The Scorpion King was one of the most awful action movies to hit theatres but...
Alright, "The Rock" has an absolute blast playing the hero and I had a fricking blast watching him.
The whole movie was campy and over-the-top and completely impossible to take with ANY seriousness whatsoever. If you aren't looking for anything great, you know what, this movie was entertaining as hell.
Definitely one of the corniest action movies you'll ever see but this movie seems to know that and adjusts accordingly. The badasses are badass, the comedy is all over the place and the story is absolutely insane. It's too much fun to call "bad" even though on paper it's pretty horrible.
My dad actually loves watching movies from that franchise. Not sure what he thinks of them, but almost every time he gets the chance when they're on TV he'll watch them.
As for another example about a bad movie I find some good things in, there's this movie we all know called Jurassic Park III. Now, bare in mind, anything good about this movie was negated long after I had first seen the film as a kid. HOWEVER, when I had seen the film as a kid, I had never seen a battle between a
Tyrannosaurus and another Dinosaur in which
Tyrannosaurus flat out loses in a one on one fight. Also, I had even rarely seen other predatory Dinosaurs go up against
Tyrannosaurus either. So seeing the newcomer
Spinosaurus show up in the movie and outright kill the
T. rex was astounding to me as a kid, and it showed me that
Tyrannosaurus wasn't always an "invincible" type of Dinosaur in media.
That said, however, I do believe Dino Crisis 2 ended up handling this situation a lot more better even if Dino Crisis 2 had also exaggerated the
Giganotosaurus that kills the
T. rex. Why does Dino Crisis 2 hold up more than the above mentioned JPIII fight? Because
Giganotosaurus could very well have mauled
Tyrannosaurus if they ever met so long as
Tyrannosaurus didn't manage to pull off the instant kill neck bite.
Also, another thing I enjoyed about JPIII was how they depicted
Pteranodon when it was on the ground; walking on all fours. I didn't see this rendition of
Pteranodon prior to this movie, so this was ultimately just as big of news to me as seeing
Pteranodon diving into water like Gannets in Jurassic World.