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What's you guilty movie pleasure? Now not b-movies or the typical liked films we know that, but those films that someone that knows you wouldn't think you'd like.

For me I like those 1930's Busby Berkley type musicals, I think that they are great it was real style. I'm watching the "The Kid from Spain" right now a slightly lesser know Busby movie, pale to the Gold Digger movies. But many of those 1930's and 1940's musical I really like. The choreography in them is likely nothing done in years. They just don't have those Ziegfeld Follie quality girls any more.
These films had style, class and eloquence that is nearly gone today, if it's not gone already.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqbuS7U1SWQ&feature=related

This one about 7+ minutes long, the good part start around the 2 min mark, it's called Dancing Pianos.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ro8BQW5e4o

Guess I'm the only one ... :buggedout:

Considering what this board's all about, I would think it kinda depends on what you mean by "Guilty Pleasure".
I know you gave a brief description, but it covers a pretty broad scope for one whose tastes are fairly eclectic.

I've spent the afternoon wondering if you meant stuff like (in my case), A Tree Grows in Brooklyn or Galaxy of Terror, Golden Apples of the Sun or Richard III, Huntress: Spirit of the Night or The World's Fastest Indian...

I think pretty much everything I'm into could easily be considered a guilty pleasure, as I'm into genre films of different genres, as well as the not so genre films.

I need to get out more

Ok say you're talking films with your bud's, but there are some films that you like that you know you're bud's wouldn't necessarily like and you'd get that deer in the head light stare.

I was talking films over beers the other day and was telling them about these 30's musicals, I got ribbed, but I can take it. So I got to thinking what films do people like (aside from those considered B's) that their friends might not fulling understand.

Perhaps it is to vague of a question.

Ah example one of the ribbers I had, I know he likes those sappy chick films. He looks the Rambo, Terminator type. He'd never admit he likes sappy chick films, but his wife told me he did and showed me he secret stash. So much for Debbie Does Dallas when you have Steel Magnolia. LOL. (I can say I have never seen it and likely never well ... he has the DVD)

I get the topic, I think.  What are you, yourself, ashamed to admit you like... (and at the risk of being labeled "superior" it's "What's your guilty"...) 

I like the X-rated version of CALIGULA and own it on DVD, but it is crap.  So it comes back to "bad movies," right?   :question:

Thank you Mr MF Spell Check ... I fixed it you happy now?

I sure hope you never build a house with me around. LOL







You know I'm kidding ... sort of.

"Radioactive Dreams" and "Cavegirl"

As anyone around here knows that my taste in movies is somewhat off the beaten track, it's hard to imagine one specific title that would really surprise someone.

More often it's the other way around ("What? You don't like Southpark? But you always said you liked comics....??")

Well, I'm a fan of many Doris Day "bedroom comedies" like PILLOW TALK, THAT TOUCH OF MINK, and MOVE OVER, DARLING.  (Let the ribbing begin).

"Good things have been happening since I discovered Vip."

 :teddyr:

Mine is definitely Robert Clouse's immortal Gymkata: I will never forget Andrew's comment in his review of it: "Never use candlewick for your climbing rope!"

Another is Steve Carver's An Eye For An Eye with Chuck Norris, which is my favourite film of all time. Yes,  :buggedout: I know, but it is.

For me I would have to say Howard the Duck and Showgirls.

Considering that almost everything I watch is a guilty pleasure, the only stuff that's odd for me would be the stuff that's considered "normal" by most people.  I guess my Christmas Collection (Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, Frosty the Snowman, Little Drummer Boy) might look out of place in my collection.  I absolutely love watching those in the days leading up to Christmas each year. 

Other than that, maybe Dark Shadows?  It's a Gothic horror soap opera from the late '60s - early '70s.  It's pretty cheesy, being filmed basically live on a tight production schedule, with the majority of bloopers and screwed up lines making it into the final product.  But it is a soap opera, and I do have 680 episodes of it on DVD. 

As far as TV viewing, I don't mind soap operas that much.  I used to love Santa Barbara, and watched a few months of As The World Turns a couple years ago.  I guess that's weird. 

Other than all of my DVD collection, some guilty pleasures are sappy romantic comedies, most of which include John Cusack, golden age musical and films such as D.E.B.S [which I happily own] and of course the ever popular Gigli. 

Though I'm proud of my terrible varied tastes, not ashamed to admit them...

The topic is too difficult!!

but . . . Okay -- Muppet Movies!!  and The Muppet Show!!!

Amongst all the Hammer Horror in my home, there proudly sits Kermit.  Kermit next to Chris Lee -- let the image burn into your brain . . .
peter kermit/denny wtf?

*batteries not included

I always liked that movie, even though it's disgustingly mainstream and unbelievably uplifting. It is the exact recipe for a movie I shouldn't like, , but I do. .

WHEN HARRY MET SALLY.

Women-in-prison flicks.  I know they're vile but I find them so over-the-top in their misogyny that they're funny.  I'll watch almost anything in the genre.

I have a similar feeling about nunsploitation films, though I haven't explored the genre a lot.

My double feature of WHEN HARRY MET SALLY and MASSACRE IN A WOMEN'S PRISON is guaranteed to offend everyone.

well everything to me is pretty much a guilty pleasure since most people of my generation
would rather go into the theater and watch (cheeks box office) get smart and text on there
cell phones the entire time paying zero attention to the film so all my films are guilty pleasures.
but from this point of view i must say i love silent films mostly German ones and such.

Under The Tuscan Sun. I absolutely hate this movie, but I like watching it.

You mean movies people knew would be terrible before they even came out?
Like:


Larry the Cable Guy

The Longest Yard (2006)


Larry hits and misses, but I love the lead actress in this. Cute!

A remake of a classic,  and since Sandler would be everyone longshot to pull off playing an NFL QB, this seemed doomed. But I like it! A lot of the other players performances were pretty good too.

Anything by The Asylum. I recently saw their work with Scifi Channel in "100 Million BC" and was hacking it to pieces. That's the guilty pleasure: Asylum films are like a train wreck, I keep them on despite their crap factor. I honestly don't know what it is about them, some are just plain terrible and many are simply knock-off titles based on box office biggies.

Also: any of the Tremors films and Monster Man. I watch those whenever they're on :teddyr:

Busby Berkeley's Dancing Pianos from "Gold Diggers of 1935" is one of my guilty pleasures. Anyone care to indulge in a discussion of how it was done? I think I've figured out most of it.

It clear how it was done, there are guys under the pianos walking them around. You can see them in some shots.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ro8BQW5e4o

Stay Alive (2006)

Hated by many but I can't help it. I still think its more entertaining than Silent Hill, the other movie about/based on video games that came out in 2006.

Right now it's "Silverhawk" & "Hot Fuzz", they're both available on demand and I watch one or the other or both if there's nothing else to watch. It's driving my better half crazy.

I still believe you'd build me a fine house, but I don't really know you do I? 

I am an editor by profession, can't help it; since the error was in the title of your thread, I'd have figured you would have appreciated it, but it just shows you how slow I am to learn.  A thing that makes my "head explode," to quote you elsewhere, is no editing.  A bad habit, I will curb it. 

LOL ... actually I don't mind I just give you grief. Spelling in not my dyslexic forte, since I work with numbers (measurements) I put all my effort into to getting those right. I've yet to see a house not come out right because "soffit" or "fascia" was spelled wrong.
Remember I swing a hammer not a pen .. and while the pen is mightier than the sword, it begs the question is it mightier than a hammer?

Yes I just gave you karma, and yes I know I spelled "You're" ... "Your" ... just for you.

Oh, there I go again...  :hatred: 

Uhm, if we're to do battle, and you prefer the hammer... might I trade the pen for the sword?   :smile:

Have you thought about therapy? Anal retentiveness can be cured with proper medication. I'm just sayin'.

Bare Behind Bars and 99 Women. Well, really any film that exploits women. I find them  both hilarious and shocking. Guilty!

Guilty pleasure movies?

Howling II: Your Sister is a Werewolf (So very, very bad yet hilarious.)
Hellraiser II: Hell on Earth (Just plain bad.)
My collection of bootleg tentacle hentai (Yes, I know. I'm going to hell.)