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Anyone have secret pleasure movies that you don't like to really admit to liking beacuse the mainstream doesn't? Maybe it's one of the bad sequels of a franchise or a film that even most b-movie fans scoff at. Or maybe your a professed horror fan who has built up a reputation, but who also watches Dirty Dancing obssessively when nobody is around? heh..ok, we KNOW you'll never admit that!  But we can always hope. You don't have to actually own the title, chances are you're too embarassed to go buy it anyhow.

One of mine is "Sindbad and the eye of the tiger". Mostly because it's the one that nobody likes as far as Sinbad movies go. I can't help myself, sure it's got jane seymore but one can overlook that. It's darker. Princes turning into baboons, a freaky slave made of metal, Trog the cyclopse with a crush on a young girl, a giant bee, a giant walrus, saber tooth tiger, even the music, what's not to love? Yet whenever I've brought up this title i get the eye roll, so it remains my guilty pleasure.

Since i'm a chick I'll be alone on this one but I also like "Fire with fire". Catholic school girl, prison inmate, love affair, the stuff that dreams are made of. lol

I've only seen a couple Sinbad movies, and I always thought that was about the best one.

Mine has to be "Radioactive Dreams."  It it terrible, I know it is terrible, but love it to death.  My only defense is that the webmistress of WilliamGirdler.com has seen it and also loved the movie for its supreme cheese.

The review:
http://www.badmovies.org/movies/radiodreams/

Midnight Madness - A Bad comedy about several teams of college students on a scavenger hunt...  Stars the lead from American Werewolf in London (I know it, but am drawing a blank), Eddie Deezen, and a very very young Michael J Fox.  One of the frat team's guys was named "Armpit."

I rented this once, but had to stop watching because my girlfriend at the time stopped by and I couldn't let her see me watching it on tape.  By the time I tried again, it had circulated out of that video store and never saw it again.  

I like it because it was on HBO during one particularly fun summer when I was a kid.

I like radioactive dreams as well, I picked it up when a rental store closed down a few years ago.

My guilty pleasures would be:

Legend of Billie Jean - You should've seen my joy when I was getting gas at a gas station on vacation and found a copy of it.

Newsies - I got this the day it came out on dvd

Summer Camp Nightmare - I wish a company would release this on dvd, Guess taking over summer camp has always been a dream of mine.

Most of the films I consider quilty pleasures are bad. I know they're bad, they're unoriginal and poorly made, but I like them and I can't explain why.

Detroit Rock City- I hate KISS and every scene is ripped off from another film, but I can't say no to this one. Maybe it's because the drummer is the hero, I don't know.

The Running Man- Pure 80's Schwarzenegger cheese.

Roswell- The made-for-Showtime movie about the UFO crash that blatantly rips off JFK.

And much like Dano, there are countless bad comedies and action movies I love just because they remind me of where I was or what I was doing at the time.

Well i guess radioactive dreams is better than....electric dreams? Then i'd really be worried.

I also like "Revenge of the nerds 2: nerds in paradise", I don't know why, but I like it more than the original. Most don't.  

I also like the King Kong remake with jessica lang. Alot.  ;-)

And perhaps more disturbing, regarding the "Creepshow" movie which I don't generally like too much, my favorite story in that was the horrible performance by Stephen King as the dumb redneck who touched the meteorite and started growing the fungus on him. There was something really deliciously morbid about the suicide ending ...death by bathtub.

You know when you feel the need to place an excuse next to the title..you realize it's an honest to goodness guilty pleasure.

Night of the Zombies!  I even own the DVD....

Hey, nothing wrong with liking Midnight Madness.  I have the DVD of that too.  "Faga beefy?"

Wait a minute .. . Isn't this redundant?  I mean, isn't everything here on this #@$%^^& site a "guilty pleasure"?  Or am I missing something?  Lord, when I say I LOVE "They Saved Hitler's Brain", I'm not speaking metaphorically, I can tell you that . . .
Yours in literalism
peter johnson
PS:  Crap ist Die Koneig!!

>>>Wait a minute .. . Isn't this redundant? I mean, isn't everything here on this #@$%^^& site a "guilty pleasure<<

For some it might be, but IMO - B-movies (as a whole) aren't really a guilty pleasure because there are so many who love them. A "guilty pleasure" isn't really a genre, particularly one you like. I think it's an individual thing, something that others in your circle of friends or "movie crowd" might frown upon.

Something you personally might be embarassed to go to a movie store and ask about. You might readily run up and see if any copies of "Plan 9 from outer space" are available without a thought. But you may also want another title like.."Walk like a Man" starring howie mandell but be too embarassed to even ask a clerk if they sell it and slink away. ;-)

For me, guilty pleasures are some of the action films starring Dolph Lundgren or Jean Claude Van Damme. Most of them will have the same effect on me than smoking a joint, but the real winners are:

Dolph Lundgren: "Silent Trigger" and "The peacekeeper", specially the last one.

JCVD: Both "Double Team" and "Knock Off" have that weird sense of humour I like that much, but "Coyote Moon" gives the word cheese new meanings.

"Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2." Gettin' to be about time for my annual viewing, too.

I have to admit......even though most of you will cringe......One of my guilty pleasure movies is Jerry Maguire.  I can't really put my finger on why I like this movie.  I'm not into sports and  I'm not into love movies but I sincerely like this one.  I guess it's the "telling like it is, straight to the point" aspects of this film that I like the best.  So sue me.  Haha.

Blair witch 2.

I thought this one was brilliant, good story , ok acting,

weras teh first one was totally and utterly crap and not scary atall.


i cant understand why the first one is loved by all and teh second one is hated by all.

I actually liked both Blair Witch films.  I saw the 1st one in the theatre and the 2nd one on video.  For all of the s**t reviews they both received, they weren't bad efforts.  Both are best viewed intoxicated.  lol!!  Alcohol or cannibas accepted!

add another vote for "Summer Camp Nightmare"

Also "They Still Call Me Bruce"
both are childhood favorites that I still like to this day and I still haven't seen "They Call Me Bruce",part one =)

People please mark this date on the calendars. Reason? I finally agree on one thing with Ashthecat, I also think "Jerry McGuire" is a guilty pleasure. My reasons, however are quite different: I personally think that Tom Cruise is awful in that one, that he looks like he is acting under the effect of illegal substances, and hence the movie, no matter how serious it tries to be, gets transformed into a cheese festival.

HaHa!  I will definitely mark this on on my calendar!  It is a pleasure to have you agree with me Neville.  I just wanted to say that I'm sorry for ripping on you in that very harsh debate on the U.S.'s policy on Iraq.  I was probably swimming in alcohol when I posted it.   I know that there are probably no hard feelings between us.  I know that we're both good people.  If you and I met face to face I'm sure we'd be good friends...although differing in opinions.  I'm glad to call you a freind Neville.  Shake on it??

Ashthecat said: Shake on it??

Alright.

Ok then.....we shake on it...... I can't promise I'll agree with you everytime but a truce it is......we're we at war????   lol!

"Also "They Still Call Me Bruce"
both are childhood favorites that I still like to this day and I still haven't seen "They Call Me Bruce",part one =)"

Both Bruce movies are great, their a couple of those 20-30 movies that are the main reason the vcr gets used still in my house

For years I was (and remain) a staunch defender of William Lustig's Maniac, a serial killer movie that is far more realistic and honest about those predators than most seem willing to admit.  I also think Romero's Day of the Dead is a great movie, possibly the best of the series to date.

I like the remake of Night of the Living Dead, feeling that it is far better and more intelligent than most.

As far as bad movies that I subject myself to and feel dirty afterwards, but still never miss the chance to roll in the mud with 'em

Jaws the Revenge (I even own a copy!)
Jaws 3-D
The Amityville Horror (just ordered the DVD)
Amityville II: The Possession (this is my favorite Amityville movie, btw)
Amityville 3-D and let's just say the rest of the the series
any movie from Full Moon (especially the Puppet Master series)
there are a lot more, but then I'm here, so it should not be a surprise

as far as off topic mainstream movies Ilike to watch...

She's Having a Baby (I swear to God the movie tells my life story - Kevin Bacon plays ME, that's me up there, and everything that happened in that movie happened to me, except William Windom would be my Dad instead of my father in law and making a baby was really, really easy, not to mention FUN AS HELL.  But the movie is kind of creepy to watch - but I do - and yes, college IS nothing but high school with ashtrays)

Footlose (one of the few movies that doesn't beat up on the Christian religion while still criticizing its zealots)

The Other Side of the Mountain Parts 1 and 2

Saturday Night Fever (this movie is far, far better than its seventies era rep leads people to think)

Body Double - I'll watch anything directed by Brian DePalma at least once

Sudden Impact - the worst, most morally repugnant Dirty Harry movie of all time - but I'm so there and lifting a fist going YEAH!

You can toss The Dead Pool in there, but I think it's great!!!

Batman & Robin (yeah, I liked it, so what?)

Rollercoaster (acutally not a Guilty Pleasure at all, but a great little thriller and one that, along with John Carpenter's Escape from New York, could NEVER be made today)

Jaws 2 - a lot of people hate or dismiss this movie, I don't

Airport, Airport 1975, Airport 77, and The Concorde Airport 79

any movie featuring a disaster and the presented by the producing talents of Irwin Allen
any movie featuring a disaster, period

I have two,  Damnation Alley  i watch every chance i get.. My fiance can't fathom why..but its a horrible film with a really b***hin SUV.    How can ya go wrong with George Peppard and Jan Micheal Vincent?  

The other movie always chases her from the room,  its horrible, its mind numbingly bad, but i love it like no other film. Give it up for  Battle in Outer Space!  


Oh look, she ran away again..   tee hee

i cant understand why the first one is loved by all and teh second one is hated by all.
*****  andy:  Respectfully submitted, I liked the first one and hated the second one and I'll explain why.  I thought the first one had a clever concept and fantastic acting.  The actors came across as genuine dopey film students (I've known a few).  And the director used suggestion, sound, and off-camera space extremely well (yes, this is obvious and I'm like the millionth person to say it, but I think it's true).

*****  I did not like the second one because I was expecting more of the same and instead got a standard ghost/gore movie.  It used awful shock tactics (the miscarriage dream sequence caused my wife to get up and go read a book, and in point of fact I almost joined her.  I thought was uncalled for and disgusting).  Then instead of wrapping it up like the first one, where the legends they'd heard from half-tanked hillbillies about the witch making one kid stand in the corner while she killed another came true, the second movie just deteriorated into the crazy guy getting carted off to the loony bin and was there even a witch at all?  I didn't think it was original.

Super Mario Bros: The Movie. What can I say, it came out when I was 8 years old and obsessed with Nintendo, and I still have fond memories of it. It also served as my introduction to Dennis Hopper and (though it wasn't until later that I realized it) Mojo Nixon. Now I realize that--for some reason-- It's a blatant ripoff of Buckaroo Banzai, but I'll still watch it whenever it's on TV.

City of the walking dead- zombies attacking people in spandex on a work out show is just hilarious to me. Creepshow is a classic, too bad the sequel isn't. It's hard for me to say I have any guilty pleasures. Almost every movie I like I'm damn proud to say I do even if most people don't.

ANY direct-to-video action films starring Treat Williams, Ice T, Michael Dudikoff, Mario Van Peebles or James Remar.

And a film by two names, White Water Summer (AKA Rights Of Summer). It stars Kevin Bacon as a sadistic guide to Sean Astin (post-Goonies, pre- big fat Hobbit)and a bunch of Growing Pains-Wonder Years stock "best friends" on a camping trip. Maybe I like it because Bacon gets his legs broken.

>>And a film by two names, White Water Summer <<

Sean austin with the egg and the model bridge demonstrating his fear. "Dum de dum de dum...uh oh...trouble!" (swings egg on bridge and drops it)

Kevin bacon really is underrated. Doesn't matter the movie, he can play a guy you love, a guy you hate, or a guy you love to hate.

I hate Kevin Bacon, but I don't love it. I can't watch anyfilm he's made since 1993 for fear he's going to prance around naked.

JR wrote:  I hate Kevin Bacon, but I don't love it. I can't watch anyfilm he's made since 1993 for fear he's going to prance around naked.

*****  DON'T SEE HOLLOW MAN.

Idid. God help me I did. Little fella just popped up to say hello. I'm sure there's a deleted scene from My Dog Skip where he plays naked frisbee with Skip. And another guilty pleasure-

The Hard Way- James Woods and Michael J.Fox in a buddy film. It tries too hard to be a straight action film in the third act, the villian is lame and it's not funny, but I like it.

Two movies I love shamelessly, yet am afraid to tell strangers are Clifford and Cabin Boy.  I laugh like a hysterical madman when watching these.  I've met quite a few people (my brother becoming more of a fan of these movies than me) who do agree, but most want to lock me up.  I felt this way for years, but maybe a month ago Charles Grodin was on David Letterman (the show) and Letterman mentioned that one of his favorite films was Clifford.  Grodin says he was suprised how critics and audiences reacted and that he is really proud of the film.  He then mentioned that he really enjoyed Cabin Boy and Letterman said he likes the film too.  After all these years of hiding the terrible secret of loving these films, maybe I wasn't mad after all.

Speaking of Cabin Boy..I never saw that film but i used to love the Chris Elliot show. It probably lasting all of 4 weeks but it was great ;-)

Susan mentioned Chris Elliot, and that reminded me, I see a lot of raves all over the place for "Get A Life!" (http://www.x-entertainment.com/messages/290.html), so I'm going to have to pick up the DVDs...especially if one has the "Spewey & Me" episode.

Get A Life! was a fantastic show. So fantastic, in fact, that while watching it became clear it would be canceled. Really twisted and absurdist humor, so of course mainstream America wouldn't like it. I felt the same way during The Oblongs, and it was off the air in three weeks.

"Oblongs" is a funny duck--Angus Oblong himself doesn't like it--slams the crap out of it at his site, but he still hangs out at the Yahoo! Group (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/theoblongsfc/) devoted to it and is highly supportive. Dammit, I wish I got Cartoon Network. I'll have to snag the boot.

"I call the white one Mitzi."
--Helga Fugly, showing off the swarm of mice living in the folds of her back-fat

The GET A LIFE DVD I have has "Spewey and Me."  It's volume 1.  I'm not sure if they've released any others.

Toss The Wedding Singer into the Guilty Pleasure list, it's the only Adam Sandler movie I would ever consent to owning...

Ah.."get a life"...that was the name of the show. I don't think you can like the show unless you like chris elliot. It's kind of like the show of George Costanza, only Chris was more loosery. I wish there was a channel that would rerun shows that had a short lifespan. I would love to revisit some old shows dating back to the 70's that only aired for a season or two and never rerun on any of the channels for either not having been a "popular" show or just the lack of shows to air. It can be called B-tv? ;-)

btw I had NO idea that show was on DVD!

Get a Life Volume 2 DVD came out about 2 weeks ago.

That would be a cool TV station... There are some truly great shows out there that never made it past six or seven episodes (Police Squad, Clerks: The Animated Series, David Lynch's On The Air). Instead of movies, they could run failed pilots!

That would be great. We could even get a chance to see how bad the much-maligned "My Mother The Car" really was, or see the horror that was "Supertrain."

Joe's Apartment. Sex, Bugs, and rock and roll. And its even more twisted in the French Language track. French speaking cockroaches! Watching Joe's Apartment in french, followed by Batman...in French.
....why are you stareing at me?...don't reach for the phone! I have an ax!

Not sure if anyone has mentioned these, since I came in late on this thread:

The Last Action Hero, in spite of the magic ticket gimmick and the sentimental parts, is a great spoof of 80s action movies. I really liked it.

Hudson Hawk, if it had been made 25 years earlier, probably would have been better received. Can't say why, it's just a feeling. Something familiar about the style of the movie. Hated Sandra Bernhardt though.

Probably my most controversial guilty pleasure - Megaforce. I've even got an original one-sheet of this mounted in my rec room. What can I say? When it came out, I was about the right age (12 or so) to think it was cool. It was, after all, the early 80s. Lots of cheese around. Besides, Persis Khambatta was really hot, even if she couldn't act for sour apples.

>my favorite story in that was the horrible performance by Stephen King as the
>dumb redneck who touched the meteorite and started growing the fungus on him

 The Lonesome Death of Jordy Varrel(sp?)

>or see the horror that was "Supertrain."

I kind of liked this show because I've always had an interest in trains. After the show was cancelled, there was an ad in one model railroading mazagine offering the model train from the show plus like a half mile of track for around $3000. Wonder if anyone eventually bought it.

As for short-lived series, I've like to finally see all the episodes of Beyond Westworld.

As for short-lived series,

"Wiazards And Warriors" would be cool to see again, and maybe "Manimal" or "Automan"

Be careful with that idea, though, because somone will get the idea to bring back "AfterM.A.S.H."

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I like to watch DVDs in French audio with Spanish subtitles. Now that is fun.

I'd like to see ROARI can't even remember who was in that tv show that came out a few years back, except for heath ledger (although IMDB doesn't credit this). Am I the only one who remembers this show? Apparently i'm the only one who watched ;-)

>I'd like to see ROARI can't even remember who was in that tv show that came
>out a few years back, except for heath ledger (although IMDB doesn't credit this).

 Yes it does;

 Roar  (http://imdb.com/Details?0118451)

>Am I the only one who remembers this show? Apparently i'm the only one who
>watched ;-)

 I think you are. :)

I think CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM on HBO is sort of like a George Costanza show, except it's Larry David.  Way funnier than Seinfeld, and I liked Seinfeld an awful lot.

>I think CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM on HBO is sort of like a George Costanza
>show, except it's Larry David. Way funnier than Seinfeld

 I started watching one episode of this and turned it off after about 5 minutes. It should be called Annoy Your Viewers with Endless Complaining. Every time I've hit that show while channel surfing, all I see is Larry David b***hing about something.

Megaforce rocked!   Although that damn movie was very nearly responsible for me removing myself from the gene pool and winning a darwin award.    The lunatics i hung around with, we all had dirt bikes..  and a lot of us also built model rockets..  

Yep thats right,  we were out riding around firing model rockets at each other..  No one ever got hit though, amazingly enough,  but we did manage to put a few rockets through neighborhood windows..    


no wonder my parents stopped at just one kid..  lol

It's looking like "Push, Nevada" isn't gonna make it all the way through its first season, which is a shame.  Also, I'm still a big fan of "SMall Wonder" and I was the only one who ever watched "That 80's Show" with any kind of regularity.

As far as guilty pleasure movies go, me and my frends have "Troll 2" parties....complete with pistachio pudding and throwing popcorn at the screen at the appropriate moment.

And you can't beat "Cruel Intentions" and "Saturday the 14th Strikes back" for pure cheese value....

As much as it pains me to say this, I liked Freddy Got Fingered. There I said it!
I hated it the first time I saw it, but after HBO started playing it like everyday it kind of grew on me.  Rip Torn is definitley the best part of that movie though, and Anthony Michael Hall was better than he was in years (I'm serious!)

Dumb and Dumber, as stupid as this movie was, I loved it. Probably my favorite Jim Carrey movie along with The Cable Guy.

Cannibal: The Musical, really stupid and cheap, but really funny.

I also liked Cabin Boy.

My guiltiest pleasure has to be the homocidal snowman movie.  Yup, I liked Jack Frost.  Many times have I been shouted down for admitting this.  I think I've made a few enemies on this board because of this movie too.  Oh well, it's mindless fun.

My guilty pleasure is definatly "B" movie horror flicks, while my friends are debating  the best of the classics like Casablanca vs. the African Queen, i secretly want to scream MOTEL HELL IS BETTER THAN EITHER!!!
Iactually  just bought  several dvds from the MIDNITE MOVIES DOUBLE FEATURES series released by mgm, i guess when they get here my secret will be out.!

Hey chris, Cabin Boy is one of my guilty pleasures to! It's so stupid but it makes me laugh. My other guilty pleasures: Skeeter(yes you read that right), The Big Brawl(what can I say, I'm a sucker for Jackie Chan flicks), The Stoned Age(Even I don't know why I like this), others that I can't think of right now.

Student Bodies

J.R. wrote:
 I felt the same way during The Oblongs, and
> it was off the air in three weeks.


Oblongs are back on Cartoon Network, a little funnier than they used to be to. Why is it a good show It has Will Ferrell. Anything with Will Ferrell is a guilty pleasure
Zoolander (I own it) and Ladie's Man (yep that one too are hilarious)

My other guilty pleasures are Jurrasic Park 2, The live action Spawn movie,  Fallen (awesome Denzel Washington scary movie) and the Big Lebowki, I like it without the use of any substance too.