Guilty Pleasures...

[Dick]

The films that fall under "guilty pleasures" are not necessarily bad or good, overrated or underrated. They are simply films that we enjoy in spite of their shortcomings, and in the face of many detractors, and the fact that we like these particular films helps to sum up who we are as individuals because they truly are a matter of taste. Most often they are films regarded by the intelligensia as being moronic or merely expendable; but for whatever reason, whether because they caught our fancy as children or because there is simply some concept or character or sequence that just sticks with us, we can watch them often and not tire of them, yet we find ourselves making excuses in polite company for liking them ("Oh, well...ya know, it was the first 3-D flick I saw projected on a sheet hanging from a clothesline while standing on my head" or some such thing). Here are a few of my own choices, and I'd love to hear some of yours...

1) FIRST MEN IN THE MOON. Not a very good movie, and for the longest time I had only a color-faded copy with abysmal sound. Yet, I played it frequently. The only thing I find truly annoying about it is the use of incredibly bad sound effects on the ship -many were lifted from FORBIDDEN PLANET and re-edited, and it's painfully obvious.

2) VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA. Saw it when I was ten. Immediately loved the Paul Sawtelle music and even the title song sung by Frankie Avalon. The Van Allen belt aflame is still awesome. I am not generally an Irwin Allen fan, and this movie is no gem (horrible performance by the great Peter Lorre, dumb script) but I watch it often.

3) APPOINTMENT IN HONDURAS. Like so many R.K.O. films, I first saw this on Million Dollar Movie (WOR channel 9 in NYC) and watched it as often as possible, mostly to see the mosquito attack and the man fall into the red ant nest. Nowawdays I'm not sure a good print exists - tv prints have excerable color. Still, I watch the copy I made from AMC many times.

Those are three of about a thousand. Yours?

8 heads in a duffle bag. pcu.

a couple of my fave movies that weren't huge in the box office or whatever. hehe, of course i can't get either on dvd, which annoys me to no end. maybe one day.

erik

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[clortho]

Well, my top 3 guilty pleasure movies I can think of right off the top of my head..

1. My Science Project- One of those mid-eighties science fiction teenager flics, around the same time as Weird Science and Real Genius. My jaw actually dropped when I found out Anchor Bay had put this baby on dvd, I didn't think anyone else remembered it! I no longer have to wear out my local video stores vhs copy!

2. Hudson Hawk- So utterly silly with a storyline that was all about Hawk not getting his cappuchino (sp?)...I loved it!

3. In a general category (because my mind could not decide on just one), all horror films, from the pathetically bad to the classics, love 'em all and buy them compulsively.

Clortho

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Any Jackie Chan film (save for Fantasy Mission Force, a VHS tape I picked up at Best Buy for a buck - easily the worst film I've ever seen), particularly Police Force and First Strike, is fine by me

Cabin Boy - No excuses for this one, but I find myself watching it more than it's healty to

Space Mutiny - Any film this incoherant, featuring a McBain look-alike given to fits of hilarious over-acting, a Santa Claus for a Captain, FX stolen directly from Battlestar Galactica, a space cruiser with an interior that looks like a giant pipe warehouse (complete with windows that let sunshine in!), an "incredible" 3 mph Rascal chase, and dancing women in leotards feeling electric balls that have nothing to do with the rest of the movie, is a film...to be treasured. I first saw it on MST3K (where it's even better) and then saw the VHS at a local Suncoast for $10. Boom! I picked it up right away.

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[This message has been edited by Ollie's Bowler (edited 02-03-2000).]

[Sid]

Shock Treatment

Critters

Texas Blood Money

Bride of Re-Animator

Highlander 2

[Taxi]

Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace

Joe vs. The Volcano
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[rainrain]

Strange Brew - finally picked up a copy of it last summer for $6 at Best Buy (VHS) one day.

taxi! heretic! burn em at the stake! vhs user vhs user!

oh nevermind.

my other guilty pleasure is chris rock's comedy (just ordered bigger and blacker today!).

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[This message has been edited by fisher (edited 02-04-2000).]

Personal taste:
Money pit.
its not Tom Hanks best, far from it but I love this movie. I watch it every time it comes on.

Another good one is

Surf Ninjas.
Same. I watch it all the time..I love the scene where they talk about Knives!
"Knives are something money can't buy"

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[Wesly Moore]

Virtually all of my "guilty pleasures" are cheesy horror movies.

"The Hand" (1981) - directed by Oliver Stone! starring Michael Caine!

"Lifeforce" (1985) - directed by Tobe Hooper!

"Rawhead Rex" (1986) - written by Clive Barker!

"Cellar Dweller" (1988) - starring Yvonne De Carlo! (They don't get any better--or worse--than this.)

"Pumpkinhead" (1988) - directed by Stan Winston!

"I, Madman" (1989)

Don't get me wrong--I enjoy "classy" horror, too ("Alien," "The Thing"). But these cheesy horror flicks are ones I can (and have) watched over and over again.

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Sorry for giving the wrong impression guys. Fear not fisher, those tapes were bought at least a year before I got my player.

All I use VHS for now is to record episodes of The Sopranos and Three Stooges films on AMC.

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