# Movies you are NOT ashamed to admit you like. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 16, 2004, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-are-not-ashamed-to-admit-you-like/234700 "2004-03-16T20:58:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Shayna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shayna/32/17976_2.png) [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2004, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-are-not-ashamed-to-admit-you-like/234700/41 "2004-03-16T23:08:46Z")
Ssshhhh, don’t tell **Eve** , but… One of my all-time favorite movies is the 1973 musical re-make of [**Lost Horizon**](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070337/). (I also like the 1937 Frank Capra original, but the musical version is still my favorite, cheesy Bacharach songs and all.) I also like, ahem, **The Blue Lagoon** (Shut up!). ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2004, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-are-not-ashamed-to-admit-you-like/234700/42 "2004-03-16T23:18:50Z")
I own Legally Blonde. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Shayna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shayna/32/17976_2.png) [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2004, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-are-not-ashamed-to-admit-you-like/234700/43 "2004-03-16T23:19:00Z")
Oh, and **Jumpin’ Jack Flash** and **Drop Dead Fred**. ---
**Author:** ![UncaStuart](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uncastuart/32/404_2.png) [@UncaStuart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncaStuart)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2004, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-are-not-ashamed-to-admit-you-like/234700/44 "2004-03-16T23:41:54Z")
Ever since seeing the Red Elvises at the Gilroy Garlic Festival in 1999, I’ve been meaning to pick up and watch _Six String Samurai_. Now, with all these kudos, I’m going to have to follow through and do it finally. My guilty pleasure double feature: _Last Action Hero_ and _Demolition Man_. ---
**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:** [March 16, 2004, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-are-not-ashamed-to-admit-you-like/234700/45 "2004-03-16T23:42:46Z")
> [@Ilsa\_Lund](#): > > _Breakfast At Tiffany’s_ ranks in my lifetime top ten. I also have a soft spot for _Paper Moon_ and _Drop Dead Gorgeous_. Ohmygod you are so _gay_. ---
**Author:** ![Ilsa\_Lund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a6a055/32.png) [@Ilsa\_Lund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ilsa_Lund)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2004, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-are-not-ashamed-to-admit-you-like/234700/46 "2004-03-16T23:58:39Z")
> [@lissener](#): > > Ohmygod you are so _gay_. Nonono. I’m a _sick pervert_! You know, jerking off to a nine year old Tatum O’neal?😃 [sub]Is it Beer O’Clock in Seattle?[/sub] [Mr. Garrison]I just act gay to get chicks![Mr. Garrison] ---
**Author:** ![Ilsa\_Lund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a6a055/32.png) [@Ilsa\_Lund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ilsa_Lund)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2004, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-are-not-ashamed-to-admit-you-like/234700/47 "2004-03-17T00:01:29Z")
Besides, it’s not like I said _Steel Magnolias_. I second _The Last Action Hero_ and _Galaxy Quest_. I’ll add _Down To Earth_, just for Wanda Sykes. ---
**Author:** ![3.885AM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/58956e/32.png) [@3.885AM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3.885AM)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2004, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-are-not-ashamed-to-admit-you-like/234700/48 "2004-03-17T00:06:26Z")
Erik the Viking ---
**Author:** ![Syntropy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@Syntropy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syntropy)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2004, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-are-not-ashamed-to-admit-you-like/234700/49 "2004-03-17T00:11:42Z")
I _love_ Erik the Viking! But, I’d classify it as a cult movie. In fact, I was going to ask for a distinction between the two; it seems like a fine line, and there are tons of cult classics I love that could easily classify as B movies. **House III** **From Dusk til Dawn** **Desperado** **Bound** **Phantasm** and so on… Okay, **Nate & Hayes** is definitely a B movie. But I still love it. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2004, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-are-not-ashamed-to-admit-you-like/234700/50 "2004-03-17T00:33:42Z")
**Exorcist II: The Heretic** **Zardoz** \*\*Incubus \*\*(the one in Esperanto) **Casino Royale** **Swashbuckler** **The Towering Inferno** **Futureworld** **Conan the Destroyer** ---
**Author:** ![Sylkyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/da6949/32.png) [@Sylkyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylkyn)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2004, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-are-not-ashamed-to-admit-you-like/234700/51 "2004-03-17T00:37:29Z")
> [@Ilsa\_Lund](#): > > Besides, it’s not like I said _Steel Magnolias_. Ahem. I **love** _Steel Magnolias_. Granted I am a chick, but it’s one of my top-five faves EVER. I know I’ve seen it well over 500 times. No exaggeration. It’s great for having a pity-party cryfest. Try it sometime! 😃 Another one I absolutely adore is _The Money Pit_. I’ve owned two copies of this movie (both now worn completely out, so I’m hunting for the DVD) and always get looks of derision when I tell people how funny it is. It’s a riot! I even watch it when it comes on television, hacked to death! Terrifically funny movie, and I can usually only barely tolerate Shelley Long. I also get made fun of for loving _Night at the Roxbury_. Sorry, but I think it’s hysterical and never get tired of it. No, I am NOT ashamed of my shameful flicks! ---
**Author:** ![Ilsa\_Lund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a6a055/32.png) [@Ilsa\_Lund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ilsa_Lund)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2004, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-are-not-ashamed-to-admit-you-like/234700/52 "2004-03-17T00:41:01Z")
> [@Sylkyn](#): > > Ahem. I **love** _Steel Magnolias_. Granted I am a chick, but it’s one of my top-five faves EVER. I know I’ve seen it well over 500 times. No exaggeration. It’s great for having a pity-party cryfest. Try it sometime! 😃 I have _seen_ _Steel Magnolias_, I just don’t _like_ it. I am a teenage male. I am not gay. I just… like… _Breakfast At Tiffany’s_. [sub]But not for Goerge Peppard![sub] ---
**Author:** ![Vezer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b38774/32.png) [@Vezer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vezer)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2004, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-are-not-ashamed-to-admit-you-like/234700/53 "2004-03-17T00:43:40Z")
I have much respect (and unending terror…) of anyone who likes that crapfest: **Hudson Hawk** I like **Bio-dome** ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2004, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-are-not-ashamed-to-admit-you-like/234700/54 "2004-03-17T01:03:12Z")
I have no shame in admitting these! NONE! **Monkeybone** with Brendan Fraser and Chris Kattan (in one of his two funny turns, the other’s when he steals _Undercover Brother_). This movie is so bizarre and bad that it’s hysterically funny. Brendan Fraser is an unappreciated god of physical comedy and facial expressions. **Dudley Do-Right** with Brendan Fraser and Eric Idle as a crazy prospector. Ok, there’s no way this movie is 3.6 on the IMDb bad. This movie is funny as HELL, if only for the scene where Snidely and Dudley are arguing over who’s the bad guy because of what they’re wearing. (“I’m wearing black, you’re wearing navy! Check!” “WHY AM I WEARING NAVY?! NOW HE’S THE BAD GUY!”) ---
**Author:** ![Sylkyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/da6949/32.png) [@Sylkyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylkyn)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2004, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-are-not-ashamed-to-admit-you-like/234700/55 "2004-03-17T01:04:23Z")
> [@Ilsa\_Lund](#): > > I have _seen_ _Steel Magnolias_, I just don’t _like_ it. I am a teenage male. I am not gay. I just… like… _Breakfast At Tiffany’s_. [sub]But not for Goerge Peppard![sub] Heh. I know you’re a guy…but everybody needs a pity-party cryfest sometimes. I’ll try to think of one for guys sometime. _Field of Dreams_ maybe? My husband just sobs during that one. Great…he reads these fora. He’s gonna kill me for saying that. It’s true, though! And I haven’t ever seen _Breakfast at Tiffany’s_, so I can’t say whether I like it or not. I like George Peppard though…[sup]even when he was Hannibal Smith on A-Team! 🙂 Oh no…another shameful admittance![/sup][/sub] ---
**Author:** ![deb2world](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@deb2world](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deb2world)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2004, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-are-not-ashamed-to-admit-you-like/234700/56 "2004-03-17T01:08:51Z")
I am probably the only person who thought _Howard the Duck_ was funny. (But I am ashamed to admit that) Plus I adore _Enemy Mine_ and have seen it over a dozen times. (Not ashamed to admit it) ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2004, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-are-not-ashamed-to-admit-you-like/234700/57 "2004-03-17T01:09:31Z")
How about **Xanadu**? ---
**Author:** ![MoodIndigo1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e8c25b/32.png) [@MoodIndigo1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MoodIndigo1)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2004, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-are-not-ashamed-to-admit-you-like/234700/58 "2004-03-17T01:10:15Z")
I liked Ishtar also. Not the greatest movie, but enjoyable enough. Until tonight, I was ashamed to admit that. Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2004, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-are-not-ashamed-to-admit-you-like/234700/59 "2004-03-17T01:21:41Z")
I’m on the fence about Monkeybone, it was a horrid, horrid movie, the only redeeming factor in the movie was Rose McGowan’s character of Kitty, if i could re-edit the film, it would be basically just Stu and Kitty, cut out all the real world crap and all the other characters… i own Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the first TMNT, the other two were sell-outs 😉 Cannibal! the Musical Tank Girl Mars Attacks! Killer Klowns from Outer Space Hackers ---
**Author:** ![E.Thorp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@E.Thorp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E.Thorp)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2004, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-are-not-ashamed-to-admit-you-like/234700/60 "2004-03-17T01:25:20Z")
Friends and/or reviewers have dissed the following movies I liked: **Last Action Hero** **Dances with Wolves** **The Razor’s Edge** **Better Off Dead** I saw the 1980 **Flash Gordon** in, well, 1980 (maybe '81), when I was 13. My best friend and I loved the Queen soundtrack more than the movie, and obsessively pounded our fists rhythmically on tables, arms of chairs, desks, etc. for days (if you know the theme music, you’ll understand). I haven’t seen it since, but a few weeks ago I checked my voicemail and guess what I heard? Thump-thump-thump-thump…my friend (we now live 2000 miles apart) had dug up a 23-year-old cassette copy of the **Flash Gordon** soundtrack, and called to play it for me. Made my week. Another movie I liked–ready for this?– **Howard the Duck**. I’m not sure if I liked the movie or just Lea Thompson in her yummy years. And so far I haven’t been willing to rent it again to find out. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-are-not-ashamed-to-admit-you-like/234700.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-are-not-ashamed-to-admit-you-like/234700.md?page=4)