Top 14 Guilty Pleasures

J.R. Hudson

J.R. Hudson

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This is the list of guilty pleasure. These movies fall under the category of 'everyone thinks they're crap, but I still like it'

These are films you watch over and over. They're cheezy, campy, usually panned and may be cult classics

My Top 14 and like most best list's, can change at any given mood'

The Return of the Living Dead
The Breakfast Club
About Last Night
Total Recall
The Frighteners
Footloose
The Fog
Porky's
Valley Girl
Clue
St Elmos Fire
Cliffhanger
The New Kids
The 13th Warrior
 
Dead Calm
Joe vs the Volcano
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Reality Bites
Serenity
Cars
Always
True Lies
Shakespeare in Love
Jerry Maguire
Notting Hill
Zoolander
Lost Boys
Amelie
 
J.R. Hudson said:
These movies fall under the category of 'everyone thinks they're crap, but I still like it'

...films you watch over and over. They're cheezy, campy, usually panned and may be cult classics


...The Breakfast Club...

Porky's...
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Woah, woah. The Breakfast Club was pure genius. I was a tad on the young side when it came out, but my whole generation looks upon this film as a cultural touchstone. That goes double for Ferris Bueller's Day Off. As a kid, I knew full blown adults who enjoyed that film. It's great.

Porky's is a Canadian classic. For the longest time it was our highest grossing film ever. The only bad thing about it was how it may have indirectly inspired American Pie.

My father sat me down at like 12 years old to watch Porky's with him on an old Canadian pay station called Superchannel. He had already seen it, and promised me that I would laugh my ass off. I did. The 'describing the pecker /sketch artist' scene actually made him laugh so hard it brought him to tears. His only admonition was that I not tell my mom that we saw it. I didn't.

My own guilty pleasures....

Secret Admirer (saw it three times one afternon, back to back to back)
While You Were Sleeping
Rounders
The Gambler (with James Caan)
Pretty much anything with "...The Planet of the Apes" in the title (Battle For...is on right now. Tim Burton's version sucks, but I can't look away.)
The Pope of Greenwich Village
Ghost Dog
Soylent Green
Rollerball (with James Caan)
Billy Jack (I don't like it, but I keep watching it when it's on)
Year of The Dragon
just about anything Cheech & Chong did (though I don't do drugs, and never have...go figure.)
Half Baked (I hated this film the first two times I saw it, but then something happened...others report similar experiences.)
 
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The Fog??
Come on, that's Carpenter in his prime!
(well, the beginning of his prime...after Halloween - right before Escape from New York).
Nothing 'guilty' about enjoying that movie, in my opinion.

You want guilty pleasures?

How about the Brady Bunch Movie?
Now THAT is a guilty pleasure.
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Luis - Nope. The Brady Bunch is also not a guilty pleasure because it too is a great film. ;D It's all relative, I guess.
 
Great nominees so far, gents.

Here are another 14 to throw into the hat:

Krull
Cannonball Run 2
Bachelor Party
Dune
Police Academy 1-3
The Monster Squad (just introduced my little guy to this gem)
Young Sherlock Holmes
The Rocketeer
Willow
Flash Gordon
Tron
Howard the Duck
Waterworld
...does An American Werewolf in London count??
 
Great List ! Bachelor Party; epic. Willow ! Yes !

Hey Cal !

American Werewolf in London, hmmmmm ... Man I love that film ? How could one not ?
 
Here's a few off the top of my head:

The Penetentiary trilogy (Part 3 is the most absurd prison movie ever!)
Something's Gotta Give
Skin Deep
Any pre-Curly Sue John Hughes film
The Hudsucker Proxy
Bubba Ho-Tep
Ghosts Of Mars (let the hatred begin, pure low budget JC fun)
The Kentucky Fried Movie
Suburbia (not the Linklater one)

and the origin of my namesake:

Over The Edge

the most underrated teen angst film, a perfect timecapsule of the late seventies.
 
Oh man, I forgot about Bachelor Party! Watching that movie late night on HBO as a kid was pure gold. I love Tom Hanks as a serious actor, but sometimes I miss that old Bachelor Party style.
 
Hudsucker Proxy?
How can the Coens make a 'guilty pleasure' list?

Richie - I was going to add Over the Edge to my list...then stopped and thought, hey wait...that's actually a damn good movie!

I guess that's my problem...I have a hard time coming up with anything that I like that I don't think is actually a good movie.

hmmmm...going to have to think about this one.
 
Luis Caffesse said:
Hudsucker Proxy?
How can the Coens make a 'guilty pleasure' list?

Richie - I was going to add Over the Edge to my list...then stopped and thought, hey wait...that's actually a damn good movie!

I guess that's my problem...I have a hard time coming up with anything that I like that I don't think is actually a good movie.

hmmmm...going to have to think about this one.
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I put Hudsucker on there because it usually rests next to The LadyKillers on peoples Coen favs list. It never seems to get much respect. "Long live the HUD!"

I put films on my list that are great to me, no matter if anyone else gives a damn.
 
Electra- I love the visual style.
Evil Dead- Any one of them.
What Dreams May Come- Again, another visually stunning film
Any of the "Road movies"- I like Bing and Bob... what about it?
Heavy Metal- Great soundtrack and nice animation.
Big Fish- another one with some amazing scenes.
Knight's Tale- I love watching Chaucer get "Thonged"! Reading his stories was like walking barefoot over broken glass!
 
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Whoa..

Hackers
Clueless
Lost Boys
Weird Science
Love Actually
Mortal Kombat
Last Boyscout
Fist of the North Star

hmm...no more? can't remember...
 
From lists above:

The Breakfast Club (not "pure genius," but solid)
The Frighteners
The Fog
St Elmos Fire
Rollerball
Dune
Young Sherlock Holmes
Willow
Tron

These are not "guilty pleasures"! These are all actually good movies.


Guilty pleasures:

Under Siege
Clash of the Titans
Hercules (with Lou Ferrigno)
Our Man Flint
Weekend at Bernie's
UHF
First Knight
Buckaroo Banzai
Starcrash
Battle Beyond the Stars
The Running Man
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes
Death Race 2000

. . . and . . .


(get ready)



Spice World.
 
First Knight is a guilty pleasure, if you watch it to enjoy Chaucer getting beat. Since the first time I had to read Canterbury Tales in Junior High British Lit, I've always wanted to be able to do that.
 
Here goes:
The Mummy movies (with Brendan Fraser)
Blast from the past (also with Fraser)
Corky Romano
Airheads ( I guess anything with Fraser in it eh)
Beverly hills ninja
Monsturd (if you havn't seen this, go out and find it)
Hoodwinked
desparate measures
How to loose a guy in 10 days (It's not that I like it, but I usually don't turn it if it comes on ha)
The Hot shots movies
There's more I just can't think right now.
 
I don't think I'll get 14 but here are some that I always watch if they're on TV:

(in no order)
Along Came Polly
Dumb and Dumber
Space Jam
Mary Kate and Ashley movies
Mean Girls
Grease
Jurassic Park 3
The Fast and the Furious
Dr. Doolittle

...these are embarrassing.
 
I have no what anybody else thinks of this movie, but I may put The Secret Garden on my list.

It's not that I think it's bad, it's that I wouldn't go around telling people I like it. That movie haunted my childhood. I saw it at a very young age and it was too dark for me or something. Anyway, I for some reason can't get enough of the weird feeling it makes you have.
 
Roadhouse
Harley Davidson & The Marlboro Man
The Last Boy Scout
Robocop
Stone Cold with the Boz
Van Damme Flicks up to Double Team, then I stopped watching - Cyborg being my fav.
Seagal up to Exit Wounds.
Gymkata, though it's been a while.
MIA 2
Enter & Revenge of the Ninja - Revenge being the best, Sho Kosugi's the man.
Lundgren's Punisher.
Boondock Saints - only put it into this category cuz some people think it's shi*e.
13th Warrior - agree with John on this one...

and Mr. Jingles. Not really a guilty pleasure, but bought it after reading a thread on this site. Whenever I need a good laugh, or show people what gets distribution while my films can't, I show them this gem.
 
Cliffhanger
Under Siege
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Just One of the Guys
January Man
The Rock
Mr. Destiny

I'm sure there are more but those are all I can think of right now.
 
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