Not-Quite-Guilty-Pleasure Movies
By: Helena Fisher-Welsh
I have three categories for films:
1. Films that are, without a question, good or great.
2. Films that I love, but are not exactly good or great (guilty pleasure movies)
3. Films that are stuck in that middle spectrum; part of me loves it and says it’s actually a good film while another part of me loves it yet declares its faults openly and without question.
THESE ARE THOSE FILMS
Insert fanfare if desired
(Disney films tend to fall into a category of their own due to extreme nostalgia, but I’ve included some here).
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01Julie Taymor
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02Adam McKay
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03Rian Johnson
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04Terry Gilliam
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05Andrew Adamson
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06Jonathan Lynn
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07Robert Zemeckis
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08Peter Weir
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09David Frankel
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10Amy Heckerling
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11Mike Newell
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12Ron Clements
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13Miloš Forman
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14Chris Columbus
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15Jason Reitman
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16Shane Black
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17Jim Henson
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18Clyde Geronimi
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19Dean DeBlois
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20Frank Oz
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21Martin Campbell
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22Mark Waters
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23Baz Luhrmann
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24Olivier Assayas
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25Gore Verbinski
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26Ron Clements
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27Chris Columbus
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28Wolfgang Reitherman
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29Jim Sharman
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30Richard Linklater
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31John Madden
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32Garth Jennings
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33Sam Raimi
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34Richard Marquand
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35James Cameron
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36Bobby Farrelly
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37Penelope Spheeris
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38Ben Stiller