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Post by london777 on Jun 21, 2017 22:48:09 GMT
Most of us have an attachment to at least one film that is derided by connoisseurs, who are people just like us (or so we kid ourselves). The sort of film that, if you stumble into the middle of it on TV, you stay watching to the end although your conscience tells you that there are much better ways to waste your time, like watching manfromplanetx's latest discovery, a movie from Latvia about the tragic life of a hunchbacked knife grinder and his pet goat. There is one such film which would always come to my mind, but which I would have been ashamed to admit on this board until now, when I can shelter behind the esteemed film critic of The Guardian, a newspaper with which most Americans will be unfamiliar, but which is read by that declining portion of the English population who, untouched by Thatcher and Blair's educational reforms, can still do joined-up writing and read words of more than three syllables. After a couple of cuba libres I am now emboldened to come out and agree with most of what Peter Bradshaw writes: www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2014/mar/17/notting-hill-julia-roberts-richard-curtis-film-guilty-pleasureIt may have made Ifan Evans a star but he is still a f*cking embarrassment in it, while the disability of Gina McKee's character is over-milked, but Grant and Roberts are superb and thoroughly believable. Alec Baldwin is good in his small part but uncredited. Why would that be? Some scenes are beautifully observed, like the climatic press-conference. Grant's circle of smug, middle-class friends are fairly obnoxious, but then most middle-class people are. Of course, I am biased as the hero is a bookseller, the only job I ever found interesting or was remotely good at. What is more I share the same name as Grant's drippy assistant in his small bookshop. I hope that the director never dropped into my shop and stored away my name for future use. Surely I was never like that? So that is my guilty pleasure. What's in your wallet? While you are thinking about that, I will start another thread about bookshops in films.
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Post by neurosturgeon on Jun 21, 2017 23:21:34 GMT
To me, guilty pleasures are films I hate to admit that I actually like to watch. That list would contain:
The Ghost and Mr. Chicken White Christmas An Affair to Remember Dave The American President in & Out Pillow Talk Magnificent Obsession (both versions) Madame X with Lana Turner And yesterday, my blu-ray of "Joe Versus the Volcano" arrived, but sadly I don't have any way of watching it.
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Post by Matthew the Swordsman on Jun 21, 2017 23:28:36 GMT
Sinderella and the Golden Bra (1964)
The title tells you everything you need to know about this "classic"(?!?!) film.
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Post by bravomailer on Jun 22, 2017 1:02:24 GMT
I used to find Billy Jack so bad it's entertaining. Now it's just plain bad.
Most people loathe WUSA but I think it's pretty good, a 7/10. It involves a conservative radio station that sends out an unguent message of all being well in America amid the Vietnam War. Good cast: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Laurence Harvey, Anthony Perkins, among others.
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Post by mikef6 on Jun 22, 2017 1:06:54 GMT
And these are just the ones I confess to:
Jesus Christ Superstar / Norman Jewison (1973) Frankenstein Unbound / Roger Corman (1990) Ace Ventura: Pet Detective / Tom Shadyac (1994) Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls / Steve Oedekerk (1995) Miss Congeniality / Donald Petrie (2000) Intolerable Cruelty / Coen Brothers (2003) Rent / Chris Columbus (2005) Aeon Flux / Karyn Kusama (2005) Speed Racer / Andy and Larry Wachowski (2008) All Asian martial arts movies (e.g. Ninja Assassin, Drunken Master) B-Westerns from the 1930s and β40s (e.g. The Range Busters and Three Mesquiteers series) Cliffhanger serials from the 1930s and β40s (e.g. Zorroβs Black Whip)
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Post by london777 on Jun 22, 2017 1:13:31 GMT
And these are just the ones I confess to: Jesus Christ Superstar / Norman Jewison (1973) Frankenstein Unbound / Roger Corman (1990) Ace Ventura: Pet Detective / Tom Shadyac (1994) Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls / Steve Oedekerk (1995) Miss Congeniality / Donald Petrie (2000) Intolerable Cruelty / Coen Brothers (2003) Rent / Chris Columbus (2005) Aeon Flux / Karyn Kusama (2005) Speed Racer / Andy and Larry Wachowski (2008) All Asian martial arts movies (e.g. Ninja Assassin, Drunken Master) B-Westerns from the 1930s and β40s (e.g. The Range Busters and Three Mesquiteers series) Cliffhanger serials from the 1930s and β40s (e.g. Zorroβs Black Whip) Sorry. No hope for you, Mike. I prescribe lobotomy. Except for Intolerable Cruelty. It may be the Coens' weakest but is still decent compared with most similar marital black comedies.
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Post by bravomailer on Jun 22, 2017 1:29:15 GMT
I think Intolerable Cruelty's a hoot. Same with the Hail, Caesar.
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Post by OldAussie on Jun 22, 2017 1:57:59 GMT
Several Harold Robbins adaptations -
The Carpetbaggers The Adventurers The Betsy
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Post by Deleted on Jun 22, 2017 9:20:28 GMT
I don`t have guilty pleasures as i do not feel shame or embarrassment over anything i like.
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Post by wmcclain on Jun 22, 2017 11:34:46 GMT
1941 The Year of the Comet Resident Evil (the first one)
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Post by MiketheMechanic on Jun 22, 2017 13:26:10 GMT
I don`t have guilty pleasures as i do not feel shame or embarrassment over anything i like. Same here! If you're enjoying a film why feel guilty about watching it?
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Post by divtal on Jun 22, 2017 15:17:16 GMT
When I saw the previews of Weekend at Bernie's, I knew that I had to see it. I also knew that I would skulk off to the theater, by myself, and not tell anyone about it. ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png) I was surprised that something so far-fetched, with no small amount of "slapstick," would draw me. I loved it! And, I still do ... after many viewings. I hope that London777 will accept that my fondness for the film is not entirely without support - reducing the guilt, somewhat. A couple of years after WAB was released Steve Allen [who literally wrote books on comedy], said that he thought it was a very funny movie. I fully agree with Spiderwort on A Summer Place.
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Post by howardschumann on Jun 22, 2017 16:43:31 GMT
Sleepless in Seattle Fever Pitch Back to the Future The Karate Kid, Parts I and II The Warriors The Red Squirrel Ghostbusters Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory Short Circuit Flight of the Navigator Scent of a Woman Crash One Summer of Happiness (Sweden 1951) Stairway to Heaven Boomerang Rocky The Magnificent Yankee Die Hard This Boy's Life Clockers October Sky Meet Joe Black Big Ice Storm Rocket Science Hachi: A Dog's Tale Say Anything The King and I Hero Pretty Woman Ghost Dog Fly Away Home Hotshot The Red House Till the Clouds Roll By The Jolson Story Rhapsody in Blue Dick The Corn is Green Chariots of the Gods Dog Day Afternoon
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Post by teleadm on Jun 22, 2017 17:20:16 GMT
The Cannonball Run 1981 and it's superiour sequel Cannonball Run II 1984. How can so much talent create such crappy movies? but that is also the attraction to see them, with a director who thinks a few lame jokes can work, and cars jumping.
In the 1970's I was a sucker for all those disaster movies, The Poseidon Adventure, The Towering Inferno, Earthquake, The Swarm, When Time Run Out etc. The mix of stars of today, old stars, TV-stars attracted, and I still like to watch them. I am one a the few (at least 16 other persons in the world agrees with me), that thought The Swarm 1978 was a great movie, what a cast! Richard Widmarks one-liners, Fred MacMurray and Ben Johnson both vie for Olivia de Havilland, political and bussiness interests vs scientists warnings, and Yes there were angry Brazilian bees too.
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Post by Lebowskidoo π¦ on Jun 22, 2017 18:37:05 GMT
I loved The Pirate Movie, the early 80's pop musical version of The Pirates of Penzance. I used to watch it all the time back in the day, I liked the songs and loved pirates. Then Roman Polanski's Pirates and Cutthroat Island both flopped and a good pirate movie was difficult to come by. I had to return to The Pirate Movie!
I also have a big love of 60's beach movies, the ones where Frankie and Annette sing against a backdrop that makes it seem like they're at the beach, with increasingly silly plots with each sequel.
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Post by teleadm on Jun 22, 2017 18:49:27 GMT
I loved The Pirate Movie, the early 80's pop musical version of The Pirates of Penzance. I used to watch it all the time back in the day, I liked the songs and loved pirates. Then Roman Polanski's Pirates and Cutthroat Island both flopped and a good pirate movie was difficult to come by. I had to return to The Pirate Movie! I also have a big love of 60's beach movies, the ones where Frankie and Annette sing against a backdrop that makes it seem like they're at the beach, with increasingly silly plots with each sequel. "Beach Blanket Bingo, That's the Name of the Game!" sorry, I just happened to watch the Buster Keaton stuff from that movie on Youtube.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jun 22, 2017 18:49:41 GMT
This is getting really scary. ![](https://s26.postimg.org/xxn5mvzx5/hairrise.gif) So many of the films being mentioned would be on my favorites list IF I had a "favorites list". I too, don't feel embarrassed by what I like just because others find it un-watch-worthy, or feel guilty for liking it. I like what I like and that's pretty much that.
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Post by mikef6 on Jun 22, 2017 19:18:12 GMT
I don`t have guilty pleasures as i do not feel shame or embarrassment over anything i like. My guilty pleasures are not really guilty. They are just so far out from the movies I like and so close to the ones I don't like, yet here are big exceptions. The 1930s and '40s westerns and serials, however, are still favorites from childhood even if they do not meet any critical standards.
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Post by gadolinium on Jun 22, 2017 21:28:25 GMT
Road to Morocco (1942), The Wicked Lady (1945), Candy (1968), Profondo Rosso (1975), Samurai (a.k.a. The White, the Yellow, and the Black, 1975), Octopussy (1983), Straight to Hell (1987), Cop Land (1997), The Siege (1998) and Love Actually (2003).
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Post by Lebowskidoo π¦ on Jun 22, 2017 21:39:08 GMT
I also love the whole man eating animal genre, movies such as Anaconda, Piranha, Rogue, Primeval, Lake Placid etc...just about anything that's been ripped off of Jaws. I've even been reduced to watching lesser TV movies about killer eels and half shark/half octopus creatures and the like. I have no shame. However, the 2 Headed Shark Attack and 3 Headed Shark Attack films are just pathetic, bad CGI and zero suspense, characters with no character that exist simply to be eaten. The last Sharknado was really one too many, didn't enjoy it that much, but I see a fifth is on the way...and I will be watching it! I love this stupid trash too much not to.
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