# Most shameful guilty pleasure you've ever had **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 6, 2009, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-shameful-guilty-pleasure-youve-ever-had/512850 "2009-10-06T20:39:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2009, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-shameful-guilty-pleasure-youve-ever-had/512850/21 "2009-10-07T01:02:41Z")
> [@AuntiePam](#): > > I’ve got you all beat. I re-read certain sections of _The Painted Bird_. Those of you who’ve read it will know what sections I’m talking about. > > Don’t ask me why I re-read them. The older me says maybe it was because I couldn’t believe what I was reading and had to read it again to see if the words changed. But to be honest, the younger me had a fascination with depravity. I feel worse because I got bored through the Painted Bird. Though the scene where the girl/guy got locked together stayed with me mostly because I was curious if it really happened. Is that the one you meant? ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2009, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-shameful-guilty-pleasure-youve-ever-had/512850/22 "2009-10-07T01:08:34Z")
I’ve been racking my brain to come up with something, _anything_ as bad as _Cats_. I’m failing. Sure, I spent years as part of a Rocky Horror cast, I was an unrepentant Poison fan in the early nineties, and while I did read _Twilight_, I can’t say I enjoyed it. But Andrew Lloyd Webber … Oh, wait. I’ve got it. Once upon a time, I loved, I mean _loved_ (as in saw it on Broadway three times and listened to the soundtrack every day for months) … _Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat._ Honestly, I think I’d blocked it from my memory. _shudder_ ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2009, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-shameful-guilty-pleasure-youve-ever-had/512850/23 "2009-10-07T01:24:53Z")
What’s wrong with _Cats_? That was a great musical. I loved it. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2009, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-shameful-guilty-pleasure-youve-ever-had/512850/24 "2009-10-07T01:28:33Z")
I admit, I like _Xanadu_, too. I have some songs from it on my iPod. I even went to a revival screening of it a few months back, and it was as gloriously cheesy as ever. My favorite one-word review of it? _Xanadon’t_. ---
**Author:** ![Glory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7cd45c/32.png) [@Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Glory)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2009, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-shameful-guilty-pleasure-youve-ever-had/512850/25 "2009-10-07T01:35:00Z")
I loved Xanadu. I love Grease II. And the Beastmaster. I have a special weakness for a special genre of movie - there has to be some sort of contest/big game/big show, and the main characters have to practice REALLY hard (music montage is a bonus) and the final show/game is the big payoff. See: Cutting Edge, Girls Just Want to Have Fun, Drumline, You Got Served, Mystery Alaska, Footloose (learning how to dance for The.Big.Dance!), Bring it On, Bend it Like Beckham, Sister Act, Center Stage, Roll Bounce, Stick It, Dirty Dancing etc etc. Love ALL of them. Love love love. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2009, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-shameful-guilty-pleasure-youve-ever-had/512850/26 "2009-10-07T01:50:16Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > I feel worse because I got bored through the Painted Bird. Though the scene where the girl/guy got locked together stayed with me mostly because I was curious if it really happened. Is that the one you meant? That was one of them. The other involved a woman and a glass jar. (I have no idea if it really happened but I doubt it. Koscinski (sp) has been accused of making it all up.) **Why** is there still no pukin’ smiley? ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2009, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-shameful-guilty-pleasure-youve-ever-had/512850/27 "2009-10-07T02:01:27Z")
Ever had? Well, I was in the Subway shoppe getting myself a sandwich today, when Steve Miller’s “Jungle Love” came on. When I was 15 I **loved** this song-today, it was \ time. Good enough? Nowadays, I’ll probably admit to enjoying the Ozric Tentacles-in small doses. Sheer ear candy, and nothing more, yes, but I can still get into them. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2009, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-shameful-guilty-pleasure-youve-ever-had/512850/28 "2009-10-07T02:08:02Z")
I think _Deuce Bigalow, Male Gigolo_ is actually a really good, sweet movie. ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2009, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-shameful-guilty-pleasure-youve-ever-had/512850/29 "2009-10-07T02:27:25Z")
I enjoy Michael Bay and Roland Emmerich movies. And I plan on seeing 2012 and enjoying it. I an _unironic_ way. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2009, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-shameful-guilty-pleasure-youve-ever-had/512850/30 "2009-10-07T02:34:19Z")
I really liked Meat Loaf’s Bat Out of Hell II album. Really. I loved the video for “Objects in the Rear View Mirror”. Shameful. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2009, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-shameful-guilty-pleasure-youve-ever-had/512850/31 "2009-10-07T02:40:43Z")
Oh, also I have a Very Serious Thing for Antonio Banderas. I mean, I saw _Original Sin_ and paid actual money for it. I saw _Ecks Vs. Sever_. It’s pathological. I especially love to hear him sing. ---
**Author:** ![MissGypsy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8491ac/32.png) [@MissGypsy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissGypsy)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2009, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-shameful-guilty-pleasure-youve-ever-had/512850/32 "2009-10-07T02:51:35Z")
I have a secret passion for Motley Crue, which I rarely indulge now. It’s a holdover from junior high and high school, but I was a serious collector of Crue memorabilia. I had jewelry, panties, one-of-a-kind wood carvings, framed pictures, and hundreds of pages of fiction that I wrote about me and Vince Neil. :eek: I cringe, now. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2009, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-shameful-guilty-pleasure-youve-ever-had/512850/33 "2009-10-07T03:00:28Z")
> [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](#): > > What’s wrong with _Cats_? That was a great musical. I loved it. 😕 Is…this a whoosh? ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2009, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-shameful-guilty-pleasure-youve-ever-had/512850/34 "2009-10-07T03:07:04Z")
> [@AlsoNamedBort](#): > > I enjoy Michael Bay and Roland Emmerich movies. And I plan on seeing 2012 and enjoying it. I an _unironic_ way. You stole mine. I own the DVD of Armageddon and have watched it multiple times, and have watched every commentary track multiple times. I am looking forward to 2012 so much that it’s not even funny. My family thinks that I am into these movies in a hipster ironic sort of way, but no, I just really, really love big disaster end-of-world movies. I know on some level that they are not really good movies and are full of terrible cliches, but I don’t care, I fully enjoy them anyway. I also really like the Black Eyed Peas. ---
**Author:** ![Apollyon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/apollyon/32/4238_2.png) [@Apollyon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apollyon)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2009, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-shameful-guilty-pleasure-youve-ever-had/512850/35 "2009-10-07T03:17:19Z")
> [@Draelin](#): > > Oh, wait. I’ve got it. Once upon a time, I loved, I mean _loved_ (as in saw it on Broadway three times and listened to the soundtrack every day for months) … _Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat._ Seen the show… got the soundtrack… bought the DVD… got the coffee mug… > [@Mahaloth](#): > > I really liked Meat Loaf’s Bat Out of Hell II album. Frequently listen to that too… ohhh… hadn’t seen that video… excellent… What?! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2009, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-shameful-guilty-pleasure-youve-ever-had/512850/36 "2009-10-07T03:17:23Z")
[Quote=Glory] See: Cutting Edge, Girls Just Want to Have Fun, Drumline, You Got Served, Mystery Alaska, Footloose (learning how to dance for The.Big.Dance!), Bring it On, Bend it Like Beckham, Sister Act, Center Stage, Roll Bounce, Stick It, Dirty Dancing etc etc. Love ALL of them. Love love love. [/Quote] **Glory** stole my thunder. I’m a 55-year-old guy, BTW. Waitaminute. I don’t see _Flashdance_ on that list. Harumph harumph harumph. ---
**Author:** ![Spud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spud/32/347_2.png) [@Spud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spud)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2009, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-shameful-guilty-pleasure-youve-ever-had/512850/37 "2009-10-07T03:18:22Z")
Boy, I can only wait until Hal Briston comes along and puts you all in your place. ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Skeezix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/aca169/32.png) [@Red\_Skeezix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Skeezix)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2009, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-shameful-guilty-pleasure-youve-ever-had/512850/38 "2009-10-07T03:26:52Z")
When I was a kid, I thought the height of cool was Krull, Starship’s “We built this city” and the Hans Christian Andersen movie starring Danny Kaye. ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2009, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-shameful-guilty-pleasure-youve-ever-had/512850/39 "2009-10-07T03:27:45Z")
> [@MsWhatsit](#): > > My family thinks that I am into these movies in a hipster ironic sort of way, but no, I just really, really love big disaster end-of-world movies. I know on some level that they are not really good movies and are full of terrible cliches, but I don’t care, I fully enjoy them anyway. I know the feeling. I like Michael Bay movies. Why? Because something will make me giggle, and something will blow up. That’s all I ask. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2009, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-shameful-guilty-pleasure-youve-ever-had/512850/40 "2009-10-07T04:27:33Z")
I liked 2005’s _Stealth_, and own the DVD (though I did wait until I could get a copy for $5). For an aviation buff, it’s somewhere on the level of a skinemax flick. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-shameful-guilty-pleasure-youve-ever-had/512850.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-shameful-guilty-pleasure-youve-ever-had/512850.md?page=3)