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03-31-2004, 03:46 PM
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Films you ARE ashamed to admit you Like
OK, so what films do you like, that you wouldn't mention your enjoyment of to someone you wanted to impress.
Myself I am a big Jean Rollin fan, cannot get enough of his vampire films. Shiver of the Vampires is probably my favorite. There is something very charming about the naive sexyness of his films and his actresses. 
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03-31-2004, 04:15 PM
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HA! I have no shame. If I like a movie I'm not supposed to like, I try to talk everyone else into liking it too. E.g.:
ShowgirlsEtc.
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03-31-2004, 04:19 PM
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03-31-2004, 04:24 PM
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As for me, I didn't exactly hate Dude, Where's My Car? I'm embarrassed just typing that! And then there's the multitude of bad 80's films: Dirty Dancing The Breakfast Club Grease (technically 70's) (side note: I went to Rydell High*) Pretty in Pink Some Kind of Wonderful Short Circuit About Last Night etc. *A lot of the exterior scenes were filmed at Venice High School in LA (my alma mater)
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03-31-2004, 04:24 PM
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03-31-2004, 04:35 PM
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Sense and Sensibility is one of my top 3 movies of all time. Considering I'm a 26 year old guy, I keep this one close to the vest when I'm talking to other guys my age.
I wouldn't tell people in my film program that I enjoyed Eurotrip, A guy thing, and Mr. Deeds.
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03-31-2004, 05:02 PM
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Dude where's my Car was a great little movie, the ostritch scene and Giant alien Babe were great fun. Kung Pao Enter the dragon is another film I am not ashamed to like.
But I am ashamed to admit liking the LA Blue Girl, live action animes, something about female ninjas in fishnets combined with tenticle porn and awful martial arts action.
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03-31-2004, 05:15 PM
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Which version of "Willard", BTW?
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03-31-2004, 05:24 PM
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The first few that spring to mind are:
Grease 2 The Last Dragon Labyrinth Breakin' 1 & 2 I'm sure that there are some modern ones that I'm embarrassed to admit that I like, but I've spent so many years catching hell for knowing these older ones by heart, I can't think of any.
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03-31-2004, 05:30 PM
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03-31-2004, 05:50 PM
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Flowers in the Attic-a terrible, terribly made movie, but I still watch it whenever it's on.
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03-31-2004, 06:02 PM
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Now now, Labyrinth is a brilliant movie, I even got the super-bit version when it became available on DVD. Jim Henson at his best, with Bowie music, Terry Jones writing and imagery, George Lucas as executive producer. It's a truely great movie, not something to be even slightly ashamed of.
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03-31-2004, 06:04 PM
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"I like it, I like it a lawt."
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03-31-2004, 06:04 PM
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Godzilla (the remake with Matthew Broderick) I like Broderick, I thought it was fun eye-candy, I liked the mocking of Ebert & Siskel, and thought Maria Pitillo was SO UNBELIEVABLE CUTE. Woof!
But I know it's a "horribly bad movie."
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03-31-2004, 06:06 PM
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I like a lot of crappy movies, and am hardly ever ashamed to admit it. Dude, Where's My Car? was hilarious. I laughed my ass off at Dumb and Dumber. Last Action Hero? No dumber than any other movie Schwartzenegger has been in, and quite a bit cleverer than a few of them. I'm down with Bruce Leeroy in The Last Dragon, the muppet goblins in Labyrinth, and the four thousand metric tonnes of teen angst in The Breakfast Club. These are all movies I'm proud to say I liked, even if a few of them did suck.
There are only two movies I'm ashamed to say I liked. So ashamed, I'm putting them in a spoiler box. SPOILER:
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03-31-2004, 06:07 PM
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After admitting I like those preceding bombs, dare I say the following: You can put me down as one of those members of the filmwatching audience that hates musicals with a passion. I'll tell you why. The odds that... =>Earth will be attacked by a bug planet, =>Apes will rule the world, =>Godzilla will pop out of the East River, and =>Giant space worms will one day rape humans, ...are all much more likely to occur than people breaking into song and dance whilst going through their daily lives.
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03-31-2004, 06:22 PM
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Vanishing Point, if for nothing more than fast driving and the line, "What are you laughing at, Mary!?!"
Three Amigos. I like it even if two of the amigos are the worst actors in the world.
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03-31-2004, 06:26 PM
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I'm outing you, Miller. This was on HBO 2321 the other week and I watched it and liked it. I can't remember if I got choked up, but I would probably watch it again. However, I really like Tommy Lee Jones.
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03-31-2004, 07:33 PM
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03-31-2004, 07:44 PM
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Other than the name, there's nothing to be ashamed of. It's a fairly good movie.
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03-31-2004, 07:52 PM
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Caveman
Lots of cheesy Hong Kong movies: e.g., The Seventh Curse, Eternal Evil of Asia, lots of the silly Category III movies
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03-31-2004, 08:01 PM
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While You Were Sleeping.
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03-31-2004, 08:30 PM
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Ok, I will own up to loving Weekend at Bernie's, but Weekend at Bernie's 2...NEVER!!!
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03-31-2004, 09:35 PM
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Road House with Patrick Swayze.
It's so dumb, and so cliched, but I have to watch it every time it's on.
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03-31-2004, 09:36 PM
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Dazed and confused
I loved it......My friends hated it. 
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03-31-2004, 09:41 PM
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Go back and kick your friends' asses for making you ashamed for liking this excellent film.
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03-31-2004, 09:46 PM
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My point exactly! I ask these so called friends what was bad about the movie and the only reply I can get is...."It sucked." 
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03-31-2004, 10:20 PM
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Got a thing for Hollywood 'B' movies (or, uh, movies that are 'B'ish in tone) of the '60s-'80s, for some reason. Here's a few that I look back on with a rather misplaced fondness:
Tobruk Force 10 From Navarone The Omega Man The Power The Time Machine (not the recent remake) Robinson Crusoe on Mars Fantastic Voyage Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry 99 44/100's Dead The Driver Flashdance (I'm so ashamed) Foxes (an earlier Adrian Lyne film with Jodie Foster AND Cherie Currie of The Runaways!) Charley Varrick Cross of Iron The Gauntlet Mothra And a rubber stamp for the previous mentions of Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink and Destroy All Monsters.
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04-01-2004, 01:00 AM
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04-01-2004, 01:47 AM
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Being a Madonna fan, I am thoroughly cursed in this area.
Dangerous Game, Swept Away and Desperately Seeking Susan are my Big Three. I loved Truth Or Dare and A League Of Their Own too, but those don't count since they were actually good, on account of Madonna not having to act and being given a supporting role, respectively.
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04-01-2004, 02:11 AM
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Romy & Michelles High School Reunion
Armageddon Any kind of teenage american film, stuff like 10 things I hate abot you, She's all that etc etc, and most of the Adam Sandler movies. I have no idea why I like these films, but if they're on TV, i'll watch them
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04-01-2004, 07:50 AM
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Completely unashamed of loving Labyrinth. David Bowie in tights, how can you lose? No blushes about The Breakfast Club either. Things are starting to get a bit dubious with Young Guns and Young Guns II.
But the worst thing to admit is that I liked Titanic
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04-01-2004, 09:12 AM
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Fine, so I love "The Parent Trap." Both versions. It's not my fault.
Oh, and "Babe, Pig in the City," "Star Trek V" (hey, it's better than "The Motion Picture"!), and the movie with Tom Selleck where the woman is accused of murder and does things like shoot him with an arrow. Yes! I love these movies!
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04-01-2004, 09:18 AM
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Simply ignore the fact that I knew the movie, carry on...
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04-01-2004, 09:32 AM
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I second teen movies for things I do not admit I like (except on the internet, I guess), but really enjoy. Especially 10 Things, which I rationalize by pointing to the Shakespearian roots of the movie.
And I will go on record as enjoying Dude. I thought it was much better and far more clever than anything with Dude in the name has a right to be. I have watched it more than once, and still laughed--which I cannot say about every movie. And here is my confession: The Replacements. I don't even like football, and I have lost track of the number of times I have watched that movie. I also liked Unnecessary Roughness. I enjoyed Remember the Titans. And Bring It On (which was about cheerleaders, but still). I admit it only here: I like football movies--but they must be cheesy football movies. I don't like basketball movies, or baseball ones, but I did like Bend it Like Beckham, which doesn't count because lots of people liked that one. I even like Drumline, which is about a marching band. Is there a treatment that I should be aware of?
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04-01-2004, 09:33 AM
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The entire time I was watching
SPOILER:
Dear god, this is awful... But it's a lot of fun.DAMN YOU JOEL SCHMACHER!!!
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04-01-2004, 09:40 AM
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04-01-2004, 09:50 AM
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waterworld
I am so weak.
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04-01-2004, 09:58 AM
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The Wedding Singer
How can you not love Adam Sandler in a wig that is both 'fro-ish and mullet-lishous?
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04-01-2004, 10:31 AM
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I am ashamed to admit that Summer School starring Mark Harmon and Kirstie Alley cracks me up.
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04-01-2004, 10:42 AM
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Come on, some of you guys are getting ashamed over liking really good (or at least popular) films. Real shame is liking the Robin Williams Peter Pan film or the Popeye movie, those are films I love and am soreley ashamed of. I even love Silly Stalone's Judge Dread (and I am an old time 200AD and Tornado reader, so there!)
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04-01-2004, 10:52 AM
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See, that's me walking past him right there. See, I'm in the library studying. See, I'm standing next to the tree smoking a cigarette.
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