Anyone here have some guilty pleasure films that are universally panned by others?
Here's some of mine...
Toys
Dune
Flash Gordon
Neighbors
Alien Resurrection (Winona!)
Meet the Applegates
Raising Cain
Judge Dredd
There's probably others I'm forgetting at the moment.
Full Version: Bad movies you like.
no. i only like good movies. 
juuust kidding. i bet most people wouldn't 'get' Hedwig & The Angry Inch...
Funnyface maybe? that one's real dorky. 
i'll have to think on this one...
juuust kidding. i bet most people wouldn't 'get' Hedwig & The Angry Inch...
Funnyface maybe? that one's real dorky. i'll have to think on this one...
I don't know if I like any widely-acknowledged "bad movies"...
But there are plenty that probably didn't get a whole lot of great reviews, yet I've enjoyed them a lot:
Benny & Joon
Dumb & Dumber
Don Juan DeMarco
To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything, Julie Newmar
Romy & Michele's High School Reunion
Austin Powers: International Man Of Mystery
The Wedding Singer
Mamma Mia!
(I'm sure there are more, but that's all I can think of for now...)
But there are plenty that probably didn't get a whole lot of great reviews, yet I've enjoyed them a lot:
Benny & Joon
Dumb & Dumber
Don Juan DeMarco
To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything, Julie Newmar
Romy & Michele's High School Reunion
Austin Powers: International Man Of Mystery
The Wedding Singer
Mamma Mia!
(I'm sure there are more, but that's all I can think of for now...)
Benny & Joon got good reviews, didn't it? cuz i loved that one too.
Jingle All the Way 
The Brothers Solomon
I'm gonna come back with more..
The Brothers Solomon
I'm gonna come back with more..
shock treatment
hudson hawk
the people under the stairs
queen of the damned
summer school
hudson hawk
the people under the stairs
queen of the damned
summer school
QUOTE (biff @ Aug 13 2008, 10:13 AM)
Benny & Joon got good reviews, didn't it? cuz i loved that one too.
I think you may be right... I just looked it up on RottenTomatoes -- it's got an 80% positive rating. (I guess the reviews of it that I was reading when it first came out were in the minority.)
Oh man, I loved that one.
I think you may be right... I just looked it up on RottenTomatoes -- it's got an 80% positive rating. (I guess the reviews of it that I was reading when it first came out were in the minority.)
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Oh man, I loved that one.
i'm glad it got an 80%. 
i really liked The People Under The Stairs too... & i didn't expect to at all.
i really liked The People Under The Stairs too... & i didn't expect to at all.
Benny & Joon is a classic.
I seriously need to see The People Under the Stairs again. I only saw it once as a kid and all I remember is a guy running through a house in a leather suit.
I seriously need to see The People Under the Stairs again. I only saw it once as a kid and all I remember is a guy running through a house in a leather suit.
i don't remember it all that well either. i just remember i liked it. 
| QUOTE (Cronny @ Aug 13 2008, 03:41 PM) |
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oh god that movie was funny!
one of my favorites
I also like the movie toys
the truman show got a lot of negativity for such a great movie, but I don't know if it would be considered "a bad movie"
OH Grindhouse was a movie I REALLY liked and I am shocked at how much people disliked it
I was expecting it to be a lot bigger than it was
I don't understand people
Dune
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Scanners
All I can think of at the moment.
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Scanners
All I can think of at the moment.
| QUOTE (klimdeeni @ Aug 19 2008, 03:49 AM) |
| OH Grindhouse was a movie I REALLY liked and I am shocked at how much people disliked it I was expecting it to be a lot bigger than it was I don't understand people |
i know!
i loved that movie.
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| QUOTE (klimdeeni @ Aug 19 2008, 03:49 AM) |
| OH Grindhouse was a movie I REALLY liked and I am shocked at how much people disliked it I was expecting it to be a lot bigger than it was I don't understand people |
i know!
i loved that movie.me too!
i also loved dune, too.
know what movie i really liked that i'm sure isn't very high on any list? Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! 
i love it because Tura Satana totally rocked, back in her day. (& still does now) i love movies with tough chicks in em.
it was by Russ Meyer, so it was all big boobs, tough chicks, killing, & cars.
i love it because Tura Satana totally rocked, back in her day. (& still does now) i love movies with tough chicks in em.
it was by Russ Meyer, so it was all big boobs, tough chicks, killing, & cars.
| QUOTE (klimdeeni @ Aug 19 2008, 08:49 AM) |
| the truman show got a lot of negativity for such a great movie, but I don't know if it would be considered "a bad movie" |
I thought that one was brilliant, myself.
Another "guilty pleasure" one for me is Mouse Hunt, about these two brothers who inherit a big, old house from their dad; there's a single mouse in it that they keep trying to get rid of but that keeps outsmarting them. Some pretty over-the-top slapstick, but I love the guys who play the brothers -- Nathan Lane of The Birdcage and Brit comic Lee Evans of Funny Bones -- and Christopher Walken has a hysterical cameo as an exterminator.
it's good to know I'm not alone in My taste of movies 
| QUOTE (biff @ Aug 19 2008, 07:50 PM) |
| know what movie i really liked that i'm sure isn't very high on any list? Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! |
I love that movie as well, just good, violent fun.
YaY! i'm glad it's not just me.
i mainly watched it in the first place cuz i always liked the band 'Faster Pussycat'.
i never heard of Mouse Hunt, but it sounds like one i'd like.
i mainly watched it in the first place cuz i always liked the band 'Faster Pussycat'.
i never heard of Mouse Hunt, but it sounds like one i'd like.
anyone for plan 9 from outer space?
i've never seen that one. (i suck!) i wonder if it's in galoot's 50 Horror Classics collection?
i wonder if it's in galoot's 50 Horror Classics collection?
Attack of the Puppet People
Die! Monster Die!
One of my favorite movies, Fear and Loathing has quickly become a modern classic, but you should've seen how the critics wiped their asses with it when it was initially released back in '98. (Sheesh! Has it been ten years?) Since I wasn't internet savvy yet, I actually found out about it by hearing a critic trash it on NPR in my car. (I didn't even know who Hunter Thompson was! All I cared about was that it was a new Gilliam film, and I didn't care how "bad" it was.)
Die! Monster Die!
One of my favorite movies, Fear and Loathing has quickly become a modern classic, but you should've seen how the critics wiped their asses with it when it was initially released back in '98. (Sheesh! Has it been ten years?) Since I wasn't internet savvy yet, I actually found out about it by hearing a critic trash it on NPR in my car. (I didn't even know who Hunter Thompson was! All I cared about was that it was a new Gilliam film, and I didn't care how "bad" it was.)
wasn't Johnny Depp in that one? i saw parts of it, & thought it was pretty good. i love when Johnny plays odd characters like that.
He was!
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It was fun to finally get to see the real deal a couple of years ago, after having seen sort of the "making of" Plan 9 in the bio-pic film Ed Wood many, many times before. ("This is it... this is the one I'll be remembered for!" -- indeed it is, Eddie.)
i loved Ed Wood. 
| QUOTE (Machohervey @ Sep 5 2008, 08:20 PM) |
| One of my favorite movies, Fear and Loathing has quickly become a modern classic, but you should've seen how the critics wiped their asses with it when it was initially released back in '98. (Sheesh! Has it been ten years?) Since I wasn't internet savvy yet, I actually found out about it by hearing a critic trash it on NPR in my car. (I didn't even know who Hunter Thompson was! All I cared about was that it was a new Gilliam film, and I didn't care how "bad" it was.) |
Really? I had no idea that was ever considered a 'bad' movie!! Of course I was too young to see it when it came out, but I have never heard anyone speak badly of that movie. I made a thread about it on another board the other day and it got tons of love... definitely a cult classic film. Oh and one of my personal favorites too
I'm not gonna lie, I like Waterworld. I know its stupid, but its entertaining to me! haha
I was also really entertained by You Got Served
galoot has seen Waterworld at least 1000 times. seriously. he watches it every time it's on. 
when i'm chichin through the guide on satellite & i see it on somewhere, i always chich away as fast as i can, cuz i know if he sees it's on, he's gonna have to watch it again.
when i'm chichin through the guide on satellite & i see it on somewhere, i always chich away as fast as i can, cuz i know if he sees it's on, he's gonna have to watch it again.