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[Santa]

St Trinian's. Those films were genius.

[Frostyak]

The Fast & The Furious. There is just something about it that I like. It knows what it is and doesn't make any bold claims.

- Chris

[Santa]

The Fast & The Furious. There is just something about it that I like. It knows what it is and doesn't make any bold claims.

- Chris

Yep, I'd agree with that one

[Loomis]

Me too. Its director, Rob Cohen, has made a couple of other guilty pleasures, such as DRAGON: THE BRUCE LEE STORY, DAYLIGHT and STEALTH. Then again, he's made other bad films that are just, well, bad (THE SKULLS, xXx).

I'd like to see THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS: TOKYO DRIFT.

[DLibrasnow]

I created a list on Amazon about a year ago:

My Top 25 Movie Guilty Pleasures

[Seannery]

Dlib I enjoyed your list greatly. I agreed on a lot of them. The ones that I think are flat out good films are Flash Gordon, Van Helsing, League of Extraordinary Gentleman, Ffolkes, Dragonslayer, Battle Beyond the Stars, High Road to China, Sea Wolves--and especially the excellent duo of Force 10 From Naverone and The Parent Trap.

[Santa]

Oh yes! Flash Gordon, total classic.

[DamnCoffee]

I have to admit i like 'Ultaviolet'.

[DLibrasnow]

Oh yes! Flash Gordon, total classic.

I know it has a LOT of fans on here, not least because of the presence of Timothy Dalton and Topol.

I have always loved it. I still remember going to see it in the cinema. The heating was on the fritz and it was the depths of winter so I was huddled there in my jacket - great memories.

[Robinson]

Yeah, it's slow at work but thanks for resurrecting this thread.

Caught some "oldies" on Skinemax and Showtime over the past couple of moths so I've got some adds to my list:

AMERICAN NINJA II- Man, Cannon films kept a brother going back in the mid-to-late eighties. Steve James & Michael Dudikoff (the original Power Man & Iron Fist) kick and thwart a drug ring in the Carribbean. The music is cheesy and the action is quite dated w/choreography as hillarious as a Fatboy Slim video. RIP Steve James, not just a light extinguished but a fella from the neighborhood who made good!

SHEENA- Some films you just have to watch w/the sound down- cause the dialogue is just THAT bad. This is the middle film in the Tanya Roberts "Hollywood Starlet" trilogy (The Beastmaster and AVTAK are the bookends). The future Stacy Sutton sports a blonde do, rides a Zebra bareback and foils a coup orchestrated by a one-time NFL placekicker- all while spouting lines like "What are you doing Vic Casey?" This is why they made cable television.

Honorable Mentions: Roller Boogie, The Core, Resident Evil, Broken Lizard's: Club Dread, Belly, The Perils of Gwendoline in the Land of Yick Yack, Dreamscape, Sodom and Gmorrah, Streets of Fire & Bad Company (w/Laurence Fishburne & Ellen Barkin).

[Icarus]

One movie from this year that joins the ranks is DOA: Dead or Alive. My friend and I went to see it, expecting it to be awful, but we kinda ended up liking it. We only hated it because we ended up liking it. The thing about DOA is that it's based off a videgame franchise that doesn't really take itself seriously to begin with, and they roll with it for the movie. It's fluff. It's sheer fluff.

In fact, I'd even dare to say that I wouldn't mind a second DOA movie (so long as it involved the "Alpha" clone project - I dunno why, but I'd like to see Devon Aoki's fight against herself as Kasumi-Alpha...)

[Santa]

Anything with Barbra Streisand.

[Agent 0015]

The guilty pleasure for the Bond film is TMWTGG. And the other films would be Ghoustbusters or Rocky Horror Picture Show.

[Piz Gloria 1969]

Anyone seen Clones of Bruce Lee...there were dozens of imitators back then (Bruce Li , Le , Dragon Lee etc) & the posters even advertised them as REAL Bruce Lee films lol

Had someone pulled stunts like that today the Bruce Lee estate would've sued them to kingdom come lol

Anyone seen Garfield 2...is it as rotten as G1 (Love Hewitt is sweet though

Edited by Piz Gloria 1969, 11 January 2007 - 07:17 PM.

[Kilroy6644]

Well, I'm sure I'll catch some flak for this (and that is a very good analogy), but I like Pearl Harbor and Flyboys. I know why everybody thinks they're bad, and I won't argue that, but I see them as following in the grand tradition of the old-time war movies: wildly inaccurate, overblown, but fun.

[darkpath]

For me, he guiltiest of guilty pleasure movies is "The Wraith", a movie so bad that even Charlie Sheen, the star, doesn't talk about it when mentioning past work.

Despite that, it has some of my favorite low budget movie car chases, and I adore the one of a kind test car that Chrysler was idiotic enough to loan to the producers for use in this film.

[Professor Dent]

I created a list on Amazon about a year ago:

My Top 25 Movie Guilty Pleasures

Nice list -- The Final Countdown is a great movie. I also enjoy almost anything with Steven Segal. Even his recent straight to DVD movies.

[dunmall]

Street Fighter with Jean Claude....it's like watching living GI Joe dolls fight it out!

Batman & Robin...yeah it's crap but it's fun crap

The Shadow, The Rocketeer, The Phantom....the unloved less successfull early 90's superhero movies.

Escape from LA....yeah it's basically a remake but Snake rocks no matter what.

meggido....a DTV effort about the end of the world, Michael York is the devil, his brother Michael Beihnn is the President of the US and the only one who can save the world...

ID4...

Godzilla 1998 american version

AvP & Resident Evil 2 Paul WS Anderson sure can be involved in films...

The two Peter Cushing Dr Who & The Dalek films...

All three Thunderbirds movies, even the live action one.

Looney Tunes Back In Action

League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

[DavidSomerset]

Flash Gordon - For Brian Blessed
Anaconda - For Angelina's father - I must have watched this about 10-15 times on cable and laughed out loud at the wrong places everytime
Timecop - Van Damme tries Sci Fi and makes a Bizzaro Citizen Kane. I kinda like the fact that all 80's Van Damme movies had a solid reason for the heroine to get nekkid.
Godzilla 1998 - Dont know how Broderick got conned in this crap.
Van Helsing - I think this movie spoiled Wolverine Jackman's chance as Bond.

Edited by DavidSomerset, 12 January 2007 - 10:07 AM.

[Safari Suit]

My personal favourite is 'blame it on the bellboy' i have never met anyone yet other than me who actually liked it.

Well, you haven't actually met me, but rest assured there is someone else out there who likes it (and I know other people who do too!).

[Santa]

One of my favourite ever films is Foul Play. Goldie Hawn, Chevy Chase (actually being quite sexy), Burgess Meredith, midgets, albinos, popes. I love it - most other people think it's . Actually, I like most earlier Chevy Chase films.

[DLibrasnow]

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[Judo chop]

I've got a huge soft spot for Tom and Nicky in Far and Away even though most critics bury it. Somehow it's a top-10 for me.

[Four Aces]

Highlander. For some reason it gets slammed a lot. It's one of my favorites.

[DLibrasnow]

Highlander. For some reason it gets slammed a lot. It's one of my favorites.

Oh yes, I love that a lot too

[Judo chop]

Highlander. For some reason it gets slammed a lot. It's one of my favorites.

Oh yes, I love that a lot too

I'll 2nd (or 3rd) that. I never understood the critics on this one. It seems the highest praise they can give is "cult classic", which may be true, but the film has a whole lot going for it IMO, not the least of which is a very unique storyline and a fantastic performance by Sean Connery.

[DLibrasnow]

Just watched the DVD of FLYBOYS. Having heard nothing much about it but having to review the DVD for the newspaper I gave it a spin and actually quite enjoyed it. So, I would add FLYBOYS to the list I gave earlier in this thread.

[Shadow Syndicate]

"Rumble in the bronx" and "Mr. Nice Guy". Jackie chan is so awsome, even with the bad dialog and dub overs

[Odd Job]

Gotta love this thread. My list (though very incomplete) would include:

Tremors
Deuce Bigalow (1st movie only)
The Vidiot from UHF (Weird Al Yankovic)
Commando
Gremlins 1 & 2
Armageddon (way better than Deep Impact)
Starship Troopers (gotta love them communal showers)
Hammer horror movies (ie. Dracula and Frankenstein with Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee)
and the Jerry Lewis trilogy:
The Patsy
The Ladies Man
The Family Jewels

Regards

Odd Job

[Agent Carter]

Xanadu.


Roller Skates. New Wave music. What else could you want from a movie?


Anyone who disses this movie I will immediatly kill.