Guilty Pleasures

[Dark Jezter]

This thread is for people to list movies that are silly, implausable, corny, wierd, or just plain bad, but for some reason we like them anyways. Oh, and I know that a lot of people will automatically list "Army of Darkness", so you can skip that one.

I'll start...

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!"

Tommy Boy: I don't know how it does it, but this movie never fails to crack me up. The comedic chemistry between Chris Farley and David Spade is classic, even though this movie. Chris Farley (before his death) and David Spade have both made some real stinkers in their career, but Tommy Boy remains one of my favorite comedy films.

Dragonheart: I know that, as a fantasy fan, I'm legally required to hate this movie, but I just can't. I like the dragons, I like Brother Gilbert, and I like the score.

Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves: Friar Tuck. 'Nuff said.

Alien Resurrection: This movie dosen't really turn bad until the Newborn shows up. I just like to pretend that the final 20 minutes of the movie didn't happen.

Willow: Childhood nostalgia strikes again! A few months ago, I watched this movie for the first time since I was 9 years old, and I found myself enjoying it a lot more than I should have. I was so pleased that I went out and bought the movie on DVD. Oh, by the way, I'd also forgotten how much of a babe Sorsha was.

Moonraker: Easily the most far-fetched of the Bond movies. It's hard to hate the movie where Jaws actually speaks.

 

[Hypersmurf]

Alien Resurrection: This movie dosen't really turn bad until the Newborn shows up. I just like to pretend that the final 20 minutes of the movie didn't happen.

Yes! That's exactly my opinion on that movie!

I'm going to put in a vote for the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles live action film, and second Prince of Thieves.

-Hyp.

 

[John Crichton]

UHF: I am a Weird Al fanboy.

Major League: There were so many classic lines from this movie that really weren't classic.

Unnecessary Roughness: I must have a thing for sports comedies...

Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves: Friar Tuck. 'Nuff said.

I loved the score for that movie and wasn't aware that the movie was supposed to suck until years after it came out. It's also one of the few Costner flicks I've enjoyed (Bull Durham and Field of Dreams being the other 2).

Not Another Teenage Move: I don't know why but whenever this comes on HBO I have to watch. Honestly, this is one of the worst films I've ever seen and cannot figure out why I like it.

I'm sure there are more...

 

[Olive]

I actually think it's a good movie, but Starship Troopers. Also, Willow, but again I don't get why people are nasty about it. Alien 3 I think is a good movie, which probably should have been removed fromt he Alien francise, but Alien: Res is bad from begining to end, even from it's very conception. It just gets so much worse when the newborn shows up that it's hard to remember how bad the rest of it was already.

 

[s/LaSH]

I'll put Dragonheart and Willow onto my list. Got my little sisters hooked on exploding trolls at an early age...

Starship Troopers - for all that it's derided by some, I know it's got precious little to do with the book, and I still like it.

Star Wars Episode II - some don't think highly of it, I think it's spectacular. I'm not after the deepness that's in the other films, I just like the cool stuff.

Mortal Kombat Anihilation - this film is so crap I get endless entertainment out of its crapness. It's one thing to animate a kung-fu battle where mooks stand still until they're beaten down. It's another thing to have an important duel where one combatant just waits to be kicked through a wall. Its craptacularity knows no limit, and I just have to laugh. I taped it off TV, that's how much I love to hate this film. (The original actually doesn't suck at all, so it's anyone's guess where this came from.)

EDIT: Olive got there first with Troopers.

 

[tetsujin28]

Showgirls
Zoltan, Hound of Dracula (aka Dracula's Dog)
Twins of Evil (identical twin Playmates in a Hammer film? Sign me up!)
Hudson Hawk
Dracula A.D. 1972: Super-swingin' horror baby, yeah! Caroline Munro is absolutely luscious, 'tho she's only in about a third of the film. Do not, I repeat, do not watch this while stoned or overly drunk. You will hurt yourself. A personal favourite, I make sure to watch it at least once a year, preferably with Twins of Evil.

 

[LightPhoenix]

Here's another vote for Alien:Res. I didn't think the movie was near as bad as people make it out to be. Except the whole alien newborn, whoever thoght of that seriously needs to be killed. It wasn't a great movie, and certainly the weaker of the four, (though Alien 3 was eh too), but it wasn't terrible.

I didn't know Willow was so reviled, so I guess it would be guilty too. Except I'm not really guilty about liking it.

Um... I'm really having trouble thinking of movies that are guilty pleasures for me... all in all I'm just not really ashamed of the movies I like or don't like. I'll have to give it more thought, but I wanted to post the above.

 

[Mog Elffoe]

There are a LOT of films I love that most folks don't, but I don't feel guilty about watching them. For example, I LOVE Japanese giant monster films. I love them so much that I cannot feel guilty for enjoying them. Instead, I simply pity those who don't have as much fun with them as I do.

That said there are some truly BAD films that I do enjoy mainly because of their crapulence.

Commando, with Arnold Schwarzenegger--Man, this thing is bad, but so much fun! You can watch it for quotably bad dialog, continuity errors, bad effects (some of the army that Arnold blows up at the end is clearly cardboard cutouts), everything! This movie never fails to bring a smile to my face.

"I eat Green Berets for breakfast--and right now I'm VERY HUNGRY!"

Andy Sidaris films--You may not know who he is, but Andy Sidaris makes the most entertainingly bad 'R' rated skin flicks around. Stuff like Malibu Express, Hard Hunted, Enemy Gold, Dallas Connection, Savage Beach. You know, those late night movies on Cinemax where Julie Strain plays either a world-reknowned spy or an infamous assassin? THOSE films. For my money, the most fun low budget T&A flicks ever.

I've got to head off now. Gonna go eat some pancakes and then go wait in line for Trilogy Tuesday!

 

[Desdichado]

I like Starship Troopers and Alien Resurrection both! Willow wasn't one I thought was reviled; prior to the Lord of the Rings movies, I'd have said it had the dubious honor of being one of the better fantasy films having been made.

Despite that, it hasn't aged particularly well; about a year ago (last Christmas, while at my parents house, come to think of it) I watched it again for the first time in a long time, and didn't like it as much as I remembered.

 

[TiQuinn]

"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!