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Post by Pisces on Mar 30, 2012 7:14:49 GMT -5
We've all got them: those movies that we KNOW are bad, but we love them anyway. You know, the movies that you watch over and over, and when you are caught in the act by friends or family, you usually hear something like "I can't believe you're watching that again," or "THAT movie? UGH!" So... what movies are your guilty pleasures... and why?  (Any movie - not just a Cillian movie) |
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Post by The Phantom Lady on Mar 31, 2012 9:57:42 GMT -5
For me it's Disney movies, movies like Winnie The Pooh, The Lion King and Bolt... and I know it's a TV show but Hannah Montana and ICarly ... I love watching those but I wouldn't be caught dead doing it
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Post by wikkleshamrocks on Mar 31, 2012 13:43:22 GMT -5
Xanadu ;D
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Post by Zombiekitten on Apr 1, 2012 4:40:36 GMT -5
Nice thread !! ;D Oh yeah, I have some guilty pleasures.  For me it's these "Naked Gun" comedies with Leslie Nielsen. I totally love that crazy, non-sense humor LOL And I also love hilarious parodies like "Spaceballs" or "Scary Movie" |
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Post by wikkleshamrocks on Apr 1, 2012 9:20:51 GMT -5
Yeah they are really daft! Do you like Steve Martin stuff too? I find American humour hard to digest TBH but I love English Canadian humour they are proper nut balls ;D I like Monty Python/Spike Milligan/Tommy Cooper/Eddie Izzard stuff also Irish and British humour does it for me but that's prolly because I am of that side of the pond. |
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Post by Pisces on Apr 1, 2012 9:46:19 GMT -5
LOL- we have that sort of humor on our side of the pond as well, Shamrocks! My favorite comedy show, The Whitest Kids U Know, takes its inspiration from Monty Python. The head writer and actor, Trevor Moore (who I find completely hilarious and dreamy) said that he most admired John Cleese growing up - and I can always see that direct influence in his comedy. There is a wide variety of American humor... you should check out more of it!  My guilty pleasures movie-wise tend to be either silly stuff like Zombie said, or bad horror movies. LOL. Kung Fu Hustle makes me double over laughing.  And I always find myself watching Skeleton Key, which I know is a so-so spooky movie. |
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Post by Zombiekitten on Apr 1, 2012 10:10:48 GMT -5
Yeah they are really daft! Do you like Steve Martin stuff too? Yeah! I quite like Steve Martin! I remember liking "Housesitter" and "Man with two brains" (I find him even quite sweet... LOL  ) But not the newer comedies... I really am quite disappointed by many nowadays' US comedies. I am a fan of these classic comedies including the "National Lampoon" familiy. LOOOOL I love them. ;D Monty Python: I LOVE THEM !!! "Live of Brian" for expl is hilarious. ;D @ Pisces: Yeah !! I loved Skeleton Key too !!! I love movies with a twisting end. That leads me to another Guilty Pleasure: "The Village" It's quite a silly, constructed thing, if you think about it, but as I watched it the first time I quite liked it. But it's the only movie of Shymalan I like.... The other ones are even more... forced and absurd regarding the story... |
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Post by bunnie24 on Apr 1, 2012 10:15:11 GMT -5
Uhm...guilty pleasures...*giggles* umm...I definitely like 16 and Pregnant--it just feels so wrong to watch it but I can't look away. lol I also like watching Thirteen Ghosts, my mom can't stand it cause it's so gory, but I love it...and I don't know why; I'm more of a psychological thriller person myself |
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Post by The Phantom Lady on Apr 1, 2012 10:28:44 GMT -5
^Oh! I NEED to watch 13 Ghosts again, it was the first horror movie I watched when I was 13... I still can't believe they showed it to us kids at the local movie theatre back then but I loved it! my horror addiction got a real kickstart then I still remember some of the scenes vividly and I haven't seen it since
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Post by wikkleshamrocks on Apr 1, 2012 13:23:39 GMT -5
National Lampoon LOOOOL I love them. ;D OMG yeah... Porky's etc! Proper retro silly stuff... far superior to modern comedies like American Pie... I can't watch that film it's so effin boring! ;D White Chicks and Sorority Boys are two great American comedies though, I've watched them dozens of times and laugh every time. Original Tron & Logan's Run are brill too! Good ol' smile at them! ;D |
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Post by Kizuna on Apr 15, 2012 18:11:48 GMT -5
The Room. It is badly acted, badly produced, badly written, and yet it is amazing.
I also have Glee as a bit of a guilty pleasure. While I'm not a huge fan of the show's over reliance on Autotune, recycling too many cookie-cutter pop songs, and some of Ryan Murphy's douchey attitude, I do like the show.
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Post by wikkleshamrocks on Apr 16, 2012 9:48:47 GMT -5
Kizuna "Cookie cutter pop songs" ;D love that phrase!!!
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Post by Zombiekitten on Apr 16, 2012 12:01:23 GMT -5
The Room. It is badly acted, badly produced, badly written, and yet it is amazing. OMG The ROOM !!! LOL I never actually watched it. I only came across it through the Nostalgia Critic (who is also kind of a quilty pleasure to me. I love his totally over exaltet ranting about bad movies) But that Tommy Wiseau guy.... OMFG he's so disgusting, it's funny LOL |
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Post by Jinx on Apr 17, 2012 20:46:04 GMT -5
Well, I usually don't speak about that because the only people who know about my passion for these movies think I'm crazy.
When I was a child, I used to be scared sh*tless by the witch in the Disney movie Snow White and the 7 dwarves. I mean, that witch was haunting me, I had nightmares and all.
The only thing that could make me feel better was watching old time, black and white or color, horror movies. Hammer movies, especialy Terence Fisher's.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, the man who could cheat death, the curse of the werewolf, Frankenstein ones (Revenge of Frankenstein, Evil of Frankenstein, Frankenstein must be destroyed, even Frankenstein and the monster from Hell), Dracula (Prince of Darkness, Dracula has tisen from the grave, taste the blood of Dracula...). Heck, you name it, I've seen them all between the age of 4 and 7.
I find strange comfort in them. As if Christopher Lee's face covered with blood was the nicest memory from my childhood. LOL !
Now nobody wants to watch them with me. They think it's "cheesy" and "old" and "stupid" but there is so much to be learnt from that kind of movies.
Anyway, I'm addicted to these movies. Seeing Bella Lugosi struggle with a plastic squid in a puddle of mud is just too good, normal people can't handle it ;D
Sometimes I feel a bit like Neil's friends in Watching the Detectives...
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Post by Pisces on Apr 21, 2012 14:37:31 GMT -5
Jinx, I would watch movies with you all day and night! I have such an affection for really old black and white horror movies. Even going back to the silent ones, like The Cabinet of Doctor Caliguri, The Man Who Laughs, etc. White Zombie (my absolute fave role for Bela Lugosi) is too cool, too. And yeah, any of the Hammer films! I am the only person I know who thinks Halloween is celebrated not only on October 31 but for the entire MONTH of October. I will watch a different old scary movie every single night of that month. I have another guilty pleasure and I know no one here will know about it, but it's a movie from 1975 called Aloha, Bobby and Rose. It's the very first movie I can remember watching. My parents didn't take me to see childrens' movies; they took me and my brother to whatever they wanted to see. Maybe they figured we'd fall asleep anyway, lol. My mom had a crush on Paul LeMat after American Graffiti, so I got to see Aloha, which I believe bombed back then, but it really lodged in my mind. It was violent; there is a graphic car accident in it, and the main character is shot in slo-mo at the end. But there was a lot of great music in it! My first 45 rpm record single was Benny and the Jets by Elton John, and I wanted it because I had seen it in this movie. Used to play it on my little kiddie record player and think about the movie.... So now that I have dated myself horribly with this little recollection, I will toddle off to consume some Geritol and pluck a few more gray hairs... and leave you with the intro: |
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(Any movie - not just a Cillian movie)
For me it's these "Naked Gun" comedies with Leslie Nielsen. I totally love that crazy, non-sense humor LOL
And I always find myself watching Skeleton Key, which I know is a so-so spooky movie.
) But not the newer comedies... 
