Guilty Pleasures

[Alzrius]

Ah, darn. I saw this thread title and thought someone had discovered the first book of the Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series. Oh well.

 

[Dragonblade]

Red Dawn: The Soviets invade America, and it's up to a gang of High School Students to stop them! This movie requires enormous suspension of disblief. We're asked to believe that the Soviets could launch a massive invasion of the United States without anybody noticing, and then we're asked to believe that a band of teenagers are capable of waging an effective guerilla war against the invaders for months. I'm not too proud to admit that I have a soft spot for this movie, and I always smile whenever I hear the war cry of "Wolverines!"

Just a side note, and not to get political, but the U.S. military operation that captured Saddam was called Operation Red Dawn.

And the two sites that were searched, where they believed Saddam to be hiding, were called "Wolverine 1" and "Wolverine 2".

Some young officer who grew up in the 80's probably came up with that.

 

[Scarbonac]

Hawk The Slayer, Baby. Everyone wanted a Mindsword after watching this.

Hundra: Amazon tribe gets wiped out, lone survivor travels to Man's World to find someone worthy of fathering her child. The culture outside the Amazons' realm makes the world in the Gor novels look enlightened. Hundra kicks tons of ass.

Lifeforce: based on The Space Vampires, this has a naked space vampire chick running around in it.

Scorpion King: The Rock is charming and engaging in the title role, and it's just fun.

Light Years (aka Gandahar): Stiffly animated French/Korean (IIRC) SF/Fantasy (also dubbed in English) with extremely trippy visuals, time-travel paradoxes, mutants and evil robot-thingies; very dark.




Jonny Sokko and His Flying Robot: late 60s kaiju/giant robot/sentai TV show from Japan; 10-year-old boy uses Science Watch to control Giant ass-kicking robot to aid good-guy group U.N.I.C.O.R.N. against the evil Gargoyle Gang. Giant monsters, pre-teens karate-chopping alien agents, death-rays, it's all good.


Already mentioned by others, but Sword & The Sorcerer and Beastmaster I are among my collection of beloved trash.

 

[Dark Jezter]

Just a side note, and not to get political, but the U.S. military operation that captured Saddam was called Operation Red Dawn.

And the two sites that were searched, where they believed Saddam to be hiding, were called "Wolverine 1" and "Wolverine 2".

Some young officer who grew up in the 80's probably came up with that.

I knew about that. When I heard it on the news, I did a double take, then thought "cool!"

I guess somone in the 4th Infantry Division must be a fan of that movie.

EDIT: Oh, and on a side note, I'd like to second the suggestions of Sniper and The Scorpion King for guilty pleasures.

 

[johnsemlak]

"The Sword and the Sorcerer" - Matt Houston, a three bladed sword, Bull from Night Court playing a lich, Richard Lynch as the bad guy, cheesy heroics and bad one-liners...what's to be guilty about?

Oh, yeah, I almost forgot! The blades of the sword can shoot out at the push of a button! I mean, c'mon...at the time this thing was just begging to be made into a toy for 8 year old kids! Mattel could've made a killing!

I loved The sword and the sorceror as a kid.

What ever happened to that sequal announced in the credits, 'Tales of a forgotten Empire' or something like that?

 

[tetsujin28]

Jonny Sokko and His Flying Robot: late 60s kaiju/giant robot/sentai TV show from Japan; 10-year-old boy uses Science Watch to control Giant ass-kicking robot to aid good-guy group U.N.I.C.O.R.N. against the evil Gargoyle Gang. Giant monsters, pre-teens karate-chopping alien agents, death-rays, it's all good.

Dude, Giant Robo rules. No apologies needed there! I think we should add Inframan, as well.

 

[tetsujin28]

Oh absolutely. I also pray that Paige (who I otherwise hate) and Gen have something going on. In fact every time I see or hear Paige I begin slightly revulsed and then I mentally pair her with Gen, and POOF she's tolerable.


God yes. Absolutely stunning. I just watch (and listen!), mouth agape, for the duration of the show. Hard to believe such a sexy woman is real.

Sorry, what was the topic?

Oh my God, yes. Nigella. Mmmm. It's the way she licks things. Weirdly, a lot of people can't stand her here in the UK. Their loss. And Amy-Wynn and Gen are just too hot to believe.

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

Wow, I've seen nomours movies that I thought where great listed here... Anyhow in an attempt not to repeat:
Wild Things
Dangerous Beauty

Though that last one it's been a long time since I watched it, but I do own the DVD....

If we are talking TV:
Kim Possible

it's too funny.

 

[Capellan]

Flash Gordon
Krull
The Parent Trap (either version)
Shock Treatment

 

[Elemental]

Resident Evil - I consider this a 'side story' to the games. It actually fits into the plot without too much work, and the film is pretty fun by itself.

Have you see the DVD commentary? It's funnier than the film itself. I still can't hear the word 'Yoghurt!" without starting to giggle.