Roland Emmerich’s wondrous trash movies (Independence Day, Godzilla, The Day After Tomorrow). The guy knows how to destroy things. He can out-Michael Bay Michael Bay.
The guiltiest of pleasures for most is out-&-out porn.
Absolute Beginners! – I like the music and Patsy Kensit looks mighty fine!!
Oh and another vote for Season of the Witch – it scared the beejeesuz out of me when I was a kid……brrrrrrrr
A microchip made from rock stolen from Stonehenge attached to Halloween masks? It’ll make you spew insects and snakes? A bit far fetched. But I suppose that what makes pleasures “guilty”.
I thought “Kung-Pow!!” was funny in the fifth grade and I still think it’s funny.
If just one famous director would come out of the closet with their love for this film, and if I could just write one auteur-theory driven paper on Oedekerk, I’m sure this Satire on the Failings of Commercialism: A Certain Tendency of Tonguey could one day earn credit in the art film community… Ahem.
Oh God… I’m so ashamed but I found some entertainment in Jackass: The Movie. It amused the cave-man side of my brain.
Huge Japanese monster film fan. Good, bad, terrible I’ll watch anything that weird nation releases.
I’ve seen Christmas Vacation probably 7-8 times and think it’s funnier now than ever. “Squirrel!!”
Bride of Chucky is another one that even with my wide range of taste in cinema, I feel guilty for enjoying.
“The Pirate Movie” :http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0084504/
I forgot about Roland Emmerich! I used to watch Independence Day and Godzilla all the time when I was a wee lad.
Born in East L.A
Throw Momma from the Train
Sister Act
Captain Ron
I suppose I should feel guilty about seeing The Poseidon Adventure about 100 times, but I don’t
Yeah, there are other threads on this topic, but I don’t think HALLOWEEN 3 has ever come up before.
Actually I think it’s a terrific little film & unduly shat upon because it didn’t bring back Michael Myers (Meyers?) … a move that ultimatkey (hell, in even the prior entry) was one of diminishing returns. It’s poor reception caused Carpenter to drop what might have been a very intriguing series of Halloween-themed horror films, each independent of the others save by title. Pity.
My guiltuiest please (I’ve posted this before): MEET THE SPARTANS. I can’t help it; I laughed a whole lot. And the eye-candy weren’t bad, neither.
300. It’s pretty much everything I hate about movies wrapped into one film, but I love how ridiculous it is. I’m also extremely shallow, and will watch anything that’s pretty, no matter how stupid. Like The Patriot.
Boondock Saints. Apparently, it’s a really bad movie. Personally, I found it to be quite funny. I once posted it on a thread here as my favorite movie ever, just to see if anyone would get riled up. No one said anything, unfortunately, though I did get several “Thumbs down” on the post.
Probably The Wraith with Charlie Sheen. I’ve been analyzing this for ten years and still don’t know why I like it. And yet, I can still pull it off the shelf every couple of months and be thoroughly entertained. Perhaps it’s the supernatural vengeance angle… see? Still analyzing…
Renny Harlin, baby: Die Hard 2; Cliffhanger; The Long Kiss Goodnight
Dangerous Game (Abel Ferrara).
A Man in Love – Peter Coyote. Valley of the Dolls.
Moulin Rouge and The Reader.
Deep Impact and Contact… though I must admit, I still don’t quite understand what is so hatable about them, even if they aren’t cinematic perfection.
I’m all about some serious nature on the rampage flicks. Everything I know about tornadoes tells me that Twister is a real stink-bomb of a film at pretty much every level (I’m not even dragging it’s cinematic virtues, or lack therof, into the discussion). But it also might be one of the crappiest films I love. Five-star trash is nothing to take for granted.
I have also viewed, and enjoyed, the Herschell Gordon Lewis box set.
Huh. I’ve never heard of “The Boondock Saints” being widely acknowledged as a bad movie.
Anyway, “Phonebooth”, starring Colin Farrell. It’s just so ridiculous, but I love it.
Halloween 3 is a good movie!
I like Ghoulies 2 and Critters 3.
I like Halloween 3 too, nice.
Deep Throat from early 1970’s—you’ve gotta see it for its zeitgest alone, and it won’t be excrement or scat that you’ll be dodging in this one baby—you’ll be stepping onto more than the proverbial slippery slope as well—and yes. it’s 1 of the essentials to say the least—shut up or some body at Auteurs from the excitement alone will be putting it into the center of the canon for CINEMAH..
Does The Girl Next Door count? Even more if I’ve seen it 12 times?
@Drawback – yeah, there was a bad movie thread a while back, and half The Auteurs population chimed in to tell everyone how terrible a movie it is.
I dont believe in guilty pleasures anymore but when I was ten watching Ultraman was a guilty pleasure for me. I knew it was crass and ridicolous but I could not peel my eyes off the screen. Good thing our tv set was B/W otherwise I’ll still be glued to it…
Sam Cooper
I’m sure that there is already a thread for the topic, “What film is a guilty pleasure for you?” But I’m not talking about films like Ghostbusters or Happy Gilmore. I’m talking about films that are, for the most part, universally hated. Example? Well mine would be Halloween 3: Season of the Witch. That movie OWNS! . . . in my opinion. What horrible movies do you guys enjoy?
And please, no Troll 2. That’s a give in.