# Films you ARE ashamed to admit you Like **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 31, 2004, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-you-are-ashamed-to-admit-you-like/237616 "2004-03-31T21:46:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2004, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-you-are-ashamed-to-admit-you-like/237616/41 "2004-04-01T15:18:00Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > 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! ack, is that Her Alibi? You _ought_ to be ashamed… Simply ignore the fact that I knew the movie, carry on… ---
**Author:** ![Innanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ecd19e/32.png) [@Innanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Innanna)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2004, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-you-are-ashamed-to-admit-you-like/237616/42 "2004-04-01T15:32:25Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2004, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-you-are-ashamed-to-admit-you-like/237616/43 "2004-04-01T15:33:33Z")
The entire time I was watching Batman & Robin, I’m thinking: Dear god, this is awful… But it’s a lot of fun. How stupid can one movie be?.. It’s better than “Armageddon” Must. Lobotomize. Self. DAMN YOU JOEL SCHMACHER!!! ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2004, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-you-are-ashamed-to-admit-you-like/237616/44 "2004-04-01T15:40:50Z")
> [@Mausmagill](#): > > \ > > DAMN YOU JOEL SCHMACHER!!! And your little U too… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Binarydrone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@Binarydrone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Binarydrone)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2004, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-you-are-ashamed-to-admit-you-like/237616/45 "2004-04-01T15:50:33Z")
waterworld I am so weak. ---
**Author:** ![Susie\_Derkins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47774/32.png) [@Susie\_Derkins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Susie_Derkins)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2004, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-you-are-ashamed-to-admit-you-like/237616/46 "2004-04-01T15:58:44Z")
_The Wedding Singer_ How can you not love Adam Sandler in a wig that is both 'fro-ish and mullet-lishous? ---
**Author:** ![Dogzilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@Dogzilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dogzilla)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2004, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-you-are-ashamed-to-admit-you-like/237616/47 "2004-04-01T16:29:36Z")
The Fifth Element. Can’t help it. The movie makes me chuckle. ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2004, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-you-are-ashamed-to-admit-you-like/237616/48 "2004-04-01T16:31:33Z")
I am ashamed to admit that _Summer School_ starring Mark Harmon and Kirstie Alley cracks me up. ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2004, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-you-are-ashamed-to-admit-you-like/237616/49 "2004-04-01T16:42:39Z")
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!) ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2004, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-you-are-ashamed-to-admit-you-like/237616/50 "2004-04-01T16:52:16Z")
> [@Bippy the Beardless](#): > > 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!) Okay, you want truely shameful? Here’s truley shameful. I like Patch Adams. Not because it was any good (Lord knows - it blew), but I was an extra in it. 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. ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2004, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-you-are-ashamed-to-admit-you-like/237616/51 "2004-04-01T18:01:58Z")
> [@JohnBckWLD](#): > > 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. I’m probably devoting more energy to this response than it deserves, but… musicals are a form of art with particular conventions. So are movies. It makes no more sense to get outraged by musicals than to get all huffy about the fact that there are camera cuts in movies… “I’m watching it from over here… NOW I’M WATCHING IT FROM OVER HERE! What did I do, teleport?”. You just accept that as part of the storytelling device. (Now, mind you, I’ve never much cared for most old musicals of the “first we have 10 minutes of dialogue, then suddenly 50 guys with ukeleles show up and we have a dance number in the street” variety. But neither of the really good recent musicals, _Moulin Rouge_ and _Chicago_, are like that. For that matter, neither is _Cabaret_). Oh, and **PookahMacPhellimey** , _Titanic_ truly is a wonderful movie, which is why so many people went to see it, and it got such good reviews, and it won so many oscars. Be proud! Resist the backlash! ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2004, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-you-are-ashamed-to-admit-you-like/237616/52 "2004-04-01T18:53:15Z")
**Mausmagill** that is realy cool, I’d much rather be an extra in a realy bad movie than in a half decent movie. ---
**Author:** ![Nutty\_Bunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d07c76/32.png) [@Nutty\_Bunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nutty_Bunny)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2004, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-you-are-ashamed-to-admit-you-like/237616/53 "2004-04-01T21:32:34Z")
> [@Bippy the Beardless](#): > > Real shame is liking the Robin Williams Peter Pan film or the Popeye movie, those are films I love and am soreley ashamed of. Oh, **Bippy**! ::shakes head:: That _is_ real shame. Even as a 10 year old, I knew _ **Popeye** _ sucked…hard. But I’ll put myself out there, too, since you were so brave. I liked _ **Titanic** _. You’re not alone, **PookahMacPyournameistoolong**. 😉 In fact, I saw it in the theater 4 times and cried every time. :o In my defense, I wasn’t crying about Rose and Jack, but about the actual disaster. ---
**Author:** ![slackersavant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a4c791/32.png) [@slackersavant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slackersavant)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2004, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-you-are-ashamed-to-admit-you-like/237616/54 "2004-04-01T22:10:51Z")
the care bears movie (the first, I think there’s another) I have only seen it as an adult… I am very ashamed. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2004, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-you-are-ashamed-to-admit-you-like/237616/55 "2004-04-01T23:10:55Z")
> [@Inanna](#): > > 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? Oh, God, I’d almost forgotten about my secret love of sports movies. And I hate sports! But I’ll watch _Necessary Roughness_ every time I see it on TV. Or _Varsity Blues_, or _Major League_, or _Bull Durham_, or that one, I forget it’s name, with Kurt Russel and Robin Williams as former Highschool football players. Real sports are my kryptonite, but dramatized sports are my crack cocaine. ---
**Author:** ![hlanelee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3bc359/32.png) [@hlanelee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hlanelee)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2004, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-you-are-ashamed-to-admit-you-like/237616/56 "2004-04-01T23:23:50Z")
I liked **The World According to Garp** better than the book. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2004, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-you-are-ashamed-to-admit-you-like/237616/57 "2004-04-02T01:50:53Z")
> [@TellMeI'mNotCrazy](#): > > ack, is that Her Alibi? You _ought_ to be ashamed… I ought to be, but I’m not! Well, okay. A little. But Tom Selleck is just too damned cute, getting shot in the butt… getting his stomach pumped… ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2004, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-you-are-ashamed-to-admit-you-like/237616/58 "2004-04-02T02:09:42Z")
Movies I’ve come to realize that I shamefully like, because I must watch them when they’re on: _Executive Decision_ _The Beastmaster_ _Kindergarten Cop_ _Oxford Blues_ _Bachelor Party_ _Runaway_ _They Live!_ _Hopscotch_ That’s all I can think of right now, but I’m sure there’s more. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2004, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-you-are-ashamed-to-admit-you-like/237616/59 "2004-04-02T02:17:43Z")
> [@Nutty Bunny](#): > > Oh, **Bippy**! ::shakes head:: That _is_ real shame. Even as a 10 year old, I knew _ **Popeye** _ sucked…hard. . . . Yeah, Altman’s version was definitely not made with 10 year olds in mind. It’s a bit of a classic though; worth revisiting as an adult. ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2004, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-you-are-ashamed-to-admit-you-like/237616/60 "2004-04-02T02:26:51Z")
Thunderheart Terrible dialog, clunky story, but it’s sitting on my shelf in between Office Space and Rosemary’s Baby. I have no excuse except that I’m a sucker for Graham Greene. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-you-are-ashamed-to-admit-you-like/237616.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-you-are-ashamed-to-admit-you-like/237616.md?page=4)