Guilty pleasures
J Ramsay
My apologies if this topic has been already been explored at length,
but I am new to the group.
My question is...what films do you enjoy again and again, even though
they received lukewarm (at best) reviews, and a limited release.
In other words, they are neither classics nor critically acclaimed, but
you really, really love them anyway as a guilty pleasure.
My 3 candidates are...
I Walk the Line Gregory Peck and Tuesday Weld in truly fine
performances.
Meatballs Warm, funny, touching and sweet.
Sweetheart's Dance Don Johnson and Susan Sarandon at their best.
Anyone have other guilty pleasures I might have missed?
Allan Gorochow
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The Godzilla movies. I know it's a guy in a suit walking through some
firecrackers.
I know the Tokyo being destroyed is a lousy scale model with phoney
little cars and people. I know the acting is atrocious and it is not
all the fault of the bad dubbing . I know poor Raymond Burr must have
really needed the money. Yet I am compelled to stick with it about
forty minutes everytime it's on.
And the liitle kid Godzilla ,he just breaks my heart.
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David Scott
> My question is...what films do you enjoy again and again, even though
> they received lukewarm (at best) reviews, and a limited release.
>
> In other words, they are neither classics nor critically acclaimed, but
> you really, really love them anyway as a guilty pleasure.
>
> Anyone have other guilty pleasures I might have missed?
Dark Passage, 1947, Bogie and Bacall. Full to the brim wth unlikely
coincidences, but it has some fun character-parts and I just love the
whole 1940's feel that this movie has. Gotta love that plastic-surgeon!
And the soundtrack - spooky, wacky swing music!
...gotta go. Have to see it again...
David
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On Fri, 25 Jul 1997 18:48:06 +1200, frog...@es.co.nz (David Scott)
wrote:
Hi,
I'm new to this group -- but there are some old movies I love, and
could watch over and over (and do as I have some on video)...
First off, are any of you Gary Cooper fans? I like some of his
not-so-favorably-reviewed movies, possibly due to my age when
these were on regular TV.
Back when I was a teenager (NOT as long
ago as it might seem!) I loved two great movies with Gary Cooper
(who, BTW, is my all-time favorite actor!) Anyhow, these two movies
made big impressions on me back then:
LOVE IN THE AFTERNOON With Cooper and Audrey Hepburn, based on an
original French movie about an older playboy who succumbs to the
charms of a lovely Parisian girl, falls in love for the first time.
It might seem rather naive, almost corny by today's standards, but I
have it in my collection, and occasionally watch it again.
TEN NORTH FREDERICK Gary Cooper plays the part of a reluctant
politician, who is manipulated into politics by his domineering wife.
He is really a nice guy, and you KNOW this isn't going to qualify
him to win any elections! Eventually, as he becomes more and
more miserable, he finds himself turning to his college-age
daughter's girlfriend -- and they have a beautiful, but brief love
affair. Sad, sad ending -- a real tear-jerker! [Be sure to have a
hanky if you watch this one!]
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Also, I am a writer and I guess 'Coop' influenced my choice
of character traits, the gentleman-gallantry and his looks!
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Lknafc
Now here's a *real* guilty pleasure:
Bless the Beasts and Children
I have to admit I *love* this movie, althought most everyone else I know
thinks I'm nuts. The editing is terrific and the end always makes me cry.
And yes, I'm embarrassed to admit this!
Linda Kay
Diana1138
Linda Kay admitted:
I wasn't going to admit this but...I really like Encino Man.
-diana
JMAXSTEIN
A Gary Cooper movie that I really enjoy and was a critical and box office
failure when it was released is "The Cowboy and the Lady".
Jeff Downs
Opencity
My guilty pleasure: "The Purple Taxi" (an obscure Irish-French-Italian
co-production that is so silly, but so enjoyable...to me, at least).
Toltestmg
I could watch REALITY BITES over and over, and I don't know why it appeals
to me so much.
Michelle Gardner
Michael O'Brien,,,
Lust for a vampire. I know this is considered one of Hammer's worst
movies, but I have it on tape and I can't watch it enough times. Find out
the meaning of the phrase "the Hammer bosom." Its a good movie to watch
when I'm reading a book.
Anything by Jess Franco, especially Female Vampyre or anything else
starring lina Romay, such as Portrait of Doriana Grey or Lorna L'exorcist.
Jose Larraz's "Vampyres."
--
Michael O'Brien, mik...@charger.newhaven.edu
University of New Haven
106 Brownell St., New Haven, CT 06511
You have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
JimNeibaur
I am reading through these guilty pleasures and seeing movies that I have
always thought were genuinely good films -- Bless Beasts? Reality Bites??
geez, what is wrong with those?
I am almost ashamed to admit that my guilty pleasures include such
formidable acting talent as Elvis Presley, Rowdy Roddy Piper, Buster
Crabbe, and Hopalong Cassidy
I don't have a copy of Gone With The Wind among my thousands of videos and
films (8mm, Super 8, 16mm), but do have The Babe Ruth Story, Zombies on
Broadway, and most of the Three Stooges shorts featuring Joe Besser.
Guilty? Downright shameful!!
JimN
David Hines
I am ashamed to admit that I find the 1987 movie _Just One of the Guys_,
starring Joyce Hyser and Clayton Rohner, to be funny as hell,
mostly because of the protagonist's younger brother.
I'm also ashamed to admit that I have watched, in its entirety,
_A Gnome Named Gnorm_. I don't count that movie as a guilty
pleasure, though, although sitting through it may qualify as a
sign of acute masochism on my part.
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vegas john
> but I am new to the group.
>
> they received lukewarm (at best) reviews, and a limited release.
>
> In other words, they are neither classics nor critically acclaimed, but
> you really, really love them anyway as a guilty pleasure.
>
>
> I Walk the Line Gregory Peck and Tuesday Weld in truly fine
> performances.
>
> Meatballs Warm, funny, touching and sweet.
>
> Sweetheart's Dance Don Johnson and Susan Sarandon at their best.
>
>> I love the movie "Weird Science" i saw it like 8 times.
>> and a movie called "Tapeheads" with Tim Robins.this was a
>> real sleeper.
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Altho I very much like TEN NORTH FREDERICK, I think THE FOUNTAINHEAD far
surpasses any of his films. Talk about the strong, silent type....wow.
Mandy99
JimNeibaur
Gary Cooper was in no way a guilty pleasure -- his low keyed style was
perfect for the parts in which he played.
One Coop film that is rarely discussed is SOULS AT SEA (Paramount, 1937)
in which he played opposite George Raft.
"When Cooper and Raft had a scene outside a cigar store it looked like the
wooden indian was overacting"
--George Burns
JimN
Terry Ballard
For me, the two ultimate guilty pleasures movies are Hollywood
Boulevard and Eskimo Nell. The first was a sendup of Roger Corman films
done by Corman's team. The second was a "how the film got made" of a porno
film - it stars Christopher Timothy of TV's James Herriot fame, playing a
penguin lover who got a job as a scriptwriter because he was the only one
around who could complete a sentence.
Terry Ballard
Jesse Skeen
My favorite guilty pleasures are porno movies- the old ones that were
made for theaters; the new ones aren't made as film prints anymore, only
video. The old stuff has memorable dialogue and great music! Also any bad
pop-music related movie, like Breakin' or Cool as Ice, and 80's comedies
like Porky's, Hot Moves, Screwballs and others.
mth...@geocities.com
> > My question is...what films do you enjoy again and again, even though
> > they received lukewarm (at best) reviews, and a limited release.
I've mentioned this film before, and I'll mention it again. I don't care
what anybody else says: 1996's "Independence Day" is one of my all time
favorite movies. Science fiction has always been my favorite genre, the
action scenes are some of the most exciting I have ever seen, and David
Arnold deserved the Oscar for Best Score IMHO. The film could have been
less than 2 hours long, but fortunately it was released at 145 minutes (I
like longer movies, just as long as it is entertaining, and the Special
Edition laserdisc (which I definitely plan to see), due this November,
will be near 3 hours long!), it could have had the aliens show up and
attack within the first 15 minutes (I also like movies that take a while
for the plot to kick in), it could have been a semi-comedy like "The
Fifth Element" but it takes itself seriously (Some reviewers complain ID4
takes itself seriously, but that's one of my favorite qualities about the
movie). So what if it has plot holes (most of them I can overlook, but
some really bug me), so what if it's not "intelligent filmmaking" (It's
an action picture; what do you expect? ...although the reviews do imply
it's dumber than it actually is), and so what if it's not very original
(The aliens are supposed to be ugly and evil and war-like and fly in
flying saucers; it's an alien invasion movie!); it's fun, entertaining,
and I feel I get my money's worth. Some of the reviews are pretty bad,
sometimes I feel I am seeing a completely different film, and I really
feel insulted when people call me a moron because I liked the movie...and
I REALLY hate it when I am called an idiot because I simply went to SEE
the movie! A while ago, some fucking stupid moron posted "People flocked
to see ID4, so they are all idiots and if Hitler were alive they would
support him..." So this guy is implying that all the people who went to
see the movie, except the poster, are all idiots, even those who hated
it? Huh? And why is this restricted only to "Independence Day"? I don't
like to be criticized because I went to see a movie somebody did not
like. (Sorry, just had to let off some steam there.) I try not to watch
the movie in front of an audience, because I feel they will start
laughing at some of the non-comic relief moments. I guess that qualifies
as a "guilty pleasure". Sorry for the long post, but I feel this movie is
definitely NOT crap and feel it is every bit as good as "Contact".