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Message: <blockquote data-quote="reapersaurus" data-source="post: 1273553" data-attributes="member: 1194">True, however I think what may have bearing here is whether the movie has a "Cult Classic" reputation or status, as well as the genre they're in.Top Secret! is so out-there and zany, it's hard to call it a guilty pleasure, since it's entire existence is as a niche movie. It was made for a small market, and it succeeded in what it tried to do. Same as Big Trouble in Little China and many of the other movies that (IMO) have been incorrectly listed here as Guilty Pleasures.Further, it has a good "reputation". Meaning, that it is remembered fondly by MANY many people.A movie like Disclosure doesn't exactly have too many defenders out there, on the internet or in real life.I'd bet that the average person doesn't remember it, even though it came out fairly recently and was a big movie at the time.It just has been forgotten, and has no "reputation" nor is it a cult film by any stretch of the word. I don't think many people thought it was a good film, even in its genre. I just like it, and have difficulty turning it off when it does come on (TNT, invariably).In a thread like this on DVDFile, the movie's Rotten Tomatoes rating was used as a barometer of a film's Guilt-Ratio.For example, Top Secret! has a rating of 79% fresh - hardly a movie to be embarassed about enjoying...  (although I think there may be a bit of revisionist history going on with that rating - I don't remember it being so well received when it came out.)</blockquote>

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