I remember paying to see “Joanna” 3 or 4 times when it was released. Loved Sutherland’s performance. I had almost forgotten about it until David E. mentioned it. Wonder if it’s on DVD.
But stuck in my frontal lobes are a few guilty pleasures: “Terminal Velocity”, “Point Break” and “Cloverfield”.
“Joanna” was beautifully shot by the great Walter Lasally. Sutherland gives one of the great bad performances of all-time. I especially love his big speech about death.
Showgirls, South Park: Bigger Longer and Uncut, Tankgirl, Ishtar, Basic Instinct, RoboCop, and more.
I love Mr. Deeds. Just all out hilarious. Sure, it’s an absolutely ridiculous film, but I love it because of that.
Also, Anchorman, which is just so stupid you can’t just NOT laugh (that’s not true, but that’s what I say, so I don’t care).
I, though, disagree about the Judd Apatow films. Most of them tend to be well-made, even for comedides. I can’t really consider those to be “guilty pleasures.” That being said, I was not a fan of The 40 Year Old Virgin (though I think I need to see it again), or Knocked Up, which just seemed pretty weak and stupid to me. Oh well. Forgetting Sarah Marshall, on the other hand, is one of the funniest comedies I have ever (and I mean ever) seen.
Savvy
the bad one is the saint with val kilmer & elisabeth shue
The Fast and the Furious. Every time that movie is on TV, I can’t resist it, I don’t know what the deal is.
I have a soft spot for John Hughes-esque films from the 1990’s, my personal favorite being “Can’t Hardly Wait.” Although, it deserves a little credit for being named after a Replacements’ song. I also really love “So I Married an Axe Murderer.”
South Park and Team America, and all of the Apatow films, but I truly don’t feel too guilty. I tend not to feel guilty enjoying a comedy because if I laugh I laugh. I don’t think they are great movies but I love them.
I have guilty owning of 6 Robert Rodriguez movies but I bought them a long time ago when I loved him. Despite being entertaining they aren’t guilty pleasures because I never watch him.
The Matrix Reloaded – It is such a guilty pleasure I don’t see why people hate it.
Devil’s Rain
Billy Jack
Seconds
Michael Cimino’s Heaven’s Gate
Early Steven Seagal movies
HELLBOY. I watched it with my sons and loved it. I didn’t want to. I wish I didn’t like it but I do. I even don’t mind HELLBOY II. And those damned HARRY POTTER movies. I’ve seen them over and over and I still like them.
a lot can go down between Thursday and Satuday…
FRIDAYZARDOZ!
“THE GUN IS GOOD. THE PENIS IS EVIL.”
Floating paper-mache heads. Sean Connery in a red leather codpiece. Charlotte Rampling in sheer clothing. The Brutals. What more do you need?
CLUB PARADISE
I saw this movie many times on pay cable in the late 80’s
Recorded it and watched that several times.
Bought it used on VHS watching it a few times.
Bought it on dvd and have watched it once so far, but still loved it.
“..it’s a drug infested nipple ranch” – Peter O’Toole
“There’s so much pot! There’s tooo much pot. We gotta get rid of this!” – Eugene Levy
Wow, I’m actually PROUD to have seen a lot of these “guilty pleasures”. Particularly the Hellboy films. But Cloverfield… yeah, you should feel pretty dirty for liking that.
I also feel little guilt in my choices but the one that sinks conversation is Oliver Stone’s Alexander which I think is a greatly ambitious film that suffers only from taking good actors who just don’t know what to do in classical Greek costume except guess an accent and run with it. Otherwise though, I thought Colin Farrell’s Alexander was a much more three dimensional hero (plagued by doubt and overambition) than the majority of film heroes and made for an interesting film.
@Zachary: Fully agree with Mr Deeds, I can’t help but watch it when it’s on TV. John Turturro cracks me up every time.
@Chopin: I feel that way about Revolutions, can’t understand what’s not to like.
Dreamgirls and The Holiday would be another two that I can’t help but grin manically after despite expecting to hate them.
Color of Night (1994) d.Richard Rush w/Bruce Willis and Jane March…so very guilty…
I like Hannibal a lot. I think some people wanted it to follow the tone of Silence of the Lambs, but I think Silence was more of a thriller and Hannibal sort of like a Beauty and the Beast romance story mixed with a horror film. Granted, there are some scenes that have a little awkwardness to them such as the scene where Ray Liotta is talking to Mason Verger on the phone while bouncing a tennis ball, the scene where the boars are eating away at a dummy and maybe where Hannibal is talking to Clarice via a portable phone in a shopping mall, but most of the film makes up for that. For instance, the recurrent use of the boar imagery seen in Florence where Hannibal washes blood off of his hands from a statue of a boar that founts water from it’s snout and later on when Clarice is rescuing Hannibal from being eaten alive by Mason Verger’s boars. The use of Christian motifs such as hanging Patsi from the balcony like Judas as Hannibal mentions himself within the film and Hannibal mentioning to Clarice that Paul, Ray Liotta’s character is a mysogonist just like Paul in the Bible. I also like the double image of Hannibal at the shopping mall, when his face is split by the side of a mirro. A lot of the film has a horror type feel to it such as the camera lighting and the Hans Zimmer music. The opera is a beautiful scene as well: wonderfully lit and visually beautiful. Granted, some of the dialogue might not run too smoothly at times, but for the most part, it works fairly well. As far as the Beauty and the Beast comparison goes, we can see a visual representation of this in a shot where Hannibal and Clarice are backlit as Hannibal carries Clarice out of Mason Verger’s barn. I am a big Ridley Scott fan and eventhough this film is not Blade Runner or Alien, I think it is sufficiently entertaining. Another film that I think would be a guilty pleasurue of mine would be Al Pacino in Scarface. The music is not the greatest, but it is tolerable to an extent, not the score itself, but the songs that were composed by Giorgio Moroder, the dialogue in some places might be rather mediocre, but there are a good amount of memorable lines and it is very entertaining.
You don’t sound very “guilty.” We’re gonna have to sentence you to watch Hannibal Rising 50 times :)
Sleepless in Seattle
Only You
I used to like love stories where there is this idea of the one person that’s meant for you and it’s inevitable or destiny or fate that eventually brings you two together. Since becoming an adult and having been in relationships, I don’t really believe this anymore and tend to despise films like this. But these two I still hold a soft spot for (although it’s been years since I’ve seen them).
Freaky Friday! pour l’adolescente toujours en moi!
Bonjour Charlotte !!
Pour moi, c’est " Rabbi Jacob " de Gérard Oury.
How about BORAT?
OK I’m a little embarrassed by these ones but I love Deep Blue Sea (beyond silly) & Terminator 3 (especially the chase scene with the big yellow crane smashing up an entire street)
Zardoz! Awesome movie.
The Cannonball Run, Clueless, Conan the Barbarian, Napoleon Dynamite.
I love it when ZARDOZ gets some respect. A nutbar classic.
Somekind Of Wonderful. I love it. Memorized every word.
Jersey Girl. I can’t help it
David Ehrenstein
Under the Cherry Moon
Joanna