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Favorite guilty-pleasure movies

You have to love Independence Day. If you don't, I'll report you to the UnAmerican Activities Committee!

I can justify most of the unpopular movies that I love. The only one I can't is Super Mario Bros. That movie is just bizarre! It takes the round peg of the weirdass video game imagery and then mutilates it beyond all recognition until it fits into the square hole of a live action movie.
 
Shurik said:
I also like Emmerich's disaster porn, 2012 is the best of them. Armageddon is great too, because everyone looks like they are having fun filming it, despite a completely ridiculous story.
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Armageddon was Michael Bay, not Emmerich (he was busy doing Godzilla at that time).
 
You forgot 'homoerotic.' Commando had it all.
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They even had a Freddy Mercury in chainmail:
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Last time I've seen this movie with a bunch of friends, we started to sing "Another one bites the dust" after the "Let off some steam, Bennet" line.

Commando also has the best one-liners in any Arnie movie.
 
auntiehill said:
Clue.

Yes, it's dumb as hell, but the cast was great and some of the lines still make me laugh.
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Blasphemy! That movie is surprisingly known and loved by me and more people than you'd expect in my circle of 30-something year old friends.

Mine would be Bad Boys. (Just the first one though--that was awesome, while the second one sucked ass.)
 
doubleohfive said:
Hmm... well, in that case ... I'd have to say The Avengers.
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I assume you mean the 1998 film with Ralph Fiennes and Uma Thurman based on the classic British TV series, not the Marvel Comics Avengers movie scheduled for release in 2012. (Unless you have precognitive powers.)

For me, that travesty isn't a guilty pleasure. It's just plain bad.

I think it was the hat. Some men can pull off wearing a bowler, and some can’t.
 
UHF is......epic. And I'm not ashamed to admit it.

Also, Star Trek: The Motion Picture.
 
Garak said:
Also, Star Trek: The Motion Picture.
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It should be considered a guilty pleasure, but a poll in the Star Trek movies forum certainly doesn't make it look like one. How people could consider it superior to "Star Trek: First Contact", "Star Trek: The Voyage Home", or even "Star Trek" 2009 is beyond me.
 
Judging from prevailing opinion, Alexander. To my eyes, it looks like a bold effort to actually dramatize an incredible life with some sort of appreciation of the big picture. It's big failing is the determination to write Alexander as a cautionary tale of hubris leading to a fall, except there isn't actually a fall. Alexander just died.
 
scotpens said:
doubleohfive said:
Hmm... well, in that case ... I'd have to say The Avengers.
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I assume you mean the 1998 film with Ralph Fiennes and Uma Thurman based on the classic British TV series, not the Marvel Comics Avengers movie scheduled for release in 2012. (Unless you have precognitive powers.)

For me, that travesty isn't a guilty pleasure. It's just plain bad.

I think it was the hat. Some men can pull off wearing a bowler, and some can’t.
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No, I'm talking about The Avengers based on the British tv show. And I'm well aware of how bad it is. That does not, however preclude the possibility that it has some worthwhile qualities that I find enjoyable and interesting, from a filmmaking perspective.
 
From Dusk Till Dawn. Cheesy/cool lines, schlock, Salma Hayek grooving out in a skimpy bikini....

Escape From LA. Not up to par sequel. But it's Snake, even though it's Snake-lite.

Judge Dredd. Only because I've been such a fan of 2000AD since the early 80's and do enjoy some of the homages and the look of Mega-City One.
 
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