Guilty Pleasure Films

It's Pat

First Period

Girls will be Girls

I always thought this movie was cute and James Garner was still an attractive man.

LOVE White Chicks and one of my all time faves is....

I also like White Chicks very much, and think that they should or have already done a sequel.

Showgirls. I LOVE this campy ass movie.

Legally blonde.

Intersection with Richard Gere and Sharon Stone.

Scary Movie

"Bad Trip" - It is currently on Netflix. It's trash but it is hilarious!

R5 you beat me to it! It’s visually beautiful to watch, everything is so colorful & shiny & the main cast is so beautiful.

Deuce Bigalow.

They could never make a movie like this today.

Bad Santa

I know it was hated but I loved this movie as a kid and still watch it whenever it comes on.

I like some of the Scary Movie films. There's an awful lot of dreck included, but Chris Elliott as the Butler had some laugh-out-loud moments.

Eww, I tried watching White Chicks recently and had to abort about 20 minutes in. I can watch stupid movies, but this one crossed that line into "I'm losing IQ points here" territory.

My favorite stupid movie that never fails to make me laugh is Date Movie (a movie that could never get made today).

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation!

Galaxy Quest

Spoiled rich girls always makes me laugh...

Django Unchained, Single White Female, DreamGirls.

Cruel Intentions

FAME

Grease 2

R19??? None of those films warrant guilty pleasure status. They each have some artistic merit, especially Django.

Thank you.

Not Another Teen Movie

Hello?!?!

Jacqueline Susanne's Love Machine and Once is not Enough.

The Apple

OP & R25 White Chicks and Not Another Teen Movie are my top two. Throw Burlesque in there too.

Troop Beverly Hills and Big Business.

Can't Stop The Music

Used Cars

Albert Nobbs - hours of giggles.

I think R20 is a genuinely good film, not to be ashamed of.....

My pick is Dirty Grandpa. I watch at least once a year.

Serial Mom

That musical movie from the eighties, The Pirate Movie

The Transporter

The Money Pit

Ladyhawke

Dawson's 50-Load Weekend

bitches b slippin

The Toy with Richard Pryor and Jackie Gleason

National Lampoon's Vacation -remember WallyWorld?

White Chicks

Deuce Bigalow

Borat

Friday

Norbit

Zohan

Serial Mom as mentioned, Psycho Beach Party and The Associate

Good God, folks. Django Unchained, NL's Vacation, Heathers and Galaxy Quest are NOT guilty pleasures.

I enjoyed the absurdity of Idiocracy. Never imagined that it would turn out to be prophetic (the rise of Trump).

The Devil Wears Prada

Bride Wars

Legally Blonde

Despicable Me

The Lego Movie

R44 Ok Mr. Grumpity Grump, Why don't you take a deep breath and back away from the computer. With every fun thread there is always someone who wants to come on here to criticize others instead of just enjoying the thread for what it's worth. There are no wrong answers.

Guilty Pleasure covers a lot of territory since taste in movies is not something that is universal. Those movies may not be guilty pleasures for you but obviously are for others.

BTW I view "guilty pleasures" as things you probably shouldn't "enjoy" but for some reason, you do. What people should or should not enjoy is subjective as hell.

Shallow Hal

Fried Green Tomatoes…

Cloverfield

Saving Silverman, Due Date, Identity Thief

Just thought of a few more . . .

Maid of Honor

The First Wives Club

It's Complicated

R47, when I think of 'guilty pleasure movies/films,' I think of movies that I like but others disliked or hated for some reason. Maybe even movies that were universally panned or box office flops but you like them.

Bad Teacher

Jumping Jack Flash

Outrageous Fortune

Poison Ivy

Cosmo (R52)

My only point was that movie taste is subjective. I think we are basically saying the same thing.

At Long Last Love

The Cell

Halloween III: Season of the Witch

1941 (the 2½ hour long version)

Stuart Saves His Family

Waterworld

almost anything directed by Bert I. Gordon

and last but certainly not least, Exorcist II: The Heretic

MOTHER'S DAY

Dumb & Dumber

YES R57. Also:

Liar Liar

The Mask

Ok, pretty much any Jim Carrey film that you find enjoyable.

Dirty Dancing. Sister Act.

Superstar, Four Rooms, Not Another teen movie, Sugar and Spice

Staying Alive

Supergirl

Dickie Roberts

The Hot Chick

Poison Ivy (and it's porny sequels)

Unfriended

Jawbreaker

Mortal Kombat

Batman & Robin

Chopping Mall

Ernest Scared Stupid

The Craft

The General's Daughter

Jumanji

Congo

Sphere

Highway to Hell

Batteries not Included

This Island Earth

Dr. Tarr's Torture Dungeon/The Mansion of Madness

Identity Thief

So, I Married An Axe Murderer

90s camp classic, Jawbreaker

and in conjunction with Psycho Beach Party already mentioned...

Die Mommie Die! (also Charles Busch)

R65 yep, just that the other night. even though Rose McGowan is trash now.

^ just WATCHED that...

AIRPLANE

Precious

Office Space

Desperately Seeking Susan

Clue, and-or Murder By Death (which is a genuinely good movie, so I don't really feel guilty about it)

The Family Stone (sue me)

Flight Plan, with Jodie Foster. It makes NO sense, but I love IT!

John Travolta with a lot of ass shots. Underwear scene. Pick one.

scoundrel time.

Also YES to Serial Mom and Bad Teacher! Plus, Dude Where’s My Car.

Waterworld is very entertaining like a big B movie on steroids.

If you hadn't read the disastrous press about its making, you'd think it was a fun action movie.

Against All Odds. Not a great film, but I always get drawn into it and damn, Jeff Bridges looks amazing in it.

Mystery Men

Independence Day and Point Break (the original)

Glitter

Flashdance!

HALLMARK MOVIES!

I Spit On Your Grave

Hostel 2

Don't Go In The House

2,000 Maniacs

Can't Stop The Music

Mine would have to be Radioland Murders (I don't think anyone has seen that movie except me and my friend), A Chorus Line and The Glass House. Also the Pelican Brief always reels me in, although I don't feel guilty about that one so much.

Playing For Time. Really. It's a terrible film. Badly cast. Vanessa Redgrave is so grandly pathetic and wise and extra-terrestrial. She does not transcend to make us believe that she is a famous French singer. Bitch can't sing, or even fake sing. She sounds like she has four stomachs, ruminating. So the Holocaust true story movie is over then and we can dig in and enjoy life at the CAMP! Shirley Knight comes in with the German Shepherds and everyone's instrument goes out of tune. Miss Jane Pittman Alexander is so flutey she TOOTS when she speaks. Melanie Mayron would have to give it away before war time - now she gets some chocolate. Good deal. Some character discovers she has lesbian tendencies at CAMP! She's a radical JEW. They all have really nice Elaine from Seinfeld dresses and decent bunk beds. I will watch it and I will cry. But not when I'm supposed to. I wish that Fianaloula Finagenese would have said to her young liberator: "Here's Looking at You, Kid."

Instead we get her near death La Marseillaise. Sounds a lot like her Madame Butterfly.

Don't you love the Holocaust?

The Beautician and the Beast with Fran Drescher. I legit wstch it every songle time its on, I can't help it. To my credit it also stars Timothy Dalton who is RIDICULOUSLY gorgeous in this. I love the film, but no idea why.

Soul Plane (2004)

I thoroughly enjoy the following two in 3D:

PIRAHNA 3D (very tongue-in-cheek with some hysterically OTT gore)

A VERY HAROLD & KUMAR 3D CHRISTMAS (with more dick & dope jokes than you can shake a candy cane at)

The Brady Bunch Movie. The placement of the clean, wholesome Bradys in the grungy, dysfunctional, crude world of the 1990s just highlights the unhipness of the original TV series in a very humorous way. Having grown up on the reruns, the inside jokes and call-backs to memorable moments from the show always make me laugh, but in a "how the fuck did anyone ever think this banal shit was funny" ironic kind of way.

SEXTETTE. Speaking of gorgeous Timothy Dalton. I only watched this masterpiece in the last year! LOCKDOWN. It is mind boggling. I'm sure DL probably has had many discussions about it over the years. But this film was a revelation to me! It will NOT disappoint you.

The Heat

The War of the Roses

Camp pleasures

The Legend of Lylah Clare (1968) Dir: Robert Aldrich and starring Kim Novak as a woman being made into the likeness of film legend Lylah Clare who died on her wedding night. Shades of Vertigo, Sunset Boulevard and Fedora with a wonderfully bizarre final scene

The Big Cube (1969) Dir: Tito Davison with gowns by Tavilla and starring Lana Turner mixing LSD and sedatives. A combination Turner melodrama and an AIP exploitation film. Distributed by Warner Brothers

Huge fan of Charles Busch's films, especially "Die, Mommie, Die!"

" I always knew you were nothing but trash washed over the Canadian border!"

Death Becomes Her

Pink Flamingos

Troll 2

I have watched A Woman Scorned: The Betty Broderick Story - more times than I will admit.

And Small Sacrifices with Farrah Fawcett too. RIP. Hey John Shea! I want to go back in time to fuck you. TMI.

All the Jackass movies. They're just so happy to be idiots

All of the Final Destinations. Movie porn without the sex. So much fun.

OP here. You guys can post want u want, not a Nazi. But a guilty pleasure movie is one in which got terrible reviews, inherently stoner comedies, or big blockbusters that were box office bombs. Despite the fact that this films are loathed for being low wit or box office poision you still find them lovable and highly rewatchable.

Serial Mom actually got decent reviews and has come to be recognized as satirical camp classic. Nothing to feel guilty about. Its actually quite smart and funny. But still it can go here.

Desperately Seeking Susan ordinarily would not be a guilty pleasure film but since it's DL it makes perfect sense to be a guilty pleasure film. LOL. Fuck you MadgeBot.

Kindergarten Cop. No idea why Datalounge despises that movie so much.

The one and only "Gods of Egypt".

I stop what I am doing and watch it every time. It's like crack.

Double Jeopardy with Ashley Judd. I have to watch it every time it's on AMC.

Who's That Girl? with Madonna. I can't help it, I love this movie.

Heavenly Bodies. Love it when TCM will air this on their Underground night.

White chicks is definitely up there

The House Bunny

Vegas vacation

The Hot chick

Cats, the 90s one filmed on Broadway. It's cheesy and campy, and it's fun to see the catlike movements/dances in the makeup and furry legwarmers. Some people like the new CGI one as a fun bad movie but I like the performance of the real dancers onstage.

R105's 3 picks are the definition of guilty pleasures. All three are horrible. I am embarrassed for him that he wastes so much time watching those plodding pieces of cinematic dreck.

I applaud you, R105.

Don't kill me but I love those ghastly Atlas Shrugged movies that came out a few years ago. Not a fan of Rand's philosophy, but I just love trains and the story has a lot of drama and crazy in it. I liked the bitchy wife (who in the second film was played by the mom in the Suite Life with Zach and Cody).

I liked Who’s that Girl so much, I rewound it @ immediately watched it a second time. I did the same thing with Spice World.

Married to the Mob

[Quote] PIRAHNA 3D (very tongue-in-cheek with some hysterically OTT gore)

I enjoyed the sequel more because of Hasselhoff.

I watched Who's That Girl? FIVE times back when I rented the video.

A Very Brady Christmas

I grew up on the Brady Bunch and this movie makes me think of my own family and especially at the holiday time, it brings back all the nostalgia feels.

I would never ever admit to watching this cheesy crap except on an anonymous chatboard, but I absolutely LOVE IT and watch it every stinkin' year!

The one with Denise Richards, Wild Things.

Hate to put this down but Twilight.

Clueless

Magic Mike

Romy and Michele's

The one and only "Nell," with Jodie Foster.

"Roadhouse"

The dance-off in ‘White Chicks’ is one of the greatest treasures in the history of cinema!

Other guilty faves:

‘The Core’ for its sci-fi cheeze and surprisingly high calibre cast. Unobtainium, giant diamonds and hot pockets

‘Beyond the Valley of the Dolls’ for the dialogue in the party scene alone plus Incense and Peppermints.

‘Rat Race’ - prairie dogging, Barbie museum and above ground pools.

Working Girl “$6,000 and it’s not even leatha!”

Like R142, Norbit.

Working Girl, Married to the Mob, Death Becomes Her, Clueless, etc, are really good comedies. But, I guess they are guilty pleasures to others.

I wrote Norbit because I'm actually embarrassed (in real life) to admit liking it (the potty humour, fat jokes, etc).

Rat Race is underrated.

R125 Agreed!!!

Flashdance, Magic Mike XXL.

Dangerous Beauty.

I am a huge fan of B-Movies, camp, horror, schlock, obscure, and reviled cinema so my list could be infinite. So, here are some favorite gems:

Killer Klowns From Outer Space (The title says it all and it has hot as hell John Allen Nelson, but sadly, fully clothed)

Fade to Black (Dennis Christopher as a psycho film fan)

Trilogy of Terror (Karen Black in a trifecta of camp TV movie realness.)

Supergirl (Faye Dunaway as the villain, well I never!)

Runaway ('80s sci-fi cheese with Tom Selleck, Kirstie Alley, Gene Simmons! and killer robot spiders. I love it all.)

The Crush (Alicia Silverstone as a lethal Lolita and Cary Elwes looking hot on film for the last time.)

Child's Play/Chucky franchise and TV show (I love that foul-mouthed little fucker.)

The Poltergeist sequels (admittedly, not great but you get to hear the name Carol Anne uttered/shouted ad nauseam.)

The Naked Gun movies (Leslie Nielsen was hilarious in them.)

Basic Instinct (Trashy but effective)

Ragnarok

Some Like It Hot

Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein

Gigi

Hi Cinesnatch. I was waiting for you to show up here.

R124, Agreed. Working Girl and Clueless were both critically acclaimed comedies. I believe Working Girl was even nominated for Best Picture. Are people saying it's a guilty pleasure because it feels dated? LOL.

Ditto on Magic Mike XXL. Way better than the first one since it's actually as fun as the trailers promised, instead of turning all serious about drugs and the hollow partying lifestyle

Dawsons 50 Load Weekend

Adam & Steve - I know it gets a lot of hate here, but I always enjoy - as a whole, or in bits and pieces.

Ultimately it's a sweet love story, but with goofy set pieces and silly performances - Parker Posey and Chris Kattan are hilarious. Even DL fave Sally Kirkland shows up. And any movie that includes "Something Good" set at Marie's Crisis in NYC is fine by me.

Also, Thoroughly Modern Millie - just so damn fun, Julie never looked better, and delightful music. A pure confection.

I previously mentioned Not Another Teen Movie and Die Mommie, Die!

Joe Dirt

Postcards from the Edge

Shirley's best performance on film in a parody of herself.

Meryl may have been too old to play a struggling young actress, but her way with sarcasm is flawless.

Annette Bening is astounding to watch in her hooker-actress bit.

3000 Miles To Graceland.

TROLL (1986) with June Lockhart. Michael Moriarity and Shelley Hack. Strange and surreal

Desperate Living

The Concorde . . .Airport 79 with the most bizarre cast ever assembled: Charo, Jimmy' JJ' Walker, Martha Raye, Cicely Tyson, Bibi Andersson, John Davidson, Robert Wagner, Susan Blakely, Alain Delon, Sybil Danning, Eddie Albert, Mercedes McCambridge, Sylvia 'Emmanuelle' Kristel. Avery Schreiber and of course George Kennedy

The Campaign.

For the record, I don't feel guilty about watching it, but I LOVE "Dude, Where's My Car?" I was in the theater seeing something else ("American Beauty", perhaps? I can't remember. I used to see movies more often), and I saw the trailer. I thought it was the absolute stupidest thing I'd ever seen. I saw it in the theatrical release. Multiple times.

Oh, and I HATE that "Dude!"/"Sweet!" scene, and usually skip it. But I love that movie.

Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn

Labyrinth (actually most of his ouevre)

The Cat from Outer Space (1978)

Girls Will Be Girls is so offensive but I love it.

What was the 80s horror movie where one of the women announces to someone, "I kill people with my cunt!"

r148 Are you thinking 'Liquid Sky', mentioned numerous times in the "Iconic 80s movies" thread?

Meet Joe Black

I liked Vanilla Sky. And The Game with Michael Douglas. These are NOT bad movies. Great with weed and wine.

Trapped (2002) with Kevin Bacon and Charlize Theron. I just watch it every time just to enjoy the outlandish Interstate pile up scene at the ending.

Hollywood Nights

Another vote for the Final Destination films.

My favorite moment:

Bring It On

𝐄𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬 (1986):

A barely-released B-movie called "Stacy's Knights" (aka "The Touch", aaka "Double Down"), about a group of card-counting casino hustlers. Notable only for an early appearance by Kevin Costner giving the least-stilted performance I've ever seen from him.

And the theme song is really good.

The entire movie is on YouTube.

Party Monster

On Rotten Tomatoes, it has a 29% rating on the tomatometer and a 75% audience score.

Cat People (80s version)

The Girl Next Door

House Of Wax

Wishmaster

Wish Upon A Star

Don't Tell My Mom The Babysitter's Dead

American President

Hollywood Homicide

I don't like Bring it On. I do like the parody with Nicholas D'Agosto. Fired Up!

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐥𝐚𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐁𝐞𝐚𝐫 (1986):

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐥𝐚𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐁𝐞𝐚𝐫 (1986):

Pumpkin (2002)

Hmm. At R162, Datalounge hung, and then gave a message that it could not post. So I tried a different link. But it looks like it went through anyway.

Fucking love Fired Up.

Awful movie, but Shane McDermott was so very pretty.

Ski School, primarily for the pretty Tom Bresnahan.

Duck Soup and My Man Godfrey when I'm stoned. Screwball comedies are really funny when you are stoned.

Just One of the Guys, my first time seeing Billy Jacoby. There was just something about him that always seemed extremely sexy to me.

Yor: Hunter From the Future!

Reb Brown was hot then, and shows off his ass several times.

Valentine (2001)

EuroTrip. I also like the Coen brothers remake of The Ladykillers

R171 Oh yes, Yor should definitely have had some hardcore sex.

My Stepmother Is An Alien

Bubble Boy which was a parody of The Boy in the Plastic Bubble starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Marley Shelton, and Swoozie Kurtz.

Kiss Me Goodbye (1982) ... Fluffy and a few good lines. The best thing about it is the Manhattan townhome, scenery, and such.

I'm glad that it prompted me to seek out better movies that Jeff Bridges and James Caan were in.

When I was about thirteen I watched it on The Movie Channel, which was the only pay cable channel we had. It had a box with a switch that you'd toggle to switch over from normal TV.

^ Was Sally Fields born looking 55 years old?

Coneheads.

R179 yes!!!

[quote]This Island Earth

The MST 3K version?

Midnight Madness

Another Gay Movie

Lust in the Dust

Cabin Boy

The Stuff by weirdo director Larry Cohen.

Deck the Halls (2006)

I giggle absurdly at the Will Ferrell movie Land of the Lost. I love him and McBride in that stupid movie.

Okay, movies that got massive critical acclaim like Postcards from the Edge, Heathers and Clueless are not guilty pleasures.

My guilty pleasure film would probably be Dirty Dancing. I'm a JAP at heart, apparently.

Films like Clueless and Heathers make me feel good and laugh a lot, but they are good films, so I don't think of them as guilty pleasures.

Guilty pleasures for me are David Lynch's Dune, which is deliriously bad and eminently watchable, and Showgirls, which is the apotheosis of "so bad it's good."

Twister, The Day after Tomorrow, Showgirls (of course), I Spit on your Grave, All the John Walter's movies (with Divine of course) Psycho Beach Party, Die Mommie Die, Cruel Intentions (1 of my favorites). All Final Destinations movies!!

Agree about Day After Tomorrow.

Idiocracy, Galaxy Quest, Independence Day, Zoolander - nothing to feel guilty about.

I hate Joan Crawford. She's a hideous actress and creature. So that Straight Jacket film is a guilty pleasure. All of her most hideous characteristics are on display - yet we are to feel she is a faded beauty and a vulnerable character? It's a better part than she deserves - and the role is humiliating. Bitch.

Guilty Pleasure = must be high to watch.

Most of the Dark Castle horror films (House on Haunted Hill, House of Wax, Orphan, etc.)

Starship Troopers

Deep Rising

Ted Post's The Baby (1973) with Ruth Roman as a mother only Joan Crawford could love

Problem Child. The cast is outstanding, with an especially soulful performance by John Ritter. Amy Yasbeck almost steals the movie!

I second Xanadu, from upthread, but also Vibes with Cyndi Lauper:

Earth Girls Are Easy is a great film.

2012, Both Poseidon Adventures, How High, Animal House, Caddyshack, Back to School. Working Girl(Love that movie), Fame Zombieland 1& 2

The Fan (Lauren Bacall not Wesley Snipes)

So I Married an Axe Murderer

The Leech Woman- it's terrible, but I love it

For me, Flash Gordon is up there.

After all the votes, I have to check out White Girls. I do recall a friend, who usually watches highbrow films and documentaries, telling me that she laughed so hard when she saw it that she almost threw up and was relieved when it was over for that reason.

They should make more movies about black people in "Whiteface"!

Everybody loves them!

Here's a movie about black people in black face.

R195 Problem Child 2 for me. Lawanda is a riot.

Problem Child 2 might be one of the worst movies of all time. Its just down right stupid. Every characters like a fkin cartoon.

My Life In Ruins With Nia Vardolos as a tour guide of Greece. Poopi the bus driver is hot!

Movies that have achieved cult status, like The Rocky Horror Picture Show and John Waters' films, shouldn't be considered guilty pleasure movies, unless you're a Mormon or something.

"Guilty pleasure" is something you are deeply ashamed of enjoying, such as liking a film for prurient reasons.

John Waters films are not bad. They are campy and work as effective satire.

White Chicks is hysterical but it's plot is absurd and kinda offensive hence being a Guilty Pleasure.

Butterfield 8

Susan Slade

William Castle movies like Mr. Sardonicus and I Saw What You Did

and Strait-Jacket (1964) R209

Will Smith movies

Two Moon Junction

[quote]and Strait-Jacket (1964) [R209]

It. Was. An. A-SYLUM! And IT WAS HELL! Twenty YEARS OF PURE HELL!

Joan really gives it her all R213

'WARNING: Strait-Jacket vividly depicts axe murders'

Bump

I don't care and won't apologize. "We're The Millers"

Jason Sudeikis, Jen Aniston, Emma Roberts, Kathryn Hahn and Nick Offerman makes me smile and sometimes laugh. It's a great premise. Stolen from Martin Lawrence. I have watched this movie FOUR times.

ALL white movies are stolen from blacks, r216.

The Underworld movies

Baby Geniuses

The big recent one for me is Southland Tales. I loved Donnie Darko in high school and was really excited for this. I hated it and barely got through it the first time. I rewatched it out of curiosity and kind of fell in love with it. It’s so bizarre and out there and expensive. The scenes of a woman demanding to suck The Rock’s dick in public, there’s a Justin Timberlake musical number out of nowhere. You can’t not appreciate a movie this ambitious.

Can't believe Mannequin hasn't been mentioned. It's such a bad movie...yet such a fun, entertaining, completely satisfying one at the same time. I love it.

A Dirty Shame. I saw it on my bday on opening night & loved it, even though half the audience was cringing.

My fundamentalist coworker (RIP) was a huge Tracey Ullman fan & IIRC took the day off to see a matinee with her hubby that same day.

Monday morning we had a spirited debate about the film, she was so upset that Tracey had lowered herself to be in it & actually believed she had stuck a water bottle up her vag. To this day I still laugh at remembering Selma Blair & her ginormous boobs dancing on the roof of that bar. Oh, and coworker’s hubby said Selma’s boobs were real & he’d seen her interviewed & they were NOT prosthetic.

R221 that's how i feel about the Mannequin sequel. Too bad Kristy turned out to be such an asshole.

The Lone Ranger. Depp's scenes dragged the movie down. Cut a few of those and trim the run time and it would have been much better.

Nacho Libre, School of Rock and pretty much any movie starring Jack Black.

Funny as hell, but you feel like you should go read a book afterwards or watch Jeopardy to make up for the mind-numbing experience.

[Quote] Nacho Libre, School of Rock and pretty much any movie starring Jack Black.

I loved Jack in Orange County as the stoned older brother to Colin Hanks. You can't really go wrong when John Lithgow and Catherine O'Hara are involved.

Tiptoes

Marci X

Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me starring Max Parrish, Adrienne Shelly, Sean Young, Diane Ladd, and April Rayne.

The lesbian Christmas movie Happiest Season has become a guilty pleasure for me. The movie has some issues with how one of the lesbians gaslights the girlfriend. But, the family was perfectly cast with Mary Steenburgen and Victor Garber as Republican parents, Alison Brie as the icy sister, and Mary Holland as the weirdo Aspie sister. I also loved the sublot involving Aubrey Plaza as the ex-girlfriend from high school who great chemistry with Kristen Stewart.

Nell is a guilty pleasure film for me. I liked Natasha Richardson as the snooty doctor who falls for Liam Neeson's character.

The Devil Wears Prada

My Big, Fat, Greek Wedding

The Wizard of Oz

Any Hitchcock film

White Chicks

Weird Science

Sixteen Candles

The Breakfast Club

Gone With The Wind

R232 White Chicks is the only "guilty pleasure" on your list.

Hitchcock?!?!?

Blades of Glory

Talladega Nights

Boogie Nights!

Seeing Marky Mark's Prosthetic dick alone makes it worth viewing!

Glitter.

I'm pretty sure Boogie Nights is critically acclaimed, R235. it's not just a shallow exploitation film.

R237 One's man's trash is another man's treasure.

R235 It was nominated for several Academy Awards, dominated the film festival circuit that year, gave Burt Reynolds a career-capping performance, and brought several fledgling actors (Julianne Moore, Heather Graham, Mark Wahlberg, John C. Reilly, and Don Cheadle) securely into stardom. They were known before 1997, but to this day many critics point to their performances in this film as career-making.

And yet Boogie Nights is a bad movie. PTA is an awful filmmaker.

Full Circle / Haunting of Julia (1977)

L love Paris...When i sizzles (1966) with William Holden and Audrey Hepburn. The critics panned it but most people just don't get it.

R240, Why do you feel it is a bad film. I asked because so many films I thought were edgy and brilliant when I saw them in my late teens I know think are merely good. BOOGIE Nights is one of them.

Under the Cherry Moon

Showgirls

Believe it or not, I watched this movie with the kids when they were young; Mr. Poppers Penguins, its kind of fucking adorable. My 2 daughters(Marina and Wilhemena(Billie) & my son RD loved the penguins. I know, I'm a gay dork!!

Triumph of the Will (1934) - I've seen it at least a dozen times.

No one ever said it is a bad film, r247.

I fucking loathe the Wayans bros. Damon was the only funny one. The other fuckers can eat shit and die. They looked horrible as white girls.

Weekend at Bernie's, pts 1 and 2

Blazing Saddles

I Love You, Alice B Toklas

The Party

National Lampoon's European Vacation

R239

"Critics" like a lot of bad shit. Movies are art. Do you really need someone else to tell you what is good?

This is an opinion thread. Just go with it.

Any recs for watchable tv or films now?

My latest guilty pleasure film is "Poms" with Diane Keaton, Jacki Weaver, Pam Grier, Celia Weston, and Rhea Perlman. It's about a women who moves to a retirement village and starts a cheerleading squad. It didn't get good reviews but I love it. I've watched it probably two dozen times. I think it's very funny and very sweet.

R253 What is it with old actors turning to shit when they reach a certain age?

Think of Diane Keaton, Morgan Freeman, Helen Mirren, Mary Steenburgen, Robert De Niro, etc. These are all Oscar winners with the training and the clout to do anything they want. So why do they trade their genuine talent for a low paycheck in stinkers like "POMS" or "Book Club" or "Dirty Grandpa Breaks a Hip?" Is this really how they want their careers to end? Or do they just need coin that badly?

It's like Joan Crawford ending her legendary career in that low-budget caveman movie. It's a disgrace.

R254 De Niro probably needs the cash. Hard to tell with the others.

Mary Steenburgen and Helen Mirren seems a laidback types who might not have issues doing bad comedy movies. Steenburgen seems to enjoy playing moms in Christmas movies like Elf, Four Christmases, and Happiest Season. I thought she was terrific as the frau cunt mom who treated her daughters like shit in Happiest Season.

Mary must get along great with Will Ferrell since she was also in Step Brothers.

The Charlie Angels movie with Kristen Stewart is a guilty pleasure of mine. I didn't think it was as horrible as the critics made it out to be.

[quote] Problem Child. The cast is outstanding, with an especially soulful performance by John Ritter. Amy Yasbeck almost steals the movie!

Amy Yasbeck should have had a bigger career.

Talladega Nights

The Bodyguard, Muriel’s Wedding, My Best Friend’s Wedding, Beaches, Steel Magnolias

THE BODYGUARD, BLOOD FEAST, WHOS THAT GIRL, THE BLOB 1988.

Beauty and the Beast by Jean Cocteau

R262 - why would that masterpiece be a "guilty" pleasure?

R263 There was a program in the NYC area called The Million Dollar Movie which would show one film every night for a week or 2. When they showed that film I wold watch it every night.

^^ a TV Program

And why do you feel guilty about that?

rat race

I love bad 70s films, one of my favorites is “Sssssss”

Squirm

THE STORY OF ESTHER COSTELLO.

Hello Again with Shelley Long

A Woman Scorned: The Betty Broderick Story

Wife, Mother, Murderer (Judith Light and all her wigs)

Grave Secrets: The Legacy of Hilltop Drive (primarily to see David Selby and Patty Duke play a married couple dealing with ghosts)

R271 Pretty much any Shelley Long movie is a guilty pleasure.

Just like pretty much any menu item at Arby's is one.

OP- All of the porno movies I watch on xvideos.

SHOWGIRLS

R38/Pungey what is wrong with LADYHAWKE? I love that film, and don't consider it lame or dated or cheesy (except maybe the weird electro soundtrack).

IMO there's too little magical beautiful medieval fantasy in film and television these days, and far too much dark hyperrealistic revisionist quasi-historical gore.

Office Space, Dumb & Dumber, Anchorman: Legend of Ron Burgundy, Miss Congeniality, Zoolander, Twilight movies, Did you hear about the Morgans, the Breakup, Emperor's New Groove...to name a few.

Soapdish (1991)

Big Business (1988)

Outrageous Fortune (1987)

Bird on a Wire (1990)

Lambada The Forbidden Dance and Teen Witch. I rented both of those quite a bit from the video store as a kid.

Thanks for the Fatso tip. It's available free on Youtube. Very funny. Hilarious in fact.

The Faculty

Cruel Intentions. It's basically half a gay porno.

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Love Ruth Roman

Effectively creepy drive-in movie from the 70s

It's a one-joke premise but it's funny

Sam Fuller's Shock Corridor (1963)

Fuller's The Naked Kiss (1964) a prostitute moves to a small town, gets engaged to the town's most respected citizen and discovers a shocking truth. Peyton Place meets Blue Velvet.

I love this thread. I have a million but here’s a few clunkers I secretly love:

Battlefield Earth Faceoff Drop dead Fred The Edge Burlesque Stalked by my Doctor The devil’s advocate Roadhouse Zardoz Junior

John Boorman's Zardoz (1974) bizarre sci-fi film

She died of life . . .Harlow (1965)

You're not a woman you're a disease! 1964s Where Love Has Gone great dialogue great cast including Joey Heatherton and Betty Davis. Inspired by the Lana Turner-Johnny Stompanato scandal.

There's never been anything like it Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970)

A train wreck but I dare you to look away

The Fan 1981 slasher film + musical

Dementia 13 (1963) filmed in Ireland

Perfect stranger with Halle Berry and Giovanni Ribisi plus Bruce Willis as the world’s smarmiest ad man. Total dreck but definitely a surprise ending!

The Brady Bunch Movie

Did anyone mention the remake of THE BLOB? Too lazy to look.

Mimic

Scary Movie & Scary Movie 2

Men at Work

The Relic

Thinner

The Dark Half

Turbulence

Sphere

Deep Rising

Who Killed Teddy Bear 1965

Sal Mineo, Juliet Prowse, Elaine Stritch and Daniel J. Travanti

From the director of Where Love Has Gone, The Carpetbaggers (1964)

Burton is Bluebeard in Edward Dmytryk's 1972 version. Joey Heatherton at her peak.

R282 who doesn't love a blonde and bitchy Joshua Jackson.

Robert Aldrich's The Legend of Lyla Claire 1968)

Carpool-90s movie with Tom Arnold and David Paymer.

"I'm Dancing As Fast As I Can" about a documentary director desperately addicted to large amounts of Valium, going cold turkey and losing her mind. A real life story but it plays like an SNL skit. Written by Jill Clayburgh's husband, the first half is unintentionally funny as hell and features Geraldine Page, excellent as always. Eventually it becomes basically a "disease of the week" tv movie but just ignore that part.

The withdrawal scene

Sorry for the quality

Hairspray (1988)

Better Off Dead Starship Troopers

Under the Cherry Moon

Madame ❌

Spoiler alert: The Naked Kiss (1964)

Troll

African Champagne challenge

I really like this stupid movie, Virgin Witch, a British horror sexploitation film directed by Ray Austin and starring Ann and Vicki Michelle, Patricia Haines and Neil Hallett. The only movie where you really want to say, 'put it back on' it coulda been better with clothes on. BTW, if you do watch it the music is great, the song, 'To go your way'.

Vicki Michelle as Betty was in Allo Allo. Ann Michell as Christine, was the star who does not want to talk about this film, at all. Patricia Haines as Sybil Waite was Michael Caine's first wife who died not long after this film from cancer. She did once appear on the old show, The Avengers. Sad ending for her. Helen Downing as Abby Darke (she's black, oh brother, the name) but she sings that song I love, To go your way. Listen to it, you will not be disappointed.

The mansion it was filmed in, in England, was really old. Like 1700s or so.

The sister was on

Watching "Elf" with young kids is really enjoyable.

My mother still loves "Butterflies are Free," and oddly acts like she's not supposed to.

Christmas With The Kranks is one of my guilty pleasure Christmas movies.

SO EVIL, SO YOUNG, a 1961 English girls in prison movie with one of the most oddly paired film scores I’ve ever heard. And the actress who played the matron makes Hope Emerson in CAGED look like Liz Taylor at her peak.

The Mad Room

The Age of Adaline. I like Blake Lively’s extremely mannered performance and Ellen Burstyn’s character as her daughter calling out “Mama.” It’s on Netflix.

R319 wins the thread. What an utter piece of shit that movie is, from every angle. The actors are phoning it in for a paycheck. The script is ludicrous. The laughs are cheap and few. Your friends will mock you if they see you watching this. And seeing so much comedic talent squander their days on a movie that has no fuckin' business being made? That's just a big wet kiss of "Guilty Pleasure Film."

Death Becomes Her

Saving Silverman

I have to add:

The Trouble with Angels...I cry when Ligouri dies and when Rach finally embrace Mary

"The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes" - the 1969 Walt Disney movie with a young hot Kurt Russell.

It's like comfort food.

Beverly Garland in The Mad Room (1969)

and the 1968 sequel R325

I agree with R189.

Some folks really have a strange idea of what a 'guilty pleasure' is. I wonder if they are just young, or perhaps never gave this matter much thought. But yeah, a guilty pleasure has always meant a shit movie that you love watching because it's a shit movie. Not a movie that was a huge hit and a critical success (but might seem dated now).

My favorite is Vice Squad. If you get a chance to see this, you won't regret it. It is just completely terrible in every way. The script, the acting, the direction. It's wild and fucking stupid. This was on HBO back in 1982, and I watched it every time it came on, and can still quote much of the shitty dialogue. I rewatched it again recently and boy does it hold up as a very watchable terribly acted 'film' about prostitution. The decor is decidedly late 70s (a style that still lingered into the early 80s) and very joint-smoking worthy.

Roller Boogie is another favorite. Linda Blair was riding high from The Exorcist, and her agent was clearly trying to make her the "It" girl, and not typecast her as a scream queen (horror roles). I think this vacuous attempt at 'romantic comedy' was such a critical failure it brought embarrassment to her career, and she went back full force into horror films immediately afterwards, making such camp classics as "Hell Night" and "Chained Heat" and "Savage Streets" afterwards...each of which are worthy of inclusion in this thread.

What makes this watchable is the very confusing lack of plot (something that happened in 70s films very often), coupled with beautifully dated costumes/decor and now classic disco soundtrack. It's corny and yet so lovely to watch how folks looked and roller skated back then.

2 cock in the mouth 2 in the ass

Spellbinder (1988) about a satanic cult in LA. Starring Tim Daly at his most handsome, a pre-Travolta Kelly Preston, and a post-Top Gun Rick Rossovich.

Hotline (1982), Lynda Carter is terrorised by a psychotic caller after she takes a job as a crisis centre phone counselor.

Waiting

Score

Cherry Falls

Sextette. It needs to be restored to preserve its utter awfulness for future gaylings infatuated with schlock cinema.

[quote]The Age of Adaline. I like Blake Lively’s extremely mannered performance and Ellen Burstyn’s character as her daughter calling out “Mama.” It’s on Netflix.

I'm always a sucker for movies involving immortals and I watched this in theaters and I still enjoy it years later.

MORBIUS

SUPERGIRL

RED SONJA

BATMAN AND. ROBIN

SUPERMAN IV

THE GREEN SLIME

MAME

DRACULA A.D. 1972

SUPERFLY

R333 great choice

R47 is my idol.

D.E.B.S

Desperate Living

For Halloween— Hocus Pocus

For Christmas— Love Actually

Okay

Volcano with Tommy Lee Jones and Anne Heche.

B.A.P.S.

It had Marty Landau in it, you know

Death Car on the Freeway 1979; Night Drive 1977

[Quote] Volcano with Tommy Lee Jones and Anne Heche.

Volcano with Tommy Lee Jones and Anne HeHe.

"Blossoms in the Dust" Greer Garson at her most maudlin.

"Theater of Blood" My cholesterol goes up 20 points with all the cheese in this film.

"At Long Last Love" I think it's because so many people loathe this film that I enjoy it. Besides, Eileen Brennan is in it, never a bad thing.

"So Big" Always ben a sucker for the "wheat and emeralds" explanation.

"Desk Set" I'm a trivia nut, so I like this film. And Joan Blondell(see Eileen Brennan above)

Larry Cohen's God Told Me To

I think this could be for some DLers.

Top Gun

The Last American Virgin

Mommie Dearest

Showgirls

Steel Magnolias

The Bodyguard

Waiting to Exhale. After 20+ years I'm still shocked this hasn't become a cult classic among us gays.

I love disaster movies. My favorites:

The Day After Tomorrow

Twister

Dante's Peak

Rat Race

One of the story lines involved driving a bus load of Lucy's to their convention. What could possibly go wrong?

R361 There was also a Hitler car, a mob of chain-wielding Dykes on Bikes, a rocket car, Dean Cain, drugged milkshakes, John Cleese, and Kathy Bates as a hick selling squirrels.

But it also had a Smash Mouth cameo.

I never feel guilty pleasuring myself during a movie

Thank for your insights, Mr. Reubens

I like watching 54. I went to these clubs. Incredible time. Miss it. It was wilder than they tell.

Your Ass Is Ours

A very Brady movie but it's more fun than With Six You Get Egg Roll

Muriel’s Wedding

Notting Hill

I don’t feel guilty about pleasure

The Devil Wears Prada

Big Trouble in Little China

Toys

Problem Child 1 & 2

Robin Hood: Men in Tights

I love problem child 2

Psycho (1998)

Why, Gus? Why????

The Birdcage

John Carpenters The Thing 1982 The cold and claustrophobia are palpable

A Streetcar Named Desire

MIDNIGHT LACE. If only for Miss Day’s breakdown scene on the staircase!

A lot of these films are Oscar winners, and considered landmark films.

You idiots have a strange understanding of the concept "guilty pleasure."

R367

I never liked Lucy till I heard about Desi's cheating ways but...I always liked Desi cause he's so cute. Sigh. I guess that is the problem. He also is so funny.

But no matter, I am not going to list Mame with Lucy as a guilty pleasure

Gone With the Wind

R381 Idiot.

Why would you feel guilty for liking that movie? It's a beloved film, and widely acclaimed as a classic.

Beaches

Showgirls

The House Bunny

Earth Girls Are Easy

Top Gun

The Best of Everything with Joan Crawford as Helen Lawson

Claudette Colbert's "Cleopatra"

Anything with Divine, although I'm not really guilty about the pleasure

"Ensign Pulver," the gayest stupid sequel (to "Mr. Roberts") to a navy movie ever

R389 my favorite reason to watch EP:

Gotta love the men in short shorts, R330.

The hysterical Torch Song with Joan in blackface

Any film where George Clooney plays a straight guy

And Tom Cruise too

And John Travolta

Crash

Supergirl

Queen Bee. For reasons well known to Christina.

From IMDB. "Christina Crawford, Joan Crawford's adopted daughter, recounted in her autobiography "Mommie Dearest" that she had to leave the theater midway through a showing of this film because it was too true-to-life in her mother's portrayal of the main character."

Pure Crawford

The Bodyguard

Casino Royale (1967) Extravagant James Bond spoof with an all-star cast and 6 directors and the Oscar nominated song The Look of Love by Hal David and Burt Bacharach

Casino Royale is such a crap film. Not even camp.

The Final Destination movies

Casino Royale is such a crap film. Not even camp.

Which is why it's a guilty pleasure R402

R404. Yes, it's awful. But...interesting cast, interesting directors, and the nostalgic eye candy of the era. Guilty, pleasure.

Saw movies

So many writing credits

Writing Credits Wolf Mankowitz ... (screenplay) & John Law ... (screenplay) & Michael Sayers ... (screenplay)

Ian Fleming ... (suggested by the novel "Casino Royale")

Woody Allen ... (uncredited) Peter Sellers ... (uncredited) Billy Wilder ... (uncredited) Val Guest ... (additional dialogue) (uncredited) Ben Hecht ... (uncredited) Joseph Heller ... (uncredited) Terry Southern ... (uncredited)

American Psycho

Gigli

Catwoman

Picture Mommy Dead (1966) so cheesy

Travels with My Aunt. I agree it's not a very good movie but I have a soft spot for it. I love this scene, especially after the 3:17 mark.

Batman and Robin

The Covenant - it’s “The Craft” with dicks

Jumper - lots of wet guys grappling

Wonderwoman - half the joy is Gal Gadot yelling dialogue. I want Andie McDowell to play her sidekick.

Stella with Bette Midler

Bitches

Without a Paddle

Bump

Why do ppl post bumps when the most recent comment was made just last Saturday. Are you some type of jackass?

The Jackass films

The Human Centipede Trilogy

R421, pls go to jail. Do not pass go, do not collect $200, go directly to jail. Those movies are sick.

Last Year at Marienbad.

A very recent one, Blackbird starring dwarfish Irish American prancer Michael Flatley wearing a hat at a jaunty angle. Just terrible and yet…

^now I’m curious to watch The Human Centipede trilogy

You’ll be in for a treat

Especially if you like eating shit, which we do while eating ass

The Beautician and the Beast

Far and Away

A Star is Born - Babs version

The Devil in Miss Jones

Desperately Seeking Susan

Or the porno version: Desperately Seeking Suction

Not even sure you could call it a film but Stripper Wives. I used to watch it as teen on Showtime and wondered why they were basically showing porn.

Jury Duty

"Dude Where's My Car?" is my favorite stupid guilty pleasure movie.

Oh my god, there's this utterly terrible movie that also stars Seann William Scott, called "Bulletproof Monk".

It's SO bad. And I've watched it at least 8 times now. I have no idea why.

“Another Gay Movie”

‘Sarah T.- Portrait of a Teenage Alcohilic’

‘Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway’

‘Alexander: The Other Side of Dawn’

Strictly Ballroom

Halloween Ends

The Black Phone

Flash Dance.

Added bonus: I pull out the good ole leotard and leg warmers, and dance through much of it, like a maniac.

Every single curtain closed, of course!

GRAFFITI BRIDGE--a would-be sequel to PURPLE RAIN--is almost irredeemably awful. It makes UNDER THE CHERRY MOON look like Hitchcock.

But it may be the most ludicrous and enjoyable sojourn to Stupid City any artist or celebrity ever took. For me it's a remote dropper--if ever I see it playing on TV, I'm quitting early and cancelling my plans and grabbing a drink and watching the entire film. It's also one of those cult classics like ROCKY HORROR where all the lines are so quotable that you have to yell them at the screen in joy when they happen. Gloriously, loveably bad, like Prince himself in many ways.

[quote] Any film where George Clooney plays a straight guy

So, all of his movies?

[quote]Strictly Ballroom

No reason to feel guilty about lusting after Paul Mercurio.

^^damn the GRAFFITI BRIDGE clip I posted above isn’t even the one I wanted to post or the funniest one, though it’s plenty dumb and fun and wacky enough. This scene is better, the one where Kid i.e. Prince(ss) clippity clops in his chacha heels into Morris Day’s traphouse and tries to seduce him into giving him a battle of the bands, mostly by flicking his relaxed Rachel out of his Bambi eyes and looking sultry. Morris of course is having none of this whore behaviour and basically pulls rank to tell Kid that he’s a stupid little brokeass himbo and to get the Hell up out of his crib (in a speech that sounds like it should irl be coming from Prince to Morris...thinking thoughts). All during this speech The Time are making these Looney Tunes sound effects and it’s...oh fuck it just watch it, it’s art.

Another hilarious scene I love but can’t find atm is the one where Morris & his manservant Jerome have a money fight in Morris’s glitzy bar/office while one of Morris’s hos watches them in total bemusement

Writing this it just hit me that much of the good straight comedy that works in this and in PURPLE RAIN comes in the banal little throwaway moments, whereas the ‘drama’ is all camp funny. An example of the latter: Prince & the angel Aura (literal angel, from Jehovah Heaven presumably) he beguiles in GRAFFITI BRIDGE go on a cutesy date to what looks like a skatepark, then she randomly dies in a hit and run out of nowhere. The whole sequence is so fast and so batshit and so unnecessary.

"Under the Yum-Yum Tree", a typical early-60s hot and bothered "sex comedy" in which a young couple move in together as a "trial marriage" (of COURSE they've never had sex!). Sexual tension ensues. Throw in a lecherous Jack Lemmon for good measure. I don't know why I like this movie, but I do. Maybe because these were the types of movies that aired on TV all the time when I was growing up, and it's just a comfort to me.

The opening titles are kinda cute.

What, R423? Last Year at Marienbad is supposed to be a difficult to understand art film, not a guilty pleasure, though some critics hated it.

^ "Marienbad" is really unclassifiable, unique. The atmosphere of it is intentionally stifling, the story is mysterious, unresolved, circular, again completely intentionally. As conceived by Robbe-Grillet, who wrote it, it's pure "cinema," nothing but images on a screen. It's hard to see how it could be a "guilty pleasure" because it's hardly pleasurable, but it IS certainly intriguing, and would be very vulnerable to camp ridicule (it's FRENCH, cheri...)

Take a look:

A more appropriate "guilty pleasure" film, an analogous kind of movie, would be *EMMANUELLE* (1974), in which a young French woman sets out to "learn the true meaning of eroticism." I saw this movie in a theater when it was first released, along with 3 other guys, and we laughed so hard and so loudly at the whole thing that EVERY other person in the theater had gotten up and left in disgust by the time that we, too, gave up and left.

What A Way To Go (1964)

Urban Legend-late 90s slasher that panned. I liked the killer's motive and the backstory.

R446, I can't seem to get the movie to play. I just get an endless buffering symbol when I press the play arrow. Do I have to give them my email address and make an account? Is it free to watch the movie?

Because of the high number of votes for White Chicks, my boyfriend, who actually loves the film, is now forcing me to watch it. I haven't even cracked a smile yet.

FYI - It's currently on HBO Max.

R451 here - Ok, I have to admit the dog falling out of the car window bit, was pretty funny.