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.
Dumb and Dumber
Something about that movie just cracks me the hell up every time. I can practically recite the dialogue by heart, but I still watch it whenever it’s on TV as I’m flipping past.
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.:
Showgirls
Cabaret
Last Action Hero
Maid in Heaven
My Giant
Hudson Hawk
Willard
Etc.
What the hell is Cabaret doing on that list?
Ok, I’ll give you that maybe the other movies belong in this category, but Cabaret? Why would anyone be embarrassed to admit liking that? Didn’t it win several Oscars (or at least was nominated)?
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)
Considered by all but a certain segment of society to be a campfest, when in fact it’s a decent, serious movie. Many people I know refuse to see it because Liza Minelli’s in it, which is just stupid. If she had died right after filming it, she’d be up there with James Dean and Marilyn Monroe; she didn’t disintegrate till later.
All I know is that 9 out of 10 times, when I recommend that movie, I get a funny look: “Cabaret? with Liza Minelli? are you serious?”
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.
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.
Batman Forever. Jim Carrey was so good in that.
It also doesn’t help that a large segment of the filmwatching audience seems to hate musicals with a passion, for reasons that I have never understood.
Which version of “Willard”, BTW?
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.
The remake; haven’t seen the original in 30 years.
Flowers in the Attic-a terrible, terribly made movie, but I still watch it whenever it’s on.
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.
Me too. And to this day I cannot hear someone say “I like it a lot” without having to fall into Jim Carrey mode.
“I like it, I like it a lawt.”
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.”
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]The Chase, staring Charlie Sheen and Kristy Swanson in an OJ-like flight for the Mexican border, after Sheen is wrongly convicted of robbing a bank. Awful, awful movie. Absolutely nothing redeeming about it (well, except for the cameos by Henry Rollins, Anthony Kiedis, and Flea), but I love it none the less.
The other movie is the craptacular Tommy Lee Jones/Anne Heche disaster film Volcano, which, my hand to God, regularly moves me to tears.[/spoiler]
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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.
You’ve Got Mail
Sleepless in Seattle
and Stree Fighter The Movie (but only in a so bad it’s good way!)
How will I ever redeem myself? 