Enough about the best movie, where we all stand-up next to proven successes. Now's confession time. Time to embarass yourself. What's your favorite movie that you're embarassed to admit?
I'm thinking...
Stroker Ace
Rocky
Pan (with Robin Williams)
Eddie and the Cruisers
Saturday Night Fever
Motel Hell
Rocketman
1. Repo Man - great lines, great soundtrack
2. Starship Troopers - hot chicks naked, guns, bugs
3. Phantasm - creepy, terrible effects, gross
4. Rambo, First Blood Part 2 - just really a pile of stinking crap, but lots of guns and explosions and stuff
5. West World - Richard Benjamin and Yul Brynner. Need I say more?
Bonus: Any of a number of stupid teen movies with roughly the same plot (10 Things I Hate About You, etc).
Hudson Hawk and Kentucky Fried Movie I too love, but how about...
Lone Wolf McQuade
Big Trouble in Little China
Remo Williams, the adventure begins
Commando
Freddy vs Jason
Escape from New York
I don't know why, but I can watch any of the following movies over and over. I know they are shitty movies, but I own them all and watch them all the time.
Starship Troopers
Hackers (okay, I know why I watch this one...Angelina Jolie...mmmmm)
OH MY GOD. Class of 1999??? I have seen that movie, thanks to renting it over and over and over in junior high, about a million times. It's AWESOME. Chubby Michael J. Fox? Awesome!!
Here's the rest of my guilty pleasures:
Tuff Turf (love James Spader)
White Castle (I really love him!)
Adventures in Babysitting
Some Kind of Wonderful
Cocktail
About Last Night
Some kind of Wonderful!!! I saw that 10 times in the theatre when it came out. Mary Stuart Masterson drumming...sigh.
Girls Just Wanna Have Fun (so, so bad)
Dirty Dancing
Satisfaction (Julia Roberts and Justine Bateman in an all girl rock band...what's not to love?!)
Flashdance (what a feelin', indeed)
Adventures in Babysitting AND Cocktail? Both have the awesome Elisabeth Shue! Might I add Hollow Man, Trigger Effect, and Molly to the list of atrociously bad (but fun to watch) Shue movies?
i dispute the thought that point break is a guilty pleasure, if only because i think guilty pleasures are saved for "bad" or "campy" flicks, or movies so bad they're hilarious.
i love point break. i think it's one of the great "action" movies of the 90s. how can you go wrong with "whoa", swayze (when he was still relevant and kicking ass), busey, kiedis, sizemore, mcginley and, of course, the dead presidents? did i forget anyone?
My girlfriend saw me posting to this list and informed me that I have to add The Warriors to my list of guilty pleasures.
Like you guys think about Point Break, I didn't think The Warriors was bad enough to be considered a guilty pleasure but she informed me that it does, in fact, suck whether I like it or not.
I hate to be the one to inform you guys that Point Break is a guilty pleasure. So is Bad Boys, by the way. At least in my book. I see guilty pleasures not as movies bad on a grand scale, but movies that are not of a quality that you should watch more than once or twice, yet we find ourselves watching them all the time. No matter how you spin it, if you say Point Break, Bad Boys, or movies of their ilk are on your favorite movies list, someone is going to chuckle and tell you how they don't deserve to be. This is why, though I watch Hackers much more than A Clockwork Orange, CO is on my favorite movies list and Hackers is not. Same with Point Break, hence the "guilty" pleasure.
i think there's an inbetween here. there's favorite movies that you'll wear on your head like a brand from a cattle prod, then movies that most people would say "hey, that's an alright movie" that you maybe own, feel nostalgic about but don't list as a total favorite, and THEN there's the guilty pleasures where if it's on tnt some sunday afternoon you'll sit there happier than a pig in poop, choked up with a grilled cheese sandwich and consider flipping the channel if anyone comes in on you watching it (wow, run on). point break... i'd put that in the inbetween category. just barely. put it this way, if it weren't swayze and keanu, it would be unquestionably clear of the guilty pleasure stamp.
NORTH SHORE... now there's a guilty pleasure surfing movie.
ONE CRAZY SUMMER? where would some of you put that? I love it so much that i'm blind to the actual value of the movie.
My feeling is that a guilty pleasure is any movie you will quickly change the channel on if someone else comes into the room, or if someone else has the clicker and passes by it, you won't say anything but secretly hope that they will turn the channel back to it (wow, that was a long sentence). I'm not embarrassed to watch Bad Boys or the Warriors. But something like Airbourne (the rollerblade movie w/Jack Black), absolutely. So I think randell may be right, there is probably a middle ground.
One of the qualifying factors for me is that the movie did poorly in the theaters, and is generally loathed by critics. Also, if you were to ask 20 people if they liked it, 19 would laugh and say no.
warriors was bad, sort of. just like band of the hand. saw that flick tons of times. still not sure if its bad. shitty music, i know, and the acting wasnt high caliber.
still, think that here arent many out there that would sit through it.
Another movie I'd forgotten. They filmed parts of that one in my home town. The New Kids was filmed in my high school, and is another really shitty movie in the style of Tuff Turf.
Anyone remember Blue City, with Judd Nelson and Ally Sheedy? It was the first movie I ever owned.
Adventures In Babysitting was boss! And I love Some Kind of Wonderful! Tis not crap! Eric Stoltz is so fine, he's so fine he blows my mind.
Here's some more cheese:
Bubble Boy
Happy Gilmore-you Jackass!
The Dream Team
Mr. Mom
Revenge of the Nerds 2
Priscilla Queen of the Desert
The Lost Boys
Meatballs
Cannonball Run
Detroit Rock City
My husband is standing behind me saying they are all great.
for once, i am in total agreement with wendy - paycheck is horrible and that 'know your ply' thing is grating. in fact, all signatures like that are annoying.
"The dog who eats the cat becomes the rat who ate the hat...or something..."
Yeah, I saw Paycheck a few days ago. The concept was pretty good, but whoever wrote that AWFUL dialogue should be banished to the darkest corner of the world, where no one will ever have to talk to him again.
I expected crap like this from Ben, but Uma can actually act. She goes from one of the coolest movies in recent history, Kill Bill, to this piece of garbage.
I found two more on television last night....movies that suck but I can't turn away from. The Net and Sleeping with the Enemy. Both complete guilty pleasures for me.
I second Howard the Duck, suggested by our impaired friend. I'm not sure of my all time favorite crappy movie, but Howard is crappy and I remember was pretty fun to watch.
One crazy summer is what it is. I wouldn't try to categorize it as crappy or not.
tremmers 1-4
Holy man (bald crazy black man... funny stuff)
Wild things (two really hot girls in a pool, SHIBBY!)
that leads to my biggest load of shame, Dude, wheres my car
Turk 182
I saw this movies for obivous reasons not knowing what the heck it was and was totally not dissapointed in a dissapointed kinda a way so I can see where your goin with that one.
1. Circle of Iron, GREAT scenes, word play etc.
2. Fandango, the sky diving scene is worth the entire movie.
3. Time Bandits,
4. The Jungle Book, Disney release in 1966.
First off, it may seem embarrassing now, but Saturday Night Fever is an absolute classic. I'd also like to defend Pricilla of the Desert, but I'm not exactly sure on what grounds.
But I'm truly embarrased to admit:
Bloodsport
Clueless ('cuz I'm middle-aged and have rented this recently-twice)
Bowfinger
All 3 Harry Potter movies ('cuz I own them and have to hide them from my friends to maintain some facade of maturity)
The mask
