# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![SBORTOLO](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5fc32e/32.png) [@SBORTOLO](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SBORTOLO)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2002, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youre-embarrassed-to-admit-that-you-like/98476/61 "2002-03-21T18:38:08Z")
girl’s just want to have fun . Early Sarah Jessica Parker and Helen Hunt 80’s movie in Catholic Uniform Skirts. Cheech and Chong’s Corsican Brothers but I’m not embaressed about that one. ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2002, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youre-embarrassed-to-admit-that-you-like/98476/62 "2002-03-21T18:44:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Silvio \* > \*\*I really enjoyed THE POSTMAN, Kevin Costner’s epic futuristic flop…something about its earnest pompousness worked for me. \*\* I think you definitely win. Me? _3000 Miles to Graceland_ ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2002, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youre-embarrassed-to-admit-that-you-like/98476/63 "2002-03-21T20:24:52Z")
Jeeze, every movie I like I should be embarrassed over. [ul] [li]Revenge of the Nerds[/li][li]National Lampoons European Vacation[/li][li]Big Trouble in the Little China[/li][li]Dirty Dancing[/li][li]Three Amigos[/li][li]Road House[/li][li]Mannequin[/li][li]What About Bob?[/li][/ul] This is only a partial list. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Caricci](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Caricci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caricci)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2002, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youre-embarrassed-to-admit-that-you-like/98476/64 "2002-03-21T21:00:58Z")
I really like Red Dawn, starring Mr. Patrick Swayze. It’s that movie where there is war going on right in Middle America. I was pretty shocked and mystified when I saw it on a list of worst movies in the last 20 years. I mean, really, even if it’s not as good as I think, come on! It’s not that bad! Even when they shout out “wolverines” whenever they bomb something, it’s not that bad. ---
**Author:** ![111ArcherAvenue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/b9e5f3/32.png) [@111ArcherAvenue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/111ArcherAvenue)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2002, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youre-embarrassed-to-admit-that-you-like/98476/65 "2002-03-21T21:30:52Z")
Okay, I just remembered one I forgot to post earlier. I love. LOVE, even though I know it’s awful, _The Faculty_, that lame teen horror flick about the teachers turning into aliens. I’ve probably seen it 20 times. I don’t know what’s wrong with me, I’m strangely drawn to it. When people ask me why I have it I lie and tell them it was a gift from my little sister. But I bought it, and I watch it all the time. ---
**Author:** ![Kaitlyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/73ab20/32.png) [@Kaitlyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaitlyn)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2002, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youre-embarrassed-to-admit-that-you-like/98476/66 "2002-03-22T08:07:42Z")
There’s a great scene in the great movie _Planes, Trains, and Automobiles_ in which upper-class businessman Steve Martin is lambasting annoying and inconsiderate, but otherwise nice guy John Candy. Near the end, the camera pulls in to a close-up on Candy’s face, and you can just see his normally pleasant demeanor collapse. What the camera actually shows is an impassive expression on Candy’s face, and the context of the situation helps us to understand what is going on inside him. The psychological term for it is projection; ie, we all know how we would feel in such a situation, and by showing us a tabula rasa, the director and Candy allow us to identify closely with him. It’s an old, oft used, and very effective technique, when the director knows how to set up the scene to provide the emotional context, and the actor has been convincingly showing us other sides to his/her personality. When the director is a hack utterly incapable of developing any kind of emotional context to a scene, and constantly shows us an actress with no emotional range whatsoever whose only acting technique seems to be the neutral expression, you get _Sleepaway Camp_. Everyone except the above mentioned actress wildly overplays their part. The final twist is indeed surprising, but only because the entire plot and presentation thereof was a cheat made possible by a crude, obvious composite shot. I bought the DVD the day it came out. It is a truly horrible movie, and I love it. I am not embarrassed in the least about this. ---
**Author:** ![RaCha\_ar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c2a13f/32.png) [@RaCha\_ar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RaCha_ar)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2002, 9:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youre-embarrassed-to-admit-that-you-like/98476/67 "2002-03-22T09:12:26Z")
_Meet Joe Black_. I hate telling people that I thought this was a great movie, since it got smacked down so much critically. But Brad Pitt is so great! _Porky’s_ and _Porky’s Revenge_ (and _Animal House_, along those lines, but that one doesn’t embarrass me). My father loves these type of movies – the really, really stupid high school hijinks onces – and he has instilled that love in me. Although _Hollywood Knights_ is vapid, with or without Michelle Pfeiffer. I, too, love _Hairspray_. _Bound_. Cheap excuse for softcore lesbian porn. But I still love it. Especially when you can see the beginnings of the distinctive Wachowski Brothers flair that comes into its own in _The Matrix_. **Silvio** and **Stoid** – I also like a terrible Kevin Costner movie. Mine is _Waterworld_. ::hangs head:: I’m so ashamed. All of my other ones would be repeats. Some of these might be – it’s early and I’m tired. heh. ---
**Author:** ![BrattiAtti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c57346/32.png) [@BrattiAtti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrattiAtti)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2002, 10:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youre-embarrassed-to-admit-that-you-like/98476/68 "2002-03-22T10:07:05Z")
I’ve been blushing for the past ten minutes because I knew I’d have to reply. Crossroads \ ---
**Author:** ![Cargirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b19c9b/32.png) [@Cargirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cargirl)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2002, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youre-embarrassed-to-admit-that-you-like/98476/69 "2002-03-22T14:06:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SBORTOLO \* > \*\*girl’s just want to have fun . Early Sarah Jessica Parker and Helen Hunt 80’s movie in Catholic Uniform Skirts. > > \*\* I’m glad to see I’m not the only one who liked that movie. I watched it again on Wednesday night for the first time in years…aaahhhh the happy memories of childhood! 🙂 ---
**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 22, 2002, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youre-embarrassed-to-admit-that-you-like/98476/70 "2002-03-22T14:14:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by BrattiAtti \* > \*\*I’ve been blushing for the past ten minutes because I knew I’d have to reply. > > Crossroads > > \ \*\* Hey, I really liked _Crossroads_. I even went out and bought the Ry Cooder soundtrack for it. Um, aren’t we talking about the 1986 Ralph Macchio film? Britney who? ---
**Author:** ![City\_Gent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a87d85/32.png) [@City\_Gent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/City_Gent)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2002, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youre-embarrassed-to-admit-that-you-like/98476/71 "2002-03-22T19:53:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Politzania \* > \*\* > And what would an 80’s teen flick be without [Eddie Deezen!](http://us.imdb.com/Name?Deezen,+Eddie) \*\* I think Eddie Deezen is just the tops. “Go straight through Falken’s Maze!” (vigorous shaking of head) As for me, _Johnny Dangerously_ _King Pin_ _While You Were Sleeping_ _Taps_ _Stop, or My Mom Will Shoot_ Just kidding about that last one. Never seen it. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2002, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youre-embarrassed-to-admit-that-you-like/98476/72 "2002-03-22T20:03:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Stoid \* > > _3000 Miles to Graceland_ \*\* Oooo…Good one. personnally, I get sucked into any movie that has Ice-T in it, no matter how small the roll. Tank Girl Johnny Mnemonic Trespass and of course the best Ice-T movie of all… Surviving the Game. ---
**Author:** ![Fingolfin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eada6e/32.png) [@Fingolfin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fingolfin)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2002, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youre-embarrassed-to-admit-that-you-like/98476/73 "2002-03-22T23:44:26Z")
**Star Wars: Episode I** LOL! Apparently everyone but me hates it, and I don’t know why. Also, I happen to like Jar Jar [sicks tongue out]. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2002, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youre-embarrassed-to-admit-that-you-like/98476/74 "2002-03-23T02:07:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by RaCha’ar \* > _ **Meet Joe Black** _ This film did have one of the best reviews I’ve ever seen Meet Joe Black is a three hour ad for Brad Pitt’s hairdesser My Hall of Lame includes [They Live](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0096256). A film when John Carpenter couldn’t even afford Kurt Russell. ---
**Author:** ![ElwoodCuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/edb3f5/32.png) [@ElwoodCuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElwoodCuse)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2002, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youre-embarrassed-to-admit-that-you-like/98476/75 "2002-03-24T02:15:31Z")
NO ONE should ever be ashamed of liking Strange Brew. ---
**Author:** ![diku](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4af34b/32.png) [@diku](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/diku)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2002, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youre-embarrassed-to-admit-that-you-like/98476/76 "2002-03-24T05:06:13Z")
I got another one…just bought it today on DVD… **The Last Starfighter**. Just love that movie. ---
**Author:** ![torben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5daacb/32.png) [@torben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/torben)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2002, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youre-embarrassed-to-admit-that-you-like/98476/77 "2002-03-24T06:07:10Z")
For me I would have to say “Leprechaun” (the first one) and “No Holds Barred.” I kind of liked “Suburban Commando” too. And yes, I am ashamed. torben ---
**Author:** ![jmpride62](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c37758/32.png) [@jmpride62](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jmpride62)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2002, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youre-embarrassed-to-admit-that-you-like/98476/78 "2002-03-24T15:59:16Z")
Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins I love that movie…! ---
**Author:** ![Leifsmama](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a698b9/32.png) [@Leifsmama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leifsmama)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2002, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youre-embarrassed-to-admit-that-you-like/98476/79 "2002-03-24T16:06:51Z")
I LOVE Tank Girl and will never be ashamed to admit it! I do however, own a copy of Flash Gordon. And although I know it’s one of the worst movies ever made, I love Practical Magic. ---
**Author:** ![annieclaus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b5a626/32.png) [@annieclaus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/annieclaus)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2002, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youre-embarrassed-to-admit-that-you-like/98476/80 "2002-03-24T16:26:28Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Baker \* > \*\*The 1980 screen version of “Flash Gordon”, with Sam Jones, Chaim Topol, Timothy Dalton, Ornella Muti, and Max von Sydow. > > I saw that movie on a night I was depressed(too long a story) and left the theater laughing and much cheered up. \*\* I loved FLASH GORDON, too. The outrageous use of color! The Very Mean Ming the Merciless. But most of all, the music by QUEEN! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youre-embarrassed-to-admit-that-you-like/98476.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youre-embarrassed-to-admit-that-you-like/98476.md?page=5)