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  1. 06-01-2012, 01:15 PM #1
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    Guilty Pleasures

    I just finished warching Eurotrip for about the 10th time and I must say I always enjoy it when I'm in the mood for dumb fun.

    It is without a doubt the most entertaining teen comedy I've seen. I think it is because all the characters are likeable, the jokes are easy and it somehow flirts with risque without resorting to over-the-top scatalogical humour and vulgarity. It just isn't cringeworthy and somehow manages to be good natured throughout.

    There is something about the formula and easy to digest 15 minute vignettes that just works.

    Scotty Doesn't Know is also riduculously catchy.

    Does anyone else have a guilty pleasure that serves the equivalent of comfort food?
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  2. 06-01-2012, 01:23 PM #2
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    Oh yeah:

    How to Train your Dragon
    Shoot 'Em Up
    Airplane!
    Any of the Bourne movies
    Black Dynamite
    Serenity
    Up

    Likely more that I can't think of at the moment.
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  4. 06-01-2012, 01:35 PM #4
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    Quote Originally Posted by Brian Rubin View Post
    Oh yeah:

    How to Train your Dragon
    Airplane!
    Any of the Bourne movies
    Black Dynamite
    Serenity
    Up
    Brian, those are all quality movies. A guilty pleasure is a terrible movie that you like.
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  5. 06-01-2012, 01:47 PM #5
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    Quote Originally Posted by madkevin View Post
    Brian, those are all quality movies. A guilty pleasure is a terrible movie that you like.
    It doesn't even have to be terrible. It just has to be something in a genre that you feel shouldn't appeal to you or that you feel a bit embarrassed admitting to enjoying.

    I do agree that the list there contains far too many films that are too good for this thread.
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    Dark Star. Particularly the beachball alien.

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  10. 06-01-2012, 02:41 PM #10
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    Quote Originally Posted by madkevin View Post
    Brian, those are all quality movies. A guilty pleasure is a terrible movie that you like.
    Oh, sorry, I totally did this wrong then. Would Amelie count since I'm not into foreign films at all?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Brian Rubin View Post
    Oh, sorry, I totally did this wrong then. Would Amelie count since I'm not into foreign films at all?
    No, as that's universally acclaimed. It's even made a few best of lists.
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    To bring it into space terms Brian, The Last Starfighter. Terrible, but awesome.
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    If Happy Gilmore is on TV, I will probably watch it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by nixon66 View Post
    To bring it into space terms Brian, The Last Starfighter. Terrible, but awesome.
    THAT IS NOT A TERRIBLE MOVIE!

    Now that you've got my brain on this tack, however...

    Megaforce
    Krull
    The Pirate Movie
    Ice Pirates
    Superfuzz
    Beastmaster
    Amazon Women on the Moon
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    Quote Originally Posted by Brian Rubin View Post
    Oh yeah:


    Shoot 'Em Up
    Since Madkevin went the one way (and I agree with him that those were some quality movies that you don't have to feel too terribly guilty over), let me agree with the one he excised as presumably "guilty". An excuse for an over-the-top running gun battle, but I liked Clive Owen as the world's angriest man, Paul Giamatti as the snake with all the lines, and those other two big attractions (Monica Bellucci, east and west).
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    Two Weeks Notice, mostly for the split infinitive line near the end, and Hugh Grant.

    Don't judge me!
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    Soldier, its so good , yet everyone tells me its bad.
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  20. 06-01-2012, 09:38 PM #20
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    I love cheesy futuristic stuff so:

    Demolition Man
    Virtuosity
    The Running Man
    Fortress
    Judge Dredd
    The Sixth Day

    etc.
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  21. 06-02-2012, 12:44 AM #21
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    Krull
    Army of Darkness
    The Quick and the Dead
    Young Guns
    The 13th Warrior

    Of course, I'm not sure if any of these really count, since I don't feel particularly guilty for liking any of them! I'd also even go as far as to say that "The Quick and the Dead" is actually a good movie.
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    Oh I'd also like to add Judge Dredd
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    I keep going back to Broadway Danny Rose and Manhattan. When i watch them I feel the same bittersweet wash of glory and love as when I first saw them in a theater.
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    Why in the hell would you ever feel guilty about watching Manhattan?
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    Amazing Grace and Chuck

    This came out when I was about 17, but despite the fact that I was too cool for school, this movie got me all choked up. I haven't seen it since, and I have no doubt it doesn't hold up. Even back then, I knew I was a sap, but the premise just got to me.
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    Yeah, I'm gonna have to go with Beastmaster.
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    Oh, how about Demolition Man? Ridiculous, but awesome movie.
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    Robot Monster. I first saw it on MST3K. I rented it to watch it without the voice overs. Then I got one of those 3AM TV shovelware movie compilations and there it was.

    Which brings me to Last Man on Earth with Vincent Price.

    And of course, any Ed Wood movie, especially the ones with Bela Lugosi.
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  30. 06-02-2012, 02:24 PM #30
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    I would mention Chupacabra Terror, but it doesn't really qualify for this thread. How can a movie starring John "Gimli" Rhys-Davies, Giancarlo "Gus" Esposito, and Chelan "Chelan" Simmons make anyone feel guilty for recognizing its awesomeness?

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