Days of Thunder
Anyone who has seen it, I’m sure, can recall how ludicrous Cruise’s intro is.
As for myself, something about the scene where Duvall is talking to the chassis.
@ kifah: sounds like ULTRA softcore porn; i’d rather just stay up until 2 am and watch showtime.
the new york times labelled it as a “carefully faithful adaptation traces the sighs and whispers, the shy glances and furious glares of two unlikely teenage lovers who fall into each other’s pale, pale arms amid swirling hormones, raging instincts, high school dramas and oh-so-confusing feelings, like, OMG he’s SO HOT!! Does he like ME?? Will he KILL me??? I don’t CARE!!! :)”
exactly!
I’m not trying to sell anyone on it, its my own secret shame- but I thought it was pretty righteous. I’m a sick, sick person of course.
Kifah, you rule this board. That’s what guilty pleasures are all about. Sticking to your guns.
Porn!
Phantasm, Cry Baby, Dream For An Insomniac, Disorderlies, Ever After, Midnight Madness, The Last Dragon, The Golden Child……I could probably recite every line to Coming to America, Breakin’, and Breakin II: Electric Boogaloo.
And most embarrassing…wait for it…P.S. I Love You.
I have aired out all my dirty laundry for ya’ll to see.
Troll 2. No, actually I haven’t seen it but I heard it is the worst movie ever made. My list would have to include Dodgeball and Corky Romano. That’s all I’m divulging for now.
Oh, and Addams Family Values.
How could I forget Dr. Goldfoot and The Bikini Machine, probably my favorite guilty pleasure.
Count me as another “Running Man” fan. I’ve posted about my mental – bordering on creepy – love for this film elsewhere on the forum so I’ll refrain from doing so here.
Totally agree with Amelia on “The Golden Child” and “Coming to America”, films that I also could probably recite every line from.
Another one that comes to mind is “Jerry Maguire”, a film that isn’t bad by any stretch of imagination, but I always seem to catch reruns of the movie on TV and get drawn into the story no matter how many times I’ve seen it. It’s always embarassing when someone walks in during the ‘you complete me’ scene near the end and the ridiculously cheesy ‘We live in a cynical, cynical world’ line is uttered by Tom Cruise and I totally go with it because I’m so invested in the character. I really should just get the DVD.
John Hughes movies (sixteen candles, breakfast club)
John Cusack movies (say anything, high fidelity)
Clueless
Mean Girls
anything ripe with teen fluff
Mousehunt
Monster Squad
80s Gore (The Stuff, Street Trash, Basket Case, Hellraiser, Slugs etc)
I actually enjoyed The Chronicles of Riddick. That rouses real guilt.
I couldn’t possibly feel guilty about John Carpenter’s The Thing- Amazing special effects, Morricone Score, perfect pacing and an ambiguous ending that just wouldn’t fly these days. Masterpiece.
Grecco
I once had a serious girlfriend that broke up with me on Christmas eve, and immediately after I decided for some reason that I had to watch Jerry Maguire. I watched it repeatedly. It made me feel better. I still have no idea why this happened.
……man, I feel naked right now.
@ Brandon Bedaw: If you can get through his sentences, Robin Wood says it best. “If one feels guilt at pleasure, isn’t one bound to renounce either one or the other? Preferably, in most cases, the guilt, which is merely the product of that bourgeois elitism that continues to vitiate so much criticism. The attitude fostered is essentially evasive (including self-evasive) and anti-critical:’Isn’t this muck—to which of course I’m really so superior—delicious?’”
Polanski’s THE NINTH GATE.
Twilight, kind of. Not so much the movie itself, rather that I really respect some of the actors. I guess the books were more of a guilty pleasure for me than anything, and it was kind of cool to see them brought to life, but they could have found a much better screenwriter. The movie lost a lot of the plot.
I will say this, that film will not be the artistic highlight of anyone’s career.
Clueless- it’s the best adaptation of Emma ever
Animal House
I was raised on John Hughes movies
Stand by Me
most Disney films (I loathe Pixar, though)
Kifah,
I feel you brother! That’s what’s great about the movies (and all art I suppose), they mean different things to different people at different stages of their life. And they have the ability to just encapsulate everything a person is going through at any given moment. Movies and art in general essentially become the bookmarks for the most important chapters of one’s life. I’m happy that “Jerry Maguire” did that for you.
To keep on topic, my love for “The Running Man” and the other 80’s films that I mentioned in my previous post represent the time in my childhood where I would go through my cousin’s video collection and watch movies repeatedly without the baggage of watching a film with a critical eye, criticising poor mis en scene or rolling my eyes whenever an obvious joke or plot point occurred. They signify a time where watching any movie was actually, you know, fun, and not distilled by the burden of a more “refined” taste. Man, now I feel naked….
I’ll agree with the first guy on Three Amigos.
Really, just a lot of movies I liked when I was between five and ten (Little Giants, Dunston Checks In, Home Alone 1 AND/ESPECIALLY 2, yeah…)
And I’ll also agree with Justin Traviss on Love, Actually.
City of Angels
Vanilla Sky
Coming to America
The Matrix Sequels
Meet the Parents
The Narnia films
“Galaxy Quest,” which, with a sly and gentle hand, both skewers and glorifies the nerdy fanboy in all of us.
OK I’ll say it. . . “Fletch” . . . ahhhhhhhhh! I feel better.
Constantine-not a great movie but I find it very watchable.
Godzilla, the 1956 version with raymond burr.
Mallrats. Die Hard with a Vengeance. The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. I’m sure there are so many others that I used to love, like every JCVD movie – I could never think of them all.
Domino: If they say that a movie can have everything but the kitchen sink, then this is the kitchen sink. Its so ridiculous but also a little avant garde. Tom Wait as god in the desert, epic close ups of random objects like fish, and the race flow chart. At times its kind of amazing all the stuff it throws up on screen.
I’m starting to move away from the snobbish notion that I have to feel guilty about liking something but here goes.
Mortal Kombat- That’s right, based on the videogame. I ate this movie up when I was a kid. It actually has a decent action picture structure and a nice confrontation/fight between the good guy and bad guy at the end. You know, back when action movies weren’t afraid to have the characters duke it out.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles- the live action movie. I watched this again a couple years back after seeing it as a kid. It has a lot of atmosphere and is way darker than anything they would make today. I like that the themes are broad enough for the kids (brotherhood, family) but still appealing to adults. And the score is good too.
Alien: Resurrection- again, saw it when I was a kid and was fascinated by its use of gore and set pieces. Yeah, its the worst of the four, but damn if it doesn’t have some genuinely macabre images.
Movies that others consider guilty pleasures but I don’t.
Point Break
Speed
Moulin Rouge
Hulk
Beloved
The Cell
Pitch Black
The Rock
Samurai X- anime thing
Wild Wild West
The Ninth Gate
some others I can’t think of
TREMORS TREMORS TREMORS
Kifah Foutah
oh and @ Mr. Sweetums
I actually saw Twilight. The whole movie is essentially two people kissing, whispering and pausing then kissing again. I kinda dug it.
I’m actually not sure I’f I should be ashamed of this or not.