So, what are some of your guilty pleasure movies?

[Hawaii Hiker]

excluding porn,

But you know those movies that the critics would hate, they may or may not have been flops in terms of money made, or those movies there so bad they're good....Some movies I've seen so many times since i was young & still enjoy watching are:

Friday the 13th (parts 1 & 3 only)
The Shining
Terminator 3 The Rise of the Machines
Escape from New York
Magnum Force (IMO, the best Dirty Harry movie)
Back To School

[MerryBlooms]

1. Jaws

Clueless
Cheaper By the Dozen (1950)
Dirty Dancing
Evil Under The Sun (both '82 & '01)
The Burbs
The Goonies

[fizzgig]

22. the goonies is just a good movie

but clueless is a guilty pleasure, though. i was in the target demographic when it was released and i still love it.

[Ahpook]

2. Fear And Loathing is one of my favorites:)

But closer to your topic, maybe Eyes Wide Shut.

If memory serves, it was not accepted well and some thought Kubrick had lost his mind My brother suggested I check it out beyond the horrible reviews and the fact I am not real fond of Tom Cruise as an actor.

I was pleasantly surprised!

[dixiegrrrrl]

3. Sleepless in Seattle and Steel Magnolias

I NEVER watch "chick flicks" but I do like these

[fizzgig]

23. steel magnolias is a good one

i don't do chick flicks and it makes me bawl.

[ghostsinthemachine]

4. Mine..

Pretty Woman
Toy Story II
American Graffiti
Jason and The argonauts

[Little_Wing]

5. Heaven's Gate

Yes, it is a self-indulgent, obscenely expensive mess. Burn him! (Michael Cimino)

But Can't help it... the Blue Danube waltz, the revelation of the immigrants' misery, the brutality of the men in charge, Huppert, Kristofferson, an incredible cast... I've read all the arguments but find it a compelling achievement.



Also:
Starman
Castaway
You've Got Mail :::hangs head:::

[3catwoman3]

36. Starman is...

...a total delight. I wanted Jenny to be able to go with him.

[The Second Stone]

41. Heaven's Gate is a masterpiece

during every self-indulgent minute. See especially director's blu-ray release.

[rurallib]

6. oddly some of those hallmark christmas movies

sometimes they are not too bad and it is that time of year.

Really enjoyed "Brooklyn" this year

[3catwoman3]

37. "A Very Merry Mix-Up"...

...is quite charming.

[rurallib]

45. I like the gentle fantasy of Santa and the lack of violence

yeah, IIRC that was one of the good ones.

[3catwoman3]

47. Sometimes, sappy, romantic movies...

...with happy ending are just the thing.

[NightWatcher]

7. Police Academy, Dirty Dozen, & Grosse Point Blank

[Flaxbee]

42. Was just thinking about Grosse Pointe Blank earlier today

One of the scenes (the first one where the hit goes wrong in the hotel) was filmed about a block from where I worked then. Loved that movie.

[hibbing]

8. Roadhouse

[progressoid]

9. "Little Murders" "Repo man" "The Ruling Class"

[CBGLuthier]

10. But these are all very good films. No reason for anyone to feel guilty.

[progressoid]

11. True. More of a repeat viewing list.

I'll have to think about the guilty thing for a bit.

[CBGLuthier]

12. I have trouble coming up with them because I have to think of ones I love but know aren't good

Like maybe Lisztomania, which is awful but fun.

[mike in raleigh]

66. Tommy

Also by Ken Russell. It is so over the top! I recommend seeing it while on some good psychedelic drugs!

[Doc_Technical]

18. I also love Little Murders.

[area51]

13. Lost Boys n/t

[betsuni]

14. "Pretty Woman" is on TV tonight and I hate myself because I can't look away.

It's a horrible movie, why can't I look away? I am so ashamed.

[Donkees]

15. "Hair"

[PufPuf23]

16. Raising Arizona

At age 34 I had chicken pox and did not leave home for 2 plus weeks. Really sick, weakening, and unworldly. I was a grad student at Cal and my gf and female roommate (the nurses) took me for ice cream at Fentons and the Grand Lake Theatre in Oakland for Raising Arizona in my first trip out.

Others:

Dogma
Earth Girls are Easy
Easy Rider
Scanner Darkly
Rocky Horror
Sometimes a Great Notion
Blues Brothers
The Ninth Gate
Risky Business
Dazed and Confused

[GOLGO 13]

17. Hong Kong heroic bloodshed movies is my wheelhouse.

Super heavy on action, violence, gun-play and short on story. In John Woo (pre-Hollywood) we trust.
- Drunken Master 2
- Hard Boiled
- The Killer
- Bullet In The Head

The next wave of Korean "hate movies" picked up when HK cinema died off & has dropped some unimaginable hammers on an unsuspecting public. I personally don't think too many can handle such movies, but they will both challenge you & shake you belief in humanity.
- Old Boy
- I Saw the Devil
- Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
- Mother

Our brothers in Japan have also released some daring cinema that should be digested & considered.
- Suicide Club
- Battle Royale
- Audition
- 13 Assassins

[dr.strangelove]

19. The Princess Bride and Goonies

I have to stop and watch them when they are on. I just can't walk away!

[fizzgig]

24. i feel no guilt in loving those movies

they are good movies.

[dr.strangelove]

51. Many would disagree

and often do with me

[Xyzse]

20. Ummmm... DJDM...

Don Juan de Marco - With Faye Dunaway, Talisa Soto(OMG), Marlon Brando and Johnny Depp
Pitch Black - Vin Diesel with Radha Mitchell, which means it is the first movie
Brotherhood of the Wolf - Mark Dacascos, Monica Belluci, Vincent Cassel and some French guys I don't know
Matrix -

Ok, that's at least four of them.

If we include old Martial arts films:
Any Jacky Chan action comedy from the 70s to the early 90s. (Drunken Master 1-2, just anything with Wong Fei Hung is awesome, Dragon Lord, and anything which he references the Steel Finger, Snake in Eagle's Shadow)
Anything with the big 3 from before, Jacky Chan, Yuen Biao and Sammo Hung.

[ailsagirl]

21. ...

The Graduate
Being There
Woodstock
A Night at the Opera
Double Indemnity
Don't Look Back
La Cage aux Folles

[patricia92243]

50. I saw La Cage aux Folles for the first time about a year ago. There is also another

movie about those same characters but I can't remember the name of it. Both are fun to watch - as was the later Birdcage.

[ailsagirl]

67. To be honest...

I liked La Cage aux Folles II even better-- it's kind of long but well worth it!!

[Liberal Jesus Freak]

25. We watch "Love Actually" on average once a month.

I also love "Yours, Mine and Ours" with Lucille Ball.

[fizzgig]

26. encino man

i just ordered the dvd because of this thread.

waterworld is another one.

[TexasBushwhacker]

28. I love Encino Man!

I love Brendan Fraser in general. He's good at goofy. I like Blast From the Past too.

Another guilty pleasure is Pineapple Express.

[valerief]

27. I love the classic Torch Song with Joan

This number is so laughably wrong.

[nilesobek]

29. Point break. Gary Busey was in top form.

[Initech]

30. Here's my short list:

21/22 Jump Street
Star Trek (2009) / Star Trek Into Darkness
John Wick
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
The Mission: Impossible flicks (loved, loved Rogue Nation)
Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa
Men In Black 3
Bad Santa
Bad Words
Tropic Thunder (Nick Nolte was in top form in that movie, as was Danny McBride and Tom Cruise)

[fizzgig]

34. tropic thunder was great

[dawg]

58. Yes, but ...

"Simple Jack" is the movie I *really* want to see!

[TexasBushwhacker]

59. Hard to choose a favorite line

"Never go full retard"

"I'm a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude."

[Iwillnevergiveup]

31. I plead "GUILTY"

Terms of Endearment
Fargo
Steel Magnolias (yaaaaay Dolly Parton)
Gremlins
Cleopatra
Anything Hitchcock
Anything Naked Gun
Anything Pink Panther

[Initech]

39. I really wish they would put Police Squad! on iTunes.

I love the Naked Gun trilogy, but not having Police Squad in electronic form is a glaring omission from my library.

[Flaxbee]

43. Pink Panther with Peter Sellers, right?

anyone else is an abomination.

[narnian60]

32. 3 out of hundreds:

9 to 5
Murder by Death
Clue

Edit: All the Saw movies, too.

[Archae]

33. Love these movies!

Flash Gordon (1980)

Battle Beyond The Stars

Krull

The Last Starfighter

Cannonball Run movies

Smokey And The Bandit 2

Far more, just can't think of the titles at the moment.

[First Speaker]

35. Where Eagles Dare...

...yes, this is one of the silliest movies ever made. Just how, for instance, wasn't Richard Burton arrested the moment he set foot in Nazi Germany because of his hair style alone? How did Mary Ure get her hair styled so elegantly as an undercover agent on the Continent? Just how did the Nazis penetrate M6 so efficiently, when in fact the British had every Nazi agent in England under *their* control? And just how was it that the Nazis never suspected "Johan Schmidt" for an instant, when he never gave them any useful information? No matter. Eastwood and Burton work great together, it has an incredibly cool score, and it's viscerally compelling. I can watch it over and over...

[Snobblevitch]

38. What I find interesting about the films mentioned

in this thread is that I see at least a dozen films that either won at the Oscars or was nominated for one or more Oscars. Why the guilt?

[The Second Stone]

40. Eating Roul

Repo Man
Super Troopers

[TeamPooka]

44. ROADHOUSE, a true guilty pleasures movie. Too many in this thread are just good films.

[blogslut]

46. Hackers

It's so camp and I love it.

[Godhumor]

48. All three of the Riddick movies

Never gets old watching Vin Diesel kill a man with a mug.

[kairos12]

54. Debate in our house-I tell my son Pitch Black is way better than Star Wars.

[Hawaii Hiker]

49. Some more titles

First Blood - (I think i can recite many lines from this movie)
Remo Williams The Adventure Begins
Kiss of the Dragon - (Jet Li)

[Godhumor]

55. Kiss of the Dragon was amazing

Just flat out insanity from beginning to end. And who can argue with an acupuncture technique that can kill?

[Hawaii Hiker]

60. I like when he (Jet Li) killed the one guy with the chop sticks

the villains in that movie were so ruthless & brutal

[Smarmie Doofus]

52. St Elmo's Fire.

Everyone hates it.

I don't know. It's not Shakespeare, but I think its pretty good.

[kairos12]

53. Repo Man.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

56. Clue and Airplane

Both a scream.

[Rhythm]

57. "Twister" -- watched it twice last week!

It just happened to be on SyFy while i was at work, but we all ended up watching it both times...

Other favorite 'guilty pleasure' movies:

Dante's Peak

Volcano

RoadHouse

Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Jurassic Park

The Breakfast Club

Starship Troopers

[Little_Wing]

62. "imminent rueage"

one of my favorite movie quotes ever. RIP phillip seymour hoffman

[Brother Buzz]

61. Get Shorty and Be Cool

I regret the late great Elmore Leonard only wrote the two Chili Palmer novels. Great reads, but to my delight, the films exceeded my expectations.

[Ino]

63. Crocodile Dundee 1

Jackass 1
Joe Versus the Volcano
Harold and Maude
Adam Sandler movies

[femmocrat]

64. I like the big broadway musicals from the 1960s.

Gypsy
My Fair Lady
The Music Man
West Side Story

and others.

[Paladin]

65. "Forever Amber"

That's all I'm going to say about the matter.....

[Enrique]

68. Cabin Boy