movies you're embarrassed to admit that you like

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.

I think you definitely win.
Me?
3000 Miles to Graceland

Jeeze, every movie I like I should be embarrassed over.

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[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. :smiley:

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.

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.

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.

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.

I’ve been blushing for the past ten minutes because I knew I’d have to reply.

Crossroads

<notices everyone laughing and hangs her head in shame>

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! :slight_smile:

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?

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.

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.

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].

:slight_smile:

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. A film when John Carpenter couldn’t even afford Kurt Russell.

NO ONE should ever be ashamed of liking Strange Brew.

I got another one…just bought it today on DVD…The Last Starfighter. Just love that movie.

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

Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins
I love that movie…!

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.

I loved FLASH GORDON, too. The outrageous use of color! The Very Mean Ming the Merciless. But most of all, the music by QUEEN!