Which movies are our guilty pleasures? Movies that we are embarrassed to admit we enjoyed.
I guess my big one would be Hudson Hawk. Everyone hated that one, but I thought it was a hoot.
So many movies are called bad, when they have in fact achieved their aim. Some were meant to be cheesy. I think you can really only call a movie bad if it’s meant to be scary (really) and only makes you laugh, or if it completely misses the mark in some other fundamental way. A movie is not bad just because you don’t care for it, if it in fact achieved it’s aim. Otherwise, I would call Seven bad, and that was really a very good film, but it was just not my cup of tea.
What movies are your guilty pleasures, the ones that aren’t bad, they’re just drawn that way?
There are lots of them. If we restrict ourselves to movies that were not intended to be bad, then my picks are:
Plan 9 from Outer sace (the immortal)
Robot Monster
The Bruce Kimmel masterpieces:
The First Nudie Musical
The Creature that wasn’t Nice (aka Starship)
(This last one is a musical version of Alien. I kid you not. Cindy williams stars in both of Kimmel’s movies, Patrick MacNee in the second, and Ron Howard has a cameo in Nudie Musical)
Just saw one of my faves the other night on TV: “The Best of Everything” (1959).
One of the all-time great soap operas about Innocent Working Girls in The Big City. Hope Lange, Diane Baker and Suzy Parker work in a Park Avenue publishing house and are set upon by mean bosses (Joan Crawford at her Joanniest), slimey men, and wear great clothes (by Jean Louis, of course!).
It’s a treat of a film, and you HAVE to eat Pepperidge Farm cookies while youm watch it, in your Baby Doll nightie.
I’ll have to agree with Mr. Cynical. Up The Creek is one funny show. I laugh 'til I have tears in my eyes every time I watch that one.
One of my all-time favs: Rocky Horror Picture Show. Used to go to that movie once a month. Dressed up like Dr. Frankenfurter, threw rice, toast, hot-dogs, cards, toilet paper, etc… LOVED that movie, but have you ever tried to watch it by yourself, without all the audience participation?? BAAAAAD movie!!
I don’t know if it was actually considered ‘bad,’ but “Raising Arizona” w/ Nicholas Cage & Holly Hunter is about the only movie I have ever watched 3-4 times - and Loved It every time.
I love “Rock and Roll High School.” It’s so terrible, but I have it on tape and watch it all the time. I also like “Officer and a Gentleman” and “Shock Treatment,” the terrible follow-up to RHPS.
I definitely get some guilty pleasure from watching “Earth Girls Are Easy” with Geena Davis, Jeff Goldblum, and Jim Carrey. Bad movie but I love it anyway.
Oh and my dad got me hooked on those cheesy, hormonal, bikini movies. You know the ones where some store, monoment, etc. is in trouble and the kids all decide to raise the money to save it by wandering around in bikinis for the rest of the movie. They were often the fodder of USA’s “UP all night” show. Not your usual Father/Daughter bonding activity.
Two of the most truly awful movies of all time that I just have to watch when they come on late-night t.v. are “Logan’s Run” and “Saturn 3.” By pure coincidence(?) both these dogs feature Farrah Fawcett in skimpy mid-70s “futuristic” (i.e. glittery disco) outfits. These movies are the epitome of horrible sci-fi dreck, but I’m hypnotically enthralled by them whenever I see them.
Nah…there are two people in the world that don’t think “Hudson Hawk” sucks…I’m the other one. If you loved “Robin Hood Men in Tights” there are two of us on that too.
But for sheer badmoviesyouloveitiveness you can’t beat “Porky’s”. Kim Catrell with sweat sox and without the wrinkles. “Why do they call her Lassie?”
JB
OWWWWWWWWWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Yuk yuk. However, I do date my love of sci fi to it, because it was the first futuristic movie I’d ever seen. I’d say I was about 7.
I’ve seen Beeteljuice so many times that I can see all the plot flaws. Maybe others think it’s a bad movie but I love it. Raising Arizona, too. It’s definately NOT a bad movie. (“Son, you’ve got a panty on your head.”)
Oh, my God, it was so bad. There were about 15 of us in the cinema and we were screaming in hysterics. Afterward it was all my flatmate and I could talk about for days. Definitely the most unintentionally hilarious movie I’ve ever seen.
