Guilty Pleasures

tetsujin28 · Dec 18, 2003

PowerWordDumb said:
Robot Jox: "I thought only we had the green laser!", "One, two, three, four - I declare a thumb war!"

The early Full Moon movies rule.

tetsujin28 · Dec 18, 2003

Scarbonac said:
At the risk of appearing to be a supa-wuss (though I was no more than 10 at the time), I cried when

Giant Robot sacrificed himself, against Jonny's orders, to save the world from Emperor Guillotine by flying them both into an asteroid

.

Nothing wrong with that. It's a scene of incredible pathos. ;-)

tetsujin28 · Dec 18, 2003

jdavis said:
Well Hudson Hawk was already mentioned, I loved that movie. Anybody else seen Hardware? Great movie. But when you get right down to it my real guilty pleasure movie would have to be Streets of Fire. When people ask you what your favorite movie of all time is and you say Streets of Fire then you really know something about a guilty pleasure movie. You combine the 1950's with early 1980's pop music, add in as much bad Michael Pare acting as you can fit, throw in a little Rick Moranis trying to act serious, then top it off with a very young Willem Dafoe in hip waders and you got the makings of pure 80's movie crap. Star Wars has nothing in Streets of Fire, it's my all time favorite movie bar none, heck I even own the soundtrack.

You forgot to mention how absolutely frickin' hot Diane Lane is.

Rackhir · Dec 18, 2003

Lady Mer said:
You're kidding! You mean I'm NOT the only person to have seen this film[Streets of Fire]? I absolutely love the movie, and I've never been able to find anyone else who has ever heard of it.

Actually, it is a moderately famous film/cult movie if only among older anime fans. The opening rock concert in the first Bubble Gum Crisis OVA is supposed to be based on a rock concert from that movie.

Villano · Dec 18, 2003

Brother Shatterstone said:
If we are talking TV:
Kim Possible

it's too funny.

Oh, there's nothing to feel guilty about there. I love that show. "Monkey ninjas, attack!"

Actually, that show leads me to my guilty pleasure tv series. When I first saw Kim Possible, I recognized her voice, but I couldn't place it. I was thinking that maybe she did some voices on the old G.I. Joe or recent Batman series or something (just because someone is doing the voice of a teenage girl doesn't mean she isn't really 50 yrs old...or even if she's a "she").

Anyway, after doing a search on IMBD.com, I found out that the voice was Christy Carlson Romano, who also appears on the tv series Even Stevens. I realized that I had seen about 10 seconds of it once while flipping through the channels.

To make a long story short (too late), I ended up watching The Even Stevens Movie. Put that down as a guilty pleasure for me. I can't explain why, but I love everything about that movie (well, except Beans, who's just annoying). Now, the tv series is a guilty pleasure as well.

Besides that, Christy Carlson Romano is hot. Okay, before anyone objects and calls me a dirty, old man, even though she's playing a middle school student, she is, in reality, in college. Most people should realize that already since she stands a head taller than everyone else in the cast (take a real good look at how she towers over the boy who's supposed to be one of her best friends).

It's kind of like the old Nick series, You Can't Do That On Television. The lead girl, Christine "Moose" McGlade (McGlaid?), was in her 20's and was a co-producer on the show. That came as a shock to me. I thought, as a little kid, that I had a crush on an "older woman" of 16. Little did I know that she was almost double my age.

Oh, and other guilty tv pleasures are MXC: Most Extreme Elimination Challenge and the cartoon, Ultimate Muscle. Wrestler fighting toilet people? Why not?

Psychotic Dreamer · Dec 18, 2003

Hmmm. Guilty pleasures. Transformers: The Movie. Except amongst geeks I'd never admit I enjoy the movie in public.

I know there are others, but I'm currently drawing a blank. A total blank.

Abraxas · Dec 18, 2003

Well, to jump on the I liked them also bandwagon, I did like Cutthroat Island, Howard the Duck and Hudson Hawk.

A few others I really like but get strange looks from my friends when I watch are

Blood of Heroes (Apocolyptic football with a dogs skull)
L.A. Story (Wacky Weatherman Steve Martin)
The Ghost and Mr. Chicken (Don Knotts best film)
These are almost acceptable to others . . .

Le Grand Bleu (life and death of world champion freedivers)
Re-animator (camp at its best)
Warriors of Virtue (Live action anime kungfu anthro-kangaroos)
The Forbidden Zone (Danny Elfman as Satan doing a parody of Cab Calloway's Minnie the Moocher is fantastic)
Jeepers Creepers 2 (soon the DVD will be mine)
These I generally keep quiet about . . .

Scarbonac · Dec 18, 2003

tetsujin28 said:
Nothing wrong with that. It's a scene of incredible pathos. ;-)

W3rd.

OK, since we're talking kidvid and cartoons, who else dug the D&D Cartoon? Oh, some of the eps don't hold up as well as they might today, but it was written head and shoulders above its competition; had it been made in the last decade or so -- but not remade or "re-imagined" -- it could have been 20 times better simply because of the stories that could be told and the things that could be shown due to the changes in attitudes and standards.

Plus the toys would be frelling awesome. Orcs, the Young Ones with Magic Weapons, Venger with Fold-Out Wing Action! Tiamat! The Beholder! Demodragon! Thief in her removable miniskirt and thigh-high boots-ummm, err, uhhh, Warduke! Yeah, Warduke, that's what I meant to say, yeah, that's the ticket...

Also, Bigfoot and Wildboy is high on my list of guilty pleasures.

Re: The Forbidden Zone -- I love this movie...and Howard the Duck.

Mog Elffoe · Dec 18, 2003

Scarbonac said:
At the risk of appearing to be a supa-wuss (though I was no more than 10 at the time), I cried when

Giant Robot sacrificed himself, against Jonny's orders, to save the world from Emperor Guillotine by flying them both into an asteroid

.

The only time that I've ever even come close to crying in a movie was at the end of the Iron Giant and for pretty much the same reasons. To this day I still get that lump in my throat and my eyes get all watery when I watch it.

s/LaSH · Dec 18, 2003

Mog Elffoe said:
The only time that I've ever even come close to crying in a movie was at the end of the Iron Giant and for pretty much the same reasons. To this day I still get that lump in my throat and my eyes get all watery when I watch it.

That's a well-done movie. It's rare that I'll tape some cartoon movie off TV and insist that my friends watch it in between translating Caesar's historical writings, or playing Unreal Tournament 2003 just to watch the bodies fall down cliffs, but I taped that.

I still want to see the second half of the book, though. Nuclear war has nothing on what happens next...