OK, I’m going to approach this as “… Films I Wouldn’t Necessarily Like Other Members of Film Faculties To Know I Watch and Like …Even Though I Know They Have Secret Stashes of Stallone Themselves.”
If you want my “thoughtful” alternate list, go and read it on Bob S’s thread. These are just really guilty pleasures:
THE TOWERING INFERNO (rock on, Joseph!)
THE NATURAL
JAWS 2
STARSHIP TROOPERS
POINT BREAK
SLEEPING WITH THE ENEMY (I like the beach house — the only film I watch just for the architecture!)
THE BAD NEWS BEARS
PEYTON PLACE (almost as good as DOCTOR ZHIVAGO for its schmaltz)
CLOVERFIELD (I f-ing love this monster movie!)
and …
the greatest comedy of my youth — CADDYSHACK
and …
C’mon … all the BOND movies!
Hmmmm this is a kind of embarassing thread but, I guess I’ll bite.
Donnie Darko
Cannibal Holocaust
Nightmare on Elm Street
Sleepy Hollow
The Crow
All the Batman movies (although I don’t really think that I should feel guilty for the two Burton ones and the two newest ones)
Hellboy
Logan’s Run
The Harry Potter flicks
Amelie (I’m not really sure if this IS a guilty pleasure)
and some crappy romantic comedies (Notting Hill, About a Boy, Love Actually)…
Knocked Up & Superbad
Im sure that’s more than ten… ahhhh it kinda feels good to air your dirty laundry.
How did Starship Troopers make 2 out of the first 3 lists? I’m sorry but no Paul Verhoeven film deserves to be on a list like this (ok maybe Showgirls. MAYBE.). The happy fascist government videos alone put in a league separate and apart from, say, Jaws 2. The guy made Robocop: show some darned respect.
Wild Wild West
Jumanji
Knocked Up
Kill Bill 1 & 2
King Kong (Peter Jackson’s Version)
Wedding Crashers
Matrix, M Reloaded, M Revolutions
Spiderman 1 & 2
Ocean’s 11, 12, 13
I can watch these anytime….but would never figure in my top 50 (except for Kill Bill :-) )
I don’t believe in having guilty pleasures. If you like something and acknowledge it for its qualities.
Films I love are great that everyone else hates:
1. The Matrix Reloaded
2. Speed Racer
3. Contour a film by The Stunt People (I’ve made several posts about this one)
4. Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
5. Vanilla Sky
Films I liked despite having little quality:
6. Frank Miller’s The Spirit
7. Many of the Nightmare on Elm Street movies
8. I can put Contour on this list as well (though it makes up for it in action)
Movies I don’t want many people to know I own:
9. Stick it (didn’t watch it for the story)
10. Attack Girls Swim Team versus the Living Dead (again didn’t watch it for the story, and have watched it several times)
1.Ghostbusters
2.Hook
3.National Lampoon’s Vacation (original, european, and x-mas)
4.Robin Hood: Men in Tights
5.The new Pink Panther movie
6.War Games
7.Dumb and Dumber
8.Cable Guy
9.Meet The Parents
10.Zoolander
Oh, and I can admit that North by Northwest is my favorite Hitchcock too. Suck It!
NOT NECCESSARILY IN ANY PARTICULAR ORDER:
1) Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure
2) Halloween (Rob Zombie version)
3) Escape from New York
3) Waterworld
4) Airplane
5) Tombstone
6) National Treasure
7) Rocky
8) Rocky III
9) Pumpkin
10) Shawshank Redemption
what I posted in the other thread:
36th Chamber of Shaolin – Liu Chia-Liang (1978) Hong Kong
3-Iron – Kim Ki Duk (2004) Korea
Better Tomorrow 2 – John Woo (1987) Hong Kong
Big Trouble in Little China – John Carpenter (1986) USA
Chungking Express – Wong Kar Wai (1995) Hong Kong
Double Life of Véronique – Krzysztof Kieślowski (1991) Poland
Good, the Bad and the Ugly – Sergio Leone (1966) Italy
Love Letter – Shunji Iwai (1995) Japan
Mad Max 2 – George Miller (1981) Australia
Persona – Ingmar Bergman (1966) Sweden
dear god Lester, Bill & Ted and National Treasure…..fukken classics…..
I have to agree with the above that there shouldn’t really be guilty pleasures because if you like it, then there must be some quality about it thats worth recognizing. That being said, there’s some films or series that I’ve watched that people would probably say are either bad or just mediocre.
Doomsday
Sunshine
Forbidden Zone
Crank
Noriko’s Dinner Table
Rahxephon (anime series)
Dead or Alive Trilogy
Versus
Neil Marshall’s Dog Soldiers
Jess Franco’s Venus in Furs
John McNaughton’s Wild Things
Ed Wood’s The Sinister Urge
Ron Ormond’s Mesa of Lost Women
Too Soon to Love by Richard Rush (who directed the Stunt Man!), with a brief appearance by a 23-year-old Jack Nicholson.
Tobe Hooper’s Lifeforce
Paul Veerhoven’s Basic Instinct
Ken Russell’s The Lair of the White Worm
Roger Corman’s Attack of the Crab Monsters
Whew. That’s enuf.
Cheers,
Steve
cinemauprising.blogspot.com
Zoolander
much of Apatow’s productions
Kevin Smith movies
Corman’s “Bucket of Blood” (the representation of beat culture as elitist cracks me up)
There’s so much…
You want me to admit publicly that I like things like CHILDREN SHOULDN’T PLAY WITH DEAD THINGS and not do it under an assumed name?
oh … wait … crap …
1.)The Beyond
2.)Streets of Fire
3.)Dog Soldiers
4.)Any Predator or Alien movie(even when they fight each-other)
5.)Big Trouble in Little China
6.)Dumb and Dumber
7.)Die Hard
8.)Tony Jaa movies(and early Jet li)
9.) Fletch
10.)Road House
9.)
I enjoy the movies of Tarantino and Rodriguez. Can anyone deny the awesomeness of Grindhouse? That and cheesey horror movies are my big ones.
- Jackass: The Movie and Jackass Number Two
- those first Steven Seagal movies (each fucking mint, in their own special way): Above the Law; Hard to Kill; Out For Justice; Under Siege
- South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
- The Joy Luck Club (made me weep, though the script was assembled by the Ron Bass Script Factory)
- The Notebook (saw this only on my wife’s insistence, and it very nearly made me weep, big-time)
- Stone Cold (Lance Henriksen AND William Forsythe – what what?)
- Porky’s
- The Hollywood Knights (Robert Wuhl at his finest; and the “one-armed violinist” bit is mint)
- Superman Returns
I forgot – Beneath the Planet of the Apes (“I reveal myself unto my God”)
The Drums of Fu Manchu (actually the octopus under the desk trap door is inspired)
Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama
Some stuff put out by American International that I’m too embarrassed to name.
Child’s Play there I said it.
Attack of the 50 Foot Woman
I did something on this at my blog a few months ago so will just link it.
http://prr5345nostalgic.blogspot.com/2008/09/hateful-popular-films-and-loved-hated.html
The Great Escape, The Yellow Rolls Toyce, the Airport series – because they have international, incongruous casts
The Island, Logan’s Run, – I’m a sucker for peeks into the future
Imitation for Life, Peyton Place, Madame X – for Lana Turner
Any Bette Davis movie – she is astounding!
Any Troy Donahue-as-a-teenager movie – for nostalgic reasons
Come September – same as above
The Devil Wears Prada – “Is there some reason that my coffee isn’t here? Has she died or something?”
Butterfield 8 – young Elizabeth Taylor !!!!!
“The Great Escape, The Yellow Rolls Toyce, the Airport series – because they have international, incongruous casts” – Viken
Yes!!! @ Viken
You know what one of the best things about all those awful disaster flicks of the 70s were? The posters!!! Remember all that great horrific artwork with all the stars pix in a row of little squares at the bottom? And where else could you ever see Fred Astaire in the same movie with O.J. Simpson?!?! Or Lorne Greene playing Ava Gardner’s father? Or Helen Reddy — Helen Reddy! — as a nun, and in the same perilous airplane with Gloria Swanson playing … herself?!?!
Such fun!
Actually the best of this hodgepodge casting, and, since it really was pretty-much the last of the overblown disaster flix (the ‘peak,’ if that is possible), maybe where it reached its nadir, has to be 1977’s THE CASSANDRA CROSSING, about all kinds of hijinx on a doomed train across central Europe. How’s this for a cast — some of the best of Europe: Sophia Loren, Richard Harris, Ingrid Thulin (!!!), matched with some of the best Americans, albeit sometime expatriates: Burt Lancaster, Lee Strasberg, John Philip Law, Martin Sheen, Ava Gardner (again) … and … O.J. Simpson! Again … and this time as an undercover priest/cop!!!
Somebody has to revive these all-star extravaganzas, dammit! I wanna see Meryl and Keanu thrown together as a May-December love interest, with Harvey Keitel as her jilted husband, Ben Kingsley and Brenda Vacarro as the kooky alcoholic couple from Scarsdale, Jean-Paul Belmondo as the old man with a secret past, Nancy Reagan in her comeback, and Lindsay Lohan topless as a runaway nun, all on a doomed Trailways ride across … Saskatchewan!
And, of course, with …
Leslie Nielsen as ‘The Captain’
Bowfinger
Joe vs. the Volcano (much better than Doubt, the director’s other movie and to this day Tom Hanks’ best movie, possibly his only good movie)
Street Fighter
American Ninja IV
The Librarian series
Cutting Class
Spaceballs
Trainspotting
A Night at the Roxbury
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (the first movie, but I don’t no if this would be a guilty pleasure since it has Elias Koteas and is actually a great adaptation of the series, but whatevs)
Ok what the hell? This is a guilty pleasures thread right? Things you shouldn’t like but you do. Or things that are bad you like. Crap, i;m hoping you misunderstood what this thread is with “Chunking Express” on your list. Lester Burnam “BIG TROUBLE???”, “Tombstone”, “Shawshank”? Thoose are well made films not guilty pleasures.
Weekend at Bernies
Weekend at Bernies 2
Overboard
Beerfest
Summer Rental
Uncle Buck
Basketcase
Frankenhooker
Bad News Bears {The New one)
Benchwarmers
I think I did honestly since I took it for the same thing as the Auteurs Poll thread that is going about alt lists. Someone, not me, in that thread said this was the same thing so I posted it here as well.
but yea, im not guilty i like any of the films i listed…..
Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
Planet of the Apes (1968)
Battle Royale
Napoleon Dynamite
any Zatoichi movie
Snatch
Pitch Black
Speed
Fifth Element
Ping Pong
I dare you to shoot these down…
High School Confidential
The Chase (‘67)
Nightmare City a.k.a. City of the Walking Dead (Umberto Lenzi)
Vampyros Lesbos (Jess Franco)
The Street Fighter- Series
Dillinger
Crimson Tide
White Man Can’t Jump
Che? (Roman Polanski)
Rambo – Series
Joanna
Under the Cherry Moon
Skidoo
Casino Royale (1967)
Xanadu
The Driver’s Seat
Luna
The Towering Inferno
Woman’s World
The Chase
I feel no guilt whatsoever about loving Joe vs. The Volcano, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai, or Roman Polanski’s What?
Joseph Montoto
1. March of the Wooden Soldiers (Limited Guilt Only)
2. Shaft (“Shaft, I want my baby back”)
3. The Poseidon Adventure
4. The Towering Inferno
5. The Naked Gun (“That’s quite a beaver you have there!”)
6. Rambo (“Murdoch…I’m comin’ for you!” Cue Thunder Clap.)
7. Starship Troopers
8. Tombs of the Blind Dead
9. Road House (Nobody’s cooler than Sam Elliott)
10. Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure (But I’m really not guilty about loving this one)