Top Ten Guilty Pleasures

[BuckyMcSatan]

Ok, it's easy to list our top ten favorite and top ten hated films, but what about our top ten "guilty pleasures"?

Something sleazy, silly or just don't want to admit to friends or family that you either own or will watch, even if TBS airs it hacked to bits...:D

I'm gonna stick my dick out and see if it flys...(not in any order)

1. Valley Girl (Martha Coolidge)
2. One Crazy Summer
3. Better Off Dead
(The inimitable Savage Steve Holland)
4. Buffy the Vampire Slayer (series)
(Joss Whedon)
5. Valkenvania (Nothing But Trouble) (Dan Aykroyd)
6. Innerspace (Joe Dante)
7. Addicted To Love
8. Practical Magic
(Griffin Dunne)
9. Doctor Detroit (Michael Pressman)
10. Very Bad Things (Peter Berg)

Okay, I'm sure there's more...but hey - let's not get all chummy too quick, huh?

[Pete Vonder Haar]

I don't think I agree that "Better Off Dead" is anything to be ashamed of, but there you go.

"Transformers: The Movie"
"Freaked"
"Cannonball Run"
the films of Andy Sidaris
"Force 10 from Navarone"
"Jaws 3-D"
"Joe vs. the Volcano"
"Red Dawn"
"Spice World"

Pete

[BuckyMcSatan]

Well, ok..."Better Off Dead" isn't the kind of movie I'm ashamed of, but I'm the kinda guy that'd rather watch "From Beyond" over "Citizen Kane" any day of the week, so what do I know...

Also, I was TOTALLY going to put "Force 10" on my list, ya bastard...

[El Duderino Diablo]

I'm not too sure I actually experience a truly significant level of guilt admitting that I like these movies/television shows. Maybe I have no sense of shame? I don't know.
Anyway, in no particular order...
Galaxina
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (television)
Angel (television)
Alien 3
Encino Man
Altered States
Camelot
Blacula
The Night Stalker (television, Richard Matheson, Darrin McGavin)
Car Wash
Motorama
Highway to Hell
Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things
Face/Off
Cleopatra Jones
Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold
House
The Big Hit
Martial Law (televison, Sammo Hung)
Bring It On
The Legend of Boggy Creek
The Town that Dreaded Sundown
Used Cars
Emmanuel

[KevinCarr]

Forget "Emmanuel." What about "Emmanuel in Space," starring Krista Andrews in many a nude scene and even a girl-on-girl scene. It used to run on Showtime, and I was even able to get my wife to watch it because she liked Krista Andrews from when she was on "Days of Our Lives."

Other guilty pleasures...

Popeye
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
The Last Starfighter
Fright Night
Indian Summer
Starship Troopers
V
Killer Klowns from Outer Space
Any of the 1930s/1940s Universal Horror Movies

and yes, I loved this movie... "Treasure Planet"

[KevinCarr]

Durh!... It's Krista Allen, not Krista Andrews.

What can I say... It's early and my brain isn't quite working.

[Bongwater]

I can only think of Tron and The Black Hole. :D

Krull would have been on my list, but I saw it again recently and came to my senses.

[mruzick3]

Man, somebody stole my idea! I have a lot of guilty pleasures out there, but here are a few that I have rented repeatedly and, yes, bought.

-Field of Dreams: If it’s good enough for my father (a former marine) to get misty-eyed, well then dammit it’s good enough for me…sniff sniff…pass the hanky.

-Stargate: Ancient Egyptian King Akhenaton as an alien from outer space? Sure I’ll buy it…with popcorn.

-PCU: Finally, a tailor-made movie for the type-casting that Jeremy Piven always receives. Not only did it look fun to film, it’s also fun to watch over and over again.

-Commando: Some of Schwarzenegger’s best one-liners came from this film. It also has some of the most creative ways to brutally kill off nameless henchmen…remember the tool shed scene?

-Predator: Best Arnie movie ever. An entire team of bad-ass mutha-f***ers with an arsenal that could level a small country strapped to their backs AND Schwarzenegger doesn’t hog up all the screen time. It kicks my ass every time.

-Pump Up the Volume: A cheesy unintended sequel to ‘Heathers.’ It came out right at my angsty-always-wearing-black phase.

-Reality Bites: A cheap imitation of ‘Singles.’ My wife and I own this one and watch it every time we want to mindlessly repeat lines from characters that are mindlessly repeating lines.

-Tomb Raider: Both of them. Yeah, I’ll suspend my disbelief for two hours if I can watch Angelina Jolie kick some ass in spandex.

Point Break: Come on…I know there’s gotta be a cult following for this one. You’ve got Busey being Busey, a creative bank heist team (the former presidents could’ve doubled as a punk band), some great action sequences before everything went digital, and members of the Chili Peppers getting the snot beat out of them. Great for repeat rentals….oh just got out and buy the piece of crap!

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Mike Ruzicka

[Furious D]

Here's a list of my top eleven guilty pleasures.:o

1.Deep Red (Dario Argento) Gory, over the top, and disreputable, but done with such flair.

2.Tremors (I can't remember the director's name) Whenever I catch it on reruns I can't take my eyes off of it. That giant man-eating worm is just so damn charming.

3.The Good, The Bad & The Ugly (Sergio Leone) Do you like spaghetti with your western? I sure do, and I'm not ashamed to admit it.

4.Death Wish (Michael Winner) I'll miss Charles Bronson. This flick's more than just a mid-budget crime thriller (Do they even make them anymore?) it's a rather odd analysis of violence & the American character.

5.Raw Deal (John Irvin) A mostly forgotten Schwarzenegger classic where he's a disgraced Fed who goes on the rampage against the Chicago Mob. Good cast, great tacky as hell 80's style.

6.The Stuff (Larry Cohen) Delightfully whacky tale of yogurt gone beserk. How can you go wrong with that?

7-8.The Thing Both versions. The Christian Nyby version, rumored to have been secretly directed by Howard Hawkes to pay back a favour to Nyby, and the John Carpenter one. I've enjoyed both. KEEP WATCHING THE SKIES!!!

9.Anything by Abbot & Costello I grew up watching a TV station from Maine that ran 'The Great Money Movie' with Eddie Driscoll and they played all of the Abbot & Costello canon & I laughed my ass off.

10.Universal Monster Movies As a kid I loved all the monsters that worked the Universal lot from Frankenstein's monster to the Gill-Man.

11.Hammer Films The Great Money Movie also liberally dipped into the Hammer Films canon and I preferred Christopher Lee's Dracula over Bela Lugosi's, and other oddities like the Quatermass Films, & Curse of the Werewolf.

[El Duderino Diablo]

Originally posted by Furious D
10.Universal Monster Movies As a kid I loved all the monsters that worked the Universal lot from Frankenstein's monster to the Gill-Man.



Memorieeeeeeeeeeeees...

I absolutely love the old Universal horror movies! I was practically raised on them. As a kid I'd sit up late on Friday nights and watch the horror-thriller-chiller double creature features that played on Seattle's KIRO after the eleven o'clock news. It was hosted by some dude in a Bela Lugosi style Dracula get up. He'd always come creeping out of his coffin on the makeshift dungeon set, crack some cheesy jokes then let the movies run. Most Friday nights I'd fall asleep before the the second movie started and would awake to my father smacking me in the face with a wet facecloth in an attempt to wake me. I always kept a mental list based upon my intense study of Famous Monsters of Filmland magazines of the movies I had seen and the ones I still needed to see.
Television needs a return of horror double creature features with cheesy hosts, seriosly.
And Hammer horror rules, too. :tup:

[mruzick3]

Anyone remember the Elvira horror movie showcases that ran on channel 9 in LA during the afternoon on Sunday? A variety of gruesome B-movies like (and I'm speculating the titles here because I was just a kid when I watched them) 'The Incredible Melting Man' and 'Killer Slugs' and (the old standard) 'The Blob.' Watching them with my Dad in the middle of the afternoon gave the movies a weirder quality to them. Like at any moment when I'm riding my bike, after the film, a slug could be slowly trailing up the chrome to attack my arm.


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Mike Ruzicka

[Furious D]

As a child growing up in the icy wastes of Nova Scotia I used to take a break from my time ice-fishing, brewing superior beer, and hunting the deadly man-eating penguin, to watch 'The Great Money Movie' that was broadcast out of a small NBC station in Bangor Maine.

Now the host didn't wear silly costumes, just a jacket and bow tie, and his dog-puppet sidekick Wilbur, whose dialogue consisted entirely of 'Who Cares?', would play a movie each weekday. The show's gimmick was that if you saw the secret word and the host picked your name out a drum, you could win twenty-five dollars. Big money!

I saw "Psycho" for the first time on that show, as well as the Aboot & Costello's, Hope & Crosby Road Pictures, as well as slew of Hammer films, and Sci-fi & horror from Europe. Some were pretty damn weird.

This same station had another show that ran Sundays at midnight called 'Weird 2' this was almost exclusively horror & sci-fi. It didn't have a host, but would do weird little mini-sketches during the commercial breaks involving giant mutant lobsters & other silly stuff. A lot of the time these flicks were uncensored because the station really couldn't be bothered chopping them up and the few times they tried, they did it really poorly.

Access to B-Movies is probably the most important thing in a filmmakers childhood development. It shows him/her that just about everything is possible & you don't need a billion dollars to do it.

Those shows were the best, but sadly they've gone the way of the dodo as cable and networks refuse to play those kinds of movies preferring to endlessly repeat 'Dumb & Dumber' & 'Demolition Man.'

Let this be our battle cry! BRING BACK THE B'S!!!!

[El Duderino Diablo]

Originally posted by Furious D
Let this be our battle cry! BRING BACK THE B'S!!!!

Maybe John Paizs should lead the charge. Is there a more classic example of a modern B movie than his satire, Top of the Food Chain (Invasion in the US)?

[AmaiStina]

Movies Im Mostly Embarassed to Admit I Liked/Own:

1. Center Stage--i took 8 yrs of ballet on & off, but i never got totally into the groove of "ballet school" mentality. i also never wanted to be a ballerina, but i love this movie. my guess is that the film is narratively structured in such a way that i never remember whats going to happen next. therefore, everytime i watch it is like the first time i watch it.

2. All those movies about killer animals & insects. i dont care when or who made them, i like em. they also used to come on TBS (Turner Broadcasting System) very frequently.

3. Clueless. i liked the soundtrack. and jeremy sisto.

4. Teletubbies. yes, i know it's a tv show, but i think i have a lot more guilty pleasure tv shows than i do films.

5. Days of Our Lives (it irritates me, and yet i still watch it when its on)

6. Any/most films involving the apocalypse. something biblical & destructive. Prophecy, Warlock, etc. 18th Angel (starring Rachel Leigh Cook).

7. E True Hollywood Story (too many commercials, though)

8. American Idol

9. Paradise Hotel. this one is actually better than a soap opera.

10. Tarzan..the Disney animated feature. does that count? ^_^

[Bongwater]

I'll raise you a couple of Dr. Who movies w/ Peter Cushing. :D

[Pete Vonder Haar]

I was obsessed with giant/killer insect/bug/arachnid movies when I was a kid. I probably saw "Tarantula" two dozen times, as it appeared to be one of the few movies our local TV station had in its vault for the "Saturday Afternoon Creature Feature along with "The Deadly Mantis," "Them," and "Phase IV."

[Sandcat2003]

Idle Hands- Vivica A. Fox's over-the-top performance is pitch perfect. Settle in with a six-pack and a pipe.
Showgirls- Elizabeth Berkley and Gina Gershon are "Goddesses"
Earth Girls Are Easy- could've used more moments in which the characters burst into song
Krull- actually quite a good little movie for its time
Night of the Creeps- oh, Prom!
Midnight Madness- great 80's scavenger hunt teen flick with Michael J. Fox
Jackass: The Movie- No need for explanation
Gummo- There is something disturbing, incoherant, and reassuring about this film. There is no better use for silverware than as dumbbells.
Cool as Ice- Admit it, you still know the words to "Ice, Ice, Baby."
The Postman- Most people would consider my love of this film as the definition of guilty pleasure; although, I think it is a remarkable film. Costner should have excised the narrative bookending employing Mary Stuart Masterson as The Postman's grown daughter; and, he should have cut the ridiculous scene of Costner turning his horse around to collect a letter held up in the air by a little boy. Otherwise, I think the film is a great post-apocolyptic melodrama.

[VIRGOBLACK-]

PEOPLE UNDER THE STAIRS
CLASS OF NUKE'EM HIGH
THE LONG KISS GOODNIGHT
THE FLY
THE GATE
CAT'S EYE
KUNG POW
LA BLUE GIRL
THE PROFESSIONAL
ANYTHING WITH WHITE GIRLS GETTING KILLED. THEY ARE THE ONES THAT MAKE THE SCARY MOIVES SO GREAT TO ME. THIS IS NO BETTER SIGHT THAN WATCHING A WHITE GIRL GET THE SHIT FUCK OUT OF HER, AND THAN GET HER PUSSY CUT OFF. THAT IS BEAUTFUL TO ME. I SOLUTE YOU WHITE GIRLS OF THE SILVER SCREEN.

[El Duderino Diablo]

Well aren't you special. :rolleyes:

[kevinpmurray]

..... I can't remember the name of the TV show Hulk Hogan was in that involved some type of Uber-Boat. Sure its got Thunder in the name somewhere. And heres some guilts

All Arnie Movies
From Dusk Til Dawn
Disney Movies
Friends...no, i'm not gay
Die Hards
In fact, just think of every cheesey action movie you ever saw and i like it, pre-2000 only. Fuck Vin Diesel crap

[Kuato]

Event Horizon
Necronomicon: book of the dead- the shitty movie
In the Mouth of Maddness
Nothing But Trouble
High Spirits
and lots of porno....
oh and showgirls... that is the worst movie ever...and i can't stop watching it
its hilarious

[Peter_Lowry]

A few guilty pleasures in no specific order...

- The Adventures of Ford Fairlane

- Army Of Darkness

- Hot Shots!

- Ferris Bueller's Day Off

- Waterworld

- G.I. Jane

- Pre-Matrix Keanu Reeves action films (Point Break & Speed)

- The first few Steven Segal films (Above the Law, Hard To Kill and Marked for Death)

- Gov. Arnold's early stuff (Raw Deal, Predator, Commando, Conan the Destroyer, etc)


Peter

[The Baron]

"..... I can't remember the name of the TV show Hulk Hogan was in that involved some type of Uber-Boat. Sure its got Thunder in the name somewhere."

Oh, hell... I'm almost ashamed to say that I know that one. The series was Thunder in Paradise. It aired for one season in 1994.

[GiGi]

-All John Hughes High School films (Ferris, 16 Candles, Pretty in Pink)

-Uncle Buck! (since we are on a roll)

-The Money Pit (Tom Hanks laugh when the bathtub crashes through the floor is enough to watch it alone)

-The Burbs (take me to the hospital! Im sick!)

-My Best Friend's Wedding (cant help myself!)

-Highlander movies (the original not the crap post TV show ones)

-Xena: Warrior Princess (Yay Bruce Campbell)

-Sex and the City (yes chicks are that cool!)

-Sopranos

-Ed Wood and just about anything JD has did!