Someone mentioned Tremors which I like as well. Also, Reign of Fire. I caught it on TV again last night without shame.
They Live
Well, first I don my best smoking jacket, shine my meerschaum pipe, and attend to BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ followed by Lars Von Trier’s filmography. These are relaxing amusements. Then I dance to Tom Waits at his howling drunkest, and watch JLG’s “L’histoire du cinema” in its entirety. Saturday evenings are so delightful!
For true cinema going, I like my films to be longer and much more difficult. Guilty pleasures indeed. Ho-ho!
I’ve never heard of the films of Sir Jeffery MacQuire. I’ll have to order some reels in.
Can’t Hardly Wait. I’m a sucker for that teen pop comedy.
And Christian Pieper, shame on you. There is no shame in like Home Alone.
“Buzz’s girlfriend… Woof!”
Guilty as charged, I guess…
Trancers
Nemesis
Desert Saints
Excess Baggage
Retroactive
Kevin. I thought it was legitimately good, too, until I watched it again this Thanksgiving. I still love it, but I think most of it is residual from childhood. When I saw it in theaters, I remember laughing until I almost puked. The break-in scene is pure comic genius for ten-year-olds.
And Can’t Hardly Wait is sweet.
the Bond movies… only Moore and Connery though
The only thing better than a great Dario Argento movie is a not so great Dario Argento movie-
Tenebre
Phenomena
Opera
and i love NEMESIS and CYBORG
Pretty much anything from the 80’s for me:
Real Genius
Gleaming the Cube
Revenge of the Nerds
Less Than Zero
The Secret of My Success
Joe Versus the Volcano
The ’burbs
Big….
That sort of thing. Yeah I love 80’s Tom Hanks…
Enchanted Cottage is mine. It is a personal favourite, but please don’t let on that it is right up there in my (dismally absurd) estimation with the likes of Bergman, Fellini, etc. This should be a top secret type of thread, lest we all lose our credibility as ‘cinephiles’. I always am a sucker for cheap romantic effects and 40s style sentimentality & melodrama – I really believe it all – hook, line and s(t)inker. Ditto for Portrait of Jennie, or anything with a sappy piano concerto in it – like Dangerous Moonlight (with its Warsaw Concerto). Also, I love every single Peter Sellers movie, no matter how bad. I see The Party more often than any Bergman or Tarkovsky – because I am ultimately a very shallow person, with just an ounce of self-respect still in tact. Please burn this thread after reading. (psst: also like Titantic – I will go now).
“Orgy of the Dead” by Dr. Edward D. Wood….far, far better than Plan 9, for all the right reasons (I am listening to the soundtrack album featuring Chriswell as I type this; it’s almost as much fun without visuals.) Ah, the whipping is beginning.
‘Pink Floyd: The Wall’ I have seen more than I can justify.
I recall ‘Death Race 2000’ with too much fondness…same with ‘Damnation Alley’
And ‘The Car’
And, because I am Danish: REPTILICUS. Never grows old.
Kill Bill. Because I virtually hate Tarantino, but there’s something about both 1 and 2 that I always watch it when it’s on tv. Unlike his other films, you can watch it after the surprises wear off and there’s still something rewarding there.
Vellaem – great choices
For me if you enjoy a movie, you should just enjoy it for the qualities you see. I recall Roger Ebert once said, “For me ‘Wild Things’ is not a guilty pleasure. It’s just a pleasure.”
Some movies I see qualities that others don’t see. I love ‘The Matrix Reloaded’ even though pretty much everyone hates it. ‘Speed Racer’ would fall into the same category.
I enjoyed ‘The Spirit’ for it’s shear goofiness even though I could not point out a single other quality worth mentioning.
I would say a “guilty pleasure” should be like pornography. It should have no artistic quality. You don’t want anyone else know that you like it or own it on DVD. And for a small amount of the time you should of ashamed and disgusted by watching it. For me that film is ‘Attack Girls Swim Team versus The Undead’. It was a blind buy.
Mario Bava
Russ Meyer
Dušan Makavejev
David Cronenberg
Atom Egoyan
Takashi Ishii
Exotica
Foxy Brown
Sweet movie
Sex shop
Erotissimo
Valerie and her week of wonders
The Holy Mountain
Flower and Snake
Videodrome
Juice
Breakin’ 1 & 2
Beat Street
Right on, Claus, ORGY OF THE DEAD is phenomenal. “To know the cat is to be the cat.”
I’d argue nearly all of Brian De Palma’s oeuvre is based on the giving over to “guilty pleasure.” He indulges in ways that are gleefully tasteless and, in some circles, offensive. That’s why I love at least a half-dozen of films films unreservedly.
Jerry Lewis figures in here as well. His runaway popularity during the 1950s, for me, is an endlessly fascinating phenomenon.
Going back to some older posts, I have to agree that THE JERK is extraordinary. One of the greatest American comedies, guilty or otherwise.
Some honorable mentions:
1. MANOS THE HANDS OF FATE
2. FRIDAY THE 13TH (the first, of course – I enjoy its pointless nihilism and its portrayal of motherhood. What can I say? I was surprisingly impressed by FREDDY VS. JASON, too, and breathlessly await the rematch)
3. VALLEY OF THE DOLLS (very standard example, but still fun after all these years)
Edwin and Simon, I agree, The Ninth Gate is kind of underrated. At least it makes more sense than most supernatural fare. I think we all just need to accept the fact that Roman Polanski is a satanist. But hey, who am I to judge?
the first Rocky movie. Great for hangovers. :)
Justin, The Ninth Gate isn’t a bad movie but it does have a weak ending.
Blondage, actually the thought of having to watch Stallone in anything is a reason to drink.
(Not the previously featured Justin)
Satan’s Sadists
Manos: The Hands of Fate
All the Ed Wood Movies
Andy Warhol’s “Bad”
Robot Monster
Actually, Justin, I agree with a lot of your guilty pleasures. Especially Ed Wood’s Bride of the Monster (Bride of the Atom?) and Glen or Glenda (I Changed My Sex?). You really just can’t believe what you’re watching. I believe Bela said it best: “Be-vare! Be-vare!”
JUSTIN, have you seen “Sybil”?
Soybean, I’ll answer, although I apologize if you’re talking to my namesake (he can answer too, of course). Yes, I have. “Green, green, green!” “What happened in the green kitchen?” Sally Field, we really really like you — all 210 of you.
Glad we have an agreement! I actually haven’t seen Bride of the Monster, though. Have you seen Satan’s Sadists?
SOYBEAN, I’ve never seen “Sybil”.
Woody Allen’s “Another Woman”, the most Bergmanesque of his dramas
Christian Pieper
Also: Home Alone, The Last Unicorn, and [gasp] Elizabethtown.