# 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:** 8
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2004, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-are-not-ashamed-to-admit-you-like/234700/141 "2004-03-19T01:57:48Z")
Beetlejuice – I just like it The Abductors – Part of a trio of movies about Ginger, a private eye, from the 70s that were an early attempt to combine sexual bondage and a hard-boiled detective story. A proto-erotic thriller, if you will. Really strange and kinda fun for that reason. Jupiter’s Darling – 60s musical featuring Esther Williams that had a lot of kinky subtext if you know what you’re looking at John Carpenter’s Vampires – James Woods really does a great job as a guy who likes killing vampires way too much. Spaceballs – Uneven, but funny as hell in places. “They shot my hair!” Electra – The Shannon Tweed B movie version. This is one movie that deals with its subject very, very directly. The scene where Shannon Tweed murders her son’s girlfriend with an axe, then pins him to a tree with the handle and rubs all over him with his girlfriend’s blood still spattered on her sweater – that’s movie magic, my friends. Last Man Standing – The score and the atmosphere are great – thje rest of the movie just about doesn’t matter. Dagon – Great atmosphere, one of the best Lovecraft movies ever. Maybe the best. Son of Sinbad – Fifties romantic comedy with great dance scenes. Unusually raunchy for its time. The Key To Sex – A Skinamax film that’s actually an affable little bedroom farce. Vic ious Circles – Carolyn Lowery and a sly script lights up what could easily be mistaken for a garden variety erotic thriller. Glad to see someone else likes Just One of the Guys. The horny little bro was hilarious, and the female lead did a mean drag act. ---
**Author:** ![ForgottenLore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5e9695/32.png) [@ForgottenLore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ForgottenLore)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2004, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-are-not-ashamed-to-admit-you-like/234700/142 "2004-03-24T17:15:29Z")
Every applicable movie I can think of has already been cited at least once, but here they are: Buckaroo Banzai: watching John Lithgow as a scientist possessed by aliens was alone worth the price of admission. Joe Versus the Volcano: ridiculous… but somehow addictive. Hudson Hawke: I was astounded to see this on a reviewer’s list of top ten _worst_ movies of all time. I LOVED it. Mystery Men: I laughed almost nonstop. Then I recommended it to a fellow post-comicbook-nerd and he hated it. Go figure. Groundhog Day: I’m surprised to see this show up at all in this thread. Everyone I know who has seen it likes it. ---
**Author:** ![Bomzaway](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e480ec/32.png) [@Bomzaway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bomzaway)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2004, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-are-not-ashamed-to-admit-you-like/234700/143 "2004-03-24T17:25:08Z")
\*\*The Core \*\* is one of my guilty pleasures. Stupid science fiction, but I think it’s a fun movie. **Starship Troopers** is a riot. I think one of the most overlooked but funniest moments in movie history is when they’re “Approaching the bug planet” and people are hitting the windsheild. ---
**Author:** ![Klytus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Klytus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Klytus)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2004, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-are-not-ashamed-to-admit-you-like/234700/144 "2004-03-24T17:58:39Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > **Flash Gordon** -1980 version. They don’t come any campier than this, but Timothy Dalton was _yummy!_ No way to tell if I liked this movie, is there…? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2004, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-are-not-ashamed-to-admit-you-like/234700/145 "2004-03-24T18:11:19Z")
**The Wiz** and **The Last Dragon** are at the top of my list. “You are the last dra-gon. You possess the power of the GLOW!” ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2004, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-are-not-ashamed-to-admit-you-like/234700/146 "2004-03-24T18:21:17Z")
**Rock & Rule**! Somebody else likes **Rock & Rule**! 🙂 When I was a Sheridan we learned a little of the backstory behind the making of that movie… apparently the production process was quite the train wreck. ---
**Author:** ![Blarney](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/51bf81/32.png) [@Blarney](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blarney)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2004, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-are-not-ashamed-to-admit-you-like/234700/147 "2004-03-24T18:54:18Z")
I’ll have to agree with Cabinboy and Spaceballs (and every other Mel Brooks film ever made). A few that haven’t been mentioned, but need to be: **Brain Candy** I _love_ The Kids In The Hall **The Princess Bride** I don’t know whether this was a critical success, but it is certainly one of the top five best movies ever made **Life of Brian** And by extension any Monty Python movie _“I couldn’t eat one more bite”_ ---
**Author:** ![dotchan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9d8465/32.png) [@dotchan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dotchan)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2004, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-are-not-ashamed-to-admit-you-like/234700/148 "2004-03-24T19:07:30Z")
_Conan the Barbarian_, The film is worth watching just for the two times he punches that camel. 😃 _Clan of the Cave Bear_, although I guess that’s not one that most people would be shamed to watch. I’ve liked all the Mel Brooks films I’ve seen so far–_Spaceballs_ and _Robin Hood: Men in Tights_. _Excel Saga_ - disturbing as hell, but just as funny. 😃 (Does require quite a bit of Japanese pop-culture knowledge to get, though.) ---
**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:** [March 24, 2004, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-are-not-ashamed-to-admit-you-like/234700/149 "2004-03-24T19:34:57Z")
> [@ForgottenLore](#): > > Groundhog Day: I’m surprised to see this show up at all in this thread. Everyone I know who has seen it likes it. Well, the thread title would suggest movies like **The Shawshank Redemption** and **Schindler’s List** , but it seems we’re naming movies we _should_ feel embarassed to admit we like, but somehow aren’t. That said, if we were naming movies we didn’t have to be embarassed to say we like, then I think **Groundhog Day** would be a very common answer. For instance, I’m adding **Night of the Comet** to my list. I should be embarassed to admit I like it, but I’m not. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Tio\_Gringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5e925/32.png) [@Tio\_Gringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tio_Gringo)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2004, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-are-not-ashamed-to-admit-you-like/234700/150 "2004-03-24T20:02:33Z")
> [@Blarney](#): > > **The Princess Bride** I don’t know whether this was a critical success, but it is certainly one of the top five best movies ever made I agree, I absolutely love that movie, but I disagree about it being a guilty pleasure. Some of my favorites that are very definitely guilty pleasures are: **The Evil Dead Series:** Gory, funny, and eminently quoteable. **Tremors:** The original. Don’t ask me why but I love this movie. **UHF:** “Weird Al” Yankovic is a misunderstood genius, nay a GOD. He and Cecil and the two prime deities in my pantheon of gods. **Return of the Killer Tomatos:** One of the funniest comedies I have ever seen. It has a product placement scene which predates and is even funnier than “Wayne’s World.” ---
**Author:** ![Pez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5e9695/32.png) [@Pez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pez)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2004, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-are-not-ashamed-to-admit-you-like/234700/151 "2004-03-24T21:08:54Z")
**The Princess Bride** is one of the movies that always cheer me up, even when I saw it the first time, in Thailand dubbed into Thai (which I absolutely don’t understand). Everything the **Monty Python** gang did is superb, esp **Life of Brian**. I seem to recall them also being involved in **Time Bandits** - the scene with the invisible barrier always gets me. **Mel Brooks** did a lot of good ones, such as **Spaceballs, The history of the world part I, Blazing Saddles**. He also did **Young Frankenstein** , didn’t he? And the early **Steve Martin** movies are so funny, **The Jerk** being the best. The recursvie repetition movies **Groundhog day** and **Run Lola run** get my vote anytime And I agree with **Weird Al’s UHF** **Mars Attack** has it’s good parts. I never understood why nobody liked **Ishtar** , it’s not brilliant, but a OK movie And a few new nominations: **Peter Greenaway** every now and then makes a brilliant movie like **The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover** **Peter Jackson’s** first movies, esp **Bad taste** And one of my fav is **Underground** would buy it if I could find it, must go again on amazon, the soundtrack is so good. Then I remeber an old sci/fi flick called **The Ice Pirates** that I loved sometime last century but, fortunately, haven’t seen again. And lets not forget **Jiri Menzel’s** adaptions of **Bohumil Hrabal** , for example **Cutting it short** and many of the czech 60’s movies ---
**Author:** ![Blarney](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/51bf81/32.png) [@Blarney](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blarney)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2004, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-are-not-ashamed-to-admit-you-like/234700/152 "2004-03-24T21:11:32Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally Posted By **Big Bad Voodoo Lou** : > Orgazmo was made by Trey Parker, the co-creator of South Park. He plays a Mormon martial arts expert who is tricked into becoming a porn star, and then uses an orgasm-inducing weapon to fight crime as the superhero Orgazmo! I love this movie more than I can say. How could I have forgotten to include Trey’s (and Matt Stone’s) epic masterpiece **South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut**? ---
**Author:** ![Pez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5e9695/32.png) [@Pez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pez)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2004, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-are-not-ashamed-to-admit-you-like/234700/153 "2004-03-24T21:17:18Z")
And **Henry, portrait of a serial killer** is one of my all time favourites. In equal measures funny and horribly chilling And the original (danish) version of **The nightwatch (Nattevakten)** ---
**Author:** ![Hamish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a5b964/32.png) [@Hamish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamish)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2004, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-are-not-ashamed-to-admit-you-like/234700/154 "2004-03-24T22:10:55Z")
I have a guilty pleasure in **Idle Hands**. Goofy horror send-up, quite a few great lines, and Devon Sawa’s cute. Actually, I like a lot of schlock comedy-horror. The schlockier the better. Have a soft spot for the **Nightmare on Elm Street** movies too. ---
**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2004, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-are-not-ashamed-to-admit-you-like/234700/155 "2004-03-24T22:25:17Z")
> [@RikWriter](#): > > Mystery Men. Nowhere near as bad as the critics said. I love that movie, it´s great. 🙂 Here´s my wall of shame: **Brain Donors** I don´t remember laughing so much with a movie. **The Fifth Element** I see it every time it shows on TV, my, doesn´t Milla Jovovich look gorgeous in that movie? **Annie** _Curls up in shame and disappears in a puff of smoke_ ---
**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2004, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-are-not-ashamed-to-admit-you-like/234700/156 "2004-03-24T22:38:15Z")
Oh, yes, just one more: **Oscar** An exception on Silvester Stallone career, he actually acts in this one! 😛 Anyway, the rythm of this movie is contagious. ---
**Author:** ![fd10801](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e5b9ba/32.png) [@fd10801](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fd10801)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2004, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-are-not-ashamed-to-admit-you-like/234700/157 "2004-03-24T23:42:04Z")
Of the top 25 of Maxim’s [50 Worst](http://www.maximonline.com/entertainment/articles/article_4706.html) Movies, I liked: 21. Hook (’91) Allright, so Dustin Hoffman plays a little over the top. It’s Peter Pan, for cryin’ out loud. 1. Little Nicky (’00) Can a deformed. smarmy little devil (literally) save the earth from other smarmy big devils? Of course he can! With the help of Henry Winkler and reese Witherspoon 2. Armageddon (’98) Put a team of roughnecks together, give 'em a deadline, and shoot 'em into space - and you’re complaining? did you forget there’s an A-Bomb on board? 3. Steel Magnolias (’89) Sally Field, Daryl Hannah, Shirley MacLaine, Olympia Dukakis, and Julia Roberts are cast as small-town beauty parlor gossip queens. And don’t forget Dolly Parton Yeeeeeehaaaaa! 4. Batman & Robin (’97) Schwarzenegger camping it up as Mr. Freeze…and Alicia Silverstone overstuffing her Batgirl tights… Yowzer ---
**Author:** ![burrhead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b38774/32.png) [@burrhead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burrhead)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2004, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-are-not-ashamed-to-admit-you-like/234700/158 "2004-03-25T01:27:23Z")
Kristy mCnicol and Tatum O’neill in Little Darlings (even the title makes me ashamed) ---
**Author:** ![RealTronic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9dc877/32.png) [@RealTronic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealTronic)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2004, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-are-not-ashamed-to-admit-you-like/234700/159 "2004-03-25T02:04:30Z")
I’m sort of ashamed to admit it, with 4 pages of posts gone by and no one mentioning… **Bonfire of the Vanities** …runs away and hides in corner… ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2004, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-are-not-ashamed-to-admit-you-like/234700/160 "2004-03-25T02:35:24Z")
> [@Archergal](#): > > …And **L.A. Story** is also a favorite. Oooh, I’ve had a jones for that movie forever! How can anyone not love something with a character named SanDeE\*??! I’d LOVE to have that soundtrack. And how can anyone call **Grease** a guilty pleasure, huh??!! Come on people! It’s a classic. Damn. ::: stares menacingly at such blasphemy ::: Now here are my nominations: [ul] [li] **Hot Pursuit** (the closest we’ll ever come to seeing John Cusack with long hair… YUM!)[/li][li] **The Fog** / **The Omen** / **When A Stranger Calls** (can’t live without my horror fix, on any level)[/li][li] **Two Moon Junction** (what I thought was _hot_ when I was a teenager – oh, and the lead guy had long hair which we’ll forever be a recurrent theme in my _fantasy_ life only)[/li][li] **Flashdance** and **Fame** (almost any movies with dancing – hell, I could almost vote for Urban Cowboy… almost)[/li][li] **Poison Ivy** and possibly **Fear** (there’s something about those bad-ass not-quite-old-enough persona – nuff said? :p)[/li][li] **Ice Castles** (gotta love that whole ‘poor pitiful one character’ thing)[/li][li] **The Outsiders** [/li][li] **Herbie the Love Bug** [/li][li] **Impromptu** and **Gothic** (or are those too much a critical success to be considered?)[/li][/ul] Also, I’d like to agree with **Tremors** , **Little Darlings** and **Howard the Duck** , although the latter was just funny and not necessarily a favorite. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-are-not-ashamed-to-admit-you-like/234700.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-are-not-ashamed-to-admit-you-like/234700.md?page=9)