# movies you're embarrassed to admit that you like **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 15, 2002, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youre-embarrassed-to-admit-that-you-like/98476 "2002-03-15T15:30:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![El\_Elvis\_Rojo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@El\_Elvis\_Rojo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Elvis_Rojo)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2002, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youre-embarrassed-to-admit-that-you-like/98476/41 "2002-03-18T13:48:52Z")
I’m not ashamed of any movie I like. except for **Meet the Feebles** ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2002, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youre-embarrassed-to-admit-that-you-like/98476/42 "2002-03-18T14:54:18Z")
Wow, this thread was a real eye-opener. I feel like I’ve eaten the forbidden apple and now have knowledge of crap movies. Movies I didn’t know I was supposed to be ashamed until I heard it here: **What About Bob? Romy & Michelle’s High School Reunion The Incredible Shrinking Woman Three Amigos Fifth Element Strange Brew Flash Gordon Beavis & Butthead Do America Meet The Feebles** (bought that one) To be honest, I still don’t feel ashamed. Some new ones to add to the list **Uzumaki Final Destination Honky Tonk Freeway** (welcome to beautiful Ticlaw!) Hell, I’m still not ashamed! ---
**Author:** ![elf6c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c57346/32.png) [@elf6c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elf6c)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2002, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youre-embarrassed-to-admit-that-you-like/98476/43 "2002-03-18T17:38:03Z")
**Starship Troopers** 😃 _-me_ ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2002, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youre-embarrassed-to-admit-that-you-like/98476/44 "2002-03-20T14:35:23Z")
The [Bobcat Goldthwait](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=104662) thread reminded me of two more that I evidently be ashamed that I like: **Police Academy 1** _and_ **3**. They should have stopped there, or at least before the stupid hot air balloon chase in **4**. ---
**Author:** ![Pucette](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/278dde/32.png) [@Pucette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pucette)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2002, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youre-embarrassed-to-admit-that-you-like/98476/45 "2002-03-20T15:34:34Z")
Ok you guys are kidding about Fifth Element and Starship Troopers, right? RIGHT? :mad: My list involves Dirty Dancing and Cruel Intentions. And I’m not even that embarrassed about it. ---
**Author:** ![Glory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7cd45c/32.png) [@Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Glory)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2002, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youre-embarrassed-to-admit-that-you-like/98476/46 "2002-03-20T15:49:05Z")
I have sooo many guilty movie pleasures that have already been mentioned (Beastmaster, Grease 2, Flash Gordon). Basically, I have a terrible weakness for a specific movie genre. Take Centerstage for instance, there’s a girl that goes to ballet school and she has to practice, practice and the movie ends with a huge ballet scene. That’s pretty much my guilty pleasure staple. Like the Cutting Edge, two skaters, have to practice for the Olympics, there’s a musical montage and it ends with a huge skating competition! (musical montage is a HUGE plus!) Ditto Dirty Dancing, Mystery, Alaska, Footloose, Girls Just Want to Have Fun, Xanadu…heck Breakin 2: Electric Boogaloo, anything like that. I also liked Legend. ---
**Author:** ![thermalribbon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@thermalribbon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thermalribbon)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2002, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youre-embarrassed-to-admit-that-you-like/98476/47 "2002-03-20T16:01:49Z")
Two words: Summer School Starring Mark Harmon, Courteny Thorne-Smith, Kirsty Alley, and more. Great bad movie ---
**Author:** ![Politzania](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3ab097/32.png) [@Politzania](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Politzania)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2002, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youre-embarrassed-to-admit-that-you-like/98476/48 "2002-03-20T16:02:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SuperLorie \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > Originally posted by auntie em > > \ > > Grease 2 (yes… Grease 2) > > LMAO…that’s the first movie that sprang to mind when I read the subject line. > Lorie \*\* My sisters! Yes, I also harbor a fondness for this movie – where else can you hear Michele Pfeiffer **sing**? Plus I had a crush on Michael Carrington! The actor is Maxwell Caulfield - who’s looking a bit weathered these days, but 20 (damn - TWENTY?!?) years ago was pretty hot, in a Cary Elwes kinda way… And what would an 80’s teen flick be without [Eddie Deezen!](http://us.imdb.com/Name?Deezen,+Eddie) ---
**Author:** ![Silvio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cdc98d/32.png) [@Silvio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silvio)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2002, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youre-embarrassed-to-admit-that-you-like/98476/49 "2002-03-20T16:52:21Z")
I really enjoyed THE POSTMAN, Kevin Costner’s epic futuristic flop…something about its earnest pompousness worked for me. ---
**Author:** ![Winnowill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/4491bb/32.png) [@Winnowill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winnowill)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2002, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youre-embarrassed-to-admit-that-you-like/98476/50 "2002-03-20T18:19:31Z")
Wow. Lots of flicks for which I have the same guilty love. Including: _Legally Blonde_ (planning on purchasing when I get around to it) _Strange Brew_ (watched many times in my teen years. Can still quote large portions) _The Cutting Edge_ - I own this one. _Bye, Bye Love_ - the scene where they’re pulling out of McDonald’s to the tune of “Rawhide” never fails to crack me up. ---
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2002, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youre-embarrassed-to-admit-that-you-like/98476/51 "2002-03-20T18:22:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by thermalribbon \* > \*\*Two words: Summer School > > Starring Mark Harmon, Courteny Thorne-Smith, Kirsty Alley, and more. > Great bad movie \*\* Awww…ya gotta love Dave and Chainsaw…! “It had passion, and a plucky spirit!” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![shelbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@shelbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shelbo)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2002, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youre-embarrassed-to-admit-that-you-like/98476/52 "2002-03-20T18:52:43Z")
**Cough[sub]bridges of madison county[/sub]Cough** ---
**Author:** ![islandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8491ac/32.png) [@islandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/islandgirl)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2002, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youre-embarrassed-to-admit-that-you-like/98476/53 "2002-03-21T01:36:44Z")
Rented “Booty Call” out of sheer boredom and had a good laugh–don’t tell 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![diku](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4af34b/32.png) [@diku](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/diku)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2002, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youre-embarrassed-to-admit-that-you-like/98476/54 "2002-03-21T04:35:26Z")
Booty Call is great! Just a funny funny movie. I love: \*\*Road House Half-Baked Baseketball Fifth Element Flash Gordon ( a total mind experiment) \*\*and of course, **Major League** ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2002, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youre-embarrassed-to-admit-that-you-like/98476/55 "2002-03-21T12:08:52Z")
Hey, I liked **Summer School** … I forgot to mention: **Krull**. Apparently “true love” means being able to shoot flames from your hands. And be sure to look for a young Liam Neeson and Todd Carty (Mark Fowler from “Eastenders”). and **Labyrinth** , starring Jennifer Connelly in possibly her first film, and David Bowie. Fun with muppets and weird visual effects. “Rocks…_friends_!” ---
**Author:** ![LiquidLobotomy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/898d66/32.png) [@LiquidLobotomy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LiquidLobotomy)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2002, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youre-embarrassed-to-admit-that-you-like/98476/56 "2002-03-21T14:51:22Z")
Tank Girl. Lori Petty at her best. I dunno why, but I can see that movie over and over and never get bored of it. ---
**Author:** ![Threadkiller](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/aca169/32.png) [@Threadkiller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Threadkiller)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2002, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youre-embarrassed-to-admit-that-you-like/98476/57 "2002-03-21T15:23:31Z")
I own (unless my wife has thrown it away) **The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension**. ---
**Author:** ![islandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8491ac/32.png) [@islandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/islandgirl)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2002, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youre-embarrassed-to-admit-that-you-like/98476/58 "2002-03-21T17:03:01Z")
Just remembered–“Coyote Ugly” was pretty entertaining as well…even with the hokey music thing… ---
**Author:** ![gobear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@gobear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gobear)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2002, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youre-embarrassed-to-admit-that-you-like/98476/59 "2002-03-21T17:21:57Z")
OK, I confess. I like **Showgirls**! I even went out and bought the DVD. What’s not to love? You got 142 bosoms, Michael Bolton-lookalike fu, showgirl fu, swimming pool aardvarkin’. Joe Bob says, “Check it out!” ---
**Author:** ![Winnowill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/4491bb/32.png) [@Winnowill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winnowill)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2002, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youre-embarrassed-to-admit-that-you-like/98476/60 "2002-03-21T18:30:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jr8 \* > \*\*Hey, I liked **Summer School** … > > I forgot to mention: > > **Krull**. Apparently “true love” means being able to shoot flames from your hands. And be sure to look for a young Liam Neeson and Todd Carty (Mark Fowler from “Eastenders”). \*\* I own _Krull_. On DVD, no less. How sad is that? And I liked _Summer School_, too. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youre-embarrassed-to-admit-that-you-like/98476.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youre-embarrassed-to-admit-that-you-like/98476.md?page=4)