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Author Topic: Guilty Pleasure Movies (2014 edition) Frank Cox Film God Posts: 2234 From: Melville Saskatchewan Canada Registered: Apr 2011 posted 02-26-2014 11:47 AM                        The Princess Bride is a true classic; it's high on my personal list of the best movies I've ever seen. I just thought of another great movie to add to this list, though: Army of Darkness. I love that one, too. "This is my BOOMSTICK!"  |  IP: Logged Mitchell Dvoskin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1869 From: West Milford, NJ, USA Registered: Jan 2001 posted 02-26-2014 03:04 PM                     > The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension I second that. I was one of the 3 people nationwide that paid to see Buckaroo theatrically when it was in first run. Been a favorite ever since. There are so many bad movies that are actually a lot of fun, that it is hard to pick out only a few. Some off the top of my head: Night Of The Lepus, giant killer bunny rabbits. Black Sheep (2006 Version), killer man eating sheep. Just Imagine (1930 Version), Was it a musical? Was it a comedy? Was it a science fiction film? Did it make any sense? What were they thinking. Candy (1969), This film seem like it started out as another softcore porno about a young high school girl being lusted after by a bunch of dirty old men. However, somewhere between inception and filming, they managed to sign for the diry old men: Richard Burton, Marlon Brando, James Coburn, John Huston, Walter Matthau, John Astin, Sugar Ray Robinson, and Ringo Starr. There is not more than a few seconds of nudity in the film, but watching all those big stars humiliate themselves is a riot. Blindman, Tony Anthony plays a blind gunfighter in the old west, with his seeing eye horse. Twister (1996), Little plot, over the top acting, but a lot of fun.  |  IP: Logged Rick Raskin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1100 From: Manassas Virginia Registered: Jan 2003 posted 02-26-2014 04:13 PM                     quote: Mark Ogden Idiocracy  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 02-27-2014 10:02 AM                        quote: Mitchell Dvoskin Just Imagine (1930 Version), Was it a musical? Was it a comedy? Was it a science fiction film? Did it make any sense? What were they thinking. You could almost say the same thing of Things to Come. To a large extent it was rescued by the visuals, special effects, music and some of the ideas in the script. But for acting and directing, it's almost into Ed Wood territory - surprising, given that Raymond Massey and Ralph Richardson weren't exactly amateur dramatic society calibre. It is said that William Cameron Menzies posted armed guards around the entrance to the studio to keep H.G. Wells out towards the end of the shooting, because he'd insist in screwing up the continuity of scenes that would otherwise have been OK by having a character make a long, rambling political speech to camera, which he would then refuse to allow to be edited down. I remember once seeing it at a Sunday afternoon show at a campus theatre, and the classic dialogue line "Oh, darling, I really, really have to go" ... "Of course dear, because if you don't go now, you won't be able to go for another four years" (they meant going to Mars, but in British slang nowadays "to go" means using the toilet) earned howls of laughter and a round of applause.  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 02-27-2014 10:18 AM                     quote: Frank Cox The Princess Bride is a true classic; it's high on my personal list of the best movies I've ever seen. Agreed. The Princess Bride really isn't a "guilty pleasure" movie. It's just an all around great movie. There is nothing to feel guilty about with liking that movie. The only thing that should make anyone feel guilty is watching The Princess Bride and not enjoying it.  |  IP: Logged Dave Bird Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 777 From: Perth, Ontario, Canada Registered: Jun 2000 posted 02-27-2014 12:01 PM                        For a few years, while mom and dad worked in the snack bar/projection, our kids would be marooned in the office for hours. We took to sometimes picking up $3 DVD's when we were out buying groceries. So via them, here's a really guilty pleasure: Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore in "Music & Lyrics". Brad Garrett is hilarious as always but the whole overdone parody on early 80's pop music is pretty funny. Of course, I'm a guy who likes good movies and bad, there's just something about bad movies.  |  IP: Logged Jeff Kane Film Handler Posts: 74 From: corpus christi, tx Registered: Jun 2011 posted 02-27-2014 12:10 PM                     The Black Hole - Saw it as a kid, loved Slim Pickens. Hot Resort - Typical mid-80s Golan/Globus T&A movie and truly a guilty pleasure but damn funny Moscow on the Hudson - I have a fascination with the cold war plus Robin Williams Club Paradise - Peter O'Toole, Jimmy Cliff, Eugene Levy.. three people I NEVER expected to see in a movie together. The Time Machine - Yeah yeah I know... but Orlando Jones steals it.  |  IP: Logged Mike Peterson Film Handler Posts: 11 From: Beacon Falls, CT , USA Registered: Nov 2006 posted 02-27-2014 02:24 PM                        Ok. The people have spoken and I will remove The Princess Bride as it isn't as guilty of a pleasure I initially thought. It will replaced by Big Man on Campus (1989) starring Bob Maloogaloogaloogaloogalooga  |  IP: Logged Matthew McBride Film Handler Posts: 97 From: Tupelo, MS USA Registered: Oct 2011 posted 02-28-2014 03:09 PM                     I would have to add Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze IT(the tv movie) Not sure if the first turtles movie is a guilty pleasure, if it is, then it's one of mine.  |  IP: Logged Donald Brown Expert Film Handler Posts: 131 From: Lincoln, DE Registered: Sep 2009 posted 02-28-2014 05:21 PM                     Although I don't think that it would ever live up to my expectations today, for years I desperately wanted to see a movie called Invasion Of The Blood Farmers. It made the rounds at a few Boston area drive-ins and would often appear on the marquee at the Hyannis Theater on Cape Cod as a midnight show. Invasion Of The Blood Farmers is one of those personal objectives that's so elusive that it could never really satisfy one's expectations!  |  IP: Logged Victor Liorentas Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 800 From: london ontario canada Registered: May 2009 posted 02-28-2014 06:16 PM                     Two Adventure movies! The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes Smarter Brother. 1975 The Adventures Of Raggedy Ann And Andy. 1977 A zombie horror flick! Shock Waves. 1977 Peter Cushing!  |  IP: Logged

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