The Mummy (1999) [0:08] Independence Day [1:52] School of Rock [3:17] Les Misérables (2012) [5:10] Batman & Robin [7:20] Dune [10:05] Jennifer's Body [11:32] Space Jam [13:19] Star Wars (original trilogy) [14:59] The Rock [16:25]
Mine is "The Burbs" with Tom Hanks. I watched the movie countless times and I'm still laughing. Also "Big" also with Tom Hanks. This was one of the first movies I saw as a kid at the theater, so it holds a special place in my heart.
My favorite is Flash Gordon (1980). I almost hate to call it a guilty pleasure because it almost perfectly achieves what it set out to do. Tongue in cheek over the top camp. And, it has sets that scream comic book. Go Flash Go !!!
For a long time, whenever I watched an old classic movie or a movie not many had heard of and I looked for a review, your channel would pop up on the first 3 results. I decided to subscribe last month and been watching all your videos about underrated or overrated actors and directors, and so on. And I gotta say, the more I watch your videos, the more i respect your opinions. I wish I had the same eye as you do for cinema, but I'm always trying to increase my perception on the other side of the lens. Anyway, one of my guilty pleasures is Hocus Pocus. I loooove that movie!
Thank you for saying that both about Old Star Wars and modern comic book movies. I really cannot tolerate the fact that my generation seemingly never grew up. I remember playing video games as a kid and looking forward with pleasure to the time when I would be grown up and wouldn't do that any more. Apparently I was alone.
A favorite guilty pleasure of mine is Ridley Scott's Legend. It's all over the place, in terms of narrative. But it's such a visual feast, that I can just sit back and enjoy the experience.
star wars isn't a guilty pleasure movie, but it isn't the greatest movie of all time. It's a fun, simple, hero's journey with good special effects and great music.
Also a video idea: Hidden gems. I feel like most films discussed in the present are like the CLASSIC classics, or films released in the past few years, but there's literally over a century worth of films that have slipped through the cracks that struggle to remain relevant. Some of mine are The Sweet Hereafter, Kalifornia, Sorcerer, Silverlake Life: The View From Here (the most crushing documentary I've ever seen), and The Purple Rose of Cairo.
I have so many guilty pleasure movies but since you mention the late great Joel Schumacher his movie The Lost Boys its so 80's so much fun . I love it and it introduced me to The Doors.
The Hitcher is an underrated movie. Rutger Hauer is at his peak and wonder if he really psychologically tortured C. Thomas Howell. I feel this is Mr. Howell's best performance.
Zardoz is sort of a guilty pleasure for me for the fact it’s actually one of my favorite films. It’s just brilliant and crazy. Maybe the message Boorman is trying to get across is a bit incoherent at times but I adore the film.
I highly recommend Call Me By Your Name, seems like we have similar taste and pet peeves and it'd be a treat to hear you dissect your experience...this film really is an experience c:
Maggie, I completely 1000% agree with you about Jerry Goldsmith. He's one of my top five favorite film composers of all time. And even for films he's done that aren't very good (like Omen III: The Final Conflict), his score is usually the best part for me. Really miss his signature today, not enough like him IMO. So, very glad you brought him up.
Popeye... for me. Love Robert Altman. The casting was spot on. And the treatment was refreshing and fun. It is family-friendly but does not pander to a young audience. Very true to the feel of the original cartoon which I am a big fan of as well. And who doesn't love a musical? 50+ times for me. BTW -My mother's name is Olive and my dad's nickname CAP. But because of my love for this movie, my kids call me Popeye. lol
My favorite guilty pleasure-Vincent Price in The Last Man on Earth. The muddiness of the prints, and the bad dubbing hobble this movie badly, but it’s still the most faithful adaptation of Matheson’s I Am Legend.
My ultimate guilty pleasure is Commando with Arnold Schwarzengegger. Cheesy lines, unrealistic action sequence with Arnie having infinite ammo and invisibility, but man I'd be lying if I'd say it wasn't fun.
Did you ever watch the animated series on which the movie was based on? The animated show is the true masterpiece, and the movie adaptation is a colossal misfire of a film.
Watching Gary Oldman's earlier films does it for me: A psycho cop in "The Professional": a tragic, corrupt cop in "Romeo Is Bleeding" (Highly recommended); a hilarious, futuristic CEO in "The Fifth Element"; playing Dracula. He can be funny, frightening, and Shakespearian tragic.
and Beethoven and Sid Vicious and Lee Harvey Oswald and playwrite Joe Orton and other great characters in State of Grace, True Romance, etc. . I suppose Romeo is Bleeding would be one of my guilty pleasures as well - great noir.
Yeah, I always joke that Hans Zimmer uses the same cubase template from The Rock called "Epic Music - The Rock template v8.6.cpr" for most of his movies since. hahaha
Only God Forgives. It's unbelievably stupid and over the top but I love it for it's violence, actually really good score, gorgeous colours and Ryan Gosling staring determinedly at nothing. It's an audio/visual feast but also a terrible movie and I love it.
I'm glad someone else mentioned Batman and Robin cause I was late on my entry for that one lol. It was unironically one of my favourite films as a kid, and ironically became one of my favourites as adult for completely inverse (or more informed) reasons. Completely over-the-top, cheesy, and the natural evolution of the Adam West-style Batman of the 60s.
Guilty Pleasures= Pee Wee's Big Adventure and Big Top Pee Wee because I was in love with Valeria Golino's eyes. She also came out in Hot Shots and Hot Shots Part Deux. Dune is good but only if you have read the book or have information about the factions before watching the movie.
Mostly because of his own career choices, a lot of people forget what Nicolas Cage is capable of as an actor (even after he won an Academy Award). To be reminded, see the overlooked best of the Charlie Kaufman-scripted films: Adaptation.
100% agree on Tom Hooper in Les Miserables and how that one did not work and that CATs (in a so bad it's good way) worked for me. Les Miserables is Epic! Take the camera a few steps back and let us see some epic scenery
60s and 70s counter-culture produced a lot of provocateur filmmakers who made what we would nowadays call guilty pleasure films. The output was so big that whole genres were formed: giallo, blaxploitation, hickspoitation, etc.
The Golden child with Eddie Murphy is my guilty pleasure movie. Some other guilty pleasures for me are Knowing, If Looks could kill and Mannequin 2 on the move
My latest guilty pleasure movies are the romance movies on the Hallmark Channel. Yeah, they're all formulaic, predictable, cheesy and corny, but they have surprisingly high production values for made-for-TV movies and are fairly well acted and well casted films. If you just want a light, breezy, comfy, cozy little contemporary movie that has some old-fashioned values and charm, the Hallmark movies shine light bright stars. I also love how they're all seasonally-themed.
I believe there is no such thing as a "guilty pleasure." The concept rests upon the idea that there is some objective standard of "good" which is different from "it does things right as a film, in some way, that gives enjoyment." If you enjoyed a film, it did something right for you, regardless of what flaws it may have. That makes it simply a pleasure.
Scary movie 2, Steven Seagal movies (early ones), the Quick and the dead, Young guns, Blind fury, Anaconda, the Mummy, Hansel & Gretel: the witch hunters...
“Evening” is my guilty pleasure. The reviews were scathing, and not without justification, but there was much to admire, including an incandescent scene with Glenn Close.
I'm drawn to the big budget 'action' movies of the 60's, like The Italian Job, The Great Escape, The Heroes of Telemark, or The Guns of Navarone. But the one I always return to is 'Where Eagles Dare'. Great cast, twisty turny plot, amazing setting, great stunts, great score, down beat ending, hundreds of disposable henchmen, guns that never run out or need reloading, 60's hair and make up in 1944, a genuine pleasure, guilty or not :)
Guilty Pleasure: "The Cassandra Crossing" (1976) Especially in our day and age I love this star packed schlock, in which a deadly virus can be contained to an Orient-Express-like train. It has so many wonderfully dubious attractions: Columbo's basset hound being rescued by a helicopter. Lee Strasberg, not teaching the art of acting but blowing up the restaurant car with his lighter. Ava Gardner as an aging diva with a gigolo in tow. Martin Sheen as an acrobatic drug addict who does some clumsy stunts on the outside walls of the train. OJ "the Juice" Simpson as a fake priest but still on the right side of the law. Ann Turkel (former wife of Richard Harris) giving the worst vocal performance in the history of disaster movies. And another fine score from Jerry Goldsmith who elevates the quality of this flick undeservedly. Watch it. You won't regret it.
One of mine is Jaws 3 or Jaws 3-D, special effects are so hilarious I cant help but laugh, they felt too ambitious for the tech of 1983 and I like the sea world vibe.
Thanks for taking my comment! About school of rock, even though I love it, I feel like the script would have felt less clunky if Dewey had impersonated a music teacher rather than a general teacher who’s supposed to be teaching all subjects like history, math, science, etc.
Independence Day 1996, as everyone around me grows up they dislike or hate it even more. But I love it, love it, love it, I'm not blind to the campy aspects but for whatever reason I think it's a strange forgivable camp.
for me it's 1980s sci-fi movies, any kind from big box office success and disasters to straight-to-video B movies. Particular indulgences are Altered States; Endangered Species; Tron; Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension; Android; Escape from New York; Brother from Another Planet; Liquid Sky; Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone; Ice Pirates; Dreamscape; Steel Dawn; Repo Man; Runaway; Salute of the Jugger and possibly thousands more.
My guilty pleasures would have to be any number of "giallo" movies in the 60s and 70s that are often lurid, exploitative, sex-filled, nudity-filled horror-mystery films but are often praised for their cinematic qualities by fans of the genre. Also from that era, taboo-breaking films by Mario Bava, Pete Walker, Jesse Franco, and Dario Argento are also much admired by their fans. Many restored Blu-rays of these films have come out in recent years, made by companies that are synonymous with guilty pleasures: Severin, Vinegar Syndrome, Code Red, Arrow, Redemption, Shout! Factory, etc. A company called Something Weird sells many salacious film titles from as early as the 20s and 30s.
Brave Heart continues to be one of mine. I don't know if White Man Can't Jump would fall into this category, but I love that one. By the way.....great topic.
The new 4K of Dune by Arrow Video is such a great package for fans! The transfer is absolutely beautiful as is the 5.1 sound mix. It's a fantastic movie with a few messy edits in the middle, its totally overblown how messy it is imo. I doubt Denis will come close to the ambience and atmosphere of Lynch's version.
The 'A Nightmare on Elm Street', 'Hellraiser' & 'Child's Play' movies are my guilty pleasures. I was very young when I saw them for the first time, but they have always stuck with me.
Just like Richard Linklater is know for arty films and a did u-turn with the commercial School of Rock, cheesy film-maker Ronald Emmerich also made a film outside his comfort zone with the underrated quasi Shakespeare biopic Annonymous. It's a forgotten movie now and historians point out all of the anachronisms and falsehoods of the film, so if this film isn't adored by either critics or public, I'll nominate it as my guilty pleasure.
Musicals: Joel Schumacher's version of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom of the Opera! It gets ripped a new one, but I like it. It's very stylish. The costumes, the lighting, the way Schumacher moves his camera like a virtuoso, giving the stage play a far more 3D quality for cinema, are exquisite. Gerard Butler makes one brooding, rock star Phantom and Emmy Rossum is a total hottie as Christine!
I don't think people know what a guilty pleasure means. something, such as a movie, television program, or piece of music, that one enjoys despite feeling that it is not generally held in high regard. Most people are listing good movies.
I think the original Star Wars trilogy is the epitome of popcorn entertainment. They are reasonably well made, likable, fun movies to watch and turn your brain off during. I don’t think they are amazing and they have a lot of flaws, but just a film being a simple, fun movie has its place. The problem with so many modern blockbusters are, they don’t have that sense of fun that original Star Wars had, and they’re not as well made. Marvel movies just give me a headache, they’re just noise
Yeah. i think Star Wars made sci fi fun ago. In the decade leading up to Star Wars you had space films which were a dark and slow such as 2001, Silent Running, and Solaris. Flash Gordon (1980) would not be possible without Star Wars. Need I say more?
Desperado is my ultimate guilty pleasure movie. It's total cult B-movie schlock and I love it. I don't know if it's meant to be a comedy, but I find it funny as hell. From the burp/barf beer dispenser to the diarrhea "out of order" bathroom stall Quentin Tarantino has to pass through to get to the pickup room to Danny Trejo's throwing knives guy killed by mistake "Yeah...we'll stay out of his way", it's total south of the U.S. border drug lord decadence.
Guilty pleasures - 1) Hollywood Knights. One of the first of its kind (after American Graffiti) and all the great lines are from off screen. 2) Slaughterhouse Five, it is dated but I still love it. 3) The Faculty. Love your channel. Would like to ear your thoughts on the original Picnic at Hanging Rock from 1975. Thanks
It won't be long before you reach 20K subscribers, but I'll leave a couple questions here in advance. Q1. I've always been excited when you rain some attention on shorter films, especially the recent David Lynch pieces. Can we expect to see you review more shorts? (In this case I'll make some recommendations: Buster Keaton's "Cops"; Maya Deren's "Meshes of the Afternoon"; Nick Park's "The Wrong Trousers"; Richard Gale's "The Horribly Slow Murderer with the Extremely Inefficient Weapon".) Q2. When you finally get around to reviews of silent-era features, is there any specific film we can expect you to review first? (In this case I prefer to be surprised by your answer, although I have a secret guess what your answer would be.)
Les Miserables was one of the worst experiences I have ever had on the big screen. I was miserable throughout the extremely long runtime and it actually inculcated a phobia of musicals in my brother.
Practically every Jim Carrey movie from like Earth Girls are Easy to The Number 23. There's some genuinely great films in there, particularly Eternal Sunshine and The Truman Show, but he was always the comedian who's films we watched consistently as a kid. There's so much nostalgia, particularly with The Mask, Ace Ventura Pet Detective, Dumb and Dumber, Liar Liar, and Bruce Almighty. The Number 23 is horrible, but it's the first R-rated film I saw in theaters. They aren't particularly great films, but he puts everything in those manic, zany performances. It's so ridiculous and in your face. It's everything you wanted to see as a kid, and they still all have soft spots in my heart.
Great thoughts. I don't think Jennifer's Body could or should be out of the realm of the cheese. I think if the content were taken more seriously or had a more solemn approach, it would fall apart. It's this perfect balance of schlock and competence. The story is absurd. If the approach wasn't so wink wink nudge nudge, I wouldn't suspend my disbelief. It would have to be reworked from the ground up with a completely different set of story DNA. I thought scene where Jennifer comes to Neety's house post sacrifice and is rooting through her fridge was amazing. Every time I watch Jennifer's Body I am truly moved by the blocking, pacing, sound design, lighting etc. of that scene. How Neety is trying to comfort her. She's scared, she's confused, and then Jennifer starts screaming and barfing that black ooze (the black ooze grounding the scene back down into the cheese) Jennifer is transforming, losing her humanity and starts crying. I think that's the centerpiece of the entire film for me, is that moment. I'm totally with you on Diablo Cody. What I liked about her writing in Jennifer's Body was that is didn't seem to be trying to prove itself like in Juno. It was just having fun. The clumsy quirky and dating-itself-before-it-leaves-the-pen dialogue really fit Jennifer's Body well. Definitely a guilty pleasure. I think Karyn Kusama is a fantastic director. I don't think we've seen her at her peak yet. I think the best is yet to come. If you have time, track down her interview on Bret Easton Ellis' podcast.
Freddy Got Fingered is easily one of my favorite movies of all time. The pure insanity of it all is just hilarious to me, and I think both Tom Green and Rip Torn (RIP) are amazing in it. Green definitely knew exactly what he was doing and knew that every critic would hate it, but didn't care because he thought it was funny and knew there would be at least a few people who loved it for what it was. I completely understand how people could be put off by it, but it will always have a special place in my heart and will always be one of the funniest movies I've ever seen. The quintessential anti-comedy imo.
I know I'm late to the comments but I have thought of one. 'Basic Instinct' is such a ridiculous plot, and style over substance, but there is a strange satisfaction and pleasure in watching it. Michael Douglas and Sharon Stone hamming it up to 11 out of ten.
I would like you to review some well-known guilty pleasure films like Sex and Zen, In the Realm of the Senses, Multiple Maniacs (or other films by John Waters), In the Valley of the Dolls, Faster Pussycat Kill Kill (or other Russ Meyer films), etc. They are deemed "guilty" because of the salacious material, but also "pleasure" because of their noteworthy cinematic qualities. Would love to see how you review these.
Mission Impossible 2 or any post MI:2 John Woo movie for that matter ... Not great by any means, but nostalgia factor is really strong with this one for me :)
TMNT 1 and, but especially, 2 (Secret of the Ooze), The Rock as well, Starship Troopers, V for Vendetta (though depending on who you ask, that may not qualify as a guilt pleasure bc its a good movie), and then several comedies (Dumb & Dumber, Superbad, Super Troopers), Bad Lieutenant: Port of New Orleans
Conan the Barbarian (1982) Arnold Schwarzenegger looks great as Conan (acting is marginal but with hints here and there of being able to deliver a performance). The supporting actors range from excellent to good. James Earl Jones is a villain with depth. The story is kinda disjointed in the first half but overall is highly watchable and has some unexpected twists . The Basil Poledouris score is fantastic and adds whatever mood or tone is required by a scene, whether it's rousing excitement or pensive reflection or mystical wonder.
I think the biggest reason they were divisive was because the sequel trilogy was just redoing the original trilogy. If they simply would've hired the best people in the business and would've created something new, something that brought the series forward, it would've been received a lot better.
I try not to believe in guilty pleasures; if you enjoy something, you enjoy it, full stop. Then I remember that I enjoy Godzilla 1998 and Jar Jar Binks, and I feel guilty. I dunno, Jar Jar Binks made me laugh as a six-year-old, before I understood his mind-boggling cultural insensitivity. But I think it’s a credit to Ahmed Best’s performance craft that Jar Jar still makes me chuckle now, even as I try not to. When it comes to Godzilla 1998, I never had a huge attachment to earlier Godzilla iterations, and so I didn’t have a huge issue when it had nothing to do with them. It’s a deeply dumb movie, with endless plot holes, and it has some of the most one-dimensional female characters I’ve ever seen. But dammit, it’s peak Roland Emmerich, and I have no problem watching it multiple times, simply because it has a great sense of both warmth and fun. These two attributes were thrown into harsh relief by the exercise in soullessness that was the 2014 Godzilla - a film I’ll never watch again, even though it was arguably smarter and slicker. So yeah, guilty pleasures. They’re a thing, after all.
No, Star Wars is not that complex... but complexity is not required for greatness, or even very goodness, in art. That is the principal fallacy that leads to the erroneous idea of the guilty pleasure.
As someone who loved Michael Crichton books, I feel like Congo perfectly captured the manic, crazy energy of the original novel. It was a big, stupid adventure story, and I loved it.
Infra-Man, Dune, Jason and the Argonauts, Excalibur, Conan the Destroyer, Popeye, Nightbreed, Krull, The Shadow, Dusk 'til Dawn, The Last Action Hero, Enter the Dragon, Earth Girls are Easy, The Adventures of Baron Munchaussen, and the Fifth Element.
Great subject! I was gonna go with Womb Raider, even though it's an obvious rip off of In Diana Jones but, I can't put either of them above Inspect Her Gadget. It's not exactly the same as the cartoon I watched when I was a little squirt but it still speaks to me. Speaking of squirt.... ah, forget it. It's Friday.
Movies that are not artsy =/= Guilty pleasure. Movies that are popular =/= Guilty pleasure. Roger Ebert "...reviewed a film for what he thought it would be to its prospective audience", he said that "...When you ask a friend if Hellboy is any good, you're not asking if it's any good compared to Mystic River, you're asking if it's any good compared to The Punisher"
I have no guilty pleasure movies really but I do have some movies that if I am feeling a bit down and want to just feel better for a few hours I might put on. The Mummy & Blast From The Past - both 1999 - both star Brendan Fraser Turk 182 (1985)*, Big Trouble In Little China (1986)* & Mannequin (1987)* Dragnet (1987) Police Academy 1&II (1984) & (1985) Streets Of Fire (1984) Tremors (1990) Kelly's Heroes (1970) Love At First Bite (1979) Galaxy Quest (1999) Smokey And The Bandit (1977) * I make no apologies for these - Kim Catrall was the first actress I fell in love with.
The Mummy (1999) [0:08]
Independence Day [1:52]
School of Rock [3:17]
Les Misérables (2012) [5:10]
Batman & Robin [7:20]
Dune [10:05]
Jennifer's Body [11:32]
Space Jam [13:19]
Star Wars (original trilogy) [14:59]
The Rock [16:25]
Why guilt for those Star Wars movies? There's no shame in enjoying good, rollicking adventure. Is it because they're _family_ films or fantasy?
The originalStar Wars had a bit of clunky dialogue here and there,but how is that reason to consider it a guilty pleasure.
Con Air.
It is nonesense, but So much fun.John Malkovic is just great!. And there are so many good one liners!
Jumper is a guilty pleasure of mine, the premise is so interesting. Hayden Christensen and the rest of the cast are solid as well.
Mine is "The Burbs" with Tom Hanks. I watched the movie countless times and I'm still laughing. Also "Big" also with Tom Hanks. This was one of the first movies I saw as a kid at the theater, so it holds a special place in my heart.
Why feel guilty about liking Big? :) It is a great comedy.
Not really guilty pleasures, they're both classic, good movies
My favorite is Flash Gordon (1980). I almost hate to call it a guilty pleasure because it almost perfectly achieves what it set out to do. Tongue in cheek over the top camp. And, it has sets that scream comic book. Go Flash Go !!!
Flash Gordon is awesome. Death to Ming!
Some of Queen’s greatest masterworks on the soundtrack and influenced many hard rock pomp rock and metal bands of later years
Really love your channel and how you’ve brought together a community here on TH-cam!
For a long time, whenever I watched an old classic movie or a movie not many had heard of and I looked for a review, your channel would pop up on the first 3 results. I decided to subscribe last month and been watching all your videos about underrated or overrated actors and directors, and so on. And I gotta say, the more I watch your videos, the more i respect your opinions. I wish I had the same eye as you do for cinema, but I'm always trying to increase my perception on the other side of the lens. Anyway, one of my guilty pleasures is Hocus Pocus. I loooove that movie!
Thank you for saying that both about Old Star Wars and modern comic book movies. I really cannot tolerate the fact that my generation seemingly never grew up. I remember playing video games as a kid and looking forward with pleasure to the time when I would be grown up and wouldn't do that any more. Apparently I was alone.
The first three Indiana Jones films. They are always fun as hell.
My guilty pleasure is the Alvin and the Chipmunks Movies
A favorite guilty pleasure of mine is Ridley Scott's Legend. It's all over the place, in terms of narrative. But it's such a visual feast, that I can just sit back and enjoy the experience.
star wars isn't a guilty pleasure movie, but it isn't the greatest movie of all time. It's a fun, simple, hero's journey with good special effects and great music.
Also a video idea: Hidden gems. I feel like most films discussed in the present are like the CLASSIC classics, or films released in the past few years, but there's literally over a century worth of films that have slipped through the cracks that struggle to remain relevant.
Some of mine are The Sweet Hereafter, Kalifornia, Sorcerer, Silverlake Life: The View From Here (the most crushing documentary I've ever seen), and The Purple Rose of Cairo.
I have so many guilty pleasure movies but since you mention the late great Joel Schumacher his movie The Lost Boys its so 80's so much fun . I love it and it introduced me to The Doors.
A genuinely fun, entertaining film. I saw that in the movie theater.
Puzzled as to why you would feel guilty about getting pleasure from that movie.
my favorite guilty pleasure movies:
- Battlefield Earth
- House of 1000 Corpses
- Alexander (Oliver Stone movie)
Who can watch Battlefield Earth more than once?
@voodoochile333
I can 🍻
@@voodoochile333 I did and could watch it again.
The South Park episode on Scientology is a great companion piece for the movie
House of 1000 Corpses rocks
I loved the Mummy when i was a child and i still love it now. The Mummy (1999) was my Indiana Jones, and i'm not even sorry.
I'd love to hear a review from you on the movie "The Hitcher" with Thomas C. Howell and Rutger Hauer from 1986. A true forgotten thriller.
Great movie I’ve also mentioned I’d like to hear her review this. The cinematography, the score, and Rutger Hauer’s amazing performance as John Ryder.
Yes, yes, yes!!! Love that movie.
Ooh yeah, that's a creepy one. It used to play on the local TV station around here when I was a kid.
The Hitcher is an underrated movie. Rutger Hauer is at his peak and wonder if he really psychologically tortured C. Thomas Howell. I feel this is Mr. Howell's best performance.
Billy Madison (1995) is a big guilty pleasure for me. Seen it so many times as a kid. I still love it haha
That's quacktastic!
Zardoz is sort of a guilty pleasure for me for the fact it’s actually one of my favorite films. It’s just brilliant and crazy. Maybe the message Boorman is trying to get across is a bit incoherent at times but I adore the film.
Terry Gilliams TIME BANDITS!
I highly recommend Call Me By Your Name, seems like we have similar taste and pet peeves and it'd be a treat to hear you dissect your experience...this film really is an experience c:
She didn't like it
My favourite guilty pleasure movies:
Spider-Man 3(2007),
Rocky IV ,
Rocky V ,
Baby's Day Out
Maggie, I completely 1000% agree with you about Jerry Goldsmith. He's one of my top five favorite film composers of all time. And even for films he's done that aren't very good (like Omen III: The Final Conflict), his score is usually the best part for me. Really miss his signature today, not enough like him IMO. So, very glad you brought him up.
Popeye... for me. Love Robert Altman. The casting was spot on. And the treatment was refreshing and fun. It is family-friendly but does not pander to a young audience. Very true to the feel of the original cartoon which I am a big fan of as well. And who doesn't love a musical? 50+ times for me. BTW -My mother's name is Olive and my dad's nickname CAP. But because of my love for this movie, my kids call me Popeye. lol
My favorite guilty pleasure-Vincent Price in The Last Man on Earth. The muddiness of the prints, and the bad dubbing hobble this movie badly, but it’s still the most faithful adaptation of Matheson’s I Am Legend.
My ultimate guilty pleasure is Commando with Arnold Schwarzengegger. Cheesy lines, unrealistic action sequence with Arnie having infinite ammo and invisibility, but man I'd be lying if I'd say it wasn't fun.
"Clifford" is one of my guilty pleasures...
Avatar is my guilty pleasure. It was my first English movie, and it felt like a masterpiece.
Did you ever watch the animated series on which the movie was based on? The animated show is the true masterpiece, and the movie adaptation is a colossal misfire of a film.
@@izetyusein3323 He's probably referring to James Cameron's Avatar
Watching Gary Oldman's earlier films does it for me: A psycho cop in "The Professional": a tragic, corrupt cop in "Romeo Is Bleeding" (Highly recommended); a hilarious, futuristic CEO
in "The Fifth Element"; playing Dracula. He can be funny, frightening, and Shakespearian tragic.
and Beethoven and Sid Vicious and Lee Harvey Oswald and playwrite Joe Orton and other great characters in State of Grace, True Romance, etc. . I suppose Romeo is Bleeding would be one of my guilty pleasures as well - great noir.
Yes, Romeo is Bleeding! No one mentions that movie these days... I also love Anabella Schiora in her role.
Michael Bay's The Rock. It's very entertaining for many reasons
Yeah, I always joke that Hans Zimmer uses the same cubase template from The Rock called "Epic Music - The Rock template v8.6.cpr" for most of his movies since. hahaha
@@aaronmarshall lol true that
Only God Forgives. It's unbelievably stupid and over the top but I love it for it's violence, actually really good score, gorgeous colours and Ryan Gosling staring determinedly at nothing. It's an audio/visual feast but also a terrible movie and I love it.
it's a great film
I'm glad someone else mentioned Batman and Robin cause I was late on my entry for that one lol. It was unironically one of my favourite films as a kid, and ironically became one of my favourites as adult for completely inverse (or more informed) reasons. Completely over-the-top, cheesy, and the natural evolution of the Adam West-style Batman of the 60s.
Guilty Pleasures= Pee Wee's Big Adventure and Big Top Pee Wee because I was in love with Valeria Golino's eyes. She also came out in Hot Shots and Hot Shots Part Deux.
Dune is good but only if you have read the book or have information about the factions before watching the movie.
I saw Pee Wee's Big Adventure in the theater with 2 friends and we were stoned as hell. Perfect movie for that.
Mostly because of his own career choices, a lot of people forget what Nicolas Cage is capable of as an actor (even after he won an Academy Award). To be reminded, see the overlooked best of the Charlie Kaufman-scripted films: Adaptation.
100% agree on Tom Hooper in Les Miserables and how that one did not work and that CATs (in a so bad it's good way) worked for me. Les Miserables is Epic! Take the camera a few steps back and let us see some epic scenery
60s and 70s counter-culture produced a lot of provocateur filmmakers who made what we would nowadays call guilty pleasure films. The output was so big that whole genres were formed: giallo, blaxploitation, hickspoitation, etc.
The Golden child with Eddie Murphy is my guilty pleasure movie. Some other guilty pleasures for me are Knowing, If Looks could kill and Mannequin 2 on the move
My latest guilty pleasure movies are the romance movies on the Hallmark Channel. Yeah, they're all formulaic, predictable, cheesy and corny, but they have surprisingly high production values for made-for-TV movies and are fairly well acted and well casted films. If you just want a light, breezy, comfy, cozy little contemporary movie that has some old-fashioned values and charm, the Hallmark movies shine light bright stars. I also love how they're all seasonally-themed.
I believe there is no such thing as a "guilty pleasure." The concept rests upon the idea that there is some objective standard of "good" which is different from "it does things right as a film, in some way, that gives enjoyment." If you enjoyed a film, it did something right for you, regardless of what flaws it may have. That makes it simply a pleasure.
Scary movie 2, Steven Seagal movies (early ones), the Quick and the dead, Young guns, Blind fury, Anaconda, the Mummy, Hansel & Gretel: the witch hunters...
“Evening” is my guilty pleasure. The reviews were scathing, and not without justification, but there was much to admire, including an incandescent scene with Glenn Close.
I'm drawn to the big budget 'action' movies of the 60's, like The Italian Job, The Great Escape, The Heroes of Telemark, or The Guns of Navarone. But the one I always return to is 'Where Eagles Dare'. Great cast, twisty turny plot, amazing setting, great stunts, great score, down beat ending, hundreds of disposable henchmen, guns that never run out or need reloading, 60's hair and make up in 1944, a genuine pleasure, guilty or not :)
None of those are guilty pleasures really
Guilty Pleasure: "The Cassandra Crossing" (1976)
Especially in our day and age I love this star packed schlock, in which a deadly virus can be contained to an Orient-Express-like train. It has so many wonderfully dubious attractions:
Columbo's basset hound being rescued by a helicopter.
Lee Strasberg, not teaching the art of acting but blowing up the restaurant car with his lighter.
Ava Gardner as an aging diva with a gigolo in tow.
Martin Sheen as an acrobatic drug addict who does some clumsy stunts on the outside walls of the train.
OJ "the Juice" Simpson as a fake priest but still on the right side of the law.
Ann Turkel (former wife of Richard Harris) giving the worst vocal performance in the history of disaster movies.
And another fine score from Jerry Goldsmith who elevates the quality of this flick undeservedly.
Watch it. You won't regret it.
One of mine is Jaws 3 or Jaws 3-D, special effects are so hilarious I cant help but laugh, they felt too ambitious for the tech of 1983 and I like the sea world vibe.
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About school of rock, even though I love it, I feel like the script would have felt less clunky if Dewey had impersonated a music teacher rather than a general teacher who’s supposed to be teaching all subjects like history, math, science, etc.
Someone has said this before, but I think it would be awesome if you would make videos where you rank the filmographies of your favourite directors
A video up at 1 AM :) I love it, perfect for my schedule lol
Independence Day 1996, as everyone around me grows up they dislike or hate it even more. But I love it, love it, love it, I'm not blind to the campy aspects but for whatever reason I think it's a strange forgivable camp.
for me it's 1980s sci-fi movies, any kind from big box office success and disasters to straight-to-video B movies. Particular indulgences are Altered States; Endangered Species; Tron; Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension; Android; Escape from New York; Brother from Another Planet; Liquid Sky; Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone; Ice Pirates; Dreamscape; Steel Dawn; Repo Man; Runaway; Salute of the Jugger and possibly thousands more.
good list - ever seen galaxina?
@@NaughtyVampireGod never seen it but it's on the 'watch' list :)
Planet Terror
Probably my favorite Robert Rodriguez movie
My guilty pleasures would have to be any number of "giallo" movies in the 60s and 70s that are often lurid, exploitative, sex-filled, nudity-filled horror-mystery films but are often praised for their cinematic qualities by fans of the genre. Also from that era, taboo-breaking films by Mario Bava, Pete Walker, Jesse Franco, and Dario Argento are also much admired by their fans. Many restored Blu-rays of these films have come out in recent years, made by companies that are synonymous with guilty pleasures: Severin, Vinegar Syndrome, Code Red, Arrow, Redemption, Shout! Factory, etc. A company called Something Weird sells many salacious film titles from as early as the 20s and 30s.
Brave Heart continues to be one of mine. I don't know if White Man Can't Jump would fall into this category, but I love that one.
By the way.....great topic.
what if deep focus lense *is* my guilty pleasure movie
I thought Valerian was super fun even though it was a mess, just visually astounding and bonkers even if there wasn't substance to back up the style.
I really love Sisters (2015). It's makes me die of laughter. I know every single line of that film
The new 4K of Dune by Arrow Video is such a great package for fans! The transfer is absolutely beautiful as is the 5.1 sound mix. It's a fantastic movie with a few messy edits in the middle, its totally overblown how messy it is imo. I doubt Denis will come close to the ambience and atmosphere of Lynch's version.
Feel ive watched Starship Troopers and Natural Born Killers a crazy amount of times when they hit cable. Also Arnie as Fries will always be great : P
Starship Troopers and Natural Born Killers are both great movies...
The 'A Nightmare on Elm Street', 'Hellraiser' & 'Child's Play' movies are my guilty pleasures.
I was very young when I saw them for the first time, but they have always stuck with me.
These movies are considered horror classics - no need for guilt here :)
Vincenzo Beretta At least the first installments in these franchises.
Just like Richard Linklater is know for arty films and a did u-turn with the commercial School of Rock, cheesy film-maker Ronald Emmerich also made a film outside his comfort zone with the underrated quasi Shakespeare biopic Annonymous.
It's a forgotten movie now and historians point out all of the anachronisms and falsehoods of the film, so if this film isn't adored by either critics or public, I'll nominate it as my guilty pleasure.
Musicals: Joel Schumacher's version of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom of the Opera! It gets ripped a new one, but I like it. It's very stylish. The costumes, the lighting, the way Schumacher moves his camera like a virtuoso, giving the stage play a far more 3D quality for cinema, are exquisite. Gerard Butler makes one brooding, rock star Phantom and Emmy Rossum is a total hottie as Christine!
I don't think people know what a guilty pleasure means.
something, such as a movie, television program, or piece of music, that one enjoys despite feeling that it is not generally held in high regard.
Most people are listing good movies.
"That one enjoys despite knowing it's objectively not good" is more accurate; you're just describing movies you love that everyone else hates
@@lukess.s I got the meaning from a Thesaurus
@@voodoochile333 because as we all know that changes everything
I think the original Star Wars trilogy is the epitome of popcorn entertainment. They are reasonably well made, likable, fun movies to watch and turn your brain off during. I don’t think they are amazing and they have a lot of flaws, but just a film being a simple, fun movie has its place. The problem with so many modern blockbusters are, they don’t have that sense of fun that original Star Wars had, and they’re not as well made. Marvel movies just give me a headache, they’re just noise
Yeah. i think Star Wars made sci fi fun ago. In the decade leading up to Star Wars you had space films which were a dark and slow such as 2001, Silent Running, and Solaris. Flash Gordon (1980) would not be possible without Star Wars. Need I say more?
Desperado is my ultimate guilty pleasure movie. It's total cult B-movie schlock and I love it. I don't know if it's meant to be a comedy, but I find it funny as hell. From the burp/barf beer dispenser to the diarrhea "out of order" bathroom stall Quentin Tarantino has to pass through to get to the pickup room to Danny Trejo's throwing knives guy killed by mistake "Yeah...we'll stay out of his way", it's total south of the U.S. border drug lord decadence.
Batman and Robin is not so bad, it was entertaining. The new Batman movies I can't even sit through.
Starsky and Hutch. Bacardi and Cola! Do it! Do it!
All of the Riddick films are my guilty pleasures, and the Vin Diesel film, “Babylon A.D.”. Vin Diesel himself is a guilty pleasure.
Guilty pleasures - 1) Hollywood Knights. One of the first of its kind (after American Graffiti) and all the great lines are from off screen. 2) Slaughterhouse Five, it is dated but I still love it. 3) The Faculty. Love your channel. Would like to ear your thoughts on the original Picnic at Hanging Rock from 1975. Thanks
Slaughterhouse-Five is a good one. I'm a big fan of Vonnegut. I think he was actually pleased with this adaptation.
It won't be long before you reach 20K subscribers, but I'll leave a couple questions here in advance.
Q1. I've always been excited when you rain some attention on shorter films, especially the recent David Lynch pieces. Can we expect to see you review more shorts? (In this case I'll make some recommendations: Buster Keaton's "Cops"; Maya Deren's "Meshes of the Afternoon"; Nick Park's "The Wrong Trousers"; Richard Gale's "The Horribly Slow Murderer with the Extremely Inefficient Weapon".)
Q2. When you finally get around to reviews of silent-era features, is there any specific film we can expect you to review first? (In this case I prefer to be surprised by your answer, although I have a secret guess what your answer would be.)
Les Miserables was one of the worst experiences I have ever had on the big screen.
I was miserable throughout the extremely long runtime and it actually inculcated a phobia of musicals in my brother.
How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000) for me. The humor is overlooked
Practically every Jim Carrey movie from like Earth Girls are Easy to The Number 23. There's some genuinely great films in there, particularly Eternal Sunshine and The Truman Show, but he was always the comedian who's films we watched consistently as a kid. There's so much nostalgia, particularly with The Mask, Ace Ventura Pet Detective, Dumb and Dumber, Liar Liar, and Bruce Almighty. The Number 23 is horrible, but it's the first R-rated film I saw in theaters. They aren't particularly great films, but he puts everything in those manic, zany performances. It's so ridiculous and in your face. It's everything you wanted to see as a kid, and they still all have soft spots in my heart.
I hate Jim Carrey and his movies.
@@NaughtyVampireGod Your opinion is valid, but I encourage you to try Truman Show or Eternal Sunshine
Great thoughts. I don't think Jennifer's Body could or should be out of the realm of the cheese. I think if the content were taken more seriously or had a more solemn approach, it would fall apart. It's this perfect balance of schlock and competence. The story is absurd. If the approach wasn't so wink wink nudge nudge, I wouldn't suspend my disbelief. It would have to be reworked from the ground up with a completely different set of story DNA.
I thought scene where Jennifer comes to Neety's house post sacrifice and is rooting through her fridge was amazing. Every time I watch Jennifer's Body I am truly moved by the blocking, pacing, sound design, lighting etc. of that scene. How Neety is trying to comfort her. She's scared, she's confused, and then Jennifer starts screaming and barfing that black ooze (the black ooze grounding the scene back down into the cheese) Jennifer is transforming, losing her humanity and starts crying. I think that's the centerpiece of the entire film for me, is that moment.
I'm totally with you on Diablo Cody. What I liked about her writing in Jennifer's Body was that is didn't seem to be trying to prove itself like in Juno. It was just having fun. The clumsy quirky and dating-itself-before-it-leaves-the-pen dialogue really fit Jennifer's Body well. Definitely a guilty pleasure.
I think Karyn Kusama is a fantastic director. I don't think we've seen her at her peak yet. I think the best is yet to come. If you have time, track down her interview on Bret Easton Ellis' podcast.
Freddy Got Fingered is easily one of my favorite movies of all time. The pure insanity of it all is just hilarious to me, and I think both Tom Green and Rip Torn (RIP) are amazing in it. Green definitely knew exactly what he was doing and knew that every critic would hate it, but didn't care because he thought it was funny and knew there would be at least a few people who loved it for what it was. I completely understand how people could be put off by it, but it will always have a special place in my heart and will always be one of the funniest movies I've ever seen. The quintessential anti-comedy imo.
Brilliant film and I know Mike from Red Letter Media and a few other mainstream critics do agree
I know I'm late to the comments but I have thought of one. 'Basic Instinct' is such a ridiculous plot, and style over substance, but there is a strange satisfaction and pleasure in watching it. Michael Douglas and Sharon Stone hamming it up to 11 out of ten.
I would like you to review some well-known guilty pleasure films like Sex and Zen, In the Realm of the Senses, Multiple Maniacs (or other films by John Waters), In the Valley of the Dolls, Faster Pussycat Kill Kill (or other Russ Meyer films), etc. They are deemed "guilty" because of the salacious material, but also "pleasure" because of their noteworthy cinematic qualities. Would love to see how you review these.
Mission Impossible 2 or any post MI:2 John Woo movie for that matter ... Not great by any means, but nostalgia factor is really strong with this one for me :)
School of Rock isn't a guilty pleasure movie. It's legitimately a great movie.
Can you review paths of glory?
Best war movie of all time.
TMNT 1 and, but especially, 2 (Secret of the Ooze), The Rock as well, Starship Troopers, V for Vendetta (though depending on who you ask, that may not qualify as a guilt pleasure bc its a good movie), and then several comedies (Dumb & Dumber, Superbad, Super Troopers), Bad Lieutenant: Port of New Orleans
MR RRL Starship Troopers is also genuinely a good movie.
Conan the Barbarian (1982)
Arnold Schwarzenegger looks great as Conan (acting is marginal but with hints here and there of being able to deliver a performance).
The supporting actors range from excellent to good. James Earl Jones is a villain with depth.
The story is kinda disjointed in the first half but overall is highly watchable and has some unexpected twists .
The Basil Poledouris score is fantastic and adds whatever mood or tone is required by a scene, whether it's rousing excitement or pensive reflection or mystical wonder.
1: Sleepwalkers
2: Troll 2
3: The Room
4: Crank
5: Samurai Cop
Star Wars is taken so seriously that every new film to come out is going to be divisive no matter what.
I think the biggest reason they were divisive was because the sequel trilogy was just redoing the original trilogy.
If they simply would've hired the best people in the business and would've created something new, something that brought the series forward, it would've been received a lot better.
Van Helsing (2004) is objectively stupid but I love it dearly
I try not to believe in guilty pleasures; if you enjoy something, you enjoy it, full stop. Then I remember that I enjoy Godzilla 1998 and Jar Jar Binks, and I feel guilty.
I dunno, Jar Jar Binks made me laugh as a six-year-old, before I understood his mind-boggling cultural insensitivity. But I think it’s a credit to Ahmed Best’s performance craft that Jar Jar still makes me chuckle now, even as I try not to.
When it comes to Godzilla 1998, I never had a huge attachment to earlier Godzilla iterations, and so I didn’t have a huge issue when it had nothing to do with them. It’s a deeply dumb movie, with endless plot holes, and it has some of the most one-dimensional female characters I’ve ever seen.
But dammit, it’s peak Roland Emmerich, and I have no problem watching it multiple times, simply because it has a great sense of both warmth and fun. These two attributes were thrown into harsh relief by the exercise in soullessness that was the 2014 Godzilla - a film I’ll never watch again, even though it was arguably smarter and slicker.
So yeah, guilty pleasures. They’re a thing, after all.
You deserve so many more subs tbh
Troll 2
I love the absurdity, it's almost like surrealism.
My guilty pleasures :
- Career Opportunities (1991)
- The Mercenaries trilogy
- Transformers 2
- Suicide Squad
- The Pacifier
oh dude, the amount of times I've seen the Pacifier.....
Suicide Squad... oh no, dude... ;-;
my favourite guilty pleasure film is The Maze Runner part 1
I remember CD World! Lol. Now I feel old!
No, Star Wars is not that complex... but complexity is not required for greatness, or even very goodness, in art. That is the principal fallacy that leads to the erroneous idea of the guilty pleasure.
Guilty pleasure movie🤔 one of mine is Congo, talking gorilla, laser gun and Bruce Campbell what more could you want.
good choice
As someone who loved Michael Crichton books, I feel like Congo perfectly captured the manic, crazy energy of the original novel. It was a big, stupid adventure story, and I loved it.
The Brady Bunch Movie, Not Another Teen Movie, Beach Blanket Bingo, Mars Attacks!
Can you please review Greener Grass? It’s on Hulu.
Other than "Batman & Robin", 80's "Dune" and possibly "Space Jam", those other's aren't by definition a guilty pleasure 😂
Infra-Man, Dune, Jason and the Argonauts, Excalibur, Conan the Destroyer, Popeye, Nightbreed, Krull, The Shadow, Dusk 'til Dawn, The Last Action Hero, Enter the Dragon, Earth Girls are Easy, The Adventures of Baron Munchaussen, and the Fifth Element.
Great subject! I was gonna go with Womb Raider, even though it's an obvious rip off of In Diana Jones but, I can't put either of them above Inspect Her Gadget. It's not exactly the same as the cartoon I watched when I was a little squirt but it still speaks to me. Speaking of squirt.... ah, forget it. It's Friday.
dang i missed this,, charlie's angels (2000) for me
That's a HUGE one for me as well.
Charlie's Angels Full Throttle is a wild ride
Movies that are not artsy =/= Guilty pleasure. Movies that are popular =/= Guilty pleasure. Roger Ebert "...reviewed a film for what he thought it would be to its prospective audience", he said that "...When you ask a friend if Hellboy is any good, you're not asking if it's any good compared to Mystic River, you're asking if it's any good compared to The Punisher"
Batman Forever and Bloodsport
Ma man
I have no guilty pleasure movies really but I do have some movies that if I am feeling a bit down and want to just feel better for a few hours I might put on.
The Mummy & Blast From The Past - both 1999 - both star Brendan Fraser
Turk 182 (1985)*, Big Trouble In Little China (1986)* & Mannequin (1987)*
Dragnet (1987)
Police Academy 1&II (1984) & (1985)
Streets Of Fire (1984)
Tremors (1990)
Kelly's Heroes (1970)
Love At First Bite (1979)
Galaxy Quest (1999)
Smokey And The Bandit (1977)
* I make no apologies for these - Kim Catrall was the first actress I fell in love with.