Over It, but it stars Kirsten Dunst, Ben Foster, Mila Kunis, Zoe Saldana, Shane West, Martin Short, Melissa Sagemiller and — wait for it — Sisquo. The 2001 teen movie follows a group of high school students who star in a modern musical retelling of A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream. Shane West plays an ex-boy bander with a horrible British accent, Kirsten Dunst sings and the song and dance numbers are brilliant.

If you like Glee, you’ll like this movie. If you like predictable teen movies with a little bit of an edge, you’ll like this movie. And maybe you’ll have an irrational love for it and own it on DVD, trying to push it on people who will inevitably not love it as much as you do. I wish everyone in the world could sing along with me to “Love S.C.U.D.

Grace Chu: During freshman orientation week in college, I was corralled into an auditorium and saw the cheesiest and most depressing film of all time: Love Story. What made it bearable was that the audience was encouraged to boo and hiss and holler at the screen a la Amateur Night at the Apollo. Also, it was a long time ago, and torturous experiences often become nostalgic with time.

If only lesbians, upon coming out, could be herded into an auditorium with other baby dykes to watch Bar Girls or Go Fish and encouraged to shout at the screen. The bonding experience would cancel out the sheer awfulness of either film.

Bridget McManus: Snakes on a Plane and The Room. The Room is a whole other level of bad. The scenes aren’t in order, the dialogue is confusing, there is no plot and there is a lot of graphic sex for no reason. I love this film.

Karman Kregloe: I probably shouldn’t like Just Friends. It contains a lot of over the top slapstick humor, Amy Smart (miscast, in my opinion) plays a stereotypical irresistible girl next door who everyone wanted when they were 16, and Ryan Reynolds stars as a cocky music industry executive who routinely uses women and tosses them away.

But that’s not all! Reynolds behaves badly because he was tormented for being obese in high school, and Just Friends offers him the opportunity to do some intense acting in a fat suit for those flashback scenes. Plus, Anna Faris plays a thinly-veiled version of Britney Spears and performs the amazing song “Forgiveness.” Also, Reynolds assaults a bunch of 10-year olds on the ice in a hockey game when they start to out play him!

Convinced yet? Promise me you’ll stick around for the end credits, in which the high school version of Reynolds performs the Boyz II Men classic “End of the Road.” It’s so bad it’s good.

Mia Jones: As someone who went to college for film studies, this is actually a really difficult Huddle for me. Most of the movies I love I’d fight anyone to the death to defend — especially The Last Dragon.

There is one movie though, that is so terribly wonderful, I ended up scouring the streets of Boston for three days trying to find it. And when I couldn’t, I spent $40 on a VHS copy of it off of eBay (yes, I was a little inebriated at the time).

Teen Witch is a timeless classic that is filled with so much kitsch, bad hair-do’s and terrible rapping, it’s no wonder it’s one of my favorite movies of all time. Also, the lead character happens to be Blake Lively’s older sister, Robyn. Top that!

Your turn!

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