Another movie thread: guilty pleasures

[JbaraFan1]

Posted: 8/1/12 at 5:21pm

What are some movies that may not necessarily be considered "best" but that you enjoy watching again and again?

Given the time I could sit down and watch Adventures in Babysitting, Pillow Talk, or Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House pretty much any day of the week. None of these stretch my mind or make me a better person for viewing them; they just make me happy.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 8/1/12 at 5:42pm

Those shouldn't be guilty pleasures, those are just good movies.

If you said your favorite movies are GHOULIES 2, LEPRACHAUN IN SPACE and TALES FROM THE HOOD, well...that would be a different story.

[Addison D.]

Posted: 8/1/12 at 5:44pm

'The Cutting Edge' starring rough-around-the-edges, bad-boy Hockey Player D.B. Sweeney, and Moira "Oh, how I need to get f***ed by a bad-boy" Kelly.

With a cheesy climax almost as emotionally manipulative as 'Ice Castles' ("Oh my God! She's BLIND!!!"), the DVD for this poorly-scripted bit of fluff is always within reach in my house.

"Toe Pick!"

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[Unknown User]

Posted: 8/1/12 at 5:44pm

It might be passé, but THE ROOM.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 8/1/12 at 5:45pm

ELVIRA, MISTRESS OF THE DARK and MAID TO ORDER are always either in my DVD player or right next to it.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 8/1/12 at 5:53pm

Grease 2
Big Business
Mamma Mia!
Valley of the Dolls

[tazber]

Posted: 8/1/12 at 6:00pm

The Marlon Brando "Island of Dr. Moreau" - Just insane. Must be seen to be believed.

The Day After Tomorrow/2012 - Epic disaster is my comfort food.

Deep Blue Sea - I seriously never tire of that movie.

Any of those "Crouching Tiger" type of visually stunning martial arts movies.

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 8/1/12 at 6:16pm

When I read Deep Blue Sea immediately thought of the movie from this year, and was wondering how it could be a guilty plasure... LOL Honestly forgot there was that shark movie with the same name (at least I think it a a shark movie...)

Grease 2 probaly tops my list of the obvious choices. I'm much more likely to be in the mood to sit through it than the original movie.

I'm not sure if this is a guilty pleasure--but I do feel kinda guilty enjoying it, so I guess it counts. The mid 60s "psychosexual film noir" Who Killed Teddy Bear staring Sal Mineo (who somehow thought it would re-energize his sliding career), as a potentially sexually obsessed stalker, Juliet Prowse as the DJ (! or so they say, though she doesn't do much of what I'd call DJing) at the night club he works at, and Elaine Stritch as her lesbian boss. Just an extremely sleazy film that really seems like the material would have been a B movie sexploitation film and not a major release. I love it. Here's the great, oh so subtle (ha) scene of Sal meeting Juliet as they work out and discuss muscles in a gym...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dK-zilnKh5c

(Apparently the full thing is on youtube, starting here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUgJS_o0myw . I believe it has a UK DVD release but I had to settle for a bootleg, years back).

[Wynbish]

Posted: 8/1/12 at 7:08pm

Blow Dry

Strictly Ballroom

The first scene of Lone Star State of Mind

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 8/1/12 at 7:24pm

I don't have any, but I happen to know that PalJoey's are "Mother, Jugs, and Speed," "Dirty Mary Crazy Larry," and "Freebie and the Bean."

[Jane2]

Posted: 8/1/12 at 7:35pm

There are certain films that I will watch (or have on in the background) every single time they are on. JAWS is number one of these. Without exaggerating, I must have watched it about 50 times. Having it on even in the background makes me feel good. I don't know if it's a guilty pleasure because it's one fine film.

Others in this category are ALONG CAME POLLY, any of the BIBLICAL EPICS, LOST IN TRANSLATION. there are others that I can't think of right now.

[best12bars]

Posted: 8/1/12 at 7:43pm

Oh, man, my list is long and guilty ...

Lost Horizon (1973 musical)
Pufnstuf
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Dead Ringers (Bette Davis)
Journey Back to Oz
The Phantom Tollbooth
Logan's Run
Silent Running
Goodbye, Mr. Chips (musical)
The Apple Dumpling Gang
The Daydreamer (Rankin Bass)
Mad Monster Party (Rankin Bass)
Grace of My Heart
The Little Prince (musical)
Fatso
Mr. North
Nine
Pete's Dragon
St. Elmo's Fire
Return to Oz
War of the Worlds (Tom Cruise)

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 8/1/12 at 7:46pm

NINE?

Besty, that's not a guilty pleasure that's just plain unforgivable.

[tazber]

Posted: 8/1/12 at 7:50pm

It is, but I will say that Fergie kills in Be Italian (in a good way).

I actually pop the BD in every once in awhile and just watch the musical numbers.

[best12bars]

Posted: 8/1/12 at 8:02pm

See? See?!?!

EDIT: I found something really weird (that none of you will agree with anyway) ... If I skip that first pretentious scene in NINE with Day-Lewis pontificating about his movies (in B&W, no less) and start the film with the Overture, where he walks into the empty soundstage, the whole movie plays MUCH better. It cuts the "serious" start and opens it with fantasy. Much better.

Guilty as charged.

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[JbaraFan1]

Posted: 8/1/12 at 8:02pm

Jane2, you've reminded me that it's about time I watched Lost in Translation again.

EricM, agree on Grease 2. (Other 2s that I like over firsts would be Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, and Superman 2.)

Jordan, I sure think those are all good movies. Not sure how many people would name Mr Blandings as their #1 favorite Cary Grant movie of all time. (Or list, as I would, My Favorite Wife, as second.)

EDIT for besty: The Phantom Tollbooth came out when I was around 13, but I never saw it until after I was married. It's one of my husband's favorites.


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[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 8/1/12 at 8:12pm

I also watch HELLO AGAIN all the time.

[Addison D.]

Posted: 8/1/12 at 8:28pm

Mr. Blandings is one of my all-time faves, and I've probably watched it 50 times or more. It suffers--for me--a bit from being able to be classified more as documentary than fiction. Working in residential construction in real life, 'Blandings' cuts a little too close to home. I swear Tesander (Harry Shannon) is digging a well on one of my projects at this very moment.

And the exchange about paint colors between Myrna Loy and Emory Parnell's Mr. Pedalford is so true it's funny/sad...

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[JbaraFan1]

Posted: 8/1/12 at 8:40pm

Addison, oh wow, not sure I've seen it that many times. I wish!!
Have you ever read the book?

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[best12bars]

Posted: 8/1/12 at 8:42pm

JbaraFan1---I first saw Phantom Tollbooth at an MGM Saturday Matinee series in the movie theatre. I had already read the book (several times) and still loved this adaptation. I recently bought it when it was released on-demand via MGM.

Still love it!

Oh, forgot another one ...

Munster, Go Home!

[JbaraFan1]

Posted: 8/1/12 at 8:53pm

Munster, Go Home!

How the heck did I miss this one growing up?? I have got to see this!! So was this shown in movie theaters, like the Batman movie?

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 8/1/12 at 9:00pm

Any bad movie starting with Plan 9 From Outer Space

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 8/1/12 at 9:02pm

I love Hello Again!

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 8/1/12 at 9:02pm

I love Hello Again!

[Addison D.]

Posted: 8/1/12 at 9:05pm

I have NOT read the book. I OWN the book, but I have not read it...

Is it very different from the film?