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Author Topic: Guilty Pleasure Movies (2014 edition) Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 02-25-2014 12:52 PM                        We haven't done this in a long time and it's always an interesting subject. Name some movies that are your favorites, even though they were critical or commercial bombs. Movies that you know in your heart aren't really that great but dammit, you enjoy 'em and that's what counts. Movies you pull out once in a while just because YOU like 'em and the hell with what everyone else thinks. One of mine (which I just watched last night) was "Gator" from 1976. This was when Burt Reynolds was in his prime "good ol' boy" moviemaking days. The movie is a sequel to "White Lightning," which I've never seen but this one stands on its own. Burt Reynolds plays a moonshiner who is just out of prison and it coerced by the feds into working to gather evidence against an old friend of his who is running a racketeering operation. Laruen Hutton plays a TV reporter who becomes Burt's love interest, Jack Weston is a federal officer from New York who gets in trouble trying to "fit in" in Georgia, and Alice Ghostley is a crazy cat lady who has the "keys" to all the evidence needed. The best part of the movie is the 'bad guy,' played by Jerry Reed who is one of the best movie villains ever. He is truly sinister. There is also a hilarious chase scene at the beginning of the movie featuring about 10 boats and a helicopter. The sad thing about this is, it is a "Scope" movie but is only available as a 1.33:1 TV-styled cropped version. It looks like crap. But, it wasn't a huge hit and the critics hated it, so it'll probably never come out in its proper format (until Burt Reynolds dies, maybe). This movie currently has a 0% rating on Rotten Tomatoes but dad-gummit, I just really enjoy it. I would give it a 3.5 out of 5 stars.  |  IP: Logged Victor Liorentas Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 800 From: london ontario canada Registered: May 2009 posted 02-25-2014 01:34 PM                     Two Clint Eastwood movies which always seem to be off the radar but I think are great. The Eiger Sanction 1975 Thunderbolt and Lightfoot 1974 Devils Advocate 1997 mainly because I love Al Pacino's over the top performance and I just love the movie. Murder By Death 1976 Great cast and plenty of funny stuff in it especially Peter Falk.  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 02-25-2014 04:07 PM                     You know a movie is a guilty pleasure if you're embarrassed or at least feel like you have to explain yourself if someone spots a particularly strange or bad movie on your shelf. I mentioned these movies in the last thread: Buckaroo Banzai The Toxic Avenger Team America: World Police Mystery Men Flash Gordon Heavy Metal Some others that came to mind, some of which I actually own on DVD or Blu-ray (or both): Road House Big Trouble In Little China The Long Kiss Goodnight The Ice Harvest (RIP Harold Ramis) Wild Things The Mummy Commando The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension fits perfectly into this "guilty pleasures" list. It's one of the bigger cult movies of the 80's. On one level it's very odd and stupid. Watching it now, 30 years after its 1984 release only increases the level of odd and stupid intensity. Yet somehow the movie manages to work because all involved fearlessly embrace the concept, right down to the characters marching in Sepulveda Dam for the end credits (and its catchy, weird music). The movie did have a good, if odd, storyline and its effects were pretty good & unique especially for 1980's standards. Peter Weller was good in the lead role, but John Lithgow stole just about every scene he inhabited. Christopher Lloyd was "John Bigboote" before he become "Dr. Emmett Brown." Mystery Men and Big Trouble In Little China worked on some of the odd levels as Buckaroo Banzai, although both were more conventional movies. The end title music for Big Trouble In Little China makes my skin crawl. The DVD has a music video of it, which would be a good method of torture on unsuspecting viewers. Road House is one of those it's so bad it's good movies. Its dated, late 80's shit-kicker fashions makes it even more campy. Team America: World Police has to be one of the most fearlessly, deliberately offensive movies ever made. Its "unrated" version went for broke in its love scene involving anatomically inert puppets.  |  IP: Logged Robert E. Allen Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1078 From: Checotah, Oklahoma Registered: Jul 2002 posted 02-25-2014 05:45 PM                     "Facing The Giants" 2007. I'm running it in my theatre now.  |  IP: Logged Frank Cox Film God Posts: 2234 From: Melville Saskatchewan Canada Registered: Apr 2011 posted 02-25-2014 06:07 PM                        Tank Girl  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 02-25-2014 06:37 PM                        Pretty much any of the anti-communist propaganda B-movies made during the early '50s by writers, directors, actors and technicians who were either trying to get themselves off the blacklist, or avoid getting on to it. Most of them are so low budget, made so quickly and half-heartedly and so stereotype-laden that I find them hilariously funny. I was a Communist for the FBI, Big Jim McLain (in which John Wayne literally kicks a commie spy's ass in a fight scene at the end) and The Red Menace are probably the classics of the genre. There are one or two that actually aren't that bad: The Woman on Pier 13 has some nice noir-ish photography, and Five Steps to Danger a halfway decent plot (although the basic premise is shamelessly ripped off from Detour). But most tick the "unintentionally funny" box with a great big magic marker. The story is basically the same in all of them: a nice-but-dim hero is recruited by a glamorous commie blonde, is enticed and/or blackmailed into various un-American activities, sees the error of his ways, tries to get out and narrowly escapes a sticky end at the hand of the commie ringleader, who is usually overweight, has bad teeth, greasy hair and a vaguely European accent. Cliche-laden aviation disaster movies from the '70s (the genre that Airplane parodied, much of which was made for TV), usually called something like Panic on Flight 123, can also be quite fun.  |  IP: Logged Mark Ogden Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 943 From: Little Falls, N.J. Registered: Jun 99 posted 02-25-2014 06:45 PM                     To my earlier reply of the original 1967 Casino Royale, I’d have to add Mike Judge’s 2006 sci-fi comedy Idiocracy, which played only in a handful of theaters for a few weeks before being relegated to DVD and Comedy Central. For those who haven’t seen it, the premise is that an Army private and a hooker are involved in an experiment in suspended animation that suffers a budget cut right after it begins. After being forgotten by the Army they don’t wake up for another 500 years, into an America that is being run by a sports drink company, where Starbucks sells handjobs, Wal-Mart sells law degrees, the most popular TV show consists of one guy getting repeatedly kicked in the balls, and they are the smartest people alive. It’s about as low-brow as it sounds, but it's also pretty inventive and convulsively funny, and always good for a re-watch.  |  IP: Logged Donald Brown Expert Film Handler Posts: 131 From: Lincoln, DE Registered: Sep 2009 posted 02-25-2014 07:10 PM                     Mike: My dad took me to see Gator at the old Hyannis Theater on Cape Cod. To this day, I recall being doubled over in my seat in tears of laughter every time some misfortune befell one of Burt's adversaries, a character named Bones! I never knew the actor's name, but he was the perfect hapless villain! Don Brown  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 02-25-2014 07:36 PM                        Yep, Bones was hilarious but scary! (Why do they call you Bones? "Cause I tell 'em to.") His name was William Engesser.  |  IP: Logged Dennis Benjamin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1445 From: Denton, MD Registered: Feb 2002 posted 02-25-2014 08:40 PM                        Hawk the Slayer Krull Time Bandits  |  IP: Logged Clint Koch Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1435 From: San Luis Obispo, CA, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 02-25-2014 10:01 PM                     The Burbs Stargate The Lost Boys Raising Arizona The Wrong Guys  |  IP: Logged Steve Matz Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 672 From: Billings, Montana, USA Registered: Sep 2003 posted 02-26-2014 05:05 AM                     FADE TO BLACK HOTRODS TO HELL  |  IP: Logged Mark Lensenmayer Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1605 From: Upper Arlington, OH Registered: Sep 1999 posted 02-26-2014 06:45 AM                     The Fountainhead Infra-Man Fire Sale  |  IP: Logged Sam Graham AKA: "The Evil Sam Graham". Wackiness ensues. Posts: 1431 From: Waukee, IA Registered: Dec 2004 posted 02-26-2014 10:14 AM                        quote: Clint Koch The Lost Boys No, no, no. That can't be anybody's guilty pleasure. That's a damn eighties classic right there. My ultimate guilty pleasure is "Sons of Provo", a Mormon-genre mockumentary about a boy band. If you know the culture, it's hilarious. And it has one of the more creative DVD menu structures, where the star stands among the buttons and, in character, explains what they do. The longer you sit there and don't make a choice, the more nervous he gets. In one of the sub-menus, he'll start bugging you to choose something because he has a really hot date at Arctic Circle to get to. Eventually, he walks out of the shot and the sequence repeats. The DVD also has a "commentary on the commentary" feature, where the stars do a commentary over, and about, their own movie commentary. It's a joke that gets old fast and they bail about ten minutes in after pointing this out, but hey...why not. It's just stupid, stupid funny. About the dumbest thing you will ever see.  |  IP: Logged Mike Peterson Film Handler Posts: 11 From: Beacon Falls, CT , USA Registered: Nov 2006 posted 02-26-2014 11:28 AM                        Cliffhanger Demolition Man Robin Hood - Men in Tights The Princess Bride The Rock (Guess I have a thing for Sly and Carey Elwes)  |  IP: Logged

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