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[Closed] Guilty pleasures - Bad films that you like.

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ooh yes - most Jason Statham films - I love Transporter and Transporter 2, have got Transporter 3 on the PVR ready to watch when I have chance

Jimmers - Evil Dead 2?


 
Posted : 14/01/2011 11:37 am
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I don't think Bring it on is a guilty pleasure? Great film.

I'd go for

Starship Troopers
Roadhouse


 
Posted : 14/01/2011 11:39 am
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[i]DezB - you need a hug?[/i]

Wouldn't know what to do with it.


 
Posted : 14/01/2011 11:39 am
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nbt - Oh yes!


 
Posted : 14/01/2011 11:41 am
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DezB - You could give it to a cute girl in your office?


 
Posted : 14/01/2011 11:44 am
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If only! I'll have to go upstairs to Finance 🙂


 
Posted : 14/01/2011 11:50 am
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After a bit of searching through my old VHSs, I came up with:

Surf Nazis Must Die
The Kentucky Fried Movie
Howard The Duck


 
Posted : 14/01/2011 12:25 pm
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The Bond films with Roger Moore. 😳


 
Posted : 14/01/2011 12:35 pm
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Coming to America.
House Party.

I have watched these so many many times. Mrs Tyred is a proper arthouse cinema lover and has always despaired of the high regard in which I hold these two films.

Others have said it already, but [b]IN NO WAY[/b] could the Cannonball Run or Butch Cassidy be considered "bad films".


 
Posted : 14/01/2011 12:51 pm
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Anything with Steven Seagal in it +1.
All Bruce Willis films.Especially Die Hards.

My deep dark secret though that the missus has recently discovered is
"The Devil Wears Prada" , love it ,darling.
I think the lady in it is Ann Hathaway - beautiful.


 
Posted : 14/01/2011 1:14 pm
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Is it wrong for a man to like Grease?

yes.

Oh dear....

I don't actually like it obviously. I was just kidding, obviously. I like Terminator and other manly films....ahem.


 
Posted : 14/01/2011 1:19 pm
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I can't help but notice that a lot of these "guilty pleasures" are dancing films. Flashdance, Dirty Dancing, Bring it On. I'd definitely stick the latter down as a guilty pleasure, though that's largely because I'd happily pay the price of admission to watch Eliza Dushku eat crisps for 90 minutes, let alone have her prance about in a cheerleader outfit.

I'll fight anyone who thinks that Escape from New York or The Princess Bride are 'guilty' pleasures, they're both awesome and you should be proud, not guilty. Snake Plissken is the best anti-hero *ever*, Kurt Russell's finest moment (and that includes kicking in Goldie Hawn's back doors). As for TPB; there used to be a movie quotes database on the web forever ago, on the home page it stated that TPB was banned from the site on the grounds that the entire movie is quotable.

Would Highlander count as a guilty pleasure? It's one of my favourite films, but it's cheesy as a gorgonzola fondue with extra cheese, it hasn't aged too well (possibly because of the cheese), and every sequel has been Grim Factor 9, Mr Sulu. Highlander: There Should Have Been Only One.


 
Posted : 14/01/2011 1:23 pm
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Right turn Clyde

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Posted : 14/01/2011 1:23 pm
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Pound land special...
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Posted : 14/01/2011 1:31 pm
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Trailmonkey! Go and stand in the corner. You can't dis Any Which Way...

That's an all time classic!!!! Right down to the comedy cartoon sounds whenever anyone gets punched in the fight scenes 🙂


 
Posted : 14/01/2011 1:32 pm
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i thought it was just me 😀 i sit giggling through the whole thing, whilst mrs tm shoots withering glances at my childish s****ings.


 
Posted : 14/01/2011 1:34 pm
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Oh **** i like Dirty Dancing, and Trailmonkey anything with Clint Eastwood is classic, fact. A Few Dollars More, Outlaw Jose Wells etc etc i rest my case.

Roger Moore as Bond noooooooooooooooo it is not right. I like to think MI6 were in relaxing of recruiting standards mode when he got selected and the Nation was under so significant threat, even "Q" and Miss Monepenny thought he was a knob, you can tell in their eyes, look next time its on.


 
Posted : 14/01/2011 1:39 pm
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Not at all. Me and my mates, when young and stupid, all got completely obsessed with it. We all had big motorbikes and had Black Widow's spidersweb stickers somewhere on the bike as a piss-take.

Tattoos were even suggested. Thak god we never did it!

Them pesky widows!! 😉


 
Posted : 14/01/2011 1:39 pm
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[i]Would Highlander count as a guilty pleasure? [/i]

Yes, in my book. Only film I've walked out of. Garbage! (yes, I made it to the end of Con-Air!)


 
Posted : 14/01/2011 1:41 pm
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I think perhaps there's mileage in a "worst 'big' film I've ever seen" thread...?


 
Posted : 14/01/2011 1:43 pm
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Has no-one mentioned Coyote Ugly.

Missus knew I had a free choice film on my hotel when staying away years ago on business. I had to tell her everything about the film I watched and it was the above and not 'When the Cats Away'.


 
Posted : 14/01/2011 2:05 pm
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Starship Troopers
SpaceBalls


 
Posted : 14/01/2011 2:16 pm
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Butch Cassidy
Blues Brothers
Princess Bride
Escape From New York
American Werewolf in London

are in no way shape or form "guilty pleasures" - they are all cast iron classics

Agreed, and I'd like to add Bring It On to that list too.

Guilty Pleasure? Maybe a tiny bit guilty, but in no way bad - it's hilarious (and quite pleasant to look at).

I was goign to say The Transporter, but it's actually really good - so maybe The Transporter 2 - that was a bit silly.


 
Posted : 14/01/2011 2:17 pm
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Flashdance (love Kevin Bacon's "angry dancing" scene)

He did that in [u]Footloose[/u] too 😉


 
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Flashdance (love Kevin Bacon's "angry dancing" scene)

He did that in Footloose too

well spotted I meant Footloose (it was on TV recently), I also enjoy the "playing chicken very slowly in tractors scene" - although the welding / dance mash-up in Flashdance deserves a mention too.


 
Posted : 14/01/2011 2:50 pm
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Can't believe it took until page 3 to mention Starship Troopers.

House Party is a classic though.


 
Posted : 14/01/2011 2:55 pm
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What concerns me more than anything else is the number of films on this thread that I have watched and enjoyed! Must make an effort to see the Princess Bride at some point to catch up with the rest of the forum.

Add a new one - Mary Poppins!


 
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Sorry I like all the Matrix movies

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and to continue the dancing theme

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a genuine so bad it's good masterpiece


 
Posted : 14/01/2011 3:14 pm
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When Freddy Got Fingered.


 
Posted : 14/01/2011 5:17 pm
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All the transporter and resident evil films.

Nick


 
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Posted : 14/01/2011 5:32 pm
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The Polar Express
Beat Street


 
Posted : 14/01/2011 5:32 pm
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Actually I don't feel guilty about watching the polar express


 
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Posted : 14/01/2011 5:37 pm
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I found myself really enjoying Stardust despite myself.


 
Posted : 14/01/2011 5:43 pm
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[b]MY COUSIN VINNY[/b]

Just saw it in HD on sky last weekend! It's got it all!
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Posted : 14/01/2011 6:02 pm
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Good gravy, I'd forgotten all about that one. Falls into the "better than it has any right to be" category, certainly. Good shout.


 
Posted : 14/01/2011 6:18 pm
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Gone in 60 seconds, the Nicolas Cage one - shocking !!! but I like it as does Mrs Smarty and Smarty Junior :O

Can't believe it's not got a mention here


 
Posted : 14/01/2011 7:25 pm
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You can add Stardust to the bring it on/Princess Bride etc.. list - although it is apparently a chick flick.

Not sure if Flash Gordon is guilty pleasure or not - certainly awful & hugely entertaining to me.

How about SPY Kids? Mean Girls? Dick? A Knight's Tale?


 
Posted : 14/01/2011 7:35 pm
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Mean Girls is an excellent film - not a guilty pleasure

Flash Gordon is very tongue in cheek - it's too knowing to be "so bad it's good"


 
Posted : 14/01/2011 7:38 pm
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Watched tremors again tonight, had forgotten how enjoyable it is. Don;t think Mrs NBT appreciated it quite as much as me though


 
Posted : 14/01/2011 11:59 pm
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absolutely love tank girl and labyrinth.i love a lot of 80's/90's horror films like re animator,from beyond,return of the living dead series [img] [/img] ps.clubber what was the music at the end of hackers?have wanted to get it (great film as well)


 
Posted : 15/01/2011 12:20 am
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So many of the films mentioned above are classics, definitely not guilty pleasures.

Pretty in pink


 
Posted : 15/01/2011 12:23 am
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[url= http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085279/ ]Bullshot[/url]


 
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