Top ten "Guilty Pleasure" Movies...

[Bekki]

Critters!? OMG! Classic!

That reminds me of....

Gremlins!

How many family tradgedies can one girl have....
"I don't like Christmas because..." ~
"Memorial day OMG don't talk to me about memorial day..."
Never did find out about that one....

I actually had the paper-back book made for it...

[RumbIe]

Wow. Some for sure repeats of mine I saw:

- Big Trouble Little China
- Four Rooms
- Great Outdoors
- Strange Brew
- Fish called Wanda
- Fifth Element
- Better Off Dead

Some of my own adds:

- Captain Ron (Best movie ever, apart from Jaws)
- North Shore
- Tin Cup

Some I think that were added that don't fall under "guilty". These are seriously good movies that I watch with no shame

- Super Troopers
- Caddyshack
- Pointbreak

The following movie I remember loving as a kid, but then saw it on TBS recently and was thinking that when I was little and made my parents watch it and said how awesome it was they must have looked at me with sorrow thinking I was "special"

- The Bill & Ted Movies

[le_goat]

Oh and Evil dead 1 & 2

[Bladedge]

• Ferris Buller's Day Off
• Fifth Element
• Goonies
• Jurassic Park
• From Russia with Love
• Lord of the Rings
• GhostBusters
• 300
• Gremlins

[sacredguyver]

Wow... out of all that's listed here, there's none that falls under the "I like it, but won't advertise it to my friends" category for me, so how about I fix that?

(Numbered in no particular order, just to keep myself as close to 10 as possible.)

1. Dragonball: Evolution
2. The Guyver
3. The Guyver 2: Dark Hero (All-time favorite movie... of all time)
4. The Ernest P. Worrell movies (Ernest Goes to Camp, Scared Stupid, and Goes to Jail in particular)
5. The Relic
6. Laserhawk
7. Dungeons & Dragons: Wrath of the Dragon God (Don't mention the first one around me. Even I say it's ****.)
8. Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
9. Jumper
10. Speed Racer

Special Mention: The Super Mario Brothers movie

Not quite a movie, but the old Megaman cartoon series, too.

[Stormanne]

WHAT!!!??? The "guy that played Bones"????!!!!!!!

/Nerdrage on

You mean the fine actor best known for playing EOMIR 3rd Marshal of the Mark of Rohan and nephew to the king himself in some of the awesomest (and most successful) movies ever also known as the

LORD OF THE FRIGGIN RINGS TRILOGY ("friggin" not in actual title)

His name is Karl Urban. He's been in significant roles in the following moves:

1. Bourne Supremecy
2. Chronicles of Rid**** (I'd give you a pass on this one) [EDIT <------ lol it censored the last part of "Rid-d-i-c-k" silliness]
3. DID I MENTION LORD OF THE FRIGGIN RINGS???!!!!

But you remember him from playing BONES!!!????????????!!!?!?!?!?!?!?!

/Nerdrage off

<breathes in>
<breathes out>

What were we talking about again?

:P

I am well aware of who Karl Urban is. He was also in the NZ TV series Shark in the Park, the movies Ghost Ship and Pathfinder. I had to do something that would somewhat set my list apart from others, and "forgetting" Eomir's real name would certainly get someones attention. +1 for the good natured nerd rage though.

[QuarterMasterM]

Mean Girls

[PLUGintoTHEpowerLINE]

Mean Girls

Boo, you *****!
(+1 )

[Meat-Head]

I am well aware of who Karl Urban is. He was also in the NZ TV series Shark in the Park, the movies Ghost Ship and Pathfinder. I had to do something that would somewhat set my list apart from others, and "forgetting" Eomir's real name would certainly get someones attention. +1 for the good natured nerd rage though.

Wait... What?! Did I just fall into some nerd-rage trap you set for an unsuspecting uncool person?

....

Now I think you actually may be a Sith. First, there is your sig. But then, you just made me give in to my hate.

But my master once said, "Once you start down the dark path, forever with it dominate your destiny."


Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooo!!!!.......

[LucidLTS]

Oh, some great ones here! I think my standards are too low - many of the listed movies are *classics* in my book, not guilty pleasure! Princess Bride, Monty Python (anything), Airplane, Big Trouble in Little China, Buckaroo Banzai - every adult American needs to watch these more often than they get tetanus boosters. Highlander is high drama. Star Wars is a cultural cornerstone of our society.

I do have some favorites so low that I am reluctant to share them even here. Favorites that I hide the cases and keep the DVDs in unmarked jewel cases with my music CDs, and will watch, even with commercials, when they come on TV despite the fact that I could watch them uncut and commercial free if I would admit to my wife that I own them. Yeah right, no taste and no shame either - here are my worst. No particular order.

The Beast master
The Heart Bowman (actually titled something like "The Archer: Fugitive from the Empire" but broadcast in the 80s on TV as The Heart Bowman)
Hawk the Slayer
Heavy Metal (Hmmm, Big!)
Wizards (They killed Fritz!)
Logan's Run (I actually became a fan of Shakespeare because I saw Roddy McDowel in this and when he was in The Tempest I watched it too because I liked him)
Dungeons & Dragons: Wrath of the Dragon God
Dark Kingdom: The Dragon King
Fast Times at Ridgemont High (No problem dude, my dad's a TV repairman. He's got this awesome set of tools, I can fix it)


These are truly awful movies, people. They should never be shown without 3 silhouettes at the bottom of the screen heckling.




The topic is movies you love but don't want to admit, but it's in off-topic chat so I have to go off topic - I've got to list a few that I love and don't mind admitting.

Highlander - my favorite movie ever. There should have been only one.
Every Tolkien (even the rotoscoped one from the 80's)
Every Indiana Jones (Indy, cover your heart!)
All the Clint Eastwood spaghetti westerns and Dirty Harry movies
Bladerunner (Rutger Hauer rocked, I even watched Flesh and Blood and Ladyhawke to see more of his work)
The Dune miniseries from SciFi from back when they were called SciFi and still broadcast SciFi
All of the Firefly episodes (Inara & Mal - one of the few heartbreaks that actually broke my heart)
All of the Dresden Files (especially Bad Blood "Thanks for the wine Harry" "But you didn't even taste it" "There, I just did")
The Matrix ("It's just one little girl, my men are bringing her down now" "No lieutenant, your men are already dead")
(Plus all of Don1966's list except Rambo 2. Scary)

[FranOhmsford]

Ok - Real guilty pleasures of a 34 year old English male

1. Bruce/Evan Almighty
2. Nancy Drew
3. Sydney White
4. She's the Man
5. Man of the House
6. She's all That
7. Ally McBeal - Seasons 1 thru 4

These are all movies/TV shows I own {Bought}

Sci Fi / Fantasy movies/TV do not count as guilty pleasures on a forum dedicated to a fantasy role playing game Shirley.

[Enir]

O Brother, Where Art Thou - Great take on an ancient epic; my wife does not get it.
Beauty and the Beast - I identify with Beast.
Kelly's Heroes - Hippie GI's
The Muppet Movie - bad jokes
A Muppet Christmas Carol - Michael Cain (Zulu) and bad jokes
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone - they're so CUTE when they're little.
GalaxyQuest - Sigourney Weaver's best scene; and they deleted it.
The Sandlot - Benny the Jet vs. the Beast
The Sandlot II - Space Shuttle launch; Son of Beast
Spaced Invaders -'I've not yet begun to fight' 'Now would be a good time to start!'

[PurdueDave]

Bring It On
Kung Fu Panda
Meatballs
Uncle Buck
Secret of My Success
Commando
El Dorado (The Duke and Mitchum but it really is kind of corny)
Home Alone
Christine (same old dude as Home Alone if I remember correctly)
Robocop (really, anything by Paul Verhoeven)

edit...How could I forget The Beastmaster!?

[Paleus]

By the strictest of definitions, none of these are guilty pleasures as I will readily admit to enjoying them. But I'll identify the ones I like that would get people's looks.

In the category of no seriously, I'm a straight guy
1. Shakespeare in Love
2. Stardust
3. French Kiss

In the category of yeah ok I'm a straight guy, but I wasn't really planning to get laid anytime soon
4. They Live
5. Vampire Hunter D Bloodlust
6, Cry Baby
7. I'm Gonna Git You Sucka

And the final category, ok its probably socially acceptable that I like these, just not how often I've watched them
8. Inside Man
9. Serenity (or maybe I should put that in the above category)
10. Shaun of the Dead (If you don't think thats socially acceptable, there is something wrong with you not me)

[sacredguyver]

All of the Dresden Files (especially Bad Blood "Thanks for the wine Harry" "But you didn't even taste it" "There, I just did")

Love the series. Even managed to find a copy of the pilot movie version of Storm Front (which was edited down and originally aired as the eighth episode). Got me reading the books, and I need to find more (only have a copy of Small Favor for now).

Kelly's Heroes - Hippie GI's
GalaxyQuest - Sigourney Weaver's best scene; and they deleted it.

Both are fun movies.

[LeslieWest_GuitarGod]

Ok, here we go...

1. Goodfellas
2. The Godfather
3. Abbott & Costello vs. ___________ monster
4. Police Academy/Meatballs/Porky's/Animal House/Ferris Bueller's Day Off
5. 2001: A Space Odyssey
6. Superman/Batman
7. Rocky I/II/III
8. Princess Bride
9. Young Frankenstein
10. Any King Kong or Godzilla flick

[PurdueDave]

4. They Live

Great fight scene between the two protagonists.

[justhavinfun]

Mines easy and 10 movies doesn't cover it.

1) Any movie that falls in the horror grouping. Starting with the full Nightmare on Elm Street series of movies.

2) Any fantasy movie. This goup starts with the Harry Potter series.

3) Any sci-fi movie. And I have to start this one with Logans Run.

4) These would be followed by Rocky Horror, Heavy Metal, and any Montey Python.

[LordMond63]

Very interesting topic indeed!

Some of my choices have already been mentioned (and yes that should really scare you). But some have not.

In no particular order:

Galaxy Quest

Kung Pow: Enter The Fist

Army of Darkness

Star Trek (the 1976 comeback)

Beavis and Butthead Do America

BASEketball

Clue

JFK

Big Trouble In Little China

Bull Durham

[LeslieWest_GuitarGod]

4. They Live

"I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass...and I'm all out of bubblegum." - Roddy Piper.

Maybe my favorite movie quote of all time!