Somewhat inspired by an old list of Lindsay Ellis's:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_qHCpTiA5w
What would people consider their 'guilty pleasures of shame'? Why do you love them so?
By 'guilty pleasures' I don't don't movies/books/shows that are watched 'ironically' because they're bad. More the stuff you love in spite of knowing how bad they are?
Mine would include:
-The initial three Underworld movies.
I loved the mythology for this series, and I thought Lucian and Victor were great characters. I think I like it more for the world it created and the potential it offered, more than its actual execution on screen. It says something that I preferred Greg Cox novelisations over the actual movies.
- The Nightmare on Elm Street sequels
I liked how they all tried to do something a little different (as opposed to series like Friday the 13th and Halloween), and there seemed to be a fair amount of imagination put into each of them. With the possible exception of 'Freddy's Dead' and the remake, I could at least give you something I found genuinely impressive in each of them. It also never fell into the trap of having entire casts of unlikeable Freddy's Fodder. The charcaters weren't exactly deep, but you never wished they'd just hurry up and die.
-Planet of the Apes sequels.
Kind of similar to the above - they each offered something different. I liked how the entire series does feel like a complete and somewhat epic story, even if we know that every sequal was just a spur-of-the-moment attempted cash-grab. It had great actors and some interesting ideas. I haven't seen the movie-field versions of the TV series, so I can't really comment on those.
-Fantasy Island.
Ooooh boy. Except for the pilot movie (which I think is genuinely decent for the most part), the best I can offer for this is that it's the television equivilant of comfort food. I watched it mostly for the back-and-forth between Roarke and Tattoo...and for when Roddy McDowell did his few appearances as fucking Satan - complete with red skin, pointy ears, stop-motion flower rotting powers, and little horns.
Apologies if this is meant to be in another forum.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_qHCpTiA5w
What would people consider their 'guilty pleasures of shame'? Why do you love them so?
By 'guilty pleasures' I don't don't movies/books/shows that are watched 'ironically' because they're bad. More the stuff you love in spite of knowing how bad they are?
Mine would include:
-The initial three Underworld movies.
I loved the mythology for this series, and I thought Lucian and Victor were great characters. I think I like it more for the world it created and the potential it offered, more than its actual execution on screen. It says something that I preferred Greg Cox novelisations over the actual movies.
- The Nightmare on Elm Street sequels
I liked how they all tried to do something a little different (as opposed to series like Friday the 13th and Halloween), and there seemed to be a fair amount of imagination put into each of them. With the possible exception of 'Freddy's Dead' and the remake, I could at least give you something I found genuinely impressive in each of them. It also never fell into the trap of having entire casts of unlikeable Freddy's Fodder. The charcaters weren't exactly deep, but you never wished they'd just hurry up and die.
-Planet of the Apes sequels.
Kind of similar to the above - they each offered something different. I liked how the entire series does feel like a complete and somewhat epic story, even if we know that every sequal was just a spur-of-the-moment attempted cash-grab. It had great actors and some interesting ideas. I haven't seen the movie-field versions of the TV series, so I can't really comment on those.
-Fantasy Island.
Ooooh boy. Except for the pilot movie (which I think is genuinely decent for the most part), the best I can offer for this is that it's the television equivilant of comfort food. I watched it mostly for the back-and-forth between Roarke and Tattoo...and for when Roddy McDowell did his few appearances as fucking Satan - complete with red skin, pointy ears, stop-motion flower rotting powers, and little horns.
Apologies if this is meant to be in another forum.
