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.
**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.
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.
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
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.
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.”
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
Of the top 25 of Maxim’s 50 Worst Movies, I liked:
21. Hook (’91)
Allright, so Dustin Hoffman plays a little over the top. It’s Peter Pan, for cryin’ out loud.
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
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?
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!
Batman & Robin (’97)
Schwarzenegger camping it up as Mr. Freeze…and Alicia Silverstone overstuffing her Batgirl tights… Yowzer
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.
