Re: Guilty pleasures - Movies you know suck, but can't get enough of!
Alex Cross. First time I saw it was at a $1 theater, and I wanted my money back, but for some reason, I find myself sticking around whenever I come across it flipping channels. There's something about the combination of the "phoned in" style of storytelling and watching Tyler Perry actually try to carry a movie in a serious role entertains me.
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Re: Guilty pleasures - Movies you know suck, but can't get enough of!
RAW DEAL.
The government gave Schwarzenegger a Raw Deal. No one gives Schwarzenegger a raw deal. RA-TATATATATAT!!!
I've been looking for the script for ages. If anyone knows where to buy it, please write me a message (apparently the thread I started was deleted?).
The movie is extremely trashy and campy, but it has so many good parts, especially a strong desire line and a charismatic lead, that you are just drawn in.
Re: Guilty pleasures - Movies you know suck, but can't get enough of!
The first 3 mentioned here I don't think are bad.
Starship Troopers as mentioned is satire and hits the mark that it was trying to excellently.
Waterworld may not be great, but its not a bad film per se. The cost and the negative press during filming build it into this mythical failure, but it's a decent film, basically Mad Max II with water.
Armageddon again I think hits the exact mark it was trying to and a great example of how to just make a popcorn action pic that doesn't take itself too seriously and has action with some humor.
Starship Troopers as mentioned is satire and hits the mark that it was trying to excellently.
Waterworld may not be great, but its not a bad film per se. The cost and the negative press during filming build it into this mythical failure, but it's a decent film, basically Mad Max II with water.
Armageddon again I think hits the exact mark it was trying to and a great example of how to just make a popcorn action pic that doesn't take itself too seriously and has action with some humor.
Totally agree about Starship Troopers, perfect satire. I guess we need films which don't mean to be rubbish but take themselves seriously but are so bad they are awesome! It's actually an unintentional niche.
Re: Guilty pleasures - Movies you know suck, but can't get enough of!
I love unintentionally horrible movies. You should check out THE BEST WORST MOVIE, which is a documentary about how TROLL 2 became a cult classic due entirely to its reputation for being terrible. It's great.
But I decided I'd get away from the ones I love because they're bad in favor of the ones I genuinely like even though I know people think they're bad. Off the top of my head:
SHE'S ALL THAT (teenage me just owes it far too much)
ROBIN HOOD: PRINCE OF THIEVES
BLOODSPORT
FOOTLOOSE (which I genuinely think is awesome, but apparently other people don't agree???)
ROCKY V (also all the other Rockys, but I understand this is the sucky one)
These are movies that are GOOD that I still have guilty pleasure over:
Thirteen Going on Thirty
The Craft
Somewhere in Time
The Waterhorse
The Lost Boys
This was going to be my pick too. I saw this in the movie theater as a kid and fell in love with it. I still watch it whenever it's on. So bad, and sooo good.
Re: Guilty pleasures - Movies you know suck, but can't get enough of!
All of the early Sean Connery James Bond movies, but especially "You Only Live Twice" -- a movie that I must have seen twenty times. It is the absolute perfection of sixties misogyny, racism and sheer goofiness.
I saw this in the theater in 1967, when I was only seven years old and the opening, when a mercury space capsule was swallowed up by another space ship, cutting a space-walking astronaut loose to die in orbit, scared the living hell out of me -- and I was totally blown away by the secret Spectre base hidden underneath the giant fake lake inside the extinct volcano.
It was all just great. And why shouldn't Sean Connery be able to disguise himself as Japanese. I believe it.
I'm also a big fan of old and cheesy fifties science fiction films -- the stuff that Bert I. Gordon made, like Beginning of the End and The Incredible Colossal Man and Italian Imports like Caltiki the Immortal Monster and Planet of the Vampires.
All of these movies, however low-budget, have really memorable moments -- things that have stuck with me for forty years (which I have to struggle to remember anything from movies that I've seen last year).
And then -- there's Mackenna's Gold. This truly amazing big-budget star-studded Cinerama incomprehensible piece of crap is, for me, literally hypnotic viewing.
Every time it comes on, I have to watch it. With Gregory Peck, Omar Sharif, Telly Savalas -- and Julie Newmar as Indian wildcat Hesh-ka -- all on a quest to find a lost valley full of cursed Indian Gold.
Re: Guilty pleasures - Movies you know suck, but can't get enough of!
My wife and I have had only two big fights in our marriage, and both began about movies. The first was ANACONDA, which I love, but which made her question everything about my tastes. But the real fight was about...
...PROMETHEUS. I loved every goddamn second of that movie. I'm aware of all the ridiculous plot holes, every bad decision made by the crew, I've seen every YouTube video ripping it apart, and all my friends make it their personal mission to talk me out of liking it, but I simply don't care. I adore it. My wife, however, is a hardcore ALIEN purist who loathed it with the fire of a thousand suns.
I saw this in the theater in 1967, when I was only seven years old and the opening, when a mercury space capsule was swallowed up by another space ship, cutting a space-walking
This is truly an epic exercise in WTF.
The recurring theme here seems to be about when you saw a movie rather thAn anything else... Watching movies as a youth has a big impact on how you see it, as we mostly glorify these periods in our lives.
...PROMETHEUS. I loved every goddamn second of that movie. I'm aware of all the ridiculous plot holes, every bad decision made by the crew, I've seen every YouTube video ripping it apart, and all my friends make it their personal mission to talk me out of liking it, but I simply don't care. I adore it. My wife, however, is a hardcore ALIEN purist who loathed it with the fire of a thousand suns.
Thats a great movie i dont care what anyone says lol
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I always wondered how on earth Runaway Train got in there, a truly great film in amongst a lot of, well a lot of films that I loved in my youth when I would have hated Runaway Train.
Still love the Missing In Action films though, Chuck Norris just has such a likeability when he's mowing down bad guys.
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