What Movies Are Your Guilty Pleasures?

[OtakuLoki]

For me it's mostly the classic musicals:

My Fair Lady
Guys and Dolls
The Music Man
Camelot
South Pacific
Bye, Bye Birdie

I love them and cringe every time I watch them. (Though at least My Fair Lady was intended to cause some of those cringes.)

Other musicals may have a song or two I still like, but fill me grrrrrr,

Oklahoma!
Oliver!
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

Of what I'd consider the classic musicals, the only one I can think of now, that I love and doesn't make me cringe is Sound of Music.

But I'm still not gonna give 'em up.



(BTW, in doing a little research for this OP, I have discovered that Peter O'Toole starred in 1969 musical version of Goodbye, Mr. Chips. I am afraid I need to see this.)

[OneCentStamp]

I guess my guiltiest pleasures, movie-wise, are big dumb action movies like The Last Boy Scout.

[Orual]

The complete works of Uwe Boll.

Don't look at me like that.

[OneCentStamp]

The complete works of Uwe Boll.

Don't look at me like that.

Here we go!

[What Exit?]

On this morning was one of my guilty pleasures. The incredibly good despite the odd and weak plot “Creator”; starring Peter O’Toole.

As so few like it I will list Independence Day. I think this movie was great.

I don’t know if they are guilty pleasures as I think they are great but …
“West Side Story”, “Godspell”, “Hello Dolly” and of course “Singing in the Rain” all stand out.
I’m not fond of Loki’s list of musicals actually. Guys and Dolls was good though.

I enjoy many kids movies. I love Mary Poppins, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Bedknobs and Broomsticks.

I guess I should consider both Porky’s and Revenge of the Nerds as guilty pleasures. Two coming of age movies for me that I loved. That run of John Hughes movies with the Brat Pack were and are great to me. Fast times at Ridgemont High is another.

Field of Dreams, Big, League of their own, Gump, Hudsucker Proxy are movies that drag me in every time I see them.

[Orual]

Here we go!

The movie had me rolling on the floor. His name is Farmer -- and he's a FARMER!

[Rube E. Tewesday]

I don't know if "guilty pleasures" is the right term, because I feel no guilt, but I love all those old horror movies where giant critters are eating teenagers and such.

"Horror of Party Beach" anyone?

[What Exit?]

Three more: Hudson Hawk and Ocean's 11 the Clooney and the Sinatra version.

[Orual]

Willow. This one gets quoted randomly by me and my friends a lot.

[OneCentStamp]

Willow. This one gets quoted randomly by me and my friends a lot.

You are great!

[jali]

What A Girl Wants
Rodger's and Hammerstein's Cinderella (with Brandy and Whitney Houston)
Brigadoon
Mamma Mia
Bye Bye Birdie (bird-aheeee)
Any Jason Stathan film - (I love he)

[OneCentStamp]

Mamma Mia

I went to see a Saturday matinee screening of this with AndrewRyan. The theater was full of literally nothing but middle aged ladies in groups, and gay guys on dates. I'm sure we were probably mistaken for the latter group. It was a lot of fun.

[dread pirate jimbo]

Kung-Pow! Enter The Fist has to rate on the list for me. I find it hilarious!

I was entertained by The Core, notwithstanding the many criticisms about its poor science.

I didn't think Daredevil was the worst superhero movie ever made and have watched it more than once.

UHF is spectacularly stupid, but I loves me some "Weird Al" Yankovic.

[Taumpy]

My greatest movie guilty pleasures are what I would call "man rom-coms" like The 40 Year Old Virgin (ie, Judd Apatow or Farrelly Brothers movies). Also, stoner movies, and bad action movies. As you can guess, I really liked Pineapple Express.

ETA: I should note I have really awful taste in movies in general.

[eleanorigby]

Hmmm.... I don't really feel much guilt over my film choices.

Why would musicals make you feel guilty? I love 'em all. Well, not Paint Your Wagon, but most of them.


I'll have to say ALL the Star Trek movies--I LIKE the even numbered ones. And Harry Potter movies. (I am an adult--I think). John Hughes films (mostly because they were made during my early 20s and they recall my HS days quite clearly).

4 Weddings and a Funeral
The Benny Goodman Story
Father O'Malley films
Crosby/Hope Road flicks

[OtakuLoki]

Why would musicals make you feel guilty?

In a large part, it's the various gender roles that make me gag, cringe, or want to cry. Some highlights (lowlights?):

Guys and Dolls - Marry the Man Today (And Change His Ways Tomorrow)
Oklahoma! - I'm Just a Girl Who Can't Say "No."
Camelot - The Simple Joys of Maidenhood, The Lusty Month of May, (Okay, anything that involves Guinevere....)
My Fair Lady - "Eliza, where the devil are my slippers?"
The Music Man - "When a woman's got a husband, and you've got none..."


I know these are all pretty accurate depitctions of the attitudes of the time the films were made, and for The Music Man, I suspect for the time period the story is set in. That doesn't keep me from cringing.

I can still put it aside to enjoy a musical I like, but it does remain niggling in the background.

[eleanorigby]

Ah. That makes more sense now. I thought you felt guilty because they were so shallow.


MFL is just warped as hell. Is Professor Higgins closeted or what? "Just friendly like" my ass. She wants it bad and so does he. Hmmph. How about 7 Brides for 7 Brothers? Sabine women and the woman who marries Howard Keel just ups and does it after knowing him for like 5 minutes. "Welp, I gotta finish my chores first!" Whoa, Nellie....



The rest of them, well, they're musicals! I never looked at them as political statements. In real life, people don't burst into song, so what does it matter how people are portrayed?*









*actually, I can see why you cringe, but for me, the enjoyment of it all overrides the cringing.

[OtakuLoki]

In real life, people don't burst into song...

I beg to differ. I used to sing all the time. (Not well, nor tunefully, perhaps, but still singing.) Just for example, nothing made casualty drills more palatable than singing The Masochism Tango while running through the steam plant.

[eleanorigby]

But were your moves choreographed and backed up by young, attractive, in costume people, all reprising the chorus madly?



I rest my case.

[What Exit?]

Well there was this one time, we were on liberty in Hong Kong and when a few of us sailors broke into spontaneous song amazingly the street vendors and pedestrians all joined us and appeared to be excellent dancers. It was quite amazing.

Hong Kong, Hong Kong is a helluva town
China's up and Kowloon is down
the people ride in boats all around
Hong Kong, Hong Kong is a helluva town

[OtakuLoki]

But were your moves choreographed and backed up by young, attractive, in costume people, all reprising the chorus madly?



I rest my case.

Well, a proper drill cycle is choreographed, with people running all over taking care of specific tasks. And they were all in uniform - which is kinda like costuming.

But we didn't have any musical accompaniment, nor would anyone else sing with me.

[Orual]

Well there was this one time, we were on liberty in Hong Kong and when a few of us sailors broke into spontaneous song amazingly the street vendors and pedestrians all joined us and appeared to be excellent dancers. It was quite amazing.

Hong Kong, Hong Kong is a helluva town
China's up and Kowloon is down
the people ride in boats all around
Hong Kong, Hong Kong is a helluva town

I don't even really like musicals, but that's a cool story.

[dread pirate jimbo]

Oh, another one that I enjoyed enough to want to get the DVD is Black Belt Jones. Kung Fu AND blaxploitation all rolled into one!

Also, I own a copy of Plan 9 From Outer Space. So awesomely bad!

[Exy]

We're sexy! We're cool!
We dominate the school!

(I've already spoken plenty of times about my love of Bring It On, a cheerleader movie staring Kirsten Dunst and Eliza Dushku.)