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We've covered favorite and most disappointing movies. Well, how about that movie that you absolutely love, that many 6 other people in the world love as well, and everyone else is posting about in most disappointing? Let's hear some of your Guilty Pleasure movies...

 

To start this ball rolling, I'll throw out 3 that I watch at least once a month, much to the wincing of most people I know:

 

Mannequin 2

Robot Jox

Clue

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Buckeroo Banzai --- either you get it..or you don't

 

Sixteen Candles --- yeah yeah I know I'm freakin' forty years old, but it's STILL a fun movie, just like Pretty In Pink and Some Kind Of Wonderful..and if you say those are all the same plot, me and you gonna have words, Busta!

 

Spaceballs --- predictable, sophomoric, the sort of thing you'd expect from Mel Brooks...so why is it still so dang funny?

 

The Hunchback Of Notre Dame (Disney) -- I'm a huge fan of Victor Hugo literature..and I really wanted to not like this movie, but I finally saw it..and it's good. Nice animation and a happy ending..unlike the book.

 

The Ref --- not so much saying that it is a bad movie, but I am guilty of thinking of it as a "holiday family" movie. I like to watch it the night before I visit my family for Christmas.

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Sixteen Candles --- yeah yeah I know I'm freakin' forty years old, but it's STILL a fun movie, just like Pretty In Pink and Some Kind Of Wonderful..and if you say those are all the same plot, me and you gonna have words, Busta!

I'm surprised you feel you have to defend this. Sixteen Candles was a big hit and still seems beloved to everyone I talk to. I don't know anybody between 44 and 33 who doesn't remember it fondly or still enjoy it from time to time, and it regularly makes mention in articles (including a couple newstories in the past couple years on CNN and MSNBC) and never seems to be put down.

 

Was somebody else in the other thread actually bagging this?

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Sixteen Candles --- yeah yeah I know I'm freakin' forty years old, but it's STILL a fun movie, just like Pretty In Pink and Some Kind Of Wonderful..and if you say those are all the same plot, me and you gonna have words, Busta!

I'm surprised you feel you have to defend this. Sixteen Candles was a big hit and still seems beloved to everyone I talk to. I don't know anybody between 44 and 33 who doesn't remember it fondly or still enjoy it from time to time, and it regularly makes mention in articles (including a couple newstories in the past couple years on CNN and MSNBC) and never seems to be put down.

 

Was somebody else in the other thread actually bagging this?

I turn 34 in about three months, and I cannot stand those movies. So we are out there.

 

Ronin - awesome movie, but generally not well heard of or watched. And, Battlefield Earth. I know it is abyssmal, but still a fun movie, IMO.

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War of The Gargantuas

 

Yes! When I was a kid that scared me. I'll add all the Godzilla films. Most people don't get it.

 

Dune by David Lynch is great. The sets, costumes, badguys, and the babes. The critics said most people couldn't follow the plot, so when they aired it on TV they added narration. Dumb.

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It's likely there're all sorts of people who like this film (not yet mentioned in the other thread), but among folks I know there are few. So here goes:

 

The Gods Must Be Crazy.

 

Talk about a giggle fest for me. I lose it just thinking about the rhino putting out the camp fire. :lol:

 

Ai-yai-yai-yai-YAI!

 

:lol:

 

 

I'm also a fan of Masters of the Universe. Yes, Dolph Lundrgren can't act his way out of a wet paper sack, but hey, you had guys with swords battling guys with guns. How cool is that? :B):

 

Wild Bill :blues:

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I liked The Gods Must Be Crazy too. I also liked the nature film which I think inspired it. IIRC it was called Animals Are Funny People. The fore mentioned really replicates the documentary feel of the latter mentioned.

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Well I have a few that fit this category i think... Its hard to tell sometimes between a disliked movie or one that most folks just never gave a chance because they got scared away be heresay. Well anyway I believe these 4 fit the bill.

 

Stardust - Robert DeNiro as Captain "Shakes Spear"! At least that's how his crew would spell it! Michelle Pfeiffer was a pretty cool witch queen too. Movie was a total box office bomb, but I'm a sucker for this flick.

 

Dune - The original with Sting and company, hated by many I enjoy the film. Still trying to get the end theme song on my IPod, done by Toto I think, man has that song been a pain to locate.

 

Eyes Wide Shut - Always have been a big Stanley Kubrick fan, his last work got butchered by so many, but I liked it.

 

Hudsucker Proxy - Big Paul Newman fan, this movie just has a style of humor that doesnt make you gaffah for 2 hours but I never stop smiling either.

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