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This sounds exactly like what fans and critics alike slated the last Jedi for

Wild Wild West.

Batshit crazy plot, appallingly unfunny script - clearly masterminded by deeply disconnected madmen. But well executed - great effects and technical filmmaking.

I remember Kevin Smith in one of his talks discussing Jon Peters, the producer of WWW, coming up with ridiculous suggestions and demands for a superman project they were both involved in, including a giant mechanical spider. Kevin was dropped from the project (it never got made) and then later he sees a giant mechanical spider in WWW and was like 'well that's all Jon'.

Every Wes Anderson movie.

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Leon: The professional

The sexual dynamic between the two characters makes me more uncomfortable the older that movie gets, and it makes me very uncomfortable that such a young actor is playing the role The way they do. The plot too is silly, nobody, not even an emotionless assassin would try to teach a kid to be an assassin for any reason. Kids are impulsive idiots and there's literally no upside to it. But holy hell does Gary Oldman absolutely rule in that movie.

Bad Santa?

The first one that comes to mind was Avatar

The plot of Yellow Submarine is basically "the Beatles have a contractual obligation to make a movie but they can't be bothered, so let's get impressionists to voice cartoon Beatles and draw a bunch of drug-addled fuckery to illustrate some of their songs for an hour and a half."

In execution, it's a bizarrely compelling and beautiful piece of work that I enjoy a great deal despite not being into either the Beatles or drugs.

Pacific rim. Plot is fucking stupid but it doesn't matter. Only one robot has guns. They don't use the sword until the end. They never attack the rift that spawns the kaiju.

I got to see giant robots do wrestling moves on giant monsters. It's my favorite movie.

Pleasantville looks like a cheap gag in the preview, but honestly one of my favorite movies.

The first Transformers by Micheal Bay … think of it most of Bay’s work before 2010

I remember when my wife and I watched Morbius, we were pretty impressed with the sound mixing. We could hear what everyone was saying without our ears getting blown out by the explosions and such.

I feel like the effects and such were all petty solid too, but there's no saving the fact that the story, writing, and acting were just trash.

The Star Wars sequel trilogy. What a waste of money and time.

Nice try “how did this get made”.

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Having just finished Event Horizon, I'm gonna go with that. Great cast, very interesting practical effects, silly plot, senseless gore.

ATBGE? I missed that subreddit.

It's hard for me to pin down to be honest because good execution hides a lot. I've found the Ocean Twelve movie really dumb but enjoyed it ... not sure if it's horrible taste though?

The first one that leaps to mind is The Phantom Menace. World-class score, Duel Of The Fates alone is utterly epic. Casting is almost perfect, probably don't ruin that poor child's life. Get a teenager to play Anakin. Set and costume design are great, the plot is ridiculous. The boys at RedLetterMedia articulated it better than I ever will, but, you could fix it with a script rewrite or two.

Popeye also jumps to mind. The 1980 live-action movie starring Robin Williams and Shelley Duvall. Paramount lost the bid to make Annie, the studio had their hearts set on making a broadway musical adaptation of a depression-era IP, and the first thing that occurred to anyone was they had the rights to Popeye. Of all things. Annie is a broadway musical, so songs complete with dance numbers were already built in. Popeye is a cartoon wedged somewhere between Betty Boop and Bugs Bunny. They decided to make a Popeye musical. And commenced principal photography before writing any songs. They ADR'd songs over top of scenes they shot before the songs were written. Which is why it's...not really remembered as a musical. Directed by Robert "I directed MASH" Altman very much in his style, much of the film consists of characters blathering over each other incessantly. The collision of the cartoon physics and character proportions with the very grounded Altman style is uniquely jarring. AND YET. The set design, cinematography and costume design are excellent. It's a badly conceived stupid idea executed by consummate professionals.

I'm surprised no one's mentioned Team America: World Police yet. That one has highly innovative puppetry behind it as well as brilliant engineering... all for a horrible film with a badly written plot as well as (shudder) horrible depiction.

Dazed and confused. Really no plot, but it's great.

I really like American Hustle (2013). The plot is kind of ridiculous. The emotional abuse amongst the characters should make me hate everyone, but there's so much star power charisma, and it was shot well enough, that it's a fun watch that I find myself going back to despite not being a remarkable film.

There’s a movie called Crime 101, it’s got pretty good actors, it’s shot very well, the writing is even decent but it’s the most cliche boring heist/crime plot I’ve ever watched. You can guess basically everything the entire movie. Afterwards it was very clear that everyone involved was capable of making a far better movie but the plot was so terribly predictable

Depends upon your perspective, but The Rocky Horror Picture Show might qualify.